Bungie wins $489K from player for racist harassment of employee | Ruling sets legal precedent for companies to recover costs from harassment campaigns.

The majority of the settlement is reimbursement.

Comer's harassment campaign cost Bungie over $380,000 in the form of investigation costs, "executive protection" for the affected community manager, and lost work when the employee "needed to take time off and curtail his public interactions with Destiny 2 fans."

as well as over $80,000 in legal fees and $25,000 in statutory damages

Crazy story. Sounds like that wasn't a punitive amount, that's how much the cost Bungie. They hired executive protection services for the employee, investigators, lawyers (obviously)...

Did you read the article? Bungie claim 380K USD as investigation expenses, amd only 25K in statutory damages and then 80K or so in legal fees.

If they led an investigation themselves then this already is doing a lot in favor of the employee. And possibly means police did not do their job.

Hopefully this piece of shit won't retaliate.

The key difference is that what you did, at least as you described it, was actually not harassment.