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Riot Games is Cracking Down on Players' Off-Platform Conduct 37

Riot Games has announced sweeping changes to its terms of service, expanding penalties for player misconduct beyond in-game behavior to include content creation and social media activities.

The new rules, Engadget reports, enable "Riot-wide bans" for violations across platforms where players discuss or stream Riot games. The company will not actively monitor social media but will respond to reported violations, particularly during game livestreams.

Riot Games is Cracking Down on Players' Off-Platform Conduct

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  • by know1 ( 854868 ) on Friday November 29, 2024 @07:07PM (#64980245)
    I don't use any of their services but please preban me.
    • by Senshi ( 10461927 ) on Friday November 29, 2024 @07:20PM (#64980269)
      Hunting down "Off-Platform" sounds like Riot wants to keep their players on the leash. Owned by Chinese corp Tencent and Riot still doing business in Russia after invasion of Ukraine, those really do sum it up.
      • by AmiMoJo ( 196126 )

        It says right there in the summary that they won't be "hunting down" anyone.

        This is because they have had instances of streamers harassing others while playing their games. They know they would get banned for threatening other players in the game, so they do it on social media or Discord instead.

        That are just making sure they have the TOS to back up these bans. I think they have been doing them for a while, e.g. there was some guy who told a woman he found her attractive and wanted to rape her after a game,

    • Lol yea, I was already defacto boycotting their games due to how terrible they look.
    • IMHO, by calling them coc*suc*ers you violated their new, TOS, so your wish will probably be granted.

      Don't take me wrong, they definitely are coc*suc*ers, for behaving like ones.

      And apologies to all actual coc*suc*ers. It's a valid form of sexual activity, as far as I'm concerned.

  • You can't be surprised when the kings censorship run things.

  • credit card change backs will hurt them

    • they are too big to fuck with like that

      their payment processor begs for the chance not to care
    • I don't see how it would make any difference. They only sell things that are infinitely duplicated for effective zero cost. All you can do at best is hurt them via bank fees which will be effectively nothing to a company that pulls that much revenue.

      It's been proven that game protests, boycotts and other attempts have all been calls to action with no real outcome in almost all circumstances. Gamers just aren't going to band together because there is no picket line where you must walk past and be seen, so i

      • by taustin ( 171655 )

        If they get enough chargebacks, they can lose their merchant account, which is almost certainly their sole source of income.

        The odds of that happening are indistinguishable from zero, of course.

  • by Ceseuron ( 944486 ) on Friday November 29, 2024 @07:38PM (#64980293)

    A garbage company that is completely incapable of policing the vile, toxic communities in its own games is declaring that it will now police the content on other platforms it does not own.

  • by snowshovelboy ( 242280 ) on Friday November 29, 2024 @07:49PM (#64980307)

    I banned Riot because of their out of game behavior.

  • Enough is enough.

  • I hadn't heard of them, so I looked them up. They have nothing that I'm even vaguely interested in playing, and the Wikipedia article is pretty damning no matter what side of the political spectrum from which you may hail. Thank you, Riot Games, for guaranteeing that your company, which I'd never heard of, will never get a dime from me. Smooth move, ExLax.
    • They made League of Legends, which is widely regarded as good and very popular, Valorant, which imo is mediocre but a lot of streamers play it.

      A while ago they got bought by Tencent. I guess that gives them the right to censor.
  • China Owned (Score:3, Insightful)

    by RitchCraft ( 6454710 ) on Friday November 29, 2024 @10:09PM (#64980455)

    Play with a Chinese game company, get treated like a Chinese citizen. What do you expect from a piece of shit commie owned company like this? Avoid these commie mother-fuckers like the plague.

  • Everybody should do the same. These assholes think they can establish censorship on their customers.

    Well, they have nothing I play now, but that could have changed. Now it will not.

  • ..using deep fake videos and see it all collapse. Rinse and repeat until all authoritarian / woke / communist gaming platforms are forced to accept freedom of speech / expression / thought.
  • The problem is that political factions have been defining and redefining offensive speech, harassment and stalking to be anything that they disagree with making even civil discourse impossible.

    From Riot's TOS https://www.riotgames.com/en/t... [riotgames.com]

    Riot Games may take disciplinary measures against you (as described in Section 7.1) for hate speech made by you to your live-streaming audience while you broadcast yourself playing one of our games, even if that hate speech is made via the live-streaming platform and no

  • Riot Games players are some of the most toxic in the world. I can give a small pass to certain toxic behavior if the player at least has skills to back it up, but they don't. The most toxic who play League or Valorant are also just plain bad at those games. But it's also part of the F2P problem. It's easy to be toxic because it's easy to just set up a new account and keep going. Bans don't mean much to these types of people unless they also spent a lot of money, and they usually don't. If they actually want

  • A person could post a video on say Youtube and another Person could download it and replace the audio , add something Riot doesnt like, post it to X and now ban the original poster which has nothing to do with the changes... sounds like they need a lawsuit to make them think this stupidity twice .

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