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.
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 are a bunch of cocksuckers (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Riot are a bunch of cocksuckers (Score:4, Insightful)
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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,
Re: Riot are a bunch of cocksuckers (Score:2)
Re: Riot are a bunch of cocksuckers (Score:2)
Uhhh, this is literally the opposite of woke, but okay.
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Yep. "We don't care what you do, just think as you're told!"
OTOH, the other side says "We don't care what you think, just do as you're told!"
On the third hand, "We have met the enemy, and they is us!"
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How so? Woke people love to talk about communism and socialism, and love to be fascist too. Seems pretty relatable to this company. Woke people cry non-stop about "hate speech" and things that they don't like, and when crying doesn't work, they lie or become violent. Am I wrong here because that's all I see?
Re: Riot are a bunch of cocksuckers (Score:2)
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.
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It reeks of lack of decisiveness. I want to say naughty words but I don't want to be sent to my room. Hmm, what to do
Chinese owned (Score:2)
You can't be surprised when the kings censorship run things.
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They're communists, not Republicans.
Re: Chinese owned (Score:2)
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credit card change backs will hurt them (Score:2)
credit card change backs will hurt them
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their payment processor begs for the chance not to care
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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
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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.
Hilarious (Score:3)
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.
cool, I do the same thing (Score:5, Insightful)
I banned Riot because of their out of game behavior.
Fuck them. (Score:1)
Enough is enough.
Screw these clowns (Score:2)
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A while ago they got bought by Tencent. I guess that gives them the right to censor.
China Owned (Score:3, Insightful)
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.
That makes me ban Riot. (Score:2)
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.
Just report prominent streamers.. (Score:2)
Define the actions in violation of the TOS (Score:2)
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 Community (Score:2)
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
Impossible to Enforce (Score:1)