Riot Games is Cracking Down on Players' Off-Platform Conduct 11
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:1)
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Re: Riot are a bunch of cocksuckers (Score:2)
Chinese owned (Score:2)
You can't be surprised when the kings censorship run things.
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:2)
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:2)
I banned Riot because of their out of game behavior.
Fuck them. (Score:2)
Enough is enough.