Riot Games Stopped League of Legends Cheats by Hiring The Coders

[Tarfeather]

This is pretty plausible. If you're talking about ethical, you're missing the point btw. This is basically a guy with lots of IT security knowledge talking about his experiences with a large and successful IT company. And he concludes that he'd rather sell cheats to customers than work for the large and successful company, because the people buying cheats are treating him better. Now THAT should worry you. I'm studying IT at uni, and I've thought going into security before, but stories like these make it clear to me that the only sectors where security is really wanted is stuff where lots of money will be lost if the software malfunctions(so certainly not games).

 

[The Wykydtron]

Those were the days. The days when AP Yi was a thing. Fuck those days actually, i'm glad AP Yi is dead. He would legit tank towers forever with his Meditate easily healing him through it. Then would kill your entire team because his Q had a stupid high AP ratio and it resets on kill or assist.

But... But AP Yi was the only fun I ever had playing LoL. That and Ashe's "tag, you're it" cross-map arrow shit. So many angry players, usually on my team.

Trust me, if you were playing AP Yi decently the players on the enemy team would have been even angrier.

Though during this time of Zed mid every single fucking game, I would almost prefer an old AP Yi game. Almost. The rising plague of "i'm so edgy, I dodged a move with my ult, pressed all my buttons then tapped R again for the free tower dive, i'm literally Faker right now" Zed players is so frustrating.

It's teaching me that I have to be a total dick from minute 1 to even stand a chance at winning lane. He walks into lane and eats Blue Cards every time it comes off cooldown. You have made me do this, I am usually happy to ignore my opponent and just farm with TF but that's not an option here.

Oh, my team was never angry with AP Yi. They were, however, pissed at my Ashe ult kill stealing skills. Or maybe it's the fact that I played Ashe that they were pissed about... Meh, fuck them, everyone takes LoL too seriously, especially in unranked. "If you were good enough for me to care about your opinion, brah, you'd be playing a ranked match," was kinda my battle cry.

As for Zed mid, i quit LoL about the same time Zed came out, so I think I only played like ten games with him around. I did, however, usually play Lux or Morgana mid and don't recall seeing Zed more than once or twice. Still, he sounds like an awful opponent.

Mad at the AD Carry "stealing" kills. These people are either pre 30 or in Cardboard 7.

However Ashe is one of the least viable AD picks right now and has been for too long. This long period of ongoing Mobility Creep, Ashe's own immobility and the fact that slows do fuck all vs gap closers means she often just dies before getting anything off. She's not a pick worth raging about but it raises a few eyebrows. People do recognise that good Ashe ults win games though.

Still I lol'd about Riot's post about how everyone has a dash.

"We are aware of the issue of Mobility Creep"

*Releases Kalista*

"However CertainlyT has us all at gunpoint unless we let him overload the kits of every Champ he designs so hands tied"

 

[The Wykydtron]

Can't believe people actually play 100% bot games, I know the community can be bad sometimes but you're never going to get much better unless you PVP. Just mute your entire team from minute 1 if you think you have to. The fun cap is way higher in PVP too. You'll never see a Yi Bot activate Ghost to run away from a gank he'd already dodged easily. The endless tales I could tell about random League players...

I'd rather play by myself than with a bunch of jerks who'd just criticize me for not playing how they want me to play.

Single player doesn't judge me. Neither does bots.

Yeah I get that but you're definitely tanking the fun factor down several notches. I've found several good friends through League and I have to go on about the PVP being almost mandatory. Seriously, mute your entire team and just focus on playing if you're worried about being judged. Play Team Builder where nobody gives a fuck what you play (TB is all I play now when i'm not playing with my 5 man premade to be honest.)

I'm not gonna try to force the issue really but you can be a casual player in PVP too.

 

[RaikuFA]

Can't believe people actually play 100% bot games, I know the community can be bad sometimes but you're never going to get much better unless you PVP. Just mute your entire team from minute 1 if you think you have to. The fun cap is way higher in PVP too. You'll never see a Yi Bot activate Ghost to run away from a gank he'd already dodged easily. The endless tales I could tell about random League players...

I'd rather play by myself than with a bunch of jerks who'd just criticize me for not playing how they want me to play.

Single player doesn't judge me. Neither does bots.

Yeah I get that but you're definitely tanking the fun factor down several notches. I've found several good friends through League and I have to go on about the PVP being almost mandatory. Seriously, mute your entire team and just focus on playing if you're worried about being judged. Play Team Builder where nobody gives a fuck what you play (TB is all I play now when i'm not playing with my 5 man premade to be honest.)

I'm not gonna try to force the issue really but you can be a casual player in PVP too.

When I did mute everyone I got a bunch of tribunal notifications for "unsportsmanlike conduct."

 

[The Wykydtron]

Can't believe people actually play 100% bot games, I know the community can be bad sometimes but you're never going to get much better unless you PVP. Just mute your entire team from minute 1 if you think you have to. The fun cap is way higher in PVP too. You'll never see a Yi Bot activate Ghost to run away from a gank he'd already dodged easily. The endless tales I could tell about random League players...

I'd rather play by myself than with a bunch of jerks who'd just criticize me for not playing how they want me to play.

Single player doesn't judge me. Neither does bots.

Yeah I get that but you're definitely tanking the fun factor down several notches. I've found several good friends through League and I have to go on about the PVP being almost mandatory. Seriously, mute your entire team and just focus on playing if you're worried about being judged. Play Team Builder where nobody gives a fuck what you play (TB is all I play now when i'm not playing with my 5 man premade to be honest.)

I'm not gonna try to force the issue really but you can be a casual player in PVP too.

When I did mute everyone I got a bunch of tribunal notifications for "unsportsmanlike conduct."

Shouldn't really matter now, Tribunal has been down for like a year with no sign of it being fixed. We're basically running on the Leaverbuster bot only and with the current firewall errors going on, even that's disabled right now.

I can't imagine you can be banned just for mutes alone anymore, several streamers mention muting your entire team as a good thing and i've not seen any do nots by Riot. I regularly just don't speak a word in chat even without mutes and i'm fine. I'm petty as fuck with mutes too, when somebody rages too much at me I simply type "fuck you" then immediately mute them.

VICTORY. HA!

 

[Ironman126]

Mad at the AD Carry "stealing" kills. These people are either pre 30 or in Cardboard 7.

However Ashe is one of the least viable AD picks right now and has been for too long. This long period of ongoing Mobility Creep, Ashe's own immobility and the fact that slows do fuck all vs gap closers means she often just dies before getting anything off. She's not a pick worth raging about but it raises a few eyebrows. People do recognise that good Ashe ults win games though.

Still I lol'd about Riot's post about how everyone has a dash.

"We are aware of the issue of Mobility Creep"

*Releases Kalista*

"However CertainlyT has us all at gunpoint unless we let him overload the kits of every Champ he designs so hands tied"

Pre 30. I never hit the level cap, got tired of the game before I did.

I don't really recall much of this so-called "Mobility Creep," but Ashe was never my first pick for ADC. I also tried to avoid playing ADCs because I wasn't very good with them.

Wow. Kalista. That's new and different. I remember why I actually stopped playing LoL. Too many new champions, too much trouble to keep up with the meta-game. I appreciate that Riot wants to keep the game feeling fresh, but some of these new champions just. I don't have words. It's like how I feel playing Magic: The Gathering. The old man in me is like "back in my day we had to pay 6 mana for a half decent creature and we liked it!" Kinda feel that way about League these days. "Back in my day, we didn't have your fancy Kalistas and Threshs! We had just Blitzcrank and we like it!"

 

[freakonaleash]

Doesn't it strike other people as odd that some guy who exploits the game is blabbing about ethics?

 

[RaikuFA]

Can't believe people actually play 100% bot games, I know the community can be bad sometimes but you're never going to get much better unless you PVP. Just mute your entire team from minute 1 if you think you have to. The fun cap is way higher in PVP too. You'll never see a Yi Bot activate Ghost to run away from a gank he'd already dodged easily. The endless tales I could tell about random League players...

I'd rather play by myself than with a bunch of jerks who'd just criticize me for not playing how they want me to play.

Single player doesn't judge me. Neither does bots.

Yeah I get that but you're definitely tanking the fun factor down several notches. I've found several good friends through League and I have to go on about the PVP being almost mandatory. Seriously, mute your entire team and just focus on playing if you're worried about being judged. Play Team Builder where nobody gives a fuck what you play (TB is all I play now when i'm not playing with my 5 man premade to be honest.)

I'm not gonna try to force the issue really but you can be a casual player in PVP too.

When I did mute everyone I got a bunch of tribunal notifications for "unsportsmanlike conduct."

Shouldn't really matter now, Tribunal has been down for like a year with no sign of it being fixed. We're basically running on the Leaverbuster bot only and with the current firewall errors going on, even that's disabled right now.

I can't imagine you can be banned just for mutes alone anymore, several streamers mention muting your entire team as a good thing and i've not seen any do nots by Riot. I regularly just don't speak a word in chat even without mutes and i'm fine. I'm petty as fuck with mutes too, when somebody rages too much at me I simply type "fuck you" then immediately mute them.

VICTORY. HA!

True. It's just disturbing how much hate this fanbase has over everything.

 

[Strazdas]

Riot is resorting to tactics used by every MMO developer. scare tactics and bullying is nothing new in cheat coders worlds. this is because they cant touch them legally, since you know coding cheat programs is 100% legal. selling them is legal too. it is the users that break the EULA, not the program makers, and even those are legally untouchable outside US.

Doesn't it strike other people as odd that some guy who exploits the game is blabbing about ethics?

No, because exploiting a game is not unethical.

 

[freakonaleash]

Riot is resorting to tactics used by every MMO developer. scare tactics and bullying is nothing new in cheat coders worlds. this is because they cant touch them legally, since you know coding cheat programs is 100% legal. selling them is legal too. it is the users that break the EULA, not the program makers, and even those are legally untouchable outside US.

Doesn't it strike other people as odd that some guy who exploits the game is blabbing about ethics?

No, because exploiting a game is not unethical.

In a competitive game that you play with other people? I think you're walking a thin line there.