New Riot Games policy can get LoL & Valorant streamers banned for their sponsors
Riot Games has updated its global terms of service and the new changes have huge ramifications for streamers of their most popular titles likeLoLandValorant. Moving forward, anyone caught promoting boosting services, or anything related, can be banned entirely.
Whenever you boot up a title with online functionality, in order to access multiplayer, you first have to agree to the game’s terms of service. While we all fly through these, often without a second thought, just to get to the action as soon as possible, they can hold some serious weight.
In most instances, the usual damaging actions like cheating are prohibited and punishable under law. We’ve seencountless cheating service providersslapped with multi-million dollar finesover the years. In other cases, the fine print is what might get you.
Publishing giant Riot Games has just updated its own global terms of service, a blanket approach to cover all of its titles including TFT, LoL, Valorant, and more. Among the changes, content creators have come into focus as those promoting the ‘wrong’ things are now being targeted. Here’s what it all means.
Riot Games targets content creators in new policy changes
Four changes from the terms of service update were highlighted in aNovember 27 blog post. One reaffirms how stream sniping is “explicitly against our rules” and players caught tracking down others “may be penalized.”
Another explains how behavior outside of a game, yet still connected to Riot’s IP, can be impacted too. So for instance, if Riot’s games are “the background of content produced,” then said content can be subject to punishment if it violates terms of service.
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However, the most crucial adjustment has to do with boosting, and the promotion of boosting. For as long as multiplayer games have been around, boosting has been right alongside it. In short, boosting is when you give someone else your account in order for them to boost your rank or your experience level.
Valorant is officially going to start banning Creators that promote Smurfing, Boosting And Account buyingpic.twitter.com/qn4i1eTfub
Content creators sticking to LoL or Valorant, for instance, will need to be far more careful in what they’re promoting, or even just discussing when sitting in front of the camera.
