League of Legends: Riot won’t tolerate cheaters

A couple days ago, an exploit regarding masteries was brought to Riot’s attention. Needless to say they started working on it immediately, fixing the bug and banning all accounts that were caught to be abusing it.

But the coolest part is, the post of Tiamat, Riot’s Lead Community Manager. Let me tell you, he wasn’t happy at all! Here’s what he wrote :

Summoners,

If you’ve been playing online games for any length of time, you probably know that most games eventually have to deal with scum of the earth cheaters that enjoy ruining your experience. League of Legends is one of the largest games on the planet, and the downside is that there are more people actively working to find exploits that create an unfair advantage for other players.

That’s bull****, and we’re not going to allow it.

We take this seriously. Nothing is more important to us than the sanctity of our game, competitive or otherwise. As soon as we discovered the issue, we immediately dropped everything to find both immediate and permanent fixes. I’m happy to report that the immediate fix has been implemented, and we’ll be restarting all regions this evening to add some redundancy which will prevent similar exploits in the future. As we continue to investigate and further analyze data, our primary commitment is identifying players affected and doing everything within our power to make it right.

Is this the end of people trying to ruin your experience? No. But we’re committed to stopping this kind of behavior in its tracks, and are discussing ways to increase our monitoring and development as part of that commitment. We have comprehensive logs and data that allow us to see precisely who did what, and also who was negatively affected by this malicious behavior. We’ve identified all of the players that have been using this exploit, and we’re going to be taking firm action against their accounts.

First of all I want to congratulate Riot for not catering to the cheaters. In contrary to what happens to many major MMORPGs post-launch, they seem determined to not let cheaters, hackers and botters to ru(i)n their game. +1 from me!

So, the question arises: Why do MMO companies like NCSoft (Lineage 2 / AION), Aventurine (DarkFall) and others let hacks, bots and exploits ruin their games?

Let us know what you think in the comments section below!