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Rated 3 out of 5 stars

Good games from Riot. Reporting is useless lately, they only have volunteers running the support forums, who just auto reply without doing anything to fix the situation, then mark this down as proble... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

this company is a complete and utter joke. The matchmaking in valorant is so bad. IM IN ASCENDANT 1 AND IM PLAYING WITH PLATINUM 3SXD ON MY TEAM IT IS A 2 RANK DIFFERENCE AND UY CANT QUEUE WITH PEOPL... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Enjoy the games - really dislike how invasive the Vanguard is and how Riot games assume you want your PC taken over. Vanguard, for example, stops drivers working that I need for music hardware and... See more

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

They are cheaters and steal your money, They took my money and banned my account without any reason, I have filled a complaint against this thives and taking action after the outcome. Please guys stay... See more

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Riot Games, Inc. is an American video game developer and esports tournament organizer based in West Los Angeles, California.


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Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Lovely game only downside is all the…

Lovely game only downside is all the toxicity and people without mics on EU console. And I was just in a game, got stuck on the buy gun screen so I restarted the game now it won’t let me join again. I’m going to get a ban for something the game needs to fix😡.

26 October 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Going to delete this game after 8 plus years.

This new idea for the season to have splits really ruins the game. I play maybe 100 - 200 games a season depending on how busy I am and usually sit around diamond 4. I have played 100ish games this season and after this 3rd split I got placed gold 1 ( I won 4 of 5 of my placements) after being placed emerald 4 the 2nd split. This idea makes the game impossible to climb if you can only play casually. So only download this game if you are willing to put a ton of time into it.

26 September 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Riot games is a terreible games heres…

Riot games is a terreible games heres why. they put me with some inbreds on my team when im always 1 win away from a rank thanks to them i cant rank up riot is the most useless company when it comes to match making thanks riot thanks alot

17 September 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

If you want to play this game be passive aggressive to defend yourself and your well being <3.

If you want to play this game, don't say a word in chat and just do whatever you want to do and not give a damn about everything else, otherwise you will have a bad time, this is what I am going to do. No more stopping fights, being positive and bringing a balance to the toxic cesspoll that is the league of legends player base.

I was in a game with someone who decided to lose the game on purpose, left the lane because he did not like that I used a support item to take minions. Went top and started to die on purpose, throwing a tantrum and acting like an entitled little brat.

The game was easily winnable, if he just played, but he decided we should lose and tried to make us lose by feeding on purpose.

My remark was "people like this should be removed from the game" I got some automated AI response that just looked at my chat, claiming that there was a "detailed investigation". No there was not, people that intentionally start ruining the game should get a permaban.

25 June 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Vanguard

Have to reinstallt he game and Vanguard because Vanguard doesn't work. I have to spend my time and efforts to install an invasive anti-cheat system on my computer just to play one of their games. Lots of departments of Riot are great and do a great job, but the big decisions are all terrible.

18 June 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The low ratings you regarding the…

The low ratings you regarding the conduct of employees at this company are not a fluke. Riot Games staff are immoral, censor and punish innocent players, and have even gone so far as to permanently ban innocent players and remove thousands of dollars of content that was purchased with real money. These individuals, such as "Marc Merrill" and " are among the most anti-moral employees in the video game industry.

Staff at this company have admitted to me, in their Customer Service messaging, that they "penalize" users, up to a permanent ban of your account including the permanent loss of all account items you paid real for money for, for typing the call-out "ADC (x1)" in text chat, because it "can feel a bit spammy and also cause a bit of a negative experience for others." ADC, for context, is the name of an important in-game role.

And that does not even including the rigging of matchmaking matches that League of Legends has been shown to have, in which they deliberately unbalance the teams: giving the enemy team an unfair edge by selecting enemy players with higher k/ds, and matching the allied team with lower k/ds and less experience.

These people are so utterly malicious, deceptive, and hostile to their players that it's shocking there is no active class action lawsuit against them. I would not be surprised to see one in the near future.

1/5. Do not play League of Legends or any game by "Riot Games," which is currently headed by CEO "Ashok Dylan Jadeja" and "Marc Merrill" (Chief Product Officer). I recommend DOTA 2, Counter-Strike, Apex Legends, of Call of Duty: Warzone.

13 June 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

thats it i am done with this game

thats it i am done with this game, i have a high end pc that run games in 4K. BUT the very frist game i got there hacker BS vanguard my game freezes up and crash my pc so i get banned for it. i have tried all you lame fixet but it don´t work. so i am not gonna go back and have 15 min wait for a game for something RIOT has done. FIX YOUR GAME but it seems like 500$ skin os more important to rito.

4 June 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

A monkey ran company

A monkey ran company. Riot owned by the Chinese making max profit anything else. Dog$hit company and people. You can see people enjoy working cause they don’t do $hit and get paid. Legit can’t, can’t make game, only good thing is their lore.

4 June 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

dog company

dog company, banned my account with no reason, resolving my ticket when i want to know why I'm banned. High amount of money put into this game to be banned for no valid reason, amazing company go get some employees to unban people you animals, billion dollar company can't get anything right. Absolute animals.

28 May 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 4 out of 5 stars

Dear Riot Games,

Dear Riot Games,

During the entirety of 2021, 2022, and 2023, I have been playing your game called Valorant. I started playing your game in early 2021 and it has been a fun experience playing ever since. However, I think your game does have some negatives which can make it annoying and difficult to play. This game is a tactical shooter 5v5 game with defenders and attackers. To give a quick summary of what each team's goal is. The goal of the attackers is to blow up a bomb site and the defenders understandably are to defend the bomb site. This game is designed to make a fun and entertaining environment for the person playing and it is fun but there are some problems. The one big negative that your game brings to each person playing is the lack of good regional servers you have for your game. You have server regions spread out around the country and people who live far away from all of those regions are having very bad lag and server ping issues. You only have 5 or 6 servers running around the country and it isn’t a guarantee that any person playing lives near any of those regions. Sure, some people may have lag and ping issues due to the status of their computer or the strength of their internet connection to their PC. But, most of the time it's usually the game itself that experiences long-term server and ping issues which can make it a nuisance to the person playing the game. I recommend installing more regional ping servers around the country to help control the player's ping and make it manageable in terms of any server lag or ping issues. I would recommend this product but I would warn any people who have iffy PCs or live in the middle of nowhere to potentially have to deal with lag problems regarding the game. If Riot Games somehow gets this message I hope they would do the right move of fixing these ping problems because more and more people are having these same problems that even I sometimes have.

9 April 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Riot refuses to respond to me

I got suspended on my account for being "MMR boosted" however, this is not the case at all. I found an insanely good duo to play with and because we won a lot and climbed really fast my account was punished.
It's insane to think you can duo as long as your duo is not too good or riot will punish you even if your performance was solid.
I contacted riot player support about everything and asked for a response. I was completely ignored and my ticket's status was 'solved'. when I contacted a different department regarding the issue they replied with the letter 'e' and marked my ticket as 'solved'.
"Barkskin998 (Riot Games - LoL Support)

Jan 20, 2024, 09:46 UTC

e
Barkskin
Player Support Specialist"

Unbelievably, unprofessional responses to my ticket which has not been responded to or solved.

16 January 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

My friend lost HUNDREDS of dollars to…

My friend lost HUNDREDS of dollars to this sh itty company by getting falsely banned, the sad part is that robots operate their systems now, so if you get unlawfully banned or punished the customer support who IS humans will do NOTHING to help you because they are hired to be S h ! ty r3t@rd$ at their job

4 January 2024
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

Invasive Launcher and Anti-Cheat

Enjoy the games - really dislike how invasive the Vanguard is and how Riot games assume you want your PC taken over.

Vanguard, for example, stops drivers working that I need for music hardware and I have to reboot after I turn it off (turning it back on before being able to relaunch the game). Client assumes I want its icon on my desktop after every launch, even if I manually delete the icon. Riot: assume that my PC is used for other things as well as your games.

16 August 2023
Unprompted review
Rated 1 out of 5 stars

The worst shiety game i ever played

The worst shiety game i ever played. I got banned for 2 weeks for no fck1ng reason. I had an anivia adc troll my mid lane and other lanes putting walls and stealing farm and i just stayed afk moving just my champ on base because that game was already lost. And they give me ban hahaha . I will never play that shiet again for sure.

22 July 2023
Unprompted review

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