With an update to their terms of service Riot Games now targets streamers that promote boosting – and will punish them hard.
Riot Games just updated its global terms of service with the changes affecting streamers of their most popular titles like League of Legends or Valorant – and might even get them banned.
Riot Games changing their global terms of service
Be honest: Did you ever read any terms of service for any multiplayer at all? Most of the time, it feels more like a boring quick time event to scroll through a wall of text until the “agree” button pops up at the end to click on and progress. But sometimes it could be helpful and even might affect your career if you know exactly what you can or can’t do. Right now, that’s the case with streamers that play games made by Riot.
We already reported about Riot Games new attempts to fight back any cheaters that try to exploit holes in Vanguard and it seems like the updates in their global terms of service are going in a similar direction.
Covering all Riot titles including TFT, LoL, Valorant and many more, a focus of these changes are content creators promoting things that are “wrong”.
Content creators are targeted by Riot Games
Next to some other rules like confirming that stream sniping is now “explicitly against the rules” and that also behavior outside of a game that is still connected to Riot’s IP can be subjected to punishment, the most controversy came up with Riot’s way of handling boosting.
Boosting basically means to give your account to someone else so they can boost your rank or level. It has always been a direct violation of the terms of service by Riot, but the rules are now stricter and go deeper. In the text, it says:
Content that promotes breaking our terms of service, specifically sponsorships for and content around boosting services, is now subject to penalty. This can happen formally through sponsored posts on social media accounts, videos, streams, or just in casual conversation that occurs during the course of content.
That means if a streamer or content creator uses or promotes services that will boost your game for you or help to purchase accounts, Riot can ban said accounts from their games.
That means if your content is sticking to LoL or other IPs owned by them, you have to be far more careful in your decisions about what to promote or even discuss when streaming.
What is your opinion on boosting? Do you think that Riot is in the right to punish those who use that kind of service?
