Does the alleged stockpile of bottled accounts sitting in cold storage to be sold have anything to do with this decision?
We've made this decision solely to reduce the amount of personal information we store on players that we probably don't need to store.
Thank you foremost for answering.
But meanwhile any other game, HOTS, Smite etc is tracking total amount of games played, how old the account is, etc.
How is tracking of the most basic thing of any online Game such as age of the account or rounds played more "prohibitively expensive" than any of the weird ass challenges we have? Or how many Teemo's die each minute etc?
Why is it that LoL, one of the biggest PC games, lacking such feature? Its there in the client, all you have to do is to play a single SR Game, but why cant I see it outside of a game?
Back in 2009 and a few years +, we could see all the different stats of anything. So how come,that we HAD thr option to see in a decade ago, but not now?
Heck, even Wild Rift is tracking all games played
So, there's collecting that information and then there's making it available, at any time, for any player.
Collecting that information is definitely something we do. Somewhere in our data centers there is information that will say how many games you've played, and all that.
However, having all of that information available in a format for every account that has and will ever exist, accessible in real time would be the expensive part.
Funny enough, if she actually indexed into the keyword “life steal”, she wouldn’t have healed this much. She simply has healing from items and runes.
I mean she specifically picked each of the things that heal her.
"Life steal" works when you're a consistent auto-attacker like Kalista. It's pretty much non-functional on most non-marksmen.
I appreciate you guys taking these privacy concerns seriously.
Are there plans to email accounts that have been marked inactive but are not subject to deletion because of another criterion? This might be useful to me as a friendly FYI, since I try to keep tabs on who has my email address and such, and it would be useful knowledge to me that I haven’t logged into a Riot service in 3+ years, even if my total playtime means the account will stay.
We don't have any plans for that right now, no. In general, we really only want to email you if there is something that requires your attention.
hi dan honks i remember you played an aram and went tank sion not lethality I appreciate that cheers
i play tank on everything in aram. i am not having fun if the enemy carries are.
So it requires manual review for a sold account to be identified or is there an automatic that flags them for review?
To be clear I'm not commenting on any of the processes we have right now for identifying and actioning compromised accounts, just pointing out that in this case the OP would be fine.
Sell level 30 boosts that require people to be level 30 to purchase. Then have that level 30 account link to the account they bought it on and bans on one account go to both accounts. Not sure if this is a possible solution though.
That does sound like a good solution. I hate to meme myself, but right now the Technology Isn't There. It's one we'll have on our list for sure, though.
I have a second acc like lv 9 I obviously have less than 20 hours but the acc is 6 months old, will it also be in the list of deletion?
Your account will only be considered to be deleted if you have not logged onto it in 3 years and have played less than 20 hours, not bought or received any currencies and have not got any legacy content.
I know you mentioned in another post that you can't disclose anything like a number of accounts being deleted, but can you give a percentage of accounts being deleted by this action? are we talking less than 1% or more like 10%.
I cannot disclose that, no.
Sure the flat number is high, well over a million accounts undoubtedly, but if the goal is to have Riot not unnecessarily hold onto user data of abandoned (for lack of better term) accounts this doesn't seem like it will be hitting a very high proportion of even those accounts, making the exercise mostly ineffective at hitting the (obviously impossibly to fully hit) goal. Of course, I have no strictly better proposal to reach this goal; it's an impossible task to do with high precision, and to get high recall would have many accounts get deleted that are not actually abandoned.
Perfect is the enemy of the good :)
Hey there. Does this count for Wild Rift too? I didnt play League on pc for few months now but i activly play Wild Rift.
Is my riot account safe? I read the stuff but explain me like im 5 if u dont mind!
Sure!
If your account for League and Wild Rift are the same, you're fine. You can tell if they are the same because your Riot ID (Which looks like Riot dan honks#NVB94) will be the same on both accounts.
If they are different, then we don't "know" that your Wild Rift account and League account are owned by the same person, and you might need to log into League.
In any case, if your account will be deleted, you will receive an email a month before it gets deleted and you can click on the links there to prevent it in the worst case scenario.
would love to know what names will become available through name checker sites but seems the api is down atm? (for months now AFAIK)
I'm not really sure what name checker sites you're referring to but I'm not sure we have an official API for specifically checking names. It's possible the sites that you are using are using our third party API to identify accounts that exist; that third party API has keys that need to be maintained by the owners of the third party site.
In other words, I think the sites you are using are at fault here
its riot accounts not just for league accounts right? so any riot games and their hours also stack?
eg 10hours in League, 3hours in Runeterra, 3hours in TFT mobile, 2hours in Wildrift, 2hours in Valorant will be counted as 20 total?
Yes to both counts
why let a black market flourish like this for years tho? why not just sell your own safe level 30 boosts for people? the game has been out for over a decade.
Selling boosts gives the wrong message of "if you were banned, just buy a new account, even riot supports it". I'm not sure what any potential "solution" in this space will look like but the reason we haven't gotten one is because it's difficult to come up with one that doesn't incentivise bad actors and also doesn't make people feel like they should buy a boost as an entirely new player
Purely out of curiosity as someone that is studying in cyber security / network security etc...
What risk would disclosing that data pose?
Disclosing the exact number in this case is not a question of security. Companies in general will guard any information that informs people about what the size of their player base is
Will you guys ever give us the ability to merge accounts?
It might be possible to merge two accounts on different Riot IDs if you can prove you own both of them by DMing player support (I'm honestly not sure) - for example, if you use one username for League and another for VALORANT.
I'm not sure how you would be able to merge accounts that have conflicting games, ie, two League accounts.
I don't want to say never, but it seems like a niche enough scenario that it might not be worth exploring
Look, I'm a VERY busy dad of 8 kids. I get 4 minutes every 2 months to play a partial bot game. If, no, when my account gets terminated, prepare for the 4-minute battle of your life once I get around to it.
As long as you are logging in for those four minutes every 2 months, you're free and clear :)
Is it only old account or also accounts that play up to lv 20 and go inactive for like say a week
It's only for old accounts that have not been touched in three years and also meet a bunch of other criteria elaborated within the article.
Will the summoner names open up?
I believe so.
Do you intend on sending alerts to the emails of said accounts first? IE: in 30 days your acc will be thanos snapped if you don’t play a matchmade or Ai game?
Also how far back are we talking if it wasn’t already said yet? S3, S6?
Do you intend on sending alerts to the emails of said accounts first? IE: in 30 days your acc will be thanos snapped if you don’t play a matchmade or Ai game?
Yes, every account will receive an email with instructions on how to prevent the deletion.
Also how far back are we talking if it wasn’t already said yet? S3, S6?
From when the process starts it'll be any account that hasn't been used in three years. This will be a continual process, so next year, accounts that have been inactive since 2019 will become eligible for deletion.
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