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15 Aug

Riot will soon be deleting old, very inactive accounts

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Originally posted by coffeeclubbr

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 :)

Riot will soon be deleting old, very inactive accounts

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Originally posted by Officer_Val

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.

Riot will soon be deleting old, very inactive accounts

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Originally posted by TheDarkRobotix

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

Riot will soon be deleting old, very inactive accounts

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Originally posted by TheDarkRobotix

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

Riot will soon be deleting old, very inactive accounts

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Originally posted by SenseiChrono

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

Riot will soon be deleting old, very inactive accounts

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Originally posted by A_Neurotic_Pigeon

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

Riot will soon be deleting old, very inactive accounts

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Originally posted by Empyreanrex

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

Riot will soon be deleting old, very inactive accounts

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Originally posted by Friendly_Pepperoni

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 :)

Riot will soon be deleting old, very inactive accounts

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Originally posted by KoreanGamer9414

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.

Riot will soon be deleting old, very inactive accounts

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Originally posted by Meigetsuki

Will the summoner names open up?

I believe so.

Riot will soon be deleting old, very inactive accounts

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Originally posted by Tormentula

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.

Riot will soon be deleting old, very inactive accounts

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Originally posted by Cumcentrate3490

Old accounts got 400RP when they were made, does that 400RP count as purchases made?
does using any of that 400RP count as a purchase?

I'm not sure on this one specifically, but the rest of the rules would apply to them.

Riot will soon be deleting old, very inactive accounts

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Originally posted by Goricatto

Will you guys be sending a list of new available names after deleting these accounts ?

We don't plan to, no.

Riot will soon be deleting old, very inactive accounts

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Originally posted by cerberus6320

Hii there! thanks for being so open about the process. I was curious how do you prevent the deletion of accounts for folks who are inactive due to circumstance?

As an example, I have friends in the military who had done back to back deployments and were unable to play league of legends during their deployments and between them. But they love the game, and many have spent money on the game.

What measures is Riot taking to ensure their accounts don't get deleted so that they can return to the game, when you can't possibly be expected to know if a user plans on being inactive for 2+ years at a time?

Firstly - if your deployed friends have played more than 20 hours, they should be safe.

I've not been deployed so I'm not familiar with how much access they have to the internet in their free time, but if any of your friends can log into their accounts via the league of legends website, that should be good enough to reset the clock.

They'll also receive an email to whatever account they signed up with that they can follow the instructions in to prevent deletion if they do end up being deleted.

Finally, they can also DM player support and we'll work something out.

We don't have any plans right now for way to mark accounts as "safe" en-masse.

Riot will soon be deleting old, very inactive accounts

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Originally posted by YaBoiiBillNye

I think that’s fine. I remember for ESEA I hadn’t played for like 4+ years, even with way more than 20 hours. And that’s totally reasonable.

Do the taken usernames get freed?

They should be, yes.

Riot will soon be deleting old, very inactive accounts

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Originally posted by ancientdem

I have my brother added who passed away a several years ago. Last time we played was season 5ish Would i be able to submit a ticket to keep that account from getting deleted? Can I request the information for the account? No skins, not ranked, nothing of value other than it being his account. Only played norms.

Send a player support ticket and DM me the ticket ID and we will get something sorted out for you.

Riot will soon be deleting old, very inactive accounts

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Originally posted by Kadianye

How old

For an account to be considered for deletion, it must match all of the following criteria:

  • Have not played more than 20 hours of games across all of our games combined,
  • Must not have ever purchased any of our currencies
  • Must not have ever received any of our currencies from another player
  • Must not have any rare or legacy content (Like Grey Warwick)
  • Must not have had a login within 3 years

Riot will soon be deleting old, very inactive accounts

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Originally posted by Ph4ntomQuest

Let's be real. Riot has some really good coding...but there's some pretty bad spaghetti too. I'm genuinely concerned that somethings going to go wrong and an active account might get deleted. Is there a backup plan for this?

If, god forbid, an active account is flagged, you will receive an email and you will have 30 days to action that email (i.e, to click on a link to prevent the deletion).

Doing so will count as a login, so it would be like resetting the clock on that account for the purposes of deletion.

Riot will soon be deleting old, very inactive accounts

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Originally posted by coffeeclubbr

I'm aware this is perhaps a question you are not allowed to answer, but what proportion of accounts actually fall into such a strict criteria? My first thought is that this can't even be close to 1% of all accounts, and as a result cant be worthwhile.

We have free to play games that have been around for over 10 years - Even a small proportion of accounts is a lot of accounts!

Riot will soon be deleting old, very inactive accounts

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Originally posted by sirzoop

Will you get rid of accounts that were permabanned? Also will the accounts automatically be removed from my friend list?

We don't have any intention right now to go after permanently banned accounts specifically but if there are permanently banned accounts who fit the criteria, those will be removed, yes.

Yes, the deleted accounts will be removed from your friends list.