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League of Legends MMO Producer Announces Plans to Leave Riot
Riot MMO executive producer steps down steps down due to “combo of personal and professional considerations”
Executive producer on the in-development Riot Games MMO, Greg Street, has announced his departure from the company, pointing to “a combo of personal and professional considerations” as his reason for departing.
He also stated on Twitter that he had experienced personal losses last year, leading to a desire to be closer with the rest of his family.
Street had formerly stepped forward to declare Riot’s intention to create an MMORPG, way earlier than is normal for games in the R&D phase of development. This was to generate hype, and to encourage developers to join up and assist in building the project from the ground up.
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Calling custom security awareness training the answer to social engineering, Riot raises $12M
League of Legends champions may cost less in future, Riot says
You can pick up League of Legends champions using the MOBA‘s Blue Essence currency, which is obtained primarily through leveling up, but also by disenchanting character shards, spending event points, and much, much more. However, discrepancies in the in-game pricing system has prompted a response from Riot.
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Hackers Demand $10M From Riot Games To Stop Leak of ‘League of Legends’ Source Code
As evidence, the hackers provided Riot Games with two large PDFs they said would prove they had access to Packman and the League of Legends source code. Motherboard also obtained these files; they appear to show directories related to the game’s code. If paid, the hackers promised to scrub the code from their servers and “provide insight into how the breach occurred and offer advice on preventing future breaches,” according to the ransom note. In the message, the hackers included a link to a Telegram chat where they said Riot Games could speak with them. Motherboard joined this channel. Its members included usernames that matched those of names of Riot Games employees. “We do not wish to harm your reputation or cause public disturbance. Our sole motivation is financial gain,” the ransom note said. The message has a deadline of 12 hours. “Failure to do so will result in the hack being made public and the extent of the breach being known to more individuals.”
Riot Games first announced news of a compromise last week in a series of tweets. The exact nature of the hack isn’t known, but Riot Games referred to it as a “social engineering attack”. It also said it had no indication that user data had been affected. On Tuesday, Riot Games said in a tweet it had confirmed hackers stole the source code for League of Legends, Teamfight Tactics, and its “legacy” anticheat platform. Another tweet said that on Tuesday “we received a ransom email. Needless to say, we won’t pay.” “We also want to remind you that it would be a shame to see your company publicly exposed, especially when you take great pride in your security measures,” the hackers said in their ransom note. “It is alarming to know that you can be hacked within a matter of hours by an amateur-level hack.” In response to a request for comment from Motherboard, Riot declined to add anything further beyond the already published tweets.
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League of Legends events are “bland” Riot agrees, but change is coming
It’s no secret that the recent series of League of Legends events have largely failed to whet the playerbase’s metaphorical whistle, but Riot has doubled down on recent claims that the dev team is looking to give the MOBA‘s community something new and exciting.
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Riot Games may delay ‘League of Legends’ patch following cybersecurity breach
Riot Games, the studio behind League of Legends and Valorant, says a recent security breach may affect its short-term content release schedule. In a tweet spotted by BleepingComputer, Riot disclosed on Friday its development systems were compromised in a social engineering attack that occured earlier in the week.
“We don’t have all the answers right now, but we wanted to communicate early and let you know there is no indication that player data or personal information was obtained,” Riot said. “Unfortunately, this has temporarily affected our ability to release content. While our teams are working hard on a fix, we expect this to impact our upcoming patch cadence across multiple games.”
Heads up, players. This may impact our delivery date for Patch 13.2. The League team is working to stretch the limits of what we can hotfix in order to deliver the majority of the planned and tested balance changes on time still. https://t.co/DJ8qAKSdQi
— League of Legends (@LeagueOfLegends) January 20, 2023
The studio promised to share more information as it becomes available. On Friday, the League of Legends development team said the incident could affect its ability to release the MOBA’s upcoming version 13.2 update. Before this week, Riot had planned to release the patch on January 25th. Now, some aspects of the release, including a long-awaited art and sustainability update for Ahri, one of the game’s more popular champions, could be delayed until the arrival of patch 13.3 in February. “The League team is working to stretch the limits of what we can hotfix in order to deliver the majority of the planned and tested balance changes on time still,” the official LoL Twitter account said.
“Nothing that would have been in 13.2 will be cancelled, we might just have to move things that can’t be hotfixed (e.g. art changes) to a later date instead,” Andrei van Roon, the head of Riot’s League Studio, added. Riot did not immediately respond to Engadget’s request for more information on the incident. We’ll update this article when we hear back from the studio.