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@Riot With the recent epidemic of scripting, botting, etc.

SC0RP10·10/30/2014, 12:26:05 PM·5 votes·2,443 views

Can we get some clarity or acknowledgement that you know this happening?

Can you implement an option to report someone for cheating in the end game menu? It would be quite a nice feature to have, so we don't have to spend a whole 30 mins going to the support page to go through the process.

I get that this stuff is hard to combat because it is client side, but is there anything you can do about it?

As it stands right now this issue is getting progressively worse and worse. A couple of months ago I don't recall anyone cheating in any form. Lately, (I don't know if it is because of the end of season rewards) the amount of people cheating in my division, platinum, has progressed from having somebody doing this in maybe one out of twenty games to around one out of every eight games. If I took the time to go to your support site and report them I would be truly exasperated.

TL;DR: After the whole Ashe "Q" fiasco people seem to have realized that League of Legends is much more vulnerable than people think and people are now scripting, botting, etc because of it. It would be great to finally get a report option for cheating. Is Riot aware that things have gotten this bad?

27 Comments

Techno Bunny10/30/2014, 1:16:09 PM3 votes

They know about it, obviously you havn't read updates, they know but aren't doing horse shit.

Vahn6510/30/2014, 3:53:35 PM3 votes

"if your not playing in the LCS and bringing us marketing money you dont matter." - Sincerely, Riot Gaming.

Gorsz10/30/2014, 1:08:56 PM2 votes

Riot either cannot do anything about it, or they refuse to allocate the resources to fix it.

Cassiopeia was gutted (reworked) because of scripters. Riot would rather destroy a champion then tackle the cheating going on.

Theres so many hacks nowadays for this game it would make your headspin.

Raptamei10/30/2014, 3:09:13 PM2 votes

Riot cannot fix cheating because the game was made on a shoestring budget with no expertise in 2009. It is however Riot's fault for not rewriting the game at some point when it got popular. They wanted to save money and now the chickens are coming home to roost.

First page of a Google search:

Download a bot and use it. The more people bot, the sooner Riot will fix it; or they don't care, in which case you should be cheating anyway if you want to win.

Also: Never buy RP with a credit card. Riot WILL get hacked and have all their user data stolen. It's only a matter of time.

DrCyanide10/30/2014, 4:57:49 PM2 votes

The last few patches have been very buggy, and I suspect that some of that carries through to the back end as well, allowing exploits to have an easier time.

  • 4.16 was Azir's release (remember all the bugs with him at launch?)
  • 4.17 introduced a disconnect/unable to connect bug for a lot of people. Azir still had bugs, since most of them couldn't be submitted for this patch.
  • 4.18 broke several champion's cone abilities, Singed's E, saved chat positions were ignored, the Ashe Q exploit hit, etc.

From what the people who play on PBE were saying, some of these things bugs weren't present there, which implies Riot isn't following good testing practices (pushing changes to Live without testing them).

We need a serious bug-fix patch to get everything stabilized again, but said patch is pretty heavily delayed by Worlds. Maybe they can work the necessary fixes into the Season 5 patch. At least the new Summoners Rift is going to be a staged upgrade to test for bugs on smaller, less critical portions of the community.