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#Games_Have_Nothing_To_Do_With_Politics. We need your support. Please up-vote to un-ban LOL in Syria

Kítty·6/23/2019, 12:44:13 PM·3 votes·1,633 views

Personally, League of Legends has been a great part of my life. since I was a 2nd year dentistry student to my working career years later. and throughout my travels afterwards. And It is still connecting me with my friends who are scattered across the globe now (Germany, England, UAE, Russia, Netherlands..).

I have been playing league for 8 years now and it means a great deal to me just like it does to you and to so many people here in Syria too. People who woke up one day to find themselves banned from playing their favorite game. And for a reason they have no influence on. A political conflict between USA and Iran (Drone, Sanctions, more other reasons idk about..).

So why us the players? Why should we be targeted and affected?? What does politics have to do with a game??

And why Syria? since it is a political conflict between USA and Iran? What does have to do with the Syrian people (the players)? Is banning a game a solution? would it hurt a political party somehow?? or would it hurt the their economy of Iran in some way??

First, this is Syria not Iran. 2nd LOL is a free to play game in its core. so if Riot Games wants to comply with the US government ban on Iran, common sense would be to ban the financial transactions only (purchasing RP) in Iran. but banning the whole game in both Syria and Iran? well that is careless and very saddening :/ ..

PS: The game still works on VPN, but ping is 200+ and spiky. And paid VPN is Unfortunately quite expensive here.

11 Comments

ModThe Djinn6/23/2019, 3:30:42 PM8 votes

As I've stated in other threads, this is not a Riot Games policy, but rather a restriction placed due to current US laws and regulations that Riot -- as a US company -- is required to follow. This unfortunately impacts the players, Riot, and everyone who enjoys League in that area, and I think we'll all hopeful that the political problems that caused this (which, as per board rules, are not acceptable discussion here) are resolved in such a way that everyone in that area can have access to League again.

This is not an appropriate place to discuss how Riot can/should handle the situation, as none of us here are international legal experts and, if anyone here actually does happen to be, these boards are still not the correct place for that discussion.

Beerstein6/23/2019, 12:48:18 PM3 votes

Riot has no power here, there's no reason to involve Riot in this discussion at all.

I suggest a paid VPN, good ones should work as well as not having one, and in some cases even better. I've seen both gaming and education companies that have this issue.

Anyone in these countries should strongly consider using a VPN anyway. Should they HAVE to is a different discussion entirely. But again, it boils down to its honestly not Riots fault.

Pyrosan6/23/2019, 12:49:56 PM3 votes

Riot didn't decide the ban, it's a US embargo they've put on and since Riot is US based, they follow US laws.

Kítty6/23/2019, 12:53:45 PM1 votes

To clarify, The US laws are against Iran not Syria.

bronze smurf696/23/2019, 8:13:00 PM1 votes

IIRC, there's a political conflict not just between Iran and US, but also Syria and US. I don't know if that's true, but it would make sense why that happened.

Also, can you speak Arabic here?

play4fun20049/2/2019, 7:16:43 AM1 votes

the exact same thing happened to me i live in hama and i share the same problem plz tell me if u found a way to play it with a proper ping and thank you