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League is a game as a service

Hazardus ducees·4/30/2019, 10:42:18 AM·3 votes·2,596 views

If anyone has watched this video, you will notice that League of legends is a game that now only provides a service. As much as you want to deny this, the fact stands: "You can't play league of legends as a game if they don't broadcast their servers." (Unless you own their CD of course, which was severely limited and no longer viable for purchase or play due to updates).

On that note, I would like to ask League of Legends for a legal emulation copy of their servers (including for the old client) so that one day it can be revived once League of Legends decides the game is no longer making reasonable profit and choses to shut down. That way, those who still enjoy your game can completely experience it without you guys being forced to broadcast your server. Yes I am serious and yes, I've paid enough time and money to technically own myself a copy of this game- at least a server emulation (as if it were a Blu-ray disk) as physical property and eventhough absolutely nothing within league of legends (like champion skins) has any monetary value (claimed by your Terms for Services and EULLA)- I still paid the price to own a vital part which would ultimately remove the game as a whole League of legends choose to no longer broadcast their servers. -Yes, it is just the emulated server so piecing it together isn't a pain in the butt.

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LazyW0lf4/30/2019, 1:37:51 PM2 votes

Straight from the Terms of Use, section 4.3:

You have no ownership or other property interest in any of the Virtual Goods you unlock, regardless of whether you acquired access to those Virtual Goods using Riot Points, Blue Essence or Hextech Crafting. Virtual Goods have no monetary value. You can’t redeem them for cash. You can’t obtain any refunds for purchasing Riot Points or Virtual Goods, except as expressly permitted by us. You can find our current content refund policy here.

We have the right to delete, alter, move, remove, or transfer any and all Game Content—including Virtual Goods—in whole or in part, at any time and for any reason or no reason, with or without notice to you, and with no liability of any kind to you. We don’t provide or guarantee, and expressly disclaim, any value, cash or otherwise, attributed to any data residing on servers we operate or control, including any Game Content attributed to your account. The sale or transfer of your right to access certain Virtual Goods, Blue Essence, Riot Points or Hextech Items may only be conducted via services approved of or provided by us, if any.

You don't own anything, you simply unlock the right to use the product.

Section 4.4 notifies you that you must agree to the terms that you do not own anything even if you choose to use real money. You must agree to this in order to play the game.

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Liquidone4/30/2019, 11:16:34 AM1 votes

I'm not watching an hour long youtube video, sorry.

KFCeytron4/30/2019, 8:27:05 PM1 votes

Preexisting thread: https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/general-discussion/cENEb3FE-we-should-have-this-discussion-while-we-still-can

You can ask for anything you want, but Riot owes you nothing, and it's up to them to decide what to sell and how much to sell it for, including their server code, which they just so happen not to sell, for extremely sound business reasons. The notion that you've paid enough for one offering to "technically" buy another product that they don't sell is, frankly, preposterous, even though you're using the word "technically" in an attempt to legitimize your claim. It's like hiring a photographer to take some photos of you and then demanding they give you their camera, too.

I blame this YT video for perpetuating a brief lapse in the average consumer's understanding of their understanding.

Colonel J5/1/2019, 4:05:20 AM1 votes

Games as a service is not a fraud and consumers should be made aware that once the servers are offline you can't play anymore.

Shandrake5/1/2019, 4:28:00 AM1 votes

Is this the new Dunkey vid that everyone is gonna spam?