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Permabanned for changing game.cfg even though Riot has said it's allowed.

Sokeri·1/5/2016, 10:18:13 PM·117 votes·40,469 views

Hi, I'm GGS Sokeri.

I got permanently banned and after 31 days(!) I got a response: it was for (quote from Riot ticket response): "directly modifying the League of Legends game files, which is a ToU violation and punishable with a permanent suspension".

The only changes to "game files" were to a configuration file called game.cfg located somewhere in the LoL folders. I literally got permabanned just for changing one number.

Before touching anything I even researched if modifying "game.cfg" was allowed. I found numerous Riot employee and "Wrenchman" posts that said it's allowed or even instructed people to change the exact settings I was changing. Links are in the bottom of this post.

So the reason for the suspension was changing the resolution to get different aspect ratios (see 4:3, 16:9, 21:9 etc.). What this does is change the field of view. However, League of Legends natively supports ultrawide resolutions so buying a 21:9 monitor has the same effect. What changing game.cfg did was emulate this on a 16:9 screen. Here's what it looks like and how Riot themselves provide settings for ultrawide screens: http://imgur.com/a/FwIkY.

Why should players have to buy a 21:9 monitor if they can have the same effect for free?

What do you guys think about this?

Here are some links with Riot or Wrenchman approval of game.cfg modification:

  • Riot:

http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/help-support/bWudBIZ0-bug-blue-and-red-squares-appearing-when-mousing-over-turrets

http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=28614 http://forums.euw.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=333742 http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=1601482&page=1#post18507108

  • Wrenchman:

http://forums.euw.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=1848181 http://forums.euw.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=998435 http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=98893 http://forums.na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=59964 http://forums.euw.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=183343 http://forums.euw.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=10880&page=2

TL;DR: Changed screen resolution from LoL configuration file, permaban received even though Riot has said multiple times that it's allowed.

102 Comments

RiotKeyru1/5/2016, 11:48:44 PM147 votes

Hey GGS Sokeri,

I have went forward with removing the suspension from your account. For this particular modification, it is not something that we currently action on but may change in the future. That being said, we highly suggest to not tamper with game files or play on a resolution that we do not support. Sorry about this and good luck on the rift!

disregardable1/5/2016, 10:41:39 PM6 votes

They've been pretty clear that they don't want to allow anything that provides an advantage in the game. I honestly feel like this is toeing the line a bit, because you're obviously doing it to gain more screen real estate than other players. At the same time, you have a fair point about the 21:9 monitor. Feel like it could go either way.

Sinister Anubis1/5/2016, 11:04:13 PM4 votes

Well some of those post is more then a year old and if i remember correctly they updated their ToS. However i'v never changed the game cfg file i have changed my input file to allow me to bind my left click to attack move, mainly because i play a lot of kalista or did at one point.

I just deleted my input file and allowed the to remake it after resetting up my bindings. Honestly it was more of a pain to deal with holding shift to move the map more then anything. And i dont adc as much anymore so i dont really mind if i need to hold shift to attack move.

OneTrueGzus1/5/2016, 10:20:47 PM2 votes

make a supp ticket with all that GL