Riot Games wins lawsuit against cheaters - end of botting?

Kei143·3/6/2017, 2:56:51 PM·36 votes·5,251 views

Riot Games awarded $10 million in lawsuit against cheat service

Tldr - Riot wins lawsuit against cheating service provider for $10million. Cheating service will cease to continue development on their programs.

So will this be the end of botting / scripting? Doubt it. I'm sure there are other smaller companies out there that would make scripts / bots, but if one of the biggest is gone, then it should be a large problem out of Riot's hair.

Rest is just to slowly weed out the existing programs and stop distribution on them or ban the remaining users.

I wonder if this will stop the bot complaints in ARAM / Coop VS AI games.

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Nobody11113/6/2017, 4:13:18 PM19 votes

when it was posted in GD the curator had this response:

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The money isn't as important as the fact that Riot gained control of all their related websites. This means they have access to their entire user/subscriber base and their information. This can potentially be used to support a massive scripting ban-wave against anyone that has ever used their services.

vampirekid133/6/2017, 3:00:46 PM8 votes

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Tldr - Riot wins lawsuit against cheating service provider for $10million. Cheating service will cease to continue development on their programs.

So will this be the end of botting / scripting? Doubt it. I'm sure there are other smaller companies out there that would make scripts / bots, but if one of the biggest is gone, then it should be a large problem out of Riot's hair.

Rest is just to slowly weed out the existing programs and stop distribution on them or ban the remaining users.

I wonder if this will stop the bot complaints in ARAM / Coop VS AI games.

its just a public victory, it doesnt change anything, the company that "lost" will not pay 10 million, and will continue to operate, not even change brand, just change parent company. all the other companies will also not care about it, since most are based outside the US there is no way to enforce such a ridiculous court order anyway.

also, blizzard already tried this. it took years before managing to take down blizzhackers in court, and even then all of the actual script writers just moved to another site and continued doing what they did before anyway.