Is Riot ignoring all these websites that boost, level up accounts, and sell them?

Ir0n Tomato·8/30/2017, 6:24:26 PM·4 votes·1,410 views

By selling accounts, These people are abusing a market that they have no rights to. They're outright stealing from Riot.

It needs to be taken care of in one way or another, and there's a high possibility that Riot can put these companies out of business and take whatever profits they were making. A lot of the market involves lazy players who want to make a smurf, but don't want to level it up to 30. Make it easy to level up to 30 and that's taken care of. Will there be more smurfs? Yes. Is that bad? No because matchmaking can pair smurfs with smurfs. Will that make Riot more money? Yes, because on all these new accounts, the players will buy champs with RP.

I'm not sure how to solve boosting, but I'm sure some of you have a good idea.

12 Comments

Tormentula8/30/2017, 6:57:25 PM2 votes

Boosters can't really be stopped outside just "banning when figured out". They're usually just casual players in higher elo that do it for a quick buck.

It'd be like sueing or trying to shut down a patreon because they're getting donated for art they drew based on a copyrighted character. As for buying accounts, same deal, riot can't really stop a player from making an account, and they can't find out if its still the same guy behind the screen. Its not so much a company, more of a community market? The best they can do is shut off as many accounts as they can find.

They're working on it, I think the demand for boosting has decreased over the years and buying level'd accounts and bot accounts will lose demand without the struggle to purchase runes, double level up XP, rare skins being more available, and overall the fact riot is stepping down harder that scares people away. Like Reaper Soraka said, the best way to combat it, is to kill the demand, because the supply on something free isn't ever going to run out.

I just don't get why people even do it, does nobody care for the risk?

Reaper Soraka8/30/2017, 6:36:14 PM2 votes

They're slowly working on it; removing the rune page grind is a big step.

Think of the reasons why someone would want to buy an account over creating their own (or a new one after being banned). Remove the issues that are causing people to purchase new accounts over creating their own.

Bots gone forever.

Now think of how removing those issues will affect your business. You're a for-profit company after all. People buy champions. Not champion skins; actual champions that can be earned through IP. How will making all champions free affect your bottom line?

I don't think Riot can compete with bot companies over the price of champions unfortunately. They can make it free, or bot companies are a better option.

La Belle Sauvage8/30/2017, 6:53:15 PM1 votes

Funny you mention this. A few night back I faced a Plat ADC in flex. I was nervous since I'm Bronze. But I won my lane (and we won the game) with ease. Looked at the acct in op.gg and many of the champ win rates were above 60%.

But she did what a lot of new players auto the minions regardless, ignored pokes from me and my support and pushed under tower over and over again.

They went 1-14 in lane.

No way that's a Plat. Player. I'd bet good money it was a boosted acct.

Ward Baron8/30/2017, 7:31:40 PM1 votes

Riot needs to make actually soloQ at this point to save anything.

tribunalisrigged8/30/2017, 7:47:24 PM1 votes

They make money off it, that industry is a 2 billion dollar a year market. Its like those birds that ride whales. Riot should face huge fines and be sued. This is why Big government needs to watch SJW companies like this. Refer to the corbettreport he did a video on these companies a few months ago and the system they use to screw you in ranked. Its all a huge social experiment.

hshtagniemehrcdu8/30/2017, 7:59:06 PM1 votes

Well, Riot isn't the police - they cannot take down those sites by themselves. They'd have to sue them - and if they then don't find the person behind these websites, they are siimply going to create a new one. So, they have to sue them and to find out whoever it is that operates the website - and then tey have to do this for every website out there. It is simply way to much, and way to difficult each time.

So, instead, they try to catch the peope using the boosts, and they've also taken some steps to make lvling a new account easier.

Finally, i doubt the money they could get by suing them would be worth the effort - first, it'S simply not enough (my guess), even if they catch hundreds of them (highly unlikly), and 2nd, you'd need to hire staff to find the persons operating the websites etc. That would most likly be a financial fiasko...

Poske8/30/2017, 8:05:20 PM1 votes

Honestly I am fine with smurfs buying level 30 accs Fk I am even fine with challengers buying like ebay diamond accounts

But clearly there are other issues

It encourages smurfing Ebay players

Lost R8/30/2017, 9:06:56 PM1 votes

They don't. Boosted accounts can be and are easily verified and terminated.

Telephone Booth8/30/2017, 10:17:10 PM1 votes

Yea of course they go after the sites. But they don't just shut em down the second they find them. They investigate and try to find sources that they can go after, so that another site doesn't just pop up in its place 5 minutes later.

Papa Rinky8/30/2017, 10:58:45 PM1 votes

Or riot could fix the level up process

Nea1049/6/2017, 1:50:42 AM1 votes

Their matchmaking doesn't take into account (almost) any relevant statistic, so they can't manage smurfs nor boosted accounts. That is one of the reason because matchmaking is a disgusting joke :P

Ward Baron8/30/2017, 6:42:34 PM1 votes

"No because matchmaking can pair smurfs with smurfs."

Lulololol....gud one dude.