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Ask Riot: Two-factor and Runes Reforged

Riot·7/20/2017, 7:48:00 PM·2 votes·2,306 views

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This week’s Ask Riot is short and sweet with Runes, two-factor, and servers.

Do you have a date for the new Runes system launch?

There’s still some stuff to figure out here, but we’re targeting Pre-Season 2017. So sometime after the end of the ranked season and Worlds.

Meddler, Lead Gameplay Designer

Will you ever implement two-step verification for League accounts?

We are currently implementing a series of account protection feature updates to the player accounts system which will be rolling out over the next year. One of these planned features is a two-step verification for logins. So while we don’t have a hard date to offer, we did want to confirm that this is in the works.

MoshiDog, Product Manager, Riot Accounts Team

What is the size of the servers that allow us all to play?

About the size of a pizza box. Really! It’s a common server industry term to call a server a pizza box. Despite popular belief, we don’t have a single server powered by a hamster driven by a diet of Surge. Instead, we have a fleet of servers globally that provide resources for everything from how you interact with queuing into the game to the game itself.

While I can’t give specific numbers of how many games are run in a single server, I will say that each server hosts simultaneous games for many players. Any given server is capable of hosting games in the triple-digits. And any given data center can host hundreds of servers depending on the region. What you end up with are racks and racks of servers all dedicated to people playing League of Legends all over the world.

Skweetis, Infrastructure Tech Lead

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15 Comments

Stexe7/20/2017, 8:52:29 PM4 votes

Still waiting to hear about how you'll deal with rune IP/RP compensation. I just hope it isn't anything like how you brought back Limited Edition skins -- you left us hanging and promised more compensation but never delivered... years later we're still waiting.

Velasan7/20/2017, 9:06:06 PM3 votes

Can we get more servers closer to the west coast? That's it, that's my question lol. My ping has never been the same since you moved the current ones to the middle of the country. I want my 40ms back, and not the 100ms + that pops up in the game all the time. :/

Drakavoid7/20/2017, 8:54:33 PM3 votes

Last time I was this early Nino was already done cleaning, and took photos as well.

Terozu7/20/2017, 8:52:28 PM2 votes

Fiiiiiirst (I always wanted to say that XD) Yay server information. But you're mean, because now I want pizza.

VitalityX7/20/2017, 9:04:29 PM2 votes

don't they mean Pre-Season 2018???

EndlessSorcerer7/20/2017, 8:56:50 PM1 votes

We are currently implementing a series of account protection feature updates to the player accounts system which will be rolling out over the next year. One of these planned features is a two-step verification for logins.

Would this occur for each login from a new device (i.e. email) or each individual login (i.e. phone confirmation)?

TimX24968B7/21/2017, 12:01:52 AM1 votes

Riot, why do so many of the new runes feel so gimmicky and situational? Can we get some that are a bit more useful and reliable, instead of "do this one thing in this one way and you get a tiny reward". I thought runes were supposed to be a baseline for champions, not just give them gimmicks and extra situational tools.