@Concepts & Creations Board posters: Would you be willing to ff/ your idea to Riot?

DrugsForRobots·1/24/2017, 8:43:19 AM·1 votes·659 views

According to the Terms of Service, Article 4 - Virtual Content, Section 5:

Can I submit ideas for improving the Game to Riot? (Please don’t. If you do anyways, we’ll have the absolute right to use it forever.)

We value your feedback on the Riot Services, but please don’t submit any creative ideas, suggestions or materials to us (collectively, “Unsolicited Ideas”). This policy is aimed at avoiding potential misunderstandings or disputes when the Riot Services might seem similar to Unsolicited Ideas that people submit.

If you submit Unsolicited Ideas anyway, then you grant us a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, sublicenseable, transferable, assignable, non-exclusive, and royalty-free right and license to use, reproduce, distribute, adapt, modify, translate, create derivative works of, publicly perform, publicly display, digitally perform, make, have made, sell, offer for sale, and import your Unsolicited Ideas, including all copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, patents, industrial rights, and all other intellectual and proprietary rights related thereto, in any media now known or hereafter developed, for any purpose whatsoever, commercial or otherwise, including giving the Unsolicited Ideas to others, without any compensation to you. To the extent necessary, you agree that you undertake to execute and deliver any and all documents and perform any and all actions necessary or desirable to ensure that the rights to use the Unsolicited Ideas granted to us as specified above are valid, effective, and enforceable. You also give up any claim that any use by us or our licensees of your Unsolicited Ideas violates any of your rights, including moral rights, privacy rights, rights to publicity, proprietary or other rights, and rights to credit for the material or ideas set for therein.

Technically(?) everything we post on the C&C Board falls under this category if I'm not mistaken. This is partially why Riot rarely responds to these Boards. Would you be willing to sign away everything about your idea just to see it in the game? (Including all credit?)

I'm asking because I have a concept, design, and art that I want to give to Riot as a gift (despite it being a violation of the Terms of Use) but I was just curious what the community thinks about the matter.

Shaco

4 Comments

Embertine1/24/2017, 9:24:08 AM1 votes

Personally I am fully willing for Riot to have complete and total ownership of my champion concepts. I really love this game. Heck I would write up a contract myself that relieved me of all ownership and gave it to Riot if that's what I needed to do.

Unfortunately as shown in the past, Riot will only very rarely use a submitted idea, and only if more than a thousand people wanted on the boards alone.

Wh1teWu1f1/24/2017, 9:34:20 AM1 votes

I'm not a content creator myself, but I'm just curious as to why you wouldn't... At least if you probably wouldn't be able to implement the idea into something of your own creation (If you design a champion, but have no way of implementing it into a game, why wouldn't you give it to Riot if they offered?). I assume most content creators would love to see their ideas come to life, even if they weren't necessarily paid for them (I'd like to think that Riot would at least be reasonable enough to A) give you some RP for it and B) give you access to the content for free if it would require some kind of payment [like a champ/skin design]).

Perhaps this is just me since I can't exactly empathize with the idea of handing away a creation knowing I wouldn't get much benefit from it (and perhaps expecting too much from Riot).

zrWQMdGHtY1/24/2017, 1:38:50 PM1 votes

Ha... And my fan fict is full of champ/skin ideas... Will be hurting bad if they use any of it and don't even mention that it was my original idea to start with . t.t maybe I'll stop posting here and continue my stuff only on fanfict website t.t

Espy Psyche1/25/2017, 12:31:22 AM1 votes

Seriously. If Riot worked one of my champion designs into League, it would be amazing. I don't care if they pay me, I GET TO PLAY MY OWN FREAKING CHAMPION! Why would anyone think this is not awesome!

(And if Riot pulled a couple champion designs or skin designs from the same person? Maybe that person would get a job offer!)