Riot Closes ‘Bull****’ League Of Legends Exploit, Bans Hundreds Of Players

12 responses to “Riot Closes ‘Bull****’ League Of Legends Exploit, Bans Hundreds Of Players”

1. 

   Sam

   May 5, 2012 at 1:07 pm

   So they screw up in their coding and then ban people who are clever enough to figure it out?
   I friggin hate this mentality, yes it was crap, yes it needed to be fixed asap, games should probably all be loss forgiven for the last few days, but nobody hacked anything, they used only what riot gave them. If someone was submitting a LoL speedrun to SDA (theoretically) using the exploit would be accepted because it’s part of the goddam game. Simple facts. Riot screwed up. Players took advantage of that fact.
   Conclusion:
   The players are assholes.
   But Riot are at fault here.

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      spizzaza

      May 5, 2012 at 6:53 pm

      +1 this
      glitches should not be bannable. riot is to blame for screwing up the coding. and like you said, it might be unethical to exploit such glitches, but in no way do they deserve a ban.

      hacking or modding on the other hand is different. that stuff should be bannable – but exploits in the games code should not be UNLESS made clear that people who exploit this glitch from now on will be banned.

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      1. 

         monkeyd_93

         May 5, 2012 at 9:25 pm

         Why shouldn’t they be banned? In the T&C Riot make it a clear point such behaviour is not tolerated.
         Under the code of conduct
         “H. Participating in any action which, in the sole and exclusive judgment of Riot Games, “exploits” an undocumented aspect of the Game in order to secure an unfair advantage over other users;”

         If people agreed to the T&C, and exploited glitches then they are at fault and are liable to punishment. If there was problems in the code, it surely wasn’t there for people to take advantage of. People shouldn’t be banned from glitches if they did not intend to do it and it was a mistake. But if people did exploit glitches with the sole purpose of gaining an upperhand why shouldn’t they be banned? They wouldn’t be any different from modders or hackers, who incidently do it for the same purpose, except they use 3rd party programs or other methods to gain an advantage.

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            Ash

            June 11, 2012 at 6:29 pm

            +1

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2. 

   Mopster

   May 5, 2012 at 1:11 pm

   Riot are not to blame, Sure their code had holes in it but that doesn’t mean hacking is acceptable. People will always find ways around anti cheat systems. Be thankful that riot have seen the error and are working to resolve it.

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   1. 

      spizzaza

      May 5, 2012 at 6:54 pm

      no one hacked.
      glitches are not hacks – but rather exploitable faults in the games code. and therefore riot is solely to blame.

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         Ian

         May 7, 2012 at 5:34 pm

         I think this is just the first case of a developer treating it this way. If you went into a bar and threw some beer on someone elses head, SURE, it’s not specifically against the rules but you can be sure that you’ll be thrown out and it’s pretty obvious that this behaviour is not acceptable. We just have this ridiculous conception in video games that because the code allows it, that it’s therefore acceptable behaviour. Sure if someone accidentally did it once and got banned that’s not on, but it sounds like these people were explicitly using it to troll other players, and guilt is not really in question.

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3. 

   Franz

   May 5, 2012 at 3:59 pm

   This is dumb.

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4. 

   Xelbair

   May 5, 2012 at 9:06 pm

   This exploit was done by manipulating local memory that dealt with masteries – one of them reduces cooldown of those spells by 15%. Normally you can put only one point in there.
   This is not a glitch – he had to use external program to manipulate memory and put few extra points in there – it was a hack.

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5. 

   Aewynia

   May 6, 2012 at 3:42 am

   Ok,

   So doing something you KNOW is wrong after this video was spread through out reddit and whatnot isn’t wrong at all? To use this in a game setting to gain that advantage of other players who are playing by the rules is acceptable? I am agreeing with Riot on this. You know what you were doing was wrong, grow up and accept responsibility. I just avoiding playing the game for that day because I didn’t want to deal with people using the 0 CD reduction.

   Things happen, as patches goes on things change and yes this was human error, but instead of bringing to the attention of Riot the information on how to do this was spread and I believe 622 people were banned? This isn’t like just one person used this, no. Hundreds of people were given information on how to do this and did it. So if you really think the banned people deserve to go on unbanned you are free to think that. Like I stated I agree with Riot 110% on this.

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6. 

   Minsenoiazi

   May 6, 2012 at 5:02 am

   XD Idiot 10 year olds
   When you get and job and manage to not make mistakes you can tell Riot it’s their fault
   People make mistakes, and Riot fixes their pretty fast , faster than almost any other F2P game company would
   People who benefited of this are just noobs who can’t play period , it’s a game the point is to have fun not to win by ruining the fun of others ( cause if he is too OP for you to even touch you it’s not fun , tha same when someone is fed)

   So grow up and start Playing LOL instead of Working LOL (literally, it’s a game have fun both winning and losing )

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7. 

   Travis

   May 6, 2012 at 7:09 am

   So taking advantage of drunk girls is okay right?
   Not like you drugged them, they did it to themselves.

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