While searching for entertainment on the internet I came across the most surreal League of Legends live broadcast that I have seen in the more than ten years that I have been enjoying the Riot Games game. A screen with more than a dozen memes and a guy with a not very successful Nunu mask who was playing three or four games at a time. In all of them he followed the same “strategy”. All he did was run down the mid lane until he crashed into the rival turret to die non-stop. In one of the spaces on the screen, there was a clear message: “Accounts banned: 1,690”. At first I didn’t even believe it, although it is something real and It’s been going on for at least a year and a half..
The most infamous streamer in League of Legends history?
Taking pride in losing on purpose and forcing players to abandon games in the champion selection phase, this “content creator” has become an empire of terror. Although it is impossible to know the number of times you have been banned from League of Legends, there is no great reason to distrust that counter that indicates a total of 1,690 sanctions. In about three hours of streaming he was punished at least four times (remember that he has had this attitude for a year and a half) and he did not consider slowing down. Every time they block one of your accounts, you just have to log into another one and continue with your strategy. Your job, basically, is monetize trolling of games through live broadcasts.
From what I have been able to know, Riot Games is perfectly aware of the situation. One of the problems with this user is that he has what is apparently an unlimited assortment of accounts spread across all ranks of the game. At the same time that he is playing ‘Disco Nunu’ in a game of the lowest ranked ranks of League of Legends he can be ‘trying’ in the highest of all (Challenger). Among his sponsors, in fact, is a service dedicated to the purchase and sale of accounts from League of Legends. Apparently, this would be one of the methods by which it is able to respond immediately to all the restrictions applied by the developer.
In addition to memes, he puts his “best thoughts” on the screen.
Riot Games doesn’t know what to do to avoid the situation. This is largely because there is no real way to prevent a person from playing League of Legends. One might think of bans associated with the individual’s IP address or the serial numbers of his or her hardware. However, these restrictions are not effective. Even if the developers had tried, there are multitude of methods to escape punishment. In this sense, possible actions fall hand in hand with live broadcast platforms. If he were not allowed to broadcast the content, he would lose any incentive to persevere in his attitude.
In addition to ruining the experience of other users. The way to get so many accounts It’s also a problem. In the best of cases, they are accounts that have reached level 30 (the minimum to play ranked) through the use of bots. It is also very likely that you use credentials stolen from other users. In this sense, it also represents a security problem for the game. It should be noted, however, that Riot Games has put security mechanisms such as two-step verification in the hands of players that prevent these types of problems.
A Riot Games employee said that all they could do was keep banning him every time they detected him. Many users have encountered it in ranked games. Our only advice is that you run away if you find yourself in a champion selection phase with someone who claims they are going to ‘inte’ and who adds a link to their streaming. Although abandoning ‘champ select’ is somewhat stomach-churning as it makes us waste time, it is always better than subjecting ourselves to the experience that this “content creator” offers.
