In the 2024 season, Riot Games made a “bold” decision that applied the Vanguard fraud system to League of Legends. This system is developed by Riot Games and applies to Valorant and proved extremely effective. This is a strong move of Riot when they notice the fraud, the tool/hack is going on more and more in their pet game.
Riot uses Vanguard as a way to “purify” the fraudulent components from League of Legends
However, when applying Vanguard to League of Legends, Riot Games received a lot of trouble. Recently, this system has ruined the weekend of many gamers when Vanguard encountered errors and made League of Legends unable to run. This brings no small damage to Riot Games, especially in terms of gamers' experience.
Gamers Lo Lua encountered an 84 valve right at the client League of Legends and could not run the game
If LoL is fortunate to run, the player will encounter another error requesting to install Vanguard to play
However, instead of criticizing, many gamers send “thank you” to Riot Games. Many gamers also draw “conspiracy theory” that this is how Riot helps their players less “addicted to game” and have more activities. Someone also joked that this was Riot's peak “marketing” when they didn't need to advertise too much but Vanguard still became such a hot topic.
“Vanguard really makes people more excited than any promotional or marketing campaign.
“It's fun when I stop playing League after they apply this bad thing” – another player frankly shared
“My friend, everyone should stop playing League” – another gamer agrees
“I have this hypothesis, Vanguard helps us to get rid of that” game addiction “. I have a group of 8 League of Legends players together. And since Vanguard has been applied, 6 people cannot play anymore, some people can not log in. Someone meets valve 45 or Vanguard blocking all the software serving the work of a friend in the group. Being ” – a” hypothetical “player who is full of emotion when he thinks Vanguard helps himself and his group of friends escape” game addiction “
Naturally, the above opinions of the gaming community only stopped at the level of “conspiracy theory”. It would be ridiculous if Riot Games deliberately made his product defective (here is Vanguard) when it can lead to great opposition from gamers. Moreover, this is also at risk of making revenue from selling costumes, accessories … related to League of Legends, Valorant plummeted. It is clear that Riot has no reason to “squeeze” like that.
It should be known that at the present time there are so many attractive games with a variety of genres. Therefore, Riot Games will never intentionally make his product bad and make himself lose players for another game. Perhaps Vanguard is really having a serious error and this is beyond Riot's calculation.
Riot's Vanguard system is having really serious problems
Hopefully Riot Games will soon have the necessary solutions to overcome the above situation. If not, the belief in gamers for their products will be seriously impaired and can lead to extremely unpredictable consequences for Riot Games.