In the 2024 season, Riot Games made a “bold” decision to apply the Vanguard anti-cheat system to League of Legends. This system was developed and applied by Riot Games for VALORANT and proved extremely effective. This is a strong move by Riot when they realize that cheating and tools/hacks are happening more and more in their pet game.
Riot uses Vanguard as a way to “purge” cheaters from League of Legends
However, when applying Vanguard to League of Legends, Riot Games encountered a lot of trouble. Recently, this system ruined the weekend of many gamers when Vanguard encountered an error and prevented League of Legends from running. This brings significant damage to Riot Games, especially in terms of gamers' experience.
League of Legends gamers encounter VAN 84 error right in the League of Legends client and cannot run the game
If League of Legends is lucky enough to run, the player will encounter another error requiring Vanguard to be installed to play
However, instead of criticizing, many gamers sent “thank you” to Riot Games. Many gamers also draw a “conspiracy theory” that this is Riot's way to help its players become less “addicted to games” and have more other activities. Some people also joke that this is a top marketing “trick” from Riot when they don'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. Thank you Riot” – One gamer sarcastically commented
“I'm glad I stopped playing League of Legends after they implemented this terrible thing” – Another player frankly shared
“Dude, everyone should stop playing League of Legends” – Another gamer agreed
“I have this hypothesis, Vanguard helps us get rid of that “gaming addiction”. I have a group of 8 people playing League of Legends together. And since Vanguard was applied, 6 people can no longer play, there are Some people can't even log in. Some people have the Van 45 error or Vanguard blocks all the work software of a friend in the group. Others are lucky enough to play because they bought a new PC. This is impossible “What a coincidence” – A gamer drew an emotional “hypothesis” claiming that Vanguard helped him and his group of friends escape “gaming addiction”.
Of course, the above opinions of the gaming community only stop at the “conspiracy theory” level. It would be unreasonable if Riot Games intentionally made its product (in this case, Vanguard) defective when it could lead to major protests from gamers. Furthermore, this also risks causing revenue from selling costumes, accessories… related to League of Legends and VALORANT to decrease sharply. Obviously, Riot has no reason to “squeeze” itself like that.
It is important to know that at the present time there are too many attractive games with diverse genres. Therefore, Riot Games will never intentionally make its product worse and cause itself to lose players to another game. Perhaps Vanguard is actually experiencing some serious error and this is beyond Riot's calculations.
Riot's Vanguard system is having really serious problems
Hopefully Riot Games will soon have the necessary solutions to overcome the above situation. Otherwise, gamers' trust in their products will seriously decline and can lead to extremely unpredictable consequences for Riot Games.
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