Riot Games has implemented a campaign to support the LGBT community in every corner of the games they are releasing from League of Legends to Valorant in June, but that is not the only community sponsored by the father of League of Legends.
Throughout the month of June, LoL fans have witnessed many in-game item updates related to “Pride Month” – Pride Month, most notably the introduction of a new storyline to officially help Graves “come back home”. out” became one of the champions of the LGBT community of League of Legends, besides: Neeko, Vi, Caitlyn… Not only in League of Legends, Riot Games also showed their support in other games they played. Released as: Valorant, Legends of Runeterra.
There have been many objections from players because they think that Riot favors the LGBT community, but the fact that Riot Games sponsors a lot of different communities is evidenced by the fact that Riot has established groups within its own company. Rioter Integration (RIG) to support different community groups, specifically as follows:
Team Filipinos At Riot (FAR):
This group is dedicated to supporting the Filipino community working at Riot Games and in the gaming community. Help them with humanitarian issues, employment…
Team Rainbow Rioters:
As the name means, the group’s mission is to help the LGBTQIA+ (Sexual Diversity) community integrate into society naturally, in addition, the Rainbow Rioters group is also in charge of specialized products. about LGBT groups, like the series of events we are seeing in Riot games in June is an example.
Riot Alliance of Diverse Genders Team:
This is a group dedicated to supporting the “weak sex”, fighting for gender equality rights. This group is also in charge of content related to “feminism” in Riot products.
Riot Noir Team:
The black community has always endured a lot of discrimination, that’s why Riot Noir was born. This group helps the community of color develop within Riot (encouraging people of color to join Riot Games), in addition, products related to people of color are also developed by Noir in Riot games.
Riot Unidos Team:
Unidos was founded to support the Latin American community, helping to connect their culture to other groups within Riot Games as well as outside.
Veterans@Riot Team:
Veterans face many problems after completing a mission or wanting to move on to another field. That’s why Veterans@Riot was born, they will help veterans easily integrate into the game industry in general, as well as Riot Games in particular.
Asian & Pacific Islander Group:
This group was only established in May, this is the group in charge of cultural connections for the Asian American community working at Riot Games offices around the world. (This group hasn’t updated the icon yet)
With 6 different groups of employees, Riot Games is trying to connect the social community into its own products. From there, helping these groups to express their own identities, typical examples of Riot’s plan can be mentioned 2 agents Fade and Raze from the popular FPS game Valorant.
Raze was built with Brazilian roots, an explosives expert, a street dancer who always dances to music from his homeland through headphones. Riot even released a video to celebrate the 1st anniversary of Raze’s launch with a half-real and half-virtual setting, in the video Raze walking and dancing with people around the city of Salvador in real life.
Video introducing Fade with the characteristic “devil’s eye” accessory of Turkey
As for Fade, Valorant’s 20th agent, she was built as a model for the “feminism” of women in Turkey – a country that limits women’s voices. Fade’s gender was decided by Riot for its studio in Turkey, and they chose the female gender for Fade with the desire to convey the message of women’s voices. In addition, Fade is also designed with a “devil’s eye” jewelry accessory on the hand, which is a famous accessory in Turkey with high recognition. As long as gamers in this country play Valorant, they will immediately realize that this character represents their homeland.
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