Riot Games strengthened its rules to combat and punish players who exhibit offensive behavior in streams and game sessions.

Riot Games is updating its Terms of Service to allow penalties for people who break them both in and out of their games. The League of Legends and Valorant developer claim that these updates help ensure that the content ecosystem surrounding their games is the best possible experience for players and creators.

Riot Games has announced that it will now ban content creators who commit infringements against its TOS, even if the infringement doesn’t occur in-game.

Riot Games will now ban content creators that engage in "Off-Platform Conduct" - specifically when Riot's games are in the background Example: "if a creator uses hateful slurs about an opposing player or teammate on their stream, but not in game over chat or voice comms, we can… pic.twitter.com/GBiKgx78A8

Riot Games is looking to crack down more on hateful speech made by players, even if it occurs outside of the game.

Developer Riot Games shared an updated policy that would ban content creators who conduct themselves badly off-platform, Eurogamer reports. Riot Games

Riot Games updating its terms of service has huge ramifications for LoL & Valorant streamers and their chosen sponsors.

Earlier this month, Riot Games sent out some information about its terms of service being updated. Most of the changes are pretty uninteresting, except for one, which mostly concerns the content creator community.