I’ve been dealing with the hell-fever that’s plaguing the nation over the past few days, hence the lack of content here. If you haven’t had it, stay as far as possible from people that do. Avoid them like the Black Death because, frankly, that’s what they have. It’s a terrible, consuming beast that will wring you dry ass-first and force feed you fiberglass insulation. If you have had it, well, you know what I’m talking about.
Back to the matter at hand. This is actually old news – almost two weeks old – but quite interesting. PsyonicHero, a former customer service rep at Riot, got canned for bad behavior and misuse of power, as a post from Pendragon on the 17th confirms.
Here’s the post:
Over the weekend we were informed of an unfortunate incident where a Riot Games employee acted inappropriately during a game he was streaming. Riot employees are held to a high standard and after thorough review of the incident we have determined that the employee’s actions were both inappropriate and outside the confines of Riot Games internal policy. We hold our employees to higher standards of discretion and professionalism, and take matters that impact our community extremely seriously. We have since unbanned the account that was negatively impacted by this regrettable turn of events.
As a result of this unfortunate situation the employee in question is no longer with Riot Games. Additionally, we will be reviewing internal policy and training procedures to take steps to prevent such incidents from happening in the future.
The employee in question apparently directed a bit of foul language at another player during a match and then banned the player without cause, all while streaming the game. He attempted to remove the streamed game, but not before viewers got some screenshots and sent them to Riot.
It’s nice to see that Riot takes the whole Summoner’s Code thing seriously, at least for internal folks. It’s also interesting, though, to see how quickly things can devolve in game, even for someone who should know better. League of Legends can be a frustrating and infuriating game if you aren’t making an active effort to keep your emotions in line. I realize it’s easier for some than others – if you’re one of the many folks that are bigger and better than me, I salute you.
