League of Legends experiences instability following map update

Fans were having issues getting into matches of League of Legends today, and developer Riot had to pull one of the world’s most popular games offline to perform emergency maintenance.

The multiplayer arena battler has had a number of connection and stability issues since Riot introduced the 4.20 patch earlier this week. That update changed the map and is trying to introduce a number of ways for teams to win, but people haven’t had a lot of luck getting into League of Legends. Players have run into errors when trying to get into matchmaking all day today — although, Riot says things are back online now. The League of Legends in-game store is still offline. While that affects fans less, it is not a good thing for a game that made nearly $950 million through the first nine months of 2014.