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Riot Games shuts League of Legends public chat to quell scammers

League of Legends publisher Riot Games has shut down the public chat rooms for its blockbuster multiplayer online game because it has been plagued by scammers.

The company is figuring out a way to deal with unauthorized Riot Point sellers, scammers and Elo-boost spammers who are collectively making the chat rooms into a bad user experience. Private chat rooms and messaging is still available, but Riot says that it is currently creating a new persistent chat interface that can stop many of the problems.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.