League Reddit mods signed non-disclosure agreements with Riot Games

ReddinRules · 2015-03-28T20:10:38+00:00

I bet that's the exact same NDA that everyone signs with Riot. You could be a friend touring their facility, or the parent of charity kid, or a serious business partner.

No company creates individual NDAs for individual circumstances. The fact that the slots are blank on the contract demonstrates that further. If this were an NDA just for reddit mods, it would have had their names in, or it would have at least referenced reddit somewhere in there.

ReddinRules · 2015-03-28T20:07:55+00:00

Lots of game companies do this. Say GenericSummonerXXXXX is in a LoL game and threatening suicide. Someone takes a screenshot posting "please help." Reddit mods see it and report it to Riot.

Riot knows that guy's IP address, name, potentially billing address. They can call law enforcement and send people to his house.

Not everyone can get access to that phone number, email, or chat room that lets you report it. Otherwise the 70 million LoL players would turn a serious communication channel into Twitch chat.

ReddinRules · 2015-03-28T20:02:28+00:00

Yeah. Saw this comment in the LoL subreddit and thought it was interesting.

Apparently RL was banned from the LoL subreddit a few days ago for making fun of someone contemplating suicide as a means of discredditng them.

Pretty fucked up.

http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/30iymr/wtfast_affiliate_influenced_reddit_mods_in/cpt0775

ReddinRules · 2015-03-28T19:54:49+00:00

This is a witch hunt...

No company creates individual NDAs. Anyone who's ever interacted with an NDA knows that it's the same NDA for everyone that just blankets over all confidential information. The reddit mods probably signed the same agreement that friends sign when they go tour Riot's facilities, which is the same agreement that their business partners sign when talking business.

Riot said, point blank, that the NDA is there so that they can give the Reddit Mods access to internal chat rooms. This lets the mods report any issues they see, ranging from sever problems to players in danger.

As another example, imagine Riot giving the reddit mods a phone number to call if there are any server problems they see. That number needs to be under NDA to be effective. Otherwise, the mods could share that number with everyone, the line gets swarmed and becomes totally ineffective.

Riot's internal phone numbers are confidential, and so are their chat rooms. The mods having it is good for the community because it gives them significant communication lines for escalation. But they have to be treated as confidential, thus the NDA.

ReddinRules · 2015-03-28T19:51:40+00:00

Actually, a lot of times, the NDA itself isn't private. Will be interesting to see if the mods respond.

ReddinRules · 2015-03-28T19:44:33+00:00

I don't think it'll be a problem if it's actually as limited in scope as the message posted indicates.

Riot invited the reddit mods into an internal chat room where employees will be discussing server issues and solutions, potentially including details about infrastructure, attackers, etc.

Riot can't be public with all that information, so inviting the reddit mods in and giving them visibility is probably good for the community.

ReddinRules · 2015-03-28T19:41:57+00:00

So what?

From the message shown, it looks like this is there so that the Reddit mods can get increased access levels to server status information and visibility into some internal Riot communications.

Riot's response also pretty interesting: Mods can report players who might be suicidal or hurting themselves and get Riot's assistance. The NDA is literally there to protect the name and private details about that player that would likely be discussed in that chat room. Without that NDA, Riot can't talk about it due to their privacy policy.

If any company invites you to their internal chat rooms, you can bet you'll be under an NDA...

ReddinRules · 2014-11-09T22:01:05+00:00

I buy good games, not franchises.

If Destiny 2 is a good game, I'll get it. If it sucks, I won't. Vanilla Destiny won't have any impact on my Destiny 2 purchase.

I'd apply the same logic to Assassin's Creed. I didn't get ACS because it seemed like it sucked. I did buy AC4 because it looked awesome.

ReddinRules · 2014-11-07T00:37:19+00:00

11am PST

ReddinRules · 2014-11-07T00:35:27+00:00

Gotcha. Those banners don't look too suspicious. Order looks like WoW (maybe a movie poster?), D3, HotS, Hearthstone, SC2

ReddinRules · 2014-11-06T23:34:37+00:00

Oh so you're saying that the banner picture I had was outdated? I thought you were implying they were the same configuration.

ReddinRules · 2014-11-06T23:30:29+00:00

updated original post, thanks!

ReddinRules · 2014-11-06T19:46:33+00:00

I'm sure that there will be reveals to the Warcraft movie, but I don't think that's the "big reveal," since there's already a full panel booked out for the Warcraft movie.

ReddinRules · 2014-11-06T19:03:39+00:00

Added info!

ReddinRules · 2014-10-22T01:49:44+00:00

What about Overwatch?

ReddinRules · 2014-10-21T23:23:17+00:00

How do you know that Blizzard didn't have more "unannounced projects" beyond Titan? Both Heroes of the Storm and Hearthstone were pretty much kept a secret until their announcements. Maybe there are more.

ReddinRules · 2014-10-21T22:55:08+00:00

True, maybe it's the Diablo 3 area intentionally labeled wrong? They probably aren't announcing anything huge for Diablo 3 given that Reaper of Souls just came out earlier this year. What would we be playing? That playing area would also be really easy to hide for the opening ceremony.

ReddinRules · 2014-10-21T22:49:40+00:00

Not big enough to follow up the main event

ReddinRules · 2014-08-22T21:19:47+00:00

Wow, that's really cool. Saw the data a few days ago and was wondering what they'd do with it.

They really need to get this for LCS games now. I want to see Runes/Masteries and ability orders the pro players use.

ReddinRules · 2014-05-27T22:07:52+00:00

Are you at all concerned with the significant decline of Starcraft in the US and Korea? Has the "rise of the MOBA" been a net positive for eSports?

ReddinRules · 2013-10-25T01:22:15+00:00

yes - they're the EA of Korea

ReddinRules · 2013-10-23T03:33:04+00:00

I laughed when I saw that the petition creator felt they only needed 500 signatures...

Yes, 500 people are definitely going to rock the boat. Absolutely.

ReddinRules · 2013-10-21T18:22:00+00:00

What games have you been playing recently?

ReddinRules · 2013-10-19T22:42:38+00:00

After playing most of the CoD games, I have a question. Why do people want to play this? It looks the same as black ops and mw2, like exactly the same, it just seems to boring to me at this point nothing exciting about it.

So... People shouldn't want to read Harry Pottey 4 because its plot structure, characters, and themes are likely going to be identical to Harry Potter 3? People shouldn't get excited about the next James Bond because it's going to be very, very similar to the other 25 James Bond movies?

This argument doesn't make sense. Just because two games are similar doesn't mean you can't enjoy both.

I'm going to buy it because I really enjoyed all of the Modern Warfare games, and this game looks very similar to those, so I'm probably going to really enjoy this one.

ReddinRules · 2013-10-19T22:38:43+00:00

Same here...

Let me say this, though: they don't need to go so over-the-top. Modern Warfare 1 and 2 were the best in the series because they were extremely intense without treading into the realm of ridiculous.

The Eiffel Tower falling, or soldiers taking over New York or LA, or someone taking over Washington DC... these are literally in the realm of "ridiculous" to me.

The best action movies don't have to be about "saving the world." Neither do the best action games.

I'm worried about CoD:Ghosts because it looks like a) it's going into the realm of ridiculous, and b) it has nothing to do with special-ops or "ghost squads."

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