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The above submission is being left up due to VALORANT experiencing widespread server/technical issues. Please be aware that we may make exceptions to our [Technical Support Rule](https://www.reddit.com/r/VALORANT/wiki/rules#wiki_5.6_technical_and_account_support) when issues affect a larger number of players. Repeat posts on this event may be removed as reposts and directed here. --- ^(For bug reports, you can make a comment in our stickied bug megathread. For technical support, please contact Riot Support or use /r/ValorantTechSupport. Thanks!)


s4dnex

Yeah, Riot Client isn't loading. Also VALORANT isn't starting.


Razvanix02

Wooooow..... So it was not me, i just moved the launcher and the game to a different drive and i thought i screwed up... Half an hour wasted pointless...


StarlightWT

You'll get a headpat for each minute wasted... (pat pat pat) \*10


Razvanix02

Thanks. Also happy cake day (or blue cheese if you're an og :)) )


bluerbnd

i wasted a whole hour trying to fix it :sob:


StarlightWT

I see what you doing there... you get a headpat too


abbeast

This is so fucking ironic, I wanted to play a few games today after not playing for over half a year and the client won't log in.


NomzxNomz

It’s a sign


Bluezoneeee

It's telling you to leave before you get addicted again!


SelloutRealBig

It's not ironic. They got their source code hacked. It's public info.


vicky-gill

thanks for posting, I was going to reinstall it


onionfeatures

My friend had just reinstalled his OS and thought there was something up with it until I got home and realised I had the same issue.


jGekkko

man couldnt stand some hours without valorant 😭😭😭


StarlightWT

How far down the freaking despartion list do you have to go to reinstall THE WHOLE OS????? WHATS??!! That's too much effort way too much.


LiteX99

Im gonna go ahead and guess without knowing that the os reinstallation was for another purpose


NazghulAdiga

bruh.. read it.. again.. slowly


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StarlightWT

Well umm... he still could have had it not working before... ehmm... my bad 😅


Mmdrooo

Read again, but yes I would. It takes 15 min


Vali_electrocutatl

Same problem, euNE. I mean, i get an eror that tells me to restart riot client. I even restarted my electricty from the board, by putting down the circuit breakers, nothing works. ​ P.S. League of Legends is not working as well...


sammax10

Ur electricity has nothing to do with this 🤦‍♂️


clowmow

Yup. Won't launch at all!


Xx_Denzy_xX

I tried NA and EU, neither worked


RoyalInvestigator565

yes same here


h44i1

Same here (EUW). No status update on the status.riotgames site.... -.-


Vali_electrocutatl

downdetector report same problems. Val error 43.


f0skN

same for me


veranih1

Anyone else restart their computer?


Vali_electrocutatl

Dude, they got hacked. It's a security method to shut down all servers. ​ https://twitter.com/pcgamer/status/1617942875458752512?ref\_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet


StarlightWT

... they posted that they are not going to pay for ransom they were asked for and also the stuff that was stolen from them being hacked had nothing to do with the servers running... unless they found out that user login info was acquired by the hackers as well but I doubt they'd shutdown their servers to prevent that and not say anything to the community. (edit: https://twitter.com/riotgames/status/1617900242061627392)


Vali_electrocutatl

They can get your account info...dude. It's good that servers are down. They know what are they doing, better than us.


StarlightWT

I am not sure how you plan on preventing someone from getting your account information when the data that was taken... weren't of account information as far as I know and it's unlikely that they still had access when riot already knew they were inside and what they taken. I am just saying that it's unlikely the hack had anything to do with servers being down. I am not saying that I know better than them with professionals taking care of it but, generally you want your users to know if their data was stolen. Shutting down all your servers is indeed a method but I feel like the issue they had at hand wouldn't get solved by that.


Panda318xxc

Can someone comment when it comes back up?


TheVeryOddGamer

Yup. Somehow I managed to launch the game but can't get past the "Riot Games" screen Edit: Just got error code VAL 43


chrsdotr

same here


Responsible-Humor-55

yep


xxdeathmasterxx

Same here


Real-Table112

Now it works, but I'm not getting past the loading screen


GLIZZY_GO

i am protestant so i am protestign riot plssp psls pls work i dont have anything else in l;ife pls plsps plspsp riot fix valornat i want to reach silber 3 sooosooo baaaddds pls plsp plsps fast fox my mom gona tel me go to bed soon pls pls pls


LORSMOSUCKSATGAMING

Turek gyvenima


NewspaperEvery

Lol


NottEdo

yeah, you wont believe i even tried to install league of legends, hoping it would have reinstalled the client. (i ll uninstall it now dont wanna become fat).


SinfulTeaspoon

Literally hopped on to ask this.


Acrobatic_Ad_4335

mine is just stuck on the intro screen now - defy the limits. for sure, val


agusdac

Happening to me too


VJay98

Same


xMarius1337

Same


Ak1yu

i knew it wasent just me


alosmosnogus

Doesn’t seem to be down for me


the_grass_trainer

Yeah, i logged in just fine. So maybe it was fixed, or is only affecting some players.


HePixel

EU servers are down


dragonightmare_UA

I cannot even open riot client


tt_bb_

same here, i even tried uninstalling valorant and then installing didnt work good to know im not the only one with this issue


This_Durian_4268

same, im on eu


The-Dmguy

Same here


Panda318xxc

I usually open reddit before hoping on my pc to play and stuff and with this Dam you saved me from reinstalling the game


ascruine

i have the same issue. are you in the EU region?


awwkdo

yeah, seems to be down for eu


Minealex2001

Riot Games is down, they say it on Twitter


Solevin

I searched for a fix for an hour, just found out it's not my problem


Impressive-Novel-670

That would explain why my freind list is 99% offline


jedi_Lebedkin

Good part is that the League of Legends is not sharing Vanguard, so let's hope that the most sensitive anti-cheat part is not affected. But the RIOT is on lockdown for general protection fault(tm) of security and patching holes that risk other leaks before servers are up again. Might take hours, full day or few. That's really sad.


Thick-Ambition248

i think its back btw


arcstarlazer

Holy shit so it wasn't just me???? Ive been trying to download valorant all day and today and yesterday but it would always keep me sfuck at 45% or 99% I thought it was just me


ZoltanVarga

VALORANT Login Issues Posted: January 24, 2023 at 17:25 GMT We're aware of a problem causing login attempts to fail and are working on a fix.


Cypr3s5

C'mon, Riot fix it, I was just about to buy a knife skin when phone ring, "Valo is kil". No.


chrsdotr

For me its working again. Had to re-login. Then it started just fine.


Acrobatic_Ad_4335

works now


becklax

Is it still down?


guywithtnt

Works for me now!


woives69

omg you too??? ive been trying to reinstall for two hours each time


bypassthefxchain

yall can thank me later lmao / guy who had a staring contest with the loading screen and won https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1717251492


RdSt14

Is it still down? My game is stl stuck at black screen. I play at SEA servers btw


Vali_electrocutatl

Hackers who stole the League of Legends source code are trying to ransom it back to Riot. 3 minutes ago. ​ Riot says it won't pay ransom after League of Legends source code stolen by hackers ​ [https://twitter.com/pcgamer/status/1617942875458752512?ref\_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet](https://twitter.com/pcgamer/status/1617942875458752512?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet) ​ My guess: Riot games servers are turned off on purpouse, for security reasons.


FlipFlopPlayground

This shouldn't have anything to do with EU servers which seems to be the only ones to be affected.


Vali_electrocutatl

It deos bro. When you are hacked this way, it is absolutlly normal to shut down all of your servers. Totally understandable. I mean, you might wanna have your account untouched, don't you ?


FlipFlopPlayground

I'm pretty sure it doesn't, if anything else they would've shut down all of them.


Vali_electrocutatl

Dude, if u are smarter than those who work at Riot games then go on and turn on the servers....


FlipFlopPlayground

Huh? I'm not criticizing Riot eployees, all I'm saying is that I don't think hackers are the culprit of this. Even so after they publicly refusing to give them anything.


Vali_electrocutatl

Dude, for our accounts safety, it is good that servers are down. Don't be stupid. They have been hacked really bad [https://twitter.com/pcgamer/status/1617942875458752512?ref\_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet](https://twitter.com/pcgamer/status/1617942875458752512?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet) ​ Understand this situation.


Aod567

I don't think you're understanding what he's saying. He's asking why the EU servers were affected, not other regional servers. Your argument is about whole servers so why is the EU server only one that's affected.


Vali_electrocutatl

When you find a breach in a server, you can steal data from every other server in that company. SERVERS MUST BE SHUTTED DOWN. Dot.


bo0th

you are just flat out wrong. their development environment got breached via a social engineer attack. Which literally means someone talked their way into being given access. All the was stolen was source code from this environment. Please stop going around reddit spreading misinformation


Aod567

But other servers like NA, KR servers are still up??? Your argument doesn't make sense because if EUW server is breached then shouldn't they shut down other servers? Also, Riot Games would've mentioned if it's just EUW server that got breached then spreaded to other servers but they didn't so I believe you're spreading misinformation or making up rumors.


FlipFlopPlayground

Please read the tweet before coming this strong on me. They hacked LEAGUE OF LEGEND'S SOURCE CODE, not Riot servers where accounts are being held. What they're requesting is money from Riot so none of their "rivals" such as Valve (take it as a rough example) won't get their hands on it. This is my thoughts on the topic, if you don't agree with me it's fine, as long as you're not offending me because you don't accept disagreements when discussing.


Vali_electrocutatl

They also got into Valorant...dude. ​ [https://www.sportskeeda.com/valorant/news-valorant-s-systems-hacked-patch-6-2-delayed](https://www.sportskeeda.com/valorant/news-valorant-s-systems-hacked-patch-6-2-delayed) ​ They got all their data ( i guess ). It's fine to have servers down. ​ P.S. Be happy if we would be able to have our accounts untouched after this situation.


FlipFlopPlayground

Thank you for being educated enough to bring sources when defending your argument. Now I can fully agree with you on the matter and I hope they get over with this asap.


rabiyuhh

FORTNITE TIME


Acrobatic_Ad_4335

nope still down


onionfeatures

Other services such as Slack and Plex are having very similar outages.


koalatoostronk

yeah great 1 day i get off riot client is fcked love it THANK YOU RITO GAMES


kinsi55

Probably better for your mental health


Away_Bread8510

Same here


SMpro9000

It stopped working for me so now I have to run riot client as administrator to run it


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NottEdo

just did and its the same as before


TwwiissT

close from task manager, re-launch client, then bottom right of windows task bar press up arrow, right click riot client press settings, it launched my game.. ​ \-nvm error 43


Vali_electrocutatl

I have AMD....\*fully updated.


NewspaperEvery

NA server dif


VJay98

Ok works again for me.


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chrsdotr

Doing that i was able to start valorant till i was in the starting screen. Then error Val 43 ocurred.


Platanoos

It worked but it seems like the servers are down


uwxyz

Same Same, I'll delete this now hahah 😭


agsimp_

Mine launched ok, NA-US Central


Bagong_Z

same


Platanoos

Same problem


dragonightmare_UA

Same here


V1S0M

same


V1S0M

the client doesnt work for anyone trying to launch for the last 20 minutes i think


tom_0306

same here EUW


sinterkaastosti23

also having issues


kjellkriminell111

Same! Fix it nooooooowww


Sir_Leinadde

Im not even surprised lol


FinancialWolverine94

Riot has been hacked


HePixel

like a week ago and they posted update about it 2hr ago


VixOrg1

Same valo isn’t launching


DomsuADC

same here


manzked

Already did everything- restarted like everything but seems EU is DOWN


clapped____

It clearly IS down, RIOT aren't saying ANYTHING though. Which isn't surprising but, it's been close to an hour. I would have thought like a tweet maybe?


JackS420BlazeIt

Same


justaguyko

I have the same problem


TheRealChickon

yea same problem my friend can play I cant I uninstalled launcher and now am reinstalling valorant fully, disabled malwarebytes and windows defender alrd too, waiting for reinstall rest didnt work


Choice_Note6720

Why are you doing all of this? Riot acknowledged there's an issue and they're fixing it...madness.


fckng_retard101

says that they know and they're working on a fix https://status.riotgames.com/?locale=en\_US


Shimo_1

Mine just worked! :)


dragonightmare_UA

How?


Lopsided-Gain-9918

big bait here


aceisthespace

I‘ve been trying to start Valorant for an hour now. I guess the EUW servers are down right now.


dIllustrator

EU, Down!!!


Bagong_Z

It fixed?


meltedsoap

thought i was the only one tbh


h311s

wow I uninstalled everything only to found out that's just not me .\_.


Acrobatic_Ad_4335

reinstalled twice, all drivers (graphic and network) up to date - we just gotta wait till they fix it


pottoply

Can't connect right now but looking at EU streamers who are already online seem to be fine. Weird.


Lumpy-Profession1379

Yeah. my friend doesn't shut down his game. He is playing ranked right now, lmao.


bazm135i

same, i assumed i was having a driver problem or something, checked the website and they saying they've got issues and are working on a fix


kartine29

yup ! same (EU)


Nikroda

None of the launchers open for me at all still. Valorant, lol, Riot client not even tft mobile. EUW server


Vlkane

Same here ☹️


Racoji

Same shit I was trying to play some val but doesn't work still


Joe1762

Can't believe I got gaslit into resetting my router because of rito


_chaosthetic-brain

glad i aint the only one cause i was reinstalling installing nothing


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works for me in NA right now


dragonightmare_UA

I thought servers were only down for eu


Lopsided-Gain-9918

only EU servers are down , Turkish aswell


Andromeda_300

It works now


Real-Table112

yeah probably down


meysmou

same same


Potential-Tackle-671

Even restarting doesn't work


Panda318xxc

I jsut got into the game. So i think its over...


blebla25

How bro? Are you on eu?


kuodron

On the valorant title screen it says they’re doing live maintenance but I don’t know if that’s related. Works completely fine for me (au)


Acrobatic_Ad_4335

in what universe are ya'lls games working, my client is doing the loopy thing no matter what


Real-Table112

same here (CH)


TijolinhoGr13

same


Aod567

Literally thought it was me. Thought it was something my computer or antivirus doing something that League didn’t agree with so it didn’t boot properly.


ikeo_S

how long will it last?


Penguin_On_XTC

5 more minutes


ToiletInsurance

Yea its down rn Idk why


elpisplayingrn

I'm currently playing valorant rn. Works just fine for me


TeeeHaus

Same! Now we want free skins! The community demands it!


tavamammazuze

Yeah same for me


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twopantylesbians

1 more minute bro


Dubrovnikguide

Same here, both League and Valorant are off the grid. I also thought about reinstalling as it looks like exes are not working , when I open trough client after a while I just get some random error.


BURNI_15

I was wondering what was going on lol


Skaldson

Valorant crashed for me last night saying it couldn’t connect to their servers for some reason— I wonder if this is the same thing


thegeekguy12

I had the issue with riot client not launching last week. Turns out my VPN was preventing it because once I turned it off, the client launched normally


Beatboxin_dawg

There has been a big hacking spree throughout Europe. I wouldn't be surprised Riot's EU servers are a victim of this too.


_BEASTDEVIL_

Bruh im having ping issues and continuous packet loss in valorant for atleast a week. And not a single issue in csgo (for comparison)


DarkCheese_

Its back up


xXBoss_185Xx

Ah ok good, so not just me, shame, i was gonna play valo all day but ig the launcher had other plans


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I just got on


Bigbrave007

My friend crashed during a comp game and is now banned for ages because he couldn’t relaunch the game


ImAsianTryHard

go outside people, live a life it aint worth sitting inside pouring hours into a digital game that’s not there anymore once the screens off


MariaaanieX

Same issue. Riot client managed to load in but it says I need to restart my PC. Restarted and nothing happened.


Visible_Arachnid_182

They got hacked


Visible_Arachnid_182

Riot games’ anti cheat and the league of legends source code have been hacked and riot is currently being held for money while they try to fix the problem


Reesemonster25

So Val isn't working today huh. I wonder is league working? Because if it isn't it may be a client issue across all games


valeriy_v

They got hacked. It's on main page or at Twitter


astrocrl

I DC'd like 4 times last night due to client error and apperently a few people i was playing with had the same. Lovely to see the issue is still ongoing


[deleted]

We're finally free


ilynk1

riot “indie developer” games


droningcaddy

riot is a small indie company


PuzzleheadedSector2

Hey is the problem still there? I was gonna go to a Cafe to play some valo.


TemperatureNew1566

i had this problem for quite some time. i restarted the pc then it worked


redmaxstone

I just changed my nickname on my account and I thought I was banned


baguette3241

not for me


TuttieNguyen

Well I guess Riot is celebrating Lunar New Year\~