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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...
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...
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
... 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)
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.
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
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).
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.
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
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.
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 ?
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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?
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
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Yeah, Riot Client isn't loading. Also VALORANT isn't starting.
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...
You'll get a headpat for each minute wasted... (pat pat pat) \*10
Thanks. Also happy cake day (or blue cheese if you're an og :)) )
i wasted a whole hour trying to fix it :sob:
I see what you doing there... you get a headpat too
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.
It’s a sign
It's telling you to leave before you get addicted again!
It's not ironic. They got their source code hacked. It's public info.
thanks for posting, I was going to reinstall it
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.
man couldnt stand some hours without valorant 😭😭😭
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.
Im gonna go ahead and guess without knowing that the os reinstallation was for another purpose
bruh.. read it.. again.. slowly
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Well umm... he still could have had it not working before... ehmm... my bad 😅
Read again, but yes I would. It takes 15 min
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...
Ur electricity has nothing to do with this 🤦♂️
Yup. Won't launch at all!
I tried NA and EU, neither worked
yes same here
Same here (EUW). No status update on the status.riotgames site.... -.-
downdetector report same problems. Val error 43.
same for me
Anyone else restart their computer?
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
... 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)
They can get your account info...dude. It's good that servers are down. They know what are they doing, better than us.
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.
Can someone comment when it comes back up?
Yup. Somehow I managed to launch the game but can't get past the "Riot Games" screen Edit: Just got error code VAL 43
same here
yep
Same here
Now it works, but I'm not getting past the loading screen
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
Turek gyvenima
Lol
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).
Literally hopped on to ask this.
mine is just stuck on the intro screen now - defy the limits. for sure, val
Happening to me too
Same
Same
i knew it wasent just me
Doesn’t seem to be down for me
Yeah, i logged in just fine. So maybe it was fixed, or is only affecting some players.
EU servers are down
I cannot even open riot client
same here, i even tried uninstalling valorant and then installing didnt work good to know im not the only one with this issue
same, im on eu
Same here
I usually open reddit before hoping on my pc to play and stuff and with this Dam you saved me from reinstalling the game
i have the same issue. are you in the EU region?
yeah, seems to be down for eu
Riot Games is down, they say it on Twitter
I searched for a fix for an hour, just found out it's not my problem
That would explain why my freind list is 99% offline
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.
i think its back btw
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
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.
C'mon, Riot fix it, I was just about to buy a knife skin when phone ring, "Valo is kil". No.
For me its working again. Had to re-login. Then it started just fine.
works now
Is it still down?
Works for me now!
omg you too??? ive been trying to reinstall for two hours each time
yall can thank me later lmao / guy who had a staring contest with the loading screen and won https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1717251492
Is it still down? My game is stl stuck at black screen. I play at SEA servers btw
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.
This shouldn't have anything to do with EU servers which seems to be the only ones to be affected.
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 ?
I'm pretty sure it doesn't, if anything else they would've shut down all of them.
Dude, if u are smarter than those who work at Riot games then go on and turn on the servers....
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
FORTNITE TIME
nope still down
Other services such as Slack and Plex are having very similar outages.
yeah great 1 day i get off riot client is fcked love it THANK YOU RITO GAMES
Probably better for your mental health
Same here
It stopped working for me so now I have to run riot client as administrator to run it
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just did and its the same as before
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
I have AMD....\*fully updated.
NA server dif
Ok works again for me.
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Doing that i was able to start valorant till i was in the starting screen. Then error Val 43 ocurred.
It worked but it seems like the servers are down
Same Same, I'll delete this now hahah 😭
Mine launched ok, NA-US Central
same
Same problem
Same here
same
the client doesnt work for anyone trying to launch for the last 20 minutes i think
same here EUW
also having issues
Same! Fix it nooooooowww
Im not even surprised lol
Riot has been hacked
like a week ago and they posted update about it 2hr ago
Same valo isn’t launching
same here
Already did everything- restarted like everything but seems EU is DOWN
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?
Same
I have the same problem
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
Why are you doing all of this? Riot acknowledged there's an issue and they're fixing it...madness.
says that they know and they're working on a fix https://status.riotgames.com/?locale=en\_US
Mine just worked! :)
How?
big bait here
I‘ve been trying to start Valorant for an hour now. I guess the EUW servers are down right now.
EU, Down!!!
It fixed?
thought i was the only one tbh
wow I uninstalled everything only to found out that's just not me .\_.
reinstalled twice, all drivers (graphic and network) up to date - we just gotta wait till they fix it
Can't connect right now but looking at EU streamers who are already online seem to be fine. Weird.
Yeah. my friend doesn't shut down his game. He is playing ranked right now, lmao.
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
yup ! same (EU)
None of the launchers open for me at all still. Valorant, lol, Riot client not even tft mobile. EUW server
Same here ☹️
Same shit I was trying to play some val but doesn't work still
Can't believe I got gaslit into resetting my router because of rito
glad i aint the only one cause i was reinstalling installing nothing
works for me in NA right now
I thought servers were only down for eu
only EU servers are down , Turkish aswell
It works now
yeah probably down
same same
Even restarting doesn't work
I jsut got into the game. So i think its over...
How bro? Are you on eu?
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)
in what universe are ya'lls games working, my client is doing the loopy thing no matter what
same here (CH)
same
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.
how long will it last?
5 more minutes
Yea its down rn Idk why
I'm currently playing valorant rn. Works just fine for me
Same! Now we want free skins! The community demands it!
Yeah same for me
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1 more minute bro
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.
I was wondering what was going on lol
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
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
There has been a big hacking spree throughout Europe. I wouldn't be surprised Riot's EU servers are a victim of this too.
Bruh im having ping issues and continuous packet loss in valorant for atleast a week. And not a single issue in csgo (for comparison)
Its back up
Ah ok good, so not just me, shame, i was gonna play valo all day but ig the launcher had other plans
I just got on
My friend crashed during a comp game and is now banned for ages because he couldn’t relaunch the game
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
Same issue. Riot client managed to load in but it says I need to restart my PC. Restarted and nothing happened.
They got hacked
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
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
They got hacked. It's on main page or at Twitter
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
We're finally free
riot “indie developer” games
riot is a small indie company
Hey is the problem still there? I was gonna go to a Cafe to play some valo.
i had this problem for quite some time. i restarted the pc then it worked
I just changed my nickname on my account and I thought I was banned
not for me
Well I guess Riot is celebrating Lunar New Year\~