Riot’s pulling League of Legends animations that may risk epileptic seizures
May 15, 2019 Riot's pulling League of Legends animations that are reportedly an epilepsy risk.
League of Legends’ latest event features finisher rewards that trigger photosensitive epilepsy, but developer Riot Games says it didn’t have the “time or bandwidth” to implement a way to turn the effects off. A forum post earlier this week flagged up the issue, which is related to the game’s Mid-Season Invitational esports event. Now, Riot says finishers will be removed from the game while the studio works out the best path forward.
"If and when we bring finishers back," Riot tells Kotaku in a new statement, "we’ll make sure players have the option to turn them off themselves. In the meantime, we’re going to follow up with the player who posted the original boards post to make sure we fully understand their situation."
Additionally, Riot says that the initial comment about not having "time or bandwidth" to deal with the issue was just about the effect being distracting, as "we’d never ship a product that we thought could even potentially harm players. Our initial internal discussion about including a ‘toggle’ for this feature was due to concerns that players might find Finishers too distracting - not because we thought Finishers could cause harm."
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