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Valorant studio head tells toxic players to "play something else, we won't miss you"


In a frank discussion about the "current state of player behaviour" in Valorant, Riot Games' head Anna Donlon has outli…

In a follow-up post, Riot outlined five key actions it was taking to "improve the state of player behaviour", stressing that anyone wanting to make "evil statements under the guise of shit talk" are "not welcome here". It also pledges to expand the rollout of Riot's voice evaluation systems to additional, if unspecified, regions later this year, and undertake a one-time review of the "top suspected offenders from the previous act and issue penalties accordingly". At launch, Valorant game director Joe Ziegler told Eurogamer Riot was "definitely trying to get ahead" of the sort of toxicity seen in League of Legends, explaining that the company was trying to centralise its efforts and "draw from that as we go".

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