After a community uproar over plans to charge players $10 to change their in-game IDs, Riot Games believes it has 'found the right balance with time alone'

pcgamer.com:

League of Legends developer Riot Games has walked back plans to charge players $10 to change their Riot ID, after an attempt to limit players' abilities to alter their in-game IDs provoked a community backlash.

This all began on October 16th, with a Riot Games blog post titled «Transitioning from Summoner Names to Riot IDs». In the blog, Riot states that Summoner Names, Riot's old way of denominating players «doesn't sync with the lore and hasn't for a while.» So it planned to ditch Summoner Names, and have players identified by their Riot ID.

Which all sounds innocuous enough. But this change would come bundled with a bunch of alterations in how players could use their RiotID. Under these initial plans, players would be limited to changing their Riot ID once a year, and would be charged $10 for the privilege.

Needless to say, Riot's community wasn't happy. «Super disappointing move by Riot. I really enjoyed coming up with fun ground names with my 5 stack» said Reddit user MorningStaa in the r/VALORANT subreddit, while enprezzo stated «I understand making it more than 1 month between name changes but charging for it is just greedy.» Malcolm_chaotician wasn't impressed with Riot's explanation either, stating «Their attempt to justify this with lore is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen.»

Now, as reported by Eurogamer, Riot has partly walked back these plans. In a new blog post titled «Reworking the Riot ID Transition Plan», Riot explained that it has ditched the $10 cost for changing your RiotID, stating «Under our new plan, we think we found the right balance with time alone.» Said time restriction on changing your Riot ID name has been altered from the original 365 days, to the «good sweet spot» of three months.