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For years, League of Legends has been one of the biggest and most beloved games in the world. But under the leadership of Dylan Jadeja the game has been going downhill at an unprecedented rate. Riot Games has made decision after decision that prioritizes profits over player experience, and the community is tired of being ignored and treated like complete idiots who they only see as numbers to get money from. Yes a lot of what’s happening can be pinpointed to the previous CEO’s (Nicolo) mishandling of the company’s money, but that doesn’t excuse how they are proceeding from that situation. This doesn’t feel like it’s the way to handle a company that needs more money, especially if you want to keep a lot of your players happy and on the game for as long as possible. It’s a short term profit for a long term dig in the grave that only benefits its CEO.

Here is a list of events that have happened underneath his leadership starting at September 22, 2023

Jan 22, 2024 — Eliminated about 530 roles globally, which represented around 11% of the workforce, with the biggest impact to teams outside of core development

June 12, 2024 — (Up to $500) Immortalized Legend Ahri FOMO Skin

Oct 15, 2024 — 27 more layoffs from its League team, and five further redundancies from its publishing side, totaling 32 employees.

November 2024 — Arcane was forced into the League lore rather than be its own separate thing

November 2024 — No free skins during the hight of Arcane Season 2, instead more gatchas

December 11, 2024 — ($250 scam) Exalted Jinx Skin

January 09, 2025 — ($250 scam) Exalted Sett Skin

January 09, 2025 — Noxus Battle Pass (lackluster skins)

Feb 07, 2025 — Removal of Hextech chests  

Feb 19, 2025 — Removal of Honor Capsules and Orbs  

Feb 19, 2025 — (soon to be $250 scam) Exaulted Morde lore skin

(Lots of LCS changes that are better explained in this website https://estnn.com/how-the-lcs-is-changing-in-2025-americas-league-split-changes-rosters/ )

With these changes it clearly shows how the upper heads at Riot value squeezing money out of players instead of giving us content worth paying for. Its not an “oops this change wasn’t what we expected so lets learn from our mistake and do better next time” thing , this is a clear cut and dry change to force players who have mostly or always been free to play to cough up some cash to Riot. They’ve even upped the amount of outside contractors in order to save money. The skins they release dont even feel like they are worth the price they are sold at. They feel like they are given to us, and we are expected to like them because they are free and shouldn’t complain or have expectations. At some point, at this rate, we will be forced to pay in order to pay or not be able to play at all, who knows. This needs to change, we don’t want our game flooded with scummy predatory gatcha systems and systems that only value the whales of the industry and puts the casual players/payers out to dry.

At this point, it’s clear that League of Legends needs new leadership. The game is losing the identity that made it special, and the CEO priorities do not align with the player base. If Riot truly cares about the future of League, then it’s time for a change at the top. By signing this petition, you’re standing with the community in demanding that Riot Games replace Dylan Jadeja with someone who actually understands what League of Legends should be, what it was before, what worked before all of this. Let’s save our game before it’s too late. This game deserves better, the players deserve better, and especially the hard working people at Riot deserve better.

The blame cannot not soley be placed on him, Marc Merill, the Chief Product Officer/Co-founder of Riot Games also needs to be held accountable for what has been happening recently. Not only Marc, but Drew Levin (product & strategy), someone not really known can be accounted for how skins have been turning out. Here is a link showing his opinions on skins which are not in the best interest of the players. https://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/1b6kdym/changes_are_teased_for_reroll_system/?rdt=48592 Mark Sottosanti can also be accounted for, since he is the Chief Financial Officer of Riot Games. His position allows him to have a strong hand in everything Riot Games related that deals with finances, accounting, strategic planning and forcasting (Here is a link to his profile that explains it in better detail: https://www.riotgames.com/en/who-we-are/riot-games-leadership/mark-sottosanti The key figures in this whole situation are Dylan Jadeja (CEO), Marc Merrill (CPO), Mark Sottosanti (CFO), and Drew Levin (although hes not in the top like the other three). 

This petition isn’t just to get Hectech chests back or to get loot back for free, it’s about the integrity of the game and how it’s being abused. We aren’t some piggy bank, we are people who take the time out of our day to play this game and interact with its players. We don’t want to cough up money for minimal rewards. There’s barely an incentive to play instead of just playing and paying. Not saying everything should be free, but looking back on how nice everything was, really shows how much was gutted. Of course it would be nice to revert the chest and loot changes, but those are secondary to what really needs to happen. 

I understand the sheer magnitude of events that would have to happen in order for something this grand to come true. I guarantee that there are plenty of Riot employees who are fed up with how their game is being treated by corporate middlings. Imagine working years and years in order to get good enough to work at THE Riot Games and then years later (or for some, months later) tons of your fellow friends/co-workers are being fired so that the company could save money and continue to be greedy.

Now obviously a couple thousand signatures is not going to do anything, that’s why I want to use this as a stepping stone to see how many people are on board who actually want change and then go from there, whatever that course of action may be (protesting (peacefully) in person but we’ll get there if/when we get there)

I want this petition to show the Rioters that we are on their side and we want to empower them to do what they want/need to do in order to make things right. Even if it isnt directly the CEO making all of these decisions, he is still the one with the highest position and with this game having the lowest reputation in its entire existance as of right now, its on him to fix it. Unfortunately with the pattern of more and more free options being taken away, they clearly do not intend to stop, unless we stand together and fight back!

PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE IF YOU AGREE!!!!!!!!!!!! Also do not feel pressured to support it financially unless you are 100% sure. Again, in understand how big this has to become in order for something to actually happen, but if everyone joins together and creates real action that shows how frustrated and tired we are, we can create the League of Legends we all deserve. One without all of the predatory monetization, a game where we don’t expect to be let down patch after patch, a game where we can just enjoy things again,  a game we can share with others without having second thoughts or warnings.

A game we can just love.

Discord link for our petition community: https://discord.gg/uu3y4Ht2qj

Please let me know if I missed any big change and I will make adjustments.

Update (Dev Update February 27): This section is an update from when Riot Games released their dev update regarding the massive backlash about the removal of hextech chests as well as various other rewards. They backpedaled on chests not being “profitable” when previously they ensured us that people were abusing the system by waiting to get the skin they wanted rather than outright buying it. They mentioned during this update that the your shop was returning as well as the essence emporium, when previously they never even said that it was going away in the first place, keeping the fact that they were going away in the first place a secret. Riot Forge is still gone, prices for RP is still up, for mythic essence we still don’t get it every 50 levels but instead we get it through the paid battle pass, no more mastery chests because its t’s now through the battle pass, FOMO skins are still a thing, skin quality has never been lower overall, we still have gatcha, this was never a victory, this was only a compromise, one that they hope you’ll be satisfied with, think it’s a win, and forget what they did prior. Eventually they’ll manipulate us into believing that the next change is “for the better”, we’ll raise our voices, they’ll “listen” and retract it saying that they messed up, repeating the same pattern over and over when years ago they would never have even thought of doing that. 

The blue essence cost of champs being 50% off and the quality of the battle pass skins being upgraded and the exalted morde skin being delayed is nice and all but these are all in hopes that you will just accept their crumbs and not demand the whole buffet (which you so rightfully deserve). 

The Riot Games CEO as well as the other 3 are not true leaders for the gaming community, they need to be replaced immediately. We don’t deserve to be milked by a greedy company that before put thier community first.