From 2014 to 2016, the number of active League of Legends players grew from 67 million to more than 100 million.
Despite this, over one hundred Riot employees staged their walkout on May 6, 2019, demanding that Riot end forced arbitration for all past and current employees as well.
It was founded in September 2006 by Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill to develop and went on to develop games and the unrelated game.