Any legal disputes with Riot Games that go to court — rather than arbitration — must be filed in California state or federal courts, even if you live in another state or country.
Players outside California who need to pursue a court remedy — such as injunctive relief, which is carved out of arbitration — must litigate in Los Angeles courts, creating a practical barrier that effectively eliminates court access for most individual consumers.
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Compare across platforms →Requiring all lawsuits to be filed in Los Angeles, California effectively prevents most individual consumers from suing Riot in court, since traveling to California for litigation is prohibitively expensive.
1) REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: Forum selection clauses in consumer contracts are subject to reasonableness review under the Restatement (Second) of Conflict of Laws and state consumer protection statutes. EU Regulation 1215/2012 (Brussels I Recast) Art. 18 provides that consumer contracts must be litigated in the consumer's domicile, rendering this California-exclusive forum clause potentially unenforceable against EU consumers. UK Civil Procedure Rules and the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 similarly protect UK consumers from mandatory foreign forum selection. 2)
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