In mid-August, in front of an audience of his own employees, Marc Merrill, a co-founder of Riot Games, the studio behind League of Legends, admitted fault. According to two sources watching, he apologized, his voice choked up, and he began to cry. Twelve years after Riot’s founding, it had become clear to its employees, League of Legends’ community, and the public at large that Riot was not the utopian games company it had set out to be.
After the meeting, one female employee sent an e-mail to the company’s top three bosses, including Gelb, CCing every single employee in Riot’s Los Angeles offices, with a terse, confident subject line: “That was not enough for me.” Responses that immediately followed agreed.
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