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giorgi-o / Valorant vs 3rd party devs.md
Last active September 3, 2023 21:43
Writeup: Riot Games vs The Valorant third-party dev community

Hi! 👋

I’m Giorgio, and I created and maintain a popular Valorant store checker called SkinPeek. I’d like to write a few paragraphs on the state of Valorant, specifically regarding how they treat the third-party developer community surrounding the game.

I first want to address the elephant in the room. You may have seen this tweet posted by the official Valorant twitter a while back:

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This was probably the biggest spit in the face from Riot to us passionate community devs, and shows how little this multi-billion company actually cares about its ecosystem nowadays, despite once being best-in-class in terms of supporting third-party devs.

For those wondering, no this does not mean you’ll get banned for using SkinPeek, although I’ll talk more about that later on. But first, I would like to give