Valorant developers are offering players up to $100,000 if they discover bugs of cheats within the game.
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Valorant is a first-person tactical hero shooter that was originally released in 2020. At the same time, Riot Games unveiled its new anti-cheat software Vanguard. Since then, it’s been running something called a Bug Bounty, that rewards players for reporting bugs, cheats and hacks.
“We invite researchers who successfully identify new and particularly severe security issues to Riot’s private bug bounty program on HackerOne, where we reward issue discoveries with bounty payouts,” explained the team. “Players and the security research community help us quickly repair security problems by reporting vulnerabilities.”
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Players can earn between $250 (£197) and $100,000 (£78,700) for reporting bugs, including web security problems, game exploits and other security concerns. “If you’re able to help us protect our players and their data by responsibly identifying new security issues for us to fix, you are awesome and we want to reward you.
“Qualifying bugs will be rewarded based on severity. If Riot has to implement a code change to fix the security bug, it most likely qualifies for a bounty,” says the website. To claim the bounty, players must email bugbounty@riotgames.com.
Since the bug bounty was first launched in 2018, Riot has paid out over $2.3million (£1.8million) with almost $40,000 (£31,400) of that coming in the last three months. According to the official website, the average bounty is $750 (£590).
Valorant. Credit: Riot Games
Over the weekend, Riot also confirmed a new set of rules for Valorant players with a new terms of service clause allowing the company to ban players for things they do outside of its games. “As an example, if a creator uses hateful slurs about an opposing player or teammate on their stream, but not in game over chat or voice comms, we can still issue a penalty as if that behavior occurred in-game.”
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