2XKO Energetic Growth Will Finish in December 2026 | Riot Video games

Hey all. We have an replace to share on the way forward for 2XKO.

2XKO’s energetic improvement will conclude on the finish of 2026. Over the previous few months, we’ve been monitoring 2XKO’s trajectory intently, and what we’ve seen is portray a transparent, constant image: whereas loads of you jumped in to strive the sport and there is an unbelievable group that performs every single day, we haven’t seen sufficient gamers follow the sport to get to a path towards sustainability.

Servers will stay on past 2026, and 2XKO will probably be playable on all platforms. Through the remainder of 2026, we’ll be introducing content material, characteristic enhancements, and two new champions (Lux and Samira), with the intent to ship our ultimate bug repair patch in December of this 12 months. After that, servers will stay on to assist on-line play. Offline play is unaffected. We’ll give superior discover if any of that modifications.

We’re unlocking all champs. We’re additionally bundling most beauty gadgets, and refunding all cash spent in 2XKO on or earlier than August 20. Any content material owned is yours to maintain. Avatar and participant profile gadgets will probably be unlockable for Credits. This will occur in patch 1.3.1 (September). More data on this beneath.

Our objective now could be to do proper by the gamers who’ve invested in us up to now and need to proceed enjoying 2XKO, in addition to the Rioters who’ve poured every little thing into delivering on this dream. The remainder of this submit goes into element on how we bought right here, what’s altering, and what’s nonetheless to return.

What was Riot’s objective with 2XKO?

Our dream was to construct a sport that the preventing sport group would like to play with their buddies. We needed to be respectful of the unbelievable video games that got here earlier than ours and convey Riot’s tackle reside service to a brand new set of hungry gamers.

Our strategy was to deal with a few of the points that we knew the FGC struggled with by constructing extra dependable netcode, making the ranked grind much less lonely, committing to extra frequent sport updates, and extra. While the style progressed considerably within the final ten or so years, we imagine 2X delivered on many of those guarantees.

On the enterprise facet, we hoped that by making the sport free, we might make the style extra accessible and discoverable to new gamers, and that they may fall in love with preventing video games in the identical method we did. Ideally this could have occurred over time, beginning by incomes the belief of plenty of core preventing sport gamers, and rising into a bigger playerbase when extra options and content material got here on-line. We additionally went into this undertaking realizing from the beginning that free-to-play comes with a minimal participant requirement to assist these ambitions. 

Early on, we noticed pockets of the FGC absolutely embrace 2XKO, and we bought proof that this strategy was working at a small scale: gamers pushed the sport to its limits in high-level play (and introduced their non-fighting sport buddies to play with them); duos grew to become an effective way to mash buttons collectively; event organizers added the sport to their weekly lineups; and gamers informed us they only needed extra (champs, occasions, options, and so on). 

While that is precisely what we needed to see, it simply wasn’t taking place sufficient. Even throughout the style, diehard tag fighter gamers beloved 2XKO, however most different preventing sport gamers struggled to search out causes to stay with the sport.

Why finish energetic improvement?

We evaluated the sport’s general efficiency—not simply income, however retention, new gamers, and engagement—by means of 2026. We noticed optimistic participant reactions by means of the releases of Akali, Senna, Thresh, The Climb (PVE), and a few wonderful aggressive occasions all year long. Even in these spotlight moments, nonetheless, we noticed no significant, sustained change in 2XKO’s trajectory; solely a fraction of what it could take to development towards sustainability. Over time it grew to become clear it could be not possible for us to proceed actively growing the sport as we’re at the moment.

In current months, the staff has continued to take daring swings whereas absolutely conscious of 2XKO’s challenges—however to try one other 12 months hoping for a method ahead would have been an irresponsible selection for gamers and the dev staff. To be tremendous clear: we’d have continued energetic improvement if we noticed any viable future, however 2XKO prices us considerably extra to function than it brings in, and engagement has stayed comparatively flat regardless of our bigger updates.

So after we checked out all of the choices accessible (e.g., decreasing staff dimension, adjusting our patch schedules, altering our enterprise mannequin), we concluded that ending the remainder of our work-in-progress content material and sunsetting energetic improvement was the very best route ahead for gamers and Rioters. 

What’s subsequent?

As we talked about above, we need to do proper by the gamers who need to proceed enjoying 2XKO, and deeply respect the love put into the sport and the scene to date. 2XKO stays on-line and playable, and we aren’t going anyplace but. We’ve nonetheless bought extra content material to point out you thru the top of this 12 months, and we’re really grateful to everybody who has been part of 2XKO’s journey up to now. 

Here’s a fast have a look at the patches for the remainder of 2026.

2026 Preview

For the remainder of 2026, we’ll proceed ending up our work-in-progress content material, fixing bugs, and making steadiness modifications to get 2XKO right into a state the place we’ll be capable to make a ultimate bug repair move in December.

August 20 (Today)

We’re disabling KO Points purchases:

• In preparation for the upcoming 2XKO Ultimate Bundle and in-game refunds, we’re disabling the flexibility to buy KO Points. 

• Physical pay as you go playing cards will not be usable in 2XKO. Cards will nonetheless work for currencies in Riot’s different video games. 

• Remaining KO Points might be spent within the rotating retailer earlier than patch 1.3.1.

We’ll start the method of refunding all purchases made previous to August 20:

• For PC gamers, all KO Points and 2XKO Starter Edition purchases made previous to August 20 will probably be refunded to the fee technique used to buy them. We plan to have most refunds distributed within the subsequent two weeks, and hope to be completed with all PC refunds by November 2026. We recognize your endurance as we course of these. 

• For PlayStation and XBOX gamers, KO Points and 2XKO Starter Edition purchases made previous to August 20 will probably be refunded by means of the platform and supplier used to buy. PlayStation or XBOX buyer assist might attain out to substantiate fee particulars within the coming weeks.

• For gamers on the Japan or Korea server, we’ll conduct the refund course of for KO Points in compliance with native regulation. Further particulars concerning the refund procedures will probably be offered in future bulletins or particular person notices.

• Read extra details about refunds in our Support FAQ.

September 8 – Patch 1.3.1

As introduced at Evo 2026, Lux, the Lady of Luminosity, drops with patch 1.3.1. Lux is a shoto-inspired character with a easy package, who harnesses the facility of sunshine to light up her enemies.