LoL players pull a Zilean strat on Riot’s servers, reset clock to bypass expired SSL certificate

League of Legends players found themselves locked out of the game on 5 January after a widespread login outage, and the root cause turned out to be surprisingly mundane.

According to the reports, the developers failed to renew a security SSL certificate, which caused the client to reject connections once the certificate expired. Players instantly conjured Zilean’s powers, who is League’s time-bending champion, to fix the problem, as such a basic maintenance oversight could bring one of the world’s biggest live service games to a halt.