The creators of League of Legends, in a comment for journalist Jacob Wolf, reported that they had indeed fired a number of employees. In total, 46 people were cut — this is less than 1% of the Riot Games staff.
The reason for the cuts was restructuring. Riot Games explained that it periodically makes changes to the structure of the company and the composition of the teams if it sees that it will benefit the games.
Riot Games added that, despite the past layoffs, it continues to hire employees. Now she has more than 150 vacancies open.