2XKO Ends Active Development: Refunds and Servers Past 2026

Every KO Points and Starter Edition purchase dated on or before 20 August is going back to the buyer. That is the first consequence of Riot's 20 August studio post, which confirms active work on 2XKO stops at the end of 2026. It is not a switch-off notice. Online servers stay up past this year, and cosmetics already in an account stay there.

Riot published first. Video Games Chronicle and Kotaku both followed the same day. The round-ups are useful for the headline; the owner-service split below is taken from Riot's own page, not from those recaps.

Season 1 and the PlayStation 5 / Xbox Series X|S launch both landed on 20 January 2026, per Riot's console announcement. Seven months later, the signed plan is a refund, a bundle, two last champions, then a freeze.

What actually changes for a player

Refunds are already moving, and they are not the same on every platform

Riot's wording is a studio-initiated refund of KO Points and Starter Edition buys made before 20 August, not a "write in if you want your money back" offer. PC money is meant to return to the card or method that paid. PlayStation and Xbox money goes through those stores; those support teams may ask for payment details.

Japan and Korea are the open row. Riot only says the KO Points refund there will follow local law, with more later. Treat that as unsigned until a follow-up names the process.

Riot also points at a Support FAQ for extra refund mechanics. That page did not return readable copy in our fetch (a JavaScript shell). This article does not take facts from it. If the FAQ later names a ticket, a deadline, or a regional exception, that is a later beat, not this one.

The 20 August cutoff does not cover the Ultimate Bundle. That product does not exist until 8 September. Anyone who buys it is spending new money after the refund date. Riot has not announced a second refund for that bundle.

Leftover KO Points have a hard stop on 8 September

The refund is for money already spent. Currency still sitting on an account is a different problem. KO Points purchases stopped on 20 August. Patch 1.3.1 then deletes the KO Points system. The window to spend what is left is the rotating store between those two dates.

Sit on the balance past 8 September and there is no shop left that accepts it.

What VGC flattened, and what the September patch actually does

VGC's 20 August piece put champion unlocks in the same "from today" bucket as the refunds. Riot's 20 August actions are the KO Points disable and the start of refunds. Unlocking the roster, dropping Ranked, launching the Ultimate Bundle, and moving cosmetics onto Credits are listed under patch 1.3.1 on 8 September.

That date is the one that matters if you still have locked champions or a Ranked placement you care about. After 1.3.1, matchmaking is a single casual pool per server, still sorted by skill. Private lobbies are the exception.

Lux and Samira are now the last champions, not a season two

Our Evo 2026 recap reported Lux and Samira as the last two fighters of the first DLC season, with more of the year still ahead. Riot's 20 August post keeps both characters and reclassifies them. Lux lands with 1.3.1 on 8 September. Samira lands with 1.3.3 in October, which Riot calls the final major content patch. December's 1.3.5 is optional and is described as bug fixes only.

This page is not a kit preview. Those two patches are publisher beats for September and October. The stake here is that the roster stops after Samira.

Kotaku notes Riot cut about 80 people on the game roughly a month after the console launch. The 20 August post lists shrinking the team again as one option that was considered and not taken. Finishing the remaining content, then ending active development, is the route Riot chose.

This is not a confirmed shutdown

Kotaku's headline treats the post as Riot killing 2XKO. The signed text is that active development ends, and that servers stay on past 2026 on the current plan. Offline play is called out as unaffected. The same post says Riot will give notice if that plan changes. That is a warning clause, not a lifetime hosting promise.

No date has been given for servers going dark. Do not read one in.

If you still have KO Points, the date that matters this month is 8 September, when patch 1.3.1 removes the currency. Use the rotating shop before that patch lands.