diff --git a/common/kiid.cpp b/common/kiid.cpp
index 9b72a11977..368327801f 100644
--- a/common/kiid.cpp
+++ b/common/kiid.cpp
@@ -41,22 +41,10 @@
 // boost:mt19937 is not thread-safe
 static std::mutex                                           rng_mutex;
 
-// We use a little helper class to ensure our static rng object is seeded
-// with a random seed on startup before it's passed to the uuid generator object
-class GENERATOR_INIT_HELPER
-{
-public:
-    GENERATOR_INIT_HELPER( boost::mt19937& aRng )
-    {
-        boost::uuids::detail::random_provider seeder;
-        aRng.seed( seeder );
-    }
-};
-
 // Static rng and generators are used because the overhead of constant seeding is expensive
 // We break out the rng separately from the generator because we want to control seeding in cases like unit tests
-static boost::mt19937                                       rng;
-static GENERATOR_INIT_HELPER                                initHelper( rng );
+static boost::uuids::detail::random_provider                seeder; // required to ensure the rng has a random initial seed
+static boost::mt19937                                       rng( seeder );
 static boost::uuids::basic_random_generator<boost::mt19937> randomGenerator( rng );
 
 // These don't have the same performance penalty, but we might as well be consistent