![]() Anyone can download it for themselves, without our involvement, after a simple search on Google. The game client for old versions of League of Legends is publicly available for download from Riot Games CDN to this very minute. We’ve read a lot of misinformation about us “stealing” things and “using them as our own”. Besides the very first Reddit post a year ago announcing the project and looking for people interested in helping us test and develop, we have made very little attempt to gain any publicity. All footage you can find on youtube is uploaded gameplay by the testers from the more free-play oriented testing sessions. After 4 years of completely private development, this started to become necessary, since we are not able to test full games if there aren’t enough people to play them. The project was still in a Closed Beta development phase, with only a small number of selected individuals from the community being granted access for the explicit purpose of helping us check for, diagnose and fix problems. We’d like to clarify some details about the project, since a lot of the information currently being spread paints a somewhat incomplete picture.Ĭhronoshift was at no point accessible to the public. A representative from the team told Polygon that Chronoshift had never been accessible to the public, and that the team did not pursue publicity or money during the course of development. The Chronoshift team characterized the takedown as a bad-faith effort on Riot’s part. Since a couple people have asked about whether this suggests a ‘League Classic’ is in the works, never say never but we’ve addressed this in the past and afaik our stance is the same: We fully expect this to make new memes and copypasta and totally deserve it all, so put it on the shelf right next to ‘200 years’ and all the others. In this case, however, given the Chronoshift team’s response, we have proceeded through more formal channels. We often attempt good faith reach-outs prior to issuing legal documentation. Regarding the exchange with Riot Zed, we’re disappointed with the tenor of the conversation and we’ll be addressing this internally. We understand the Chronoshift team is disappointed, but they shouldn’t be surprised by our request. Our stance on projects such as Chronoshift is also explicitly called out in section 3 of our legal guidelines. This follows an explicit request our developer relations team made a year ago when the project was first announced. The thread going viral kicked off a wave of ridicule and outrage from fans, as well as coverage from outlets like PC Gamer and Kotaku.Ī Riot representative confirmed that Zed is indeed a member of the Riot team, and provided Polygon with the following statement:įirst, to confirm a couple details, on Monday our legal counsel sent the Chronoshift development team a letter formally requesting they cease development on the project. “You’ve obviously put a lot of work into Chrono shift, but I assure you that the Chrono break is coming,” Zed wrote. The conversation went viral due to Zed’s threatening and unprofessional approach to squashing the project, and including a few quippy lines. Screenshots showed a conversation between Zed - who said his job was to “find people and things” - and a Chronoshift developer. That interaction didn’t go well, and when the conversation was leaked on the League of Legends subredddit, it went viral. “Please read the Legal Jibber Jabber (yes that’s what it’s called) and the policies on .”Ī year later, Riot Games decided to to take further action, reportedly by security team member Zed reaching out to the Chronoshift folks. “We have very simple and easy to read policies around developing products around Riot Games,” the Riot representative said at the time. A Riot employee originally reached out to the Chronoshift developer a year ago, through a comment on Reddit, asking the development team not to move forward with the project. Much like the Ship of Theseus, the constant patches, updates, and visual reworks in League of Legends have removed old champions and mechanics entirely. Very little, if anything, exists from this time period in League of Legends today. That’s after Riot reportedly sent one of its security team members, called Zed, after Chrono shift’s developer, in an exchange that was leaked online and went viral on social media.Ĭhronoshift’s developer intended to remake an old version of League of Legends, as if it was still the same game it was 10 years ago - along the same lines as World of Warcraft Classic. Riot Games is threatening League of Legends fan project Chrono shift with legal action over its attempt at a legacy server for the game.
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