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Riot have shut down a fan-made League Of Legends classic server - and were creepy about it"I wish I could say it has been a pleasure"
“I wish I could say it has been a pleasure”
Chronoshift was a fan-made “legacy server” that recreatedLeague Of Legendsas it was ten years ago, letting people play an older version of the game that’s no longer accessible.
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The Chronoshift dev message includeda linkto an image showing the Discord conversation between Chronoshift developer ‘Lord Lothendran’ and ‘zed’, who identifies themselvesvia an emailas a member of “the Riot Games Security team”.
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“I admire the effort to cleanse your channels [Lothendran’s real name], but I’ll be real with you that’s making me think you don’t have a ton of interest in cooperating,” they say. “We archived all your messages long before you nuked the channel. You can delete the ‘private’ channels too if you like (you know, mod-chat, backend-todo, game-issues-archived, old_videos, etc) but I’d prefer you didn’t since it really won’t do you any good anyway. You’ve obviously put a lot of work into Chronoshift, but I assure you that the Chronobreakis coming.”
Lothendran refers the use of their real name as “scare tactics”, and Zed goes on to make specific demands. They asks that Lord Lothendran hand over the chronoshift.dev website to Riot, hand over all source code, and tell them all identifiable information they and another developer had shared with one another.
“Give me what I’m looking for and we won’t sue. Refuse and we will,” writes Zed. Some of Zed’s other messages read as, frankly, creepy. “I’m on the security team. I find people and things,” they say at one point. The Riot rep told PC Gamer that they were “disappointed with the tenor of the conversation,” and that they would be addressing it internally.
The note from Chronoshift’s creators had expressed their disappointment at the project being shut down. “To our best knowledge, and the assessment of the lawyers specialized in IT copyright we talked the project over with, we have not done anything illegal. We never distributed any copyrighted material - all old game files can still be directly downloaded from Riot’s CDN. Chronoshift has not interacted with the live game, or live game accounts, in any way, shape or form.”
Riot last commented on the idea of makinga “Classic Mode” for League Of Legends four years ago, concluding that it would be difficult and “there is a good chance it’s not worth the development effort that it would take.”
We’ve reached out to Riot Games for comment.
