![]() ![]() "Yesterday our legal counsel sent the Chronoshift development team a letter formally requesting they cease development on the project," Riot told Eurogamer. Riot has now officially confirmed the legitimacy of the shutdown request - but it also highlighted that the Chronoshift team was warned not to continue with the project over a year ago, in a Reddit comment from Riot Gene. This project has always been about the preservation of the early seasons of the game that cannot be experienced anymore, a time capsule for something long gone that people still express a lot of interest in to this day." The Chronoshift team had been creating a legacy server for League of Legends, which would have let players access a 10-year-old version of the game.įollowing the Discord conversation, the Chronoshift team said it was sent notice by Riot's lawyers confirming Zed's request. ![]() "We never asked for even as much a donation during all of this time, paying all of the expenses out of our pockets. "We have been working on this project for almost five years and thousands of hours," the post continued. "To our best knowledge, and the assessment of the lawyers specialised in IT copyright we talked the project over with, we have not done anything illegal. "Instead of opening a conversation about the future and interest in this kind of project, they attempted what could be seen as an attempt to take advantage of our work for free and start taking legal action against us," one developer said on Reddit. This obviously didn't go down too well with the Chronoshift Project team, which said it was "incredibly disappointed" with the way Riot handled the situation. Zed also demanded the developer hand over the Chronoshift website and source code, along with details about communications between dev team members, threatening legal action if the developer didn't comply. ![]() I find people and things," they later added. "You've obviously put a lot of work into Chrono Shift, but I can assure you Chrono Break is coming," Zed said in response to the dev team removing some Discord channels. In the conversation Zed established that Riot's legal team wanted the project to be shut down. Last Friday, a member of the Chronoshift dev team took to Reddit to share a screenshot of a Discord conversation between one of its developers and Riot Zed. Watch on YouTube Eurogamer news cast: is Sony's U-turn on PS3 and Vita games just delaying the inevitable?
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