"We are incredibly disappointed by the way Riot chose to handle this situation," it says. It also denies that any of Riot's copyrighted material was ever illegally distributed, or that Chronoshift was ever meant to compete with the League of Legends live game. A message posted to the Chronoshift website emphasizes the amount of time the developers have spent working on the project-five years-and that it refused all offers of financial support throughout. The Chronoshift team complied with the demand, although it is clearly not happy about it. "While we hope to resolve this matter informally, please be advised that Riot is prepared to take any action it deems necessary to protect its rights, including, if necessary, by commencing litigation in the US federal courts." "Unauthorized servers such as Chronoshift harm Riot, its business, and, ultimately, its employees." "While we know that this may be disappointing for you, please bear in mind that Riot and its developers, designers, artists, and employees have spent countless hours creating a fun and compelling experience on its authorized, official serviers," the letter says. The letter sent to the Chronoshift creators says its intellectual properties are "extremely valuable, and thus Riot takes this matter very seriously." It demands a halt of all development of Chronoshift, closure of the server, removal of all related materials from the group's social media, and a handover of all software related to the project, including modded clients and source code. 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. "We’ll be addressing this internally," they said. The rep also acknowledged that the screencapped chat with Zed did take place, but said that Riot is "disappointed with the tenor of the conversation." "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," the rep said. Handing off to counsel is how it ultimately went down: A Riot rep confirmed today that the studio's legal team sent a letter to the Chronoshift developers yesterday, "formally requesting they cease development on the project."
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