"Hijacking to say please do not do so," Riot Gene composed in response to LoL smurf accounts the Chronoshift statement in 2020. "We have very simple and easy to read policies about developing products round Riot Games. Please read the Legal Jibber Jabber (yes that is what it is called) and the policies on developer.riotgames.com."

The job went forward anyhow before the past weekend, when the Chronoshiftdev accounts posted a message stating the developers had been contacted by Riot's security division, who"tried to extort us into handing over our code and website to them"

"We have been working with this project for almost 5 decades and thousands of hours," Chronoshiftdev wrote. "We never asked for even as much as a donation during all this time, paying all the expenses from our pockets. We have denied and banned people that offered us thousands of dollars to gain access to this project."

The message contains a link to a screen record of a dialogue with Zed, a person claiming to be a part of Riot's security department employee. It starts off well enough, stating that Riot's legal staff"is not super thrilled about your job unfortunately and is looking for a means to develop a mutually satisfactory ending to it"

But the tone changes quickly when the developer involved refuses to buy LoL accounts immediately play with ball: Zed first implies that Riot is observing the Chronoshift team's actions in real time (like supposed efforts to delete chat channels), and then produces a flat demand for the chronoshift.dev site, the source code, and all identifiable information that was shared with other developers.