Hi everyone, in coordination with the recent League of Legends anonymity additions some changes are coming to the Riot Games API. We will be deactivating the Spectator-V5 API for League of Legends to prevent third party applications from deanonymizing players. However, the new
@RiotGamesDevRel usual riot clown circus when it comes to API changes, no deprecation schedule, just straight up removing an endpoint without providing any alternative
@RiotGamesDevRel the guy that proposed streamer mode really did not think it through one bit huh control 6 crashed games, now we have to disable an entire endpoint? smells like a weird disconnect between product and tech, sad to see it play out, fix ur shit guys
@RiotGamesDevRel You have just killed Porofessor. You could simply disable the response on the endpoint (Spectator-V5) for players who have enabled streamer mode and keep it for players who accept it (just put a placeholder ‘anonymous account’ for players with these features).
@RiotGamesDevRel This is awesome!!! Never bring it back 🙂👍 Too many people use the live match preview to decide whether they will give up at 0:00 into the game or not, or to formulate strategies based on lobby stats. But none of this is part of the actual game for SoloQ & it should never be 👍
@RiotGamesDevRel This feels like a change because you don’t understand your own system… Implement Streamer mode optionally and instead of accounting for this in spectator-v5, you remove it entirely…. How long before all endpoints are gone
@RiotGamesDevRel Spectator-V5 powers esports, coaching apps, and fan-driven innovation. Removing it limits what the player community can build. Any chance of a privacy-safe rework instead of full removal?
@RiotGamesDevRel so yall just said fuck the 30 days notice?
@RiotGamesDevRel Does this mean the endpoint will be updated to properly support the streamer mode or will spectator-v5 be completely retired?
@RiotGamesDevRel Really bad change that makes absolutely zero sense, just make players with streamer mode not appear in Spectator-V5?
@RiotGamesDevRel Stop killing the game
@RiotGamesDevRel @drewlevin donc si un smurf veut ruine les partie en bas élo il le pourra tranquille :)
@RiotGamesDevRel Bad change
@RiotGamesDevRel bruh, wtf
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@RiotGamesDevRel Is spectator-v5 coming back?
@RiotGamesDevRel not a fan of this change, could've just put in the work to protect privacy instead of cutting off a key utility. Me and my friends who used Dorans Bot are raelly disappointed, since the constant feed of updates on our match wins/losses keeps us playing league