Riot Games’ internal survey inferred that very few players use their official Match History website. The company’s communications lead Paul “RiotAether” Perscheid said on a recent dev blog:
The League of Legends client site will still have a record of the player’s match history. As confirmed by RiotAether, Riot won’t be revoking third-party access to match history data anytime soon.
The Dev Relations team will, however, be working on a new service where the complete game will be in transit in the future. They will also continue to support third-party sites during this phase.
Riot is “creating a solution” that would facilitate easy-fetching of League of Legends data for esports sites
Last April, there were plenty of rumors about the possible deactivation of League of Legends’ web match history. The news created a lot of annoyance among esports writers and data analysts across the globe.
Various stat-based websites like Leaguepedia and Oracle’s Elixir use Riot’s access control point system connected to the players’ online match history. Thus, the deactivation of this feature would result in an abrupt breakdown of these sites.
These active information-based websites have been a source of bread and butter for many esports journalists and professional teams. They regularly collect vital information about various players, squads, articles, and scouting. As such, RiotAether assured:
Riot also listed bookmarking sites like op.gg, porofessor.gg, and Mobalytics, in case anyone needs to use stat-based data during the phase of transition.
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