Match History in League of Legends has a central function for both players and fan sites in LoL – but Riot Games now wants to revise the feature or might even do away with it.
Online Match History is an essential tool for every LoL player who wants to see his own statistics or those of his opponents. Info sites like Leaguepedia also draw a lot of their information from the statistics provided by Riot Games. However, the game developer now wants to fundamentally change a component of this function with the Access Control System – which could endanger Match History itself.
Context: Riot's ACS (access control system) works as a backend for the matchhistory website that we know today. I HOPE they will introduce alternatives to it, but hahahah XD we all know what will happen pic.twitter.com/uDHmt5qB5J
— Rodrigo Oliveira (@rLT_lol) April 27, 2021
Extensive consequences for players
Many casual players of the popular MOBA title would be deprived of an important means of improving their own play style by deleting the Match History page. Especially in the upper echelons of Elo, players benefit just as much from looking at their opponents’ past matches and champion picks in order to develop a strategy. Of course, this approach is taken to the extreme in pro-play, where it has become an absolute must to be able to study the opposing teams in advance through match history. Coaches and analysts rely on this tool for their work.
News and statistics sites like Leaguepedia now thrive on using match history to get an overview of and reflect the worldwide LoL landscape. Abolishing the MH would mean a collapse of these sites in the worst case.
Replace instead of abolish?
On Twitter, Schalke 04 Head Analyst Rodrigo Oliveira, among others, has so far commented on the supposed abolition of Match History. In his tweet, he criticizes Riot Games for not making Esport data sufficiently accessible and thus putting obstacles in the way of pro teams and their organizations.
I've received info from Riot that the acs endpoints won't be turned off imminently and that the intention is to eventually have something in place that is "easier to use."
I don't know what that looks like, or what the timeline might be, but I appreciate Riot getting back to me. https://t.co/h5XPmudqMl
— Tim Sevenhuysen (@TimSevenhuysen) April 28, 2021
Appeasing information about the state of Riot Games planning is provided by Tim Sevenhuysen, founder of the LoL statistics site Oracle’s Elixir. On Twitter, he states that Riot Games does not want to immediately make the Access Control System and thus Match History inaccessible. Instead, only a new, “easier to use” feature is to be implemented.
However, more details about the new feature are not yet known. So until Riot Games announces more about the new system, there is still no safe all-clear for MH users.
