Since a few people have asked about whether this indicates a'League Classic' is in LoL smurf accounts the works, never say never but we have addressed this in the past and afaik our stance is the same

A representative from the group advised Polygon the Chronoshift had never been accessible to the public, which the group did not pursue money or publicity throughout the course of development. The team's announcement is below:

We'd like to describe some details about the job, since lots of the information currently being dispersed paints a somewhat unfinished picture.

Chronoshift was no stage accessible to the general public. The project was still in a Closed Beta development phase, with just a small number of chosen individuals from the community being allowed access for the explicit goal of helping us assess for, diagnose and fix issues. After 4 decades of fully private development, this started to become necessary, since we are not able to test complete games if there aren't enough people to play them. All footage you may find on youtube is uploaded gameplay by the testers from the free-play oriented testing sessions. Apart from the very first Reddit article a year ago announcing that the project and searching for individuals interested in helping us develop, we've made very little attempt to gain any publicity.

We've read a great deal of misinformation about us"stealing" things and"using them as our very own". The game client for old versions of League of Legends is publicly available for downloading from Riot Games CDN for this exact minute. Anyone can download it for themselves, without our involvement, following a simple search on Google. All our testers were required to do so. Various communities have made many tools to make this procedure more user friendly, long until Chronoshift was even conceived. This customer of course contains any and cheap LoL accounts all files necessary to play a specific variant of League of Legends like models, textures, animations, sounds etc.. None of them were supplied, distributed or altered from us in any way.