Dear LMU community

We wanted to make a short statement on a number of community data aggregation projects that are springing up. LMU does not have a public API and many of these projects are relying on accessing information (name and results and ranking) using your login information via Steam’s authorization service, or in some cases your game token and therefore impersonating you.

We have seen these create millions of backend calls – often, with very little thought to load and caching which can cause problems with RaceControl as a service. Because of this, we have implemented automatic rate limiting and IP banning for out of normal requests.

As a Studio, we are asking you to not create or use these services (tools that monitor & display your live LMU SR/DR rank & results history) and be mindful what third party tools or apps you install. Their existence is against the EULA and Privacy Policy, not because we’re trying to stifle creativity, but because of important service stability and legal concerns.

While we do recognise that many of you would like a public API, it’s not something we can support at this time.

Thank You,

Studio 397