Riot, please allow content creators to use your replay / editing tools.

Title says it all.

I got into league via my friends and funny montage videos, which I enjoy a lot. However, I've seen a lot of my favourites struggle to keep making content which the rest of their fans enjoy, simply because the tools which they made themselves aren't enough to keep up with League's updates, or are blocked out by League's Third Party rule.

Now, I realise this has already been asked for. But I'm genuinely confused as to why replay and editing tools aren't already provided for content creators in the first place. It's obvious that it provides good quality content, some of which makes people laugh! But there are people working their asses off nearly every day to make sure the tools that they created for other people to use are kept up to date. Because if they're not, many popular channels lose viewers, lose work because the tools provided crashed constantly, or other annoying things.

For instance, Skin Spotlights, a very popular channel made for showing off new and upcoming skins / champions, made their own tool which they have to constantly update when patches are released. The channel isn't directly associated with Riot in any way, and has previously expressed their annoyance with how buggy their tools are because League blocks out certain things, or the client crashes, etc. For such a big channel to suffer because Riot doesn't want to share their tools is such a shame, considering what that channel actually provides the rest of the community.

Another example of a struggling youtuber would be Yakko, who explained that whilst making montage videos of champions, his intro scenes take more time and effort than anything else in the video. He has to go through countless matches in practice mode to get the right shots, just to record it with his tools to make just a few seconds of entertainment. And even then, the game might crash, the entrance might not be right, and he'll have to start again. Not only that, but practice mode matches only save if your nexus is destroyed, or vice versa. He has to complete a game just to get a few seconds of clip (which might not even look good in the first place).

I understand that Riot is a big company, and if they 100% don't want to share their tools, that's their decision at the end of the day. But when you think about it, what have they got to lose? If they share their tools, content creators can carry on making a living (as most popular League youtubers do), and it will almost definitely bring in new and curious players. Essentially what I'm saying is.. it wouldn't hurt the company (and if it did, it would probably make a slight scratch on the surface, nothing more). I myself want to become a League youtuber, but given the circumstances that the tools provided are finicky, crash a lot, and can be a huge burden to another creators video or production, it really puts me off.

Any way that you look at this, it will always be unfair to content creators who try so hard to make a living. It puts others off because of the struggle that current creators go through, many of which have already contemplated stopping their youtube career because of said complications. People must remember that the community makes up literally the biggest part of the game, and that's why it's so enjoyable for many people. Without most content creators I've watched on youtube since I started playing League, I probably wouldn't have continued this much for the game. I'm sure, even at this point, people would be more than happy to pay for editing services if it meant moving on from using tools that consistently crashed because of new patches or blocked features.

I am not a content creator for league, video-wise, but I see other's struggles. If there is an actual logical reason as to why Riot cannot release their tools for public use, I'm all ears, and I know other people are too. But right now, there's no explanation, only a twitter post saying "We're not ready to give these tools out", which in itself, is very vague.