Arcane Jinx Controversy
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
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That might as well be the worst thing I've heard about this entire thing so far. Now people who planed to just ignore the whole overpriced skins bs cant even do that and are getting hit by collateral damage.
you're joking...
What the fuck...
Good lord, riot... what are you doing to your game...
Is this even true? wtf?
"Exalted skins are what happens when we let our teams cook"
Omg please don't let them cook again 🗿
the food they cook is literal poison
thats what happens when you let the devs of the internets biggest saltmine cook...
Some people can cook, some under or overcook. They undercooked it so much it's still alive...
Indian Street food levels of Quality
They are you get when let them cook but also tell them, the skin needs to be done in a week and have three forms.
you know it's bad when even whales call it a scam
yet it will still make money hand over fist, and will set the skin/price trend moving forward
every time without fail
It’s not a scam if they tell you the price and what you receive.
It’s a stupid gambling system by and for the Asian market.
@@purplekrakenyut Here I have to explain to yet another person that when people use "scam" like this they aren't LITERALLY saying it is a scam. They are saying it feels like a scam because the value you are getting isn't even reasonably proportional to the product you are receiving.
@ then don’t use the word “scam” if it’s not a scam. Your feelings are illogical and have nothing to do with facts. Stop being emotional, and use the correct terminology or you won’t get far. No wonder Riot doesn’t care what yall say.
Literally like it's a scam because Ultimate/Legendary skins that cost less are actually worth it. How do you make Gun Goddess look like peak in comparison 💀
correction "Exalted skins are what happens when we let our FEW POORLY PAID INEXPERIENCED teams cook BECAUSE WE FIRED OUR VETERAN STAFF"
Literally spot on 💀
Yea our veteran staff were asking for absurd things like to not draw briar feet or get a higher pay to live off since they haven’t had a raise in 5 years. We want to stay close to the “200 years of experience” quote.
They fired everyone and contracted a small gacha game studio to maintain the game.
@@sonicwave779 Should have just asked MiHoYo to do it, clearly much better at getting and maintaining a playerbase than 99% of companies out there lmao
@@Yummymarshy bro wdym, we NEED briar feet /s
Rememeber when RIot said we aren't getting any more Ultimate skins because they are too taxing on the game? Elementalist Lux for example. Riot also said that they won't be making Ultimate skins because the quality of the skins won't be worth twice the cost of a Legendary. Now we've got two skins which are not on the level of an Ultimate skin, but cost more than 10 times the amount of a Legendary.
you realize thats the point right? the skin isnt like lux because they said they can’t do that. and its expensive because people want to buy expensive things. they tell you these things
@@parkernisbett0/1 dude thats all i have to say
@@parkernisbett so what you're saying is they said they were too lazy but people should also pay more for less? Because thats exactly what you just said
@@parkernisbett are you dumb?
Tell someone theyre a second class citizen for a decade to hide the faults of your game, have the playerbase call them whales and alienate them for a purchase, so your greatest supporters cannot share thier actual opinions, and you can regurgitate how "wonderful the game is based on sales" from accounts that will never purchase videogame items from any game ever again.
And thats every mmo now, so the industry is failing, which unironically creates more dooms, games without any substance in 8k.
It's crazy to think you used to get skins like DJ Sona or Elementalist Lux for 10%~ of this price.
And they had so many unique forms and effects. It's just a shame to see where it's going.
And we know there will be more.
and my friend got 3 elementarists on boxes, i hate him...
crazy to think they keep nerfing f2p stuff but keep adding and scaling these more high cost _luxury stuff gacha 500 skins now 250 skins crazy
Since we could get skins for free, i did not have to pay anything
I have 176 skins for free. With definitive 3 skins of lux elemntalist, guardian Udyr and Galactic MF
Imagine spend 250 bucks in one skin... wtf?? It is more expensive than a game for god sake
That "special" Sivir Anniversary skin looks like a clown show, so this is not shocking. At all.
Exalted means the worst skin for high price.
Imagine how much elementalist lux would cost if she was made today...
$500 gacha
@@0927kira 500 feels like an understatement
You would pull for every element with 0.5% chance and you could get copies but when you get one element 3 times you can change it into one that you dont own yet
@@0927kiramuch more
@@iosyo97 dont let riot see this
Battle Queen Katarina can have different blades for 1820 rp but $200 Jinx skin can't have different weapons lol
it takes skin spotlights over 15 min to show off everything battle queen katarina has, it takes 8 min for this 250$ jinx skin lol
yeah that skin is peak i fucking bought the bundle when it got released
i mean all 3 should be the same weapon. Rhino. but the weapon model should be different in all 3.
or pants
That kata skin was also supposed to change chromas with the weapons(the code was/is there) and I still feel robbed.
What I love is that they include icons on their gamble machine, because we all know that we would rather get an icon over a skin
No the Blue essences are even better! Pay money to get blue essence for your riot points. I am so glad I Quit. Riot is pathetic company
@@IHaveDaddyIssuesHowDidYouKnew Just dont pay? lol
@@IHaveDaddyIssuesHowDidYouKnew play the game then lol, just don't pay?
400 rp for a 250rp icon
Dj Sona had her own music kit, that everyone could take.
Pulsfire Ezreal was evolving during the game. Elemental Lux and Spirit udyr.
Holy smokes those are the skins
empyrean pyke
Hell, Even MF have 4 different models ingame with different effects, and since it was not as good as the previous one, it was a bit cheaper
and they were like 30 bucks, even with inflation it should be no more than like 50 bucks
@@ignacioperez5479 Gun goddess is WAY higher quality and was 20 bucks, and even then at the time it was considered low quality for the price.
Battle queen kata is like Elementalist Lux + her dagger change while being "only" a legendary
why Jinx can't have at leat one different skin ?
Imagine getting greedy and introducing gambling into your game but you don't even deliver a product worth gambling for.
Is anyone really shocked by this after Tencent got majority ownership?
@@kalebdavis7080 has nothing to do with Tencent. They owned Riot since the beginning.
I love how people are surprised by their greed after the 500 dollars skin XD you guys deserve it, good on riot. Hope they keep scamming you
I would have maybe even bought this skin...if it had different dances,recalls and jokes on every form, different hairstyles and different clothes...but all the forms are basically same except maybe Powder form which is the only unique one and even effects arent that different, you could name soo many ultimate skins taht are better
@@HK-gm8pe keep in mind they funded some of the show off the game, so yea to keep getting Arcane quality content. you gotta see some crazy prices here and there man. I'll help them by playing the game, but I aint buying that skin.
mind you, surprise party fiddlesticks costs 975 and its still more exclusive than this skin since fiddlesticks changes your ability icons
I never understood why that wasn’t put into more skins.
Wait isnt suprise party fiddle is a legendary skin????
@@merok4291 it is legendary, but back then, everything was different ^^
@@Xenoray1 Surprise Party Fiddle was specifically marked down to celebrate the game, same thing with Primetime Draven. Legendaries were and still are 1820, those two were just exceptions to the rule. Has nothing to do with Riot changing skin tier pricing or whatever else.
@@Xenoray1 yea back then, riot was still a good company. sad to see where they went.
It fills my heart with joy knowing that I've been playing since before the LOL betas, have played roughly 6-7k games, spend probably over 3k hours in the game and have spent exactly zero real money on it.
that's crazy, if true. well done.
i wish I could say the same
however I haven't spent cash on LoL in a while, and especially wont anymore.
Aren’t you just special
The hood felt really iconic when she appeared in the show, feels weird they wouldn't give a hood on/off option yet you can with an old ass rengar skin
It's a feature on all of Kaisas.
you can play with the wild rift skin, it has the hood and it's for a reasonable price :^)
On 12 years old Vi's skin you can PUT YOUR GLASSES ON.
@@UpperChores Who wants to play a down graded version of League....?
@amethonys2798 Also Viego and Project Ashe have that too
"let them cook" it's beyond undercooked! the ingredients are still at the fucking farm
It's fking RAW! (c) Gordon Ramsay.
they are not even born yet!
That chicken is still clucking, I can taste the salmonella from here!
@@CrossArcH legit was waiting for that comment
Sir that’s a pile of flesh, and it’s still moving.
„Luxury good“ brother every skin is a luxury good
not a random 2012 corki or rumble skin
@@motafu1 hillbilly Gragas is like a fine-aged wine
@@c-djinni hillbilly gragas has good sex appeal and I did it sometimes when I saw him
@@c-djinniisn't it's only quality in memes about how cheap it is?
@Ciasteczkowy
I don't know bro, it's got a good amount of effort put in it for such an affordable cost... Plus Hill-Billy Belly Bashing with the Barrel O' Burbon will never not be fun.
the fact that riot (tencent) can convince people to spend hundreds of dollars for a single skin really tells you how far gone the average league player is. you are what you play with, so glad i quit in season 5 as the spirit and aesthetic of the game has been going in a downward spiral since bard released
Tencent owns so many names in the brand, that you probably bought something from them without even noticing.
I bought dead island 2 recently, and as it turn out, tencent is also not absent here.
Seeing Riot cook i'm really tempted to offer them a free cooking class, because that shit is still so freaking raw, a skilled medic might be able to revive it.
Gordon Ramsey would get an heart attack seeing them cook....
So raw that it's still alive
My teacher would fail me on my HAACP if i tried to serve this fucking shit.
Medic? Need a Heavy and a DoomSlayer to actually fix it.
@@lunasam9a floating wisp even, or maybe a wizard with 2 refreshers.
Feels like 200 years of combined artistic knowledge right there
the 200 years bit is never gonna get old
kinda like a game against a fed Aphelios
sorry they are down to about 80 years after the lay-offs
Perhaps they think Luxury = Expensive goods with average quality. Not completely wrong though.
Omg is that meme from riot ?? Lmaooooo I forgot all abt it
Call it gambling. That's what it is. Gotta love Tencent oversea pressure.
For 250 USD I'd expect emotional voice acting from Ella Purnell and animations that remind me of the show
Imagine wanting to be reminded of a garbage cartoon show
naaa as much i love ella i prefer sara's VA. for me it feets better. maybe cuz i play jinx since her release and im used to her voice ... idk its just my opinion anyway
@@MuhammadHosny0r u ok
🤡@@MuhammadHosny0
@@MuhammadHosny0 Still haven't matured out of the "animation is for kids" mindset, I see.
Not to mention that the powder version doesnt even have the pink strip of hair for Vi...
Utter insult to their own media, wtf
and the other forms don't have her mechanical finger that she lost...
That's criminal.
💀 why is powder even on the rift my guys
I'm from Brazil, and here this skin would cost around R$909.80, and taking into account that our minimum wage is R$1412.00, this skin would be equivalent to 64.4% of a person's minimum wage.
lol
So out of touch, hate these companies
Then don't buy it? lol
@@XelquetevenceraXdon’t need to tell me twice 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
bro in my country 250 bucks are 136% of minimum wage
In my country 250 bucks is around 33% minimal wage, but renting its around 66% of minimal wage, so after spending all monay for this skin and paying for rent you don't have money to eat. I know it's my country problem that minimal wage = cost of renting + cost of food, without any clothes or other buyings, but still, outside US it's a lot of money for half of globe. You can have 5-7 new games or one Jinx skin plus icons. Awsome
I was actually thinking of playing League again after finishing Arcane season 2. After seeing this, I think I made a good choice leaving the game.
Patting yourself on the back. Cringe
Remember, If riot continues selling skins like this, it is because there are people that get the skin without importance of quality and price
i am one of those sorry
@@Berraco9389feels good to push Inflation, huh?
@@Berraco9389dont be sorry just stop buying them.
Also those same people that dump money on skins like this generally have a low skill tier when playing league. Catch them in aram or 5 man draft.
@@heistrawberry7578skill is not really a factor here. ppl who have money buy this skin, some are very skilled some only play arams
I think it’s time we admit that Riot can’t cook anymore. Their skilled workers are gone.
Legendary Arcane Jayce is hella sick and guess what? The person who made it got LAID FUCKING OFF
@@bigzhopel1608 ambessa might be annoying as hell, but the person responsible for her also got layed off only days after her creation. She looks awesome, dammit.
@@dimyell At this point working at riot is about getting your one bit of content made and getting laid off immediately afterwards
They have become the "Go woke, go broke" definition of the expression.
@@dimyell OC she looks awesome, she is female Renekton.
riot's biggest regret is elementalist lux, they are never releasing a skin with so much details like that again, and for a fair price.
I'm so happy it got it for free in a box
@@asherfelix4807 X2
Those were the days when Rioters had passion. Nowadays, they're already rich, they sold themselves off to Tencent. There's no need to tryhard anymore. They've already made their bag. Then, all that's left are poorly paid new hires and requests from a shady Chinese company to gacha-fy and mobile-fy this game.
It wasn't a fair price. It was far cheaper than it should have been
@@asherfelix4807 same man
FOR $250 Jinx better come out of the screen and fuq me bro there is NO WAYY😂
How many "hyper exclusive" skins do we need?
First it was Prestiges, then it was Mythic Croma Thingymajigs, now its this... stuff..
We dont need any beyond mythic and prestige, just make those two really good quality and they are set but no its all about greed.
@@darkbrother339 Honestly normal skins are already exclusive because many people do not have skins before hextech chests. The problem was the free chests. They allowed people to get ultimates from those. I got 3 ultimates from those.
The free chests cheapened the rare and expensive skins. So, now they are making more skins that cannot be acquired for free. The prices are insane though, and the quality don't exactly justify the pricetag.
Whales keep asking for more exclusive shit, I hope they stop investing time and money in this kind of sht but people keep buying them sadly.
Don’t forget the faker skins
until each of the MBAs at riot get a yatch
Imagine a timeline where Elementalist Lux dropped now. It would probably cost 140000 rp and would only have 4 forms
and each form can be unlocked by purchasing the skin for 140k rp again
And yet I got her for free in rolls. Old good times.
@@MinecraftOrchestra I got her 3 times from the Twitch Prime drops. The same way I also got Seraphines and MFs Ultimates. I was hella lucky on those prime drops, but sadly they are no more.
"let them cook" and it's instant noodles.
It's instant noodles and they made you chew on the block of uncooked noodles then poured boiling water down your throat.
instant noodles are supposed to cost a dollar though
instant noodles are fire sometimes, this is just a small piece of bread
FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY DO NOT BUY THIS, seriously guys please don't let this be a thing do not teach companies gambling for skins you can't resell is ok
Some would imagine those "exalted" skins would be on the same level as elementalist lux, but instead you get like 975 rp quality skin.
No no...dont give it false advertising...you get 2 975RP skins with a very slight variation for one of them
@@DustD.Reaper yeah its like 2 975 RP variations with a choma to boot it off - even though if you would sell this miniscule color changes as chroma people would still feel scammed and that is understandable. They did a terrible job with this skin. A well rounded concept with hood and 3 actually different versions for lets say 30 Dollars would net riot millions - this crap on the other hand wont. not at all. they need to change this skin.
It's not "exalted" worthy, but also definitely not 975. It's 1820 RP quality at best and then has 1.5 variations in it. So more like 1820 RP main skin and 750 RP for the variation... So should be together with Gun Goddess MF at best.
@@Kuptainit’s not 1820 quality lmao, brainrot consumerism
@@lemonhaze1506 It has completely different animations + voice, which qualify it for a legendary 1820. Apart from the walk animations, all animations do look amazing on this skin... But definitely overpriced af. Don't blame the artist for riot's greed.
"luxury"
"exclusive"
its... a digital good that is instantly and infinitely reproducible...
a digital good that you can't resell... right....
A digital good that someone can download, use a mod and have the skin, as long as you are not stupid enough to tell anyone
@shenlong0 you can sell the account that has it once it's gone, people will buy it
@@zardon_zane1630pretty sure riot banned mods a while back, even trying to modify the game would get you hit by the kernel anti cheat you installed to play this shitty game.
@@thechugg4372 i don't play league, just follow some streamers and youtubers, they did...for a moment, but they are allowed now, there is a Dumbs (the youtuber) video were he installed 1000 mods after vanguard, as long as the skins are custom, even Sloppy walrus use them, you can find tutorials on his channel of how to install them.
2:47 It feel like it's tristana running animation, but it's feels like jinx is drifting.
You found the thing that was bugging my head when I see her walking. Thank you
Yeah, Tristana works, because... well she doesn't really have legs, she looks more like a furrball bouncing, which is perfectly Yordle, but Jinx, especially this skin, has WAY TOO LONG LEGS.
what bothers me is that it feels like way too long to switch from moving to attacking, like there are a good 20 frames of transition that could be a handicap or lead to visual being inconsistent with what's actually happening
The str8 up audacity to even ask 250 for a damn skin….how did we get here?
From the Faker 500$ skin.
They saw how angry and poor we were and humbly lowered the price in half.
Alright Riot it's time to turn the stove off. No more cooking please.
"Exalted skins are what happen when we push design and tech capabilities to make the best skin possible skin for each champion's unique fantasy."
Isn't that what ultimate skins are supposed to be?
Also, they call these skins "luxury goods" when the legal text says they're licenses, which are services NOT goods.
Yeah, but Riot wants more of your money.
@@VampirezZ4 No, they don't want *my* money. They want to poach exploitable whales. The devblog pretty much says that's the point of "exalted" skins.
Thy fired their art team and possibly more..What they are really saying is "Let us see how many of you whale will buy this since the Ahri skin did so well."
2:13 "0.5% chance to obatin the bundle" there's even a typo in the description
Yeah I noticed that too - lmfao
rly says how much effort is put into that AI written text
Not AI, ai doesn't do typos
@@csharpcoffee Honestly AI would run and balance the game better than Riot has been lately
I think there are scammers in Riot.
I'm a game artist and tech artist in AAA: This feels like a scam.
I expected something at least like this:
Skin 1: The one displayed currently.
Skin 2: With the hoodie and/or with a glow/neon effect.
Skin 3: Corrupted by Hexcore Jinx.
Now I would buy it 250 dollars if that was the case.
RIOT REWORK PLEASE.
Yep, and NO Powder also.
Why would you ever spend $250 on a skin, even if it was good? You could buy multiple full-priced games for that amount. In the past a skin like this was more like $25. The price creep is real and it's a cancer.
@casquinhaS2 Why not actually! That's a great idea! You know what? Let's ask them for a Powder character!
This looks like an epic skin
Yeah, like an Epic Fail
Not even epic..
any kayn skin is much better than this
and the problem is its like a worse epic skin, bc the animations suck
This is just an Arcane Jinx chroma
Tbh, with season 1 of Arcane, Riot put such much into the hype of its release.
With Season 2 of Arcane, there wasn't a single event leading to its drop and then almost every character got an 1820RP skin or higher?
Riot hasn't monetized something this badly since they ruined the Ruination.
Do you mean season 2 with that second sentence?
This should be a reskin, not a skin.
Imo, atleast the other skins are worth their price tag. This one is terrible. If they just called it an Legendary skin and moved on I don't think anyone would be annoyed, but they placed it in some gacha tier that it doesn't even fit in.
@@dimyell I diiid! :o
Words be hard, yo. Dx
I haven't played league in years but I still love watching your vids because it's amazing how much worse things continue to get. It's like watching a train crash and then another train crashes into it over and over
And yet the game in nowhere near to dying. A pricy skin does not kill a game
@@47slogra but controversies/dramas do, look at Ubisoft and their lastest AC game.
@@47slogra because pricy skin does nothing with gameplay?
@@314atlantis7 yet you complain like it does
To me it almost looks like the base skin...
Just remember too, you pay $250, and you don’t even OWN that skin. If your account ever gets permabanned, or league shuts down servers, poof. Gone
Learned that the hard way once. Plus with how Riot is nowadays.. one bad day can get you that.
You also cannot own anything material. You could die or planet gets shut down.
@@ToxicDonut It's not one bad day that gets you that, it's the stupidity that does the trick.
@@tomi-Q so what you say is. They are on a good path to the end
getting banned in league ? XD
It should be ultimate 3250rp.
Sad to see where riot is going.
"We've heard your complains and we have managed to successfully ignore them, thanks for the feedback" - Riot Games
Guys remember when gun goddess misfortune got so much hate they lowered the price just because it was an ultimate skin with 5 different weapons now we have a legendary skin that can change between 2 chromas and 2 hairstyles for 250$ xD like AT THE VERY LEAST MAKE IT SO SHE CAN PLAY THE GET JINXED SONG LIKE DJ SONA you know what is also another great idea the first time she kill and enemy champion she gains a plushy of them on her belt or gun etc. so if you get a takedown and every enemy champion you have 5 plushies of the enemy team.
I give it legendary at most, dont forget that battle queen kat is not even an ultimate and her weapons are majestic and have different models for every weapon (not just a color switch like this skin's weapon) as much as i love jinx this is... Underwhelming af
It's barely worth 1850...
gacha is the future of riot skins, they are owned by Tencent after all. and gachas make insane amounts of money, not that league isnt already making a lot.
Its extra funny because shes only 750 RP on wild rift with cooler effects, a free Vi skin both poses and an emote😂😂😂
Edit* We also got the hood on WR😂
that game has some really nice skins we dont have in general
Both epic and riot games could've gotten even more money if they bought back those arcane skins to the item shop. With all the new players and the new season being as popular as the first one, im sure they'd get even more than what they made when the first season came out.
As a jinx main/arcane lover, hearing this new for jinx a tier above ultimate had me hyped with WALLET OUT. I don't think anything can describe the disappointment I felt seeing it on skin spotlights for the first time. Genuinely what the fuck are they thinking.
Same, I was so disappointed I started getting a little mad honestly lol. Insane waste of an opportunity for this skin.
That guitar animation doesn’t even feel like it’s Jinx’s I think they just reused an old one for a discarded skin or something. Why not do something from the show.
I saved the money and everything.
this skin had so much potential and they couldve gone all out on every single feature of it like with dj sona / elementalist lux to try to at least justify the price, but nope. they just half assed it. another glorified legendary, just like soul fighter samira
@@mcsy98 irs basically three voiced chromas, even powder has all the same equipment and she even has a hood… like why? Because it’s only 1 skin not 3. They change the chromas and voicelines.
Were you fine with wasting $250 on it as long as it looked mildly decent?
We here at Riot have heard your concerns about our new exalted skin line especially when compared to our ultimate skin line. So in order to provide you with more value we have decided to retro actively change your ultimate skins. Lux will now just have her base form. Each game you will now be able to spend RP to roll a chance to temporally unlock one of her upgrades or maybe even an exciting sticker! (Resets after every game) Stay tuned for more info and see you on the rift!
Then: any skin = luxury
Now: expensive skin = luxury
Should have expected this from the same people who say wearing a helmet and nothing else is considered heavy armor
Then: Wasn't any Loot or Hextech.
Now: expensive skins that doesn't worth the price.
Jinx was (probably still is) my fave champ from the day she was released, and I live for the Arcane series... But I wouldn't even consider buying this even if I had the funds. That being said, it's sad that jinx-fans like me probably will never even dream of owning this skin. Kinda sucks, it was the only champ I actually tried to collect all the skins for. Oh well, at least it doesn't look half as cool as some of her other skins.
Ultimate Elementalist Lux has 10 unique models, animations,effects and sfx with 10 sets of unique voice lines for each model
Ultimate DJ Sona has 3 unique models, animations, effects and sfx with 3 unique songs for each model
Ultimate God Goddes Miss Fortune has 4 unique models, animations and new effects.
Ultimate Soul Fighter Samira has 1 unique model with different animations and effects from the base skin
Exalted Jinx has 2.5 unique models, 3 sets of effects, 1 set of animations and sfx.
Riot has regressed while demanding more.
demanding like 10 times the price for a worse product
but if you dont have to compete you dont have to care
imagine how much they would have charge for all of elementalist lux let's say it would be 4 elements for 250$ and combinations for 100$/1 so 850$ in total but it's bad looking number let's round it up to 1000$
32k RP over 3250 rp is just "demanding more" for you?!?!?!?! youre a fn mron
@@AverageWannabe What?
@@Foyahxd its not "demanding more" its a fn scam, plain and simple
love how at 2:10 you can see a spelling mistake: "... obatin the bundle, and..." typical riot, small indie company, please dont ever change
What?? Don't you know of Georgy Obatin? The heroic soviet colonel?
Well boys, we have a new target for our "Ahri treatment".
At least with the Ahri skin, you get it right away. This one you have to gamble it. Worst than the "Ahri treatment" imo
No need, I think even the richest among us might not buy it so its kind of pointless to ban it as a protest.
@Leonard_Euler sadly enough people will buy it for riot to profit
@Leonard_Euler Oh, I wasn't talking about the ban part, I don't think we should ban Jinx, because a lot of people will want to play Jinx now because Arcane and that's fine. I mean the in game treatment.
I got the $250 ahri skin because I could afford it and she’s my main and faker is my favorite pro (I know I’m literally the default npc league player) but if I thought I wouldn’t have a chance of getting it there’s absolutely no way. (I still think the ahri skin price was bs by the way, but at least it’s a good skin).
Meanwhile, people like saurankaiser make custom skins that blow this out of the water. His most recent ambessa custom skin has custom animations for almost everything. Custom taunts, ult animation, auto attack anim, recall, base arrival, ult miss/fail,etc.
the moment you start describing how the currency works at 0:54 my brain turns to static and I metally take note to never click that tab or learn how it works
Why do you have to gamble?!?!? This should not be allowed. Ban this type of monetization
China gaming, they love gachas and companies love it's money and since everyone is profiting it's not getting outruled.
I told the same thing to a friend, "why is this a thing", bro straight up told me to just not mind it and that's it, this here is putting the game into a shadow darker than it is already....
Pure evil!
Because the EU has yet to put a stop to this crap. Its very slowly moving in the right direction law wise regarding this type of gambling, but until the trigger is finally pulled it wont stop.
@@cloudwalker9572 China does actually put laws against Gacha. They actually have severely punished CEOs over there for abusing Gacha and gambling addiction. In general, its stems from Korea and Japan, the two unregulated capitalists countries were corporations basically run the country, and no im not being hyperbolic, Samsung literally owns South Korea.
The fact that they created DJ Sona with 3 different in-game music in 1 skin + Elementalist Lux with 10 different looks and 10 different skill FX within 1 skin + Gun Goddess Miss Fortune with 4 guns with 4 distinct looks and 4 different ult animations for 25$. NOW this "EXALTED" skin has 3 different looks and 3 "different" guns (just the color) for 250$.
you know inflation my boy lmao jokes aside, back then league was paid to win game so it expensive to play then especially you had dota 2 on prime days
@@kurrwafym it was ptw? If u r talking about old runes system, it was free, yes it was grindy, but still totally obtainable. And there was no such bullshit like this zoomer gacha chroma for hundreds of dollars.
Lol, you can get all the above for 75 $ X)
Its funny because if you were there when Gun Goddess Miss Fortune just came out, it also received tons of backlash for not being worth the price of an ultimate skin, yet now we can use it as a standard against these cash grab exalted skins 😂 some things never change
@@scorpionbeast117 Back then I liked GG MF and had no problem with it. Tho you've got to remember the Ultimate skin that comes before GG MF ..... it's the 10 in 1 Elementalist Lux so ppl standards for Ultimate skin were SKY HIGH. But then again SF Samira was the one Ultimate skin that honestly is not worth the price.
For the standard against the "Exalted" skin part, can you blame people for trashing the skin that cost 250$ and is OBJECTIVELY lower quality than Ultimate Skins which cost 25$?
I played since 2011 but im quitting now. It's not about the lack of fun (there was never fun to beginn with btw.) but it's about the company policy and their ever growing greed for money. I don't want to support such a company, it's disgusting. People should bond together and boycott that, but well working together never worked well in league right?
you can get both eldenring+dlc, space marine, black myth and still have money leftover
league is free to play xd also players in dota dropping thousands of dollars my friend dropped 4k on every battle pass lmao
@@kurrwayour friend is a fwit and part of why gaming is turning into shit
@@kurrwadon’t compare us to coomers
@@kurrwawhat a bullshit comment
@@kurrwa classic "lesser evil is good" argument
It's crazy how riot themselves dscribe Exalted skins as a project where their team can make the best possible skin for a champion's fantasies. Then they lock it behind gacha and limted edition. If you want it to be the best possible skin for a champ then let the players who main the champ get it, dont make them need to pull a shit tom of useless things through gacha and also only be able to get it for a limited time, that defeats the purpose of "best skin for a champ" if the ppl who main the champ cant just buy it straight up.
I love when LoL players mock mobile legends for doing this years ago only for their own game did the very same gacha-monetization method for skins/ Tencent really want that money
Fun fact is that they told us in one of past dev-updates that they are adding two skin tiers that don't fit into conditions of established tiers. That means this skin has more to offer than ultimates even.
Uhm. It has two forms, one of them is thematicly unfitting (Powder version), it doesn't have unique pentakill effects, it doesn't have custom skill icons (like Faker's Ahri for example), it doesn't have unique tower finishers, doesn't change via ingame events (like ulting 2 or more men as Winterblessed Diana or getting killes as Battle Queen Katarina), it doesn't lean into core reasons people wanted this version of Jinx ingame (hood I mean), forms have no unique animations and/or models (loke KDA Seraphine). If anything, it is a cheep ultimate or a glorified legendary. So.. what's so defying about this that it needs a new skin tier? Is it cost?
Hope no poor soul decides to waste their money on this peace of crap
RUclips doing it’s duty recommending me this a few days after finishing arcane
Friendly reminder: There are people out there who defend this skin and will buy it no matter what. 🤡
dw they will realise how stupid they were once the servers shut down and everything they bought vanishes
most of the people buying and defending this skin are probably under 18 years old, its kinda disgusting honestly.
@@Ω3103ζ It's the opposite I believe. It's mostly old people with nothing better to do than waste their money on skins like these
@@Ω3103ζkids don’t have the money for this, if their parents are responsible. It’s people, wo earn their own money who would use it on skins like this. I would almost bet money, that my big brother who is a jinx main and owns every jinx skin, would buy this skin.
this is a legendary skin at most. not worth it
Zombie slayer recolor
Legendary is generous lmao
three epic skins...
same as kda seraphine case
@@kolo200g at least with sera you get 3 different legendary skins with their own animations recalls vfx etc...
this is just a scam
"I was excited to gamble for an amazing, hyped up skin." This dude needs help.
I remember when they seemed to like making new skins and even put effort into the releases (Remember Dj Sona?)...
But I guess that's *before* they fired everyone! 💀
A year ago I contacted Riot support over missing a zac emote that was tied to watching a live event, and said I don't like how the emote is unobtainable anymore and that Riot is abusing FOMO to force fans to do things they want. I got a reply back saying that they understood and would pass on my message to the devs.
They clearly do not give a shit.
Let em cook :)
I mean, I met all the requirements to get Samira's special "S" emote back when that was a thing and I didn't get it and they never gave it to me. The requirement being getting an S in a game and getting the S over your character. Which I did.
@@RuneKatashima For more context I'm a Zac 1-trick with all of the skins and most of the chromas, and I drew the Zac emote in question to submit as their get-free-RP thing they do, and in the reply I was told that it actually be unfair to other players who got the emote, implying it was some form of effort to be aware of the fact that and exclusive emote was tied to logging into their website at a specific time and leaving the stream open while you go and do something you actually care about. It's so fucking absurd that you can say to a fan's face that went through literal more effort than anyone awarded the emote and say "Nah, it would be unfair to them :))" like they fucking did something to be given the emote. It's not like they paid for it? They didn't have to do any task for it? They just had the luxury of knowing about the drop beforehand, that or they just leave the stream open and weren't even aware of the drop. It's not like a literally FREE emote holds any kind of value to anyone but a fan of the character anyway. Shit doesn't make any sense. Fuck Riot.
well they did pass it on, but devs just chose to not give a f. You overestimated your opinion
@@RuneKatashima afaik it wasn't getting a S in a game, just getting the S over your character by doing 5 skills combination
The most shocking thing is that people are still surprised. Did they really expect that riot could fire a massive chunk of their creative teams and continue to supply top quality skin content? It's all about money now
Turns out you can't do 50 waves of mass layoffs and expect the level of quality to stay the same.
Personally, I say abandon the game. It's for a specific audience, let that audience have it. When that audience inevitbly gets bored because riot ran out of ways to keep their attention, the game will finally find its last resting place.
@@BoneWalker agreed, it sickens me that they get away with taking advantage of player base like this every single time and there are just zero repercussions. Disgusting company.
@@sonicwave779 who cares people still buy the skin anyway
@@Foyahxd There are repercussions. People are spending less and less money on the game because of this. Only giga whales still pay up, thats why everything is so expensive now. They go for less but very expensive sales instead of quantity sales.
This skin is on the same level as Gun Goddess MF and even that Skin got the price reduced because it didn't live up to the Ultimate status
Gun Goddess MF is better than this skin.
@@thuroria7631 way better.
are you drunk? it's 2x 975rp skins at max not even close to ultimate skins imagine comparing that to fcking elementalist lux or udyr or even ezreal ultimate skin (skin from 2012 that is worth less than 10% of this jinx skin is waaaaaaaay better)
@@thuroria7631yea and its not even close haha
it was the horrible animation that ruined it
Thats tencent china for you
Everytime Riot releases a ridiculously expensive skin, it's ALWAYS a controversy.
Players buy it anyway.
Coherence.
But that's mostly the whales that really really really do not care about the skin itself and just buy it, because it is expensive.
Because the few whales that exist make it worth it for riot. This skin looks like it was made by poorly paid interns, and Gary is about to pay 3x to gamble for it than what riot payed to make it.
Because a skin like this one, which honestly should barely be a 1820, doesn't really take a lot of work. And so if even a few dipshits buy it, it will be an income to riot.
And so they will keep doing it.
@@trzynasty909 Anyone still playing league is like one of those dipshits. Just yall playing the game is endorsing this.
Usually, the people who complain about skins like this aren't the people who buy it. Correlation doesn't equal causation.
And little is said about the big nerf coming to the battle pass (the paid one). Mythic essence will no longer be obtainable, and with the removal of artisan chests, it will only be available through the gacha system. And good luck trying to get more than 100 essence with less than $50-100.
what they actually nerfing? only mythic essences?
no shot they are giving less rewards for the 3rd year in a row
Literally this entire gatcha system is ILLEGAL in my country. It's insane lmao.
Riot: "We're cooking".
Gordon Ramsay: "IT'S RAW!"
The fact they have no pity system in place but decided to add a gacha mechanic to a game that doesn't need it is crazy, idk how they thought this would be a good idea.
Ofc it's a good idea, they make money from it no matter what
Gacha is and has always been a scam that people always buy, it's legalized gambling
No game needs a gacha mechanic, that's why governments are starting to take an interest in banning this kind of predatory game development.
This is expected to happen the day tencent bought RIOT Games. You can't find a Chinese game company that didn't offer outrageous price on cosmetics.
to be fair, tencent owns riot for a long time, i believe since 2013 but correct me if I am wrong. These prices are most likely since they saw that people are willing to pay outrageus sum for mere coat of paint.
Yea, it's not necessarily Tencent doing that, they bought league in 2015, only in the last 3 years we started to see bullshit like this
@@cheshirest9067 Tencent also doesn't really interfere with game studios. They buy them and then let them mostly alone with it, because they believe that the studio knows better than them...
First of all, China punishes CEOs for abusing Gacha and gambling addictions, the only people to blame are our own lawmakers.
Secondly, this is not tencents doing, this is the valorant CEOs doing, if you dont remember, not to long ago the CEO for valorant became the CFO for League. His main department was literally ingame purchases, which if you've played valorant before, youd understand where the gacha and absurd pricing stems from
Riot got a new CEO in 2021 whose task is to wring out the last remaning cent from LoL during its last remaining years of cultural relevance.
Maybe there's a sequel in the works but I imagine its going to have expensive FOMO stuff integrated from the very start. That battle is over.
And when I said that buying that Jhin and Ahri skin would make Riot ramp up the prices while lowering the quality, people just called me poor 😂😂😂
Well tbf they didn’t ramp up the prices, they went a bit down after $500. However the quality… no words
everyone said that you didn't say something special
@@Blubking1 Well yeah if the amount of buyers isn't as big as the 200$ range, they'll ofc drop it back to 250~300$
@@Blubking1 A $500 skin isn't a massive ramp up? oh goodie a new skin "rarity" and its only $250! so much more affordable than 500 that's a whole 50% LESS! WOW!
Cmon Riot, you've created arguably the greatest western animation piece to date. Don't go and burn bridges with your community. It's like an addiction some studios have; burn one small bridge with us, and then they can't stop themselves from there. Please, Riot. You are one of the few greats left in the western AAA industry. You got this!
Gun Goddess Miss Fortune is a better exalted skin than this :)
Also Viktor mains aren't happy with Viktor's rework.
the new animations are good but the design is so bad
Applies to literally every rework in existence. Looks fine
@@Avarrocka yeah i was about to say that... The mains never like reworks because onetricks dont like change i guess
Changes are fine. But the change they made to new Viktor make him lose a lot of identity. The people who rarely play him or only against him will never understand why the mains are mad
@@Avarrocka have you seen the skins? I can understand thinking the new base model is ok but the skins are genuinely downgrades and look horribly rushed
Issue is we can't take the "just don't buy it" angle, we know the whales will, that's their coping mechanism with life. The only thing we can do is make our voices heard.
"Don't buy it" is literally everything you, and any and all of us, can do, that is not just straight up quitting. Riot isn't really doing anything wrong here, they're just selling low-value items for ridiculous prices which plenty of companies already do, whether it be physical or digital products. If whales buy it then so be it. At the end of the day, the whales are paying so we can continue playing the game for free. Skins don't affect gameplay, outside of a handful of skins which do because Riot sucks I guess, so they shouldnt really affect your opinion on whether or not you should play it either.
Whether selling low-value products is morally wrong is up for debate, but it's not like it isn't known since before that Riot, and many other companies, are incredibly greedy and money is the North of their moral compasses.
Would it be better for players if Riot released better-priced skins? Yes. But trust me, someone at Riot has ran the numbers and triple-checked to arrive at the conclusion that this will generate more money than other options, and they're probably right. Corporate decision making is quite simple really: Money goes up = good
I'm sure we are never the target consumer of Riot for this skin, so... whatever man, as long as they have the budget to cook up another LoL animated series (preferably from whales) I'm good
@@avanananaWhile it's true that you can debate how morally wrong it is, at the end of the day implementation of systems like these and the internal standard of quality for releases going down is not a great indicator for future game steering toward less friendly consumer practices and connection with playerbase. Even if it doesn't effect gameplay and you don't have to buy it, the attitude of "We can get away with this, why are you spending so many resources and selling it for so little >:(" does not give good vibes.
@@avananana selling low quality items with a ridiculious expensive price is wrong
I feel like for reference. Smite (another MOBA) has skins similar to this, don’t remember the official name but all of them transform similar to this skin either based on level or sometimes ability usage. But they actually have meaningful changes to each skin. And they’re HALF the price of this skin. Let that sink in. These skins were around 100$, no rng required, and were essentially 3 skins combined. They looked good and had custom voices and even sometimes custom emotes. And actually, now that I’m thinking about it, some hade custom animations for the gods ults too. Just for comparisons sake I feel like that says everything that’s wrong with skins like this.
If people stop buying, they'll stop making it. I don't want to hear complaints, I want to see people stop paying.
I remenber the times when gg miss fortune and yorick not having a hat were the biggest skin issues
I haven't played in a bit*, but I remember when they took Graves' cigar.
Rito can have a skin that encourages gambling, but Graves can't have his cigar.
But yeah, this skin is a joke compared to even the 2013 Spirit Guard (or smth) Udyr, which set the bar for the 'most luxurious' tier with Elementalist Lux, DJ Sona, etc. falling into that tier; every skin in this tier should have fully custom animations, voice, SFX and several different model variations. (Although they apparently reworked Udyr and got rid of his animal spirits, so how does that skin work nowadays?)
*Disclaimer: Haven't opened League since season 8, after the release of Pyke but before Neeko (which I only know from the LEC). But I haven't really played SR 5v5 since season 5 or 6, when I started playing a lot more Dominion (RIP) and ARAM (especially before they added the annoying poro king snowballs to the main mode), and during S7 and early S8 I mostly played the rotating game modes (RIP) or TT (RIP).
What depresses me is the amount of people saying they were gonna buy it...
I think an interesting comparison would be to Dota's Arcanas (the top-tier cosmetic items). They are also really expensive at 100 USD+, but the sheer quantity and quality of changes is night and day from this
I've been using SG Jinx with mythic chroma for a while now, sincerely I see more dedication put into that combo than the "cooked" skin
"Exalted", what a fun way to say "Ultimate", I guess it makes it a reason to price it x10 the fair price right
it's the same with Vouge, louis vuitton, supreme etc. you pay for that "Exalted" name tag not for effort or quality. Ppl will buy all restarted shit like bricks with Supreme on it or LV trash bag for 1960$.
@thaib2724 Yes but they established their whole brand around luxury and they LOOK like they are, we don't pay Riot for their name 😭 especially this
as someone whos enjoyed more than a few gacha games, riot is out of their mind with the pricing, 250$ for guarantee is absurd , most wont even spend that to get 6 copys of a character in a gacha and most skins average out to 20-30 dollars, and are higher quality and generally do more with the character than anything riot has ever dished out, i think the they are pricing it based on their tft gacha, rather than looking at the actual market thats allready been established with this sort of thing , gacha is a scam and gambling in alot of senses, but atleast most of the time you feel good about what your getting for what your spending and it can be exciting alot of the time , riot is failing at the base level of that with their pricing and the quality of what they're providing, its pretty disappointing
The original skin is the best skin….
True Damage, KDA, Star Guardian. These skins all have their theme songs music implemented in their kits. This EXAULTED SKIN? 0 Arcane music. BAD TAUNTS. 2 SAME FORMS? NO HOOD? EVEN KAISA HAS A HOOD. AATROX HAS A WINGS.
Night Hunter Rengar has a hood toggle btw
I bet that there was a deadline and grunts at Riot had to rush this in order to have it done with the ending of season 2 Arcane...
I would rather buy winrar
Classic
Got it in two orbs
Experiencing some serious joy of missing out right now.
I hate how they implement gacha systems more and more as if they didnt lower rewards for basically everything (battle pass rewards for both league and tft). I get it, its a F2P game that has to make profit somehow but gamba is definitely not the correct way. The worst thing is these skins (jinx, ahri) would literally make more money if their prices were same as for ultimate skins (at least imo).
And you're incorrect. Riot said themselves they profit more with systems like these. There are many whales that just don't have a way a place to use their money and these are literally the only options. If whales did not exist, these systems wouldn't as well, in any game. Thus, Riot's decision making is correct.
@@VaMage I just fucking hate how Whale Catching has become Industry Standard.
@@VaMage It may be the right decision from a company finances point of view, but its not moral. We also know it is not necessary at all as league had already been profitable for years before introducing the first lootboxes.
@@VaMage not just for whales. With FOMO and predatory gachas & practices, they are also trying to push people into behaving like whales, when they aren't.
@@VaMage It's not whales. A lot of people started loans to just buy Ahri skin for 500. I believe this is same
2:30 - Guys I am struggling to see the difference, can someone explain? Are we really paying an extra $200 to change the color from green to purple?
that + she gains a hint of purple on her long bang. thats it
one gets spooky skelly markings across her body when she is in her passive. Other than that, the difference is literally the colour.
This skin is mainly for finishers imo, else this skin is complete trash.
@@Diopside.Finishers quite literally don't matter since most ppl leave before the Nexus explodes
yes
"cook" in a sentence used in a serious manner , i couldn't believe it man