@@urduib *Funny fact:* In my country the minimum monthly net income is around ~810 US$. And by the statistic of my country every 3rd person earns around this amount of money. With all do respect to the people buying those skins. Anyone can do with their money what they want, the same as anyone can say whatever they want. But all of us are and will be judge for what we said and done. Only because you can do something doesn't mean you should. Doing something you shouldn't, often then not is an act of sincere stupidity, envy, greed or pride.
@@delta4135 fun fact, if you have to talk or think about minimum wage, you shouldn't be buying skins in videogames to begin with. I don't see the same nerds raging over people wasting money on other luxury products
Dawg, you are the only one w/ that mentality, the raw definition of "microtransaction" is this "(economics) A transaction for a very small amount of money (a micropayment)." // "an online transaction involving a small amount of currency" If you bought it then I can see why you justify it. But if you didn't then it is weird you're defending this corrupt/money hungry behavior.
Great Point. You need a laptop to run the game. You don’t need a skin a skin is totaly optinal and gives you no power or anything. Let’s get mad about other optinal things. A Lambo cost a lot of money and is optinal in your live. Let’s get mad about that next 😂
@@SaltareObscurum plush toys and action figures cost money, buying those league plush toy or skins will not impact your game at all, league is true free to play.
Who cares? They could make it a billion dollars and it would in no way affect anyone or anything who isn't insane enough to buy it. It's something to be laughed about, not cried or raged over. The people who are throwing fits over this should be ashamed of themselves if they aren't literal children or somebody suffering from some sort of legitimate mental illness.
@@bobbobber4810 The people complaining about it aren't the ones buying it.. naturally the ones who will buy it won't be on forums saying its bad. Even if 99.9% of LoL players refuse to buy this, that .1% at $500 each is going to make Riot tons of money. Just how it is unfortunately.. too many whales.
@@Kovac_ just cementing him as a player in a hall of fame… while he’s still an active player. I think Faker is the only one the community at large can agree to put in here, so many others are relevant only for a year or two and then fade from the spotlight.
@@tobias97erdt Damn lol. Actually, for $500? It should be a slightly extravagant braindance. $10k is the price range that OP should be looking at if they want her to physically manifest in our reality. The wife part? I cannot put a price on that.
The last time I did something this dumb it was a mobile gacha game. Totally had me on the line until I took a step back and realized I had spent almost $800 on a mobile game. I made a declaration that day to never put another dime into a mobile game for as long as I live. And seeing how this economy is going I sure could use that $800.
@@Kid_Charlemagne That’s a lot of money. I didn’t miss it at the time and that’s how I justified it. Don’t do what I did. It’s been a few years since that but I’m past the mobile gaming phase. I got the internet now. 😆
@@VespasianJudea had same situation, one time i decided to check how much i spend on googleplay and boy i froze when i came to 3000$, i deleted and blocked my card after that, but dude, im not even that huge compared to other player i meet in one of these games, he spent over 85k$ on waifu game... he sent the screenshot on discord group we did. some people life on completly different level than most of us
11:48 Who the hell said limited supply? On a digital item? How the hell is a digital skin, stored on a server that can be given out an infinite times if they wanted to, a limited supply?
It's the way dimonds work. You setup a ridiculously high standard for shiny rocks and you release only a small quantity of those rocks on the market, thus inducing scarcity and they can ask ludicrous amounts of money for a shiny rock that can be made artificially at better grades.
@@Stein871 The difference is you can't make one diamond and then just sell it infinite times as the skin. The skin only need to be made once and then distributed as much as they want as it's already made. Clothes, food, diamonds, whatever need materials to make every time you want to make one. A game asset you only need to make once.
@@DemonicAkumi It's just FOMO basically. You're more likely to shill 500$ for something that can't even return as a legacy skin with shards. That's how they get newer players to spend fast too. And honestly it's kinda sad how much art has been lost like that. So much effort by artists for something completely inaccessible after two months
The irony of doing this with FAKER skins of all things, the dude doesn't use skins (also the whale skins are almost assuredly gonna be banned in pro play due to the extra effects) Funnily enough they made a pay to lose kassadin skin awhile back (it put an indicator enemies could see where you were ulting) then to "fix" the problem they just made every kassadin skin has the ult indicator
If 1% of Chinese players buy the skin, that's 50 mil in the bank. People have to remember that for every rich kid who plays in NA/EU there are 100 of them in China
Ye sure 500.000 people will buy the skin, ye no. Not even close. Edit: Okay you thought china has only 10 mil players, but ye still there wont be 100k people buying that one, not in china, not world-wide.
@Mouchy3800 Faker is the most popular League player in China. It was Uzi, Clearlove, and TheShy (another Korean btw), but now it's Faker, Jackeylove, and so on.
this is the most backwards logic. "if i just get 1% of players to buy skin" bro do you realize out of the 100% population of league you have to find the 1% that are rich enough to buy this and then in that hope the 1% of that 1% buys the skin. The skin is going to sell because even lux $30 skin got her nickname "billion dollar princess" because she was first to sell that much. They are hoping for fakers name and fomo to get this skin. If you buy this skin you are rich kid with no idea on how money works. Which sums a lot of league players because 99% thnk they are stuck in certain rank because of their teams. I use to boost and so many rich kids would do it just for the status. I use to rent out challenger accounts to chinese and japanese players so they could show off to friends.
16:55 nothing actually changed with Helldivers 2. You don't have to make a login but the bigger problem was game not being playable/purchaseable in countries without PSN and they still aren't. They actually restricted the game from several more countries since.
The only way to make that $500 worth it is one you should be super rich where the money dish doesn’t matter. And then you should just troll with that character Because people will go insane if you just wander around or feed or whatever while having a $500 skin
Sad coz Faker has almost never really used a skin and regularly talks about how things are expensive and for people to stop donating large amounts of money when he streams. This isnt a skin to honor his legacy and legend status, this is a cash grab hoping to profit of his reputation, at least from whoever is in charge of the prices. Im sure whoever designed the skin has the utmost respect for Faker and his legacy, sadly the ones in charge of the cost dont share that respect
Now his legacy is being tainted. Everyone who saw this that aren't familiar with League just associated his name to a 500 dollar skin. What a way to treat a legend. It's disgusting.
@Einscrest I mean, I don't know anything about league but I assume Faker loves $500 skins with this lol. They associated him with it, I think if we don't know we just assume.
@triptriad1101 for real, it's not like it's forced onto everyone. It's a special event skin, and you can and can not buy it. I don't understand why people mald over an event battle pass that they won't buy.
playing league for 14 years, explain why you care if league skin was $500 or $5000? how does it impact your skills ingame? it will not make you play better at all
What is wrong with these people who are losing their minds over the existence of an expensive but purely cosmetic skin? All you have to do is simply not buy it. There is zero downside to this skin existing in the game. If anything there is a slight upside since it adds visual variety to the game in those rare instances where somebody is rich or nutty enough to buy it. The only way I could see a sane person being outraged by this is if the skin provided some sort of in-game advantage making it pay to win. These people who are doing things like throwing games, banning the character or harassing others over it should be ashamed of themselves. They have no excuse for this kind of behavior outside of being a literal child or a person suffering from a legitimate mental illness.
@@SocksnSandals cope what? I playing league for 14 years and didnt buy skins, league is a true free to play game, the guy who spends $100-$1000 has no advantage. talk to losers who played wow for 20 years and paid montly sub and I spend $0. with no restrictions or disadvantage. 14 years is 168 months, 500/168 would be $3 montly. how much a wow players spends montly over 14 years + expansions ? boosters etc?
Terminally online need shit the devs will 10000 percent remove that ability if you ppl abuse it and they will because that’s high value and they care about that more then you being mad at someone buying somthing. Who cares what ppl buy if we all had loads of money to blow we would buy everything in every game we love. Who cares.
I literally saw that skin yesterday and thought to myself, "Wow, another completely mid ahri skin, where she looks like a generic sexy demon lady, with a very basic red/black color combo, carried by the fact that the original ahri model is hot" I had no idea it was $500 wtf hahahaha. I can't wait for that guy on tiktok who makes super critical breakdown of all the league skin designs to comment on it.
The thing is, the only reason this skin is different than others is that it has all the features they were too lazy to add. New announcer, turret destroy animations, elimination animations.
I remember in HOTS the only time I spent money was to get Orphea because that was the only time I didn't have gold to get a new character, the only skin I had for her was the mastery skins (unlocked with gold) and the only thing I spent shards on was everything else and I only got them from lootboxes. I don't regret it, especially since i permanently closed my Blizzard accounts because of what blizzard did.
I wonder if the people who introduced the Oblivion horse armor had an Oppenheimer moment back then, realizing they were the catalyst that precipitates the chain of events that will eventually lead to a $500 in-game cosmetic 18 years later.
what you talking about? the game is fully free to play, a real free to play. I been playing league for 14 years, what the hell you talking about? they can price their skins as high they want, to me makes no difference it was $30 or $300.000 Ahri has so many cheaper skins, buy those or just shut up simply as that
For 500$ you can probably ask a 3d artist to just rip the model and print it. So you have the real deal instead of a png you don't own. Edit: it appears that real figures can cost a lot, and the minimum price for the skin is actually 250, so if you think the glorified skin is worth 4 AAA on day1, go for it champ!
Is what you’re saying anywhere close to legitimate? I don’t play LoL But something tells me you’re missing the entire point? Not that I support it whatsoever but what the fuck
@@ModestestRUST I don't play lol either, from a quick research it seems that the prices range from 50 to 5k dollars or more, they are actually hella expensive. The most I have found on Amazon is 1,1k, maybe it's not the best place. The point is that this is a digital luxury good. The way you approach the argument is up to you, either you don't need it, or you shouldn't buy it, or if people buy it they'll do more of them, anything goes really.
@@ModestestRUST He's missing the entire point. A skin isn't a model you print, it replaces your in-game character model with new appearance, animations, spell animations, voicelines, emotes, etc. It customizes your champion and lets you show off to teammates and opponents. I don't know what printing would achieve here. The usual price for a skin is between 5 and maybe 30 dollars for the rarest ones, at least it was the case back in 2020 or so, maybe they released a few 100 bucks one since then because I don't see how you would jump from around 10 average to 500, even for an exceptional event. I just checked and there's a couple of info not covered here ; the skin isn't actually 500 bucks, it's 250 bucks. The 500 bundle is just the highest you can pay with a few goodies sprinkled on top, but the minimum price for the actual skin is 250. And there's a fair amount of animations on it, the skin can transform several times in-game, meaning you're more or less paying for 3 or 4 skins in one, even though some other skins used to do that for less money (Elementalist Lux is around 25 bucks for reference, and works the same way as the Ahri skin with more different forms and maybe less unique animations)
So funny to see people are to nit picky about "for $500 you can spend it for more productive things irl". When they are litterally spending hours for years playing video games when those times can be spent for more "valuable" activity 😂😂😂. It all come down to subjective matter if someone thinks spending that much money is reasonable, let them be. Just like you are spending hours and days in video game when those times can be spent for more productive activity.
I don't understand the logic honestly. Faker is one of if not the most adored LoL pro of all time. They would sell well over 5x the amount of bundles if it was priced at $100. It's insane how corporate greed always ends up as less profit.
league was free to play, a true free to play, I played this game for 14 years never had to sub like morons do with wow. I spend more money on games that I play 15h avarage... whats your point?
ok this is logically speaking how it goes, they wouldn't even come close to the same if it was 5x cheaper, no matter what the cost of the bundle/cosmetic or item is, vast majority of people do not engage with the transactions at all regardless of cheap or expensive, so lets say the bundle was 100 dollars, and they sold 10 million bundles, they made 1 billion dollars, lets say the bundle was 500 and they sold 2 million bundles, they made the same amount with 8 million less sales, this is why prices are higher rather than lower, even if the cost is lower they have to sell more in a market when more people regardless of price do not partake with these purchases even if the same 500 dollar bundle was 5 dollars and affordable, they would have to sell more bundles than there are players playing the game and still wouldn't come close. they also spend 200 million dollars per year to provide the world with a free to play title with free content updates because the whales are their foundation. this game would have stagnated, lost hype over a decade ago had it not been for the price of MTX.
@@brianpancotto8829 League is fully playable with or without skins, league is not genshi impact where you gamble to gain characthers that give you advatages, league is not cs where you gamble for loot boxes where you get most of the time duplicates and league is not fifa games, where every year you buy the game and cards to gain advantage, league is not wow where you have to pay montly and buy expanssions and ruins your ingame achivements with transmong, ingame character boost or gold. do you understand the concept or 0 (zero) ? skins have absolute 0 impact on league. If you buy a league action figure how does that impact the game?
@@Antyss08 league would not be fully playable if people did not purchase skins at the prices they set, if they did not earn money the game wouldn't have updated and continued to where it is today.
@@brianpancotto8829 Agree to disagree then. I'm convinced they would sell well over 5x many at $100 than than will at $500. At that price point they are pricing out most of the world. LoL is a global game. Faker was/is a global icon.
Faker's 2023 worlds skin will probably be cheaper and will have a custom recall animation decided by him and a theme they all agreed. The Ahri and Leblanc skin is designed by RIOT as a cash grab
@@kirbyjoe7484 Better than p2w cash grabs. I look at people who buy skins as people who want to show off. Sure its fine if you simply want to support a company, but if your a serial buyer of cosmetics, you need to look into yourself and figure out why you have that issue. I see cosmetics as pointless unless they add P2W, in which case it ruins the game for everyone.
@@kirbyjoe7484 It doesn't have to be. In Warframe, a free to play game, you have multiple helmets and skins and capes, etc etc you can buy for at most $5. And I'm talking about the community made cosmetics. The official cosmetics are often also not too pricey either, at least relative to the premium currency. And if you think buying the premium is too pricey, they give out discounts for it sometimes when you log into the game.
I for once, even if I officially don't even remember anymore what was the last season I played seriously, want to defend League and Riot. All the core content in the game (maps, champions and so on) is available for free or with in game currency. Only skins and other bullshit is purchasable with money. I've played the game around 8 years and I've spent a total of 40 euros on it. For me they can keep releasing all the outrageous monetization they want if there are morons that buy them so that the game keeps being free for me. League is already taxing for your mental health, it can't take a toll on you wallet too. If you just okay the game, you will eventually get some good skins too. I know I did. I got free skins from their loot boxes from pretty much all of my favorite champs
8:32 Sadly can't refund items purchased in a bundle if I remember correctly. This is also why Riot loves doing bundles and why Ahri cannot be bought separately. Rito is a predator.
League skins are trash it's 80% artwork 10% remodeling the base model and 10% animation. This skin probably took a couple days to finish and there selling it for 20x-40x normal skin price just because of the character. More significant moments happened on other characters yet they make the only special skin not because of what he did with the character, not because who he is but because of the character.
11:20 you can't say skins are valueless, especially if your coming to that conclusion based on the fact that they have no resale value. you can not resell a carton of milk but the milk obviously still has value. skins can, and often do for many people, improve the gameplay experience and so they are worth something. the real question is of course how much is that value. for me I would say most skins improve the game by about 4% for me personally, that is to say not much. that means if I see a skin for a champion I know for certain that I play a lot and I know I will use this skin most of the times I play said champion, I will often buy that skin, because I feel that that slight increase of quality over the hundreds of gameplay hours I will use it for is worth the £15 I spent. would I buy a skin that cost more than £300? fuck no. no matter how much I use the skin or how great it is, it will never be worth that much money. but the skin is still worth something, just not as much as the price tag would require. another example I could use as to how skins do have value is that they are similar to game remasters, most people would rather have a remastered halo than not, and a lot of people will buy them, this is essentially a couple of percentage points of a remaster. if you use it long enough it might be worth buying.
I don't mind spending 20-30 a year on skins for League, it's a free to play game and I think more games should have this format. It really is annoying buying a game and Then being at a disadvantage to someone who spent more on something like a battle pass.
Anyone play City of Heroes back in the day? Almost completely free, fully customizable visual abilities, and you'll never see two people who look the same. So a simple ability like "blast", could have 20 different visuals. It could be a rifle shot, a bow, a fireball, an iron man blast, a lightning arc, or pretty much anything the developers could imagine. Man, I miss city of heroes.
@@nguyentri6651 if you buy a league plush toy that and I dont, whats the difference between us in game? I dont care if skins are $1000 or plush toys are $5000. you wont play better or get better games than me.
@@Antyss08 you somehow completely missed my point. You used to be able to buy everything within the highest pricing option. You always get bonus RP when bulk buying. If they plan on releasing items that expensive it would be more consumer friendly to offer bigger packages for purchase like 250$ or 500$ which would come with an additional bulk bonus. But instead you're forced to buy rp 5-6 times in a row for 100. Also spending this amount might be troublesome for your bank e.g. duplicate charges and fraud protection
While the skin straight up is coming at a huge price tag, these skins have always come with a battle pass which gives you access to orbs that increase the rate of the drops for the featured skin itself... While it's a tiny chance, there is still a chance to get it for free if you actually play the game and just rolling orbs. I've gotten the Dark Cosmic Jhin "$500 chroma" off the first orb I opened from the event. Most events focus specifically on the drop rates of the featured skins >.>
Funny thing is, they gave away an ultimate skin before called "Annie-versary" for Annie on their anniversary. FOR FREE. Every active player in that event got her skin. I cant see why they couldnt do it again especially since Faker still has the much anticipated worlds 2023 championship skin. They couldve celebrated the best dude to touch their game and still make bank, all the while not antagonizing and ripping off their playerbase.
Dude… they aren’t going to give away a premium skin like that for free… at the end of the day they are a company. They gave her new animations and transformations and everything… this honestly is probably their most impressive skin yet… and I would hate to see every single player in game with this skin auto selected… I think whoever wants to dump their income into it should then go for it. But this thing is super flashy… way flashier then any other skin and I wouldn’t want to see it every single game.
@@weeb1854it's pretty fucking mid for the price, is not even ultimate quality man. It's really not worth the amount of money, there's no effort behind it whatsoever...
Wait… how does paying for the development of a costly skin just to give it away for free allow Riot to “still make bank” from it? Also, you seem to not understand that Riot is targeting two totally different customer groups with these skins. Some players want things as cheap as possible and don’t care if everybody else has the skin. While others don’t really care how much it costs as long as it’s rare/limited and looks cool. Obviously there is a whole spectrum of the playerbase that lives somewhere between those two extremes. There is no way to please everyone with one skin release. This is why Riot releases skins with varying costs and rarities. This particular skin just happens to targets those who prefer the most expensive/rare skins in the game. People who drop a lot of money on skins are the ones that make it possible for those with less money to play the game for free. If the skin is not worth $500 to you just sit back, laugh, and be grateful there are people out there who are willing to bankroll the game in exchange for digital clothes so you can play it for free.
skins are not trash, especially if they are not overpriced, and for something you are playing for free as is League, (amazing game btw, even though i stopped earlier this year) , it's a great way to support the company that is providing you with countless hours of entertainment.
People saying in the comments for that amount Ahri should manifest IRL next to them. The joke here is: LoL players can only get a girlfriend if they warp reality through money they don't have, then think Ahri would stay. Ima be honest, if anyone manifested next to a man in a basement with Cheeto finger keyboards and 12 soda cans on their desk and a body pillow in the corner standing upright, they sure as hell ain't sticking around.
"I feel like that cat, that's op man that's crazy" Thank God I'm not crazy for thinking that the idea of EVERYTHING being brokenly unplayably good is bad. That character was op like 10 yrs ago btw.
Some truly great games have been made on the premise that if everything is OP, nothing is. I've never played it however, I suspect LoL isn't one of them.
@memitim171 yeah there are some goods games that actually are even balanced around this. The problem is league picks favorites based on the devs preferences and then actively shit on everyone else. Every patch, and it's been checked before, if you check the devs play history they hard spam pick the current meta they set up then dump it next week. They also actively hate the idea of tanks and treat them like literal dumpsters to the point of nerfing their "durability patch" that was supposed to curb the power creep. It lasted literally less than 2 weeks. Sorry for the info dump I just love this game and everyone is huffing copium so hard in the Fandom they might as well be on the fent
@@voidax99 Sounds very similar to Games Workshop's strat, sell the new shiny (though I suppose in Lol's case they are just hoping you buy the skins), nerf the bejesus out of it, release new shiny, rinse and repeat.
god, even in an epic, specifically edited and recorded trailer, the game looks so terrible compared to dota xD not to mention skin prices and the fact u can re-sell them, since it's steam, all champs/heroes being free2play and so many more points that make dota more attractive xD
It's nice to see, maybe Riot will at least reduce the price to something realistic. Or maybe they won't. Communities need to stand up for themselves more.
I might have actually bought the pass/skins if it wasn't a months worth of money for people. The quality is actually good for once. Nice to know how much actual quality costs.
And every other people who cannot afford this hated the idea. Lol. They are so blinded about the price that they forget this is cosmetics only. Whether you buy it or not, it doesn't matter. It's like buying a $500 underwear and yet you are single and doesn't engage in s*x. Does it really matter? Why get mad at them if that's what they want?
@@konaqua122as someone who used to had EVERY skin in game until 2018. I was wrong and many people like I was it's still wrong. These cosmetics make the experience OBJETIVELY talking worst. Never touching LOL again and feel glad and proud about my decision.
@@konaqua122It matters becuase if it sells well there's no point in improving the game of making content. Why would they ever bother balancing the game or putting effort into new game modes if they can quintuple their profits by just remodeling characters and charging 10 times what a whole ass video game costs? You can blame the people selling the crack as well as the buyers, fyi.
People need to realize that if they buy skins in video games they actually buy nothing. Owner of the game is the only owner of the skin. You have no right to use textures, models, animations and sounds that are connected to skin. You don't even own your account. It's leased to you in restricted terms. If the company decide to shut down the servers one day after you buy expensive skin, then they will. And you will receive nothing to compensate. CSGO was different in this case, but still virtually restricted to one platform only.
And you are investing your valuable time on a leased account 😂😂. You probably have wasted more than $500 for wasting your time on video games, YT, getting mad over meaningless subjects etc 😂😂😂. You are OK with that but can't stand ppl wasting their money? Your mom will probably think spending 500 dollars on a video game and you spending hours and years on video game is equally stupid. So funny these people think they are legit obliged to criticize someone for wasting money when they are literally wasting time which equates to money 😂😂😂😂
500$ is just too much... 10:24 Exactly is a "free" game of course they need to sell something to keep the "free" thing. Ex: you wanna play Val or Lol and suddenly some ads come out? Sometimes I like this kind of "free" game cause I can choose to really spent money on it or just enjoy the gameplay of this game
and i was upset with the bullshit valve did with the 2022 battlepass, but riot fucks up even more xD while as dota's current event and latest patch was just pure insanity, even on a fully free2play level, already got skins worth ~80 bucks by now and it's almost 3more months with new stuff releasing :D
The profit is given 70/30 to Faker’s whole team, in the favor of Riot obviously. So Faker as an individual is probably getting a little bit more than dirt compared to Riot. And the people get worthless items whose worthlessness is covered up by buzzwords
The SKIN is NOT 500$, the bundle is, which has 2 skins and a bunch of other things. You can still pay like 25 dollars for the skin or get lucky and get it for free in a chest, this drama is so dumb. edtt: no one is going to follow that ''bad Ahri in protest of the pricy bundle'' for more than a week.
Skins drama is always dumb, but you are wrong on everything else, 20 something bucks is a most basic form of the skin, other 2 are not sold outside of bundles and neither of 3 will ever be in chests
I think the funniest thing about it is knowing there is a subset of league players who are like late 20s early 30s busters who have always been in gold/plat with egirls they buy shit for cringing at this and knowing they'll have it for themself AND the egirl.
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When the skin is more expensive than your setup
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Tough life being a console gamer. ahaha
Try working for a living
500 dollars is definitely not enough for pc gaming though.
With $500.00, I expect Ahri to come out of my screen and play with me irl for 3 night.
No, for 500€ she has to come out every night when we feel like it, she had nothing to do anymore anyways when everyone bans her KEKW
With $500 you can find escorts who will cosplay as ahri for 3 nights for you, or buy 3 high quality ahri figurines
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if that really happened then they would sell for 2000 and ppl will pay...
@@OsmouuMore like a based comment. The sort someone’s father would say to them when trying to stop them from paying $500 for a cosmetic.
The funny thing is Faker is known for not using any skins. So ironic that he has the most expensive one.
Even Faker himself said it was expensive.
@@Sunow9100 Really? I know he gets a little part of each skin sold. Thats nice of him.
so ahiri skin is worthless then
Of course. It doesn't give a dmg boost or anything, it's just all show and nothing more.
He had to save for his entire career to be able to afford this skin.
For $500 you can just buy a model of the character and make a statue for yourself.
Or you can just download the rip off model, that probably has low poly and 1K textures size. 😉
For 500 dollars you can buy 2 Ahri-statues.
@@MGSFan100 Actually 3. They are around 160-180 each.
@@N12015 160-180 for a statue? like a live sized figurine?
And a big glass jar
*Me:* _"Oh nice skin"_ ~ *_look at the price_* ~ _"Thank you I rather eat."_
Or 10-15 good games on steam.
@@urduib
*Funny fact:* In my country the minimum monthly net income is around ~810 US$.
And by the statistic of my country every 3rd person earns around this amount of money.
With all do respect to the people buying those skins. Anyone can do with their money what they want, the same as anyone can say whatever they want. But all of us are and will be judge for what we said and done.
Only because you can do something doesn't mean you should. Doing something you shouldn't, often then not is an act of sincere stupidity, envy, greed or pride.
@@delta4135 in my country u can buy a used car or a used bike with that money lol
@@delta4135 fun fact, if you have to talk or think about minimum wage, you shouldn't be buying skins in videogames to begin with. I don't see the same nerds raging over people wasting money on other luxury products
@@urduib10-40
People seem to have a misconception of what a microtransaction is. It's not micro in terms of price, it's micro in terms of the content you receive.
You're just wrong. It's definitely about the price.
lmao
@@aaronyaygerWoosh
Dawg, you are the only one w/ that mentality, the raw definition of "microtransaction" is this "(economics) A transaction for a very small amount of money (a micropayment)." // "an online transaction involving a small amount of currency"
If you bought it then I can see why you justify it. But if you didn't then it is weird you're defending this corrupt/money hungry behavior.
@@eleesium8407 bro is not defending this, they are actually making fun of it being bad.
Laptop which runs league :$300
Skin in league :$500
whats the point?
Great Point.
You need a laptop to run the game.
You don’t need a skin a skin is totaly optinal and gives you no power or anything.
Let’s get mad about other optinal things.
A Lambo cost a lot of money and is optinal in your live. Let’s get mad about that next 😂
@@SaltareObscurum plush toys and action figures cost money, buying those league plush toy or skins will not impact your game at all, league is true free to play.
@@SaltareObscurumI don't get your point. Your comments are public. I can see you "getting mad" about $40 dollar skin in overwatch.
@@SaltareObscurum yeah, there are vehicles in warthunder that cost thousands of dollars. I am just fine ignoring that and not buying them.
"Celebrate Faker's legacy with 100 levels of rewards..."
So... A battle pass?
yes, legue has battle passes
Ye, you have to unlock most of the skins features from a battlepass, on top of paying two weeks rent to get it.
@@passalapasa League of Fortnite
Fortnite of Legends
leblanc skin, 125 Mythic essence and usual stuffs in bp
The 500$ bundle gives you the entire battle pass rewards
7:05 “if you are broke just say so”
“I’m not broke, because i dont waste my money on such trash value”
"I'm don't get excited for skins anymore"
Makes me remember the warcraft 3 line "I die free!"
Last time it was 200, now it’s 500, next time will be 1000
1 riottrillion for KDA grages
Rookie numbers, next one will be 50,000$ gacha
Who cares? They could make it a billion dollars and it would in no way affect anyone or anything who isn't insane enough to buy it. It's something to be laughed about, not cried or raged over. The people who are throwing fits over this should be ashamed of themselves if they aren't literal children or somebody suffering from some sort of legitimate mental illness.
@kirbyjoe7484 you ever heard of the slippery slope
@@kirbyjoe7484it does matter these skins effect gameplay aswel visually we cannot turn them off, in a competitive game everything matters
$500 could cover my whole steam wishlist at the moment.
In my country it’s average monthly wage unfortunately
People will be angry for 1 week but nothing gonna change Tencent or Riot Games.
Because people will buy it.
Even if they scream for years, if people buy it, why should they care?
And? Not like it gives people advantage its just cosmetics
its okay, tencent hope theyre making it up with wuthring waves
@@bobbobber4810 The people complaining about it aren't the ones buying it.. naturally the ones who will buy it won't be on forums saying its bad. Even if 99.9% of LoL players refuse to buy this, that .1% at $500 each is going to make Riot tons of money. Just how it is unfortunately.. too many whales.
1 week? maybe 1 day.
only a minority of players would cry about skin price.
Tencent: Only 500 bucks for a skin? You guys can do better.
$500 to get made fun of every match
Honestly….people are gonna get banned for bullying people in game with this skin, not the person with the skin.
To be fair, if I have money to buy $500 skin, my income probably at a level where I don't care about other.
@@imPKKerBlizzard had to remove /spit from the game because people were spamming it at those that bought the Dark Portal pass.
@@DunningofKruger and that just show that dev will do anything for them. The whale probably like “Your futile action did nothing to me”
500 dollars for a skin you'll zoom in to look at a few times is so funny to me
Spending money on character skins in FPS games is even worse for me because you never see it while you play 😂
@sidacimiz1909 = Destiny. 🤦🏿♂️ oh the pain
Whenever i play serious i do not even care about my character, no matter the game. Maybe for goofing around but thats it.
@@sidacimiz1909paying 500 for a skin in any kind of video game is so stupid
Paying money for any skin is just stupid :P
This is how Riot commemorates the legacy of a legend in the league community. kind of disgusting lol
100% tencent has something to do with it.
Extra disgusting when Faker is known for almost never playing with skins himself.
@@DrakyHRT Tencent doesn't fking care dude, they let companies do as they want aslong as they print money and Riot prints money anyway.
Did he die or something?
@@Kovac_ just cementing him as a player in a hall of fame… while he’s still an active player. I think Faker is the only one the community at large can agree to put in here, so many others are relevant only for a year or two and then fade from the spotlight.
for 500 dollars ahri better leave the game and become my wife what the fuck.
Ahri for sure wouldn't be that cheap
@@tobias97erdt Damn lol. Actually, for $500? It should be a slightly extravagant braindance. $10k is the price range that OP should be looking at if they want her to physically manifest in our reality. The wife part? I cannot put a price on that.
@@izanagi2488 The price is the ring and the wedding.
@@BoneWalker just the ring lol
@@tobias97erdtFor a virtual character that costed nothing to maker her yeah she costs as much about as a child's imagination.
The last time I did something this dumb it was a mobile gacha game. Totally had me on the line until I took a step back and realized I had spent almost $800 on a mobile game. I made a declaration that day to never put another dime into a mobile game for as long as I live. And seeing how this economy is going I sure could use that $800.
Thank goodness you saw the light bro.
@@Kid_Charlemagne
That’s a lot of money. I didn’t miss it at the time and that’s how I justified it. Don’t do what I did. It’s been a few years since that but I’m past the mobile gaming phase. I got the internet now. 😆
@@VespasianJudea had same situation, one time i decided to check how much i spend on googleplay and boy i froze when i came to 3000$, i deleted and blocked my card after that, but dude, im not even that huge compared to other player i meet in one of these games, he spent over 85k$ on waifu game... he sent the screenshot on discord group we did. some people life on completly different level than most of us
Good job king for getting out of that gambling addiction hole, i got out when i only spent like 40 on Genshin battle passes and the 30days thing.
Which game was it?
13:30 I’ve had 1337 before but I just laughed it off as a funny coincidence. You’re out on a damn quest for it. That’s hilarious dude.
11:48 Who the hell said limited supply? On a digital item?
How the hell is a digital skin, stored on a server that can be given out an infinite times if they wanted to, a limited supply?
It's the way dimonds work. You setup a ridiculously high standard for shiny rocks and you release only a small quantity of those rocks on the market, thus inducing scarcity and they can ask ludicrous amounts of money for a shiny rock that can be made artificially at better grades.
It's only going to be sold under limited time. When the event is over, you can't get it anymore.
@@Stein871 The difference is you can't make one diamond and then just sell it infinite times as the skin. The skin only need to be made once and then distributed as much as they want as it's already made. Clothes, food, diamonds, whatever need materials to make every time you want to make one. A game asset you only need to make once.
@@jordanjames3194 Yeah but that's caused by the company though. Artificial scarcity for the sake of scarcity.
@@DemonicAkumi It's just FOMO basically. You're more likely to shill 500$ for something that can't even return as a legacy skin with shards. That's how they get newer players to spend fast too. And honestly it's kinda sad how much art has been lost like that. So much effort by artists for something completely inaccessible after two months
The irony of doing this with FAKER skins of all things, the dude doesn't use skins (also the whale skins are almost assuredly gonna be banned in pro play due to the extra effects)
Funnily enough they made a pay to lose kassadin skin awhile back (it put an indicator enemies could see where you were ulting) then to "fix" the problem they just made every kassadin skin has the ult indicator
ARE YOU SERIOS ABOUT THE KASSADIN THING LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
iirc omega squad veigar has the same problem, his W has a target circlet vfx on the ground lol
You also get the "Final Boss Faker" title so you can pretend to be faker in game.
If 1% of Chinese players buy the skin, that's 50 mil in the bank.
People have to remember that for every rich kid who plays in NA/EU there are 100 of them in China
Ye sure 500.000 people will buy the skin, ye no. Not even close.
Edit: Okay you thought china has only 10 mil players, but ye still there wont be 100k people buying that one, not in china, not world-wide.
@WangFire Hes Korean , and plays for the biggest Korean team.
They are the number 1 rival of the chinese teams.
@Mouchy3800 Faker is the most popular League player in China. It was Uzi, Clearlove, and TheShy (another Korean btw), but now it's Faker, Jackeylove, and so on.
@@WangFire thats hilarious wow.
Maybe the chinese dont even like tencent.
this is the most backwards logic. "if i just get 1% of players to buy skin" bro do you realize out of the 100% population of league you have to find the 1% that are rich enough to buy this and then in that hope the 1% of that 1% buys the skin. The skin is going to sell because even lux $30 skin got her nickname "billion dollar princess" because she was first to sell that much. They are hoping for fakers name and fomo to get this skin. If you buy this skin you are rich kid with no idea on how money works. Which sums a lot of league players because 99% thnk they are stuck in certain rank because of their teams. I use to boost and so many rich kids would do it just for the status. I use to rent out challenger accounts to chinese and japanese players so they could show off to friends.
16:55 nothing actually changed with Helldivers 2. You don't have to make a login but the bigger problem was game not being playable/purchaseable in countries without PSN and they still aren't. They actually restricted the game from several more countries since.
The only way to make that $500 worth it is one you should be super rich where the money dish doesn’t matter. And then you should just troll with that character Because people will go insane if you just wander around or feed or whatever while having a $500 skin
Sad coz Faker has almost never really used a skin and regularly talks about how things are expensive and for people to stop donating large amounts of money when he streams. This isnt a skin to honor his legacy and legend status, this is a cash grab hoping to profit of his reputation, at least from whoever is in charge of the prices. Im sure whoever designed the skin has the utmost respect for Faker and his legacy, sadly the ones in charge of the cost dont share that respect
Now his legacy is being tainted. Everyone who saw this that aren't familiar with League just associated his name to a 500 dollar skin. What a way to treat a legend. It's disgusting.
@Einscrest I mean, I don't know anything about league but I assume Faker loves $500 skins with this lol.
They associated him with it, I think if we don't know we just assume.
Perma banning Ahri from now on, this skin will not exist in my games
You and everyone else will do this for a week then get back to reality and forget about it
@triptriad1101 for real, it's not like it's forced onto everyone. It's a special event skin, and you can and can not buy it. I don't understand why people mald over an event battle pass that they won't buy.
playing league for 14 years, explain why you care if league skin was $500 or $5000?
how does it impact your skills ingame?
it will not make you play better at all
It’s time to reviewbomb it then
What is wrong with these people who are losing their minds over the existence of an expensive but purely cosmetic skin? All you have to do is simply not buy it. There is zero downside to this skin existing in the game. If anything there is a slight upside since it adds visual variety to the game in those rare instances where somebody is rich or nutty enough to buy it.
The only way I could see a sane person being outraged by this is if the skin provided some sort of in-game advantage making it pay to win. These people who are doing things like throwing games, banning the character or harassing others over it should be ashamed of themselves. They have no excuse for this kind of behavior outside of being a literal child or a person suffering from a legitimate mental illness.
This skin is 12x more expensive that elden ring dlc lol
You can buy elden ring +dlc and still have plenty of money left
You can buy a switch and like two games bruv
@@trishamayacielo657 can I play only those games for 14 years like I did with league?
@@Antyss08 lmao cope
and yes, yes you can
@@SocksnSandals cope what?
I playing league for 14 years and didnt buy skins, league is a true free to play game, the guy who spends $100-$1000 has no advantage.
talk to losers who played wow for 20 years and paid montly sub and I spend $0. with no restrictions or disadvantage.
14 years is 168 months, 500/168 would be $3 montly.
how much a wow players spends montly over 14 years + expansions ?
boosters etc?
Looks like they're taking a play from the Tarkov playbook
Ahri shall not pass any of my champ selects
Until you get smashed by a certain champ and then you rage. Settle down bro no one takes you seriously.
I stand with you brother
Terminally online need shit the devs will 10000 percent remove that ability if you ppl abuse it and they will because that’s high value and they care about that more then you being mad at someone buying somthing. Who cares what ppl buy if we all had loads of money to blow we would buy everything in every game we love. Who cares.
@@weeb1854 HAHAHAHA WHY UR SO MAD
@@CalebTheScott how would they remove the ability to ban a champion XDDDD
I literally saw that skin yesterday and thought to myself, "Wow, another completely mid ahri skin, where she looks like a generic sexy demon lady, with a very basic red/black color combo, carried by the fact that the original ahri model is hot" I had no idea it was $500 wtf hahahaha. I can't wait for that guy on tiktok who makes super critical breakdown of all the league skin designs to comment on it.
The thing is, the only reason this skin is different than others is that it has all the features they were too lazy to add. New announcer, turret destroy animations, elimination animations.
You mean TBSkyen? He's a RUclipsr who decided to make a TikTok account. He posts those breakdowns on his other channel TBSkyenShorts.
You can get Asmon's Special steak everyday for 8 months (and more) with that much money
I remember in HOTS the only time I spent money was to get Orphea because that was the only time I didn't have gold to get a new character, the only skin I had for her was the mastery skins (unlocked with gold) and the only thing I spent shards on was everything else and I only got them from lootboxes. I don't regret it, especially since i permanently closed my Blizzard accounts because of what blizzard did.
This isn't a microtransaction. It's a major transaction.
I wonder if the people who introduced the Oblivion horse armor had an Oppenheimer moment back then, realizing they were the catalyst that precipitates the chain of events that will eventually lead to a $500 in-game cosmetic 18 years later.
what you talking about?
the game is fully free to play, a real free to play.
I been playing league for 14 years, what the hell you talking about?
they can price their skins as high they want, to me makes no difference it was $30 or $300.000
Ahri has so many cheaper skins, buy those or just shut up simply as that
micro transactions existed before the horse armor. Stop saying this bs just for likes.
We have become microtransaction destroyer of wallets
@@rain4242 no they didnt
@@nobodyImportantl0l0lyes, they exist in the eastern side of gaming
"Lets celebrate and give us money to celebrate"
For 500$ you can probably ask a 3d artist to just rip the model and print it. So you have the real deal instead of a png you don't own.
Edit: it appears that real figures can cost a lot, and the minimum price for the skin is actually 250, so if you think the glorified skin is worth 4 AAA on day1, go for it champ!
I'll wildy guess you never wrote sth like that about CS knives.
Is what you’re saying anywhere close to legitimate? I don’t play LoL But something tells me you’re missing the entire point? Not that I support it whatsoever but what the fuck
@@ModestestRUST I don't play lol either, from a quick research it seems that the prices range from 50 to 5k dollars or more, they are actually hella expensive. The most I have found on Amazon is 1,1k, maybe it's not the best place.
The point is that this is a digital luxury good. The way you approach the argument is up to you, either you don't need it, or you shouldn't buy it, or if people buy it they'll do more of them, anything goes really.
Its even easier, you can get It in the PBE (beta Server) for free
@@ModestestRUST He's missing the entire point. A skin isn't a model you print, it replaces your in-game character model with new appearance, animations, spell animations, voicelines, emotes, etc. It customizes your champion and lets you show off to teammates and opponents. I don't know what printing would achieve here.
The usual price for a skin is between 5 and maybe 30 dollars for the rarest ones, at least it was the case back in 2020 or so, maybe they released a few 100 bucks one since then because I don't see how you would jump from around 10 average to 500, even for an exceptional event.
I just checked and there's a couple of info not covered here ; the skin isn't actually 500 bucks, it's 250 bucks. The 500 bundle is just the highest you can pay with a few goodies sprinkled on top, but the minimum price for the actual skin is 250. And there's a fair amount of animations on it, the skin can transform several times in-game, meaning you're more or less paying for 3 or 4 skins in one, even though some other skins used to do that for less money (Elementalist Lux is around 25 bucks for reference, and works the same way as the Ahri skin with more different forms and maybe less unique animations)
Man i was ready for a 10$ Faker Ahri skin with 80% proceeds going to Faker not a 500$ Bundle to milk the guy
So funny to see people are to nit picky about "for $500 you can spend it for more productive things irl". When they are litterally spending hours for years playing video games when those times can be spent for more "valuable" activity 😂😂😂. It all come down to subjective matter if someone thinks spending that much money is reasonable, let them be. Just like you are spending hours and days in video game when those times can be spent for more productive activity.
"Riot: We have now removed bans from the game"
Nah. pay 25 get a ticket to remove 1 ban from enemy team. pay 125 and get extra ban if your ban was removed.
I don't understand the logic honestly. Faker is one of if not the most adored LoL pro of all time. They would sell well over 5x the amount of bundles if it was priced at $100. It's insane how corporate greed always ends up as less profit.
league was free to play, a true free to play, I played this game for 14 years never had to sub like morons do with wow.
I spend more money on games that I play 15h avarage...
whats your point?
ok this is logically speaking how it goes, they wouldn't even come close to the same if it was 5x cheaper, no matter what the cost of the bundle/cosmetic or item is, vast majority of people do not engage with the transactions at all regardless of cheap or expensive, so lets say the bundle was 100 dollars, and they sold 10 million bundles, they made 1 billion dollars, lets say the bundle was 500 and they sold 2 million bundles, they made the same amount with 8 million less sales, this is why prices are higher rather than lower, even if the cost is lower they have to sell more in a market when more people regardless of price do not partake with these purchases even if the same 500 dollar bundle was 5 dollars and affordable, they would have to sell more bundles than there are players playing the game and still wouldn't come close. they also spend 200 million dollars per year to provide the world with a free to play title with free content updates because the whales are their foundation. this game would have stagnated, lost hype over a decade ago had it not been for the price of MTX.
@@brianpancotto8829 League is fully playable with or without skins, league is not genshi impact where you gamble to gain characthers that give you advatages, league is not cs where you gamble for loot boxes where you get most of the time duplicates and league is not fifa games, where every year you buy the game and cards to gain advantage, league is not wow where you have to pay montly and buy expanssions and ruins your ingame achivements with transmong, ingame character boost or gold.
do you understand the concept or 0 (zero) ?
skins have absolute 0 impact on league.
If you buy a league action figure how does that impact the game?
@@Antyss08 league would not be fully playable if people did not purchase skins at the prices they set, if they did not earn money the game wouldn't have updated and continued to where it is today.
@@brianpancotto8829 Agree to disagree then. I'm convinced they would sell well over 5x many at $100 than than will at $500. At that price point they are pricing out most of the world. LoL is a global game. Faker was/is a global icon.
Faker's 2023 worlds skin will probably be cheaper and will have a custom recall animation decided by him and a theme they all agreed. The Ahri and Leblanc skin is designed by RIOT as a cash grab
I mean, all skins are cash grabs. It's how they pay for the game since its free to play. -shrug-
@@kirbyjoe7484 Better than p2w cash grabs. I look at people who buy skins as people who want to show off. Sure its fine if you simply want to support a company, but if your a serial buyer of cosmetics, you need to look into yourself and figure out why you have that issue. I see cosmetics as pointless unless they add P2W, in which case it ruins the game for everyone.
@@kirbyjoe7484 It doesn't have to be.
In Warframe, a free to play game, you have multiple helmets and skins and capes, etc etc you can buy for at most $5. And I'm talking about the community made cosmetics. The official cosmetics are often also not too pricey either, at least relative to the premium currency. And if you think buying the premium is too pricey, they give out discounts for it sometimes when you log into the game.
That poor spider was part of the new cleaning crew in your house. Give him some respect as a roommate and let him eat the roaches.
I for once, even if I officially don't even remember anymore what was the last season I played seriously, want to defend League and Riot. All the core content in the game (maps, champions and so on) is available for free or with in game currency. Only skins and other bullshit is purchasable with money. I've played the game around 8 years and I've spent a total of 40 euros on it. For me they can keep releasing all the outrageous monetization they want if there are morons that buy them so that the game keeps being free for me.
League is already taxing for your mental health, it can't take a toll on you wallet too. If you just okay the game, you will eventually get some good skins too. I know I did. I got free skins from their loot boxes from pretty much all of my favorite champs
Dude is playing Gacha in real life now with Mac receipts
Came for the skin, stayed for the terrarium
helldivers still unavailable to non PSN countries
8:32 Sadly can't refund items purchased in a bundle if I remember correctly.
This is also why Riot loves doing bundles and why Ahri cannot be bought separately.
Rito is a predator.
League skins are trash it's 80% artwork 10% remodeling the base model and 10% animation. This skin probably took a couple days to finish and there selling it for 20x-40x normal skin price just because of the character. More significant moments happened on other characters yet they make the only special skin not because of what he did with the character, not because who he is but because of the character.
$500 bucks and no Supreme logo?
lol
the problem with lol is no matter what ski nyou use the game still looks 4 generations behind
because most ppl have old pc
@@Antyss08 Vanguard deletes old PC statement. But guess what no improvements will be done.
@@kommanderrex4548 thats a flat lie with no evidence
Upgrading the graphics for a game like this won't really add anything.
The signature variant of the skin is gonna be more expensive than most League of Legends player's setups lmao
11:20
you can't say skins are valueless, especially if your coming to that conclusion based on the fact that they have no resale value. you can not resell a carton of milk but the milk obviously still has value. skins can, and often do for many people, improve the gameplay experience and so they are worth something. the real question is of course how much is that value. for me I would say most skins improve the game by about 4% for me personally, that is to say not much. that means if I see a skin for a champion I know for certain that I play a lot and I know I will use this skin most of the times I play said champion, I will often buy that skin, because I feel that that slight increase of quality over the hundreds of gameplay hours I will use it for is worth the £15 I spent. would I buy a skin that cost more than £300? fuck no. no matter how much I use the skin or how great it is, it will never be worth that much money. but the skin is still worth something, just not as much as the price tag would require. another example I could use as to how skins do have value is that they are similar to game remasters, most people would rather have a remastered halo than not, and a lot of people will buy them, this is essentially a couple of percentage points of a remaster. if you use it long enough it might be worth buying.
"Only for oil..." got me there.
Faker is famous for never using any skins in game. Let's celebrate the GOAT by selling $500 skin.
He better say when he gets his 1337 McDonald’s receipt
Didn’t want to go there but Jesus Christ man… receipt*
@@Peek-A-Boom1 iv never spelt it before
@@BraveFrontierRemebererwell here’s hoping you REMEMBER for next time😂
Some people don't deserve access to money
I don't mind spending 20-30 a year on skins for League, it's a free to play game and I think more games should have this format. It really is annoying buying a game and Then being at a disadvantage to someone who spent more on something like a battle pass.
Hopefully riot never goes the pay2win way.
7:44 - I played CoDM with a friend. I was always shooting at people with shiny skins first. Never equipping any skin was a statement.
“I went to McDonald’s today, drinks out of a Wendy’s cup off the table”
thats a mcdonalds cup my guy. Has the McD's order ahead thing right on the side
Anyone play City of Heroes back in the day?
Almost completely free, fully customizable visual abilities, and you'll never see two people who look the same.
So a simple ability like "blast", could have 20 different visuals. It could be a rifle shot, a bow, a fireball, an iron man blast, a lightning arc, or pretty much anything the developers could imagine.
Man, I miss city of heroes.
I play on homecoming
Imagine releasing something that requires you to buy the most expensive option of in game currency 6 times in a row? What the fuck
or play the game without that skin?
is that possible or must buy?
@@Antyss08 so if it does not concern you, it'll become agreeable ?
@@nguyentri6651 if you buy a league plush toy that and I dont, whats the difference between us in game?
I dont care if skins are $1000 or plush toys are $5000.
you wont play better or get better games than me.
@@Antyss08 Waste dev time on stupid overpriced things that do nothing?
@@Antyss08 you somehow completely missed my point. You used to be able to buy everything within the highest pricing option. You always get bonus RP when bulk buying. If they plan on releasing items that expensive it would be more consumer friendly to offer bigger packages for purchase like 250$ or 500$ which would come with an additional bulk bonus. But instead you're forced to buy rp 5-6 times in a row for 100. Also spending this amount might be troublesome for your bank e.g. duplicate charges and fraud protection
Remember this when yall are hyped for the Riot MMO.
While the skin straight up is coming at a huge price tag, these skins have always come with a battle pass which gives you access to orbs that increase the rate of the drops for the featured skin itself... While it's a tiny chance, there is still a chance to get it for free if you actually play the game and just rolling orbs. I've gotten the Dark Cosmic Jhin "$500 chroma" off the first orb I opened from the event. Most events focus specifically on the drop rates of the featured skins >.>
Funny thing is, they gave away an ultimate skin before called "Annie-versary" for Annie on their anniversary. FOR FREE. Every active player in that event got her skin. I cant see why they couldnt do it again especially since Faker still has the much anticipated worlds 2023 championship skin. They couldve celebrated the best dude to touch their game and still make bank, all the while not antagonizing and ripping off their playerbase.
Dude… they aren’t going to give away a premium skin like that for free… at the end of the day they are a company. They gave her new animations and transformations and everything… this honestly is probably their most impressive skin yet… and I would hate to see every single player in game with this skin auto selected… I think whoever wants to dump their income into it should then go for it. But this thing is super flashy… way flashier then any other skin and I wouldn’t want to see it every single game.
@@weeb1854 FOR $500?! Sure, don't make it free. But don't make it $500. It's just a skin, it's not worth that much.
@@weeb1854it's pretty fucking mid for the price, is not even ultimate quality man.
It's really not worth the amount of money, there's no effort behind it whatsoever...
Wait… how does paying for the development of a costly skin just to give it away for free allow Riot to “still make bank” from it?
Also, you seem to not understand that Riot is targeting two totally different customer groups with these skins. Some players want things as cheap as possible and don’t care if everybody else has the skin. While others don’t really care how much it costs as long as it’s rare/limited and looks cool. Obviously there is a whole spectrum of the playerbase that lives somewhere between those two extremes. There is no way to please everyone with one skin release. This is why Riot releases skins with varying costs and rarities. This particular skin just happens to targets those who prefer the most expensive/rare skins in the game.
People who drop a lot of money on skins are the ones that make it possible for those with less money to play the game for free. If the skin is not worth $500 to you just sit back, laugh, and be grateful there are people out there who are willing to bankroll the game in exchange for digital clothes so you can play it for free.
just want to point out that Annie-versary is NOT an ultimate skin, its a 1350rp one, but the point still stands
If there's a choice between the 500 dollar ahri skin or the 300 dollar lego legend of zelda deku tree, i'm getting the tree
You even have 200 leftover to buy a couple deku nuts.
@@lordgrey5223 Lmao
Well, Lego is a even worse scam tbh.
@@Tudas No because you can sell it at a higher price once that model is no longer in production.
@@okami7847 And that makes it less scammy? Lego is such an disgusting company, thank god they lost the rights on the stone itself.
Why is every gaming company now releasing very expensive things to buy?
i would do the same if i were them,, they found a money glitch and are exploiting it
skins are not trash, especially if they are not overpriced, and for something you are playing for free as is League, (amazing game btw, even though i stopped earlier this year) , it's a great way to support the company that is providing you with countless hours of entertainment.
People saying in the comments for that amount Ahri should manifest IRL next to them.
The joke here is:
LoL players can only get a girlfriend if they warp reality through money they don't have, then think Ahri would stay. Ima be honest, if anyone manifested next to a man in a basement with Cheeto finger keyboards and 12 soda cans on their desk and a body pillow in the corner standing upright, they sure as hell ain't sticking around.
Soon the skin prices will be more than the worlds winner money 😂
"I feel like that cat, that's op man that's crazy"
Thank God I'm not crazy for thinking that the idea of EVERYTHING being brokenly unplayably good is bad. That character was op like 10 yrs ago btw.
Some truly great games have been made on the premise that if everything is OP, nothing is. I've never played it however, I suspect LoL isn't one of them.
@memitim171 yeah there are some goods games that actually are even balanced around this. The problem is league picks favorites based on the devs preferences and then actively shit on everyone else. Every patch, and it's been checked before, if you check the devs play history they hard spam pick the current meta they set up then dump it next week. They also actively hate the idea of tanks and treat them like literal dumpsters to the point of nerfing their "durability patch" that was supposed to curb the power creep. It lasted literally less than 2 weeks. Sorry for the info dump I just love this game and everyone is huffing copium so hard in the Fandom they might as well be on the fent
@@voidax99 Sounds very similar to Games Workshop's strat, sell the new shiny (though I suppose in Lol's case they are just hoping you buy the skins), nerf the bejesus out of it, release new shiny, rinse and repeat.
god, even in an epic, specifically edited and recorded trailer, the game looks so terrible compared to dota xD
not to mention skin prices and the fact u can re-sell them, since it's steam, all champs/heroes being free2play and so many more points that make dota more attractive xD
That last idea about catching bugs and spiders for the stream to show is great, I hope people remind him or tell atleast whether that would be cool
i about to join that therapy you were saying and the 500 dollars skin show up
Man. Skin looks like a mobile game ad
It's a 2009 game and I'm not sure they've had any major graphics updates. It's actually insane so many people still play it.
@@pdpgb because it's the biggest competetive e-sport game, you can say the same about warcraft 3, dota, AoE, starcraft,...
@@kaito462 Do people still play Warcraft 3?
This is nothing different than gamergirl's bathwater but now you can flex it ingame
They forgot 1 important thing faker never play with skins 😎
he did a few times and will do it again with his own skin I guess
When a in-game skin costs almost my entire bi-weekly paycheck
Immortalised WHALE Collection***
the league community will absolutely be so petty as to auto ban ahri, so only way to play with a 500$ skin will be with bots and custom games. kek
It's nice to see, maybe Riot will at least reduce the price to something realistic. Or maybe they won't.
Communities need to stand up for themselves more.
I might have actually bought the pass/skins if it wasn't a months worth of money for people. The quality is actually good for once. Nice to know how much actual quality costs.
They definitely have a target demo with this one
And every other people who cannot afford this hated the idea. Lol. They are so blinded about the price that they forget this is cosmetics only. Whether you buy it or not, it doesn't matter. It's like buying a $500 underwear and yet you are single and doesn't engage in s*x. Does it really matter? Why get mad at them if that's what they want?
@@konaqua122if people normalize buying 500 bucks underwear why would anyone else sell cheap 5 bucks underwear?
@@konaqua122as someone who used to had EVERY skin in game until 2018. I was wrong and many people like I was it's still wrong. These cosmetics make the experience OBJETIVELY talking worst. Never touching LOL again and feel glad and proud about my decision.
@@konaqua122It matters becuase if it sells well there's no point in improving the game of making content. Why would they ever bother balancing the game or putting effort into new game modes if they can quintuple their profits by just remodeling characters and charging 10 times what a whole ass video game costs? You can blame the people selling the crack as well as the buyers, fyi.
@@HikariVictor i mean ...you probably already paid them tons of cash anyway
It would literally be better for League of legends to sell STANLEY CUPS with champion emotes on them, or ranks, than this lmao.
500 dollars is more than my monthly grocery cost. Im happy for ppl who is rich enough to afford this skin.
DRAGON BALL: Sparking! ZERO
Read that in Goku’s voice
People need to realize that if they buy skins in video games they actually buy nothing. Owner of the game is the only owner of the skin. You have no right to use textures, models, animations and sounds that are connected to skin. You don't even own your account. It's leased to you in restricted terms. If the company decide to shut down the servers one day after you buy expensive skin, then they will. And you will receive nothing to compensate. CSGO was different in this case, but still virtually restricted to one platform only.
let me guess, you are proud NFT owner
@@noteda6361 Excuse me, did you just compared something that has no real value to something that has imaginary value?
And you are investing your valuable time on a leased account 😂😂. You probably have wasted more than $500 for wasting your time on video games, YT, getting mad over meaningless subjects etc 😂😂😂. You are OK with that but can't stand ppl wasting their money? Your mom will probably think spending 500 dollars on a video game and you spending hours and years on video game is equally stupid. So funny these people think they are legit obliged to criticize someone for wasting money when they are literally wasting time which equates to money 😂😂😂😂
“Ahiri” skins. I can’t 😂. Someone tell him how to say Ahri
He doesnt play lol...
I mean if this makes the mmo 100% free im all for it.
500$ is just too much...
10:24 Exactly is a "free" game of course they need to sell something to keep the "free" thing. Ex: you wanna play Val or Lol and suddenly some ads come out?
Sometimes I like this kind of "free" game cause I can choose to really spent money on it or just enjoy the gameplay of this game
the camera is so far above your character.... why would u pay for a skin in this game XD
cause spells look cooler
Because you can still see it?XD
Because humans XD
Some people play this game 10 hours a day. For them it might be worth it.
because of new skill effects, new interactions, new animations, new recall, cool spash art to put on profile aswell
I don't see the controversy. Who loses when someone buys a $500 game pass?
If I was u he he hehe he boy I was buying this mf skin with no waiting
English hard
and i was upset with the bullshit valve did with the 2022 battlepass, but riot fucks up even more xD
while as dota's current event and latest patch was just pure insanity, even on a fully free2play level, already got skins worth ~80 bucks by now and it's almost 3more months with new stuff releasing :D
Real. Arcanas look better than this shit tbh LOL
the Mcdonald paradox is either you get a good coke and shitty fries or the coke taste bad and the fries are prefect, you can never have both....
I will get this, 500 is nothing
The profit is given 70/30 to Faker’s whole team, in the favor of Riot obviously. So Faker as an individual is probably getting a little bit more than dirt compared to Riot. And the people get worthless items whose worthlessness is covered up by buzzwords
The SKIN is NOT 500$, the bundle is, which has 2 skins and a bunch of other things. You can still pay like 25 dollars for the skin or get lucky and get it for free in a chest, this drama is so dumb.
edtt: no one is going to follow that ''bad Ahri in protest of the pricy bundle'' for more than a week.
Skins drama is always dumb, but you are wrong on everything else, 20 something bucks is a most basic form of the skin, other 2 are not sold outside of bundles and neither of 3 will ever be in chests
I think the funniest thing about it is knowing there is a subset of league players who are like late 20s early 30s busters who have always been in gold/plat with egirls they buy shit for cringing at this and knowing they'll have it for themself AND the egirl.
I was thinking of getting back into League since I got a new gaming computer, but this has put me off.
well, the skin is pretty and everything. but my rent costs almost as much as it does.