I guess we'll have one of those every month from now on! 😹 Leave a like and watch until the end or you'll need to donate $250 to me! (also 2 hidden Day Job Azir codes in this video)
Everytime I see a complain about a high price skin is a running gag who start to be not fun anymore. The main question I have is : why it bother you? If you don't want it don't buy it. Skins are just skin, if you want to keep your mind into the thing, people who buy this are stupid pigeon or whale, OK keep it. Personally I will buy the skin of Jinx 250 euros, why ? Because I love it, I can do it, and I know I will probably play the game until his last breath. If riot games can made good things after LoL I will not be disgusted to help them, to make for exemple the nice series arcane, the games they create recently, and I still don't know about the MMO, maybe it will be shit, or maybe I will be nicely surprise and enjoy it. Hope you guys just past away this hate for nothing. You're not a white knight that people needs to made a random justice...
@Roi_Darkin its a problem for skin collectors and people who love their mains. You know it's overpriced, yet you just accept it??? The jinx skin looks like a vgu, and has 3 ugly forms that don't change anything special. You should know the value of certain things and not just blindly buy something overpriced. Riots marketing team and managing team practices are predatory, and just lead you to a slow gambling addiction.
@@zero490real that's a point of taste, I'm a collector and I spend already more than 3k euros in 12 years of game in league of Legend, if the money was a problem for me, I swear you, I would not buy anything and hoping with the chest. I'm almost close to have everything... Except the PAX skins original and also every championship because it's not interesting... And since they made the chest system free I buy nothing, except when I cannot obtain. And no I will not purchase any exalted only what I wish.
Not even that. There arent any ultimates in the game as bad as this ones MF skin was bumped down from Ultimate price because it wasnt good enough, and that one has even more forms than these scam skins
@pwpqwq7648 ah yes let's support riot and not criticize them so that they can continue to expand their predatory money making methods . It isn't the same riot that was mainly doing 975 skins with some really cool 1800 rp skins
Riot February 2025: "We heard you about how Lux should be an exalted skin. Next month everyone who owns Lux Elemental will receive a 50rp refund and the skin will be removed from your account. You are guaranteed to hit it after 500 pulls."
Game doesn’t force u to pay for this garbage to play competitively, it’s just cosmetic lol. Yeah it’s predatory and would much rather go without it but at the end of the day it’s just a skin and I can simply choose to not care because it does not affect anyone’s gameplay, unlike the current standard of most other games where the only way to get ahead is to spend.
Not even that, all other ultimates are better. They all have something special about them, if you put the Jinx and this Sett skin together you still has less forms then Elementalist Lux
@@basedleafeon3221 Just because the skin was criticized doesn't change the fact that not every ultimate is better. We could also argue that Pulsefire Ez is not that good compared to the others since you can't really swap forms at will either.
The worst part about the jinx skin is the fact that in wild rift they have basically the same skin ( without the forms but hey doesn’t change so much xd ) but wayyyy cheaper, like 10 $ . And if u ask, yes the effects are basically the same
That is incredible. And I mean it not in a good way. This is just so dystopian so outlandish. It's like watching a Cartoon Villain actually get through with his plan. I'm admiring their greed, their lack of empathy. Are these people even Humans
@@ViviienneG i don't care about any of this skins, i want my rerolling system to gamble for FREE. If i decide to sell my soul to soloque for a month, i want something more than Samira recolor. Even if i wont pay riot in money, I'm paying them with my time and this bs is just disrespectful towards playerbase
I understand the game is F2P and it's totally optional to pay for any of this, but that's what makes these moves so scummy. Instead of earning more money by having a bigger influx of people buying a cheaper skin, they do this shit I swear for clout. I hope it's worth it, smh....
Its even funnier because its quite literally false advertisement. Riot promoted the exalted tier as "what happens when we let our team cook" and that its supposed to be even greater then Ultimates And the two of the ones so far are worse then the Samira/MF skins that were bumped down Ultimate prices because they weren't good enough. It has less stuff then ANY Ultimates in the game, and we are probably not going to get any more Ultimate skins from now on because they can just make these scam skins
But that's simply not true, the majority of sales come from whales and they only do this because they've been able to confirm that doing this does make them by far much more money, the whole "bigger influx of people buying a cheaper skin" is just false.
League of legends worked just fine before they became this money hungry . Elementalist lux was a perfectly fine skin with a higher price but it was still reasonable. I stopped playing league of legends this year not only because these awful cashgrab skins. But every time I see one of these I honestly feel like I made the correct decision@@gammie8191
wasnt RIOT complaining about how hard it was to create skin with multiple forms a few years back! now all of a sudden that problem is nowhere to be found cuz they can now charge people more money!?
@@diegostecca7319 true! but their original exxcuse wasnt money, it was that making such skin required so much coding that it was too harsh on the game lol.
Modern companies act like EVERYTHING they do is hard I bet it was hard laying off all their workers they felt they didnt need anymore too to save money despite being so profitable a company.
do you think riot would make an update for a champion that cannot make quadrillion of dollars with just one of his skins? naaah they would better make another skinny male mage or cute half-animal fan service girl OR 500 usd tripple unique gacha Lux skin
i can honestly see a future where riot reworks lux, do no mention on how her ultimate skin will look, and upon release just set it to exalted tier and anyone who didn't have that skin before rework be in need to pay 250$ xD!
No even better. They dont rework the already available skin and instead make the reworked version Three different Ultimate Skins with a 1/3 Chance at the 250$ Pity Pull Mark making it cost 750$ in total.
The right move would be changing it to exalted with a little visual update but warning everyone about it on patch ahead. This way they would sell 20×more than usual from the people trying to get it before the price goes up and make a bunch of money out of it
Yeah like in the US or western people mad so hard like never seeing this shit before, bro even mobile moba with shitty mechanic and literally copy both dota and LoL can produce so much money with this kind of practice, yes this practice is pure dogshit and of course anti consumer af but somehow people still buy it and of course help the corpo so much with lil effort
Tencent is not some chinese company. Tencent is the main reason why most of the games die. Glad i left this crap yesterday. Regretted every year i was in.
Arcane is made out of money, Worlds event is made out of money, TFT, Project K, Valorant, LoR, Lol cinematic, music video is made out of money. It’s a capitalism world we’re living in, as simple as that.
idk if we will see any cool legendary skins anymore. With Riot pumping out an exalted every month, they will probably just have to push any legendaries into the tier to meet a deadline :/
I mean, they did say that roughly 10% of skins are going to be "luxury goods" which probably means that we'll get one each month or even more frequently.
Yeah, by also lowering the quality of all skins, it's not a reasonable thing at all it just plain simple scummy we can all have access to it like we have always before, but riot wants gachas and for players to pay more than $200 for a skin that used to be an ultimate or legendary
CUZ RIOT IS FUCKING LIERS (a lot of work for skins like this bluh bluh bluh). They can do a good skin just for 1 month but now they have reasons for scum stupid players. If this will be every month... so they just wanna more money and no VGU for this (it's like work for free).
You wanna know the crazy part about all of this? Is that since its all virtual, you technically don't own it, so if you spend 500 for Ahri skin, 250 for jinx and 250 for sett and you get perma banned, or the game just slowly dies or something like that...all that money wasted...GONE forever, most likely.
Wrong way to look at it. The moment you buy a skin (or rp) that money is waisted. Not then the game dies, but the moment your money is spent. Buy whatever you want with your money, but keep this in mind.
@@MegaMuff2000 It's not the same. Paying for a service - you get a service. Paying for pixel - you only get visuals. Paying for a desert you get tk eat a tasty treat. Paying for a massage (there are healing massages, relaxing massages...) you get something from it. Paying for cosmertics in a game you get nothink. Because what you payed for does not exist. Bad examples, it is not the same
the game WILL die one day, people dont realize that. one day the game will be gone, i dont mind supporting and getting skins, but honestly, all things end somehow.
Literally no one would be complaining about this if it were "ultimate skins every month". 30$ skins on a regular basis? Like I'm okay with that. But wow... with the quality of legendary skins dropping to 'just paid ASUs' and ultimate skins dropping to what legendaries were? Honestly I'mma start dropping this game. And I'M a whale. I'M their target audience!
sad the jinx skin worth maximum of 3k rp and not 250$ from now we got monthly 250 dollar skin huge ne rf for f2p loot Obviously this is the price of the 250m dollar arcane series
yeah for sure XDDDD they do a lot skins in a year and about 6 years later they were doing soooo many cool stuff but now game is dying but with some nice 250 $ skins
that fact that corpo managed to make 25 dollars skin a norm already proved that they are winning, soon it will be 2000 dollar skin a norm and people would still buy it.
@@Trevan2412 Then obviously since they make millions of dollars from these scams they would at least be nice enough to spend it on VGUs? Whats that? They just do mass layoffs instead? Okay.
@@chomosuke0720 being nice doesn't bring them money, people just need to wake the fuck up and massively start boycotting this bullshit, as long as it makes money, it's gonna keep existing and get worse, they are eventually gonna milk everyone dry to make as much money as possible, they have a massive R&D team for that anyways, so i think people are gonna keep falling for it, and it's gonna keep getting worse, enjoy "capitalism ?" or whatever this is called...
@@chomosuke0720 I mean they are still doing VGU. It's not like they stopped doing it entirely. Plus, people don't care about VGU as much as you'd think.
I think this is just them getting rid of Legendary tier skins. They realized that if they're putting in the work of a Legendary, they may as well lock it behind gacha mechanics that way they can make up to $250 per person that wants it, instead of $20 per person. I fully predict we will not see any more Legendary skins from this point on.
its way more than 500 ppl buying this sort of skins/chromas they wouldn't be doing it if it wasn't making them a good amount of money, they are not that stupid
Riot 100% regrets releasing elementalist lux by this point. Its pretty much to go to comparison and baseline for an ultimate. Such a shame riot said last year the only plan on releasing one premium priced skin a year. Yet we have had back to back, to back legendries, back to back Katerina skins. And now a $250 skin every single month, thank you riot I cant wait for literally nobody to pull for them.
1 exalted skin per month btw = 12 per year(4 per season), this is more than we have ultimate skins for all time. Exalted skins must be cheaper and better than ultimate ones
I really don't see a lot of people falling for this. And with all the nerfs to f2p, this has me concerned. Maybe they'll make an extra buck, maybe their profits will stay the same, but less people will get the skins/paid pass and the overall game experience will be worse for 90% of players. Such a dumb move...
Ok so, I have a theory of how they will end up making amends with the players over the $250 skins (they may not care, but who knows): With them releasing a new exalted every month via gacha, they may make the chance to pull the skin continue from banner to banner so you may eventually pull one exalted skin (by the time you burn 250 dollars in total).
@@leoexcalibur I don't disagree with this, but it's actually good for them too because it encourages players to participate. I personally was not interested at all until Remus mentioned that next month would be a new one. That's pretty often to solely have a static rate and no pity buildup.
SURELY if it's a monthly thing you have to be able to build pity. It's still gambling tho, not even Gacha, just gambling. The drop rates are truly horrendous. But at least then you could save up all the ancient sparks you got for buying and completing every battle pass for an entire year just to guarantee a single legendary skin.
WE ARE GETTING ONE OF THESE EVERY MONTH ? hell nah i will accept this scam method only if they do 2 things 1. exalted skins come back in cicle so you can gamble again 2. there is a pity sistem that keeps between banner like gacha games (genshin star rail wuthering waves ecc ecc)
i think the idea of having a more rarer-expensive skins every 1-2 months is nice. But the price should be lowered. 100-150 would be much better, and a lot of more people would buy them
I'm sure sales are higher when they're a price everyone can afford. If it's $30, whilst it wouldn't happen, it has the potential to be bought by every single player, at $250 a much smaller number of player base are ever going to buy it, maybe it balances out but it's not a smart sales tactic imo.
Lol, it's straight up an awful legendary skin, barely slightly above epic quality with bad chromas. And of course the very first prestige skin with no normal variant. Literally just an excuse to charge more for a skin that's epic quality.
Opinion: I am fine with the new gacha system - as long as current exalted rolls count towards the next skin. The rewards from drops can be huge. Never got the jinx skin but got over 150 mythic essence from 7 rolls!
Ouch, so goodbye to Ultimate skins! And Riot trying so hard to normalize the gacha system and the 250$ price tag for a skin thats not even THAT good is so scummy.
Ultimate skins and high end legendaries are already expensive but at least they are very cool. Many of these new skins cost 10 legendary skins and look like a epic/legendary skin
As someone who does actually main Sett I am not even sure I like this Skin. One of the best things about Sett imo is that his auto attack animation feels insanely good. A big reason for why I prefer the Prestige Skin and the Pool Party skin over the legendary is because the palm strike of the legendary feels a lot worse imo. And I have a feeling that this auto attack also feels a lot worse. This part is gonna be a bit of a nitpick for the people really invested in Sett but making his Exalted Skin during the Noxus season and not giving us a single version without sleeves is pretty wild and I feel like a bit disrespectful to care so little about the character. I mean Sett hates Noxians and literally says "Nothing I hate more than people with sleeves" I really don't think it's too much expectation to cater a little bit to the character I love when you expect me to pay up 250$.
sett being one of my mains that i adore with my whole heart. having my skin collection ruined by this. i feel more than just upset with the approach theyre taking nowadays at riot games. they release arcane, see new players, and probably thought this was a way of grabbing cash fast after having laid off more than half the company (thats definitely what it feels like!) ill probably spend like 10 euros at best to see what it would even achieve me but i sincerely wish riot just pushed these exalted skins into the ultimate skin category and made profit off of that instead
It used to be that you had to grind for something you wanted. I remember when Prestige Firecracker Vayne was released I played for days and nights to get enough tokens since there wasn't a battle pass system back then. You would get 6 tokens for a win and 3 tokens for a loss in summoners rift, aram and rgms were +4 and +2. You needed 1000 tokens to unlock the prestige skin so in order to unlock the skin you'd needed to play +200 summoners rift games with %50 win rate during the event period since a summoners rift game gives +4.5 tokens on average. Aram and RGMs averaged an even worse +3.5 which meant you had to play +300 arams and let's say the event lasted a month. That meant you had to play +10 games consistently everyday without spending any tokens to unlock the prestige skin. Nowadays you just buy the pass, complete a few missions and you are at level 40. You play a bit more and you are reach pass level 50 so you have enough for the prestige skin. The prestige skins don't even have special animations their main purpose is a unique splash art that is gold heavy to show off. Most prestige skins just straight up suck in game.
They ain't able to do a decent ultimate anymore or legendarys with change form bc it would crash the game, but somehow the game is capable of take the 250$ skins that have the same stuff we been asking for years... What a miracle.
I've always rooted for Riot for relatively reasonable practices when it came to transactions and skins. This year changed everything and sadly people enabled them by buying stuff like Faker Ahri skin...
Now imagine, you’ve been playing the league since season 1, buying skins and then Arkeny comes out. You are a happy fan, you received a cool show (for which, by the way, you paid with a subscription to Netflix), then you received canonical skins in the form of a gift (not expensive, but priceless for many, and I would have bought them if they were on sale then, because these are skins for 975). Then you wait 2 years to watch season 2. It comes out, you're glad, the series ends. As a Jinx fan, you are incredibly glad that your character survived. Then R games says that there will be skins in honor of the series. And then, like a thunderstorm out of a clear sky, a HUGE SLAPP arrives in your face. You are told that you are not a "real fan". Because ONLY for real fans they will release a Jinx skin for $250. You are in shock and then you get another HUGE SLAP, because a beautiful Jinx skin is being released for the mobile League in the BATTLE pass with the canonical appearance in the hood.... Thank you for reflecting on “not real fans” because if you don’t have money, then you are NOBODY
I think this is absolutely fantastic! Eventually gambling mechanics in gaming will become so prevalent, a big government will step in and crush it and they will lose their most lucrative income streams forever. I don't see them getting away with it forever
I blame the current streamers and player base that it even came to this. I've played league for 7 years straight from season 4-11 and the only lootbox available at the time was the mystery box for $1 for 1 skin. Now when I got back hex chests only gives you 1/10 of an item? More gacha that I've ever seen in this game, prestige skins that costs you over $100+? I was happy with my $20 udyr at the time and I was already breaking bank and I own 134 skins.
I used to happily buy skins in s5-s6 to reward a job-well-done and contribute to a free game that was fun. Now I feel like the company tries to manipulate me into paying and, despite not having fell for the trap yet, every time a new FOMO generator like this comes up it disheartens me a little bit more with the game. TL,DR: I miss the days when I eagerly wanted to spend money as a "rewarded donation", rather than pay a tax to not miss out on whale candy
He is popular, there is no chance that Cassiopeia will get such a skin. I am ready to predict that the following champions will receive such skins: Ari, Ezreal, Yasuo, Yone, Miss Fortune...
I can imagine all the ultimate skins getting Exhaulted versions, with EleLux getting like 3 of them to compensate for forms Actually, might delete the skin entirely, with compensation being either one of the versions, or just give some pulls to roll, you don't own any content in the game anyway
Idk why no one addresses this maybe it’s just me. But I think Color changes through skins within a game is super problematic. I already have to get used to the skins in a game to recognise the skillshots to dodge them. If they change colors I would hate that.
With average 25 million active players across all regions every month, even if only 1% of active population (250 000) bough the skin that would still make 62.5 million $ in sales. Even if the making of this skin would cost 100k (trust, its not even close to this), 60 million + profit its insane realy. Now imagine if 5-10% population buys this skin...
I feel like these skins are going to suffer the hextec problem. In which people just ignore them bc its a pain to get to rather than something that exites you to get.
I guess we'll have one of those every month from now on! 😹
Leave a like and watch until the end or you'll need to donate $250 to me! (also 2 hidden Day Job Azir codes in this video)
As Viktor player still no prestige skin or some 250 or 500 bullshit skin for my Boi Viktor 😭😭😭
Everytime I see a complain about a high price skin is a running gag who start to be not fun anymore. The main question I have is : why it bother you? If you don't want it don't buy it. Skins are just skin, if you want to keep your mind into the thing, people who buy this are stupid pigeon or whale, OK keep it. Personally I will buy the skin of Jinx 250 euros, why ? Because I love it, I can do it, and I know I will probably play the game until his last breath. If riot games can made good things after LoL I will not be disgusted to help them, to make for exemple the nice series arcane, the games they create recently, and I still don't know about the MMO, maybe it will be shit, or maybe I will be nicely surprise and enjoy it.
Hope you guys just past away this hate for nothing. You're not a white knight that people needs to made a random justice...
@Roi_Darkin its a problem for skin collectors and people who love their mains. You know it's overpriced, yet you just accept it??? The jinx skin looks like a vgu, and has 3 ugly forms that don't change anything special. You should know the value of certain things and not just blindly buy something overpriced. Riots marketing team and managing team practices are predatory, and just lead you to a slow gambling addiction.
Yeah Rito said in one dev blog that 10% of skins will be exalted. So pretty much one every month
@@zero490real that's a point of taste, I'm a collector and I spend already more than 3k euros in 12 years of game in league of Legend, if the money was a problem for me, I swear you, I would not buy anything and hoping with the chest. I'm almost close to have everything... Except the PAX skins original and also every championship because it's not interesting... And since they made the chest system free I buy nothing, except when I cannot obtain.
And no I will not purchase any exalted only what I wish.
So today's legendary are just old epic skins, today's ultimate are old legendary ones and the new exalted are a cheap old ultimate+variants
Not even that. There arent any ultimates in the game as bad as this ones
MF skin was bumped down from Ultimate price because it wasnt good enough, and that one has even more forms than these scam skins
Aaand pass skins without recall will be new epic skins!!
True. Except the word "cheap" might be a bit misleading here, if you catch my meaning.
Even less of a tier id say for each skin
past standard skins (975-) are now chroma yea
As time passes Riot proves they are getting scammier each day
You still don't have to buy anything in a free to play game
@pwpqwq7648so? That still doesn't detract from the scam
@pwpqwq7648no way u have a brain too
@pwpqwq7648 bystander effect type thinking
@pwpqwq7648 ah yes let's support riot and not criticize them so that they can continue to expand their predatory money making methods . It isn't the same riot that was mainly doing 975 skins with some really cool 1800 rp skins
As a Zilean Main i think i am safe ... for now
You are safe for the rest of your life ngl
he doesn't even have a legendary LMFAO relax bro
Nah bro, you need to watch out you don't get the Aurelion Sol treatment.
so lucky that's not my main
This made me laugh probably more than it should have
Riot February 2025:
"We heard you about how Lux should be an exalted skin. Next month everyone who owns Lux Elemental will receive a 50rp refund and the skin will be removed from your account. You are guaranteed to hit it after 500 pulls."
PLEASE DON'T GIVE THEM IDEAS
Also Riot : Approved!!!
LOL RIOT TRY TO TAKE MY SKIN I WIL MAKE U PAYYY THAT SKIN FROM 2018 I HAVE IT
At this point, Riot deserves to go bankrupt.
I wholeheartedly agree. Rabid company
But they won't. It will be the people who absolutely have to get these skins that will go bankrupt 🤣
Game doesn’t force u to pay for this garbage to play competitively, it’s just cosmetic lol. Yeah it’s predatory and would much rather go without it but at the end of the day it’s just a skin and I can simply choose to not care because it does not affect anyone’s gameplay, unlike the current standard of most other games where the only way to get ahead is to spend.
No riot games is one of the better companies when it comes to the big ones
What about all the employees? You want them to not have a job because you're crying over a skin.
I swear to God if this is what happens to the cassiopeia prestige...
Nothing is sacred anymore
Starving Cass players just to pull this 👹
@craigbutler3282 fr bro last skin we got was a Halloween skin thats only available a few months outta the year 💀
she's not popular enough lol
Riot layoffing their workers is SHOWING
Genuinely why, why are they so scummy
you can tell at this point lol
Bro these are literally original ultimate skins with a couple different forms 😭
Not even that, all other ultimates are better. They all have something special about them, if you put the Jinx and this Sett skin together you still has less forms then Elementalist Lux
@@felipecouto1102 Soul Fighter Samira disagrees, no form at all for her ...
@@tikonar SF Samira was criticized at the time for being a garbage Ultimate Skin that was WORSE than Viego's Legendary skin.
So hers doesn't count.
too many employees in riot must find ways to get more income then
@@basedleafeon3221 Just because the skin was criticized doesn't change the fact that not every ultimate is better. We could also argue that Pulsefire Ez is not that good compared to the others since you can't really swap forms at will either.
The worst part about the jinx skin is the fact that in wild rift they have basically the same skin ( without the forms but hey doesn’t change so much xd ) but wayyyy cheaper, like 10 $ . And if u ask, yes the effects are basically the same
Its $7
That is incredible. And I mean it not in a good way. This is just so dystopian so outlandish. It's like watching a Cartoon Villain actually get through with his plan. I'm admiring their greed, their lack of empathy. Are these people even Humans
Classic Wild Rift W
Oh yeah i love when my gaming company takes all f2p rewards just to roll out 250$ legendary skin in the same patch 🥰
and they will say ,,but we give you some free stuff!" yes but what quality :(
@@ViviienneG i don't care about any of this skins, i want my rerolling system to gamble for FREE. If i decide to sell my soul to soloque for a month, i want something more than Samira recolor. Even if i wont pay riot in money, I'm paying them with my time and this bs is just disrespectful towards playerbase
Literally, what tf happened to league
@@mrcry666riot dont have money anymore after arcane season 2 so tencent starting to make league a gacha game
@@mrcry666 sold out to and owned by China.
I understand the game is F2P and it's totally optional to pay for any of this, but that's what makes these moves so scummy. Instead of earning more money by having a bigger influx of people buying a cheaper skin, they do this shit I swear for clout. I hope it's worth it, smh....
Its even funnier because its quite literally false advertisement. Riot promoted the exalted tier as "what happens when we let our team cook" and that its supposed to be even greater then Ultimates
And the two of the ones so far are worse then the Samira/MF skins that were bumped down Ultimate prices because they weren't good enough. It has less stuff then ANY Ultimates in the game, and we are probably not going to get any more Ultimate skins from now on because they can just make these scam skins
dota is F2P too but you can sell your skins and that is the point
It is just how these games work. Not the companies fault that they want to make money. Blame the whales
But that's simply not true, the majority of sales come from whales and they only do this because they've been able to confirm that doing this does make them by far much more money, the whole "bigger influx of people buying a cheaper skin" is just false.
League of legends worked just fine before they became this money hungry . Elementalist lux was a perfectly fine skin with a higher price but it was still reasonable. I stopped playing league of legends this year not only because these awful cashgrab skins. But every time I see one of these I honestly feel like I made the correct decision@@gammie8191
wasnt RIOT complaining about how hard it was to create skin with multiple forms a few years back! now all of a sudden that problem is nowhere to be found cuz they can now charge people more money!?
Probably because they can afford making them more if you pay 250 euros? But yeah, still shitty
@@diegostecca7319 true! but their original exxcuse wasnt money, it was that making such skin required so much coding that it was too harsh on the game lol.
Modern companies act like EVERYTHING they do is hard
I bet it was hard laying off all their workers they felt they didnt need anymore too to save money despite being so profitable a company.
For the love Aurelion Sol Riot, please give Zilean a visual update. The man has been a 7 polygon floating t-pose for 15 years.
do you think riot would make an update for a champion that cannot make quadrillion of dollars with just one of his skins? naaah they would better make another skinny male mage or cute half-animal fan service girl OR 500 usd tripple unique gacha Lux skin
nah man i swear if the pass skins don't even have recalls imma explode, how can you be so greedy
Riot is entering the beginning of the end
i can honestly see a future where riot reworks lux, do no mention on how her ultimate skin will look, and upon release just set it to exalted tier and anyone who didn't have that skin before rework be in need to pay 250$ xD!
No even better. They dont rework the already available skin and instead make the reworked version Three different Ultimate Skins with a 1/3 Chance at the 250$ Pity Pull Mark making it cost 750$ in total.
Its so sad
The right move would be changing it to exalted with a little visual update but warning everyone about it on patch ahead. This way they would sell 20×more than usual from the people trying to get it before the price goes up and make a bunch of money out of it
People who are complaining having no idea how much money people are willing to pay in Asia market. Remember, it belongs to a Chinese corporation now.
ah, that explains it
I was going to say the same thing lmao
Yeah like in the US or western people mad so hard like never seeing this shit before, bro even mobile moba with shitty mechanic and literally copy both dota and LoL can produce so much money with this kind of practice, yes this practice is pure dogshit and of course anti consumer af but somehow people still buy it and of course help the corpo so much with lil effort
Tencent is not some chinese company. Tencent is the main reason why most of the games die. Glad i left this crap yesterday. Regretted every year i was in.
Arcane is made out of money, Worlds event is made out of money, TFT, Project K, Valorant, LoR, Lol cinematic, music video is made out of money. It’s a capitalism world we’re living in, as simple as that.
idk if we will see any cool legendary skins anymore. With Riot pumping out an exalted every month, they will probably just have to push any legendaries into the tier to meet a deadline :/
I mean, they did say that roughly 10% of skins are going to be "luxury goods" which probably means that we'll get one each month or even more frequently.
1 in 10 skins, so about 2 per month
but that will cost quoality of epic and legendary skins so they just force us to buy this shits 250$ skins
thanks for sharing the news so happy about it !!! my money is ready !!!!!
Yeah, by also lowering the quality of all skins, it's not a reasonable thing at all it just plain simple scummy we can all have access to it like we have always before, but riot wants gachas and for players to pay more than $200 for a skin that used to be an ultimate or legendary
@@mrcry666 How is that lowering the quality of other skins?
Damn...i mean...for what reason? Jinx didn't have time to come out, and we already... u know. Where is my f2p chests?
CUZ RIOT IS FUCKING LIERS (a lot of work for skins like this bluh bluh bluh). They can do a good skin just for 1 month but now they have reasons for scum stupid players. If this will be every month... so they just wanna more money and no VGU for this (it's like work for free).
You wanna know the crazy part about all of this? Is that since its all virtual, you technically don't own it, so if you spend 500 for Ahri skin, 250 for jinx and 250 for sett and you get perma banned, or the game just slowly dies or something like that...all that money wasted...GONE forever, most likely.
THIS. This right here is why I'm making my own game instead of buying their crap.
Wrong way to look at it.
The moment you buy a skin (or rp) that money is waisted. Not then the game dies, but the moment your money is spent.
Buy whatever you want with your money, but keep this in mind.
??? You could apply that logic to any type of service like getting a massage or buying yourself a dessert at a restaurant. Nothing lasts forever
@@MegaMuff2000 It's not the same.
Paying for a service - you get a service.
Paying for pixel - you only get visuals.
Paying for a desert you get tk eat a tasty treat.
Paying for a massage (there are healing massages, relaxing massages...) you get something from it.
Paying for cosmertics in a game you get nothink. Because what you payed for does not exist.
Bad examples, it is not the same
the game WILL die one day, people dont realize that. one day the game will be gone, i dont mind supporting and getting skins, but honestly, all things end somehow.
Riots downfall is that they're too greedy
A friend gifted me a random skin when i started last week. I got DJ Sona. What do the 250€ skins have that my 30€ Sona skin doesnt? I dont get it.
the diference is that have idiots who spend their money in this 250$ skin and makes riot continue to create this shi*
bUt yOuR SoNa sKiN iSn'T UniqUe eVeRyOnE CaN oBtAiN iT(
slightly off topic, but you should stop playing immediately
Literally no one would be complaining about this if it were "ultimate skins every month".
30$ skins on a regular basis? Like I'm okay with that.
But wow... with the quality of legendary skins dropping to 'just paid ASUs' and ultimate skins dropping to what legendaries were?
Honestly I'mma start dropping this game.
And I'M a whale. I'M their target audience!
never been so happy in being a yorick main, riot will delete him before making a skin like that
Riot slowly turning into Garena like in the Philippines server and killing League of Legends
sad the jinx skin worth maximum of 3k rp and not 250$
from now we got monthly 250 dollar skin
huge ne rf for f2p loot
Obviously this is the price of the 250m dollar arcane series
yeah for sure XDDDD they do a lot skins in a year and about 6 years later they were doing soooo many cool stuff but now game is dying but with some nice 250 $ skins
you dont have to buy any of those skin did you know that ?
Riot: "So this character gonna get new 250$ skin this month."
Com: "So this champ gonna be ban for the next month."
That doesn't look 250 worthy, its really just 25 dollars looking...
that fact that corpo managed to make 25 dollars skin a norm already proved that they are winning, soon it will be 2000 dollar skin a norm and people would still buy it.
Better to spend time and money with Marvel Rivels
Agree
agree marvel rivals is perfect its a shame that i dont have a good pc for play that game
marvel rivals can permanently dmg your pc atm the game is badly optimized.
For me this is great now lol Kasper accused yesterday of being run on the same trojan file
"look forward to your main getting a 250$ skin in the future"
Me, a skarner main, knowing he's not getting another skin for the next 3 years
same i main brand so i'm fine lol
Riot is selling those because people are buying them. Can't blame them.
so? maybe VGU faster instead of this skins every month?
@@bit-sb5bv What? VGUs don't bring nearly as much money as this. People don't massively purchase VGU champ skins.
@@Trevan2412 Then obviously since they make millions of dollars from these scams they would at least be nice enough to spend it on VGUs? Whats that? They just do mass layoffs instead? Okay.
@@chomosuke0720 being nice doesn't bring them money, people just need to wake the fuck up and massively start boycotting this bullshit, as long as it makes money, it's gonna keep existing and get worse, they are eventually gonna milk everyone dry to make as much money as possible, they have a massive R&D team for that anyways, so i think people are gonna keep falling for it, and it's gonna keep getting worse, enjoy "capitalism ?" or whatever this is called...
@@chomosuke0720 I mean they are still doing VGU. It's not like they stopped doing it entirely. Plus, people don't care about VGU as much as you'd think.
Small company, im so proud of them
I think this is just them getting rid of Legendary tier skins. They realized that if they're putting in the work of a Legendary, they may as well lock it behind gacha mechanics that way they can make up to $250 per person that wants it, instead of $20 per person.
I fully predict we will not see any more Legendary skins from this point on.
We will never see any new skin not locked in Gacha mechanic soon
5M people buying a $20 skin would make them more money than 500 people buying a $250 though
its way more than 500 ppl buying this sort of skins/chromas they wouldn't be doing it if it wasn't making them a good amount of money, they are not that stupid
Riot following what they do worst. The valorant focused skin game is now on league
Yup riot has fallen. Nothing to add here. in the End everyone just gets greedy for money.
Riot 100% regrets releasing elementalist lux by this point. Its pretty much to go to comparison and baseline for an ultimate. Such a shame riot said last year the only plan on releasing one premium priced skin a year. Yet we have had back to back, to back legendries, back to back Katerina skins. And now a $250 skin every single month, thank you riot I cant wait for literally nobody to pull for them.
looks like i will no longer be owning all the skins of my boy Settrigh
Yep fuck my skin collection i guess
1 exalted skin per month btw = 12 per year(4 per season), this is more than we have ultimate skins for all time. Exalted skins must be cheaper and better than ultimate ones
I really don't see a lot of people falling for this. And with all the nerfs to f2p, this has me concerned. Maybe they'll make an extra buck, maybe their profits will stay the same, but less people will get the skins/paid pass and the overall game experience will be worse for 90% of players. Such a dumb move...
Well League of Legends developer Riot Games is now owned 100% by Chinese firm Tencent that’s why they love making these greedy act.
They have been owned by Tencent since 2015, lol.
Repeat with me guys, it's for the ionia netflix series
Riot: Cuts its ties from Garena for having predatory anticonsumer practices.
Also Riot:
Asian made leauge a gacha game now. Wtf china. Also china took away the Valentines love skins and flower themed skins. Wtf Asia?
with no sound i thought thiis was lee sin until the abilities popped up
It's fine. They get money out of it which they can spend on the game. Right?
Right guys??? They’ll improve the game right???
No, so they can fund their ai generative tech, and later eventually layoff all artists and have everything automated.
Nope.
They make more money from tft and valorant than they do league
That's a 3/4 r/woooosh
Thank the gods I got elementalist lux, DJ sona, and gun goddess MF from chests. I’d have to pay 2 kidneys for them if they were released today.
riot games new skin line in anutshell:
poorly recolored base skins with minimal vfx changes. btw no new recall for 3 of the new 5 skins.
At this point, we should... Riot.
Ok so, I have a theory of how they will end up making amends with the players over the $250 skins (they may not care, but who knows): With them releasing a new exalted every month via gacha, they may make the chance to pull the skin continue from banner to banner so you may eventually pull one exalted skin (by the time you burn 250 dollars in total).
You mean they will have a pity? I don't think so, we are talking about riot.
Possibly. It's a gacha mechanic after all.
@@leoexcalibur Why not? Riot listened to players before. Why wouldn't they do it again?
@@leoexcalibur I don't disagree with this, but it's actually good for them too because it encourages players to participate. I personally was not interested at all until Remus mentioned that next month would be a new one. That's pretty often to solely have a static rate and no pity buildup.
SURELY if it's a monthly thing you have to be able to build pity. It's still gambling tho, not even Gacha, just gambling. The drop rates are truly horrendous. But at least then you could save up all the ancient sparks you got for buying and completing every battle pass for an entire year just to guarantee a single legendary skin.
WE ARE GETTING ONE OF THESE EVERY MONTH ? hell nah i will accept this scam method only if they do 2 things
1. exalted skins come back in cicle so you can gamble again
2. there is a pity sistem that keeps between banner like gacha games (genshin star rail wuthering waves ecc ecc)
i think the idea of having a more rarer-expensive skins every 1-2 months is nice. But the price should be lowered. 100-150 would be much better, and a lot of more people would buy them
I'm sure sales are higher when they're a price everyone can afford. If it's $30, whilst it wouldn't happen, it has the potential to be bought by every single player, at $250 a much smaller number of player base are ever going to buy it, maybe it balances out but it's not a smart sales tactic imo.
Lol, it's straight up an awful legendary skin, barely slightly above epic quality with bad chromas. And of course the very first prestige skin with no normal variant. Literally just an excuse to charge more for a skin that's epic quality.
Opinion: I am fine with the new gacha system - as long as current exalted rolls count towards the next skin. The rewards from drops can be huge. Never got the jinx skin but got over 150 mythic essence from 7 rolls!
It's not surprising. They will probably try to implement gatcha system just like the one in Wild Rift..
One of these $250 gacha skins can fund an entire episode of Arcane type series
I hate riot
I feel like I've missed an inside joke somewhere. Progressively Remus meows more and speaks in a higher pitched voice I feel like I'm going insane
I'm a Bard main, before the day I get an exalted skin on him, I think I've got a few years before me to save up
Ouch, so goodbye to Ultimate skins! And Riot trying so hard to normalize the gacha system and the 250$ price tag for a skin thats not even THAT good is so scummy.
Next update: now LoL costs 250$ to play
You can't convince me that the joke animation was not a coincidence
The implications this has for one tricks are brutal if one of these releases for their champion
Ultimate skins and high end legendaries are already expensive but at least they are very cool. Many of these new skins cost 10 legendary skins and look like a epic/legendary skin
Riot: (in Murderhobo Goofy voice) "I'll fucking do it again!"
i still remember when these type of skins are called "Ultimate". i feel bad. this is sad
Lux Elementary: Hello, Do you want cheaper ?
Sett is my 2nd main, nr1 is Kayn T_T and that one is gonna be extra special cause they need more than 3 forms xd
As someone who does actually main Sett I am not even sure I like this Skin.
One of the best things about Sett imo is that his auto attack animation feels insanely good. A big reason for why I prefer the Prestige Skin and the Pool Party skin over the legendary is because the palm strike of the legendary feels a lot worse imo. And I have a feeling that this auto attack also feels a lot worse.
This part is gonna be a bit of a nitpick for the people really invested in Sett but making his Exalted Skin during the Noxus season and not giving us a single version without sleeves is pretty wild and I feel like a bit disrespectful to care so little about the character. I mean Sett hates Noxians and literally says "Nothing I hate more than people with sleeves" I really don't think it's too much expectation to cater a little bit to the character I love when you expect me to pay up 250$.
sett being one of my mains that i adore with my whole heart. having my skin collection ruined by this. i feel more than just upset with the approach theyre taking nowadays at riot games. they release arcane, see new players, and probably thought this was a way of grabbing cash fast after having laid off more than half the company (thats definitely what it feels like!) ill probably spend like 10 euros at best to see what it would even achieve me but i sincerely wish riot just pushed these exalted skins into the ultimate skin category and made profit off of that instead
it could be cool at least for a skin at 250eu to get customs animations on items
It used to be that you had to grind for something you wanted. I remember when Prestige Firecracker Vayne was released I played for days and nights to get enough tokens since there wasn't a battle pass system back then. You would get 6 tokens for a win and 3 tokens for a loss in summoners rift, aram and rgms were +4 and +2. You needed 1000 tokens to unlock the prestige skin so in order to unlock the skin you'd needed to play +200 summoners rift games with %50 win rate during the event period since a summoners rift game gives +4.5 tokens on average. Aram and RGMs averaged an even worse +3.5 which meant you had to play +300 arams and let's say the event lasted a month. That meant you had to play +10 games consistently everyday without spending any tokens to unlock the prestige skin. Nowadays you just buy the pass, complete a few missions and you are at level 40. You play a bit more and you are reach pass level 50 so you have enough for the prestige skin. The prestige skins don't even have special animations their main purpose is a unique splash art that is gold heavy to show off. Most prestige skins just straight up suck in game.
Where did you get Sett animated art?
And I naively fought that they were done with just Arhi…
yall if seraphine exalted skin ever comes im ending my live
They ain't able to do a decent ultimate anymore or legendarys with change form bc it would crash the game, but somehow the game is capable of take the 250$ skins that have the same stuff we been asking for years... What a miracle.
The ONLY Gambling I'd do is the mystery ward chest in the emporium
I've always rooted for Riot for relatively reasonable practices when it came to transactions and skins. This year changed everything and sadly people enabled them by buying stuff like Faker Ahri skin...
"I think it's okay because League is still a free-to-play game."
Now imagine, you’ve been playing the league since season 1, buying skins and then Arkeny comes out. You are a happy fan, you received a cool show (for which, by the way, you paid with a subscription to Netflix), then you received canonical skins in the form of a gift (not expensive, but priceless for many, and I would have bought them if they were on sale then, because these are skins for 975). Then you wait 2 years to watch season 2. It comes out, you're glad, the series ends. As a Jinx fan, you are incredibly glad that your character survived. Then R games says that there will be skins in honor of the series. And then, like a thunderstorm out of a clear sky, a HUGE SLAPP arrives in your face. You are told that you are not a "real fan". Because ONLY for real fans they will release a Jinx skin for $250. You are in shock and then you get another HUGE SLAP, because a beautiful Jinx skin is being released for the mobile League in the BATTLE pass with the canonical appearance in the hood.... Thank you for reflecting on “not real fans” because if you don’t have money, then you are NOBODY
I think this is absolutely fantastic! Eventually gambling mechanics in gaming will become so prevalent, a big government will step in and crush it and they will lose their most lucrative income streams forever. I don't see them getting away with it forever
I blame the current streamers and player base that it even came to this. I've played league for 7 years straight from season 4-11 and the only lootbox available at the time was the mystery box for $1 for 1 skin. Now when I got back hex chests only gives you 1/10 of an item? More gacha that I've ever seen in this game, prestige skins that costs you over $100+? I was happy with my $20 udyr at the time and I was already breaking bank and I own 134 skins.
They even hire Ai bro to replace real Artists 😂 pathetic Riot
Radiant Serpent Sett ...I think it’s only worth 3250 RP... ☹😥
if this exalted skin is different to ultimate skin I hope it has different style of recall in each form
I already have 32k rp for Jinx and I don't even play her often I just love her character. But if my main got an Exalted Skin I would jump on it.
I used to happily buy skins in s5-s6 to reward a job-well-done and contribute to a free game that was fun. Now I feel like the company tries to manipulate me into paying and, despite not having fell for the trap yet, every time a new FOMO generator like this comes up it disheartens me a little bit more with the game.
TL,DR: I miss the days when I eagerly wanted to spend money as a "rewarded donation", rather than pay a tax to not miss out on whale candy
THEY CANT KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH THIIIS
He is popular, there is no chance that Cassiopeia will get such a skin. I am ready to predict that the following champions will receive such skins: Ari, Ezreal, Yasuo, Yone, Miss Fortune...
I can imagine all the ultimate skins getting Exhaulted versions, with EleLux getting like 3 of them to compensate for forms
Actually, might delete the skin entirely, with compensation being either one of the versions, or just give some pulls to roll, you don't own any content in the game anyway
Kata just got a Skin for ambessa release and now she gets another prestige one. It’s crazy
at least this one has different recall animations and ults
Remember that sett have a legendary skin with 2 unique recall and it cheaper
Idk why no one addresses this maybe it’s just me. But I think Color changes through skins within a game is super problematic. I already have to get used to the skins in a game to recognise the skillshots to dodge them. If they change colors I would hate that.
We got power creep in ingame shops now boys
With average 25 million active players across all regions every month, even if only 1% of active population (250 000) bough the skin that would still make 62.5 million $ in sales.
Even if the making of this skin would cost 100k (trust, its not even close to this), 60 million + profit its insane realy. Now imagine if 5-10% population buys this skin...
It won't be even close to a 1% but they will still make a profit, especially bcs of all the players who feel like gambling away ten bucks or so
well at least they got changing forms ig... compared to the jhin/yas/ekko chromas
I feel like these skins are going to suffer the hextec problem.
In which people just ignore them bc its a pain to get to rather than something that exites you to get.
When they release an Evelynn one, im going to cry and take out a loan