VALORANT Skins Are Overpriced - Is Riot Games Being Too Greedy?
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- Опубликовано: 23 июл 2020
- As Riot Games releases more and more skins, from the dragon-themed Elderflame set to the new Oni cosmetics, the VALORANT community has been left divided.
While some players are content with the price tag assigned by Riot Games, there are many who have been vocally upset over the upfront price in addition to the hefty Radianite costs of the upgrade system.
Given how there are only two ways to earn Radianite points, either to earn rewards from the battle pass or purchase these points directly, many are calling for the system to be overhauled to improve the unlocking experience.
In addition to skins, there have also been criticisms over the state of the battle pass and Riot Games' current approach to monetization currently present in the game.
Are VALORANT cosmetics overpriced and what are somethings Riot Games can implement to improve the state of the Radianite system?
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What do you think about the current state of skins in VALORANT? Have you purchased a few already for yourself or are you waiting for a sale/change in the Radianite system?
VALORANT skins are meant for whales and not the likes of most people who play their game D:
Waiting for change.....they can earn more by shortening money
The community includes ow,fortnite,lol,Apex,CSGO,R6........what else they want.....idk
I have spent around 40 dollars I think that the prime skins should replace dot exe so at least you can use the radieaniteur given
Literally anything more than five bucks for a non-event skin is just to much. Its digital sure there's an upfront cost but they can be reprinted infinitely at no cost. Unfortunately developers need to know that if your not Fortnite you'll be a niche free to play game. Are you different enough to last long enough?
“Mommy, SELL THE HOUSE”
-xQcOW
Wise words from a wise man
Chess master wisdom here
Millionaires wisdom
he lost in 6 PepeLaugh
xQc: Mom can I have some VALORANT skins?
Mom: We have VALORANT skins at home.
xQc: *looks at his lame Battle Pass skins*
I’m fine with the best alternative:
picking up my dead teammates gun with a sick skin
Yeah who needs a skin when you can loot skins
@@sushzi4937 fr lets just be happy that the game is free
The game might be free but wouldn’t you rather pay 50$ to play the game and earn all the skins you want for free rather than pay 70$ for each new skin bundle??
@@snowmelon2409 yeah but honestly I don’t need the Skins in valorant be it’s free and like I can buy skins in other games. I really don’t need them in valorant
Yeah.
I’d rather just steal them off my teammates dead bodies.
A true man culture you are, good sir.
same
It's better to grind up to ranks like silver and gold starting from those ranks most of the playerbase has skins which you can pick up from their dead bodies.
@@jimmynation5939 you can also di that in bronze/silver all the noobs think they're good so they buy expensive skins
@@CheeryFlame exactly and for me any skin is better than a default one.
the way that the animations are not included is just like iphone 12 without the charger
I have the exact same profile picture on my school account, lol, I think I found my twin brother
@@Stock_Addict noicee
In this case the phone would just be cosmetic and fake
People are still going to buy it
@@teenxboat Yeah but I would rather still buy a whole new game
everyone who is gonna watch this let me help you the answer is yes
I never liked this game
Didnt need this video to exist to know that
Even if they are. It does not matter because it’s a FREE game and you don’t need these skins to win. These skins also take effort to make and at the end of the day u gotta pay for the people you hire and earn more on top of that. So if you think they are too expensive then don’t buy em. I don’t spend money on this game and you don’t have too.
No, no they're not. Cosmetics provide NOTHING but cosmetics, they have no impact on the game. If you don't want to spend that much money, you can enjoy the FREE game and not purchase the PURELY cosmetic SUPLIMENTS to a, need I say it again? FREE GAME. You are not entitled to low cost cosmetics on a free game, it costs money to make and develop a game, and to make it free is a huge risk to the company, so to complain that essentially dlc content that doesn't give anyone an unfair advantage *costs too much* on a free game is just selfish and shortsighted.
@@abirmodak8219 same reasoning can be applied to other games where skins cost a lot less and ftp players can grind for skins
Me:*Spends 60$ on a game*
Valorant: *How about you spend that on an incomplete skin instead?*
and not even *that* , you're gonna spend *that* and 35$ more for an incomplete skin set
It be like: hey ,this game is free so if you want some skins then pay 100$ for it. Oh wait , pay a little bit more to get it upgrade...
No one's forcing you
@@viola308 that doesnt mean its ok for riot to make these choices
@@viola308 you must be newbie hub. Kinda naive
The fact that riot acknowledges the community meme “rebibe me jett” and doesnt acknowledge their skin prices is weirdp
They gotta appeal to the community.
They are practically ignoring it.
Hard pill to swallow here: they’ll never change the pricing of their skins, because people buy them and that’s all they need, they’re not encouraged to change the prices of the skins since the income keeps coming in
@@lemonnitrate3050 yeah I buy them :) price is fair for the hundreds of hours this game has given me, I don't buy packs though that's stupid, why pay for guns I almost never use like the frenzy or marshall. People for some reason think they must buy the entire pack, that's weird.
I bought glitchpop vandal and I don't regret it at all
Apex has their bundles at like 20 dollars, it’s crazy that Valorant has some up to 95
I only bought the battle pass one in apex and I grind the game and get the next battle pass and earned crafting metals for the legendary event skins
They are better
@@zimmartechtips I suggest changing your country to Belgium at EA website. Youll get 2400 materials per battlepass so you can get an event skin pretty much every season. If you havent already of course
20 bucks is still absurd for pixels
@@lwdrd no, the pixels have been carefully choosen and put in a way that is appealing to the eyes.
they look cool, its a reasonable price to show of a little without going bankrupt.
"Hey i said i dont really pay for skins but that dragon is pretty cool"
95 dollars
nope
You can buy individual gun skins
its actually 15 dollars, the whole pack is 90
@Ayan Ali here in my country an elderflame vandal is $18
I absolutely hate the fact that you have to upgrade skins. You're tellibg me after I spend 100 bucks on the elderflame set, I don't even get the cool animations and sounds? You know, THE THINGS I'D BUY THE SKINS FOR??? It's outrageous
It’s fucking Ridiculous, if they trashed the radianite system and just gave u the animations for the 100 bucks u paid it wouldn’t be so bad
imagine spending 100$ on pixels lmao
@@iloveroids never bought a game before lol?
@@jarred4005 i was talking about the skins
@@iloveroids games are also pixels :)
but yea this shit is crazy
In fortnite, you can buy the battle pass for 10 dollars AND have enough to buy the next one plus some extra item shop cosmetics, so in theory you only have to spend 10 dollars for unlimited battlepasses and many cosmetics
In valorant, you can buy a pack of skins for NINETY dollars AND have to spend MORE to upgrade the skins you already PAID for.
Yeah, basically my experience. I bought the fortnite battlepass in season 3 and played until season 9. I have every item from all of the battlepasses and like 30 bucks worth of bonus currency after only spending 10 bucks, and I feel like This is a great balance for the devs to make a decent amount of money wile also rewarding gameplay and not having it too expensive
I don't like fortnite but they have awesome monetazation
To be fair, Valorant has $10 battle passes too... but they are insanely grindy and don't let you get the next one.
@@Kmn483 but in fortnite you get enough of their currency to be able to affort the next one plus some extra that you can save up for thing in the item shop. Also in fortnite after you buy a skin (or pack) you dont have to upgrade them to get the animations lol
I remember saving vbucks for the next bp . Imagine buying the s3 chapter 1 bp to the new one.You would have more than 100 skins just after spending $10.
Honestly,
Just pick them off the dead rich players.
Broke moment
True
@@mortis3732 lol
Would much rather pay for a game and have unlockable skins through challenges, much more rewarding than pulling out the credit card.
The problem with that is that the developers don't have any real incentive to invest time and resources into creating creative skins. Valorant's prices are ridiculous but I have to admit the elderflame and Omi skin pack at least look pretty sick and are very unique.
I prefer free to play
@@ammster1234 there is plenty of incentive, Warzone made 1.8 billion in Q1 of this year. Its not the developers that are greedy, they are on fixed pay and often overworked. Its the studios.
@@lukeonorato9815 free to play is brilliant, but the lack of challenges and rewarding achievements in modern gaming is a side effect of loot boxes/microtransactions
Samuel Chowdhury overwatch yours game them
Imagine spending the price of one brand new triple A game plus overpriced DLC for a pack of gun skins.
Imagine giving a shit about what other people spend their money on.
@@rada4288 Imagine being this stupid and not realizing the consequences of endorsing this monetization system
@@A.Froster Please explain the consequences of buying overpriced *cosmetics* in a video game.
@@rada4288 Can you really not see how an overpriced live service mechanism that makes a lot of money but completely destroys an aspect of the game is not bad ? This is the end point of the slippery slope and you can't figure out what's wrong with it ? DUH !
@@A.Froster yea
"Cost of non gameplay impacting cosmetics doesn't actually matter."
It kinda matters because if you just let them set such high prices this is gonna become a standard and no-one except greedy higher-up
s want
It's gonna take away another thing that makes a game appealing
Exactly this
valorant skins are kinda shit anyways
You can just pretend the skins don't exist and judge the game based on how fun it is to play
Never forget that $3.00 cosmetic armor for a horse was once a giant controversy.
@@LaggyLuke that’s not the point. Remember loot boxes, how successful they were and so everyone copied them. It will happen time and time again, if people make crappy stuff successful, it will become the norm that everyone will hate but still buy. I don’t care about the skins but I do care about the impact of the existence of this monetisations scheme
When people say “games free you don’t have to buy it” like yeah you right but that skin looks super nice but it don’t look nice enough for me to drop the price of a triple A game game TO GET IT INCOMPLETED
Triple A game and a half
If it doesnt impact the gameplay, then it isnt important, regardless of how nice it looks. I’d rather have no skins and be good at a game than use my bank account to get a skin with a cool reload animation
@@snewp_e2139 Yes, but there's still pressure to cave into the system and a passive response to something like this normalizes that this is okay... because people are still going to buy it.
Remember that there used to be a giant uproar over a $3 armor for a horse as one of the earlier microtransactions. Now its everywhere and people don't bat an eye at $10 skins.
@@Kmn483 so true dude companies are getting to greedy with cosmetic items . Like league of legends was never this expensive. What happened to riot man 😔
I find it fun to just try to pick up the best weapon skin from kids who used their mom's credit card throughout a match even if the gun is useless.
And killing them with that weapon until they get tilted. Oh boi.
Yup. This is the real game. Hunting skins.
@@neoshenlong honestly i was salty when the other team had skins free skins but still skins
28Naufal I never really got tilted over that to me it’s just like I call em broke when they get toxic or they’re ego’s are boosted cause they gotta use someone else’s skins
That’s why I only buy the knifes so nobody can take it away from hahaha
its beyond greedy to price a skin pack as much as 2 AAA games, like WTF. Then you got $200 more if you were to buy all the other stuff offered in the pack, another 4 AAA games...
Is Riot Greedy? Easy Answer - Yes, very mcuh so
300$ to max a skin bundle omegalul
It's a way for Riot games to show you how much game development actually cost.
No, no they're not. Cosmetics provide NOTHING but cosmetics, they have no impact on the game. If you don't want to spend that much money, you can enjoy the FREE game and not purchase the PURELY cosmetic SUPLIMENTS to a, need I say it again? FREE GAME. You are not entitled to low cost cosmetics on a free game, it costs money to make and develop a game, and to make it free is a huge risk to the company, so to complain that essentially dlc content that doesn't give anyone an unfair advantage *costs too much* on a free game is just selfish and shortsighted.
Bye
It’s almost like Riot already figured out how to make a **free game** have a **functioning** cosmetic system, but decided that their CS clone is going to have the most greedy prices for skins.
Riot’s own League of Legends has one of the best cosmetic system and it works, no need to make you spend as much as **4 fully developed AAA titles** for 4 skins which don’t even look that good most of the time. Riot is just being unnecessarily greedy when they already have a system that works in another one of their developed games.
Mangarang ok lol it’s a fucking free game. Ur not their child. They have no obligation to lower costs lol
One word "TENCENT"
Bruhhhh my friend literally spent 1,000$ in a lucky draw and did not even get what he wanted
Valorant devs when they were pricing skins: "Alexa, pick a number between 1 and 500 bucks"
you can buy half life alyx, Minecraft twice, Portal 1 and 2, Breath of the wild, Horizon Zero Dawn. Just for around $60
What lmaooooo thats bs
@@takis_lover6969 I own most of those things
@@ugly9498 i think the point is that you can buy a lot of games for the same price of a few skins that do nothing in a free game.
@@charliemaybe if they truly did nothing, then nobody would buy them. Cosmetics are always worth something, especially in a multiplayer environment. Otherwise nobody would ever buy cosmetics.
@@ChiRonChiaren only thing they do is giving a little confidence boost
95 dollars HUH?! That’s a close to a video game mid collector edition and it’s a weapon skin 😳
95 dollars I can buy call of duty with that
csgo skins being really expensive is fine cuz theres a market with them and rarity but with valorant you're gonna spend $100 on a knife and not even be able to trade it or sell it lmao
The excuse of “its just cosmetics” is such a shitty excuse used by people that have no idea how monetization works, if we allow them to just freely price their in game items this high then who knows if they can just lock everything behind a paywall? Riot could become the next EA and nobody would care because they think a csgo ripoff they made has good gameplay
Imagine if Valorant had a marketplace like steam which is completely controlled by the players and traders
knives going for at least 4k
@@notleviathan855 Valorant skins lack rarity and uniqueness. So they would def not cost that much
everybody gangsta till u realize u live in a country were the currency is 5 time cheaper than the us dollar so it feels like ur paying 5 times more than everybody else :((((
Make that 7.5 for me
Indonesian Rupiah lul
Overwatch has one of the best loot box systems ever, in that they have almost no impact in the game whatsoever
I Agree, but overwatch is buy-to-play.
@@sant0ro781 yeah, but you pay for a high quality game
And? All of the other games have cosmetic like that, too
@@sant0ro781 what does that even mean? It is a game that you have to buy? because that has .00001% affect on the player base
@@doomorelse It means that the monetization method on "a game that you have to buy" is completely different from a free to play.
Valorant: the game allows you to fist a dragon as long as you shell out your months rent
LMFAO this is good
you wrote "the that game"
The even worse part is for some reason there are people defending these skins and Thier price by saying it's F2P when other free to play games have skins for much lower price.
Well yeah that’s true but it’s not like the skins do anything sooo.... idk why people care about the skins. They literally just look cool it’s not like u get anything from it?
4p csgo skins go brrrrrrr
@@ryanyeh9511 sure but if you look at a market like cs, you have options for any buyer. Want to spend 1 dollar on all of your skins? you can do that. Want to spend thousands with the reassurance that you can get that money bakc and often make a profit? you can do that too.
Jack Kelly ok but it’s still just skins. It’s not a boost ur Hp thing it’s just skins. Don’t like the price don’t buy it’s that simple.
@@ryanyeh9511 that's pretty crummy defence other f2p games have a system were u can get skins just by playing the game the skins wont be the best but they are something that will give u a touch of the skins making u want to buy them but how it is now anyone who is on the fence would not buy these skins
All I'm gonna say is that Apex is a free-to-play game where you can get many of the skins just by grinding and not paying.
I got the battle pass and totally fell for the "I have all this radiante might as well buy a guy I can upgrade" and got the oni phantom. I wouldn't say I regret the purchase but the chances of me buying any more skins or the next battlepass is pretty much zero. Especially with how much play time it took to get the tier 50 battlepass
That’s exactly what I just did yesterday. It was my birthday so I said I’m gonna buy a skin, but I don’t see any point of buying anything else because I basically only use that gun.
@@NotSilent_ happy birthday dude
Didn't riot say they were going to make things that you could get with radiante points? like gun buddies?
@@Evan-xm7yz source?
Same. The Oni phantom's pretty good.. but I'm sad I can't use radianite to buy the next battle pass
Who would spend $100 to have a gun look like a dingus?
No one:
Kids: SKINS?! I need it!
It just big mess of a design
Lol, yeah that elder flame vandal looks so cringe and childish
Almost a year later and still no end in sight lol
I see $45 dollar knifes and I just look in awe, seeing that people actually buy them
Exactly. Yes, cosmetics are purely optional, but people want to support their favorite game. "Let me help you!!"
Them pricing it like that does seem like they're appealing to peoples FOMO.
Is $20... Bucks ain't no need to buy the whole set... If you really want to buy something buy the one for the gun you use the most ...
I'd much rather want that they charge $60 for the game. If I want to play the game I'm willing to pay that and if I want to "support the company" then I'd but skins or something.
@@incog0956 to know riot doesn't mind you playing for free? So why pay $60... Is as simple as if you want the skins or you want to support get the skins if not, just play the game...
@@ludouble9299 yeah but I'm not looking at it that way. A lof of people say that skins are a crutch, and the only way for the developers to make money. I'd much rather want for a game to cost $60 and then have cheap skins that are just extra purchases. They're making the skins expensive so they make a profit but a lot of that is coming from a small portion of players. If everyone paid for the game and the skins were cheaper many more people would be inclined to buy them
@@incog0956 if it cost $60 much less people would play the game which is what they actually care about. More player more money. Skins are already optional having to purchase skins and paying vs not paying and deceiding if you want or not the skins or not ... Lol why I would want to pay for something and the pay for skins when I can have it free and still decide if I want the skins or not ...
I'm the "if its not worth it then don't buy it simple as that" kind of guy.But at the same time is the skin really expensive/overprices ? Y E S
I found some appeal in literally just a recolor skin knife in CSGO
But this just have non of it
Thank you for this well informed video.
Too often do I see people state that its fine because CS Skin are often 3 or 4 figured whilst forgetting about how a stock market works.
Its not a stock market its like any market but yes i agree
TLDR: yes.
Yes they are far too expensive and riot needs to be humbled
there needs to be a way to get rid of your old or diliked skins for a variable amount of curency so that as the game grows you are able to buy and "sell" your skins.
U can't even refund after 7 days which is really dumb
@@fujiwater2725 or weapons that you upgraded
Tbh the new Oni skins look absolutely amazing, but they are really overpriced
Have you heard of the elderflame? Each individual skin was 2975 and each oni is 1775
i feel like if they are not going to reduce the prices they should add a way to earn valorant points
@@tenyo. but if they do that they will make it a decade to reach 100 valorant points
some thing probably but its better then nothing
It looks amazing but tbh I dont feel its on par with the Prime and Sovereign set as both of these have their own shoot sound and reload effects. While Oni set only has an idle gun animation and ofc a finisher animation
Omg I love the boneworks music your playing in the background
Love the intro music. The boneworks sound track is amazing
Thanks 👍
To upgrade the Elderflame set to its fullest you need to spend over $300 which is really absurd.
I have no idea how Riot can justify these types of prices even without the upgrades, $100 is just crazy.
Wait so you telling me that you can't just use the radiant point to upgrade?
@@Cracker_Smacker You still have to pay for the radianite and even with the max battle pass you will have less than a third of the radianite required to upgrade the set
@@FriBinCringe jesus christ that alot
They could just make the skins cheap and implement a system where you can enable multiple skins for each gun. Then each round the gun skin is randomized between the ones you have enabled.
Isn’t this just asking for cheaper skins and extra steps for in game display
@@elijahtan7584 Yes I said this in response to the argument in the video "the skins are expensive because there are few guns, so people buy few skins". If you make it convenient to use multiple skins, people will be more likely to buy more of them, so you can make them cheaper to sell more.
@@Homiloko2 ahhhh i see
@@Homiloko2 your opinion versus professional statistical analysis in this specific market. If it really would have made more money, then they probably would have tried it by now.
@@ChiRonChiaren yeah, as if no game ever failed because of greedy business decisions and they always know better.
They should just add the option of farming skins through daily or weekly missions for free :)
Bro like imagine paying €99.99 for a whole set.
*incomplete set
Pay more if u want the effects LUL
The thing is for me its not about being cheap or not wanting to spend money, I have spent probably close to 2000+ dollars on League of Legends I'm no stranger to giving money for useless in game cosmetics. However, the value I perceive on the Valorant skins just isn't there. In league I get a new splash art, custom sounds and effects, voice-lines, animations and often more. I always see this skin and its effects while I'm using it and they are very obvious and everyone else in the game can see them to. In Valorant not only are the prices absurdly higher than anything LoL offers, but they don't have nearly as much work put into them, you get a couple new animations and effects (after you spend more fucking money on them) and only you can see these effects because for gameplay reasons they can't change the sound of guns or the visuals for everyone. This is even when you get to use them, what about an eco round, or picking up a weapon from the ground? The 2nd problem can be fixed by a transform skin button but nothing can be done about an eco round.
I would love to buy skins in Valorant but I don't think I'll ever spend a penny on the game because of its obscene pricing model that makes me sick. When ever I see a person with a skin in the game I don't think "oh that's a cool skin" I think to myself "I can't believe you spend nearly 90 bucks on that crap". I get that same judgmental disdain I get for shit heads who wear Yeezys.
Yeah it pains me even more when the dude whos bottom fragging all game has all the fucking skins. 2/21/0 but at least they have the Oni skin pack. ffs
I only buy the battlepass
@@reminiscence5561 what really? Was that safe?
@@reminiscence5561 oh shii 😐🔫
@@flyingpaper6824 did you do it? How'd it go
Hey Akshon Esports, thanks for featuring my Sportskeeda article on your video. I didn't feel too many people were reading them.
Valorant: 95$ to buy 5 skins is fair since its free to play
Me: spending 40$ for OW since it released 5 years ago and getting everything i want without spending any extra money
If it too expensive don't buy it. Then Riot knows how to price their skins next release.
it sucks but no matter what there will always be streamers and whales to buy them and make riot money
@@willb.7417 If they can make more money by lowering the price then they will. Current price means that it's the most profitable which means a number of people are still buying it. Unless it's a marketing strategy for future skins which would make sense to. Bottom line is, if it's too expensive then don't buy it. Streamers and whalers don't make enough revenue compared to the potential revenue from the general populus
@@Joseph-ms3iq this is obvious. but the fact at least half the lobby runs a skin set. its not realistic
@@Joseph-ms3iq They had that lesson enough times with League of Legends, if anything they won't care to lower prices. In most cases, they won't even try making the new upcoming effects better. However, it is evident that over the years the effects that they WILL make will cater to the majority of their games.
this has literally never worked in practice. whales will buy it, streamers will buy it - there are enough of them to blot out any conscientious purchasers
I think a returning feature where you could return items for 1/4 of the vp
I completely agree with you! I just bought the Oni phantom and now I want the prime skins but it may just be better going for the battlepass since nearly no one wants to spend that kind of money. Maybe they are charging us a lot because the devs are working way to hard and need extra cash.
Overall gr8 thinking on this one!
Good video with great perspectives from other apparent content creators. I say apparent cause I don’t recognize most I honest don’t play valorant I’ve just heard some things and they weren’t wrong lmao
0:28 soundsmith lmao
hahahah yes
Imagine buying skins lol
With actual money.
Imagine having money ;p
Imagine having a job
imagine living on earth
imagine breathing oxygen molecules
Imagine all the people
I love the bonework ost in the background
Yooooo Boneworks music in the background lets go
Couldn't afford the full set of elderflame so got only vandal and maxed it out, and now stopped using it cause it is so distracting.
I agree, I'd rather buy Oni skins, simpler and better
I really wish the devs add the ability to revert back to a weapon animation level. Cause my dragon op is fully maxed out and it's so distracting when i take a shot and in the process of taking another shot.
😂😂
Then why did you upgrade/buy it in the first place?
Hot diggity damn, is that boneworks soundtrack in the background? Thats some GOOD taste :)
To be completely fair, the valorant skins are the best I've seen in any game. Skinsets like the prime set and the singularity set are stunning, but that in no way justifies the price.
yes but the price isnt stunning, in my counties currency a knife skin costs 280. 2 fucking 80
@@cennix lol for me in my country it costs over 1k lmaooo
Valorant Devs speedrunning killing their game pog
Cause they give you an option to buy expensive skins? Don't quite get the point but people are clearly buying it cause they came up with the oni pack soon after. People who want to buy it will and who don't, won't.
@@Rusheelk if they overprice the skins, almost no one will buy them and they won't have enough money to continue development
Nah bro, that's not how a game dies. And what was the "pog" even for? Cringe
@@muhammadahmed1714 I agree that not how a game dies but it can give them a bad reputation which can lead to valorant downfall.
@@doyshoiy That's my point. Notice how ive mentioned about them releasing oni skins. If people hadn't bought previous skins enough and were running at a loss like you said. Then they wouldn't release any other skins but they are and that proves that people are buying if. People like to complain because they can.
0:29 *happiness noise*
This makes league's skins feel fair. At least you get your complete value for what you're paying for instantly.
Bro that boneworks music had me second guessing myself, love it!
You used the boneworks soundtrack for the background music?
After 9 months absolutely nothing has changed. The excuse that it’s a new game means nothing anymore
7:36
I agree with this guy.
Some days ago I buyer the Oni skin for the phantom, not the complete set, just the one for the phantom.
Cost me around 14 USD and I'm pretty sure I will not be buying another skin in a long long time.
The skins I like (the ones that change the animation) are the ones more expensive, and also I'm kind of regretting my buy because I'm not even that good at the game and it sucks to get killed and get your skin stolen lol
almost a year later and its still feels like a scam 1600 valorant points for 20 radianite poits KEKW
Love the boneworks soundtrack in the background of this one, great vid
It’s incredible that the Battle pass doesn’t have a worth while skin and not even a skin that can be used with radianite it’s just plain greedy that riot games is pricing this so high I wanted a skin but I could basically only afford one skin not even a bundle that’s just insane
Archxrs it’s literally only costs $10. If you could finish the whole battle pass, you probably will get back ur money’s worth with the skins, radianite, and others. The radianite alone costs so much if u were to buy it by itself and not in the battle pass. I bought the prime vandal since I’ve had money from the beta
@@fav843 u still have time
0:29 out of any tf2 footage, he showed Soundsmith's stereotypes video lol
5:50 is completely the opposite way around, a skin in league could turn out to be the only skin you are going to use, such as a top laner who only plays Darius is willing to pay 30 bucks for a skin he is going to use for the rest of his time playing, or until a better one comes out. while in Valorant you could pay 100 dollars for some skins you may only play with a couple of times pr game.
Me: *reads the title*
Me: yes
Enough said. Why spend money on skins in a free game instead of spending money on a game once and getting free skins? Seems like a better deal to me
Nice try Jeph Kaplan, not reinstalling your game or buying The Same Game 2.
Or don't buy the skins
I love skins and I come from csgo so my skins were pretty expensive. Couple hundred but god damn. Riot should of copied fortnite prices
theres a market for csgo skins. with valorant you're literally just buying an item you cant trade or sell. also you can unbox a rare csgo skin for like $2 but its unlikely lol. valorant just has overpriced fortnite item shop and battlepass. battlepass takes too long to grind. store is way too overpriced
Has anyone else noticed how the 7100 valorant points bundles have been losing features. The prime bundle had reload animations, a different shooting sound, and a constant glow effect as well as other effects. The sovereign bundle came out and it lost the unique reload animation but kept the shooting sounds constant glow and the rest of the effects. But now the oni bundle has come out and it doesn’t have the reload animation and it has the vanilla shooting sounds. Why are they the same price if they are worse than the other packs. And what are we gonna lose when the next pack comes out.
I’m a big Valorant fan and I’ve been playing it for a while but I can’t get any skins because of the prices
That's what I like with steam, one friend of mine sold his dota skin, and with the money he could buy other skins or other games on steam.
And this situation kinda highligh the cost of f2p games.
Great vid, keep up with the good work.
Also can you guys make a deep dive on this one shooter that just came out Rogue company. Is it good? feels like a mix of fortnite with some valorant vibe in it.
@Ali Hadi Babar you really dont Know anything about the game
@Ali Hadi Babar you own response is still showing that you still dont Know anything about the game. What a shame
EA: Hey that’s my job!
Dude imagine EA x Riot
OMG NO WAY I WILL LITTERALY DELETE THE GAME IF THAT HAPPENS
I'm a casual buyer of skin in LoL but now with loot system, I haven't spent anything at all. I even looted one of the highest price skin.
In overwatch history there has only be one skin that you could only get with really money, and the money owned with selling that skin (pink mercy) was for
breast cancer research.
$70 for a skin bundle that doesn’t have every gun skin seems kinda dumb
Waaait I don’t even have everything unlocked I have to buy upgrades?
I have to go in a certain order
Wtf
Bac Jam that is their way of making money. Ur not their son. The game is free and you guys want to have cost lowered is like killing someone’s brother and asking for their parents
Sadking22 games like tf2 csgo and fortnite make money off skins as well. Difference being is either how they sell them or the price they set them at.
If I go to a car dealership and ask a dealer if I could get a car for a cheaper price I don't think I'm killing his family
Sadking22 you’re a moron, they are simply seeing how much they can get away with, it’s literally legal robbery at this point. I don’t even own the game and I’m kinda outraged for the players
Sadking22 I would love to kill valor ants brother
@@gordanblansky7137 You are saying they are commiting a crime, then blaming us?
Battlepaas is the best value it gives you some pretty cool skins and bunch of other stuff. For a reasonable price
yeah but fortnite also has a battle pass that you buy once and you get for the rest of the time you play the game if you complete it, on top of cool skins
@@awryri but fortnite doesn't have custom animations
man the fact they have the audacity to ask you to buy the effects for the guns you have already spent money on is INSANE
You can get radianite for free from the battlepass
If there were agnet skins that i got to use for the whole round I might buy them. The issue with guns skins is you only get to use them sometimes during a game and i cant justify spending so much.
Sounds like a game made with the help of steve jobs
All the kids that have no skins have just entered the chat
Y u gotta hurt me like that lol
*$100 animated gun skins in Valorant*
Gamers: *anger*
*$500 apex heirloom*
Gamers: *yes take my money*
You can get heirlooms for free, they have a chance to drop from apex packs which you get for free for leveling up.
i honestly just wish they would add the skins like they do in league i don't need 6 vadal skins i want to match and mix with collections so i have a preference on each gun
Who edited this video?
Give em a raise I love the boneworks soundtrack
In CS:GO I can spend 50 dollars to get a good skin for every weapon; In Valorant that gets you like 4 skins
Good set of skins in cs go can cost you like 20$ but in valorant you can buy one skin for the same price
I hope they make a supply box like hextech chest in league of legends containing skins
Csgo is laughing
It’s December now, and they just added more overpriced skins
For me i say its fair considering some csgo skins can buy me a decent car lmao
I really like the Boneworks sound track as background music in this video
People aren't averse to spending money most of the time, especially if they feel like they're supporting a game that supports them. A great example for me is the mobile game "Dragalia Lost" made by Nintendo. It's a gacha style game that has the base currency heavily overpriced but is super generous with giving out free stuff you'd usually have to pay for. Plus they invested into making a good free to play story that you don't have to spend any money to be able to play through and enjoy. I personally know people who've spent a fair amount on the game and have also personally spent ~$30 on pack or two, not because I needed to but because I genuinely like and wanted to support the game. Also a good battlepass that pays for itself makes people more incentiveized to buy it in the first place.
CSGO players: *laughs nervously*
@@invalleria also also you can sell them again (to steam but let's be fair if you spend money on skins it's a high chance you will do it again or buy another game)
Dota 2 players sweating profusely at the limited edition couriers in their inventory.
@@invalleria Somehow that's better? So the MTG finance rejects, who were wall street rejects, can have some place to go? Valorant skins are also based on the free market. Let's see how Riot would change their price when no one buys their shit. People who defend systems like this should probably start a city underwater.
And this is ignoring the fact that Gaben like to take 15% from your transactions, when there's really no point for them to do so because it's already theirs and can't even be withdrawn and will always be spent to buy games on their market anyway.
I love cosmetics but even i draw the line on spending money in a game thats so obviously scamming its players
Please explain how the price of rifle, gun, shotgun, and sniper is the same?
9 months later, nothing happened, I would love to buy some skins if they would be just 20% cheaper