Orange Essence still sucks

KillTheYordle·May 8, 2018·4 votes·2,800 views

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Title says it all essentially Orange Essence still sucks, looking over at my inventory, I got really lucky recently, within the last 8 skins, I've only got one thing below epic. Which I'm happy about. Recently, I just used my Omega Teemo shard, so I'm low on Orange Essence, I got Primetime Draven and Starguardian Poppy shards recently, so I went to check on Orange Essence price

1050 for Poppy 650 for Draven Not bad, I went to check if I can disenchant anything for them. DJ Sona, the (one of) the highest rarity skins in the game only disenchants for 650? Poppy herself disenchants for 270? Legendary shards disenchant for 195?

Why is it that I need to spend disenchant one of the rarest skins in the game and even then I won't be able to unlock an epic skin. Don't even get me started on the Sona skin. 2950 to unlock it. I need to disenchant four legendary skins for one? riot please

6 Comments

KaiokoMay 8, 20182 votes

Because ultimately the game still needs to make money when it's providing you a way to earn something for free that is purely cosmetic. If you got an even amount of disenchant to cost there would be far fewer people using the shop.

KillTheYordleMay 8, 20181 votes

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Because ultimately the game still needs to make money when it's providing you a way to earn something for free that is purely cosmetic. If you got an even amount of disenchant to cost there would be far fewer people using the shop.

I understand the need for money, but I'd say Riot has a substantial amount of money already, with their LCS's, the new Blue Essence system encouraging RP consumption, and new champion skins.

I'd never consider paying for RP for any of those skins, if I get them, sure I'd like to redeem them at some point, but you rarely ever get a skin you want, people would still pay.

KaiokoMay 8, 20182 votes

Hard to say Revenue was up 86 bil RMBs from 2016 to 2017 total year and EBITA was up 31 bil RMBs which is quite a nice drop down. That's on all of Tencent though and with the number of games they purchased in 2017 I'd wager that increase has nothing to do with League.

Ultimately you're asking for League to make less money which is owned by a publicly traded company that has to worry about it's share price and the dividends it gives out. So to keep it simple -- it ain't gonna happen.

zAber33May 8, 20182 votes

Great point ^

Seeing posts like this with a business degree actually makes my head hurt a little. Companies aren't in the business of giving stuff away for free, and riot does this with the actual game. The fact that people complain that they have to pay for skins and such on a completely ftp game is mind boggling.

RoiDeLaNuitMay 8, 20181 votes

I think that riot could give more skin fragment they are very rare or increase the defragmatation for more orange essence or they could remove the orange essence system reduce the frequency of fragments and when we get one we directly got the skin without sacrifices [sg-jinx]

DuskDaUmbreonMay 8, 20181 votes

Orange essence is still also free.

Anything you get from mastery ranks is absolutely free. Keys are free from just playing the game and following the rules. Sure, you can buy crates, but who actually does that anymore?