Can we revert the changes to orange essence?

SC:BW (IE. The good one) is free. Plus I would put big money on HS bringing in more cash than D3.

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Ok, but none of Blizzards big titles are free-to-play (sorry, HotS and Hearthstone pale in comparison to Diablo, Warcraft (especially WoW), StarCraft, and Overwatch). Even to this day, the only thing we can spend money on for League are skins and other cosmetic items. By giving us a way to obtain them for free, Riot was willingly giving up at least a portion of their profit margin (even though I'm sure they ended up breaking even by appealing to the gamblers and and people who were like "ooo kewl skin shard, lemme just buy some boxes to farm orange essence").

As for people buying/opening hundreds of chests for youtube videos, first of all, they don't HAVE to do that. They are doing it as part of their fan service because they believe it will benefit their channel (and any monitization it gets) in the long run. Also, the problem you're facing is simply your reference point. You believe that because Riot "nerfed" Orange Essence gains that loot boxes suck now. But think of it like this: what if Riot had launched hextech crafting as it is right now? You would have nothing else to compare it to, and you'd think it was great because it gave you the opportunity to get free stuff. Clearly Riot (and/or Tencent) has decided that micro-transactions are no longer as lucrative, and so they reduced the amount of free stuff they give us in an attempt to encourage us to whip out our credit cards again. It's just a business decision. And as much as I hate some of the bullshit Riot has done over the years to turn a profit (I'm still rather offended by the introduction of Chromas) the reduction of orange essence isn't one of them.

Obviously you don't comprehend that the vast majority of skin shards are from paid content like boxes or event passes.... Those items were sold as collectable until you were ready to craft or disenchant them. That means every pass and box had an expected value on average. So people who bought boxes and passes months ago thinking they could garner enough essence to eventually craft a saved shard just got an expiration date attached to something that was originally implied to be evergreen. The myth that this affected only the free box a week crowd is just that, a myth. It affected paying customers much more.

BTW, Hearthstone is Blizzards highest grossing product now. They announced that in financials over a year ago.

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lol what are you talking about? What event pass? Who got screwed? You literally aren't even making a coherent statement here...

Also, if you are insinuating that people had boxes or world's chests saved up, Riot literally announced in-client that you should open them before the end of the season for this exact reason. You people have literally no leg to stand on here. Riot has decided that they aren't making enough money on microtransactions, so they dialed back the amount of free stuff they give us. If you have a problem with that, then you are literally the definition of entitled, and you should probably grow up. Riot isn't obligated to give you orange essence or skin shards. Riot doesn't have to give you skins. There's a cash store for those. They are doing it because they want to give their players some freebies to entice people to keep playing and also to give us a more tangible reward system.

EVENT PASSES are the items we bought (not free stuff) like worlds pass and the arcade event. Those all gave skin shards kid. You also need to get your shit straight and realize like many ignorant forum posters here you are wrong about the notice. The in client notice addressed only champ shards and blue essence it had no mention of ORANGE ESSENCE. As a matter of fact the only mentions of reduced OE was in a "Riot PLZ " article 3 months ago and a solitary boards post on the topic 2 months ago. Get your facts straight before you look stupid next time please. No one is talking about "free" stuff here. Cant help if you are a pleeb, but the rest of us bought merchandise and expected that the shards were not going to sunset unless the game went out of business. They basically set an expiration date for all saved shards that were bought with completely different expected values than what they are worth now.

When you grow up and spend you own money on items you will not appreciate the seller reaching into your bag after a transaction and taking half of what they sold you back. So realize Riot was not giving us anything. They were selling us products and pulled a bait and switch.

Just so you know kid when you buy something you are entitled to it much like you shitty opinion on the matter.