Why can't we trade SKIN shards?

Jill69xxx·12/13/2017, 10:47:07 PM·2 votes·859 views

I got a soulstealer vayne in a snowdown capsule last night, but I'd highly prefer a lancer zero hecarim since I do NOT adc and I never plan to. My bf is insanely jealous of me having that vayne skin, knowing that it'll probably just sit there forever. I think that it would make sense if people could trade skin shards that correspond to whichever level of rarity they are. Such as if you have a mythic shard, you can trade someone else for their mythic shard, but for nothing less, or if you have an epic skin shard, you can only trade it for someone else's epic skin shard, etc. Note: you would NOT be able to simply give away skin shards under any circumstances. This way it ensures a balance.

3 Comments

Eedat12/13/2017, 11:39:22 PM2 votes

Becaue the whole purpose of RNG lootoxes is to trick you into spending a ton of money on content you wouldnt normally have ever bought. You get a shard for a champ that maybe you occassionally play and think "Hey I use that champ! I'll unlock the skin!" but in reality you never would have bought a skin for that champ ever. You get baited into using your OE on all this content that you wouldnt normally get then spend even more money on the skin you wanted in the first place. Since skins are digital copies, it costs Riot nothing extra outside the rare occasion you get the shard you actually wanted to buy. The odds of this happening are super super low however so the system turns into a massive net profit of baiting you into spending money on content you never would have spent money on otherwise.

Tying this back to your question, being able to trade skin shards would destroy Riot's RNG money sink. You could jst trade for the shard you were going to spend cash on and not get baited into content you dont actually even want. Especially the Mythic skins which are blatant cash grabs

DariusDemiurge12/13/2017, 10:49:03 PM1 votes

Because it would be a huge hit to riot's shady gamble rng skin shard game. Obviously.