Today I requested Riot to remove Frost Blade Irelia from my account.
I don't agree with the thematic change to winter wonder.
I don't hope them to change it anymore and honestly I am just disappointed with this whole thing.
Edit:
Answer to the majority of questions like "why would you do that? what can you gain from that? CAn't you just not play the champion? How is that going to solve the problem?" .
It's a peaceful form of protest and a strong symbol of disapproval and disagreement. The goal of such action is not to solve the problem as this kind of protest normally only start taking place when people feel they don't have the power to solve the problem.
You asked why remove instead of not use.
Let me ask you this, is there any positive and reward-oriented reason to delete a skin from your account? No. Do you think that is intuitive and expected to a player to request to delete a skin he already paid from his account? No. Is there any possible different reason than heavy disapproval to justify a player not using skins? Yes.
This mean that, different than just not using a skin [what could be by many, many reasons], you need to have some heavy displeasure and be super upset to not even want a skin you already bought with you. It's actually deciding to burn up something you invested resources to get instead of supporting something you heavily disagree. If you are not familiar with this kind of action, It's a form of peaceful protest that don't affect others negatively but carry a strong message regardless.
If you don't understand why, read this: By manually requesting a rioter to delete a skin from my account he really need to read my reasons and need to fill up a little form to justify why he is doing that. That paragraph will always be in Riot system as well as my tickets and the reason of my displeasure.
You interprete my actions like I am suggesting that with my peaceful protest that I will change Irelia Frost Blade to the Crio Futuristic Theme. You are wrong. If I thought that this was going to happen I would continue being in reddit posting things and supporting Red Panda without sending a ticket.
I don't believe it's going to change. I don't think they will change. They said they will not change.
As they now don't want to issue RP refunds for the Frost Blade Irelia over the reason that "it's a change happening during a champion update" , i can only feel heavily cheated as, by my understanding, champion updates should not be an excuse to change the themes from skins I already bought. They can definitely change the appearance, style, position and many others things from a skin during an update, but getting my project jhin and making it into "half cyborg jhin", or getting my "river spirit nami" and making into "river fisher nami" are things I don't want to see in the future and I don't support. Actually this whole thing look to me like Riot is now starting to use the "no refund under rework period" as a cheap reason to mess up with things we already own in fundamental ways because they believe that "having a no refund policy under a rework" is a valid shield to now do whatever with the skin.
This excuse of being "during a rework period" to change my Crio Futuristic Irelia to Winter Wonder is something that make absolute no sense and don't qualify in the definition of skin update. It's a complete skin rework where you delete the previous one and make a new theme from scratch.
I didn't buy that. Every time I play Irelia is with Frost Blade Irelia and the least thing Riot should do if they want to enforce this aggressive and invasive change is, at least, to allow a partial RP refund for the skin. If they don't want to do it so fuck it. I would rather not have that in my account and I requested to remove it from my account.
"but you are losing money"
Fuck it. This is too much. By not having Frost Blade Irelia in my account I stand against that act and send a message that there is a limit I expect to what Riot can do to the good I bought.
I'm a totally reasonable person. There are multiple skins being reworked with Irelia and I already witnessed multiple champion reworks in more than 5 years of league. Ask me when I experienced what they are doing? When I thought they were crossing a line and pretending the line don't exist?
For those and other reasons, I stand strong against this decision from Riot games. The implications of this are huge and my peaceful, but vocal, way of showing disapproval is more than Ideal for the time being.
