Why was the Orange Essence gain lower by half?

Takaray·11/9/2017, 3:23:11 PM·244 votes·7,638 views

As stated in the title why was the Orange Essence gain from disenchanting skin shards lower by 50%? There was no change to either the cost of upgrading skin shards or the ways in which we can obtain skin shards. This seems like a bigger travesty that the changes the Blue Essence(which in my opinion averages out to about the same gain just at milestones instead of a constant stream). I mean there is no logical reason, nor has it been stated by Riot on why this decision was taken, can a Rioter shine some light on this decision?

78 Comments

Šternberg11/9/2017, 3:45:07 PM66 votes

Everything is done to make players purchase more rp, just think about everything they brought in.

Fisher No Chains11/9/2017, 6:49:32 PM25 votes

The reason, according to Riot, is that you can now get more shards if you grind for level capsules.

However, what everyone seems to forget is that emotes can now drop from chests and capsules, lowering their value and making it even harder to get orange essence or decent skin shards.

Hella Kaiser11/9/2017, 8:45:30 PM25 votes

"Because f*ck you, that's why" -Rito Gaems

Dorans Pants11/9/2017, 4:37:15 PM23 votes

Wow now after cutting my essence gain in half without any justification (besides money that is) I'm absolutely inclined to buy more rp to make up for it. Heck maybe they should also fuck up my blue essence gain so I'm more inclined to buy champs with rp. the possibilities are endless.

EternalSaiyan11/9/2017, 11:15:41 PM15 votes

Because Riot didnt think that unfathomable amounts of money was enough of money and so they designed season 8 to make even more. Champions will take way way longer to earn, masteries have been renamed "Runes" in order to lower the default page number from 20 to 2 so they can charge for more pages, and the free skins a year will be reduced to maybe 1 or none at all. All of this just makes a very sneaky yet in your face paywall to force you to buy RP. Just wait till we are level 200 and it will take 400+ games to earn 800BE and then players will start to really notice.

nGio11/9/2017, 11:34:15 PM10 votes

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As stated in the title why was the Orange Essence gain from disenchanting skin shards lower by 50%?

So new players can have free runes. Because new client. Some other bullshit. We'll never get a legitimate reason for the bad decisions or the insulting ones. At best, we'll just be told that we are actually getting more now and we're too stupid to understand it, followed by bad math to back it up that would have a 4 year old scratching their head.

WrÆth11/10/2017, 3:13:57 AM9 votes

https://t3n9sm.c2.acecdn.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/650_1200.png is royally fucking the League community. This might actually be considered rape.

xelaker11/9/2017, 10:00:58 PM8 votes

So you buy more rp. Honestly that is the answer to 90% of the changes preseason lol

Leonerdo11/10/2017, 12:12:58 AM7 votes

To make up for essence drop rate changes, we'll tune the way loot boxes work to increase the amount of skins you'll get from them. We'll also add "bad luck protection," so you won't ever go on long streaks without getting a skin shard or a gemstone from chests.

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VexingRaven11/11/2017, 6:34:19 AM6 votes

Wait, what the FUCK Riot?! The warnings mentioned lowering the Blue Essense rate, nobody said a god damn thing about Orange Essence. So now I'm sitting on a bunch of fucking skins shards, half of which I literally just bought from the Worlds Orbs, and they're all worth so fucking little I can probably get two skins out of?

Go fuck yourselves. That will be the absolute last penny you ever see from me. You're scum.

Mcsquzzy11/10/2017, 12:01:57 AM5 votes

to spend rp

YouremyboyBleu11/9/2017, 3:26:32 PM5 votes

Aren’t you supposed to have a greater chance of getting boxes now?

SpiritOfOdysseus11/10/2017, 11:02:44 AM4 votes

It sounds like its time to switch games. And after playing since season 2, its hard to hear myself say that.

But the facts are blatently obvious.. Riot doesn't care about anyone that isn't a "pro" player. And even now, even the definition of "pro" is changing from a guy that played league so much that hes better than pretty much everyone to whatever organization can pay people to compete in league like this new NBA BULLSHIT they have in store for us. Its not the same... and it all started with the micro-transaction CANCER. The world needs to understand that capitalism is the bane of humanity, everything that capitalism touches eventually implodes in itself. We as humans have evolved past simple ground travel, we have been to the moon- its time we as humans evolve past MONEY as our only means of self worth.

Critmaster Garen11/9/2017, 9:00:45 PM4 votes

they said something about extra skin shards from high level capsules. no idea if thats going to come close to compensating for the reduction.

jama65511/10/2017, 1:42:46 PM3 votes

people were getting skins to easily boom answered ur question

Flyinguillotine11/10/2017, 11:02:25 PM3 votes

I just got elementalist lux from a chest. At first I was excited, but then I realized im gonna have to save for like two years to unlock it. So I guess I'll be really excited in two years.[sg-janna]

Sukishoo11/9/2017, 6:51:03 PM2 votes

You can gain skin shards the higher you Level Up. So, yeah .

Thilmer11/9/2017, 11:12:43 PM2 votes

I have Heard that we are going to get skin shards when reaching certain levels, but unless we get skin shards every 3 levels or something like that it doesn't compensate the lost of orange essence.

Also, I don't remember Riot saying anything about the orange essence when they explain this thing about the PI and the blue essence.

V D11/10/2017, 4:07:08 PM2 votes

I wish they would have made this much more clear before preseason came around, because now the value of my skin shards , that I spent RP on, has been cut by 1/3. Unfortunate. [cass-cry]

Mysticman8911/9/2017, 8:50:42 PM2 votes

It's from 33% of the shards value to 20%, so not quite half.

Theres bad luck protection on chests now (ensuring you can't get a string of champ shards, you're assured skin shards or a gemstone within X chests), plus we're in theory going to be getting more as a side effect of leveling.