Riot, Could you consider using another business model?
When it comes to skin, and if you look at other games, yes you pay for your skin, i'm ok with that,
But,
The prestige skins is kind of dumb, it's way to expansive and the token quest for some of them are hidden behind a huge paywall. which is super expansive for only one skin... like 100$ a skin??!!! Really??!!!
For the eternal, well it's even worse, it's only stats, which were already track in the old client, only to return but now we got to pay for it? totally dumb, + there's no way to unlock them for free which cause a gap between rich and poor people even more.... Maybe you should at least let us unlock them with champion shard and blue essence? it would seems legit. i have so many useless champion shard sleeping in my account cause i own every fcking champ.... The rewards for playing this game are pretty boring.
As for the little legend, the random way we got them is totally stupid. There is also no little legend in the reward pass which i think its dumb, because you are not quite rewarded for playing TFT. a better way would be to sell the little legend separately and than you level up the little legend by actually playing with them and let people grind XP for the level 2 and 3 to show off or buy a level up for the little legend you actually want to level up for people who wants to spend money to level it up. This mecanic would be more healthy.
If you wanna make money, why don't you make a season pass like fortnite ? it's like 20$ you get 6-7 skins and some other ligit stuff and some V-Buck too... it's totally legit and i would probably pay for this because i play league very often. And the pass last quite long like 12 week? which i'm completely fine with.
I think it would be a better option than forcing people to spend money on loot boxes to get prestige points or spend money like crazy to get THE ONE LITTLE LEGEND you actually want.
The term prestige also feels really elitist and overwhelming, if you make those skins the season pass skin, it would be less overwhelming and actually more appealing to the audiance than this bullshit elitist shit. 100$ skins??!! Really!!??
Well i will stop here for now, but man, look at fortnite, they are fcking rich! Just do a season pass with quest and rewards at each level of the pass, and i'm sure people would pay for the pass! that's how you keep people hooked up to a game! it's easy just put random emotes, 5-6 skins, random little legends eggs, icons, RP, random champion shard maybee? Wards skin....
The list can go on... you can developp those features too : Announcer Pack, Minions skins , finisher moves, PLz have some creativity.
If you do fair rewards for fair prices, people won't complain and they will gladly pay for it.
Ps : Remove the stupid key feature from hextech chest and just let us open them! poor new player who can no longer get LP just by playing, just let them open their dam chest!