I know you only want money and don't give too many shits for players, but why would you only be able to buy a single orb with the event currency.
I got a garbage skin and i had the highest ranked orb i could purchase.
you played me riot and you played everyone that doesn't pay for rp
next event needs either more missions or some way to earn more tickets
Daddy Braum2 votesIf you do the quest every day of the event you should get enough to buy one of each orb Even if you dont like what you got from them you can still re-roll them for something else I think it was a great idea by them
Oleandervine2 votesIf you're not paying for RP, you can get only 200 tickets - that's a Good orb and the Baron icon, or a Mega Orb, Blue Essence, and a Key Frag.
If you pay 600 RP, you get a ward and unlock the daily quests, which is 10 tickets a day.
If you pay 2600 1495 RP, you get some more loot, 3 more quest lines, the ward, and the daily quests.
This particular event is a sham, as evidenced by the fact that players had to shame them into lowering the cost of the large bundle. Furthermore, the 600 RP set and the larger one also lose value every day you don't buy them, as the daily quests become more and more worthless as the event goes on. Locking the daily quests for a timed event behind a money purchase is absolutely stupid, and I hope that Riot learns from this and never does it again. I can think of no other FTP game that ever has tied away daily quests behind a money purchase - the dailies for literally every other FTP game are how players without income are able to participate, albeit very very slowly, in the content that people who buy into the game can access more readily.
Daddy Braum1 votesPlayers diddnt shame them into lowering it they had it at a price then took a bunch of stuff out because they thought it was too much It wasnt even up before they reduced the price And its not like the cosmetics affect gameplay so its no that big of a deal if people want a skin they pay for it its not like other games that are pay to win so only getting one orb would still be a nice bonus to those unwilling to pay
Oleandervine1 votesThe Arcade Event page announcing the upcoming event with all the bundles was up long before the event launched. Riot caught a LOT of flack when people saw the pricing of the deluxe bundle and the page was full of people questioning it. When the event went live, there was another post announcing that they "mispriced it," though they also said they knew it was too much and adjusted it to be more friendly to wallets. To me, having a page full of players questioning the pricetag on a bundle before launch, followed by a reduction in the price of the bundle at launch indicates that Riot listened to players and fixed the problem people had. So yes, to me they were shamed into correcting it.
Regarding what you say about the cosmetics being paid and game being free, I understand that. However, events such as this are expressly for cosmetic content. There is no other reason for this kind of event. In that same breath, previous events such as this gave us daily missions for free, just like every other FTP game in existence. Therefore, comparing this model of the Arcade Event to the Order/Chaos event model and to the model of other FTP games, such as Heroes of the Storm, isn't a far cry, nor is it out of the ordinary. League has competitors, and when they severely bungle an event like this and lock the daily content behind payments that it's competitors don't (and hell, HOTS has daily missions at all times), it's bad for business and paints League in a pretty bad light. Its particularly bad for League because daily missions of a limited event by their very nature make the content you're buying depreciate in value every single day you don't buy it, and that feels pretty shitty for a player. You want the most out of your money, and if there is content that is daily that you didn't buy when the event began, you're on the losing end. It's a shit terrible business model for limited events, and that's exactly why competitors don't lock daily quests behind paywalls.
