Emotes from Hextech

Rafflecopter·11/14/2017, 5:38:32 PM·9 votes·4,261 views

So I just got my first S on Wukong, pretty pumped about that. Get into the lobby screen to see that I just got myself a new chest. Pretty sweet deal, now I can finally use one of the multitudes of keys I got for logging in everyday. Opened up the box to find........ Another box? And another key? And that Lux emote. OK...cool. Well at least I got a free chest and key out of it, lets see what that one has. Oh....another emote. Its the Ziggs one at that. Thanks Riot, but can we go back to only having skins and champ shards in boxes? Ward skins can stay I guess, at least those are a good way to get some free orange essence. But seriously, why (besides the obvious cash grab reasons) did you even add emotes to this game. None of them are even good enough to troll with. I can see just throwing them into the store for people that have more money than sense. But leave them there. Don't make them auto-unlocked permanent things from loot crates. I would have much preferred to disenchant them for my breadcrumbs of essence, rather than have them sit forgotten and unused on the back page of my collection. This is just as bad as getting two Santa Gragas shards from the worlds event. This is like buying a dollar scratch off ticket, and winning a quarter from it. Yea, you won something, but was it really worth it? BTW I like your game, just leave emotes out of the boxes. At least my boxes. [slayer-jinx-wink]

13 Comments

hhaavviikk11/14/2017, 6:31:20 PM7 votes

holy shit you can get nothing but an emote from a lootbox? that's some bullshit right there, should definitely be changed

BobaFlautist11/14/2017, 6:41:43 PM4 votes

Honestly, it's more like winning a page of stickers from a 10¢ scratch card. Sure, the value may technically be higher than what you paid, but most people don't buy scratch cards hoping to get stickers.

iGaveUpAtLast1/7/2018, 6:06:22 PM4 votes

HALF of the 10 chests I opened yesterday contained only emotes. I wouldn't even complain if you could at least disenchant them into an appropriate amount of orange essence but nooo they're permanent. Thanks but no thanks, I don't use stickers and have no interest in doing so whatsoever. I occassionally bought boxes in the past but I sure as hell will stay away from that gamble from now on.

GigiBecali0071/1/2018, 10:35:03 AM2 votes

This is not ok. I mean after the lift in level cap it began being harder to get champs. Now RIOT takes even hextech rewards. I invested 30$ already only in hextech and all i got was F*****G EM0TES. If it keeps going like this League will become very lonely.

OverpoweredSoap11/14/2017, 7:59:06 PM2 votes

Emotes were literally added into the game for this exact reason, to inflate chests.

HoTS did the same thing, they introduced sprays so they could inflate the lootboxes and now they add at least 20 new sprays per patch (to be _somewhat _ fair though, you can actually get 4 items from a lootbox every time).

Its scummy, but I honestly see very little reason to add things like this into the game besides inflating the chests.

Emotes are overpriced in the first place so that when you get them from a chest you feel like "oh well at least I didn't waste RP on that".

You could argue that emotes are here to express how one feels during a match but if that was the true intention then they wouldn't cost that much and they would have at least have some BE cost so if you really wanted to express a feeling you could do so by sacrificing some BE.

ASAP Sparks6/1/2019, 3:23:01 AM1 votes

Let's be honest... The REAL problem is that there is an emote and icon tab in the loot collection menu, but when you receive an emote/icon from unlocking a chest or capsule, it is AUTOMATICALLY unlocked. Idk about receiving duplicate emotes and icons, because there's 3580256 different ones. I don't want to automatically unlock it. I'll take my 20-80 essence, instead, please.item 3400

DariusDemiurge11/14/2017, 6:32:58 PM1 votes

Slightly less bad than icons. Slightly.

Infernape11/14/2017, 6:34:05 PM1 votes

The only good emote is the Blitz one. Even then, I would not pay for it.

turboExtra11/25/2017, 10:09:49 AM1 votes

hey i got two emotes from hextech boxes but they dont exist in my collection, they dont exist in my loot, they dont exist in the store anymore.. so all in all i got absolutely nothing from my boxes. oh and mine were from RP. consider yourself blessed.

AlonellyFox1/4/2018, 1:20:47 PM1 votes

"Every mistake is a lesson." As Wukong said. But we won't get a chest + key back if they do something with it. (THEY DON'T F****NG CARE ABOUT IT) There is a lot of mistakes. Amumu item 3070