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Why did you repeat the same mistakes with the Content Creator Program? Completely avoidable.

Resolution·10/21/2018, 5:17:53 PM·16 votes·10,131 views

About four years ago, there was a huge black market on eBay for skin codes. It got to the point people were selling one of the Pax skins for $1000+. To help combat the resell of event skin codes, Riot decided to discontinue all codes and for a time tried combating this practice.

Riot is taking action against these scammers at the source. If you have a skin code that you acquired legitimately please send a request to Player Support and include proof of ownership. We’d be happy to help redeem the content to your account, but please note after 07/23/14 we will no longer be redeeming codes for any reason."

Now that the "Partner Program" is out, your going to see this exact market re-open.

Every few patches brings a new, exclusive chroma to give away to your viewers. The more your audience grows, the more codes you’ll get to give.

I've already seen one of the Sona Emotes go up on Ebay, and I'm sure once you distribute the Infernal Amumu to content creators, a few will pop up as well. What's to prevent a player from keeping a code or giving them to friends for later resale?

11 Comments

Kitstra10/21/2018, 5:32:49 PM8 votes

They haven't even announced who has been partnered yet. Entire programs a mess currently.

ModCaptainMårvelous10/21/2018, 9:14:03 PM7 votes

Not really the same thing.

Uncontrolled code give-aways (Rioters just handing out free codes as they wish) vs. controlled and selective giveaways. I'm also willing to bet that Riot has tracking to determined who gives away what and can monitor code-giveaways. This would mean that if you do try to sell your code on ebay, Riot could likely track down your codes and see that you're not having contests, giveaways, etc.

TheMysticWar10/21/2018, 9:35:43 PM6 votes

The worst part as an original Kitty Cat Katarina and Red Card owner is that they’re locking content AGAIN Imagine how shitty it felt not being able to get your favourite skin because they were limited. The fact that theyr doing it now with chromas and emotes doesn’t change anything

And now they are giving codes for limited content... it looks like they forgot what happened with PAX skins https://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/store/sales/plan-vintage-limited-edition-skins This article should be enough to why this shouldn’t be happening in the first place

Dethflash10/21/2018, 5:32:12 PM3 votes

I see 1 of 2 things happening. Either Riot ignores this already growing issue and its just blows up like the skin codes did, or they eventually take notice and figure out some way around it. Im assuming Riot is just going to ignore it for several years.

Jeddite10/21/2018, 7:20:56 PM1 votes

I bought my Pax Jax and Pax Sivir codes from a female coworker for $10 each. =]

Oznap10/21/2018, 11:53:53 PM1 votes

I don't see why it needs to be limited as if they need exclusive content for content creators they can just keep the same thing. They recycled medieval Twitch and Grey Warwick from friend referral to honor system. Unchained Alistair and Riot Girl Tristana where just taken out of the system and could easily be put back in for streamers. Would actually like some more interesting exclusives being presented like for TF2 has the Saxxy for people who win the Saxxy Awards they wouldn't be limited of course but would be a achievement for those who own it.

If they want to limit stuff they should prob give it a year or something before locking it away for good. A month seems pretty short for this kind of exclusive content and was pretty under the radar for most people.

I don't mind exclusive content just as long as the system implemented is fair. That being said not all content creators are created equally and some would abuse this system to get some quick cash. Riot could prob find their own system of doing this so they could keep it from being abused but I don't think they have something atm.

Yordle Xayah10/22/2018, 1:45:14 PM1 votes

It's probably not even the content creators. Someone probably gets a code in a creator raffle or whatever and then they go and sell it.