Opinion: Eternals are a Good Concept, but Their Execution isn't.

Zerenza··9 votes·6,680 views

Dear Riot Games.

I like the idea of Champion Specific stat's that player's can show off with their Favorite Champions, that's honestly nice, good job there.

I'd been wanting a more rewarding experience for player's that like to One Trick champions and do well with them, reaching Mastery 7 is, right now, the only way that you can do that.

I wish there were actual rewards for it too , such as Skin's that are linked to Champion Mastery, Prestige Tokens being obtained from Mastery Points gained after Mastery 7. Extreme milestones like 250,000 Mastery Points, 500,000 Mastery Points giving Skin Shards of that same champion. Thing's like that would be nice.

Eternal's are good and interesting, i like the idea but my problem with it is that it's locked behind a Paywall. I think that when it comes to showing off Skill and Mastery of the game, that it should be Free. Maybe you could get Eternal's for a specific champion by reaching 250k or 500k Mastery Points with them. That's well over 200-400 games with them, it requires a lot of work and i think a perfect reward is Eternal's.

Even if you wanted to keep it so you could buy them, make the Eternals earned for free a little different from the ones that are Bought so that people know how hard that player worked to get it.

Again, i like the Idea and i appreciate the thought but i think it's a wrong direction and puts a bad taste in my mouth.

5 Comments

Hazardus ducees1 votes

This is a great idea. Though, they may have to make some specific thresholds for mastery 7 points in order to gift it. Point being made here, RIOT wants their money and Tencent has forced RIOT's hands to get paid that way. Its almost as if China has a problem with the rest of the world.... -.-

Death by Glamour2 votes

[{quoted}](name=Hazardus ducees,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=ydhwWBI1,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2019-08-18T04:02:15.373+0000)

This is a great idea. Though, they may have to make some specific thresholds for mastery 7 points in order to gift it. Point being made here, RIOT wants their money and Tencent has forced RIOT's hands to get paid that way. Its almost as if China has a problem with the rest of the world.... -.-

Really?...

Far more likely its a company trying shore up lost revenue.

Hazardus ducees1 votes

Technically, making more products free actually decreases profits. "Skin's linked to Mastery and Prestige Tokens obtained from Mastery Points after Mastery 7- like 250,000 Mastery Points and 500,000 Mastery Points are good indicators to get them." If they really want to have their money, then the best thing to do is lower the overall prices and make more products with less detail and hard work within them.

Death by Glamour1 votes

The best thing for them to do is to fix the game rather than trying to milk the customer dry.

Oleandervine1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Hazardus ducees,realm=NA,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=ydhwWBI1,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2019-08-18T04:02:15.373+0000)

This is a great idea. Though, they may have to make some specific thresholds for mastery 7 points in order to gift it. Point being made here, RIOT wants their money and Tencent has forced RIOT's hands to get paid that way. Its almost as if China has a problem with the rest of the world.... -.-

Tencent has owned Riot since like 2011. Why do people suddenly start to blame Tencent for Riot's bad products like 8 years after they acquired the company? This is not Tencent's fault. Tencent I'd wager has generally let Riot do their own thing for the past 8 years - good investors do this, they don't cut open their goose that lays the golden eggs looking for the source of the gold. This bad product is Riot's fault. Not Tencent's. This is the result of a company trying to find new things to monetize, but having bad product planners who don't know their asses from holes in the ground. There are TONS of openings in aesthetics that Riot could have chosen to monetize, a great many of them that players have been begging for for years, yet for some reason their product planners don't listen or even acknowledge this.

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