I feel like riot has forgotten theyre an american company... Dont places like Brazil and china do their local holiday events/get gifts? Portugal still has their bonkers good new player campaign, right?
Riot has become more of a shit tier low effort half assed company as of late seasons.
It's because of the Drakes.
The new map changes have made it so they can't use the snow map anymore.
They still gave us Poro King and My shop, and the Sugar Rush skins prominently feature Gingerbread Men for a reason.
However they neglected a proper Christmas event because they couldn't give us the Christmas map.
The NA playerbase is practically nothing compared to the China playerbase. The difference is actually nuts.
Greed and/or laze probably.
Riot's official answer was they weren't selling as much skins from snow down show down. So they didnt do them, and did Sugar Rush instead.
They are Chinese since 2011.
It is sad they did not do an event. Season 2 had an amazing Christmas event .
If that were true they'd do Chinese new year. Year of the Rat. Supposedly Twitch will get a skin, but it'll be later in the year.
They have a whole marketing department dedicated to those decisions so I'm just gonna take a guess and say christmas skins were not top sellers. Now you could go the whole greedy company route but the greedy stuff is releasing two yasuo skins within 3 months of each other. This is forgoing an entire theme which tells me the issue was player satisfaction with christmas themed stuff was not high. It's not "wow this isn't raking in enough money" it's "oh a lot of people aren't interested in this we should do something else."
I feel like riot has forgotten theyre an american company... Dont places like Brazil and china do their local holiday events/get gifts? Portugal still has their bonkers good new player campaign, right?
They are Chinese since 2011.
It is sad they did not do an event. Season 2 had an amazing Christmas event .
What does being American have to do with Christmas or New Year's? If anything, the fact that the US is a conglomeration of many different backgrounds would make the place less likely to have a consistent holiday representation considering the many cultural groups celebrate different winter festivals and even dates for both types of events.
chinese overlords didn't want it so...
