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Prestige Qiyana skin is unfair and money-grubbing

Exostretch·11/11/2019, 3:43:38 AM·3 votes·1,863 views

Ok so the prestige true damage Qiyana skin costs 2000 worlds tokens. I don't know if it was just me, but I had no idea if the skin would cost worlds tokens, prestige points, or another kind of event token. If I wanted to get that skin, I would have to purchase a lot of tokens, or the worlds 2019 pass (I have around 1000 tokens sitting in there right now). If I had previously purchased the prestige riven skin or the prestige points, I would have very little worlds tokens. If worlds tokens in can be earned for 9 more days, and I needed 1000 more, I would need to buy the season pass AND THEN play around 80 games of summoners rift, assuming I win EVERY ONE OF THEM. 80 games, in 9 days... Including school/work and sleep. Assuming you win every game, and every game takes 30 minutes (Counting queue times) it would take 40 HOURS OF PURE LEAGUE to get the tokens you needed. With a more realistic win rate of 50%, it would take about 60 hours. Let's assume you sleep for 6 hours of the day and play league for the other 18. You don't work, go to school, or even eat this whole time. In 3.3 days, you'd get the tokens. But let's water that down, and say you only have 10 hours of spare time. Then it would take 6 days.

That's kind of stupid NGL. Riot's basically invading your wallet and demanding that you either play the shit out of their game, or you buy loads of tokens. Hell, even on the official Worlds 2019 event infomation page, nothing is said about Qiyana. I know it was supposed to be a surprise (Thanks PBE), but riot could have said something like "Another skin is coming, get ready". Really anything would have been helpful.

I don't even want to talk about how more prestige skins are purchased with event tokens than prestige points, that's another post entirely...

TLDR: Not enough notice was given for the Qiyana skin and I feel as if I need to purchase worlds tokens in packs in order to get it.

25 Comments

101101010010100011/11/2019, 3:46:58 AM9 votes

it was announced in July that qiyana was tokens. it was announced that she was for tokens whenever the worlds pass was teased. it was announced to be for tokens when high noon hit. it was announced to be tokens whenever they officially teased the rest of the prestige skins for the rest of the season, and it sat on the home page. there's pass information where you can see everything. community sites made articles about her being prestige. we've had since the pass hit to get tokens for qiyana.

Dynikus11/11/2019, 4:02:48 AM7 votes

These are a lot of complaints that ultimately just come down to you paid absolutely no attention to the event. Riot gave literal months of notice about this skin's release. You have no one but yourself to blame for not knowing about it.

STEG011/11/2019, 3:46:38 AM4 votes

You aren't wrong that the low notice on this will cause lots of people to buy way more orbs (or w/e the tokens come in) when they realize farming it out in 9 days is impossible.

TheLastShadow4511/11/2019, 5:07:35 AM1 votes

Actually if you had bought the pass from the start you would be closer than you think and take less time. The pass gives a "First win of the day" mission that you could also just play 3 games if you don't win any that gives 18 tokens.

And as others have stated, this skin was announced months ago.

DreamerP11/12/2019, 12:39:48 AM1 votes

I'm in the same boat as the OP, Why release the skin with the "Prestige Title" and not let it be bought with Prestige Tokens? I only bought the World Pass for the Free Gem Stones. They obviously knew what they were doing with that information and knew it would happen this way. Along with that the season is coming to a close and people have hardly anytime to actually research anything w/o wasting time. It just all feels like a giant fuck you to the face, because even if I don't get the skin I'm going to end up with 100 Prestige Points, that will get access to skins I don't like and the sad part is my Points will fade at the end of the year because of another fuck you courtesy of Riot Games