Prestige skin complaint theory

Shmeeve·1/10/2019, 10:54:24 PM·1 votes·751 views

So people are angry and going on about the 120$ skin prestige aatrox... I mean, understandable. But seriously, why are you complaining about this if you do open up to the mind that its out over the course of the year, you do not HAVE to buy it instantly for over a hundred bucks. Just buy a capsule pack during each event of the year and get tokens from there instead of instantly buying a crap ton of them on the getgo for over a hundred dollars. I just wanted to put this out there to hope this just might slow down the non stop stuff about the aatrox skin cost... it's just a gold variant of the blood moon skin for aatrox, I do not see why people are saying this is unfair to get, its just the blood moon aatrox skin but gold, nothing else different about it... if you want just buy the regular one for god sake...

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Dynikus1/10/2019, 11:16:07 PM3 votes

Because it's an extremely blatant cash grab. They just slapped the word exclusive on a gold chroma and priced it at $105. Which is dumb enough as it is, but what makes it even worse is that previous prestige skins were only $15, and you could pretty easily get enough tokens from just playing the game regularly. Their value is entirely artificial, and they add very, very little compared to their base skins, yet they cost over 4x as much as an ultimate skin.

They're the riot version of the exclusive shit meme.

Noxian Pride1/10/2019, 11:17:32 PM2 votes

A few things

The primary complaint is people feel the skin isn't worth the $80 (cheapest way to currently get the Blood Moon Aatrox equivalent), given it's essentially a glorified chroma for an epic as opposed to, say, a legendary/ultimate skin.

And to address your view with the capsule pack (by which I assume you mean the gemstone one, because I'm not chucking $40 at the RNG without someone giving me $40 for the RNG): It's probably safe to assume these are only appearing with more prestige skins. Basically meaning either

A: Not enough of them will appear (less than 5 prestiges within a year)

Or, more likely B: Multiple prestiges will appear that you like enough to consider, and now that immense price tag is forcing you to choose between them and be unable to get the other through this method.

This is ignoring option's C or D: The capsule (gemstone) packs stop appearing/go up in price

While they're a bit of a more niche community, it could also be argued this is screwing over any completionist who isn't swimming in money.

If the skins were of a noticeably higher quality, or achieveable through a non-monetary method (or at least a significantly less money-requiring method, I.E. the passes they used for the first two), these complaints would probably die down considerably.