PSA: Coloring something brass doesn't make it worth actual gold.

The Ecdysiast·1/11/2019, 5:32:11 AM·4 votes·2,003 views

To anyone who doesn't realize, you can buy Elementalist Lux for only $25. That one skin has 9 unique costumes all with different VFX and unique voice lines.

So if that's the precedent set by Riot-- that a very high quality skin that includes a ton of content is priced at $25-- why would you, as a sane individual, pay upwards of $100 dollars for a skin that is only a brass version of a different one, with nothing unique?

I reiterate, the color BRASS does not make something worth GOLD.

(nevermind the fact that in addition to the price, Prestige K/DA Akali in her shroud looks god awful compared to the base skin)

9 Comments

luciferonus1/11/2019, 6:57:42 AM1 votes

color variety for default skin should be free as well.

Rathar Dashing1/11/2019, 8:40:05 AM1 votes

Well, to be fair, you're getting a lot more than just the prestige skin, you're getting a tonne of capsules, gemstones, and other goodies, too. When I bought the 400 token thing so I could get Prestige Akali without having to grind around Christmas, I ended up getting like 10 other awesome skins I wanted, including DJ Sona (which a friend already bought for me for Christmas, rip) and 3 gemstones, and finally got the Zoe emote.

Sorostaran1/11/2019, 10:35:43 AM1 votes

The problem isn't so much that Rito don't get to set the monetary values for their content. The problem is that once the players have a basis for comparison for those monetary values already established by Rito, deviating too far from them triggers primate outrage responses.

You can have variable values for different recolors, but if you stretch the differences too far, then people feel too cheated to purchase them, so they don't.