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First, I highly doubt thats how that works since they would need to create new models for the clothing and animate them to fit the previous rig even if they reused then old star guardian assets for that.
Second it literally doesn't matter if they just recolored it and released it since it's not a chroma, it's it's own skin. That means you don't have to own the original skin to buy this one which makes it cost less than it would cost to buy the original and then buy a chroma for the original.
No matter how you look at it this is a good value proposition for players. For fucks sake, even if they reused assets to save time that means they have more time and resources to put towards other skins - including for visual updates of champions since that requires that all old skins for a champion be remade to bring them in line with the new look.
It really feels like your argument comes down to 'I don't think it's good that Riot was able to think of a way to get a higher profit margin out of making a skin without charging the players extra'.
Because thats what happened. Players aren't being charged extra for anything. If you never bought the originals, these are the same value as those and just offer you a different option of equal value. If you did buy the originals and are interested in these variants, they are discounted by half.
What does Riot have to do to please you in this situation? Not making the skins at all seems to be what you're going for despite the fact that other players seem to like them and are happy to have them.
First, they don't need to create entirely new models since they are using the same weapon & particle models & using the same sound effects too.
Second, When they make a new skin for a champ at 1350 rp it always has different weapon & particle models & it uses different sound effects.
And to your last statement "What does Riot have to do to please you in this situation?"
My point is that they have to do nothing to please me. That's the problem. Riot doesn't have to worry about pleasing me. Sadly, it's people like us that determine the price. We by low quality skins at high prices. We're fine with that but the majority of everyone else suffers from the high prices. I mean you do realize that $10 for a mid-tier is a bit pricey compared most other games & not to mention this game has basic graphics & the models are pretty easy to make.
