How do you feel about Riot re-releasing skins that were previously locked away in the vault
do you think bringing them back into the shop cheapens them or do you think making them more widely available is a good thing?
Seasonal skins, promotional skins, Worlds skins, ect.
Daen2 votesI think it's smart; LE skins were pretty much never seen in games, so they served almost no purpose.
That being said, I feel the original owners should have been rewarded in a more noticeable way. These players supported Riot very early in LoL's development and were under the impression that these skins would be something they could be proud of until the end of time.
Allowing everyone to access these skins without retaining significant individuality for the original owners harshly devalues them.
Ryster1 votesDaen gets it.
A lot of the LE owners are understanding of bringing them back out, but we just requested that we actually got compensated based on what we want, none of us got surveys asking what we would be happy with, even though we were supposed to receive a survey after the release of everything asking us if they compensated us enough or not. Which we still haven't gotten.
I don't want RP back, I didn't want a simple icon, and I didn't want my splash art to have silly white lines on it. Make something about the skin different in game for us that makes it special during the longer part of this game, not the ~3 minutes sitting on the loading screen. Possibly add a glow or small particle effects to the champion for example.
That being said, I don't know if Riot is even listening to any of the complaints, since our population is dwindling in comparison to the vast amount of new players.
My thoughts.
Daen1 votesThat being said, I don't know if Riot is even listening to any of the complaints, since our population is dwindling in comparison to the vast amount of new players.
I think this can be more logically attributed to a benefit analysis rather than Riot not listening to complaints. If Riot has x amount of resources, what should they be used for to benefit the most players in the most significant way?
Pwyff made a good post relating to this recently:
Going off what I said earlier about self-perpetuating bubbles, it's tough to prioritize work on specific player needs when conversations hit such a critical mass that gauging concepts by passionate conversations means everything is a priority. In other words, once a conversation reaches more than a few hundred participants, it becomes A Very Big Deal to those players, and League has enough passionate players that this means every issue is now A Very Big Deal.
Now. While this is important, I also think that there has been some pretty significant underestimation of how important a given issue might be. The LE skins thing was huge, and it was clear that there wasn't a ton of effort put into the solution. The opening of the vault was a pretty negative PR situation, and I think it was somewhat underestimated.
Ryster1 votesI guess saying they don't listen to our complaints is kind of rash to say, but it is just disheartening when Riot Hippo said they would send out surveys to all the owners asking their thoughts on the matter, and it has been months past the last group of LE skins that were re-released, and almost a year since this event happened. And still, no survey and no word about it.
Even a Soon™ would at least give me hope on it. I understand Riot is busy, but Hippo plz...
Linna Excel1 votesI'm fine with it.
Lumus Avatar1 votesIt's a double edged sword. I'm a new player, so I really like being able to get a couple of the awesome skins I missed by not joining sooner. At the same time, I fully empathize with players who had bought the skins on their original release and felt cool that no one else could get them. It's quite normal and common to feel cool for having something that someone else can't, so YES re-releasing them does reduce their value, but since it was a limited purchasing window, it is not reduced to zero. There are still many people who will marvel at your cool skin that they can't have. I do, however, see Crimson Akali about every third game now. She's very popular and now many many people have her, myself included.
Linna Excel1 votesYou know, for me I don't really care if someone else was to buy a limited ed skin if I owned one. As long as I could get one, I'm happy. I don't have a need to feel elitist or exclude others from ever getting a skin.
To me, skins are not a status symbol or anything like that.
Itzon1 votesI think this problem could be solved with the lifetime RP rewards! If your account is active for X amount of years OR spent X amount of money over x amount of time OR unlocked however many specifics in the store, you open up the possibility for THOSE people a chance to purchase limited skins.
The original owners of those limited skins will still have some sort of special ribbon/effect on splash for those skins as a bonus.
This will limit how many people get those limited skins.
Itzon1 votesNo Championship Riven or URF Warwick skins makes me sad
Lumus Avatar1 votes"You know, for me I don't really care if someone else was to buy a limited ed skin if I owned one."
That's a good way to look at it. I'm not saying everyone views them as status symbols. But I am saying that some people do, and that it is understandable.
