Update on the shockblade zed chroma pack?

In a Reddit thread about Riot allowing features to linger without getting fixed (a response to Dominion's lack of love from Riot), Riot JxE said this:

I'll give my thoughts on this.

Whenever we experiment with a new feature or idea we're trying to solve a problem of some sort. When we let that feature die it's usually because it didn't do what we theorized it would do. We go back to the drawing board and take another stab at solving that problem.

For instance, when creating Chromas we were trying to solve the problem that we didn't have any personalization content that was between 750 skins and ward skins/icons. We were hoping Chromas would be easy to make content that would fill that gap and give players who wanted cheaper skins some content that would make them happy. What we found was that they weren't that easy to make due to our outdated pipelines and players weren't satisfied with their quality level. With a little more effort we could make 750 skins that players liked more. So we made more 750 skins for now and back to the drawing board to solve the actual problem. Chromas may come back one day, but we need to solve the pipeline problems first.

We like to experiment and try things and sometimes it fails, which leads to dead projects laying around. We realized this isn't ideal and a waste of time so we've been working on creating smaller experiments to test our hypotheses and learn quickly without shipping features we have to support forever. An example of this is the surveys you guys see going out. We're trying to get better at learn as much as possible before committing to an idea.

Long story short, Chromas were one of Riot's numerous experiments that they tried on the players, but found that the amount of work needed for each set didn't match the price they were asking for. So, rather than say or do anything to fix the issue, they let it linger and let player's suffer through their "rethinking" process.

In other words, Chromas were a Riot experiment to try and deliver on adding palette swaps for cheap players, but they discovered that players were more than willing to buy standalone skins at a slightly higher 750 RP price point.

So, no purple ninja for you unless Riot decides to make it a unique, singular skin.

Riot said they're halting the chroma stuff until they can figure out a better system of delivery than just "Buy them for a few bucks on the store!!!"

Or something along those lines. It's still a little weird that they'd make a chroma pack and then decide something like that.

Ghostcrawler said around 5 months ago that there should be an announcement about chromas "very soon." We've heard nothing since then, and no Rioter wants to comment on it.

We're being purposely left in the dark for reasons that they don't really want to tell us.

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i kinda wanna be a purple ninja

.... Sorry I couldn't resist

I'm not surprised when game companies don't want to release information before they're 100% ready.

I mean, just look at what happened with Ao Shin.

Consumers are stupid and latch on to anything that gives them hope, even if it's wrong.