Deactivating Rare Skin Codes did more harm than good.

HEAR ME OUT HERE.

Idgaf if I get scammed if I try to buy a code off something as unmoderated as Ebay. I deserve to get scammed if I try to get the codes that way. On the other hand, sites like Ace Skins and LoL Skin shop were legit af. They usually even sponsored and/or supplied numerous Pro/Semi-Pro Streams and Twitter accounts that would give them away to followers and subscribers. This was great for both stream interactivity, and increasing stream viewers.

As soon as Riot deactivated the Rare Skin codes probably 1/3rd of them switched to Tutoring services. The other 2/3rds moved on to making money from Elo Boosting and selling scripts. Both against ToS. Both triggered by the removal of their former revenue stream.