Riot should add a "Pity Timer" for Gemstones

ModCaptainMårvelous··34 votes·1,886 views

For those who don't know: In games like Hearthstone and Overwatch, there's an invisible timer in their packs/loot boxes that slowly builds up. Every time you don't get a legendary, your pity timer increases. Eventually, the odds are so heavily stacked in your favor you're bound to get a legendary card/skin.

As of now, Gemstones are stupidly rare with no way to swing RNG in your favor sans buy more boxes. And frankly, it feels shitty opening your fourth box of the month and getting another champion shard. Please note some things:

  • It won't suddenly make everyone get the hextech gems.
  • Still favors paying customers (Because Riot loves their profit).
  • Makes you feel a little better overall. "Well that was a crap box but hey at least my timer went up".

With the third crafted skin this patch, maybe it's about time Riot addressed the pitiful state of getting gemstones without forking over hundreds of dollars.

27 Comments

Tha Plague5 votes

agreed I have 3 gemstones after 1 year and I wanted soul stealer vayne , but I probably will be over lol by the time I can get her smh

DrCyanide2 votes

2 gemstones here. I feel like there's going to be 10 skins to pick from by the time I get enough for one skin.

Ariel the Cruel3 votes

I just want to know why, as a support main, I keep getting A's and A+'s on everything. . . . . . Except when I play support.

Gems be damned. I can't even get a chest if my grades are determined by a D20!

Terozu2 votes

There's already a pity timer on key shards.

ModCaptainMårvelous6 votes

Those aren't gems though.

And they shouldn't be related.

Aeszarck4 votes

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There's already a pity timer on key shards.

I think there's also a pity timer on crit.

junglerboy163 votes

More of a pseudo timer but yeah, same general idea.

The King Discord2 votes

only good skin of the hextec crafting skins is the darius skin soulstealer vayne is a TRASH skin not even worth the time and effort and $ to obtain it

GreenWithEnvee1 votes

Agree. It looks like a 5 year old designed it

The Ecdysiast4 votes

But why try for the Darius one if you can dunk people with a slamjamsketball?

SayoriIsBigSad1 votes

Some people prefer edginess over memes

The Ecdysiast1 votes

The warhammer 2000 Darius skin is a meme.

robotgame2 votes

what are gemstone even? i have never heard of this.

Aeszarck1 votes

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what are gemstone even? i have never heard of this.

Rare Material found in Hextech Chest. When you get Loot, you have a small chance of getting a reagent. This reagent can either be some Cosmetic Essence, some Champion Essence, or a Gemstone. Gemstones can be consumed to create a Hextech Chest and a Hextech Key. Five can be fused together to form a Ward Skin. (Available Skins: Hextech Ward.) Ten can be fused together to form a Skin. (Available Skins: Hextech Annie, Soulstealer Vayne, Dreadnova Darius.)

Bob the Toastr1 votes

That's like putting a 'pity timer' on the lottery. It defeats the purpose of it.

ModCaptainMårvelous2 votes

The irony is there is a pity system in the lottery for matching numbers for smaller rewards.

Besides, you're comparing a 1350-ish skin (About 10 bucks) to several million dollars.

The Ecdysiast1 votes

They want you to pay money for this. There is no reason they should give away more things for free in exchange for simply playing the game, since the privilege of playing the game does not cost money.

ModCaptainMårvelous2 votes

There's a right way and a wrong way to encourage this however.

The gem system currently feels incredibly scummy and you can check the feedback on Dreadnova darius to see how people feel about hextech skins. If it wasn't so heavily skewed towards money, people wouldn't care as much.

The Ecdysiast2 votes

Oh, don't get me wrong. I don't think it's at all fair to require a grand total of about 900 dollars just for three skins, but they don't need to give things away for free either.

ModCaptainMårvelous2 votes

Hence why I suggested a pity timer.

It doesn't suddenly throw out gemstones like candy but by the same extent you can exchange time for more gems. (As well as lowering the $800 cost by a few dollars or so).

A less-viable solution would be "EVERY THIRD CHEST GETS A GEMSTONE" or something to that extent.

Supreme Senpai691 votes

I just want some dang keys. I've had 10 boxes since december, and it finally went down to 9 (I opened two boxes in 4 months, but I got another box since then.)

PillowVillow1 votes

Eh, it's not that rare. I usually get one every like 5-7 boxes. But, maybe a pity timer of every 10-15 boxes would be appreciated.

yay nibbers1 votes

Forget gemstones, can we get a pity counter for skin shards? I only just last night got a skin shard after I think almost ten chests of champ shards that I can't even use at the moment because I already own all the champs. Do you know how shitty it is to actually pay for keys to open those extra chests only to get essentially the same worthless thing over and over again?

Fegone1 votes

I have gotten about 30 chests so far (last season + this season) and I have gotten zero Gems so far :D

FakeGravity1 votes

im very aware that i will never get enough gems for a skin and is more likely i get one of the hextech skins shards so if i get one i just turn it into a chest

the notion that you will eventually get one gem no matter what is a strong feeling that leads ppl to spend money, it works on every game like a waranty rare card in TCGs and stuff like that

Krigjer1 votes

I've never gotten a single gemstone.

I bought two 10packs before, plus... estimating two dozen free boxes, maybe more. I understand RNG is RNG and I generally have bad rng (but hey I got Spirit Guard Udyr! Don't play him but yay!) . I already don't like gambling, but not even 1 in 50 odds of a SINGLE piece I need (when you need 10!) means you're just not getting my money.

zaire901 votes

lol ive gotten one gemstone and i havent missed a chest yet dont know the exact numbers but im sitting on 6 chests rn so if anyone can do the math out of all of those i only got one gem

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