Switching Skins.

Spooky Zombie··40 votes·2,054 views

I do not know if this is the right board place to put it, but I'm placing it here. My friend and I have both gotten skins for champs we dont use (from mystery gifts) but she plays the champs I got skins for, and she got skins for the champs I play. Now this may sound like a weird idea, but what if Riot/ League of Legends made a system where two friends could trade skins they both own? Say I own a 520 Skin, and she owns a 520 skin. What if we both agreed to trade those skins? I dont know how this system would be set in place, but it would be useful. You could also make it to where if you got a switched skin, you can switch it for another. EDIT: I also want to credit my friend with this (icyblood8156). As some comments suggested, we could make this towards where you have to spend 100RP to do a skin switch, or make it to where you can only trade a certain amount of time. So far rules could go as followed: Be friends with the person for a certain amount of time. Have a limited amount of trades/ make trades cost money. Can only trade skins of the same value. Can only trade a skin that was not gotten from a previous trade. The way I see it, if my friend has a 975 skin that's in the vault that I want, and I dont have any 975's she wants. I would buy a 975 just to trade with her. So this could potentially be a way Riot also gains money. There would be zero profit, however, if we both switched previously owned skins.

22 Comments

Gwen Stacy5 votes

Why not make a 3 trade limit just like refunding? That way players don't abuse sales or trade too often?

Spooky Zombie1 votes

Great idea.

Pykel1 votes

but maybe this time we get a recharge? like one extra every 6 months? hard to abuse one extra trade every so often.

Hello I am Bird1 votes

R.I.P in peace refunds ;~;

Heckin Support1 votes

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Why not make a 3 trade limit just like refunding? That way players don't abuse sales or trade too often?

This might be best. I'm not sure how, but I am sure that someone will find a way to exploit this and ruin it for everyone else.

Olath Quortek4 votes

Hey Rito... Tack a 100RP cost on this and make more money! :D

Honestly I love the idea and I would be willing to pay something like 100RP, maybe even a bit more, for this.

Shinjusuke1 votes

They'd lose a ton of money.

Currently, if you want a skin, you buy the skin. If you could trade, even with an rp tax, all you'd have to do is just find someone with the desired skin and trade for it. Assuming you had a skin to trade every time, no skin would ever cost you more than 100 rp anymore.

Plus, assuming you're trading a 975rp skin, it would take 10 trades to match/exceed the rp spent in the current system. So, the only way riot would profit from trades is if it was so frequently used by people who currently don't purchase skins that for every person who currently DOES buy the skin, 10 people who play now but don't buy skins would do at least 1 trade. For every skin purchase ever made in the current system.

TL:DR it would very likely NOT be profitable for Riot.

Olath Quortek1 votes

Shrug... All the things you say are true... But I still like the idea! :D

Spooky Zombie1 votes

Well, I did edit this to where it seems like they could gain money/ break even. If my friend has a 975 Skin for a champion I want, that is now in the vault, I would end up buying a 975 from the store that she wants. So there, they just earned some money. But, I can see how they would not profit if we both switched 975 skins that we previously owned.

Jack º2 votes

I would put in a Support ticket ... but switching skins would be a cool idea

Spooky Zombie1 votes

Help me make this a thing <3<3

PenguinOverlord82 votes

;-; My mystery gifting luck is weird. Last time I got mystery gifted I got Blackfrost Anivia and RavenBorn Lb. I suck at both of those champs xD

Spooky Zombie1 votes

Perfect excuse to try and get this to become a thing. :D

But Im Nunu2 votes

But I think that's the point of a mystery gift though. If you can trade then you have a choice. Trading websites will be popping up and you can just pick whatever skin you want, buy a mystery gift for cheap, and get the skin you want. Although I like the idea and all, but the devil's advocate says differently

Spooky Zombie1 votes

Well, they could make it to where you can only trade if you're friends with the person for a certain period of time. And as a previous comment said, make it to where you only have 3 trade options or something.

But Im Nunu2 votes

Technically after me :P but I like it. Put a limit on the number of trades you can do. However, then we would have to listen to those complaints saying to give people more and more...(but I guess Riot can ignore this part just like they ignore the ones for refunds)

UpwardAvalanche1 votes

my friend never plays annie but has the majority of her skins from mystery gifts

Virgin Ray1 votes

Me- Can I get your PAX TF for my ultra rare unchained alistar? Guy- OMFG YES PLS Trade Successful Guy- OMFG I GOT RIPPED OFF!!!!!

Spooky Zombie1 votes

Yeah that's why I said "trade only if the skins are the same price." Can't have people get ripped off.

Virgin Ray1 votes

Yea, but how would the system work for limited skins, like PAX TF Black Alistar and PAX Jax?

Spooky Zombie1 votes

Same priced Skins. People just better be smart enough to know they are giving up a limited skin if they aren't getting a limited back.

Sarutobi1 votes

Things like trading skins have been talked about for awhile. While it would be nice. It would defeat the purpose of skins in the shop and they would lose a lot of money. Because people would just keep trading and possible not buy any more new skins because they can just trade with their friends over and over again. If they do something like it's obviously going to involve using RP, possibly only being able to do trade with friends, and there has to be a limit, hopefully not something like refunds (having it only happen 1-3 times and never getting to use it again) but it also cannot be a daily thing like mystery gift because it could be heavily abused, especially with compromised accounts.

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