What if Riot sold Skins from over 5 (or so) years ago for the IP amount value as well? But with restrictions

Rew711··18 votes·1,262 views

All skins being sold for IP must be under the 520 RP mark. Skins that are rare 520 RP will not be included.

They will cost around 1350 to 3150 each. Somewhere in between.

Reasons

There are over 250 skins now. That including rare and average skins.

Each skin costs $4 dollars (at least). That's at least a good $1,000 dollars in revenue for little cost to Riot.

Also, people will still use RP to buy skins. Considering the same goes for the Champion themselves.

Why not more expensive?

You already got the champion, you shouldn't spend the rest of your life trying to get 1 skin that costs $4 bucks by RP standards. Though getting 1350 IP isn't much either, even 3150 IP will not satisfy the old players with their large quantities. I think.

These are old skins Riot. Skins you yourself said you do not plan to update in the future. Skins that are outdated by newer, flashier ones that do more.

I honestly like quality more than quantity, but these skins don't get the quality they need until a champion update or such. Just a brush over on its lighting or color.

I would ask to the same about the Chromas, but those themselves should be a reward to the player... meaning that they should be available when a player reaches level 5 on Champion Mastery. These Chromas should cost the player to buy, though (to get rid of excess IP or to even spend RP for your pleasure Rito) they should stay in the 1350 to 3150 area.

17 Comments

Izbiz6 votes

Just to play devil's advocate, I would then like all my RP that I spent on those skins back since I can now buy them with IP.

Retillin3 votes

Well sure, as long as you have refunds left and bought them less than 90 days ago. That is their policy for refunds. So I think you would be out of luck.

Downfall5 votes

What he's trying to get at here, is this is unlikely to happen because then all the people who spent their money on the skins with the assumption you could not get them with IP, would feel cheated out of their money and want it back considering that content is available for IP now.

Retillin1 votes

Oh I know. But it's the same issue with reworked champions. "I didn't buy this Sion, I don't like him I want my old one back".

Twëek3 votes

The product itself changing is a little different from a product being available for RP only and then having an IP pricing scheme introduced later. There was never a spoken guarantee that a champion will never change, but Riot has been firm about skins being RP-only. Not only that, but champions are always available for IP. If you bought a champion for RP, that was your choice to do so. With skins you have always had no choice but to buy them with RP.

Now admittedly, they were firm about limited skins never going on sale again... But I still don't think that justifies a similar case of going back on their word, and even then it was a pretty different goal. This wouldn't make any exclusive content available and, probably more importantly, wouldn't turn a profit.

Retillin1 votes

Well we MIGHT all (mostly) getting a free champion during the next event. If you are maxed out on champions you don't get RP/IP to make up for it. I just don't see them giving people RP back for skins if they switched some to IP.

Downfall1 votes

That's the thing, I think that they they won't give people their RP back, because they won't make skins available for IP. And as mentioned before you know that there are ways to get champions for free without spending IP (Unlocking a skin without owning the champion, either through getting them from codes such as Arcade Hecarim or through liking riot's facebook page for Riot girl tristana or following them on youtube or twitter for alistar or garen) and you spend the IP or RP on them knowing that at SOME POINT down the road you may have the opportunity to get that champion for free.

Rew7111 votes

I'm not commenting to down grate but when you said Riot hasn't gone back on its word, it did make me feel sad to see that Riot's taken the lore out of LoL. That was their main bread and butter, so to speak, of getting a fan base.

Since then, Riot's done many things since that time to start earning money. They have the LC$, they have a Riot merchandise store, and even sell icons, ward skins, and bonuses for RP.

True, I can't see this making them any profit, but mostly because of lack in interest. People would rather a new skin, that has something with it. Not even old skins like Lord Mordekaiser that cost 975 RP will give what a new 750 RP skin will give. People also will usually just get the skin or champion for RP when they are on sale.

Old Man Teeto1 votes

As reference, just bringing back skins of mediocre quality, that were supposedly retired and unable to be purchased again resulted in Riot giving them their full RP back and special borders around all those original classic purchased skins.

Making the old skins into IP purchasable, would result in way more uproar than anything else has.

I for one would be upset, and I'm sitting on a bank of 40k+ IP with nothing to spend it on, because over the years I've slowly accrued skins I enjoy, many being some of the old cheapos.

Rew7111 votes

Well, if they can refund players when they reduce prices on RP, I'd think they'd find a way.

LegitBacon664 votes

Maybe not 3150 ip. Probs a bit higher. +1 for this tho

Chewbacca Merkin1 votes

More IP SKINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dr Poro1 votes

While I would like that to happen, I doubt it will.

  • Most of those skins are ugly, bad and graphically outdated and Riot probably doesn't want to have them in games too often. (They won't take actions to reduce their appearance ingame but I doubt that they'll take actions to increase it).
  • People who have paid for those skins will claim refunds. If Riot does this, they lose money. If they don't, they make people angry. They can probably afford the loss of money, but why would they? What's in it for them?
ElJanitorFrank1 votes

It took you your whole life to get $4?

Shosuko1 votes

Nah - cosmetics is their money maker. They have everything you need to play for ip, game is totally free. It's okay to restrict cosmetic items to pure cash only deals.

Llanite1 votes

You haven't provided a reason they should be doing do besides: you want free skin.

Now you come to a lesson and ask the teacher if you can join for free, since he would be giving lesson to other students anyway. The answer would be no, since he has nothing to gain.

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