Pax Skins... Kind of?

EpicPharaoh·11/26/2016, 1:58:28 AM·2 votes·847 views

I know that there are MANY threads already out there in relation to the PAX skins, heck I was just looking at some of them, however I still need to vent my frustration. I have only been playing League of Legends for about a year now, but it has completely taken over all of my gaming. First I stopped playing Skyrim, then Mario, then Pokemon. Pretty soon all I was playing was League. This isn't still quite as true to the present, but I still play the game whenever I have an opportunity. I always found League to be a fun game, it was originally introduced to me by one of my friends (who was of course much better than me) and I didn't really play it much, it wasn't until two years later that I started playing again. When I started playing again one of my friends asked me what my champions were, and told me to go Jax adc (he was really into trolling me as far as "what was meta" and so on) and I loved the champ, in fact he was the first (and so far the only) champion I ever got to level 5 mastery. Of course for a champion that I love so much I had to get all of his skins, and right now, I basically do, I am only missing warden and PAX Jax. This hasn't bothered me for quite some time (since I would never use warden Jax and pax Jax was absent from my mind), however with the new client you can see all the legacy skins for every champion, and even the limited skins, which brings me to the frustrating part.

      I know that rito (at least for a little while) will not be re-releasing the PAX skins, whether it's because of licencing, or whatever, that makes sense to me, however it is really frustrating. I have been brainstorming for the past hour or so, because I really want to think of an alternative so that players (like me) who want to collect skins still have an opportunity to play with these skins. I understand that these skins are meant to reward players who have been playing League for a long time, as nobody else would have them, but I also think it is slightly unfair. The main solution that I have come up with is to make skins that parody the PAX skins, maybe call them XAP skins or something of that nature. These skins could be inverted versions of the PAX skins, and they would be available for the entire player-base, and most importantly they would give Jax a new skin (MWAHAHA xD). These skins could be things like a PAX twisted fate like skin, but colour shifted maybe to orange with the designs changed, or PAX Jax but blue and a poro eating poro snacks instead of pac-man. This would allow rito to avoid any legal issues and give players (like me) what they really want (mind you this is player LIKE ME). These skins could extend past just the PAX skins too, for example maybe White Alistar, a white color-shifted version of Alistar that has a large green frizzy set of hair on his head. This is just a simple idea, however I believe that this could rake in tons of cash, would be fairly easy on the design team (as they only need to slightly change the previous PAX designs) and could even be a sort of joke. Of course these skins (in my head) would be cheap skins that are always available in shop, but I would still love them (and probably buy the ones for champions that I own) if they were legacy legendaries, heck even ultimates! They could even be limited with new parodies every year (although that would make owning exclusive skins much less valuable). The reason that I think this could be so successful is because it doesn't make anyone angry, and it makes the larger (and newer) player-base of league happy. 


      League of Legends is the biggest computer game right now (if I am properly informed) and most of the players don't have any really rare skins (I think the rarest I own is unchained Alistar since he is so difficult to get xD) So making these skins would really just make many people happy. Anyways if anybody happens to read this I would love to hear your thoughts, have discussions with you, and maybe find a way to make this thought (or dream if you want to be dramatic) a reality!

2 Comments

Tormentula11/26/2016, 2:08:01 AM1 votes

Riot wouldn't support the players who spent 400+ on ebay for them. They'd just outright ban the players, account sharing/buying is strictly prohibited.

Its a huge licensing issue that is unsolvable by riot themselves. It really sucks that it was taken out of their control like that. The only way they may be able to give them out is for free since that technically isn't profiting off licensed content, but then its like.. wtf is the worth of pax skins anymore.

I know how it feels to lack a skin on your main (victrious Elise qq ) but we all have to deal with it sadly.