/dev: Changes to Eternals

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Thing is I feel like Riot knows something we don't, whether it's a surprise or unfinished portion. I just don't think Riot would attempt this in this state unless they had a plan. Maybe I'm too far outside the box on this one.

They were clear about Chromas, that it must be usable regardless of skin. That's why I thought something like a recall or ward with a banner of that champion would work.

Some other companies do charge for extra achievements, but usually they are tied to maps etc. like Halo for instance. That's the thing for me, I think they just need to tie one more thing to it and it will be solid. I just don't know what that is or can be.

Whether they know something we don't or have plans, implementing a paid system of stat tracking and expecting gamers to get excited about it is just poor product planning. If there WAS something else they're adding to this to make it more palatable, that needed to have been told to us up front to get us interested in buying the things. What they've done is hope that paid achievements would be interesting, to which players have demonstrated that such a thing will be dead on arrival.

And regarding Chromas, they were NOT clear about them, just like they were not clear about literally every other low effort product they've launched like Event passes, Variant Skins, and Prestige Points. All of their new products have been met with extreme backlash because of how poorly implemented they were, and in the case of Chromas, backlash because of absolutely shit efforts that were put into the original launch. Every single one of these new products had to be halted and taken back to the drawing board for re-evaluation when they were revealed to the public. Frankly, if I were Riot at this point, I would be beginning to reconsider the validity of my product planning team, because their track record has proven to be abysmal at best. Chromas are still largely hit or miss anyway. You get stellar ones like Mafia Braum and Pool Party Graves, but then you get boring ass recolors like Arcade Miss Fortune and Project LeBlanc. Their standard of quality for Chromas is all over the place.

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For games you BUY maybe, but free to play games, as they noted some in their first blog show they sold similar stuff (even in subscription based, just be glad they didn't go that route)

Customers have very little reason to be glad that a business made decisions in it's own interest, just like how we do not need to be grateful that a game is free-to-play with premium microtransactions. And free-to-play games do have achievements, better ones for no cost.

He's referring to how we used to have this for free and I am referring to how this matches marketing for how you would do this. Whether it's Rockstar or your local department store, it would safe bet it was the plan because that is what it looks like.

Okay, to be blunt: Do we agree the EAternal$ are just glorified stat-trackers? And if so, do you remember the old client?

https://i.imgur.com/25EvZVf.png[img]

It offered plenty of stat-tracking built-in, simply through their API.