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So do anybody know when Riot will make another Rek'sai skin, or any other skin in general?

SwagusMagus·7/14/2019, 3:40:32 PM·8 votes·6,385 views

Like it's been 3-4 years since they made a poolparty skin and it's really tiring seeing popular champions getting their skins 24/7 all day and night, which make me really frustrated. I do understand that by giving skins to the popular champions that they receive a great alot of money and support from their huge playerbase on Lux, Ezeral, Caitlyn Etc. But i state my opinion that their skins is really bland in general and nothing interesting tbh, like they made Battleboss Qiyana and Yasou which dosen't fit them the slightest at all, Battleboss Cho'gath, Rek'sai, Vel'koz or even Aatrox would have made much more fitting theme for them than theese two abominations they made. So yeah i should probably stop complaing because Riot ignores 70% of the boards anyway, but it's just feel so wrong that they give skins to the champs are just popular instead of the ones who needs them right now.

But anyway here's my opinion and i wanna hear your thoughts aswell on what sort of brainstorm you have hidden on new skins like Darkstar skarner or Hacker Zilean.

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Deadly Quills7/14/2019, 5:11:02 PM4 votes

You have to realize that Riot games is a company first, a games company second. There are hundreds of analysts looking at the play data of champions and the buy rates for all of the items in the store, compiling the data and figuring out what is most profitable for the company. They take into account how often a champions is played and how often people buy skins for them. And while yes the argument that a new skin for a champion that hasn't gotten one in a while will increase it's play rate, that is no where near the amount of profit they'd get from releasing a skin for a champion that is spam played by have of the player base. So of course they're going to continue to make new skins for champions that are played more often than others. It's what makes them money.

And before anyone says that Riot is greedy for working like this, they're a company. They spend millions of dollars to pay their employees, pay tax, pay mortgage for their physical locations, pay for amenities like water and electricity, pay for physical server locations, pay for the electricity to run these servers 24/7, etc etc. This is a free to play game. They make no money on the game itself. They make all of their money from in game cosmetic items. This is literally the only way for them to make the money to actually run the company. Yes they'r probably making a stupid amount of profit on top of the expenses they have to pay, but that just means the people looking at all of the data to determine what direction Riot should go in are doing their jobs.

Jolly Jimmy217/14/2019, 4:01:00 PM1 votes

I know a some new PROJECT: skins just got announced Akali Jinx Pyke Irelia Warwick.

Blue Moon Wolf7/14/2019, 5:58:31 PM1 votes

Likely when the current popular champs aren't popular anymore. I wish I was kidding, but sad thing that I've just come to realize is Riot won't give decent skins for less popular champs anymore. They decided all they care about is money from popular champs and putting them into popular skin lines to make even more money. Any unpopular champ is just going to get a throw away skin so they can say they did something for them, about 3 years down the line. If you want skins for unpopular characters, sadly you'll have to play a game like Smite that releases so many skins that pretty much everyone gets something.

Meritas7/15/2019, 1:57:46 AM1 votes

I don't even know how she got her last skin, as in who thought that she's begging for a Pool Party skin in particular - solely because of her tunnels' design, I guess? [zombie-brand-mindblown]