Riot how about employing more skin creators

Who is Taliyah·Mar 27, 2017·1 votes·259 views

The community is hungry for skins, especially the people dedicated to champions that didn't get a skin for a long time. Currently there are like 4 new skins each month in average, that is not nearly enough. I get it, it is hard work to create a skin and the splasharts too. It already takes much time deciding on a theme, but wouldn't it be more profitable to have more people work on them? More outcoming skins = more money. Not necessarily exponentially, but it should bring in more money.

Think about a new skin for a champ each year, should work out imo. But I'm no businessman, so I'd appreciate if someone could explain if it'd be worth to exomploy more skin creators?

5 Comments

ModThe DjinnMar 27, 20171 votes

More employees doesn't always relate to more content (the team could start getting too big to function smoothly), and it's possible that all having more skins does is actually increase cost more than spending (as players who currently buy skins they like for champions that aren't their favorites may just save for their favorite, which means customer purchases may not rise as fast as extra employee salary and development costs do).

Who is TaliyahMar 27, 20171 votes

Hmm unfortunately that makes sense.

EvilUnicornLordMar 27, 20171 votes

If someone dearly wants a certain skin, they could animate and code it all together. Buff and shine so it's 100% complete and submit to Riot. It's a long shot, but if they like it, they might go so far as to put in the game. I know that other video game companies have done stuff like that such as Mojang and the Slime Block.

ModThe DjinnMar 27, 20171 votes

{quoted}If someone dearly wants a certain skin, they could animate and code it all together. Buff and shine so it's 100% complete and submit to Riot. It's a long shot, but if they like it, they might go so far as to put in the game. I know that other video game companies have done stuff like that such as Mojang and the Slime Block.

Knowing a bit about Riot? That's unlikely that they'd ever directly put community content into the game (although they have taken inspiration from several community creations in the past for skin lines), but it WOULD make a damn good portfolio piece to try to get an interview WITH Riot. :P

EvilUnicornLordMar 27, 20171 votes

Well, the example I gave of Mojang implementing the Slime Block fits that bill pretty well as exceptional fan-content that was actually put into the original game itself.

What happened is that a programming team put together some code and perfectly created a top notch feature (the Slime Block) to add to the game and sent it to Mojang. Mojang liked it so much they put it in the next update of Minecraft.

Now, making a modification to League of Legends is obviously going to be harder than making one for Minecraft so it's going to be a challenge getting it absolutely perfect. But it could happen.