Money grab chroma packs versus free chroma packs

Scrimshäw·Sep 25, 2015·7 votes·1,318 views

League of Legends': literally a color slider, 590 RP http://imgur.com/dFEjdLI only need to show one because there's nothing special at all.

Heroes of the Storm: Many are color changes, but they have themes, not only that but they're 100% free and some have actual changes to the skin itself. EVERY SKIN has 3 color variants. all free, http://i.imgur.com/Ys19FEE.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/t1MO9sk.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Y9kxZSn.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/IlNFrtI.jpg

thanks for being greedy, stay classy rito. keep in mind those are just the base skins.

18 Comments

disregardableSep 25, 20153 votes

Even with the quests, hots has a way worse gold generation system. God forbid I don't want to play 3 specialist games that day.

OverpoweredSoapSep 25, 20152 votes

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Even with the quests, hots has a way worse gold generation system. God forbid I don't want to play 3 specialist games that day.

This is my biggest gripe about HoTS, getting gold in it is a pain in the ass.

Getting IP in League seems a bit faster.

Though, tbh how long ago was it when we got a Chroma pack again?

I think Riot might be realizing that charging actual money for chromas is a terrible idea, considering chromas could easily be done on your own in maybe a few hours at most.

SukishooSep 25, 20152 votes

I think Riot might be realizing that charging actual money for chromas is a terrible idea, considering chromas could easily be done on your own in maybe a few hours at most.

It was actually a high amount of the community that voted on it. They did hold a survey for the chroma idea sometime last year and like 80-90% of people were fine with paying RP. So everyone needs to stop looking at Riot as the issue here and look at themselves.

ScrimshäwSep 25, 20152 votes

the community didn't want it to be 590 RP, they wanted the 390 RPish skins like old phantom karthus, deadly kennen, etc (even though those aren't 390 you get the point) assassin master yi

they also wanted some stuff to be unlocked through mastery. which gives you nothing but a symbol here and there

SukishooSep 25, 20152 votes

Yeah but in that survey, they had 390 as the cost for one individual chroma. Which means you'd have to spend 1170 RP for 3 vs the 590 for 3 that you can currently get. So again, there's really nothing bad here for saving money. Riot actually seems to have thought about that.

ScrimshäwSep 25, 20152 votes

there's honestly no reason to have 3, the philosophy on that subject can go either way, but in the end, if you say "i want red fizz and only red fizz", your only option is to spend extra RP and get all 3, if riot wanted to make them better, they'd at least make them 390 individually, with 590 being a bundle.

UirayaSep 25, 20153 votes

While the gold generation is slow, remember that there are far less heroes to unlock, and no runes/rune pages bullshit either.

disregardableSep 25, 20151 votes

Far less heroes for now. League only had 40 champs at one point too.

Runes are pretty meh for me. Buying every champion will cost almost 500,000 IP. You only need to spend like 10,000 IP for the basic AD/AP pages. Everything you spend after that is pretty unnecessary.

BattleBalladeerSep 25, 20151 votes

Lack of runepages is very good (they had something similar but even blizzard knew it wasn't a good experience for new/learning players)

Less heroes is very temporary. They have started announcing them in batches and releasing them far faster than they did in the last half closed of beta. Even after the diablo event ended and they announced 3 characters to release during it, they announced another 3 before it even ended. They will probably do so again. After Overwatch enters beta (or a few months after) that might be another 2 or 3.

All the heroes cost more gold than a League character and the gold-per-game rate is less than League's. The variants are all that really makes it worth it in the gold cost though because they are free skins. Very risk/reward though when you are talking about a top tier 10k gold hero.

I noticed after getting a diverse selection of runes that champion unlocks aren't anywhere near as slow here in League as they are in HotS. The rune gap (read: IP DUMP CANYON) is the biggest deal. But its still more for your gold with the variants, which mostly evens it out.

EDIT2: Honestly Chromas aren't that bad. They are pretty awesome if you get one while the skin itself is on sale (if it is bundled). Like others have said its three 2009 skins for a slight discount. The thing I personally don't like is that we can't buy them separately. But I am sure they had some great inarguable reason for that too.

BattleBalladeerSep 25, 20151 votes

But specialists are so fun ( or they used to be before Blizzard arbitrarily swapped some Gaz and TLV abilities around. Like wtf? TLV cant even fill out their hotbar now?).

Yeah the gold system there is pretty bad. Every now and them I come one just to collect (edit:) the 3 quest pileup with bot games. The real problem is that the gold per game there is too low~~, and they thought they could hide that under the quests.~~ Edit: actually that was dumb of me. The variants make up for it since they are [read below]

It did amaze me though when I first played HotS that variants all have higher quality than the skins riot used to make when I joined back in circa season 1. They do make up for the strange F2P currency grind. Mostly.

SukishooSep 25, 20152 votes

They aren't 100% free in HOTS, you have to gain gold in order to unlock them... and that's like 10,000 to unlock it, which takes a massive amount of time.

ScrimshäwSep 25, 20152 votes

i have no idea who's downvoting everyone, but it's not me,

also, newer champs are more expensive of course. i don't know the rate of decay if there is one

SukishooSep 25, 20152 votes

i have no idea who's downvoting everyone, but it's not me,

Just saying that makes it obvious that it IS you.

ScrimshäwSep 25, 20151 votes

no, watch, i'll downvote everyone, refresh the page

edit: done

BattleBalladeerSep 25, 20152 votes

http://i.imgur.com/Ys19FEE.jpg

Oh what the hell? How did I not notice that second Karazim by now?

And is the third Tychus armor tattooed with Tracer now?

EDIT: Well excuuuuse me downvoters.

Epic MurphSep 25, 20151 votes

He's also got widowmaker on the second one. Cool little references.

Forbidden SirenSep 25, 20151 votes

I noticed they haven't release new chroma packs in awhile. I wonder why but I do wish Riot do more with the chromas than giving some of the packs random colors. I always wondered why they didn't bother making one of Morgana's chroma based on her original color scheme (the green skin). I'm sure we all, myself included, love the new color/texture update to match her current splash art (it was MUCH needed) but it could've payed homage to the original Morg. But nope, a missed opportunity for a meaningful chroma.

Anyway, ever since the introduction of the Mastery, I was hoping that if you reach the maximum level, you can unlock ONE of the chroma of your choice for free and you can buy the other two with RP. I personally think they should've gone this route but eh.