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Can you start doing something new with skins again?

Shieda Kayn·9/11/2019, 9:00:01 AM·2 votes·2,164 views

Let's see. 9.19: Immortal Journey, Championship, Hextech 9.18: Star Guardian 9.17: Elderwoord, Infernal 9.16: Dragon World, Hextech (again...) 9.15: PROJECT 9.14: Demacia Vice 9.13: Arcade 9.12: Dark Star 9.11: Demonic 9.10: Battle Academia 9.9: Conqueror 9.8: Odyssey 9.7: Dunkmaster, Hextech 9.6: VS Event 9.5: Arclight 9.4: Papercraft 9.3: - 9.2: Lunar Revel, Heartbreakers 9.1: Blood Moon

That's all we've had this year so far. Out of 47 skins (excluding skins still on PBE, legacy skins and Prestige editions!! so I'm not even mentioning the K/DA milking!), only 811 are from brand new thematics (if you don't stick Demacia Vice to Arcade) and of those 22 thematics explored, only 34 are new (depends whether you tie the dog skins to the cat skins and/or Demacia Vide to Arcade ig?)! Everything else is stuff we've already seen 3584 times those past few years! And we're obviously gonna get Halloween and Xmas skins too.

Now I'm not saying getting another Dunkmaster (even though that skin was...) or Demonic skin is a bad thing. Because those skinlines don't get new things often. Also the Championship and Conqueror skins are eSports-tied... But I'm tired of PROJECT, I'm tired, of Arcade (and that was my favorite skin line when I started League, that's telling), I'm tired of VDay skins and other holiday skins every year. I know the no-holiday-skins every year isn't that everyone would accept... Maybe that's just me.

It's too easy to give like 4~5 champions skins from one thematic + a prestige edition a patch but only give them to 2 champions when it comes to a new one (Battle Academia excluded). But Riot likes it the easy way, it's all easy money after all.

Open the shop and scroll down roughly to halfway. How often do you see reused themes compared to what we get now? Not that much.

7 Comments

Chembaron Yamada9/11/2019, 9:56:39 AM4 votes

Well, we got some new skin lines introduced this year, I am satisfied with that.

This approach makes sense from a business point of view. Introducing a new skin line is always a bet, you have to be confident that the new thematic will become popular enough to get established with more skins in the future.

Battle Academia, for example, likely was fairly well received (which was to be expected, anime based skins usually go well). But I read somewhere that Papercraft hasn't been so popular and I highly doubt that Demacia Vice has been successful, either.

New skin lines are a bet, while the big, already established skin lines are way safer to generate revenue. Skin lines like Star Guardian, Project, Blood Moon, and so on already have a fairly large fan base and people will buy new skins dropping for these lines.

Out of curiosity: What kind of new skin lines would you enjoy to see in the game?

Infernape9/11/2019, 10:33:20 AM3 votes

Why would they when they know they can milk SG and PROJECT for the umpteenth time?

Arcade Lulu9/11/2019, 9:50:26 AM1 votes

Tbh the BA and papercraft skins were really good Some of the skins from the popular lines were really bad imo (cough arcade and project) I really liked the heartbreakers and the new immortal journey skins are really good. Lunar revel skins were really nice too

WiggleyPotato9/13/2019, 12:17:29 AM1 votes

The roster in this game is giant. (They don't pick enough of the roster of course.) I'm here for the same skin lines so more and more champs can participate. Nami doesn't have a SG skin for example but by god do I want one. Everyone has a champ they love and a skin line they love. If they just broadened their choices of WHO gets these recycled themes I'd be happy. Some of them have enough. Lux