Petition to have older 1820rp skins get graphic updates

Heywood JabIowme·Jun 15, 2017·16 votes·599 views

I am a religious twisted fate player. One of my favorite skins for him is "The Magnificent Twisted Fate." It is an 1820rp skin, but has the same amount of graphic and particle changes as a 520rp skin. It would be so cool to have some of the older skins, such as the magnificent twisted fate receive up-to-date graphic changes to better suit their RP value. I would love to hear other people's favorite older skins, or skins that are more RP than the graphic and particle changes might suggest. Thanks fellas!

9 Comments

GreenLoreJun 15, 20174 votes

I'd like to see older skins to receive touch ups in general,not just the 1820 ones.

However I'd like this to happen only if this doesn't affect the current update teams and instead uses some people from the skin teams. I mean lets be honest here,we get new skins and/or new chromas every patch. It wouldn't hurt if we got a few skins less,but got some updates to older skins instead.

Heywood JabIowmeJun 16, 20171 votes

I guess that's what I meant. The twisted fate skin just happens to be 1820. Any older skin would be super cool to see with a graphic update. I would totally be okay with less skins, but more current graphics. That's a solid idea.

ElikainJun 16, 20171 votes

That's a logistical impossibility. Unless there's a champion rework in question, updating older skins for no reason other than to look better and up to par to Riot's current art standards, is just not going to happen. Why waste resources to rework older skins instead of making new and better skins for the same champions?

I understand that freshening up an older skin would might look good but let's look at this problem from a different perspective. A lot of champions have gotten a "fresh" recall animation BUT all those champions' recalls are using their already existing animations that were rarely seen. So, all those 76 champions (i think this is the number) haven't been really updated, they are just using already existing assets from when they were first made.

There's just no way a team of animators can do 76 recall animations in a few patches. This would've been a really long project to complete and would mean Riot would have to dedicate so much time for a single project that might not end up appreciated by a lot of people. And this raises the question: "Is this worth our time or are these resources better spent on something else the community might enjoy more?".

Champions are even a bigger project. VUing them without any gameplay changes would waste resources as Riot has already dedicated themselves to doing full VGUs to champions that really need them. Skins for those champions are also updated as well. Just imagine how much more work would have to be done as there are at least 3x more skins than there are champions. This wouldn't be even done in 3 years.

GreenLoreJun 16, 20171 votes

I'm not saying it is likely for this to happen,or that it could be "finished" very fast.(heck the way I suggest it,it would likely never get finished)

It's just something that I'd like to see happen anyway :p

Also there are a lot of champions who received VGUs or are still in pretty good shape do have skins that don't match their current skin tier anyway. Gatekeeper Galio still lacks new animations,most of Shens skins still have no new particles regardless of their price,etc. I know this happens because they don't want to spend that much time on skins(and I think that is the rigtht decision),because that would slow down the VGU-process,which is why I'd say that a skin team should instead focus on updating a few of these things.It would be extremely slow,but I'd prefer slow progress over nothing.

MhihnjJun 16, 20172 votes

riot should make a skin rework team(not srs)

Arcus DiabolusJun 16, 20172 votes

That would be a nice idea, but thats a lot of man hours being poured into something that won't make much money.

Heywood JabIowmeJun 16, 20171 votes

I think there's a potential for it to make some money. I'm sure that there are plenty of league players out there who would kill to see an older skin be updated... maybe that's just me though.

SukishooJun 16, 20172 votes

Most of those skins sadly won't see anything unless their champion gets a VGU. Like Firefighter Trist did when Trist got hers, it got some nicer particles/sfx and feels closer to a 1350 now.

I would love to see them give some of the older legendary skins some actual effort though. Annie in Wonderland, Alien Invader Heimer... those could have been more. Even though their respective VUs made them look nice still could have used more effects, sounds, ect.

Heywood JabIowmeJun 16, 20171 votes

I guess that makes sense. I wonder if there's a way to check what skins are most commonly used. From there, you could filter it down to skins made before a certain date, and go from there.