When Prestige K/DA Akali was revealed I thought the prestige was only for the K/DA skin lines since it makes sense as like special outfits and part of eSports (Kai’sa with Worlds and Akali with All Stars).
...Why would they make a new type of skin and then limit it to a small skinline? Especially when they introduce it as a new type of skin altogether - a special, limited-edition visual upgrade to a given skin.
It may just be me, but that makes little to no sense. They wouldn't create Prestige skins if they were only going to limit it to K/DA or E-Sports themed stuff.
Now with Prestige Blood Moon Aatrox being revealed, it really just doesn’t make sense right now and now it’s just losing their value and it hasn’t been a year yet.
How is it losing its value? How would it make sense for a new skin variety to be exclusive to one or two skinlines (K/DA, E-Sports)? In fact, let's look at Riot IAmCarlos' introduction to Prestige Skins:
What are Prestige Edition skins?
Prestige Edition skins are meant to be collector’s items - rare and hard to get editions of a skin. Our goal is to make them instantly recognizable as a special edition for you to show off to your team and opponents.
Why are you making these?
With Prestige Editions we’re striving to capture the the “cool, rare” skin feeling, but without withholding the base skin. Some of us have had the experience of playing a game and seeing the elusive Young Ryze skin in the loading screen. This is one of the rarest skins in the game. It doesn’t have the most features or effects, but everyone knows it’s a rare skin. It’s cool if you have the skin, but if you’re a fan of Ryze that wasn’t able to pre-order the retail collector’s edition, then you’re out of luck. Prestige Editions won’t be this unobtainable, but they are going to be hard to get. This allows players that value rarity/exclusivity an avenue to show off their collection while still giving people who love the thematic the ability to engage with the normal content.
How is this different than a Chroma?
Unlike Chromas, Prestige Editions are more than a simple color swap. They’ll have some features that are different from the base skin that could include things like unique ability VFX, model changes, an exclusive border, and special splash art.
So, Prestige Edition skins are meant to be special, collector's-edition variants of a skin with unique VFX and other such stuff - made difficult to obtain, but not an exclusive "nobody else will have anything like this ever" kind of deal.
Blood Moon Aatrox (PE) did not somehow decrease the value of Prestige Edition skins or decrease the amount of sense it made for the skins to exist. The skins still make sense, and they're still going to be rare/difficult to obtain.
Riot as much as I love your art department, please reconsider making Prestige Skins, as much as it’s rarity on getting it, making too much just ruins the speciality behind them.
Is three already too much? I never would've thought I'd hear someone actually asking for less content.
