Chromas (Recolors) would only be acceptable if they cost IP

Kingsgrave·Feb 18, 2015·68 votes·7,654 views

Recolors of this level are not worth even 520 RP, even if that gave us 3

That being said, I would totally buy the grey and green one.

http://i.imgur.com/pETu2Cw.png

79 Comments

GreenLoreFeb 18, 201529 votes

Individual chromas should cost less thant 520,remember that there is also a 390Rp-tier for skins.

GunpointFeb 18, 20156 votes

Even those are better quality now with Golden Alistar VU and Assassin Master Yi VU

GreenLoreApr 7, 20152 votes

3 chromas cost 590 rp,that means that each individual chroma costs ~197Rp. So in the end you aren't even paying 390Rp for every single one of them.

Also in the case of the updated skins its more like a bonus. These skins aren't the standard for the 390 tier,they were actually brought above the standards for the 390Rp tier,thats actually more of an instance of riot being generous and not raising their price alongside their quality.

Lyokocoder12Feb 18, 201526 votes

I think Something like this should be an unlockable. Something to get players to play a champion a set number of times to unlock a chromas for them. Lets say to get chromas number 1. You would have to win 20 games with that champion. number 2 would be 50 wins and number 3 would be 100 wins. then you would have something to work towards other then getting a high ranking in ranked. Also it would show how much experience you have with that champion. But thats only my opinion. :)

ZacceaFeb 18, 201520 votes

I've actually been wishing they'd do that with Summoner Icons. Say you play 100 games as a certain champion, you unlock their portrait (literally the one you see in game) as a Summoner Icon. If you're using that to represent you then everyone knows you love that champion. This might give people incentive to try different champions. Maybe people that like collecting icons, for example. Bonus points if it keeps track of how many games you've played with a specific skin (giving it a separate counter) and unlocks a portrait of that skin. Could be incentive for some people to buy skins.

Lyokocoder12Feb 18, 20152 votes

I love that idea! I have always thought it would be amazing to have your favorite champion as your summoners icon.

Hyrum GraffFeb 19, 20151 votes

This could interfere with clarity. It would be really weird to see me with a karma icon while I'm playing Ashe in game.

ZacceaFeb 19, 20159 votes

You seem to have completely misunderstood. The term "Summoner Icon" refers to the icon you see next to your name on the home screen. It is the icon you see on all of your friends in the friend list. This icon is not view-able in an actual game until the post-game stat screen. So if you queued up for a game right now and looked at your teammates you would not see this icon (unless you looked up their profile on an external website) until the game has finished.

supes the lostFeb 19, 20152 votes

You mean kinda like the system they have setup in smite, where playing a certain number of games with a "god" puts "followers" or exp on the champion, which eventually open up gold and blue, gold and black, and diamond colored recolors of the gods that can be purchased for a decent bit of the Smite equivalent of IP.

Lyokocoder12Feb 19, 20152 votes

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You mean kinda like the system they have setup in smite, where playing a certain number of games with a "god" puts "followers" or exp on the champion, which eventually open up gold and blue, gold and black, and diamond colored recolors of the gods that can be purchased for a decent bit of the Smite equivalent of IP.

I have never played smite. So I totally didn't steal the idea from that. But basically yes!

GreenLoreApr 7, 20151 votes

Well didn't they actually mention that they are considering this? I think it is actually a pretty neat idea now that they introduce champion mastery. However just because we get these chromas now as RP doesn't mean we can't get special chromas for champion mastery later on;)

DG AshabelFeb 18, 201521 votes

Given that textures are saved in an image format and then wrapped around the champion, such a recolor takes a maximum of two hours to make. Unpack texture into Photoshop or any other image editor of choice, select one section, mess around with hue and color intensity until looks good, repeat several times.

Charging us money for something like that looks really desperate.

turkeyBACONFeb 18, 20153 votes

I think it's reasonable to make each chroma skin a huge ip sink individually and charge rp for a convenience bundle. Each skin should be something like 20,000 ip and leaving the pack of 3 or 4 chroma skins at 750 rp.

DwarvenGiantFeb 18, 20152 votes

Exactly. Not sure if 20k IP though, maybe something around 7-10K. But yeah the concept you bring up sounds more reasonable. :) I'd buy these if this was the case. I really like these kinds of recolors actually. :)

AnonymousaurFeb 18, 201511 votes

I think they should be 5,000 to 10,000 IP

If RP, I'd say 150 RP or 100 RP.

SEKAIFeb 18, 20156 votes

Meh I don't see costing RP to get would be an issue.

BUT we need the IP component too, maybe 1000 IP for each let's say.

KingsgraveFeb 18, 201514 votes

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Meh I don't see costing RP to get would be an issue.

BUT we need the IP component too.

Every 520 skin is worth far more than all of these. It just doesn't seem worth it.

TinySparrow23Feb 18, 20156 votes

I got this survey and am completely in favor of Chromas if they were to cost IP. It would actually encourage me to play more if I can spend IP on something other than runes and champions because the rune grind is absolutely boring and I'm not really interested in most of the champions I have yet to purchase.

aaronconlinFeb 18, 20156 votes

6300 IP (same as a new champ)

DrMarshSwampFeb 18, 20154 votes

A single recolor should not cost more than $5.

If they really want to push Chromas/Recolors for RP only then I think each should individually cost half of the lowest RP Purchase Option (so that'd be 325 RP per Chroma.)

BorblandFeb 18, 20153 votes

Give free golden Chromas for champs you have won alot of games with them in ranked :3.

Or they should cost IP and RP.

But set the IP price really high (Like 6300 IP) and stay the RP price like it is.

So free players who really wants a chroma can get it with patience, while the paying guy can get it fast. Win-Win situation.

ZacceaFeb 18, 20152 votes

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Give free golden Chromas for champs you have won alot of games with them in ranked :3.

Yes, let's totally rip-off of Smite where a golden God skin actually makes sense...

AuryielFeb 18, 20153 votes

Soooooooooooooooooo ugly

EyrgosFeb 19, 20153 votes

item 1039 Price-gouge much Riot?

They should be 200 RP each, 500 RP for a bundle of three.

Those BeyondFeb 19, 20153 votes

I would totally get these Chromas skins (I would say that each chroma should cost double the cost of the normal champion for 3 recolors.) And would also be nice if you could unlock Chromas for small achievements that are done in normals.

Like to get Red Chromas Garen (The challenged could be called something like: DEMICA!) Kill Darius with Garens Demician Justice 200 Times in a normals blind/draft game.

So that's each one is story driven, and delving into the lore of League.

Or for Green Chromas Garen (And for Urgot... Uh... Cutting the Fat?) Use Decisive Strike on Urgot 200 Times in a normals blind/draft game.

But do this with every character and maybe unlock the cheapest skin for the character after they completed all the champion challenges. It would not only get people to try new champions, but to master their kit in a fun and innovative way that would add the little extra for causal and serious players.

LelouchtheGreatFeb 19, 20151 votes

I like the idea of adding achievements, but my only fear is that you might then have a Garen who is not actually trying to win the game but only trying to fulfill the conditions of the achievement. Like say, Darius isn't an issue on the other team but you need garen to focus down their carry because he is the only one tanky enough to get close. Garen however, wants his achievement so continues to ult Darius to death while their Tristana/Jinx/Vayne continues to eat your whole team

Insanity 101Feb 18, 20152 votes

i totally agree.

BubbaDukeFeb 18, 20152 votes

For IP definitely.

If it was RP. It would have to be something super small. These are things you'd see players making as custom skins for free.

I'm talking like 50 RP.

JustBoneBrookFeb 18, 20152 votes

Well for something like 10000Ip i could see it like alot of other game already do. (smite Got it.)

SukishooFeb 19, 20152 votes

Costing 750 isn't bad for a pack of 3 but singles costing 520... hell no. If anything they really should be in IP. That would make them more worth it since they are just going to be a simple recoloring of the classic skin.

StarlighteFeb 18, 20151 votes

Source?

KingsgraveFeb 18, 20153 votes

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Source?

Someone on reddit and various other places got an email from Riot asking about their opinion on this.

StarlighteFeb 18, 20153 votes

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Someone on reddit and various other places got an email from Riot asking about their opinion on this.

lol... This isn't worth money, especially considering how little work goes into it. It's like battle boosts, cool in theory, how much money somebody would spend on it compared to another Teemo skin... Hell if I know.

Should be for IP, not RP.

PrismaticFeb 18, 20151 votes

They also stated in the survey, that the recolors could (would?) also encompass the spell particles as well as the skin itself. So something like garen with base skin chroma green- skin would be green, but the particle effects for spells could also be green.

This would be a gigantic selling point for myself, and I'm fairly confident others would like that as well.

CopelandoFeb 18, 20153 votes

yet they won't even do particle recolors for 750 skins

Strawberry BirdFeb 19, 20151 votes

How about "earnable in-game but sold for RP if you want it faster"? If you did a certain number of tasks with that champ, you would get one of his/her recolors.

So on the Garen one, maybe earned by a certain number of wins, or towers destroyed, or kills. But for a Nami, number of assists would count toward her score. For a Jungler, number of jungle creeps? Dragons?

...ooh! How about "wards placed"? Your Supports would love you!

Celio Hogane HDFeb 19, 20151 votes

get 500 kills with nami.

Blood nami chroma.

Strawberry BirdFeb 20, 20152 votes

I felt a disturbance in the Rift. As if a million ADCs cried out in horror and reported their Support for ks.

Celio Hogane HDFeb 20, 20151 votes

i hate that kind of adc.

Celio Hogane HDFeb 20, 20151 votes

never said nami support e.e

PaigeFeb 19, 20151 votes

just wanna point out just because smite has something doesn't mean we can't have something like it too...

as for the chroma thing, i would pay probably like 100 or 200 RP for a single one. if the particles changed colors then that's a big selling point though. could see 300 or so for that. of course, this is assuming it's possible to make one in a color i actually like...

i like the idea of them costing ip as well, like everyone said, to give people who have too much something to spend it on. i'm thinking around 10k ip tbh. i have over 70k right now and i don't want anything else, so 10k sounds fair enough to me. ;0

Celio Hogane HDFeb 20, 20152 votes

Pink EVERY CHAMPION

PaigeFeb 21, 20151 votes

how did you know?!?!

Those BeyondFeb 20, 20151 votes

True I see that that could be a possible issue when thinking about it more clearly.... It could be once every match you get the mark perhaps?

BLU MedicFeb 21, 20151 votes

Easy solution, make them cost both IP and RP. It's cosmetic stuff, it shouldn't be free, but recolours are so easy to do that you don't need to charge an arm and a leg in real money for them.

The SoulforgedFeb 21, 20151 votes

They could easily make these an ip sink.

ThubanFeb 23, 20151 votes

Or, just make an editor for champions. Buy your bits and pieces with RP, colors cost IP.

TheDeadSoulsFeb 24, 20151 votes

There are already a couple chromas to buy for 520 RP at the live servers like Freljord Ashe. (i had more text but i accidentally press on a summoner name and there went my text) I have to say i really like the red and darker gray Garen. This is my idea: The player have a chance to earn on of these chromas under every game through a task like: Get a "Penta kill" with the champion he want to get a "chroma" to. This might be somewhat hard for most support so for them ill say the quest/task/achievement would be get like 40 or 30 assist under one game in ranked 5v5 or normal 5v5. And for tanks they maybe would be a X number of damage taken task or something like that. When a player have completed his quest to that champion he could maybe have a pop-up after the game that says: "Congratulations! you have completed your champion quest/task thingy and your award is one of these 3 chromas pick one of your choice but pick wisely". Or you could just buy them in the shop with these prices: 1 for 520 RP or 6300 IP, 3 for 750 RP or 17640 IP. The IP prices can be discussed but the RP prices should stay the same cause of the already existing Re-colored skins, with the price of 520 RP. This was a little bit of my opinions and ideas. As i said i had more but I were clumsy and got my text deleted by misstake. I hope the text aren´t confusing or something like that.

turkeyBACONApr 7, 20151 votes

Looks like this thread is relevant again.