Chromas (Recolors) would only be acceptable if they cost IP
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.
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Individual chromas should cost less thant 520,remember that there is also a 390Rp-tier for skins.
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. :)
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.
I think they should be 5,000 to 10,000 IP
If RP, I'd say 150 RP or 100 RP.
6300 IP (same as a new champ)
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
Soooooooooooooooooo ugly
Price-gouge much Riot?
- They should be 200 RP each, 500 RP for a bundle of three.
i totally agree.
Well for something like 10000Ip i could see it like alot of other game already do. (smite Got it.)
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.
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.
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.
Looks like this thread is relevant again.
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.
I want them as Champion Mastery Unlocks. Make that system actually worth something.
Source?
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!
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
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?
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.
They could easily make these an ip sink.
Or, just make an editor for champions. Buy your bits and pieces with RP, colors cost IP.