@Riot, about the yorick skin, please just listen to us

a white parasite·9/21/2017, 3:03:33 AM·114 votes·5,285 views
Soaring Sword Fiora color scheme

First off, I have never posted on the boards before. However, this issue is really important to me.

After seeing the new Yorick skin release I was super excited. I main Yorick on another account and I was really pumped to pick up the new skin. But after seeing the lack of response on Riot's end about fixing the issues that were pointed out by other Yorick mains, I really don't feel like buying the skin anymore.

I've been keeping up with the skin's updates on the PBE and they have been few, besides some audio tweaks. Many suggestions were made on the Arclight Yorick PBE thread but most of them were dismissed. The thread was just closed today and Riot KateyKhaos said that "the content is locked down, so what you're seeing on PBE is what you'll also be seeing when this skin goes live." In other words, no changes to the new skin could be made. https://boards.pbe.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/general-pbe-feedback/REPY7nR9-closed-pbe-bugs-feedback-thread-arclight-yorick

Ok so that means that none of the visual feedback will be taken into consideration. Nothing can/will be changed, nothing about the differences between the splash art coloration and in-game model coloration, nothing about the differences between the splash helm and in-game helm, absolutely nothing. Of course this should mean that the other skins on the PBE are locked down too, right?

WRONG

A new thread was opened up today about the obvious differences between the soaring sword fiora skin color scheme and the in-game color scheme. While there's nothing wrong with the thread itself, there is something wrong with Rioters commenting that they are "going to look into addressing this so things are a little more cohesive." for a Fiora skin but they won't even take a glimpse at the differences between the yorick splash and in-game model. I don't mean to sound like I'm complaining.~~ I just think it's a little unfair to do this to us.~~

Why? Why do you value the opinions of Fiora players more than the opinions of Yorick players? I know that some have been harsh but others like myself really like the skin but see some things that could be fixed to make the skin even better. Shouldn't the goal of putting a skin on the PBE be to take the feedback and make the skin it's absolute best self?

At least that the way it should be. SO many people would buy the skin if it matched up better with the splash. Just look at all of the comments on the Arclight skin threads and the yorickmains subreddit. https://www.reddit.com/r/yorickmains/comments/714wy2/arclight_splash/ https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/story-art/now14lFw-arclight-yorick-splash-art

Please, Riot, just listen to us. Most of us mean well. We just want to see the skin be its absolute best and we won't settle for anything less. Especially when our feedback is, for the most part, ignored.

EDIT: This topic can be heated for some but let's keep the discussion kind! The skins team has received a lot of negativity this PBE cycle which I'm sure has influenced their decision to leave the arclight yorick model alone.

EDIT 2: So riot went through with the fiora model tweaks and still haven't even posted on this thread yet. There's no way they haven't noticed. At this point I really think that they don't care about it anymore. Please guys keep this thread alive. We have to MAKE them take notice of us.

EDIT 3: I just saw the skin spotlight for what Arclight Yorick will look like live. After seeing the video, I noticed some alterations between the pre-release and the release skin and I have to say that riot did make some decent changes. The in-game model looks way more like the splash art now, even though them helm is not fixed. Thanks for that Riot. I'm sorry if we yorick mains have been harsh. I now see that we may have gotten out of hand.

52 Comments

BundleOfLawls9/21/2017, 1:16:36 PM32 votes

Fixing the helmet at least and turning that disgusting yellow into something more palatable would be great.

Facelift9/21/2017, 12:55:15 PM23 votes

EQUALITY! If Fiora deserves a skin tweak, so does Yorick.

Penyu9/21/2017, 2:33:05 PM20 votes

If I hadn't seen they'd lock the thread with their dismissive 'not changing anything, tough shit' attitude I wouldn't be so bloody dissapointed

what is the point in a feedback thread if they don't take any of it on board and just parrot the same 'wehh sorry you don't like it ;-; :(((( ;_______;' bs

Wrathof3009/21/2017, 3:45:31 AM12 votes

Just because the changes weren't updated, doesn't mean they weren't attempted. If they decided the changes (particularly the coloration ones) weren't approved internally obviously they wouldn't put it on the pbe, of course this is giving them the benefit of the doubt, but looking at the boards it looks like the requests were heard.

rtbf2256182419/21/2017, 3:32:30 PM11 votes

After 6 years they won't even bother to make the skin without problems? Okay then. It's like they chose their company name to mock us.

weevil9/21/2017, 9:48:36 PM9 votes

The fact that the very moment someone points out the discrepancies between the new Fiora skin and Riot addresses it immediately with the fact that they'll fix it is the most frustrating thing I've seen all week after Riot has been going on and on about how it's impossible to change Yorick's skin at all.

This feels like such a clear case of favoritism, even if it really isn't. I wish they actually listened to any of our feedback or input, but I guess everyone was right about Yorick just being a tally on a checklist that they just wanted to get out of the way.

a white parasite9/21/2017, 9:06:53 PM7 votes

Hey guys, I just wanted to say that it makes me really happy to see all of the comments and upvotes showing support for this issue. When I posted this thread I didn't think anyone would notice or respond.

Thank you for joining with me in raising our voices together for the changes we want to see! Keep up the good, holy work guys! Yorick I bet a Rioter will take notice of this thread soon.

Unstoppable Monk9/21/2017, 6:57:50 PM6 votes

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MDayR9/21/2017, 8:29:42 PM5 votes

Pretty please !

Imperial Japan9/21/2017, 9:19:40 AM5 votes

So kind of like Omega Squad Twitch

Penyu9/22/2017, 6:59:59 PM5 votes

there we go, they put the Fiora skin changes on the PBE and still ignoring us

feels good

THE RlVER KlNG9/21/2017, 4:24:44 PM4 votes

The reason is simple: Fiora will make money at worlds; Yorick won't

Welcome to the League skins system

a white parasite9/22/2017, 8:40:25 PM3 votes

I'm really feeling disappointed at this point. How can Riot do this to us? There aren't any words to describe this other than pure favoritism and hypocrisy. I really had hopes that they would fix this but it seems like they don't even care. This truly is a dark, dark day for yorick players. Skins aside, this shows that they don't even care to listen to us Yorick players anymore...

yay nibbers9/21/2017, 8:45:31 PM3 votes

I think there may be a bit of an understanding. When they say "the content is locked down, so what you're seeing on PBE is what you'll also be seeing when this skin goes live." they mean exactly that. This is just how the PBE works. Anything they're looking to ship live gets locked in about a week before patch day latest. I can pretty much guarantee you that Fiora's skin won't see any changes by the time it hits live either, unless they're holding off on the Sword skins' release for the patch after next.

As for what the Rioter said in the Fiora thread after lockdown time, I hate to be a cynic but that could've just been said to calm people down. It'd be nice to see changes to improve the skin (and Yorick's too ofc) after release but the only time I can think of that happening is PF Ezreal and champion VGUs...

LostFr0st9/21/2017, 6:07:30 PM2 votes

The epaulettes aren't even the same colour, let alone the same shape. The silver bit around the blue orb shouldn't be silver at least.

Penyu9/22/2017, 10:32:43 AM2 votes

I'm losing hope that riot with acknowledge this, I've given the rioter who was responding on the PBE a poke on twitter to hopefully draw some attention. I do think we can't give up though, even if it goes to live server as it is, we can still keep making noise and pushing for changes so that we can be happy with a skin we've waiting SO long for

I know it's more work for them, but if they don't want to change the base skin I think chromas would really help those of us who are disappointed

also if you can't see a difference between the skin and splash, or don't give a crap about Yorick / Yorick players then please just move along.

Chromatic Eagle9/22/2017, 4:55:56 AM1 votes

Yorick might be further into development than Fiora.

Ðelofasht9/23/2017, 3:50:57 AM1 votes

This has been the story of Yorick in the game of League of Legends since the beginning. Yorick is not a champion they want in the game, input from the mains who play this champion have always been massively ignored, while people who play him only occasionally get what they want with the champ. The balance and development team has no interest in him, and now the skin team pretty much is showing us the same thing.

Resources are evidently better spent on other champions, and the crowd who plays Yorick are not important enough to them. So with everything they have shown me over the years, the solution seems pretty obvious, quit playing League and start playing and spending money on other games. It has been fun, but no longer trying to be ignored. I am just another random nobody to them anyhow, good luck to them in their endeavors, hopefully it brings them years of success.

Lintu Puck9/21/2017, 10:27:51 PM1 votes
  1. I see no real problems with Arclight Yorick personally.
  2. Fiora is and always has been a more like/played champ for years, so of COURSE Riot is going to pay more attention to her stuff.
  3. "Favoritism" should not be this surprising anymore. >.> Riot has more then 160 or so champs at the moment, so there are obviously gonna be favorites and things that get more attention.
  4. You want your favorite champs to get more attention? I say you'd have an easier time convincing proplayers to said champs before you'd be able t convince Riot to change how they run their business.

just sayin.

Randomonium9/21/2017, 10:37:24 PM1 votes

Yeah I'd probably still but the skin if it actually matched the splash art even though I'm still pissed off about the lack of complementing voice lines for the skin. The splash art is just too good.

jama6559/21/2017, 2:27:27 PM

yorick mains where?