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something that bothers me

Splitgrips·12/4/2016, 8:14:53 PM·1 votes·779 views

quality & Attention to detail: The little things when my mind wonders keeps me interested. I am seeing more and more of these little things just go away or cost more when i want to buy content. The argument of content vs cost is an interesting one and if i didnt deal with cost and product over time i would actually believe that the more you do the more you should pay for a product. What i know of this is that a company (over time) actually makes more money due to refining techniques and policies to stream line their output (to a relative point) but what i see now is cost cutting techniques to avoid the time being put into a product to save money.

LuLu: as her skins get detailed its as if the artists who are creating her skin treat her little friend as less part of LuLu. look at all the skins and how her little buddy just interacts less and less as the push for quality is being spoken of.

ultimate skin perspective: look at lux ultimate skin additional items verses all the other ultimate skins Ez was the flag ship. With no expectation and it offered : skin that evolves over level / banner / icon udyr: skin that changes with skill / banner / icon x 4 Sona: skin that changes on command / banner / icon x3

now lux. i feel like they took a step back on the details. lux: skin changing as you level (per-say) / banner (that doesnt reflect the icon you have equipped) so i have to buy the icons separately from what i understand and when i apply the icon the banner is the same regardless.

as a note: last time i played was Oct 23, 2016 i logged into today to see if summoner rift had the holiday skin and i was disappointed, Dec 4,2016. Disappointed again by Riot, that they haven't released the summoner rift skin. (doing some reading it says that patch 6.25 is the expected patch. really 3-4 weeks away?)

things that annoy me. Riot is quite about their holiday dates Here is an idea. Put a deadline out there. let the community see the deadline and we can plan things around it like a celebration. instead of a random update and get told "holidays in our world are different than the real world" would it be to unreasonable to say .. "first weekend in December, winter map skin."

i know .. its like bugs happen and cause slips. funny thing is PBE people post feed back and the bug is still shipped regardless. honestly... close down your PBE community thing. you are just using it for word of mouth. your private controlled PBE at HQ you actually use, but it is limited. get someone mature enough to read PBE chat room chatter and give feed back.

i cannot stress this enough: Feed back. Feed back. Feed back. Basically due to lack of feed back and i remember a GC post roughly stating how the community just whines. this really feels like a waste of breath and Reddit is the preferred outlet to say anything meaningful about your game. People have a core base idea of what they are trying to say and some of us dont articulate that well. so... take that for a grain of salt.

i have been wanting a special banner for years. So sad its only on ultimate skins instead of random holiday ones as well.

2 Comments

Arakadia12/4/2016, 9:49:39 PM4 votes

Here is an idea. Put a deadline out there. let the community see the deadline and we can plan things around it like a celebration. instead of a random update and get told "holidays in our world are different than the real world"

Sometimes things don't go as planned. Sometimes something gets done sooner or later. Imagine the lashback people would generate if Riot was a day or two late.

GreenLore12/4/2016, 11:24:32 PM4 votes

I disagree with you on several points: 1.About Lulu: In what way do they put less emphasis on Pix nowadays?Really the only skin that puts any emphasis on pix is dragon trainer(since pix has there a unique death animation,which is about it) and thats pretty much the sole reason why this skin is a 1350-skin(it doesn't even have a recall,which is nowadays standard for a 975-skin).

2.About Lux: Elementalist Lux comes with 5 icons(so she comes already with more icons than the other ultimate skins,even if the other 5 are only in the special bundle) and while she doesn't have alternate splash arts(thus no alternate borders),she has 10 forms,which is more than twice as many forms than any other individual ultimate skin(unless you count SGUs neutral form as well,then he'd have exactly half as many forms)

3.Winters rift: Well you should get your infos right before you complain. The rift-skin will be in 6.24.(together with the christmas skins),which will likely come out on the 06. or 07.december(which would be within the first week of december).Heck 6.24 is likely the last patch of season 6,so there won't even be a patch 6.25.

4.Deadlines Deadlines are really dumb idea,because the disappointment if they can't keep the deadline,is extremely big and the hype would likely die down in the meantime,it wouldn't be a celebration for most and more like a "meh,finally its here". Also you seem to misunderstand the whole "holidays in our world are different than the real world",what they were referring to was that there is no harrowing-event or snowdown event happening within the lore,whenever we celebrate a holiday in the real world. But that doesn't mean that Riot doesn't celebrate holidays in the real world,they still released halloween skins this year,even though we didn't get a harrowing story. The only time when the holiday skins came too late was during halloween last year,which was because of the LCS,not because they differentiate between real life-holidays and inlore-holidays.

5.closing the PBE This is just ridiculous,why would they close the pbe?The PBE gives valuable feedback and they often do change things around based on this feedback(jinxs skin color,Winter wonder Karmas W,etc.) Sure they can't always fix a bug before the patch comes out,but that doesn't mean that someone finding the bug on the pbe was meaningless,since they might not have noticed the bug before launch at all,meaning that they can start working on a solution for the bug earlier thanks to the PBE.