What I think about the recent skins

Mandalorian 117··2 votes·461 views

Ok look, I would love to see more skins of Taliyah, Aurelion Sol, Kled, and a few others, but after thinking about it I came up with a conclusion that I think might be legit. I could be completely wrong, but please bear with me and share your thoughts.

Reworks don't make money.

Now riot has been focusing much less on adding more champs and more on reworking what they've got. These reworks are the very cheap champions that everyone already has, or are very easy to acquire. Yorick, Warwick, Urgot, Ryze, and soon to be Eve, Malphite, Swain, Mordekaiser, and Xin. People want new champs like Kayn and Camille right when they launch, so people get impatient and buy them and their release skin with rp. If they rework a champion you've already got with ip a long time ago, they get nothing out of the deal. So, if they release skins for popular champions, they can keep making money. They need to pay their bills too after all. I want my champions to get skins, but they aren't popular enough to make profit out of the deal. They'll get their skins eventually, we just need to be patient.

Now I know people will say "riot is just a very greedy company appealing to weebs to milk their wallets". And my rebuttal is that they have bills to pay too. All the money doesn't go to tryndamere and ryze after all. And those types of people play this game, so it makes sense to give them something they would like. I'm a military historian and sci fi geek, so I really like the omega squad, program, and project skins. They make skins to groups I take interest in, in order to make profit. I might be wrong about all of this, but this is how I see it.

I kinda posted this in the content and creations section, because I didn't know where else to put it. Therefor it got removed, and I relocated it here. Sorry about that riot.

Got nothing but dislikes on this. Should have expected that.

6 Comments

archerno11 votes

How are they focusing less on releasing new champions? Just this year we got: Xayah, Rakan, Kayn and Ormm is coming. And its still half of year to go.

Mandalorian 1171 votes

Well considering they used to release like 3 champions a month, I think they've really slowed down. We only got 5 last year. 6 if you count illoui in the pre season.

archerno11 votes

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Well considering they used to release like 3 champions a month, I think they've really slowed down. We only got 5 last year. 6 if you count illoui in the pre season.

When did they release 3 champions a month?

Mandalorian 1171 votes

Jeremy "Gaming Curious" explained this pretty well in his video How Thresh change League of Legends. For the first several years, they released a new champion every 2 weeks or so. After thresh they liked the idea that the quality of the champions are much better than the quantity. They started releasing champs every few months. Even taking 9 months to develop champions. Orrn will be the 29 champion that has been released since January of 2013, while 26 champs were released in 2011 alone.

WOOOOOOOOHOOOOOO1 votes

Complaining about dislikes will not turn those down votes around

Mandalorian 1171 votes

I'm not complaining. I'm just stating that I should have expected this, and kept this opinion to myself. I just felt kinda stupid about this.

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