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Skins should have their own patching schedule

Zeanix·7/24/2019, 5:16:56 PM·2 votes·4,291 views

I’ve been kinda thinking. Wouldn’t it be best if skins are released with a different patching schedule, rather than trying to be released at the same time of a patch? A patch takes 2 weeks in PBE, which is then released with the gameplay update and the skins that are released. But wouldn’t it be best if skins are worked for at least 1 week more? This means they have more time to work on the skins to best quality they have, more time to listen and actually add the feedback onto the skin and more time to plan and design skins? I feel like 2 weeks is just a bit tad short for skins and they never work on the skin on the second week due to crunch time of release of the patch.

Of course there are some cons here, the number 1 is less skins being released, but that’s kinda also a good thing too. I rather have less but very high quality skins, than just pushing out skins that feels rushed. Second is that Events would have a different schedule too. Again, might be a good thing as well. Main example is Arcade event. Qiyana was just overtaken by the Arcade event. Qiyana should’ve had a week to herself and I think having her with an original debut skin, rather than adding her to the event and as well having TFT being released on the same time. Even the narrative team said they didn’t have time to fully hype Ixtal. Champion reworks might also get affected this schedule too, though maybe adding a rework to the 3 week schedule might work too.

That’s my take, would people like to have a longer time of development of skins or keep it as of now?

2 Comments

Moonboy657/24/2019, 5:24:46 PM1 votes

skins are released 1-3 days after a patch releases, not with the patch itself

Kazekiba7/24/2019, 6:09:50 PM1 votes

Longer development time of skins wouldn't make a difference, Riot barely does anything to fix the skins with major issues anyway and then leaves them to be forever mediocre or unfavorable.

They had all the time in the world to make an Ivern skin and look at what we got. They could've iceboxed it and came back with a skin people actually wanted, but they refused to do this and yet somehow Sewn Chaos Amumu wasn't good enough and was iceboxed - And in return we got Infernal Amumu, one of the best skins in the game. Riot decides ahead of time whether they want a skin to be cool or not, and most of the time they dont really want it to be and dont pay much attention to consumer feedback that isn't praise.