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Stop Replacing Old Art With Inferior Crap

TaienV·6/14/2016, 3:45:05 AM·2 votes·1,122 views

My grilfriend and I are just returning to the game after some time off, and she has found that nearly every skin she liked and paid for for Annie has been changed, along with half of her Miss Fortune Skins and a Janna skin she really liked. Going through her list, practically all of her favorite skins have been converted to newer, far crappier versions of the original design, and they all seem to conform to some kind of anime/manga art style. Annie doesn't look remotely like herself in the new versions of the skins.

Frankly, I think you should refund everyone who owns a skin every time you change one, and allow them to keep it, because there's no knowing if the new design will actually be something we want to play, and the old designs might have been some of our favorites. She literally JUST bought Annie in Wonderland before she quit, during a sale, and you guys then ruined it with this new manga-esque crap version. Don't get me wrong, I love anime and manga, but I also appreciate all art styles, and I hate that league seems to be moving towards an all-anime art style. Is this because the American audience for this game is falling off and the market is almost entirely in Asia now?

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redniwediS6/14/2016, 3:50:36 AM6 votes

Couldn't you have looked up what happened first? Is it so hard to use the search bar that you had to write all this out and wait for a reply? Seriously?

Well while you contemplate that I'll give you the answer. Riot has had two sets of splash arts to update, with most of the world having one and the asian servers having another. Recently they wanted to put everything on the same set of files, which meant giving every single server the same splash arts. All splash arts are being looked at to make sure they are up to current standards, so if you see one that was changed and it doesn't look up to par with new skins/champions have no fear, it's on the list for getting completely new artwork.

Maybe next time you could look things up before making assumptions? Pretty please?

stealthfox946/14/2016, 3:46:20 AM3 votes

I don't know how to reply to this thread so I'll just leave this here

[zombie-brand-facepalm]

Dreamspitter6/14/2016, 5:48:29 PM2 votes

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My grilfriend and I are just returning to the game after some time off, and she has found that nearly every skin she liked and paid for for Annie has been changed, along with half of her Miss Fortune Skins and a Janna skin she really liked. Going through her list, practically all of her favorite skins have been converted to newer, far crappier versions of the original design, and they all seem to conform to some kind of anime/manga art style. Annie doesn't look remotely like herself in the new versions of the skins.

Frankly, I think you should refund everyone who owns a skin every time you change one, and allow them to keep it, because there's no knowing if the new design will actually be something we want to play, and the old designs might have been some of our favorites. She literally JUST bought Annie in Wonderland before she quit, during a sale, and you guys then ruined it with this new manga-esque crap version. Don't get me wrong, I love anime and manga, but I also appreciate all art styles, and I hate that league seems to be moving towards an all-anime art style. Is this because the American audience for this game is falling off and the market is almost entirely in Asia now?

They are in fact updating all of the splashes with brand new ART

http://na.leagueoflegends.com/en/news/riot-games/editorial/dev-blog-updates-and-splash-art

In the meantime, they are first unifying splashes across regions -in which case, in some cases they are going with the Chinese splash. But this is only the first step (Global Splash Unification). All of them will be replaced as others have noted.

Also, China had it's own built in pipeline for replacing western art with their own and they are in the process of removing that pipeline as well.