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Why buy skins when Riot arbitrarily wrecks the artwork

hellionbastard··1 votes·676 views

I queued up for an ARAM last night and got Miss Fortune and the game automatically selected the cowgirl skin. I took one look at it and thought to myself "no this can't be right... I know I own an MF skin that doesn't make me want to vomit." Yet lo and behold I double-check and sure enough they went ahead and replaced an awesome splash with an obscenely inferior version.

I really don't get it. It's like if I went out and bought a Toyota Supra and then one night the Toyota corporation sneaks into my garage and replaces it with a Camry. In what world would that be acceptable?

At first I thought they made this change to tone down the sexuality of the splash but the new splash is even more sexual than the old one (except in a much more hamfisted way) So it's not even that.

The only other explanation is that Riot do this to induce people to buy another MF skin that isn't so awful. I guess that makes sense although who is to say that they won't replace that skin either. Besides that, I don't really like any of the other skins as much as I did the old cowgirl MF.

13 Comments

MasterSomething4 votes

They're essentially getting all skins the same splash art across every region. Less resources wasted making new ones for each place.

hellionbastard1 votes

Less resources? What on earth are you talking about? The skin was already made. So Riot is saving about 100kb in server space from having to host an extra JPG? Give me a break.

MasterSomething4 votes

Yes, they are saving more than 100kbs though. This is also for the future so the team has to do less work.

hellionbastard1 votes

I understand that is the official company explanation but it makes no logical sense whatsoever.

Even if in some universe that is true it still doesn't explain why they would select the obviously inferior version over the better one. I understand art is largely subjective, but can you honestly look at both splashes and tell me the new one is an improvement.

MasterSomething2 votes

Yes, I can. The new one looks better, and you are 100% acting biased.

Also, it does make sense from a business standpoint, just not a consumer standpoint.

hellionbastard1 votes

Of course I am acting biased... that is the entire point. In any event, I would love you (or Riot) to explain the details of how it makes sense from a business standpoint when both splashes have already been created and maintaining two separate jpegs on two separate servers is ridiculously trivial.

As for the new splash being better, I honestly think you're trolling at this point. Look at the way the artist used lighting in the old cowgirl splash and subtly accentuated the sexual aspect of the character. The new splash is just bankrupt from a technical artistic perspective. It definitely does not reach anywhere near the standard of art I would expect to see in this game.

MasterSomething1 votes

If you are acting biased and you are basically only a few to the many, then you aren't going to win.

And honestly, no. I like the Tencent one better. That's subjective, and so are you.

hellionbastard1 votes

How do you not act biased when you say you prefer one piece of art over another?

I can tell I'm arguing with someone who just parrots the company line without any additional independent reasoning so I guess I should stop.

MasterSomething2 votes

That was my point. You are acting biased. Saying that line was basically me copying you.

Also, I do like it more honestly.

I can tell I'm arguing with someone who has a totally biased argument and is trying to call saving future resources illogical. So I guess I should stop.

hellionbastard1 votes

Well thank goodness we are saving those resources.

The Whamboozler2 votes

Yeah, I asked the same thing when they butchered Fiora into the hideous thing that we all now loathe. Riot doesn't really care, bro. They're just gonna do whatever they want.

Umbral Regent2 votes

So, you're telling me that you buy skins for their splash-art, which only appears in the client and the pre-game loading screen (with the exception of Ultimate skins), rather than the actual skins themselves for their in-game models? That seems kinda dumb.

hellionbastard3 votes

I would be shocked if the splash art wasn't a significant part of a purchasing consideration for the large majority of people who do buy skins.

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