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Customs Skins Are Slowly Being Removed..?

Akali Is Dead··5 votes·1,788 views

Can we as a community just ask...Why? I mean, I understand not many people use custom skins. But they're brilliant! It's so much fun running around as a pokemon, or making your own absolutely sick skin and implementing it. So why remove that from the game? Slowly making each champion's file un-moddable? It's not as if custom skins can give any kind of unfair benefit to the person playing, and nobody else is able to see or be affected by them, so this is a change that just doesn't make any sense to me. Why take away the only real freedom we as a player base have in this game who's meta and skin releases you purely control. I can mod ANY pc game with no repercussions, even WOW, Smite, and Dota (To an extent.) So why are you, Riot Games, trying to kill a part of the community who finds fun in being creative while still enjoying the subtlety your game has to offer?

That's all I wanted to point out, for those of you who weren't already aware of it. And I know Riot doesn't care, and won't take the time out of their day to pay attention to a side of the community that isn't buying every skin they put out for a form of 'mindless' customization. But still. [sg-janna]

6 Comments

Rester3 votes

They can change the file formats as much as they like, but the modding community will find a way to work with those new files. I want my Singed Cola Machine dammit.

Infernape1 votes

Well look on the bright side. There'd be less people complaining about being banned for using a suspicious skin program.

ChompyWulf1 votes

While this is true, the sad other side of the coin is they could instead offer players an official skin mod program. Doesn't affect me either way, but I can see why people would be sad about this.

Warlord Dienekes1 votes

Aww damn, custom skins were kind of a backup plan for me.

Digielf1 votes

Yes League of Legends should have official modding integration so people can legally upload custom skins on their League client without having to worry about 3rd party programs

Pocahansen1 votes

I've been playing on a Mac (yes shameful) but I've just gotten a Windows PC and find out one of the things I was really looking forward to has just been removed. I really do like the idea of Riot incorporating an official custom skin program but who knows, time will tell :p

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