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My response to Riot about the current state of Chromas.

Desiderium·3/6/2016, 9:14:03 PM·3 votes·790 views

Response to Riot's Reddit post a while ago about why they're not doing Chromas right now.

Their reasoning for it was that Chromas are too high-effort because each chroma skin is its own in-store asset. Which means that each chroma skin has to have spell particles copy and pasted, and have its own code inside the store, and have the respective champion's sounds all copy and pasted, etc. They said that they can do a similar amount of effort with 750 tier skins and give us higher quality skins for only a few extra hundred RP.

Which basically implies that they'll be more easily able to do chroma skins when they update the client. Because the way the client works and the way their store is coded makes it difficult to make chromas.

I call bullshit on the whole thing, personally. Work is work, and people get paid for it. There's no need to stop making chroma skins just because they're "hard to code into the store" when you have people that are getting paid to do things like that every day regardless. The main reason they stopped is because they weren't selling well, and that is because they marketed them extremely poorly even despite my warnings that the entire community agreed with. If they sold them individually instead of in packs, we'd have so many chroma skins by now, because people would be buying so many that they enjoy instead of overpaying for one or even two colors that they didn't want. And on top of that, doing chroma skins individually instead of in packs of 3 lowers the amount of work they need to do to implement a chroma into the store by two thirds. And they STILL haven't done it. They've iceboxed the whole thing and blamed the client because of their shitty business practice.

And you wanna know the WORST part?

Chromas started because we wanted them. Because we kept asking for them. They gave out surveys with pictures of Blue Lucian, remember? Everybody wanted that shit. They gave it to us. They fucked it up. Now they're sending surveys asking us how to fix it and we're not going to see any new chromas for god knows how long. Until the next client? When it's going alpha this year? In that case, it'll be mid-late 2017 when the client is officially complete. Are you ready to wait until 2018 for us to have GOD DAMN RECOLORS? Or they can forget about the pack system and just sell them individually and drastically cut down on the (and I still call bullshit on this) "huge" amount of codework they have to do with chroma packs by two-thirds. AND they're going to sell way more. But if they haven't done that in the past 10 months since Chromas came out, then they're obviously too stupid to do it any time soon either.

I can't wait until 2018 for more recolors.

God damn it.

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Dreamspitter3/7/2016, 4:27:34 PM1 votes

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Response to Riot's Reddit post a while ago about why they're not doing Chromas right now.

Their reasoning for it was that Chromas are too high-effort because each chroma skin is its own in-store asset. Which means that each chroma skin has to have spell particles copy and pasted, and have its own code inside the store, and have the respective champion's sounds all copy and pasted, etc. They said that they can do a similar amount of effort with 750 tier skins and give us higher quality skins for only a few extra hundred RP.

Which basically implies that they'll be more easily able to do chroma skins when they update the client. Because the way the client works and the way their store is coded makes it difficult to make chromas.

I call bullshit on the whole thing, personally. Work is work, and people get paid for it. There's no need to stop making chroma skins just because they're "hard to code into the store" when you have people that are getting paid to do things like that every day regardless. The main reason they stopped is because they weren't selling well, and that is because they marketed them extremely poorly even despite my warnings that the entire community agreed with. If they sold them individually instead of in packs, we'd have so many chroma skins by now, because people would be buying so many that they enjoy instead of overpaying for one or even two colors that they didn't want. And on top of that, doing chroma skins individually instead of in packs of 3 lowers the amount of work they need to do to implement a chroma into the store by two thirds. And they STILL haven't done it. They've iceboxed the whole thing and blamed the client because of their shitty business practice.

And you wanna know the WORST part?

Chromas started because we wanted them. Because we kept asking for them. They gave out surveys with pictures of Blue Lucian, remember? Everybody wanted that shit. They gave it to us. They fucked it up. Now they're sending surveys asking us how to fix it and we're not going to see any new chromas for god knows how long. Until the next client? When it's going alpha this year? In that case, it'll be mid-late 2017 when the client is officially complete. Are you ready to wait until 2018 for us to have GOD DAMN RECOLORS? Or they can forget about the pack system and just sell them individually and drastically cut down on the (and I still call bullshit on this) "huge" amount of codework they have to do with chroma packs by two-thirds. AND they're going to sell way more. But if they haven't done that in the past 10 months since Chromas came out, then they're obviously too stupid to do it any time soon either.

I can't wait until 2018 for more recolors.

God damn it.

To be honest, I feel they should go the Heroes of the Storm route anyway, and have

  1. Alternate Colors for ALL skins
  2. Have them be unlockables

That aside, selling them individually would cut down on codework? It's not like they're removing 2 of the versions. BUT -if people ONLY like ONE they can sell them just the one, whereas that person might not pay at all for a pack because they don't like 2 of them. But I also have this idea that Riot wants you spend a certain minimum amount on any 1 purchase. And yet...micro transactions can get people to spend a lot more than you think.