Infernal Akali: I'd like the skin I paid for please.
I don't tend to like most of the reworks Riot has done over the years, however, Akali is one of the exceptions, I actually quite like this one. That said, when I tried her out in the PBE a while back, I was rather annoyed by the fact that Crimson Akali had been replaced with Infernal Akali. I haven't said anything until now because I wasn't irritated enough to make a big deal out of it, but now that I've used the skin on release, I am pretty pissed. I want to say it was about four years ago when Crimson Akali went Legacy, I decided to buy the skin because I liked the way it looked and I have an unhealthy obsession with things you can't get anymore, or at least only sometimes. I played Akali a good bit back in the day because of it, but what's essentially been done here, is that the product that I paid for has been replaced with something that I wouldn't have purchased otherwise. To put it bluntly,_ I've been forced to pay for something that I didn't want_. I'm perfectly fine with Infernal Akali existing, no matter how much I don't care for it, but I, and I assume (or maybe hope) many others, would much rather have the skin that we paid for. Redesigning a skin to "modernize" it or simply work better with the new champion is dandy as well, but I don't think outright changing a skin like this, especially Legacy skins, should be an acceptable practice.
So, as a long time player, I'd like to ask any Rioters to please discuss this at HQ and try to bring my favorite Akali skin back, and hopefully keep this from becoming a recurring issue. I believe that if this continues with other characters, it will do nothing but piss more people off.