With the amount of work put into it (it's a legendary skin, I get that) I feel a lot of those animations could have gone to a new champion.
I don't know, I think I just like the skin concept so much that I wish it was a champion. Thoughts?
Welcome to F2P, where the base game doesn't matter one bit, but the crap shop (sorry, cash shop) is life. The bare minimum effort will be put into the base game, just enough to get you hooked, and all the rest of the team's effort will go into milking whales. I know a guy who works at NC Soft / Arena Net (GW2), and every team has a quota in the cash shop to meet. If they don't meet that, they will be fined and/or fired. So they will LITERALLY drop everything they're doing to meet that quota, which means less content and effort in the base game.
F2P is a horrible, horrible business model, and breeds crappy games and greedy developers. I have no idea why it became popular, though I have my theories -- most of which involve lazy ass people who can't be bothered to lift a finger pushing gaming to the point that they can just pay their way through everything and win without actually doing anything to deserve to.
But hey, welcome to modern gaming.
There are different teams creating champions, skinning champions, and reworking champions. I find it hard to believe that there isn't a "New Champion X The Y" team as we speak, and those not busy on that new champ have lore to write up and skins to make. Fingers crossed that the next new champ has a dragon trainer skin, perhaps? =)
That was always the general idea of a legendary skin,that they are essentially like a new champion in terms of animations and VO.
Sometimes i think that skins are a way for animators to train themselves for future releases. You have seen the awesome level of animation put into Dragon Trainer Tristana; i can't wait to see what Riot has in store for us in this way, considering they have even introduced facial animation with new Poppy. It's gonna be interesting.
People say the same about DJ Sona, but she's become a popular Selling Point for League. Tbh, though, we already have a lot of champs...in fact we have too many. I think some of them weren't thought out very well, and were rushed/not very well done (cough
cough).
