What is the reasoning behind removing good things in skins?

Lùmen··4 votes·848 views

I only began to notice this little, yet annoying detail back then when BM Jhin's recall effects and footsteps were cut from his skin. They were like the icing on the cake, everybody loved those features and I think a 1350 RP skin is perfectly worthy of them. I was really sad to see them gone. Can you at least give me context as for why you removed them the first place? Nobody even complained about them, people were actually really upset that they were removed if you remember what happened when the full version of BM Jhin's spotlight was released.

2 pictures of him getting inked in the color of his paintbrush at the recall's end :

http://prntscr.com/ejignj

http://prntscr.com/ejih4q

A picture of the footsteps effects :

http://prntscr.com/ejii1q

Come on, Riot. Please just give me a reason as for why you would do such a thing.

EDIT: I figured that if BM Jhin is a victim to this, then other skins might just end up the same. I'm trying to see if I'm right about this

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Blakiepug1 votes

I don't know why. :( It seems like recently the skin team has been taking feedback from people who don't like a skin and were never going to buy it in the first place instead of listening to those who are looking forward to buying the skin and trying it out themselves. Just recently the Sewn Chaos Amumu and Blitzcrank skins were cancelled because people who don't even play those champions complained that their eyes would burn just from the sight of the skins. And now Pug'Maw has been completely changed on the PBE to the point where he represents a generic dog as opposed to a pug. A select few are ruining it for the majority and Riot is listening to those few for some reason at the moment. :(

Valaran Nara1 votes

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I don't know why. :( It seems like recently the skin team has been taking feedback from people who don't like a skin and were never going to buy it in the first place instead of listening to those who are looking forward to buying the skin and trying it out themselves. Just recently the Sewn Chaos Amumu and Blitzcrank skins were cancelled because people who don't even play those champions complained that their eyes would burn just from the sight of the skins. And now Pug'Maw has been completely changed on the PBE to the point where he represents a generic dog as opposed to a pug. A select few are ruining it for the majority and Riot is listening to those few for some reason at the moment. :(

Honestly, as much as I would have loved for Pug'maw to stay the way he was, hat thing was more horrifying than Lollipoppy.

Blakiepug1 votes

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Honestly, as much as I would have loved for Pug'maw to stay the way he was, hat thing was more horrifying than Lollipoppy.

League needs horrifying skins, we don't get that many. :( And the new textures are just not good imo. They look unfinished and like not much work was put into them. The original looked like it had a lot of care put into it so it's sad to see it scraped.

Valaran Nara2 votes

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League needs horrifying skins, we don't get that many. :( And the new textures are just not good imo. They look unfinished and like not much work was put into them. The original looked like it had a lot of care put into it so it's sad to see it scraped.

The new texture doesn't look unfinished. You're comparing the old texture to the new one.

If the old one wasn't shown, the idea that the new texture is undone or lacks detailing wouldn't be present.

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