SUGGESTION: Purchasable map flair/Announcers
So, as we've seen plenty with the Arcade event and previous Star Guardian event, You could toggle the map flair, thus implying that it was client-side. And as most people know, Event announcer voices are fucking glorious, So here's my suggestion (since i didnt know where to put it, i'll slap it here
Purchasable in the shop would be map packs. Reskins of the classic maps that could even give a much broader change, even full on pallate swaps for more top-tier ones, in a similar vain to Snowdown & Bloodmoon's colorswaps. Prices could vary. Minor detail packs (Only minion changes or other minor flairs could be cheaper, like 975 or lower, whereas full map reskins could go much higher. Legendary/ultimate skin prices perhaps.)
Saying this, however, please do keep them temporarily available for their respective events regardless of if they are purchasable. Think of it like this: If the player sees that they like the way it looks, they can snatch it and slap it on permanently. If they don't, then at least they know its an option
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Now onto announcer voices.
The normal announcer is so iconic but so milktoast bland at this point. Everyone hears everything that she'll ever say within under a month of playing, and then BANG its just "enemy doublekill" "an enemy has been slain" "your turret has been destroyed" etc for the rest of your gaming experience
Of course, the vanilla announcer is very clear in all her messages, and you know what will be said before the sentence is finished, but i'd much rather hear Gangplank or Aurelion Sol, or frankly any champion with a cool voice. I'm sure everyone here has a champ that they'd like to hear ingame instead of the O.G. voice
Announcer packs could probably span 1350 - 1820 RP depending on demand/effort.
imagine a fucking teemo announcer that just laughed whenever your team got a kill combo.
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Now, Where would you equip these beauties? Well, you could rework the ward skin selector to have all 3 in 1, Or you could simply add 2 more boxes next to wardskins in the pre-game.
Seeing as i'm no artist, no visuals here, but the icons could be styalized like this:
Voiceovers: Image of champion with a Speaker symbol in the bot-right Map Skins: Just do a stylized image to represent it. Star for starguardian, Snowflake for winter, Hell you could even make a jack-o-lantern for the Harrowing!
So many options
And this way, you'd have a new source of revenue without greeding when it comes to skins & borders! I betcha if you really wanted, you could enable lots of customization w/ adding music (i.e. taking the background songs from other modes and letting you stick them anywhere. I personally like the new starguardian background music but god damn i hate velkoz so i'd rather not play the mode.
So, lets see if we can get this to front-page, and maybe even get some rito recognition [katarina-love]