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Little Legends Skins - Why They Should Not Be RNG Only.

Suge Daddy·6/24/2019, 1:59:21 AM·2 votes·842 views

Over the past few days, I have been watching/reading tons of videos/posts about the upcoming game mode TFT. The gameplay looks awesome and I am personally very excited to try it on release, but that's not why I'm here. The one major issue that I have seen popping up everywhere and haven't found a clear answer to is: Why are the little legend skins only purchasable through RNG loot boxes?

 From a business perspective, this seems like a terrible decision that will keep many players from buying the new skins. A large percentage of people will only be interested in obtaining one or two of these cosmetic appearances. By not giving them the ability to selectively buy skins, people will see these loot boxes as a cash-grab and will avoid buying them out of fear of getting everything except the ones they actually want.  Although some people with the resources to gamble will still purchase these RNG based eggs, Riot will be losing huge amounts of money on the majority of people who are not willing to risk their money for nothing. 

My solution would be to keep the loot boxes available for purchase at a lower price while adding the option of selectively buying individual skins for a higher price, much like the current skin-store. This keeps the people who are interested in gambling for a bargain happy, as well as giving the rest of us the ability to directly purchase our desired skins.

Just my personal thoughts on the topic and I'm interested what the rest of the community has to say about it.

5 Comments

Partholonian6/24/2019, 10:23:24 PM3 votes

RNG-only would be fine for the play-to-earn part of the system (the equivalent of blue essence, or it could actually integrate with BE if TFT got its own FWOTD mission or something), but people who are spending real money are going to expect a reasonable degree of control over what they are buying. Or they're not going to be spending real money.

Also, while duplicates upgrading is nice, it needs to not be the only way to upgrade. An RP upgrade token to use on your choice of LLs you already own (and aren't max level) would be great. Or giving each LL an experience bar that fills slightly per game depending on your result, with an actual level-up animation when you win the game that earns you the next form. (Or both, making the token a "pay to accelerate" system. Those are usually popular without pissing anyone off too much.)

Talissar6/24/2019, 9:13:27 PM2 votes

Couldn't agree more, the idea of people having a favourite species and colour Little Legend but only having a 1 in 18 chance of rolling that colour per egg, and needing that to happen 3 times to max out the one they like seems insane. Watching people roll 10-20k rp to max out the one Little Legend they wanted has been absolute nonsense.

There should maybe at a minimum be species eggs, atleast gives you the Little Legend you want in the different variants.

But I would love to see a proper shop for purchasing specific variants in addition to that, even if it does cost more.

I personally was super excited because I assumed there would be species eggs, I was ready to drop a bunch on rp for the 2 I really like, definitely not going to be getting any rp for this system.

Darkfire14086/24/2019, 2:16:35 AM1 votes

The loot boxes do seem to at least be limited to 3 or 4 types. So It's not a pool of everything. But yeah, they need to have some sort of individual selection, or at least make them purchasable with BE or rolled with champ capsules or chests.