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All my skins come from chests and orbs except Pizza Delivery Sivir which I had to have immediately.
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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:who the gently caress buys skins, everytime I think about doing so I remember that DJ Sona costs the local equivalent of a moderately priced used PS4 game and I wince and close the store tab It's a whale-reliant system, like pretty much any f2p monetization. Most people buy 0 skins, then I know one person who absolutely loves Xayah and has bought every Xayah skin in the game.
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Aug 21, 2020 01:32
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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:who the gently caress buys skins, everytime I think about doing so I remember that DJ Sona costs the local equivalent of a moderately priced used PS4 game and I wince and close the store tab You get the really good ones you want when they are on sale. The really expensive ones are for getting from random skin shards or orbs. RPATDO_LAMD posted:It's a whale-reliant system, like pretty much any f2p monetization. Most people buy 0 skins, then I know one person who absolutely loves Xayah and has bought every Xayah skin in the game. When i decided to main Jhin and then Ashe, both times I didnt like their OG skins (ashe especially, terrible), and since I was going to be committing to 100+ games on them I waited for one of their skins to show up in the my store or the weekly sale and bought them. I've been really lucky to also get alot of ADC skins from chests/orbs/combinations. Everyone needs to realize, skins are cool. It would obviously be awesome to get the skins for free/play rewards, and you can sometimes get lucky. Jerkface fucked around with this message at 01:36 on Aug 21, 2020 |
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Aug 21, 2020 01:32
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Aerox posted:I just miss the days when League skins really stood for something, you know? this breaks cannon, the big rolling golem isn't supposed to gather that stuff
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Aug 21, 2020 01:39
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Man there's a shitload of things to complain about when it comes to Riot Games, but "they just use too much loving data and metrics to make decisions about balancing" seems like a really baffling hill to die on.
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Aug 21, 2020 01:41
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strong bird posted:*furrowing brow* i just cant understand why they make skins that sell really well for champions that are picked often instead of skins for champions who nobody plays people really championed urgot because he didnt get a skin for a long time and they have made some really good urgot skins and, well, you never see them
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Aug 21, 2020 01:44
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rabidsquid posted:people really championed urgot because he didnt get a skin for a long time and they have made some really good urgot skins and, well, you never see them every so often the rare top lane urgot main will grace your solo queue lobby and lock in that pajama guardian urgot
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Aug 21, 2020 01:52
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SuccinctAndPunchy posted:who the gently caress buys skins, everytime I think about doing so I remember that DJ Sona costs the local equivalent of a moderately priced used PS4 game and I wince and close the store tab I paid $35 for Elementalist Lux on release, and I'd happily do so again. 
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Aug 21, 2020 02:24
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Guess true damage didn’t get the buys they wanted. Gotta stick with the hot girl skins.
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Aug 21, 2020 02:54
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Invalid Validation posted:Guess true damage didn’t get the buys they wanted. Gotta stick with the hot girl skins. I'm sure it sold well - consider how many skins Senna already has, and I can't remember the last time I saw an Ekko without the TD skin - but I'd bet my life that K/DA was their best selling skin line ever. Can't really blame them for wanting to replicate that.
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Aug 21, 2020 02:58
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rabidsquid posted:people really championed urgot because he didnt get a skin for a long time and they have made some really good urgot skins and, well, you never see them they added discord groomer urgot skin and now thats the only one i ever see
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Aug 21, 2020 03:03
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I have literally never seen Qiyana without her true damage skin on.
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Aug 21, 2020 03:15
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high noon urgot is a super great skin
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Aug 21, 2020 03:47
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I started playing Urgot because he got the Pajama Guardian skin and I wanted to prove that one Rioter who said stuff like 'we probably wont' make star guardian urgot because the last time we made a meme skin real it sold terribly' wrong. And also I have bought every Star Guardian skin except for Zoe's and the pajama guardian ones.
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Aug 21, 2020 04:00
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Coca Koala posted:Man there's a shitload of things to complain about when it comes to Riot Games, but "they just use too much loving data and metrics to make decisions about balancing" seems like a really baffling hill to die on. I had a quick laugh at the expense of a blatant cash grab by Riot while their design team continues to flounder. What hill am I supposed to be dying on?
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Aug 21, 2020 04:50
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because skin design - game design is a completely made up slider that doesn't exist anywhere except for in the minds of people who have made up a very silly scenario where those two things are related.
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Aug 21, 2020 04:53
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I like the crab one because he is a crab and I like crabs
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Aug 21, 2020 04:58
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They always say they make the skins for the champions that sell so they can make skins for the champions that don’t really get new skins. I wish they’d embrace that more.
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Aug 21, 2020 05:13
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rabidsquid posted:because skin design - game design is a completely made up slider that doesn't exist anywhere except for in the minds of people who have made up a very silly scenario where those two things are related.  It's not hard to see how their priorities have shifted in various directions over the past decade. This isn't the worst they've been, but I'm sure as hell going to still laugh at them, for this specific thing. It's not that deep.
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Aug 21, 2020 05:19
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i guess i lack basic pattern recognition, so explain to me in what way designing skins interferes with game design and balance
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Aug 21, 2020 05:21
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rabidsquid posted:high noon urgot is a super great skin Yes. I have all of urgots skins but that one is my favorite. It used to be Crabgot when it was B movie crabman, I'm still a little angry that they just completely changed the skin concept with the rework.
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Aug 21, 2020 06:25
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Malah posted:If that's your takeaway then there's not really anything else to say, I guess? Whatever slider nonsense youre referring to here doesn't matter, it's basic pattern recognition. More skins good, let gameplay experience continue to rot away while Riot dangles shiny cosmetics and new seasonal gimmicks to bring in new customers. Artists don't work on game design or balance.
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Aug 21, 2020 07:19
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Old Crabgot was the best skin in the game bar none.
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Aug 21, 2020 09:39
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i think we should let the artists continue to ruin league of legends because ahri is cute and when she is not wearing a cute skin we should all be asking "where is ahri's cute skin"
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Aug 21, 2020 12:07
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If artists influenced game balance than Scuba Gragas would be the most op champion in the game.
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Aug 21, 2020 12:28
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Extra Tasty posted:i think we should let the artists continue to ruin league of legends because ahri is cute and when she is not wearing a cute skin we should all be asking "where is ahri's cute skin" This
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Aug 21, 2020 14:20
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I've always found Urgot to be one of the characters where the default skin is best. There aren't a ton like that but there are a handful. Monsters and robots are objectively the coolest characters but unfortunately they don't pay the bills.
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Aug 21, 2020 14:30
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Malah posted:If that's your takeaway then there's not really anything else to say, I guess? Whatever slider nonsense youre referring to here doesn't matter, it's basic pattern recognition. More skins good, let gameplay experience continue to rot away while Riot dangles shiny cosmetics and new seasonal gimmicks to bring in new customers. Your take is a great if Riot was a charity. How is making more money interfering with their game balance? At what point was making money not their priority? In fact the game has never been better. Every single role has impact, they rebalance items/roles every few seasons and they tend to be big changes that change the game. I been playing since season 3 and some of the roles were unplayable in those seasons. The game was the same for 2-3 years. These days every season a role gets a overhaul to make it more modern and they even do big overall game changes more often. I don't think all their changes are good but it keeps the game fresh. Also it makes so that even older players have to relearn the game with newer player which I love to see. Many older online games that are balanced and are not subject to major overhauls, it's very hard to break into because it's all people have been playing their whole lives.
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Aug 21, 2020 14:44
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Groovelord Neato posted:I've always found Urgot to be one of the characters where the default skin is best. There aren't a ton like that but there are a handful. Cassiopeia has never had a skin even close to as good as her base skin, imo
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Aug 21, 2020 14:44
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Rygar201 posted:Cassiopeia has never had a skin even close to as good as her base skin, imo Yeah she's definitely in that group for sure.
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Aug 21, 2020 14:51
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Rygar201 posted:Cassiopeia has never had a skin even close to as good as her base skin, imo Spirit Blossom just came out. Also we should acknowledge that every Taric skin has him tiddies out as god intended.
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Aug 21, 2020 15:19
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I like greek cassio with the hosed up splash art c:
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Aug 21, 2020 15:21
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I like Eternum Cass, and imo it's one of the few newer skins where the splash art doesn't really do it justice.
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Aug 21, 2020 15:25
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The best splash art is classic Trundle.
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Aug 21, 2020 15:29
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Idk man, Stern Stare Leona is good. And "I yell at metal" Jarvan deserves honorable mention.
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Aug 21, 2020 15:45
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for a recent example, they inexplicably buffed shen and now they're releasing a skin that's 100x as cool as any shen skin ever. it's probably a coincidence but i definitely see where it gets peoples wheels turning
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Aug 21, 2020 16:15
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Groovelord Neato posted:I've always found Urgot to be one of the characters where the default skin is best. There aren't a ton like that but there are a handful. aurelion sol base skin is amazing and his first skin was like, a brown dragon and absolutely terrible. Spokes posted:for a recent example, they inexplicably buffed shen and now they're releasing a skin that's 100x as cool as any shen skin ever. it's probably a coincidence but i definitely see where it gets peoples wheels turning this is an old conspiracy that has been disproven, people on reddit have like actual graphs showing nerfs and buffs related to skins and get this. champs don't get buffs related to skins, and never have. eve has a prestige skin and hasn't been buffed in how long? teemo? come on man. shen got a buff for pro play.
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Aug 21, 2020 16:15
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I will just say Kha'zix got a really odd big buff bringing him from A+ tier to S+++ tier right around the time his victorious skin was coming out that I always found baffling.
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Aug 21, 2020 16:35
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Looking back at release schedules, almost every champ from 2015 up to current have solid base appearances. Stuff like Kayn, Ivern, Ekko, Aphelios, Pyke, Sett, Senna and Tahm Kench all look really good as is. If I had to pick, Tahm and Ivern in particular have had a couple of skins come out but I still prefer their base looks. What's some champs that you pick up a skin for them because you don't like the base appearance? Or just that you don't like the base appearance?
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All of the champions I play a lot because I like being a special snowflake. All the ninjas need a skin because they are super generic. Even the new ninja Yone is super generic.
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