Which will result in those whales crying, doing charge backs etc. In response Riot will add a new perk to the $500 skin where when it's equipped it makes that hero unbanable. Begun, the pay to win wars have
@cloudwalker9572 that's why I'm playing her. I have all the skin line and main those champs. Qiyana is the only one I'm waiting for one, too, and Gwen's skin from LOR.
This is bad for everyone. For the players who were enthusiastic about this event, for the players who will buy it because everyone wants to ban Ahri now, for the Ahri mains like me, who will not see Ahri in a while, for Riot because the hate they attracted and even for Faker as this is against what he represents. How and why Riot managed to screw everyone including themselves is beyond my understanding.
I am someone who could easily afford this skin because I have a good paying job but holy hell I would never ever buy this. 450+ for a skin? What the heck? You can get yourself a new console or new computer hardware for that amount of money.
Yeah im in a similiar situation, Its a shame too since I really love the look the skin and main Ahri. However paying 300$ for legendary value vfx and animations sucks. I really hope they reconsider when they launch it.
What would you rather have 1. Every ultimate skin in the game and about 30k RP left over 2. A PS5 3. A 500$ skin to commemorate a player who literally never uses skins competitively other than 1 time as a misclick Anyone who picks 3 gets sent to Brazil
Reminder: This skin tier is higher than ultimate. Legendary skins have pentakill effects, a lot also have hud effects. Surprise Party Fiddle has unique icons. Elementalist Lux is 9 skins in one. You can't even choose which form you want to be in. Wild Rift / Valorant have elimination effects. Soul Fighter Samira and Mecha Jax have elimination effects. Azir does more with tower rubble than this skin. Ahri naturally has elimination effects because of her passive. This is an E-Sports skin, not a unique skin with some cool universe around it. There are a handful of recycled animations. Your 500 dollar investment is gone to one little ban button. You need ~9 kills per game to enjoy the skin to the fullest. There are little to no VFX changes per form- something that *every ultimate skin* manages to do. Faker rarely ever uses skins- so you're not really honoring him at all anyways. The usual price of an epic skin is ~10 in local currency, legendaries ~20. You could buy every star guardian or project skin. ^Better yet, every Ahri skin and Risen Legend if you were desperate. Everything else you receive (borders, icons, emotes) you won't see for more than a few seconds before / during a game.
@Harumiqt OMG I didn't think about it! What can I do now?? 😰 Joke aside, this sound like a skill issue to me. If you only play one champ, in one role and your ban is always the same because you can't play against it, then it's time to get good. There are 168 champions in league, go try them. I will keep on banning my main (Ahri) until this behaviors end
@Harumiqt You can play her as long as you're happy. You can also buy the skin, I'm not judging you. I'm judging Riot marketing and the way they are treating the community by appealing only to Whales. The protest is meant to stop these scams: they started with 200€ (Jhin), now 500€ (Ahri), but tomorrow it could reach 1000€. Everyone should celebrate Faker's event, but apparently only those who can afford it will. Their target audience are now Whales! They don't want common people to enjoy their content anymore. If you are happy to be part of this unfair community good for you, but I won't.
I wouldnt give money to riot in the first place, but In other games the devs put p2w in cash shop and then the leaderboards are whales only. atleast i can ignore overpriced skins but doesnt matter another 10 billion dollars, they dont fix client or balance game
as a huge T1 Fan that was there they every finals lost, and they last year won finals and now seeing hall of legends made me so happy then after seeing the price its ripped me in parts, its jsut teared me hard i was crying why why milk this riot why
Pov: Faker picks Ahri so many players can enjoy the skin since she is a popular champ compared to his other picks Riot: turns it into a cash grab and completely drags fakers legacy to the dirt, using his legacy and popularity as a bait for all his fans
I think it's like you said: some people are gonna buy the skin regardless. For that reason I think community outrage is actually a bit more important than a boycott. If more people see RIOT as a predatory company, less people will play, which means (slightly) longer queues and less skin purchases.
Using faker's name to sell a 500$ skin for attractive foxgirl by slapping faker's signature on her thighs calling it a day not only that but also pressuring players into buying it by making limited, they are just shameless at this point, but iam still more mad about the current skins of the game, 90% of the new skins are just the same edgy sexy man or woman in different costume, zero creativity or fantasy in new skins.
For me as a skin collector its just sad. Sitting at 1647 Skins the Fomo says buy it yet every single braincell i have says boycott this skin. Im just gonna accept, that its not worth the money just like i did with the 200€ gatcha skins (i really hope they put them in reroll after 1 year tho). Im not even an Ahri player i just want to collect stuff and stick with being a nidalee onetrick. I just hope Nidalee never gets such a skin cause I can already tell you i would buy it without looking at the price.
@@dsp2710 I spent like 8k in the span of 11 years of daily playing. I just reached the end after all these years. The reason to start was my goal of having every nidalee skin, with Leopard Nidalee (Legacy) being the last one to get which took me like 800 rerolls. So i decided to go for all to get my Pax Tf
I just want the demon king banner. I don't want any of these skins. Bundles inherently are so predatory. Just let me pay like $5 for a banner individually
Bruh for that price I may as well get ALL of the World Champion skins since they actually started the custom tailored skins. It actually almost evens out to that much too! At least I can still celebrate Faker with other skins!
Imagine their Asian players that can't even buy a skin sees this. China I guess is pretty rich but some countries like PH can't afford this type of shit. The RP isn't even converted properly. For shame riot, for SHAME!!!
I get the "faker's legacy" point, I kinda agree with it (although the other extreme of them giving the skin for free to everyone would make it not exclusive at all). But the rest of it is just so overblown. The more I listen to people complain about this the more I think riot should have never introduced the skin crafting thing. Everyone feels entitled to own every skin in the game for some reason when it's a free to play game which gives you free skins all the time and those skins are purely cosmetic. It doesn't impact your gameplay in any way if you don't have a specific skin. Let alone the most expensive version of a skin. Some people (0.01% whales) will find $500 to be a low price and I don't see any issue with having some exclusive content (especially cosmetics) for them. Plus you can make fun of them for wasting the money.
It's not about that at all, it's the fact that Riot is abusing Fakers name to make a cash grab skin, there's no celebration here just a marketing scam. Making a FOMO skin that no one can buy to "immortalize" someone is just retarded and disrespectful to the legacy of Faker.
As an Ahri main, this is an absolute disaster. I want to make Riot pay by banning the champ every game, but at the same time I'm suffering too BCS I can't play her. But in the end, it's the least I can do. However, her ban rate is barely rising up. I don't think banning will help us... All we can hope for is that the whales do not buy it which is a very naive idea.
99,99% of Players don't know how to play Ahri, only 0,0001% have figured It out, in more than 12 years of her 2011 released date. This made me laugh very much.
This defeatist attitude just benafits them you realize this? Push for the boycotts , push for the protests..hell divers proves what can happen if the community bands together
so, in dota 2, the battlepasses are insane, the rewards are once in a lifetime opportunity, lots of skins/items, super rare stuff, effects and such, and its a bit predatory and i think riot is looking at how much money the battlepasses make there, so they are trying to get into the same bandwaggon
@@Rewleagueit depends on what you want. Some arcana skins in dota locked by 300-400lvl of battle pass. You can play the game and progress with free element, but it almost imposible to get 300+lvls. I mean its your time you wasting. So alternative is to buy levels and it can be a huge amount of money. It’s just not so staight forward as 500 ahri skin in lol. Also if you add the fact that one of arcanas is a basic skin for a hero(wraith king) that was removed long ago… So dota battle passes have the same lvl of predatory as riot now
@@Rewleague you buy the battle pass but the real juice is on the higher levels, the battle pass goes to like 1500+ lvls, and every like 300 levels you get cool stuff with insane stuff at big breakpoints, like once-in-a-lifetime skins that are incredible, announcer packs, tower reskins, wards, couriers, spell effects, teleport/recall effects, its insane ua-cam.com/video/OJ0aShOGvqw/v-deo.html
I am so disappointed because I genuinely expected the HOL skins to be expensive (like 100 USD) *but* that there's like a 50% discount coupon for doing good at some Faker-themed event about doing well, getting high ranks in games and honors from your teammates. And then I'd return every year with a new themed skin for a new pro-player, but you could still buy the skin for the previous year's Inductee, but the discount would be 30% off or something. I don't understand what about this is supposed to be a celebration of high-performing pro-players if it doesn't reward you for wanting to be like them?
The concept was to "immortalize" Faker as a player, but making this skin time exclusive and limited is opposite of that. The whole point is to cash his name out. I feel like the best point would be to follow the way stuff like "You're the OG buyer, you bought it as it came out so here is your skin with border, special faker emote, thanks for being here when it came out" if they want to grab on cash, make 10k RP, drop in some mythic chroma bullshit. HOWEVER it should return every year around time when new player comes to Hall of Legends, you can buy it for that price, you don't get the border, but you can still show support to legends of the game.
@@Rewleague yeh at 50 they would make a good buck and many people would buy it. Like very much less expensive but I'm sure 15 times more people would buy it me included I like playing ahri and this skin is amazing but the price is a quick no. They would make more money off of it that way.
@HarumiqtThat’s arguably why it’s even more predatory. To my understanding, I may be wrong, but you can’t buy the skin without buying the rest of the stuff that comes with it like the 100 pass levels. Those extra addons are just there to raise the price. No one is buying for the extra addons. They only want the skin.
@Harumiqt i get the car comparison but it is still very different and cars have a function and resale value. This is the equivalent of a ford fiesta being 5k then putting new rims on it and charging 500k the value is fucking dreadful
I could write a 10000 word comment about despite hating this predatory skin bullshit, still hating this boycotting method even more and all the toxic negatives it would bring but instead i'll just keep it simple... As a former Ahri OTP who has less time to play and therefore little time to master other champs to the same level as i did with Ahri, this just straight up closes me out ot playing the game and denies me the chance to climb in ranked... After finally getting multiple days off of work so that i could play league again, i was cucked since the ~2 days of the prizes where revealed by not beeing able to pick and play ahri once which lead to me unintentionally running it since i had pretty much no idea what to do in those games. And this exact same shit will happen to at least every Ahri OTP who really never played anything else... Now here you guys are, boycotting by permabanning a champ who's gotten more and more popular over the seasons and you are directly casuing more and more "inters/feeder" to appear in your games which you end up flaming for "inting/running it" for having gotten forced into that situation becasue of your protesting... It's the fucking worst to not be able to have fun in a game becasue people "don't let you play it" and then flame you afterwards nonstop...
Just a note, as someone who is a whale in Genshin, most of the people buying this skin are not idiots. They are rich and smart. They know what they can afford and they buy within their disposable income. There are unfortunately a small number of people who do not know what they are doing and will get caught by the FOMO, but the majority of the people buying this are buying it because they do not care about all these stupid internet dramas and fights people start over these things. I did not boycott Genshin when all the children on Twitter were crying about it, and I will not boycott League of Legends because people are crying about it, either. Though, I was not originally planning on buying this skin until I saw all the angry people.
most people buying these skins are idiots ngl. Me and my friends who play are lucky enough to be able to afford it but we would have to be idiots to waste $500. If someone said this can of Coke is $500 are you smart to buy it?
Besides not buying it, I'm permabanning Ahri after the skins releases. Noone in my lobbies will ever have the chance to play with that skin if they buy it :)
I normally don't care what riot does with cosmetics or any company if you can't don't buy them but I think a lot of ppl dont understand that one of the biggest reasons for the out rage is that this is extremely disrespectful to the proplayers like seeing riot use fakers image for a gacha level cash grabs hurt me so much as a faker fan since 2014 like I just coudnt believe it when it was announced Faker of all things to exploit for predatory practice extremely disappointed in riot and for ppl saying riot won't care won't get effected let's see I have the feeling that riot will be at a huge loss compared to if they priced it at 4-5k rp for the skin without the bundle.
You should work at Riot with these great ideas like lowering the price point that you "feel" will gross higher. I'm sure they never consider that as an alternative -- it is a truly unheard of concept. This is meant for whales to flash the fact that they have made an exclusive purchase and to bait players with fomo. It's not meant to be for everybody, and I'm sure they have already concluded it will gross higher. If you don't want it, don't buy it.
You're probably right. Riot has the done the analysis, and they could gross 2x using OP's cheaper price structure, but they instead are actively shooting themself in the foot by making the price higher. I'm not gonna buy this skin at all -- I'm a huge Faker fan but I could care less about dropping money on this. I just think it's disingenuous to assume Riot knows they could make more money with a cheaper price point but decided to use a more expensive one to pander to whales for fun. You're delusional if you think they intentionally chose an option that makes them less money.
@@thomasaquinas399 think about this, if 500 people buy the 500 dollar skin, they're making 250,000 minus the 30% they give to Faker, if 1,000,000 people buy a 20 dollar skin, heck a 30 dollar if we're being generous, that's 30,000,000 minus 30%, it's the absolute most retarded move Riot could ever do to pander specifically to the whales which are a really small minority while garnering the hate and resentment of the majority of your community. It really sucks.
Riot doesnt have real leverage on Caedrel, cutting him out of costreams would be a huge loss for them and Caedrel knows it, he can tweet f u to them and get away with it
I dont think any English speaking streamer gets close to caedral but the views would trickle down to Dom, Ls etc still respect the fact he’s taking a risk to call it out very easy to not do
theyre also trying to get you to buy the event pass btw. They want you to be like Oh that bundle is too expensive but the event pass seems worth it so ill just get that. Its a marketing strategy to promote something really expensive but giving a cheap alternative that people are supposed to buy instead. So dont buy the pass either.
We all know people are gonna buy it but the real question is, is anyone willing to pay that price for someone that is NOT Faker? We all know he's an exception, but I don't think the playerbase will buy it from any other player than Faker. Since I suppose there will be more proplayers into the hall of fame
@Harumiqt -- WARNING --- GUYS GUYS GUYS. Don't bother responding to this failure at life. Just look at their channel, realize they upload Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail - 2 Gacha games made to farm financially clueless whales like them - and you don't need to respond or engage with them further. Could not be more poetically ironic that the guy who is typing in "uwu
is so fun how people who paid for this skin complain about the ban trolling... just go blind pick there you can play her all day with no fear of her being banned...
That’s some good content right there. That’s my opinion , but I think I prefer the 10 to 12 minutes format. Something like 6 minutes feels short. Good work nonetheless
Appreciate it i think it depends on what’s happening atm. If theres 3/4 things to talk about thats easy but a 12 minute rant on the skin might make me come across a bit moany if you know what i mean
@Harumiqt -- WARNING --- GUYS GUYS GUYS. Don't bother responding to this failure at life. Just look at their channel, realize they upload Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail - 2 Gacha games made to farm financially clueless whales like them - and you don't need to respond or engage with them further. Could not be more poetically ironic that the guy who is typing in "uwu
@@defrejr9914 Dont worry it could not be more ironic. They upload gacha game videos. They're literally the target audience Riot is trying to milk because they know just how brain damaged these losers are. They will justify any amount of spending on games so Riot could add another 0 to the $500 skin and he would unironically go out and get a payday loan to afford it. The few brain cells people like this have go into idolizing the pixels they have on their screen no matter the cost of those pixels.
3:50 everyone here is defending their money not their ideas. If Caedrel comes out and says that the skin is not a scam his community would kill him. at the same time its not wrong that the skin looks fantastic, it really does maybe the best skin in the game so the NA caster isn't wrong. the community needs to understand that they can just not buy something, Riot makes a game for whales too
why shouldn't they do it? They have a lobotomized playerbase that lets them get away with literally anything. Balance patches done randomly? Check. Installing malware on users' pc? Check. League is a game based on aggresively exploit its playerbase, that managed to get away with it because they switched from investing in game development and production to investing in smokescreens like esport events and influencers. In the meantime, they have a ridiculously huge champion roster, with a relatively small percentage of champions being actually played. They got away with bricking people's PC and shutting down each and every reddit post where someone complains about this, they got away with marketing 500 euro skin to minors, they got away with everything. And at this point, for those who are still wasting their time playing this crap, I have only 3 words: you deserve it.
I doubt boycotting this will do anything 1 to 5 people have to buy it and they likely have their money back. Riot is about to awaken a Bal'rog in it's player base
@@Rewleague whales are certainly lost individuals but I would assume that this will make some of them wake up. As soon as something similar comes along that respects it's player base people will likely flock in droves, there really is just nothing like league atm. It's all lack of competition in the market that makes riot feel comfortable doing this.
It won't do anything realistically but it doesn't matter nor does it have to. The point of it is to make it obnoxious and annoying for the whales even if it's just for a week or a month at most. If people want to be financially irresponsible and pay $500 for pixels then they can go ahead. Skins should cost AT MAX $40-50 and that would only be acceptable for once-in-a-lifetime moments like this where a legendary pro is being inducted into a Hall of Fame.
I think people dont know just how cheaply riot can make these skins and animations. the rigs are still from 2010, so spaghetti code aside, its actually not that expensive to make these skins, vfxs, and animations. Modders do more than this for free for skyrim or genshin mods.
Y'all are completely delusional. Firstly, just DON'T BUY THE SKIN. It's about revenue and also a message. They see it doesn't happen again, they prob won't do it again. First time they learned their lesson, they just tried a different spin with the whole "paying for a legacy" thing. Secondly you're just making Ahri mains suffer for something completely out of their control. Thirdly, the people that DO buy it are gonna get bullied by this toxic ass community.
the real issue is, people spend a long time mastering a champion, they want the best skins for the champion they are best with, and a 500$ skin is just a middle finger to anyone who mains that champ. If we let them get away with this, your main just might be the next to receive a 500$ skin. Now, if you have more money than you know what to do with, that's a good thing for you in theory, but for the rest of the people, it's very insulting to say the least.
This is the problem, its not just the Faker skin the entire Hall of Legends concept and skin like will be incredible but the price if this Faker one sells well will be like this for everyones favourite player and champion
Yup, a good point. My two favorite champions I buy every skin for, and damn it’ll feel bad looking at a locked skin if they get one of these scams. For once I’ll count my lucky stars that they’re pretty much never in a spotlight.
You have to vote with your money but people are going to buy it anyways and nothing is going to change, that's why we had lootboxes everywhere, that's why Diablo Immortal exists, that's why Genshin Impact exist, that's why CoD turned into shit, etc etc etc
Reddit, twitter, discord and co don't represent the average players' opinion. Most people, me included, don't give a royal f if that ahri skin is worth 500 or 50000. While the reddit lol subreddit has become funny, the real balancing issues, which actually impact the game, matter far more.
You are not the average player, every single league player I've spoken to in my games have said the same thing: "I'm banning her every game and I'm bullying anyone who uses it"
@@vanquisher4700 if streamers like Asmongold did not cover it, most people palying league would not even knwo the skin exited, unntil they see it. The vast majority of people are casual players (I am not, but I am aware I am in a bubble). The amount of people wo stop playing league because of this ahri skin will be negligeable. I you watch rival and co and often visit reddit lol content you are more investe dthan most people. EDIT being on this youtube /finding tis channel is more difficult than finding rival. So the people commenting here are faar away from the average league consumer.
@@neochrzeo8561 brother, it's the hot topic of the WHOLE community at the moment, everyone who plays league knows what's going on, you can hop on a game right now and ask the other 9 people there what they think about the Ahri skin and they will be aware of the drama. Like go ahead and test it out, in LAN, NA, EU, even Brazil know what's happening.
financially tho it really doesn't make sense for them because if it was actually being "immortalized" it would be like $100 and everybody that loves the game and loves faker (a fuck ton of people) would shell out 100 bucks to buy it, dare I say it more than 5X more people would buy it if it was $200 instead of $500.... They are losing money with this pricing, did the Unheard Edition of Tarkov not teach this people anything? XD
I really do feel like whatever data they got back from the Jhin skin means £500 makes sense and it’s maybe’s about setting a standard that future hof skins maybe cost £300 come across as cheap?
would you rather 60 hillbilly gragas or one ahri skin
I cant open twitter without seeing that 🤣🤣
full version is equal to 115.38 hillbilly gragas. choose wisely
I would like that. 38 hillbilly gragas@@Mothhhhhhh
You even could buy an cheap gaming pc for this amount of money
i'd rather get 60 armor of the fifth age tarics
Wooo 500$ ahri skin that already looks like an exsisting ahri skin.
I maked video comparising all Ahri skin. Check it out. The skin looks total diff then rest skins.
We will perma ban ahri
Which will result in those whales crying, doing charge backs etc. In response Riot will add a new perk to the $500 skin where when it's equipped it makes that hero unbanable.
Begun, the pay to win wars have
last maybe 1 month lmao
Laughs in quickplay.
@Harumiqt Imagine copy-pasting one message over and over again...
Already played 2 ranked game and I banned Ahri.
Love my star guardian ahri. I'll miss it for a while. I guess I'll be playing orianna or qiyana mid for now.
your champ is about to be perma banned
Orianna has a star guardian skin, just saying. ^^
@cloudwalker9572 that's why I'm playing her. I have all the skin line and main those champs. Qiyana is the only one I'm waiting for one, too, and Gwen's skin from LOR.
@@markos50100 Same but on the ADC lol Kai'sa/MF and I'm waiting for a star guardian Caitlyn xD
You had me in the first half. Was thinking you would buy that shitty skin. Godspeed on your ori and qiyana journey xD
This is bad for everyone. For the players who were enthusiastic about this event, for the players who will buy it because everyone wants to ban Ahri now, for the Ahri mains like me, who will not see Ahri in a while, for Riot because the hate they attracted and even for Faker as this is against what he represents. How and why Riot managed to screw everyone including themselves is beyond my understanding.
I am someone who could easily afford this skin because I have a good paying job but holy hell I would never ever buy this. 450+ for a skin? What the heck? You can get yourself a new console or new computer hardware for that amount of money.
6 likes in 3 mins you got a discord call upvoting this ahaha but seriously comment is spot on
Yeah im in a similiar situation, Its a shame too since I really love the look the skin and main Ahri. However paying 300$ for legendary value vfx and animations sucks. I really hope they reconsider when they launch it.
@@Rewleague Wait I just realized, what happened? lol
What would you rather have
1. Every ultimate skin in the game and about 30k RP left over
2. A PS5
3. A 500$ skin to commemorate a player who literally never uses skins competitively other than 1 time as a misclick
Anyone who picks 3 gets sent to Brazil
as a brazilian, we don't want these guys, send them to Argentina.
hahaha shots taken, but brazil really is the hell itself
As an argentiniam we dont want them either, send them to Venezuela @@KuromaP
@@KuromaP as an argentinian we dont want them either, just send them to north korea and call it a day
I'd rather watch you all cry over this for exactly zero dollars.... wah
Reminder: This skin tier is higher than ultimate.
Legendary skins have pentakill effects, a lot also have hud effects.
Surprise Party Fiddle has unique icons.
Elementalist Lux is 9 skins in one.
You can't even choose which form you want to be in.
Wild Rift / Valorant have elimination effects.
Soul Fighter Samira and Mecha Jax have elimination effects.
Azir does more with tower rubble than this skin.
Ahri naturally has elimination effects because of her passive.
This is an E-Sports skin, not a unique skin with some cool universe around it.
There are a handful of recycled animations.
Your 500 dollar investment is gone to one little ban button.
You need ~9 kills per game to enjoy the skin to the fullest.
There are little to no VFX changes per form- something that *every ultimate skin* manages to do.
Faker rarely ever uses skins- so you're not really honoring him at all anyways.
The usual price of an epic skin is ~10 in local currency, legendaries ~20. You could buy every star guardian or project skin.
^Better yet, every Ahri skin and Risen Legend if you were desperate.
Everything else you receive (borders, icons, emotes) you won't see for more than a few seconds before / during a game.
#PermaBanAhri
Do not promote this predatory scam!
@Harumiqt OMG I didn't think about it! What can I do now?? 😰
Joke aside, this sound like a skill issue to me. If you only play one champ, in one role and your ban is always the same because you can't play against it, then it's time to get good. There are 168 champions in league, go try them.
I will keep on banning my main (Ahri) until this behaviors end
@Harumiqt You can play her as long as you're happy. You can also buy the skin, I'm not judging you.
I'm judging Riot marketing and the way they are treating the community by appealing only to Whales. The protest is meant to stop these scams: they started with 200€ (Jhin), now 500€ (Ahri), but tomorrow it could reach 1000€.
Everyone should celebrate Faker's event, but apparently only those who can afford it will. Their target audience are now Whales! They don't want common people to enjoy their content anymore.
If you are happy to be part of this unfair community good for you, but I won't.
@Harumiqtyou won't get to play her, that's the whole point of perm banning Ahri genius.
@Harumiqt you better get a 5 stack, cuz I guarantee you if you play solo Ahri's getting banned.
@Harumiqt Imagine copy-pasting one message over and over again...
i feel like ravenous hydra is going to have some choice words about the £500 skin...
🤣🤣🤣 the entire league of legends community awaits
I wouldnt give money to riot in the first place, but
In other games the devs put p2w in cash shop and then the leaderboards are whales only. atleast i can ignore overpriced skins
but doesnt matter another 10 billion dollars, they dont fix client or balance game
@@ravenoushydra7948 true atleast its not p2w so can ignore it
"I've never seen a game do that."
Me with a $1,200 Genshin Impact Character💀
thats not the flex you think it is
as a huge T1 Fan that was there they every finals lost, and they last year won finals and now seeing hall of legends made me so happy then after seeing the price its ripped me in parts, its jsut teared me hard i was crying why why milk this riot why
Pov: Faker picks Ahri so many players can enjoy the skin since she is a popular champ compared to his other picks
Riot: turns it into a cash grab and completely drags fakers legacy to the dirt, using his legacy and popularity as a bait for all his fans
probably as good as summary as I've seen. Its not just the price its about respecting and celebrating faker
Riot probably denied him Ahri as he promised for worlds to make this cashgrab...
I think it's like you said: some people are gonna buy the skin regardless. For that reason I think community outrage is actually a bit more important than a boycott. If more people see RIOT as a predatory company, less people will play, which means (slightly) longer queues and less skin purchases.
So we basically need to bully rich people? I like it
ive actually considered uninstalling, like what is this shit?
Using faker's name to sell a 500$ skin for attractive foxgirl by slapping faker's signature on her thighs calling it a day not only that but also pressuring players into buying it by making limited, they are just shameless at this point, but iam still more mad about the current skins of the game, 90% of the new skins are just the same edgy sexy man or woman in different costume, zero creativity or fantasy in new skins.
For me as a skin collector its just sad. Sitting at 1647 Skins the Fomo says buy it yet every single braincell i have says boycott this skin. Im just gonna accept, that its not worth the money just like i did with the 200€ gatcha skins (i really hope they put them in reroll after 1 year tho). Im not even an Ahri player i just want to collect stuff and stick with being a nidalee onetrick. I just hope Nidalee never gets such a skin cause I can already tell you i would buy it without looking at the price.
Why would you ever give riot that much money???
@@dsp2710 I spent like 8k in the span of 11 years of daily playing. I just reached the end after all these years. The reason to start was my goal of having every nidalee skin, with Leopard Nidalee (Legacy) being the last one to get which took me like 800 rerolls. So i decided to go for all to get my Pax Tf
gatchas are never coming back
Mr.Krabs voice* "MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY"
I shouldve used that meme im such a noob
@@Rewleague lol I'm sure you'll have another chance to use it relatively soon
And is only available for 2 months. than it cannot be gifted or bought ever again. F riot, i deleted forever League from my pc.
this is the worst part, just so much pressure to buy it
IT'S WORSE!
It's only available for less than a month, starts june 12 ends july 7
if i buy the $500 skin, does that come with free snoo-snoo time with the one and only Ahri herself as well???
"vote with your wallet" bro my wallet doesnt have 450 dollars in it.
I would much rather spend 500$ In BDO than this garbage, I'd at least get more than a single skin over there lmfao.
When BDO is better value for money you know youve fucked up
I just want the demon king banner. I don't want any of these skins. Bundles inherently are so predatory. Just let me pay like $5 for a banner individually
Didnt even think of this, even if the banner was a rip off like $15 atleasy its not $500
Fortunately in Brazil this is a crime
WE WILL PERMABAN AHRI WITH THIS ONE🗣🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥
Bruh for that price I may as well get ALL of the World Champion skins since they actually started the custom tailored skins. It actually almost evens out to that much too! At least I can still celebrate Faker with other skins!
I'm not encouraging it but I'm surprised Ahri mains aren't pulling a Seraphine Mains moment.
Imagine their Asian players that can't even buy a skin sees this. China I guess is pretty rich but some countries like PH can't afford this type of shit. The RP isn't even converted properly.
For shame riot, for SHAME!!!
I get the "faker's legacy" point, I kinda agree with it (although the other extreme of them giving the skin for free to everyone would make it not exclusive at all). But the rest of it is just so overblown. The more I listen to people complain about this the more I think riot should have never introduced the skin crafting thing. Everyone feels entitled to own every skin in the game for some reason when it's a free to play game which gives you free skins all the time and those skins are purely cosmetic.
It doesn't impact your gameplay in any way if you don't have a specific skin. Let alone the most expensive version of a skin. Some people (0.01% whales) will find $500 to be a low price and I don't see any issue with having some exclusive content (especially cosmetics) for them. Plus you can make fun of them for wasting the money.
Im halfway with you a £500
Jhin skin for whales idc. But Faker and other pros skins should be at that £50 price point
It's not about that at all, it's the fact that Riot is abusing Fakers name to make a cash grab skin, there's no celebration here just a marketing scam. Making a FOMO skin that no one can buy to "immortalize" someone is just retarded and disrespectful to the legacy of Faker.
As an Ahri main, this is an absolute disaster. I want to make Riot pay by banning the champ every game, but at the same time I'm suffering too BCS I can't play her. But in the end, it's the least I can do. However, her ban rate is barely rising up. I don't think banning will help us... All we can hope for is that the whales do not buy it which is a very naive idea.
99,99% of Players don't know how to play Ahri, only 0,0001% have figured It out, in more than 12 years of her 2011 released date.
This made me laugh very much.
This defeatist attitude just benafits them you realize this? Push for the boycotts , push for the protests..hell divers proves what can happen if the community bands together
I think that the price is insane, but I expected nothing less from that indie company tbh. Whales pay the bills after all in every free to play game.
A problem with the korean gaming market is that, is full of predatory games.
I think riot is taking inspiration from korea.
Cant really blame them korean play count is probably bigger than the entire West combined
Just look at China, they don't even have to look outside of their own country.
If one person buys the skin Rito makes their money back on the time they've invested into it
Very likely ONLY around 5 purchases is enough to pay for the entire development of said skin.
FYI too this event ends one day before Amazon prime day to get 20% off RP
so, in dota 2, the battlepasses are insane, the rewards are once in a lifetime opportunity, lots of skins/items, super rare stuff, effects and such, and its a bit predatory and i think riot is looking at how much money the battlepasses make there, so they are trying to get into the same bandwaggon
How much is a battlepass in dota? I feel like they can be good value but its hard as if you get an AMAZING skin on a champ you dont play its worthless
Ngl compared to what we get in our passes that sounds amazing.
@@Rewleagueit depends on what you want. Some arcana skins in dota locked by 300-400lvl of battle pass. You can play the game and progress with free element, but it almost imposible to get 300+lvls. I mean its your time you wasting. So alternative is to buy levels and it can be a huge amount of money. It’s just not so staight forward as 500 ahri skin in lol. Also if you add the fact that one of arcanas is a basic skin for a hero(wraith king) that was removed long ago… So dota battle passes have the same lvl of predatory as riot now
@@Rewleague you buy the battle pass but the real juice is on the higher levels, the battle pass goes to like 1500+ lvls, and every like 300 levels you get cool stuff with insane stuff at big breakpoints, like once-in-a-lifetime skins that are incredible, announcer packs, tower reskins, wards, couriers, spell effects, teleport/recall effects, its insane ua-cam.com/video/OJ0aShOGvqw/v-deo.html
@@vanquisher4700 yeah dota 2's battle passes websites are 100 screens long scrolling down to see everything they give XD
me:buys the highest skin
rito: and youre banned
I am so disappointed because I genuinely expected the HOL skins to be expensive (like 100 USD) *but* that there's like a 50% discount coupon for doing good at some Faker-themed event about doing well, getting high ranks in games and honors from your teammates. And then I'd return every year with a new themed skin for a new pro-player, but you could still buy the skin for the previous year's Inductee, but the discount would be 30% off or something. I don't understand what about this is supposed to be a celebration of high-performing pro-players if it doesn't reward you for wanting to be like them?
The concept was to "immortalize" Faker as a player, but making this skin time exclusive and limited is opposite of that. The whole point is to cash his name out. I feel like the best point would be to follow the way stuff like "You're the OG buyer, you bought it as it came out so here is your skin with border, special faker emote, thanks for being here when it came out" if they want to grab on cash, make 10k RP, drop in some mythic chroma bullshit. HOWEVER it should return every year around time when new player comes to Hall of Legends, you can buy it for that price, you don't get the border, but you can still show support to legends of the game.
this skin should 50 dollars at most.
yeah thats what I think, I understand why it could be $50 instead of the regular $15 and surely so many more people would pay $50 than $500
@@Rewleague yeh at 50 they would make a good buck and many people would buy it. Like very much less expensive but I'm sure 15 times more people would buy it me included I like playing ahri and this skin is amazing but the price is a quick no. They would make more money off of it that way.
@HarumiqtThat’s arguably why it’s even more predatory. To my understanding, I may be wrong, but you can’t buy the skin without buying the rest of the stuff that comes with it like the 100 pass levels. Those extra addons are just there to raise the price. No one is buying for the extra addons. They only want the skin.
Wouldnt waste your time I think they are buying the skin and just trying to convince themselves its not stupid
@Harumiqt i get the car comparison but it is still very different and cars have a function and resale value. This is the equivalent of a ford fiesta being 5k then putting new rims on it and charging 500k the value is fucking dreadful
I could write a 10000 word comment about despite hating this predatory skin bullshit, still hating this boycotting method even more and all the toxic negatives it would bring but instead i'll just keep it simple...
As a former Ahri OTP who has less time to play and therefore little time to master other champs to the same level as i did with Ahri, this just straight up closes me out ot playing the game and denies me the chance to climb in ranked... After finally getting multiple days off of work so that i could play league again, i was cucked since the ~2 days of the prizes where revealed by not beeing able to pick and play ahri once which lead to me unintentionally running it since i had pretty much no idea what to do in those games.
And this exact same shit will happen to at least every Ahri OTP who really never played anything else...
Now here you guys are, boycotting by permabanning a champ who's gotten more and more popular over the seasons and you are directly casuing more and more "inters/feeder" to appear in your games which you end up flaming for "inting/running it" for having gotten forced into that situation becasue of your protesting...
It's the fucking worst to not be able to have fun in a game becasue people "don't let you play it" and then flame you afterwards nonstop...
#PermaBanAhri this is a scummy practice because this drags Faker’s name through the dirt.
I can't even afford the skin because I just bought my license and car, LOL
Just a note, as someone who is a whale in Genshin, most of the people buying this skin are not idiots. They are rich and smart. They know what they can afford and they buy within their disposable income. There are unfortunately a small number of people who do not know what they are doing and will get caught by the FOMO, but the majority of the people buying this are buying it because they do not care about all these stupid internet dramas and fights people start over these things. I did not boycott Genshin when all the children on Twitter were crying about it, and I will not boycott League of Legends because people are crying about it, either. Though, I was not originally planning on buying this skin until I saw all the angry people.
most people buying these skins are idiots ngl. Me and my friends who play are lucky enough to be able to afford it but we would have to be idiots to waste $500. If someone said this can of Coke is $500 are you smart to buy it?
imagine if buying the $500 skin will make you immune from rank ban
Besides not buying it, I'm permabanning Ahri after the skins releases. Noone in my lobbies will ever have the chance to play with that skin if they buy it :)
Ravenous hydra is a legend.
I'm glad i found u, bro ❤❤
Me too
I normally don't care what riot does with cosmetics or any company if you can't don't buy them but I think a lot of ppl dont understand that one of the biggest reasons for the out rage is that this is extremely disrespectful to the proplayers like seeing riot use fakers image for a gacha level cash grabs hurt me so much as a faker fan since 2014 like I just coudnt believe it when it was announced Faker of all things to exploit for predatory practice extremely disappointed in riot and for ppl saying riot won't care won't get effected let's see I have the feeling that riot will be at a huge loss compared to if they priced it at 4-5k rp for the skin without the bundle.
You should work at Riot with these great ideas like lowering the price point that you "feel" will gross higher. I'm sure they never consider that as an alternative -- it is a truly unheard of concept.
This is meant for whales to flash the fact that they have made an exclusive purchase and to bait players with fomo. It's not meant to be for everybody, and I'm sure they have already concluded it will gross higher. If you don't want it, don't buy it.
@thomasaquinas399 you understood nothing, but that's what I'd expect of someone who defends small indie companies like Riot.
You're probably right. Riot has the done the analysis, and they could gross 2x using OP's cheaper price structure, but they instead are actively shooting themself in the foot by making the price higher.
I'm not gonna buy this skin at all -- I'm a huge Faker fan but I could care less about dropping money on this. I just think it's disingenuous to assume Riot knows they could make more money with a cheaper price point but decided to use a more expensive one to pander to whales for fun. You're delusional if you think they intentionally chose an option that makes them less money.
@@thomasaquinas399 think about this, if 500 people buy the 500 dollar skin, they're making 250,000 minus the 30% they give to Faker, if 1,000,000 people buy a 20 dollar skin, heck a 30 dollar if we're being generous, that's 30,000,000 minus 30%, it's the absolute most retarded move Riot could ever do to pander specifically to the whales which are a really small minority while garnering the hate and resentment of the majority of your community. It really sucks.
@@vanquisher4700 I'm sure in the world where you make up the numbers, it makes financial sense for Riot to do it your way.
Riot doesnt have real leverage on Caedrel, cutting him out of costreams would be a huge loss for them and Caedrel knows it, he can tweet f u to them and get away with it
I dont think any English speaking streamer gets close to caedral but the views would trickle down to Dom, Ls etc still respect the fact he’s taking a risk to call it out very easy to not do
if u r gonna buy the skin at least buy the 32k rp one and give the other 27k to me i can make much better use of it trust
the signature skin should be 50, still double the price of ultimate skins
Il rqther upgrade my pc with this money
"RIOT, PLEEEASE! SCAM MEEEE!"
theyre also trying to get you to buy the event pass btw. They want you to be like Oh that bundle is too expensive but the event pass seems worth it so ill just get that. Its a marketing strategy to promote something really expensive but giving a cheap alternative that people are supposed to buy instead. So dont buy the pass either.
for the same amount of money you can get a 144hz monitor a good keyboard and a good mouse and still have like 20£ left over
no skin is the only way to climb, true story. stay strong my chads.
Cookie catching a well deserved stray
Deutschland Bank gets bankrupt. The Rothschild bankrupcy
Riot Inc. releases new Ahri skin
We all know people are gonna buy it but the real question is, is anyone willing to pay that price for someone that is NOT Faker? We all know he's an exception, but I don't think the playerbase will buy it from any other player than Faker. Since I suppose there will be more proplayers into the hall of fame
Call me nitpicky but watching him (the dude in the beginning) call Euros Dollars is crazy
Nah this is fair im Uk so its in £ but just went a bit all over the place with my currencies
@@Rewleague it be like that sometime
banning ahri in almay games
This would be hilarious if it actually catches on
@Harumiqt Imagine copy-pasting one message over and over again...
@@defrejr9914Yeah it sounds like someone who is buying it lmao
@Harumiqt -- WARNING --- GUYS GUYS GUYS.
Don't bother responding to this failure at life.
Just look at their channel, realize they upload Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail - 2 Gacha games made to farm financially clueless whales like them - and you don't need to respond or engage with them further. Could not be more poetically ironic that the guy who is typing in "uwu
is so fun how people who paid for this skin complain about the ban trolling... just go blind pick there you can play her all day with no fear of her being banned...
basement dwellers will eat that up , if they can afford 20 body pillows they can affor this too
rather gift like 100 marbe malphite to people
How to fix the problem
Step 1 Sell everything in the pack separately
problem is some much of it is worthless garbage its just there to make an insanely overpriced bundle seem like it has 'a lot' of cool stuff
@@Rewleague That is why i'm telling you they should sell it separately so the people can just buy the skin only or just buy the effect they like
That’s some good content right there. That’s my opinion , but I think I prefer the 10 to 12 minutes format. Something like 6 minutes feels short. Good work nonetheless
Appreciate it i think it depends on what’s happening atm. If theres 3/4 things to talk about thats easy but a 12 minute rant on the skin might make me come across a bit moany if you know what i mean
Even EA is not that greedy… for now
The real question is can u get it by reroll if ur lucky or not available
Only buying
I always knew Riot was a Jax main.
I agree with most people. Just ban ahri every single game until riot have to do something
I would rather give faker my money. Then spend 500$ on the skin.
#permabanahri
@Harumiqt Imagine copy-pasting one message over and over again...
@Harumiqt -- WARNING --- GUYS GUYS GUYS.
Don't bother responding to this failure at life.
Just look at their channel, realize they upload Genshin Impact and Honkai Star Rail - 2 Gacha games made to farm financially clueless whales like them - and you don't need to respond or engage with them further. Could not be more poetically ironic that the guy who is typing in "uwu
@@defrejr9914 Dont worry it could not be more ironic. They upload gacha game videos. They're literally the target audience Riot is trying to milk because they know just how brain damaged these losers are. They will justify any amount of spending on games so Riot could add another 0 to the $500 skin and he would unironically go out and get a payday loan to afford it. The few brain cells people like this have go into idolizing the pixels they have on their screen no matter the cost of those pixels.
Cultiver son ego est un vilain défaut, ne pleure pas lorsque ton karma atteidra ton niveau.
Guys, sadly, people will buy this garbage anyway, so do everyone a favour and just permaban Ahri forever.
I won't be buying any of the Ahri skins.
3:50 everyone here is defending their money not their ideas. If Caedrel comes out and says that the skin is not a scam his community would kill him. at the same time its not wrong that the skin looks fantastic, it really does maybe the best skin in the game so the NA caster isn't wrong. the community needs to understand that they can just not buy something, Riot makes a game for whales too
why shouldn't they do it? They have a lobotomized playerbase that lets them get away with literally anything. Balance patches done randomly? Check. Installing malware on users' pc? Check.
League is a game based on aggresively exploit its playerbase, that managed to get away with it because they switched from investing in game development and production to investing in smokescreens like esport events and influencers. In the meantime, they have a ridiculously huge champion roster, with a relatively small percentage of champions being actually played. They got away with bricking people's PC and shutting down each and every reddit post where someone complains about this, they got away with marketing 500 euro skin to minors, they got away with everything.
And at this point, for those who are still wasting their time playing this crap, I have only 3 words: you deserve it.
i promise that for 5 month, i ll ban ahri eveytime in rank
I doubt boycotting this will do anything 1 to 5 people have to buy it and they likely have their money back. Riot is about to awaken a Bal'rog in it's player base
yeah people who need to boycott it mainly are the people buying the $500 version but they are whales for a reason
@@Rewleague whales are certainly lost individuals but I would assume that this will make some of them wake up. As soon as something similar comes along that respects it's player base people will likely flock in droves, there really is just nothing like league atm. It's all lack of competition in the market that makes riot feel comfortable doing this.
It won't do anything realistically but it doesn't matter nor does it have to. The point of it is to make it obnoxious and annoying for the whales even if it's just for a week or a month at most. If people want to be financially irresponsible and pay $500 for pixels then they can go ahead. Skins should cost AT MAX $40-50 and that would only be acceptable for once-in-a-lifetime moments like this where a legendary pro is being inducted into a Hall of Fame.
I mean if you can waste money you do you
i'm glad the ban button is free at least
728 subs 🥵 well doneeee
crazy aint it
I think people dont know just how cheaply riot can make these skins and animations. the rigs are still from 2010, so spaghetti code aside, its actually not that expensive to make these skins, vfxs, and animations. Modders do more than this for free for skyrim or genshin mods.
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Y'all are completely delusional. Firstly, just DON'T BUY THE SKIN. It's about revenue and also a message. They see it doesn't happen again, they prob won't do it again. First time they learned their lesson, they just tried a different spin with the whole "paying for a legacy" thing. Secondly you're just making Ahri mains suffer for something completely out of their control. Thirdly, the people that DO buy it are gonna get bullied by this toxic ass community.
You don't need the skin to climb the ranks , bronze players seriously do get upset about the slightest things. you deserve actual pay to win
i don't get it what's up with ravenous hydra
he's the goat
the real issue is, people spend a long time mastering a champion, they want the best skins for the champion they are best with, and a 500$ skin is just a middle finger to anyone who mains that champ. If we let them get away with this, your main just might be the next to receive a 500$ skin. Now, if you have more money than you know what to do with, that's a good thing for you in theory, but for the rest of the people, it's very insulting to say the least.
This is the problem, its not just the Faker skin the entire Hall of Legends concept and skin like will be incredible but the price if this Faker one sells well will be like this for everyones favourite player and champion
Yup, a good point. My two favorite champions I buy every skin for, and damn it’ll feel bad looking at a locked skin if they get one of these scams. For once I’ll count my lucky stars that they’re pretty much never in a spotlight.
500$ Arcana Ahri Chroma just saying.
This skin be ONLY FOR PBE. only in PBE this skin have reasonable price.
I’m gonna buy it
I feel like Chinese players are the only ones buying these 200+ dollar skins. Probably for social credit or something.
New autoban achieve
You have to vote with your money but people are going to buy it anyways and nothing is going to change, that's why we had lootboxes everywhere, that's why Diablo Immortal exists, that's why Genshin Impact exist, that's why CoD turned into shit, etc etc etc
Need more games like Helldivers to turn the industry away from COD and Genshin
I bought base skin+ battlepass from reselers for 20$ XDD
How about instead of banning Ahri we make sure nobody buys the skin? 🗿 I mean, banning her won't do anything as quick play exists 👍🏼
Riot have already won GG
Perma ban ahri forever ❤
Let's all ban Ahri until they lower the price 😂
Reddit, twitter, discord and co don't represent the average players' opinion. Most people, me included, don't give a royal f if that ahri skin is worth 500 or 50000. While the reddit lol subreddit has become funny, the real balancing issues, which actually impact the game, matter far more.
You are not the average player, every single league player I've spoken to in my games have said the same thing: "I'm banning her every game and I'm bullying anyone who uses it"
@@vanquisher4700 if streamers like Asmongold did not cover it, most people palying league would not even knwo the skin exited, unntil they see it. The vast majority of people are casual players (I am not, but I am aware I am in a bubble). The amount of people wo stop playing league because of this ahri skin will be negligeable. I you watch rival and co and often visit reddit lol content you are more investe dthan most people. EDIT being on this youtube /finding tis channel is more difficult than finding rival. So the people commenting here are faar away from the average league consumer.
@@neochrzeo8561 brother, it's the hot topic of the WHOLE community at the moment, everyone who plays league knows what's going on, you can hop on a game right now and ask the other 9 people there what they think about the Ahri skin and they will be aware of the drama. Like go ahead and test it out, in LAN, NA, EU, even Brazil know what's happening.
Perma ban on Ahri as soon as the skin arrives :)
financially tho it really doesn't make sense for them because if it was actually being "immortalized" it would be like $100 and everybody that loves the game and loves faker (a fuck ton of people) would shell out 100 bucks to buy it, dare I say it more than 5X more people would buy it if it was $200 instead of $500.... They are losing money with this pricing, did the Unheard Edition of Tarkov not teach this people anything? XD
I really do feel like whatever data they got back from the Jhin skin means £500 makes sense and it’s maybe’s about setting a standard that future hof skins maybe cost £300 come across as cheap?
@@Rewleague tbh.... if the 500$ skin was for leblanc id probably sell my kidney for it.....
same for me with TheShy Riven... gotta stop this before it becomes the norm