The fact that riot is pushing this new Exalted skins that costs $250 is insane + them removing the reroll skins and free Hextech chests rewards is pure regression sad to see them becoming even more greedy.
@@ColtJustColt You're still gonna be able to reroll skin shards but you will not be getting free chests anymore from earning S with a character. Tokens will no longer exist from the BP and orbs.
Every time I see companies getting massive backlash for using AI, it brings some relief to know that many people still prefer their media to be created by humans instead of generated by a computer.
They make zero profits on Arcane show, musics, esports, cinematics. Same thing for Valorant. They still keep LoR even if nobody plays it. So why cant they price their cosmetics however they want in their free games? Profits comes only from their ingame cosmetics. But from entertainment? Zero.
@@GameManCZ2000 Let them be bro, people now a days just cant shut up. All of them including me have something to say even in the smallest of things. Maybe its just human behavior but damnn I just hate how everyone just complains and fucking complains I'm just sick of it.
@@GameManCZ2000Except they do get profits from Arcane. I may not know much about business personally but I am 100% sure, that to be on Netflix you have to have an agreement with Netflix and there's gains of profit for your series being watched, similarly to TH-cam because otherwise who the hell would want to put their series in Netflix if it wasnt the case. If there was no profit, who would want to spend 250m$ on a series only to give it for free to a streaming platform where the platform gets profit and you the creator get nothing ? nonsense
@@ImRaiz0league is slowly became hot garbage LOL they're selling a 250$skin that has a end game nexus destruction victory/defeat that's not including with the skin.... For like 70$ more btw
@@bakuzma8233 Ye I agree with the jinx exalted one it aint even that good tbh. I'd argue the Jhin and Faker's Ahri though, it has great effects. Well they can do what ever they want, its a free game so what can we do
With regards to the ezreal skins, this exact same thing was done with the new viktor and hwei icons and they were basically identical in facial structure. Quite sad to see how riot have become more okay with just reusing old things, even when its a damn VGU and not even the same champ.
Reusing things doesn’t always immediately equate to it being bad. Always making new original stuff is good in general, but very expensive, time consuming and tiring. It’s just a tradeoff that Riot has to take into account that us outsiders don’t see. So do take that into consideration before judging anything just because it is not original
@OffisianO Look at people outside. You will rarely witness two matching faces. A lot of people don't like the new Viktor look because he doesn't have any identity. He's looking like a korean idol with a fake face and it's just not appealing at all. Now if riot did use Hwei to create Viktor, I'm not surprised that nobody likes him anymore. You may not have an issue with that for now, but when you'll have these everywhere you will understand why it is problematic. Also to answer your question, try typing "Portrait"' and watch artist sketbooks. There are thousands of drawings and you won't ever find one face matching another UNLESS it is the same character. Try drawing yourself and doing two similar faces with slighty different angle. Then you might understand how hard it is to keep the same facial trait and not make it something completely different.
@@thienhuynh7962 it's very difficult to see this from riot's POV when it's a VGU, this is something you should be heavily prioritising, especially it being to do with arcane. They have dropped the ball hard on this VGU and say they don't have the resources but then come out with another $250 skin that doesn't need to be coming out this soon. Its clear they are trying to get as much money as they can out of whales instead of actually putting time and effort into making the game better and improving the game for the players who have been playing for all this time.
Always remember: Riot games' (senior Principal Technical Artist) job posting/description literally states that they use AI in asset creation for: "asset generation, procedural content creation, texture generation, and animation" and more. They just don't want the negative press
It's disappointing to see that recently, Riot Games has shifted its eyes to money, unlike before where they were still doing fine or great even without or at least minimal greed.
Regarding the AI voiceover, I wouldn't really rule the pronunciation for "Sivir" as incorrect. If anything, it's technically the correct pronunciation, considering that she is a descendant of Azir and the last part of his name is pronounced that way.
When you don't hear the champions name called very often, I can say I pronounced it "Siv-eer" as did a lot of other people in and around my league group. The blanket statement of "this is wrong" is just silly.
THIS. AI will at it's current pace never replace humans completly in their work. But they can help support them. i remember all to well watching a dyslexic minecraft streamer create a modpack and he used a AI as spelling controll for his code/text. He inmeditally got called out by someone in chat like "Ohhh he is abusing AI in his fucking mod pack imma tell this to the twitter birds" on which i said "You clearly don't know how to spell because you fucking failed the spelling on multiple fucking words, and you clearly rely on spelling control in all of your messages, because you dont even know how that shit works" Never saw that fucker in his chat again, and he didn't even get banned.
Yeah, the effects of the layoffs is showing to the point that I no longer trust Riot anymore, as I have moved on from the Runeterra lore. As always, thanks for the very informative news.
I think most of these are just a result of rushed deadlines and little compensation to artist. If You have only a few days/weeks to draw an entirely new ezreal skin splash art in combination with a bunch of other splash art, you’re going to need to cut corners / quality control
In regards to splasharts its clear theres some sort of formula they use, since they refuse to give us good dynamic splasharts, its always the same poses and angles almost nothing new ever gets put on the table and when it dors it gets brushed aside by the community.
I remember many seasons ago playing riven against you back in plat something and you added me after and we chopped it up for a bit as 2 degen riven otps. Was stoked to see you've turned your passion into a career in the scene. Keep up the good work m8
As someone who spent a few thousand dollars in League in the past, I think I'm finally done. All the changes recently really pushed me away, the new way they're doing things is really disgusting. Every single time there's a change it's for the worse and it feels they're trying to trick you at every corner. I'll just take my spendings elsewhere.
Interesting thing about the voiceover segment. If I saw it I wouldn't have thought of it as AI because 1. the pronunciation needed to be clear and 2. depending on the environment people can pronounce Sivir's name differently, my friends and I say her name like the voice actor did instead of how I hear everyone else say it
I just hate them at this point. Heck, a part of me believes the voice actor doesn't even exist and they're trying to cover things up. As for the images... What else were they supposed to say? Yeah we fired half the art team to use machines cause it's cheaper? While true, fans won't like it.
i've been convinced for a long time they have some poses/formula for the splash art, there are so many that are very similar (for example, project vayne and bullet angel kaisa, both old skins)
They were released long time ago for Arcane, way before generative AI was this advanced with artworks To be fair its meant to be young Cait that does resemble the icon
bro your content is amazing, I genuinely get so happy when I see a new video of yours in my notifications. Because I'm not glued to sites like reddit or twitter, a lot of the drama stuff and news regarding league and riot in general doesn't reach me unless someone like you makes a video covering it. I really appreciate what you do for the league community in keeping everyone informed on what's going on as well as your coverage of pro play series like the LCK and worlds finals as well as LR. I'm so excited for more stuff from you in 2025.
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They kicked a huge amount of people out of the company, yet, they are still releasing the same amount of skins and champs. that's not possible unless if: 1- employees work extra hours 2- employees take work to their houses 3- employees take existing skins and do some contour changes ( that's why we all feel the same on all skins and they look similar) and lastly 4- They use AI or EXPERIMENTING AI, as i'm sure in no time, you will see full skins made purely by AI ( that, if not using AI to create an entier champion)
I just dont believe that over the process of making the emote, the sketching, base colour and then rendering they didn't notice the extra finger on the hand. Drawing hands have always been an issue among lots of artist, but making this kind of mistake seems so unreal.
The Samira icon and Ezreal splash art are painted by people I believe - however it is more indicative of artists being rushed, crunched, or generally overworked. Even in those other 6-fingered examples come from media like animation, comic strips/manga where artists are also expected to draw very many drawings for a project. If quality control is slipping, its likely that either everyone is overworked, the controllers (directors) never paid attention that much before, or these same exhausted artists turn to AI to help in their time crunching out of desperation. Could be any number of factors. I don't trust Riot as a company that is trying to monetize even the way you click if this direction continues.
You forgot something EXTREMELY IMPORTANT, a little less than a month ago, Riot was offering jobs for "Data Engineers", which are, in other words, to create REgenerative AI models with the art other artists made for Riot, right after 2 rounds of layoffs
league is a gatcha game, forced 50% wr and its ranked is flawed you cant win unless you make loads of new accounts, its evil riot is a business not a good company , all engagement matchmaking
When will entertainment companies learn that making their products more expensive does not equal larger profit? It drives more people away if anything. The NBA has ridiculous subscription prices and it’s caused ratings to go lower and lower. Most Streaming services have increased their prices as well as implementing a paywall for less ads. It’s predatory and it is a shame that it’s come to this. I’m sure most jinx players and arcane fans would love a jinx ultimate skin. But instead it costs 250 dollars. Unbelievable
Q: "When will entertainment companies learn that making their products more expensive does not equal larger profit?" A: It s increasing profits by a big margin. Yes, less people are buying - but the ones that do more than make up for it. whales are the main source of income for F2P games, the people who pay ~10$ per month on a game arent even 20% of the revenue, even though they are much more numerus than the whales. Gacha games are literally built around that premise. (in addition, someone who whales on a game is less likely to quit. Because quitting is losing all the money they put in) League was always founded by whales - it is just that recently riot decided to create products solely for whales to increase revenue
6th finger is a mistake that is very common among artists, especially when there is a pointing finger involved so I believe that not being AI. But the QC is definitely lacking in all of those things and its sad.
It's concerning, Riot is walking a fine line of losing who they are and ruining the franchise like Blizzard. I'm sure many say they already have but I don't think so quite yet.
I feel like calling the voiceover AI-made because of the way he pronounced Sivir is kinda dumb... Like, I wouldn't say that the pronunciation is *wrong*, heck, it's even what I use most of the time. And while I do agree he was making a bit of a weird voice (it's a VO for a mobile game, not surprising lel), I don't think it directly sounded AI-generated at all.
Yeah I think I'm done giving Riot money. With Tensent power, you'd expect higher quality, not removing legendary skins from chests, more gachas and scams, AI garabge, and more jank being outsourced from people who accept the absolute lowest possible pay. Really despising their practices.
I feel like Riot has forgotten what makes them popular...Ive been watching the content release on CN and it's very clear that their Main goal now is that region...giving the minimun effort to the rest
In recent skins riots been reusing vfx at times too, which is kinda sad to see. They definitely have the money to pay an artist and make enough from the skins to justify it. If they don't it speaks of the poor quality of the concept and the skin probably never should have been shipped that way. Also why is riot saying "if the players don't like it we won't ship it" just to release Viktor update regardless of the massive push back. In general Viktor is mote of an ASU than a VGU, his abilities got a slight overhaul rather than an actual rework, staying pretty much the same. His design lost all the mechanic guy parts which was his identity and made him unique in league to be replaced with just another mage. With Voli they were like "lore voli is kinda an eldritch abomination of a bear, but people really want a bear, so we keep it". Similar to Viktor Skarner Al's lost his crystal identity, which was sad but understandable, cause it had to move because of Arcane. With season 2 being visually stunning, but having way poorer writing it feels very awkward justifying the change. Really hope Riot will move in a more player focused direction again cause a lot of recent changes have felt so top down corpo and simply profit focused.
I wouldn't be surprised if they used AI for the splash arts and emotes, considering the lower quality of the skins they represent. Not saying they're fully AI generated, but using an AI generated framework feels very likely as a way to save money on a product which isn't made to make a ton of it.
They where honestly starting to become more transparent, gave updates on the game and adressed issues in and out of the game, but since the ahri skin it feels like theyve smelled money and its gotten really bad. Its very disappointing to see and I'm glad to see alot of people speaking up about this, because thats the only way they will learn apparantly.
it blows my mind a billion$ company like Riot has layoffs that earn them millions like last year they let the artist go that gave them Nightbringer yasuo and Dawnbringer Riven/Yone
The problem is the company burning bridges and making stupid decisions which in turn makes it so less people are likely to rise up to defend them so even if similar mistakes were made in the past they are more likely to be questioned about it nowadays, if you selling limited gacha skins and the such why don't you have many to pay a good quality check team?
About sivir, here in brazil we say her name as in the video, so maybe the guy has some proximity with latin lenguages and this made him say it like that
There needs to be backlash about the loot system. Reducing free content year after year and next year you can't even get a legendary for free and can't get mythic essence through pass that costs real money cause you need to pay even more money for gatcha now. This is not ok. Riot has always been profitable without hurting the f2p base. Hurting the f2p players won't make them pay it'll just make them enjoy league less.
We know as latam players that they don't give a shit about us when our important evens and promotions are completely done by AI, they just don't care about anything outside KR, CN, EU and NA, lmao.
Remember when Boxbox used an ai generator to have some fun in between his TFT games and generated ai art? (nothing wrong with that btw) This Elise skin feels so much like that. The lighting and body lines feel like when an ai generator generates art with clothes that are basically just a 2nd layer of skin. I wouldnt be surprised if they used ai and then manually fixed the mistakes/details. Im not saying thats what they did but with everything going on recently I wouldnt be surprised.
Honestly the least of my wishes aren't accusing riot of what they haven't done but I don't blame the people to mistrust every single one of them. They literally transforming one of the head moba games into a predatory cash bag game and if what I heard about not getting more free chest rewards its true they really putting effort into us not playing their game. I think its quite obvious Riot (Probably Tencent) wants to take the most amount of money from it, say "low player count" as excuse, shut it down, say "We thank you player for love and support" without recognizing their own massive failures and focus in other projects like WR, their MMO game or Arcane. If any of what I say its true im stupidly glad that I left the game months ago and terribly sorry for the people that keep playing it under this madness.
Why are we pretending the remade Zyra and Evelynn drawings are worse? Don't get me wrong I really don't like riot games and I think they are a shitty shady company. But riot's version is definitely more polished and refined. Is it to support the original artist, or some moral reason?
Since the big layoffs last year, the quality have really been going down hill. Riot really shifted their strategy, and they decided to go full predatory. I am on the verge to simply uninstalling the game. I have been playing this game since 2012 and I love the game itself, it is unfortunate
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The fact that riot is pushing this new Exalted skins that costs $250 is insane + them removing the reroll skins and free Hextech chests rewards is pure regression sad to see them becoming even more greedy.
We won't be able to reroll a skin with 3 shards?
@@ColtJustColt I don't think so, havn't heard at least.
@@ColtJustColt they said that you wont get free shard anymore. So you get just the skins you got dropped.
@@ColtJustColt You're still gonna be able to reroll skin shards but you will not be getting free chests anymore from earning S with a character. Tokens will no longer exist from the BP and orbs.
Whatt??? Thats bullshit@@viktorijasun3082
Every time I see companies getting massive backlash for using AI, it brings some relief to know that many people still prefer their media to be created by humans instead of generated by a computer.
I hope that you realize that Arcane was entirely rendered by computers.
@@Sammysapphira
There is a world of difference between learning computer graphics and writing an ai prompt.
@@Sammysapphiragenerated and rendered are not the same word and do not have the same meaning.
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Bro don’t expose me 😔
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fuck, you beat me to it gz
I also scrolled down to look for this comment
And it was only a fracture of a match, imagine how many he missed 😔
This is what happens when the new CEO comes from finance, the focus suddenly shifts to only profits.
They make zero profits on Arcane show, musics, esports, cinematics. Same thing for Valorant. They still keep LoR even if nobody plays it. So why cant they price their cosmetics however they want in their free games? Profits comes only from their ingame cosmetics. But from entertainment? Zero.
@@GameManCZ2000 Let them be bro, people now a days just cant shut up. All of them including me have something to say even in the smallest of things. Maybe its just human behavior but damnn I just hate how everyone just complains and fucking complains I'm just sick of it.
@@GameManCZ2000Except they do get profits from Arcane.
I may not know much about business personally
but I am 100% sure, that to be on Netflix you have to have an agreement with Netflix and there's gains of profit for your series being watched, similarly to TH-cam
because otherwise who the hell would want to put their series in Netflix if it wasnt the case.
If there was no profit, who would want to spend 250m$ on a series only to give it for free to a streaming platform where the platform gets profit and you the creator get nothing
?
nonsense
@@ImRaiz0league is slowly became hot garbage LOL they're selling a 250$skin that has a end game nexus destruction victory/defeat that's not including with the skin.... For like 70$ more btw
@@bakuzma8233 Ye I agree with the jinx exalted one it aint even that good tbh. I'd argue the Jhin and Faker's Ahri though, it has great effects. Well they can do what ever they want, its a free game so what can we do
I'm really glad your channel is slowly popping off and recognised by the league community
🫶
You mean the eurocentric league community right?
The thing with Sivir's VO, the guy deleted and didn't tweet since because he got a lot of death threats
Internet dwellers trying not to be caustic troglodytes.
what a surprise..... twitter is a breeding ground for society's unloved degenerates still dont understand why we tolerate it
My godness, the goblins on a whole another level..
poor guy i'd love to somehow support him
With regards to the ezreal skins, this exact same thing was done with the new viktor and hwei icons and they were basically identical in facial structure. Quite sad to see how riot have become more okay with just reusing old things, even when its a damn VGU and not even the same champ.
i mean like how manny portaits of a person standing can u make before u get to reuse a pose? league had like 500 splash arts
Reusing things doesn’t always immediately equate to it being bad. Always making new original stuff is good in general, but very expensive, time consuming and tiring. It’s just a tradeoff that Riot has to take into account that us outsiders don’t see. So do take that into consideration before judging anything just because it is not original
@@thienhuynh7962 guys, poor riot just dosent have the money to pay for original art... anyways, here is the new 250 skin, enjoy!
@OffisianO Look at people outside. You will rarely witness two matching faces. A lot of people don't like the new Viktor look because he doesn't have any identity. He's looking like a korean idol with a fake face and it's just not appealing at all. Now if riot did use Hwei to create Viktor, I'm not surprised that nobody likes him anymore.
You may not have an issue with that for now, but when you'll have these everywhere you will understand why it is problematic.
Also to answer your question, try typing "Portrait"' and watch artist sketbooks. There are thousands of drawings and you won't ever find one face matching another UNLESS it is the same character. Try drawing yourself and doing two similar faces with slighty different angle. Then you might understand how hard it is to keep the same facial trait and not make it something completely different.
@@thienhuynh7962 it's very difficult to see this from riot's POV when it's a VGU, this is something you should be heavily prioritising, especially it being to do with arcane. They have dropped the ball hard on this VGU and say they don't have the resources but then come out with another $250 skin that doesn't need to be coming out this soon. Its clear they are trying to get as much money as they can out of whales instead of actually putting time and effort into making the game better and improving the game for the players who have been playing for all this time.
Time to lay off more employees !
I mean they should be. They be paying all these employees just for them to greenlight ksante yuumi and aurora
Not balance team tho … they are working SOOOO hard 😀
Always remember: Riot games' (senior Principal Technical Artist) job posting/description literally states that they use AI in asset creation for: "asset generation, procedural content creation, texture generation, and animation" and more.
They just don't want the negative press
It's disappointing to see that recently, Riot Games has shifted its eyes to money, unlike before where they were still doing fine or great even without or at least minimal greed.
Well, they put finance guy into CEO seat. It always beginning of the end. Or at least of a very serious crisis.
It's likely some bts swap of who is in control.
What? A business wants a profit? damn that's shocking
need to get back those billions used in arcane
@@kirby9427 This is misinformation people keep saying Arcane cost them a lot of money when Netflix probably paid for a good portion of it.
Regarding the AI voiceover, I wouldn't really rule the pronunciation for "Sivir" as incorrect. If anything, it's technically the correct pronunciation, considering that she is a descendant of Azir and the last part of his name is pronounced that way.
In Eastern Europe it's also pronounced like that (we may be all wrong who knows), so I was always ok with this form haha
bro fr, i like this video but "that's not how sivir's name is pronounced"??? Bruh i've been pronouncing her name like that ever since I saw her.
When you don't hear the champions name called very often, I can say I pronounced it "Siv-eer" as did a lot of other people in and around my league group.
The blanket statement of "this is wrong" is just silly.
In portuguese its like that
Me and everyone I know always pronounced it Siv-ear instead of Siv-ah
Btw the way he pronounced Sivir is the exact same way i pronounce it. Maybe im not a human after all
useing AI to HELP vs using AI to WORK are completely different
Very surprise that quanlity control team allowed this to pass
THIS.
AI will at it's current pace never replace humans completly in their work. But they can help support them.
i remember all to well watching a dyslexic minecraft streamer create a modpack and he used a AI as spelling controll for his code/text. He inmeditally got called out by someone in chat like "Ohhh he is abusing AI in his fucking mod pack imma tell this to the twitter birds" on which i said "You clearly don't know how to spell because you fucking failed the spelling on multiple fucking words, and you clearly rely on spelling control in all of your messages, because you dont even know how that shit works"
Never saw that fucker in his chat again, and he didn't even get banned.
QA teams are the number one thing to be cut or outsourced from what Ive seen in companies. Not surprised at all.
What QA team? It's been trending to fire or heavily reduce their numbers for a while now. Race to the bottom
Very interesting typo.. its more like quantity control now
Yeah, the effects of the layoffs is showing to the point that I no longer trust Riot anymore, as I have moved on from the Runeterra lore.
As always, thanks for the very informative news.
The ATLA mistake also happened because of layoffs! League players and logic lmfao.
I think most of these are just a result of rushed deadlines and little compensation to artist. If You have only a few days/weeks to draw an entirely new ezreal skin splash art in combination with a bunch of other splash art, you’re going to need to cut corners / quality control
Bro the fact that you HAVE to see the gacha before you can open your loot tab is scummy. It's designed to capture people who have no impulse control.
The sivir prononciation is somewhat correct in french tho
Seeveer
in german too.
Portuguese too
Yes, I don't know only a problem for the english speaker I guess ...
Bro its sevier hahaha
In regards to splasharts its clear theres some sort of formula they use, since they refuse to give us good dynamic splasharts, its always the same poses and angles almost nothing new ever gets put on the table and when it dors it gets brushed aside by the community.
Ok I voice that removing nearly all free content in 2025 is bad
Very controversial opinion
I remember many seasons ago playing riven against you back in plat something and you added me after and we chopped it up for a bit as 2 degen riven otps. Was stoked to see you've turned your passion into a career in the scene. Keep up the good work m8
As someone who spent a few thousand dollars in League in the past, I think I'm finally done. All the changes recently really pushed me away, the new way they're doing things is really disgusting. Every single time there's a change it's for the worse and it feels they're trying to trick you at every corner. I'll just take my spendings elsewhere.
Hmmm interesting i think we should layoff some more creative employees in Q1!!
Interesting thing about the voiceover segment. If I saw it I wouldn't have thought of it as AI because 1. the pronunciation needed to be clear and 2. depending on the environment people can pronounce Sivir's name differently, my friends and I say her name like the voice actor did instead of how I hear everyone else say it
Kat getting skins back to back huh.
Also Riot just cutting corners everywhere isn't a surprise.
I already consider you one of the bigs in the league community. You cover the drama in league the best!
I just hate them at this point. Heck, a part of me believes the voice actor doesn't even exist and they're trying to cover things up. As for the images... What else were they supposed to say? Yeah we fired half the art team to use machines cause it's cheaper? While true, fans won't like it.
Who would have guess that laying off employs would get the quality of your work down. Crazy...
i've been convinced for a long time they have some poses/formula for the splash art, there are so many that are very similar (for example, project vayne and bullet angel kaisa, both old skins)
I thought this video was gonna be about the Arcane icons in mythic shop that look very AI-made, the "Caitlyn" icon looks nothing like her.
They were released long time ago for Arcane, way before generative AI was this advanced with artworks
To be fair its meant to be young Cait that does resemble the icon
3:51 actually, in europe we say her name like that we simply say sivir not siva
3:18 Bro got accused of having a npc voice 💀
bro your content is amazing, I genuinely get so happy when I see a new video of yours in my notifications. Because I'm not glued to sites like reddit or twitter, a lot of the drama stuff and news regarding league and riot in general doesn't reach me unless someone like you makes a video covering it. I really appreciate what you do for the league community in keeping everyone informed on what's going on as well as your coverage of pro play series like the LCK and worlds finals as well as LR.
I'm so excited for more stuff from you in 2025.
They kicked a huge amount of people out of the company, yet, they are still releasing the same amount of skins and champs.
that's not possible unless if:
1- employees work extra hours
2- employees take work to their houses
3- employees take existing skins and do some contour changes ( that's why we all feel the same on all skins and they look similar)
and lastly
4- They use AI or EXPERIMENTING AI, as i'm sure in no time, you will see full skins made purely by AI ( that, if not using AI to create an entier champion)
I love the stone tower temple theme so much.
Same it’s goated
I don't even play League anymore, but your content is really fun to watch and it's a great way to be in the loop with everything that's going on.
The way you asked to sub actually worked for me, made me realize how often i watch you for this specific content
The realistic Jinx ADDS A LOT! I can't even imagine if the whole show was done with that.
I just dont believe that over the process of making the emote, the sketching, base colour and then rendering they didn't notice the extra finger on the hand. Drawing hands have always been an issue among lots of artist, but making this kind of mistake seems so unreal.
This was a fantastic video. Thank you for bringing more awareness to this!
Severe.... love your content Rival, you are my go-to for League news! Wish you the best from Sweden
The Samira icon and Ezreal splash art are painted by people I believe - however it is more indicative of artists being rushed, crunched, or generally overworked. Even in those other 6-fingered examples come from media like animation, comic strips/manga where artists are also expected to draw very many drawings for a project. If quality control is slipping, its likely that either everyone is overworked, the controllers (directors) never paid attention that much before, or these same exhausted artists turn to AI to help in their time crunching out of desperation. Could be any number of factors. I don't trust Riot as a company that is trying to monetize even the way you click if this direction continues.
Now I understand why people rebel vs robots and AI in the sci-fi movies
You're doing a great job, I'm sure you'll be the reference channel you aspire to being!
You forgot something EXTREMELY IMPORTANT, a little less than a month ago, Riot was offering jobs for "Data Engineers", which are, in other words, to create REgenerative AI models with the art other artists made for Riot, right after 2 rounds of layoffs
i remember when you were bouncing this idea around on ur twitch stream awhile back. crazy how far you've come. big ups ♥
league is a gatcha game, forced 50% wr and its ranked is flawed
you cant win unless you make loads of new accounts, its evil
riot is a business not a good company , all engagement matchmaking
its actually funny that most players from Vietnam pronounce Sivir as "See Vear"
5:48 / 6:50 thats not AtLA (Avatar the last Airbender), thats TLoK (The Legend of Korra), not that it matters much :V
Yeah I was also confused but good to know I was right after all
When will entertainment companies learn that making their products more expensive does not equal larger profit? It drives more people away if anything. The NBA has ridiculous subscription prices and it’s caused ratings to go lower and lower. Most Streaming services have increased their prices as well as implementing a paywall for less ads. It’s predatory and it is a shame that it’s come to this. I’m sure most jinx players and arcane fans would love a jinx ultimate skin. But instead it costs 250 dollars. Unbelievable
Q:
"When will entertainment companies learn that making their products more expensive does not equal larger profit?"
A:
It s increasing profits by a big margin.
Yes, less people are buying - but the ones that do more than make up for it.
whales are the main source of income for F2P games, the people who pay ~10$ per month on a game arent even 20% of the revenue, even though they are much more numerus than the whales.
Gacha games are literally built around that premise.
(in addition, someone who whales on a game is less likely to quit. Because quitting is losing all the money they put in)
League was always founded by whales - it is just that recently riot decided to create products solely for whales to increase revenue
AI is only a mistake in Riot's eyes when they get called out for it
6th finger is a mistake that is very common among artists, especially when there is a pointing finger involved so I believe that not being AI. But the QC is definitely lacking in all of those things and its sad.
idc about they use AI, but that those arts get to pass the quality control is something...
It's concerning, Riot is walking a fine line of losing who they are and ruining the franchise like Blizzard. I'm sure many say they already have but I don't think so quite yet.
I enjoyed the video so I subscribed, good on ya mate
Guys just don't buy skins 😂
I feel like calling the voiceover AI-made because of the way he pronounced Sivir is kinda dumb... Like, I wouldn't say that the pronunciation is *wrong*, heck, it's even what I use most of the time. And while I do agree he was making a bit of a weird voice (it's a VO for a mobile game, not surprising lel), I don't think it directly sounded AI-generated at all.
I mean if I was riot I would go over it before hand and tell him how it's pronounced
@@arkaina-ps7pd Yeah, that's most certainly a mistake on their part, since it's part of an official piece of Riot media :P
Looks like riot needs some quality control
5:45 Akshually, thats ATLK, not ATLA
my favourite show, Avatar: The Last Korra
Riot: Makes unrecognizable faces on skins.
Fans: Make the same face for characters riot.
Riot: Makes Ezreal's face recognizable.
Fans: OMG you dare
Congrats bro. Keep up the videos
I don’t think the emote is done by Ai for 1 I think it’s difficult to ask a computer to make a particular pose and 2 making a sticker isn’t expensive
From 2013 i've always called sivir as what the announcer called her name not si-ver.
alot of people actually call her "severe" instead of "sivir" so that shouldnt be proof of AI use
the 6 fingers one, i laughed so hard
Mabye you can afford to upgrade the spoon now...
Yeah I think I'm done giving Riot money. With Tensent power, you'd expect higher quality, not removing legendary skins from chests, more gachas and scams, AI garabge, and more jank being outsourced from people who accept the absolute lowest possible pay. Really despising their practices.
1:56 I still don't see the obvious reason... But I did see riven missing a cannon a little later~
I feel like Riot has forgotten what makes them popular...Ive been watching the content release on CN and it's very clear that their Main goal now is that region...giving the minimun effort to the rest
that jinx ai tho goddam
Please buy the skins. Their art department must survive until arcane saga is finalized.
In recent skins riots been reusing vfx at times too, which is kinda sad to see. They definitely have the money to pay an artist and make enough from the skins to justify it. If they don't it speaks of the poor quality of the concept and the skin probably never should have been shipped that way.
Also why is riot saying "if the players don't like it we won't ship it" just to release Viktor update regardless of the massive push back.
In general Viktor is mote of an ASU than a VGU, his abilities got a slight overhaul rather than an actual rework, staying pretty much the same. His design lost all the mechanic guy parts which was his identity and made him unique in league to be replaced with just another mage. With Voli they were like "lore voli is kinda an eldritch abomination of a bear, but people really want a bear, so we keep it". Similar to Viktor Skarner Al's lost his crystal identity, which was sad but understandable, cause it had to move because of Arcane. With season 2 being visually stunning, but having way poorer writing it feels very awkward justifying the change.
Really hope Riot will move in a more player focused direction again cause a lot of recent changes have felt so top down corpo and simply profit focused.
I wouldn't be surprised if they used AI for the splash arts and emotes, considering the lower quality of the skins they represent.
Not saying they're fully AI generated, but using an AI generated framework feels very likely as a way to save money on a product which isn't made to make a ton of it.
They where honestly starting to become more transparent, gave updates on the game and adressed issues in and out of the game, but since the ahri skin it feels like theyve smelled money and its gotten really bad. Its very disappointing to see and I'm glad to see alot of people speaking up about this, because thats the only way they will learn apparantly.
AINTNOWAY Spaghetti code company is using AI
we pronounce Sivir like that up here in the north EU
Media creation? Hell yeah. Marketing? Useless.
That frame you put on screen to show other instances of 5-finger mistakes is from LoK, not AtLA. Minor, but very important detail.
Nah RIval I thank YOU for bringing such good news videos, you deserve all the success you got and more!
it blows my mind a billion$ company like Riot has layoffs that earn them millions like last year they let the artist go that gave them Nightbringer yasuo and Dawnbringer Riven/Yone
The problem is the company burning bridges and making stupid decisions which in turn makes it so less people are likely to rise up to defend them so even if similar mistakes were made in the past they are more likely to be questioned about it nowadays, if you selling limited gacha skins and the such why don't you have many to pay a good quality check team?
Bro is stacked, cannot focus on anything besides the wooden spoon
The katarina splash tbh really looks like AI. Daggers themselves should not be that big.
The ai cinematic was made like a year ago ai is so much better now it’s insane
Lets be real guys it's a company,it was bound to happen
"artists didnt give permit" they dont need to , riot owns the copyright of the characters
About sivir, here in brazil we say her name as in the video, so maybe the guy has some proximity with latin lenguages and this made him say it like that
There needs to be backlash about the loot system. Reducing free content year after year and next year you can't even get a legendary for free and can't get mythic essence through pass that costs real money cause you need to pay even more money for gatcha now. This is not ok. Riot has always been profitable without hurting the f2p base. Hurting the f2p players won't make them pay it'll just make them enjoy league less.
We know as latam players that they don't give a shit about us when our important evens and promotions are completely done by AI, they just don't care about anything outside KR, CN, EU and NA, lmao.
Remember when Boxbox used an ai generator to have some fun in between his TFT games and generated ai art? (nothing wrong with that btw) This Elise skin feels so much like that. The lighting and body lines feel like when an ai generator generates art with clothes that are basically just a 2nd layer of skin. I wouldnt be surprised if they used ai and then manually fixed the mistakes/details.
Im not saying thats what they did but with everything going on recently I wouldnt be surprised.
Aurelion dammit, now I can't unsee that one of my Fire Emblem waifus have 6 fingers
Honestly the least of my wishes aren't accusing riot of what they haven't done but I don't blame the people to mistrust every single one of them.
They literally transforming one of the head moba games into a predatory cash bag game and if what I heard about not getting more free chest rewards its true they really putting effort into us not playing their game. I think its quite obvious Riot (Probably Tencent) wants to take the most amount of money from it, say "low player count" as excuse, shut it down, say "We thank you player for love and support" without recognizing their own massive failures and focus in other projects like WR, their MMO game or Arcane.
If any of what I say its true im stupidly glad that I left the game months ago and terribly sorry for the people that keep playing it under this madness.
TENCENT. GIVE MY RITO BACK
Idk how to tell yall this, but the VAST majority of consumers do not care one bit about this.
6:48 that BYEEEE at the end is 100x funnier and hilarious than meowing with an egirl voice at the end of the video 🤡yk who i mean
I mean Im fine with them using AI but Im not ok with them stealing art and running it through AI so they can just take it...
250 bucks on a jpg that is not even tradable? Hell no.
Riot's downfall needs to be studied.
Why are we pretending the remade Zyra and Evelynn drawings are worse? Don't get me wrong I really don't like riot games and I think they are a shitty shady company. But riot's version is definitely more polished and refined. Is it to support the original artist, or some moral reason?
2:23 lmao you're not asking for much xD but gl bud
Gl brother
Since the big layoffs last year, the quality have really been going down hill. Riot really shifted their strategy, and they decided to go full predatory. I am on the verge to simply uninstalling the game. I have been playing this game since 2012 and I love the game itself, it is unfortunate