Just a reminder that in Australia and New Zealand that skin cost almost 800 dollars which is the average weekly salary for many. I could buy a plane ticket or pay my rent for the week with that much money
I live in a third world and 500 USD is more than the minimum wage lol. Since cost of living here is a bit lower, an individual that does not provide for anybody can live comfortably for a month with that amount.
@@KeeperProtector What? She is a professional voice actress. That would be like saying "I can't imagine how embarrassed that construction worker feels working on that road"
In the League of Legends Asia server, specifically the Chinese server, the agent has divided the sales of this prestigious Ahri skin into two options. You can choose the "Screw it, I have money" option to directly buy the skin bundle for 3248 RMB, or you can choose the lottery option. Yes, a lottery, costing 1-2 RMB per draw, with each draw giving you a chance to win the prestigious Ahri skin. So, the Chinese server employs a different sales strategy that aligns with the preferences of the domestic players. However, Ahri's ban rate on the Chinese server generally ranges from 6% to 20%. In fact, in my last 50 ranked games, I haven't seen Ahri at all. Additionally, there aren't many players in the Chinese server who primarily play Ahri, because her complex mechanics and low damage output make her less popular. Lastly, it’s worth noting that accessing Reddit is not possible within China, making it difficult to unite with foreign players in a shared cause due to the information bubble.🦁
But people that can bypass the limitations often share that kind of stuff on forums like Tieba, no? But I guess it didn't have same impact over there due to difference in how it's obtained
On one hand, Riot Games is in their right to price their skins any way they want, but on the other hand, it seems they are pushing the boundaries a bit too far for comfort.
I just don't understand why people care about the price. Yes it's ridiculous but AFAIK it offers nothing essential to gameplay. So why not just move on?
i have a perfect advice: DON'T BUY THE SKIN!! is it understood? go complaint average worker can't buy Ferrari. or are you the same like this brain-damaged asmongold who thinks ahri skin IS PAY TO WIN?.
Yeah right, ppl will just quit the game because there is an insanely overpriced skin which in no realistic way effects their experience in the game. I see we are here early to farm some likes with these "truth of life" oneliners that lack any nuance but ppl who doesnt relly care enough can just nod along.
“Being ok with it” is a lot different than companies enforcing it in the first place. There are people who find enjoyment in video games far more than the real world so why not spend a premium on things they enjoy? The issue comes in when companies want to come in and FORCE a premium for something that is just blatantly a rip off. It’s not even premium at that rate it’s just straight theft
@@Foxtail190 I wonder who told those companies that they would be ok with them releasing things with such ridiculous prices. Hhmmmm, oh that’s right! The very same people I was referring to in my oc. These companies wouldn’t be slapping +$50 price tags on any micro-transactions if players were not buying them….yet they are…Why do you think they keep “testing the waters” increasing the prices by such ridiculous amounts? Because they know there will always be dumbfu*ks who will look at those pixels and say: “Oh yeah, this is 100% worth $500.”
Bro you have players spending $200 for chibi champs and $400 for chromas. If that doesn't concern them, why should this $500 skin? Faker is about as iconic as Tom Brady. We know these guys, but we don't watch them competing.
Right next to the value you get from any other cosmetic in a game. Whether it's 15 or 500 - you're throwing away money. Some people want to throw away $500, what's your problem with that lol
The skin is only being sold for a limited time, I think about a month. So even the people who do it for a long time will drop off heavily after that. I think it will be more about if the next expensive skin will have the same effect. Although even if it does, it might not matter much if enough people buy it anyway
They won't last for months, people don't actually care enough. Not to mention that 25% isn't even that much, some champs get banned more often naturally. Also, If they were truly committed they would boycott League as whole and just uninstall.
The people who need to take out a loan to get the skin shouldn't be buying the skin to begin with. Whoever does should seriously reconsider how they spend money; in fact, I'd argue those people DESERVE the problems that come with it.
@@fallenCS2 They partially definitely do deserve it but I also don't think companies should excessively exploit addictions. They still do it obviously.
@@hiimbonsai I‘d probably agee with the addiction part, if this was another $200 chroma scheme, in which you can possibly get the skin for less if you get super lucky (while basically gambling). However, considering this is a flat price and unavailable otherwise, I‘ll just treat it like a luxury product - since, y‘know, it‘s supposed to be exclusive and all - which people either can or cannot afford. I completely understand the difference between a Gucci bag and this, let alone because one is physical but I think we‘ve entered an era of League skins, which will simply only be affordable to a few, just like irl luxury products are. After all, whales are the audience for this specific $500 collection, not your average player.
@@RandomNon-interestingguy Because that kind of waste is objectively stupid, and people tend to be saddened, annoyed, or find fun in mocking actions that are objectively stupid. Also, let's not pretend that these sorts of things don't have an effect beyond the buyer's wallet. These types of purchases have long been established as a way to be "cool" for Gen Z and A kids. Speaking as a guy who can actually remember when video games where things you paid for once and played with no strings attached after you left the store, there's something to be said for the fact that now, companies know they can whether they make something free or not, if a game becomes popular, they can milk hundreds of dollars from customers all for things that offer no real-world utility and will be worse than useless when that customer is done with the game...and customers (a large number of them being children or teens) go along with it for hype and status. That's what's sad about this: an industry that used to be about creativity and fun is now focused on milking every penny they can out of customers for the most inane aspects, and it took till it either devolved into actual gambling in some cases (ex. SW Battlefront II), or charging a week's wages for a *skin* before there was some real backlash.
@@RandomNon-interestingguy it encourages company resources to be put toward more insanely expensive cosmetics instead of things that actively make the game more enjoyable.
@@solarydays You're absolutely right, there will be about a dozen thirty year olds who are also veeery impressed by spending 500 Dollars on a league skin 😂
Dude what? If you're talking about the US then sure but latin america for example 500$ is enough to survive for 2 entire months, it's a shitton of money for a lot of people
i love how the picture for the skin is litterally styled like femdom content. like riot knows exactly what they are doing and who they are targeting lol.
cap, she has 25% but riot probably put a custom matcmaking for ppl who buy this skin since i have her and i played ahri for 3 days 6/7 games a day and she got banned like 2 times in total i think
i dunno whats worse, that the skins are represented mostly by their splashscreens and often dont look good ingame, or that people actually fall for that...
17:40 it's not that having it specifically is awesome, it's having every skin for a certain character. The collection as a whole makes you feel good, not the individual pieces of the collection. People will throw all the money at finishing a collection.
You know what is the worst thing? The player who riot made this skin to honor Does NOT use skin at all (he has 4 championship skin and this skin). And he only get around 30% cut if this. Also he is the most modest in the esport history with almost no greeed aside from winning.
@@truecasual2176 Thats not the problem The problem is how its marketed, in tribute to this guy but he barely gets anything from it, just a way to cash in on his success and nothing else
Its even funnier when you realize these skins are nothing more than glorified 'Mythic Essence tier "Crystalis/Ashen" chroma' skins. Risen Leblanc and Ahri literally look like they came from the same skin line as Crystalis Chroma'd Ashe, with the RED and EVERYTHING!
Seems like people are hating on the wrong things lmao. No point in being salty that someone used their hard earned cash the way they wanted to. People can make arguments all they want but I fail to see how spending money on a new PC rig or video game is any different than wasting money on a super car. Would be funny if they got rid of bans though
@@Foxtail190actually and unfortunately skins are one of the reasons most people even play League. Imagine playing a video game for some Asian Teacher to yell at you failure constantly. Don't like that right? That's how toxic players are and they not even mad. They just abuse others because they want to win a game.
The actual price for the "$500" bundle in NA is actually $429.99 (limited time bundle)/$443.94, not the value necrit talks about/the price being thrown around.
I did that when they added Vanguard to league. I stopped playing a few years ago after playing since 2013 but would occasionally play ARAMs with the boys, now I won't even do that lol
@@IIMiikexDII As long as they don't remove Vanguard from league. They'd bleed their players who are already experiencing very big issues along the way. Complaints. issues and posts are most in the subreddit of riotgames.
That wouldn't really change anything, because the people who buys the $500+ skins are still there. Those who don't pay for the skins will just be freeing up server space.
You're right, it's give an inch take a mile but from the players not from riot. They gave you crafting so you can have free skins, they gave you a free to play game, they gave you a game where skins don't give you any advantage. And you're still asking for more, you still feel entitled to own every skin in the game. You still feel like if something is out of your personal price range, it shouldn't exist at all.
At one hand, I wish to have affordable cool skins, on the other... They way people mad they can't have that "Gucci bag" is awesome Show how above them you are, but that skin - insta like for playing ahri
i had a game where a teammate had the ahri skin. the other team had to check in with them after the game if he was ok irl because dude was mad weird all game spamming hundreds of messages all game after being teased for buying the skin, dude was a lunatic.
@@KirstaRunner No but seriously banning sounds way better. (not playing the game sounds even better, people need to do their part) All they get to do is think about the skin. Or look at the splash art like everyone else can.
Teemo main, have pretty much all the Teemo skins, 90% of my games is spent in a space suit dropping satellite dishes. Game is so toxic that I don't even play it anymore, haven't in over a year. They refuse to ban people who act like assholes, and only ban people who retaliate to said assholes, that and the smurf epidemic on the game is ridiculous.
I stopped playing when they introduced Eternals. It is pure greed feasting on peoples need for dopamine. I knew that it was gonna get worse than Eternals, and it did. I spent nearly $800 - $1000 (CAD) on skins. I dont even play MP games anymore in general so I can avoid giving money to greedy companies looking for a easy buck. Its mind-blowingly slimy.
If the player's constantly talking shit, use the mute button. If the player's constantly acting up and not helping the team, use the report button. If the player's doing both or either one of the two and you refuse to use either one nor both tools to punish the player, then learn to shut up and accept that this is the community you are part of.
@@BowserisOK You are right about using the games tools to mute toxic people, but when you have to do that on most games in an online game where communication between players can make it better, you can't blame him for being fatigued from all the toxicity. I myself uninstalled lol a year before vanguard because of that and not having to constantly mute/report toxic players feels very refreshing
Okay one thing the video kinda glanced over: the prestige skins were totally obtainable by grinding it out, no no-lifeing the game, but over a year of playing well, you'd get enough points to get it. I used to spend way too much $ on league, but for the prestige skins, I didn't buy a single one but got a lot of them. Like I was okay with the price bc it forced all the regular people to not buy it, and most ppl you see with it probably earned it just by playing well. Now with these latest skins.... yeah Riot has lost their minds.
Even further proof that giving people free skins makes them think they are entitled to own every skin. I miss the times when you either bought skins with money or played the game without skins, people weren't so entitled then
I believe the myth of the Nine-tails is really respected in South Koreans and are really proud of it just like how China really love their Monkey Kings. I mean Faker could go for Zed or Azir as the main skinline but they did it for Ahri because they know it would sell in the east, more likely in South Korea.
prestige skins were and are 20$, you buy the ingame event pass when theres an event going on and there you get tokens from doing quests and leveling the event pass up, if you played through the whole thing and saved the tokens till the end you can allways exchange them for the prestige skin or you can save up a bit more and buy "mythic shards" with which you can then buy some of the older prestige skins that are currently available in the crafting
Passes are £15 in uk, super cheap for prestige skins never understood why people call them “$100 - $200” maybe in the past with mythic essence but not anymore
@@OMGKangelxThe 200$ skins were special skins you could only get from event capsules at a very low chances, but guaranteed after like 40 capsules so you basically had to spend 200$ on capsules to get the skin guaranteed.
@@OMGKangelx as the person bellow you mentioned the 200$ skins were just a few reskins of already existing skins that were put into a gacha system where you had a really small chance to get them in 39pulls with a guaranted drop as 40th pull, but the 100$ skin price i do not understand why its mentioned i dont think there was ever a skin to buy for 100$ maybe a whole bundle of a skinline but thats different
It is insane how people think not buying the ahri skin or banning ahri would make riot fear. Like why the prerequisite of the boycott is continue fucking playing the game. Like riot won't care if people aren't buying the skin, as long as the community is still here discussing about if they should set the price of the digital product so high. Since out of these people, there will be rich fucks that have too much money to spend. The people that are playing the games is what give the skin values. If no one is playing the game, there is no way they can sell the skins for even a cent. If you really want to make riot makes the changes that are benefiting the players, STOP playing their fucking game.
Very few people thought it would make a difference. It's league players..... They are motivated by fucking with the people who bought it. Not by this narrative of "let's stick it to riot!" Very similar to the /spit on mount buyers in WoW that Asmon was doing. Nobody thought it would stop it, they just want to be toxic lol
@@xingyujiang3003unfortunately the game is just too fun to stop playing 😢 if you get hang of it and actually get good at the game, the enjoyable experience that the game gives is the best out of all games i have played. Tbh, i didnt know people actually care about the skins this much. Its just a cosmetic and doesnt really add benefits. You will still get shit on using $500 skins😂 so i do think the ban rate only went up because players are just being toxic like the other comment said XD
The average player, thinking they're part of a boycott have this mentality: "How dare you Riot, trying to sell a $500 to ME, someone who is NOT the target audience?! I know what will show you! I will not buy the Ahri skin, ban her instead and just throw $20 at you for the event pass! Yeah, that's right, I, someone who wasn't going to buy/afford the skin to begin with didn't buy it - shocker!" Everyone who thinks they're making a difference by banning Ahri but continuing to play the game, spending money on other shit, whether it's the pass or other skins for their mains are absolute hypocrites and do not understand the concept of a boycott. And it doesn't matter how good of a value the pass is either. You're still throwing money at the company you're trying to boycott. Are these people stupid?
What is even more shameless is that just for this skin, they added additional points purchase bundles which was just enough for the big passes, just so that people wouldn't have to purchase points multiple times for it.
The goal isn't making riot care, it's preventing those who buy the skin from using it, so the next time riot does this, people will be discouraged from buying, and the bottom line will suffer. Well, that's their idea at least.
@@Finkaisar It depends on how lojng this goes on. But you know, even nbot being able to play your 500 bucks for a few weeks might reduce the number of people who buy it. We're talking dedicated moba players after all, and they tend to value instant gratification.
Those are okay now. Ahri will be as well in a couple of weeks, once the next "outrage" happens OR people get tired of having to play against their original permaban. Some people might disagree with this but I'm not here to sugarcoat facts through wishful thinking; I'm here to say it how it is.
@@fallenCS2 200$ one didnt get a boycott campaign, and if it did it never got traction. This is different, im seeing people tell others to ban ahri in discord servers that have nothing to do about league and friends i have that had quit for years just came back to participate in the boycott because they find it entertaining.
2:51 - 3:09, I really dont see having an attachment to a fictional character or mechanic as "Simping" if the behavior was to buy up all the skins because Ahri has provocative skins, then id agree...but this is essentially the same issue with Valorant, Overwatch "2" and Fallout 76, the value is calculated by Fomo and precived quarterly growth instead of by actual value to the players or the content the value streamed from.
This story gives me a little bit of hope in gamers again. So many within the community spends recklessly and ends up hurting the community as a whole for just about any game. Glad to see sometimes pushing back can cost these greedy companies money even if it's a small amount. I don't respect the whales in cases like this, screw them.
@@simpleserpent1337 My imagination isn't good enough to ever think League players will actually stop playing. This is better than nothing and usually it's nothing.
@@CrimsonFIame well i mean it is still nothing... it dosent hurt Riot in any way, they will just ignore it until players eventually forget about this... and then Riot will release 1000$ skin
I think part of the reason for the outcry for this specific expensive skin, and not say PoE, is this skin was marketed as a tribute to faker (which it is), but Faker is known as a very humble guy and he never uses skins! That’s his thing, he prefers the game with no skins, so it’s ironic that the skin to honor him is their most expensive yet. A lot of people are feeling like they are milking and essentially using this very beloved and respected figure for a profit.
At 3:00 he talks about bonding with a champion and buying all the skins is bad. Although I understand where he comes from, but it’s not about the champ being hot or not, it’s about mastering a specific champion and have that god-like gameplay. I am the same with Vi, well used to be. I reached top 200 with her and felt like, I wanna have all skins just out of the sheer likeness of the champion. I don’t play league anymore, so it’s not relevant, but I feel like ppl who bonded with ahri, didn’t do it solely bcs her character model is hot per se.
@@Chippaizationthat, or don't buy it at all. Or, stand on principle and go boycott your local gucci store. Try to ban people from entering the store and see how long till they kick you out lmao
and? is someone is force you to buy this skin? what you lose if don't buy it? that the point i dont understand. LOL is free game and all skins cosmetic and optional. why people so furious? also, where you live? just curious
@@yalmemeit may impact the prices of skins in the future. It’s not just about that one skin. You let it slide once and they’ll keep making skins less and less affordable for the regular folks.
In Thailand $500 USD is over 17000THB and is more than MANY Thai make in a month. So it is a flex that they have enough disposable income to spend a months salary on a cosmetic.
Oh I agree it is worthless. But this is a country where people take pride in their knockoff Louis Vuitton. The country is well known for spending money above their means to flout wealth they don't have.
3:00 when he’s saying bonded I think he means they are a person who mains ahri, I’ve never spent money on the game but I always made sure to get skins for thresh whenever possible and I was getting to a point where I have most the skins so I understand why someone with most of a champs skins would be angry but the 500$
2:50 you think it’s weird but I think you miss the point of mains. I one trick Riven, I play her in 95% of my games. And not cause she’s hot ( she is not an over sexualized champion anyway ) but cause she needs higher focus and apm. I have almost all of her skins and am hunting for the others to complete the whole wardrobe. I really enjoy when a teammate has a skin that fits one of Riven skins’ theme. So while some ( or many lol ) might be simping, I think many are just one tricks. ( I have to add, Ahri is indeed a bit over sexualized, but she is a really really fun mobile mage that is easily accessible to new players, yet has a pretty high skill cap ) So not that it matters too much, but if you wanna see a perspective you have not thought of
I get your point but other people like cosmetics too, they should at least be able to get nice things from chests.. because this skin is not going to be obtainable any other way than with money
@@youtubewontletmeyou can already get cool stuff for free. But at least you are being honest that the whole problem is just people feeling like they should be able to own everything, not any sort of principles or morals
Although it's true that there are people who fantasize about Ahri and therefore buy all her skins, many people buy skins simply because they just like the champion (in a non-creepy way). It's similar to playing something like Hearthstone for example. You really like playing the Mage class, you will probably try to collect all Mage cards, get golden copies, try to improve your collection - even if it's not gameplay-wise, it can be cosmetic-wise. Since league doesn't really have much gameplay aspects for unlocking, people buy skins and cosmetics for something they are enjoying. I don't think there's anything weird about that. If I was spending a lot of time on something and having a blast, I'd happily get cosmetics and support the company making the thing I enjoy.
@@gamingyoshi2280 those obviously aren't the same come on dude on that a layman can understand that. It's evident I'm referring to the ability for league players to band together. This isn't hard to grasp.
also from what i understand as well korea actually has laws where if a game shuts down all the digital goods bought with real money has to be refunded. So in that sense these skins are more a deposit as well as collateral since if the game ever shuts down Riot would be required by law to issue refunds From that perspective things do make sense.
03:00 i think the argument here about ”bonding with the character” is wrong, i myself dont really ever buy skins, but i have done it many years ago. And in League people have their mains, and its very common for one tricks to collect all skins for their main champion, not because they are bonding with the character.
Honestly, since there's clearly a market for people that WILL buy this, they'd get less backlash if they just released 4 skins bundled for the $500 price tag. It's still more than the $100 apiece skins, it has the status notoriety for Eastern players, and people don't want to do math, so they're unlikely to realize it's only $25 more per skin than the $100 ones that have become accepted. It also diversifies and eats up the ban allotments.
In my opinion i think it’s not the best idea to just boycott ahri I mean riot games will still make money from these players playing their game and it will not make any impact to the company however rather than boycotting ahri why not boycott the game itself till they lower the price i think this is the most effective way
The unfortunate part is that even with community backlash, some things will continue to persist. At the end of the day, if the player is tired of the company's questionable business practices, they should consider moving on to a different game. It won't stop Riot from continuing to grow, but it may lead the player to finding something different and more enjoyable they can invest their time (and money) in.
League players didn't care about the skins since it's free to play and it supports riot. I don't care it's $500. I want riot to keep making more money without pay to win like wow. This is fine and people are just crying for no reason. If it's too expensive just don't buy it. you have plenty of cheap skins you can use.
I think that the problem with the skin isn’t so much that it’s $500 dollars(even though it is ridiculous), but that’s it’s tied to the most beloved league of legends player ever. So many people in the world want to support Faker to fullest so I think people feel like they have to buy the $500 dollar version and it’s exploiting a beloved figure in the scene.
Banning Ahri is dumbest thing ever, If you truly wanted to boycott this you would just uninstall league and stop interacting with anything related to RIot games... We reached the era where communities who lack self respect for them and they money. This is just like when Reddit went dark over a weekend. Everything will just go back to normal as nothing ever happened .
17:27 have you not seen how 40 year old men defend the $90 Diablo 4 expansion? In a Facebook group, under a post flexing about buying the $90 expansion, I just said "You're the reason AAA gaming companies are now concerned with monetization first, before making good games, and this is why AAA games suck." and bro, I got like 40 replies in 1 hour calling me poor, stupid, asking why I was in the group in the first place, and writing walls of text how we should "let others enjoy things". Yeah - let other enjoy things, BUT only when it is not ruining it for everyone else FFS. Its like saying "ahhh he just loves unaliving people, let him enjoy things!"...
Even if it's not pay to win, it does give them a reason to make sure that a character is at least good. Dunno if that is the case in league, but bad heroes probably won't sell as much skins i assume.
You know what ? Quick match players can help too by not helping ahri. Just say " we won't help ( insert ahri's lane ) feel free to gank " no matter how expensive your skin is you will feel stressed when everyone in the game is against you and you keep being bullied.
That would only be justified if they're using the skin. Ahri as a champion is fine, any ahri player who refuses to buy the skin should be commended, not bullied lol
Idk why pll give a fuck about skins or mounts. A company needs to make money so unless they tag a sub to the game, selling cosmetics is def the best thing I would prefer as a player. But only as long as the skins/mounts in game are just on par. Then it’s whatever, rather that than straight up p2w garbage like a lot of mmos or live service games.
500 dollars might not seem as much. But we're talking about a skin here. The new assassins credd GAME is for 130 dollars. The elden rings dlc is for 40 dollars. So when you put it into prespective, a single skin, which you might not be able to play every game, is worth about 7-10 AAA Videogames.
I used to play Counter-Strike: Zombie Escape on CS:GO. The Asian servers had insane monitization with skins, battlepasses with one server charging $1,000 for a specific set of perks + "hall of fame", and a single map had a $100 "pay2win" item that the mapper had to hard cap due to every time it was played it was horribly unbalanced. None of this happened in the West. People donated to mappers and servers.
One key difference between east and west is the avenue and expectations of expressing oneself. The west allows many ways, not as much in the east, so the latter seeks out what they could, that's why they are more willing to pay for skins. Also, the west tend to allow expression regardless of consequence, whereas the east tend to value social responsibility and thus limit expression that hinders others. So stuff that affect others tend to be more acceptable in the former--such as banning ahri. So there is less reason for the ban and more reason to be against the ban, ergo the result.
Its insane that I left the MMO and microtransaction gaming community two years ago and these things have somehow gotten worse. I would've thought these prices would kill games.
20% isnt the highest ban rate ever in game. I believe kassadin has the highest still with like, 90% (and that was when we could only ban 3 characters per team) And with only a global 20%, the only thing riot needs to do is.... say nothing and wait. The ban rate will go back to normal. And it will be just another day to them.
Riot even added 2 new RP Bundles --> The previous most expensive was like 13k Riot Points für 100$, now we got 2 even more expensive ones with about 30k Riot Points für like 230$ and 60k Riot Points for 430$
In wild rift in the beginning I was happy good skins where about 20€. Now nearly every cool skin is GACHA and up to 100-150€. I stopped a few weeks ago as it got out of hand . Over the years I spend for sure 2000€ in total, and I found myself on a monthly average cost of nearly 150€ spending every month. I quit for good as this is absolutely predatory.
the point that asmon said that 500 bucks isnt even that much... für me it is like a quarter of my monthly salary, u can get a washing machine for less or even the physical statue variant of exact that ahri skin for less so i think 500 bucks is with a normal monthly salary a too high price
Can only speak for myself but with all the changes with monetization and vanguard in the last 2 years, i completely stopped to spend a single penny on the game when i massively supported them in the past while the content was lacking. Also definetly took a big hit out of motivation to play the game because predatory stuff like this when Riot calls themselves the most or very player friendly company is not ok. Very sad to see how it developed the last few months especially. Any kind of trust is literally gone
17:11 It's not simply 500 dollars, it's 500 dollars thrown in something dumb like a skin. Not that I agree with it, but how I understand it, there are tiers. Spending 500 years in something necessary for survival? that's nothing, spending in something that''s not necessary, but still useful? no big deal too. Something that's superfluous, but stitll seem as notable by society in general, like a music instrument? a bit impressive, and so it goes. Spending 500 dollars in a dumb thing like a skin is more "impressive" than spending it in something like a ps5 for example, because the ps5 is something where everyone can see how it's good to have.
Asmon: "If im riot, I'll speed run the release of the next $500 skin so they can't ban both."
Riot: "Thanks for the idea bro, we'll do just that."
I like how he doesn't know that 10 bans can be made per match when he said
@@Brother_O4TS Riot: Thanks for the reminder, we will release 20
fail
@@Brother_O4TS Gonna coordinate bans with the other team?
its not that ez
Just a reminder that in Australia and New Zealand that skin cost almost 800 dollars which is the average weekly salary for many. I could buy a plane ticket or pay my rent for the week with that much money
You can buy most new non flagship phones with that.
It was 615 aud for me
I live in a third world and 500 USD is more than the minimum wage lol. Since cost of living here is a bit lower, an individual that does not provide for anybody can live comfortably for a month with that amount.
In Brazil it costs 1200 reais which is the avarege month salary. It's more than the rent for a lot of people.
the average weekly salary is the same as your rent for a week? or is there a typo somewhere
500$ ahri skin is like asking to be banned from pick first day..
I can't imagine how embarrassed the Ahri voice actress feels reading those lines.💀
Money is money
@@KeeperProtectorwhy would she be embarrassed? She’s a professional getting paid.
@@KeeperProtector What? She is a professional voice actress. That would be like saying "I can't imagine how embarrassed that construction worker feels working on that road"
@@KeeperProtector True.
In the League of Legends Asia server, specifically the Chinese server, the agent has divided the sales of this prestigious Ahri skin into two options. You can choose the "Screw it, I have money" option to directly buy the skin bundle for 3248 RMB, or you can choose the lottery option. Yes, a lottery, costing 1-2 RMB per draw, with each draw giving you a chance to win the prestigious Ahri skin. So, the Chinese server employs a different sales strategy that aligns with the preferences of the domestic players. However, Ahri's ban rate on the Chinese server generally ranges from 6% to 20%. In fact, in my last 50 ranked games, I haven't seen Ahri at all. Additionally, there aren't many players in the Chinese server who primarily play Ahri, because her complex mechanics and low damage output make her less popular. Lastly, it’s worth noting that accessing Reddit is not possible within China, making it difficult to unite with foreign players in a shared cause due to the information bubble.🦁
But people that can bypass the limitations often share that kind of stuff on forums like Tieba, no? But I guess it didn't have same impact over there due to difference in how it's obtained
@@Najemniczkas some dust in the wind yes，But simply nobody buy the skin， it cost a month paycheck for one skin，that is just shit
On one hand, Riot Games is in their right to price their skins any way they want, but on the other hand, it seems they are pushing the boundaries a bit too far for comfort.
I just don't understand why people care about the price. Yes it's ridiculous but AFAIK it offers nothing essential to gameplay. So why not just move on?
@@zendakkcause they are children
No they are not. At some point it ends up being a scam. And that should scare them😅
It's just simply bad behavior that we don't want to be a norm. If we're ok with it, everything starts being $500.
i have a perfect advice: DON'T BUY THE SKIN!! is it understood? go complaint average worker can't buy Ferrari.
or are you the same like this brain-damaged asmongold who thinks ahri skin IS PAY TO WIN?.
If a game dev treats you poorly, stop playing the game.
Genshin players: that wont stop me cuz I cant read
No I hate myself and I lack self control 😠
Lol Players (*insert springtrap voice*): We always come back
Yeah right, ppl will just quit the game because there is an insanely overpriced skin which in no realistic way effects their experience in the game. I see we are here early to farm some likes with these "truth of life" oneliners that lack any nuance but ppl who doesnt relly care enough can just nod along.
@@Borovski213 didnt stop them 'cause of the digits they've already spent-
Didn't expect them to actually commit, good on them.
That's because it's a very easy, low-commitment boycott.
@@Narlaw1199 True "Don't throw $500 away challenge" smh..
More accurately, a single person bans Ahri, of which there are ten people. So its easy to boycott@@fran2911
its super pointless tbh - why be upset about a 500 dollar skin. there will always be something more than msot people can afford
@@ryvulet8639 Whatever you say, dude.
17:04 Having $500 is not a big deal. Being ok with spending $500 on pixels however, is.
People spend 50k on Star Citizen and then have the audacity to defend that "game"
“Being ok with it” is a lot different than companies enforcing it in the first place. There are people who find enjoyment in video games far more than the real world so why not spend a premium on things they enjoy? The issue comes in when companies want to come in and FORCE a premium for something that is just blatantly a rip off. It’s not even premium at that rate it’s just straight theft
@@Foxtail190 I wonder who told those companies that they would be ok with them releasing things with such ridiculous prices. Hhmmmm, oh that’s right! The very same people I was referring to in my oc.
These companies wouldn’t be slapping +$50 price tags on any micro-transactions if players were not buying them….yet they are…Why do you think they keep “testing the waters” increasing the prices by such ridiculous amounts? Because they know there will always be dumbfu*ks who will look at those pixels and say: “Oh yeah, this is 100% worth $500.”
Bro you have players spending $200 for chibi champs and $400 for chromas. If that doesn't concern them, why should this $500 skin? Faker is about as iconic as Tom Brady. We know these guys, but we don't watch them competing.
Naw, I'm not anyone's spending nanny. If you work a job and pay your bills, then buy whatever you want.
$500 for one skin ... So ... where's the physical copy, collectors edition, unique house?
None of that? Huh.
Why would you want a physical copy that's just sitting at home for no one to see when you can have online content to show hundreds of people?
There actually is a physical model of the skin!
... Which you can purchase for ~$365 :|
Right next to the value you get from any other cosmetic in a game. Whether it's 15 or 500 - you're throwing away money. Some people want to throw away $500, what's your problem with that lol
They sold the physical copy of the game when the game first came out with a Silver Kayle skin and some RP included.
The fact that you think those two are comparable says you have zero idea what you are talking about@@RandomNon-interestingguy
Most Boycotts only last about a week to two weeks. The question is going to be if they do this for 2-3 months.
The skin is only being sold for a limited time, I think about a month. So even the people who do it for a long time will drop off heavily after that. I think it will be more about if the next expensive skin will have the same effect. Although even if it does, it might not matter much if enough people buy it anyway
They won't last for months, people don't actually care enough.
Not to mention that 25% isn't even that much, some champs get banned more often naturally.
Also, If they were truly committed they would boycott League as whole and just uninstall.
@@R3dCol0r Remember the time when Zed was number 1 in the Banrate for how many years? That's how u know it won't do nothing.
Getting a loan for a skin is wild
The people who need to take out a loan to get the skin shouldn't be buying the skin to begin with.
Whoever does should seriously reconsider how they spend money; in fact, I'd argue those people DESERVE the problems that come with it.
@fallenCS2 we got gambling addicts so skin addict is easy to come by 100% think there someone that took a load to get skins mostly in Korean culture
man justt imagine how many wow player buy TCG mounts or archievments:D
@@fallenCS2 They partially definitely do deserve it but I also don't think companies should excessively exploit addictions. They still do it obviously.
@@hiimbonsai I‘d probably agee with the addiction part, if this was another $200 chroma scheme, in which you can possibly get the skin for less if you get super lucky (while basically gambling).
However, considering this is a flat price and unavailable otherwise, I‘ll just treat it like a luxury product - since, y‘know, it‘s supposed to be exclusive and all - which people either can or cannot afford.
I completely understand the difference between a Gucci bag and this, let alone because one is physical but I think we‘ve entered an era of League skins, which will simply only be affordable to a few, just like irl luxury products are.
After all, whales are the audience for this specific $500 collection, not your average player.
500 usd is insane for Latin America, minimum wage in Peru is about 250ish usd per month 😂
pe
Aquí tenemos flamantes 8$! Viva chiabe
Ya at least Dota has a marketplace
Imaginate a mi que estoy en Argentina 🙃
@@archersterling6726 Culpa a los liberales por eso.
The sad part is even if 99.9% of the LoL playerbase doesn't buy this riot will stake make millions
Stupid tax makes the game free. More games should do it.
Nothing sad about this, why do you care if someone buys an expensive cosmetic with no competitive advantage?
@@RandomNon-interestingguybecause it encourages companies to continue to lock more and more cool content behind paywalls.
@@RandomNon-interestingguy Because that kind of waste is objectively stupid, and people tend to be saddened, annoyed, or find fun in mocking actions that are objectively stupid.
Also, let's not pretend that these sorts of things don't have an effect beyond the buyer's wallet. These types of purchases have long been established as a way to be "cool" for Gen Z and A kids. Speaking as a guy who can actually remember when video games where things you paid for once and played with no strings attached after you left the store, there's something to be said for the fact that now, companies know they can whether they make something free or not, if a game becomes popular, they can milk hundreds of dollars from customers all for things that offer no real-world utility and will be worse than useless when that customer is done with the game...and customers (a large number of them being children or teens) go along with it for hype and status.
That's what's sad about this: an industry that used to be about creativity and fun is now focused on milking every penny they can out of customers for the most inane aspects, and it took till it either devolved into actual gambling in some cases (ex. SW Battlefront II), or charging a week's wages for a *skin* before there was some real backlash.
@@RandomNon-interestingguy it encourages company resources to be put toward more insanely expensive cosmetics instead of things that actively make the game more enjoyable.
"its impressive if youre twelve"
well youre goddamn right, because there are a lot of kids-teens are playing LoL in korea than any other countries
@@solarydays You're absolutely right, there will be about a dozen thirty year olds who are also veeery impressed by spending 500 Dollars on a league skin 😂
Dude what?
If you're talking about the US then sure but latin america for example 500$ is enough to survive for 2 entire months, it's a shitton of money for a lot of people
@@ryu_lidu In Cuba, you can last 3 months with 500 dollars easily (common housing, Food, bills and transport)
But the point still stands in that why the hell would anyone wanna impress a bunch of 12 year olds?
i love how the picture for the skin is litterally styled like femdom content. like riot knows exactly what they are doing and who they are targeting lol.
what do you mean with femdom content? it looks normal and her lore is known.
sounds like a you problem
RITO's arts were always graat. best compani in terms of art coolness
Riot made like $2-4M on the first day just from Korea
8000 people bought the skin, I can see it actually
@@callmeNoro Not even counting China where you know they maybe some ridiculous amount
You think that’s a sufficient money made for the damage done?
Yeah if Riot wants to listen badly they need to listen to China and Korea since they are profitable base
@@hodler96 That's not all the money they made, that's all the money they made in just 1 day not including the largest region by far
Ahri now has 50% ban rate in draft
cap, she has 25% but riot probably put a custom matcmaking for ppl who buy this skin since i have her and i played ahri for 3 days 6/7 games a day and she got banned like 2 times in total i think
@@Bruschetta602 ? you can literally go check
They gotta pump those numbers up.
@@Bruschetta602Why would you buy this?
@@Bruschetta602 Your experience is not everyones....
$500 isn't much until you're asked to burn it.
It really is nothing to spend. It's a lot to earn
That's 2 months of working in my country
@@skw3338314 days here and that's labor.
@@skw333831slightly more than half my salary in my country. Even if I had money saved up, I wouldn't binge spend it on a skin ever.
@@skw333831 then prob dont get L xd
i dunno whats worse, that the skins are represented mostly by their splashscreens and often dont look good ingame, or that people actually fall for that...
17:40 it's not that having it specifically is awesome, it's having every skin for a certain character. The collection as a whole makes you feel good, not the individual pieces of the collection. People will throw all the money at finishing a collection.
You know what is the worst thing? The player who riot made this skin to honor Does NOT use skin at all (he has 4 championship skin and this skin). And he only get around 30% cut if this. Also he is the most modest in the esport history with almost no greeed aside from winning.
His team gets 30% not him!
30% is divided by his team, realistically hes only getting probably 5%
Dont worrie about faker he has made his money. Hes not gonna have to work a day in his life after he retires... Or his children.
@@truecasual2176 Thats not the problem
The problem is how its marketed, in tribute to this guy but he barely gets anything from it, just a way to cash in on his success and nothing else
Its even funnier when you realize these skins are nothing more than glorified 'Mythic Essence tier "Crystalis/Ashen" chroma' skins. Risen Leblanc and Ahri literally look like they came from the same skin line as Crystalis Chroma'd Ashe, with the RED and EVERYTHING!
But how would you know my manly area is huge if I'm not playing a red fox girl
Looks like Coven ahri with a chroma
This reminds me of when people used to /spit on the paypigs who'd buy WoW store mounts, so they deleted /spit. Watch riot remove champion bans
Nah it'll be an extra $250 to have your skin have ban protection.
Seems like people are hating on the wrong things lmao. No point in being salty that someone used their hard earned cash the way they wanted to. People can make arguments all they want but I fail to see how spending money on a new PC rig or video game is any different than wasting money on a super car. Would be funny if they got rid of bans though
@@GgDayzeTCGI’m sure they’d hire you into the team if you proposed this lmao
@@Foxtail190 or just give all the other characters a $500 skin
@@Foxtail190actually and unfortunately skins are one of the reasons most people even play League. Imagine playing a video game for some Asian Teacher to yell at you failure constantly. Don't like that right? That's how toxic players are and they not even mad. They just abuse others because they want to win a game.
The actual price for the "$500" bundle in NA is actually $429.99 (limited time bundle)/$443.94, not the value necrit talks about/the price being thrown around.
And you can still get the skin for 245 in another bundle but you only lose the opportunity to get the frame with the faker signature on it.
ahrimains is suspiciously close to ahriman, don't let evil fool you, brethren!
Don't be talking smack on my boy Ahzek Ahriman. Homeboy did nothing wrong, the Rubric did what it was supposed to.
The correct "boycott" method would be for all those people uninstalling the game and never playing it again.
Yep. Unfortunately for a lot of people they are addicted to ut and they already invested too much in it for just outright stop.
I did that when they added Vanguard to league. I stopped playing a few years ago after playing since 2013 but would occasionally play ARAMs with the boys, now I won't even do that lol
@@IIMiikexDII As long as they don't remove Vanguard from league. They'd bleed their players who are already experiencing very big issues along the way.
Complaints. issues and posts are most in the subreddit of riotgames.
They are addicts they will never do that
That wouldn't really change anything, because the people who buys the $500+ skins are still there. Those who don't pay for the skins will just be freeing up server space.
This is literally, give an inch, they take a mile. Perfectly represented.
This should have happened at 100 dollar skins.
People already fine with 200$ skin. Ain't no way they price this below that
this should have happened when horse armor
You're right, it's give an inch take a mile but from the players not from riot. They gave you crafting so you can have free skins, they gave you a free to play game, they gave you a game where skins don't give you any advantage.
And you're still asking for more, you still feel entitled to own every skin in the game. You still feel like if something is out of your personal price range, it shouldn't exist at all.
At one hand, I wish to have affordable cool skins, on the other... They way people mad they can't have that "Gucci bag" is awesome
Show how above them you are, but that skin - insta like for playing ahri
@@RandomNon-interestingguy why are you bootlicking greedy corporations
Could be worse, they could have made a $500 K'Sante rainbow skin for June
R/Ksantemains already protested once, they'll protest again.
When they released that dude with the guy rapper showcase, I quit league
Riot games: ''WRITE THAT DOWN, WRITE IT DOOOOOWN!''
In Argentina that skin costs half a yearly salary, you need to work almost 6 months to get that skin…
Necrit : " I'm gonna turn one graph into a 10 minute video"
Asmongold : hold my Dr. pepper
How riot should fix this is just release $500 skins for every character
They just need to release 10 more. Only 10 bans per game, guaranteed one is open every game.
It will have 4 transcendant skins. The 4 horsemen of the apocalypse.
Horsewomen mb*
Or maybe not be greedy and not charge $500...
Mlbb already did that
Don’t underestimate simps, they are dangerous together
i had a game where a teammate had the ahri skin. the other team had to check in with them after the game if he was ok irl because dude was mad weird all game spamming hundreds of messages all game after being teased for buying the skin, dude was a lunatic.
@@KirstaRunnerThe fact she wasn't banned in your game was already a red flag. Shame on you lol
@@Nepgearaf not banning it is better. everyone in the lobby makes fun of them, and they get permaganked 24/7.
@@KirstaRunner No but seriously banning sounds way better. (not playing the game sounds even better, people need to do their part) All they get to do is think about the skin. Or look at the splash art like everyone else can.
Teemo main, have pretty much all the Teemo skins, 90% of my games is spent in a space suit dropping satellite dishes. Game is so toxic that I don't even play it anymore, haven't in over a year. They refuse to ban people who act like assholes, and only ban people who retaliate to said assholes, that and the smurf epidemic on the game is ridiculous.
Game has changed a lot since last year. At this point there are enough in game tools that the game is as toxic as you allow it to be.
I stopped playing when they introduced Eternals. It is pure greed feasting on peoples need for dopamine. I knew that it was gonna get worse than Eternals, and it did. I spent nearly $800 - $1000 (CAD) on skins. I dont even play MP games anymore in general so I can avoid giving money to greedy companies looking for a easy buck. Its mind-blowingly slimy.
I stopped when the Vanguard update dropped. Sadly, I didn't want to risk my pc's performance. But I feel it was better for the best.
If the player's constantly talking shit, use the mute button.
If the player's constantly acting up and not helping the team, use the report button.
If the player's doing both or either one of the two and you refuse to use either one nor both tools to punish the player, then learn to shut up and accept that this is the community you are part of.
@@BowserisOK You are right about using the games tools to mute toxic people, but when you have to do that on most games in an online game where communication between players can make it better, you can't blame him for being fatigued from all the toxicity. I myself uninstalled lol a year before vanguard because of that and not having to constantly mute/report toxic players feels very refreshing
Okay one thing the video kinda glanced over: the prestige skins were totally obtainable by grinding it out, no no-lifeing the game, but over a year of playing well, you'd get enough points to get it. I used to spend way too much $ on league, but for the prestige skins, I didn't buy a single one but got a lot of them.
Like I was okay with the price bc it forced all the regular people to not buy it, and most ppl you see with it probably earned it just by playing well.
Now with these latest skins.... yeah Riot has lost their minds.
not even no lifing, now its worse then before , but before mastrey update u had like 1 free chest per week allu neede was an S
Even further proof that giving people free skins makes them think they are entitled to own every skin. I miss the times when you either bought skins with money or played the game without skins, people weren't so entitled then
I believe the myth of the Nine-tails is really respected in South Koreans and are really proud of it just like how China really love their Monkey Kings. I mean Faker could go for Zed or Azir as the main skinline but they did it for Ahri because they know it would sell in the east, more likely in South Korea.
prestige skins were and are 20$, you buy the ingame event pass when theres an event going on and there you get tokens from doing quests and leveling the event pass up, if you played through the whole thing and saved the tokens till the end you can allways exchange them for the prestige skin or you can save up a bit more and buy "mythic shards" with which you can then buy some of the older prestige skins that are currently available in the crafting
Ooooooor just skip the whole game 😂
Passes are £15 in uk, super cheap for prestige skins never understood why people call them “$100 - $200” maybe in the past with mythic essence but not anymore
@@OMGKangelxThe 200$ skins were special skins you could only get from event capsules at a very low chances, but guaranteed after like 40 capsules so you basically had to spend 200$ on capsules to get the skin guaranteed.
@@OMGKangelx as the person bellow you mentioned the 200$ skins were just a few reskins of already existing skins that were put into a gacha system where you had a really small chance to get them in 39pulls with a guaranted drop as 40th pull, but the 100$ skin price i do not understand why its mentioned i dont think there was ever a skin to buy for 100$ maybe a whole bundle of a skinline but thats different
Imagine how many decent mics you could buy with 500 dollars instead of spending it on a character skin.
Pretty sure the people buying this skin are generally not the ones who need a decent mic
That's interesting comparison
forget that, i could buy a decently specced laptop for that much
It is insane how people think not buying the ahri skin or banning ahri would make riot fear. Like why the prerequisite of the boycott is continue fucking playing the game. Like riot won't care if people aren't buying the skin, as long as the community is still here discussing about if they should set the price of the digital product so high. Since out of these people, there will be rich fucks that have too much money to spend. The people that are playing the games is what give the skin values. If no one is playing the game, there is no way they can sell the skins for even a cent. If you really want to make riot makes the changes that are benefiting the players, STOP playing their fucking game.
Very few people thought it would make a difference. It's league players..... They are motivated by fucking with the people who bought it. Not by this narrative of "let's stick it to riot!" Very similar to the /spit on mount buyers in WoW that Asmon was doing. Nobody thought it would stop it, they just want to be toxic lol
@@triangle1332 That actually make more sense lol.
@@xingyujiang3003unfortunately the game is just too fun to stop playing 😢 if you get hang of it and actually get good at the game, the enjoyable experience that the game gives is the best out of all games i have played.
Tbh, i didnt know people actually care about the skins this much. Its just a cosmetic and doesnt really add benefits. You will still get shit on using $500 skins😂 so i do think the ban rate only went up because players are just being toxic like the other comment said XD
The average player, thinking they're part of a boycott have this mentality:
"How dare you Riot, trying to sell a $500 to ME, someone who is NOT the target audience?!
I know what will show you! I will not buy the Ahri skin, ban her instead and just throw $20 at you for the event pass!
Yeah, that's right, I, someone who wasn't going to buy/afford the skin to begin with didn't buy it - shocker!"
Everyone who thinks they're making a difference by banning Ahri but continuing to play the game, spending money on other shit, whether it's the pass or other skins for their mains are absolute hypocrites and do not understand the concept of a boycott.
And it doesn't matter how good of a value the pass is either. You're still throwing money at the company you're trying to boycott. Are these people stupid?
It would be impossible to get everyone to quit league. You can't convince 160 million people to quit league.
13:28 The reason why it's so big, is because people that aren't aware are doing it. A lot of groups decided to do it by themselves.
What is even more shameless is that just for this skin, they added additional points purchase bundles which was just enough for the big passes, just so that people wouldn't have to purchase points multiple times for it.
Imagine whaling on that Ahri skin lol...
and never get to actually use it lmao
Probably the same people who payed for nfts
And when they manage to use the skin, everyone in the match plays to punish the person
@@pedroretore884 to be fair that's just every game in ranked regardless of skin
Thats nothing compared to Diablo Immortal. 😂
Riot probably won't care, they never did.
The goal isn't making riot care, it's preventing those who buy the skin from using it, so the next time riot does this, people will be discouraged from buying, and the bottom line will suffer. Well, that's their idea at least.
@@transient_moonlightpeople who buy the skin will remember having smaller change of playing it for first few weeks, then its back to normal
@@Finkaisar It depends on how lojng this goes on. But you know, even nbot being able to play your 500 bucks for a few weeks might reduce the number of people who buy it. We're talking dedicated moba players after all, and they tend to value instant gratification.
Good for the community for banning the character that had a $500 skin, one question though, are they still banning the $200 skins or are those ok now?
That's the real question
Those are okay now. Ahri will be as well in a couple of weeks, once the next "outrage" happens OR people get tired of having to play against their original permaban.
Some people might disagree with this but I'm not here to sugarcoat facts through wishful thinking; I'm here to say it how it is.
@@fallenCS2 200$ one didnt get a boycott campaign, and if it did it never got traction. This is different, im seeing people tell others to ban ahri in discord servers that have nothing to do about league and friends i have that had quit for years just came back to participate in the boycott because they find it entertaining.
Those were never mass banned
@@BeardedGorlokoh so you're literally getting people who quit the game to come back, and you think you're boycotting 😂😂😂 you can't make this up man
2:51 - 3:09, I really dont see having an attachment to a fictional character or mechanic as "Simping" if the behavior was to buy up all the skins because Ahri has provocative skins, then id agree...but this is essentially the same issue with Valorant, Overwatch "2" and Fallout 76, the value is calculated by Fomo and precived quarterly growth instead of by actual value to the players or the content the value streamed from.
3:00 People also bonded with Thor and Superman, and Catwomen and Poison Ivy.
This boycott is pointless. The devs already got thier scams worth of millions from Korea players
Let them think they're actually doing something; they're all in for a rude awakening, once they realize what they're doing is absolutely pointless.
lol you don't know what a scam is
This is likely the tip of the iceburg, this company is making a fighting game out of League. Probably will be the most MTX FG ever produced.
Literally, I haven’t been buying any of their battle passes or skins for months now, they’re getting nerfed and nerfed just no point anymore.
Are they planning on making it free to play? Monetizing a F2P fighting game is a death sentence
@@archersterling6726 not really, they could just keep selling skins
@@archersterling6726 it confirmed f2p, they are building a competitive based 2v2/2v1/1v1 fighting game
@@zhongliimpact6220 It's different with fighting games. Not even Mortal Kombat can keep a live service now
This story gives me a little bit of hope in gamers again. So many within the community spends recklessly and ends up hurting the community as a whole for just about any game. Glad to see sometimes pushing back can cost these greedy companies money even if it's a small amount. I don't respect the whales in cases like this, screw them.
"pushing back" by still playing the game, nice one, that will teach Riot
@@simpleserpent1337 My imagination isn't good enough to ever think League players will actually stop playing. This is better than nothing and usually it's nothing.
@@CrimsonFIame well i mean it is still nothing... it dosent hurt Riot in any way, they will just ignore it until players eventually forget about this... and then Riot will release 1000$ skin
@@simpleserpent1337 I wouldn't necessarily say it's nothing. It's miniscule mainly because of China being a lost cause but definitely not nothing.
@@DiamondDustsChina and korea
I think part of the reason for the outcry for this specific expensive skin, and not say PoE, is this skin was marketed as a tribute to faker (which it is), but Faker is known as a very humble guy and he never uses skins! That’s his thing, he prefers the game with no skins, so it’s ironic that the skin to honor him is their most expensive yet. A lot of people are feeling like they are milking and essentially using this very beloved and respected figure for a profit.
At 3:00 he talks about bonding with a champion and buying all the skins is bad. Although I understand where he comes from, but it’s not about the champ being hot or not, it’s about mastering a specific champion and have that god-like gameplay. I am the same with Vi, well used to be. I reached top 200 with her and felt like, I wanna have all skins just out of the sheer likeness of the champion.
I don’t play league anymore, so it’s not relevant, but I feel like ppl who bonded with ahri, didn’t do it solely bcs her character model is hot per se.
500 hundred dollars is like 4-5 months of paychecks on my country
just buy it for 40 then...
@@Chippaizationthat, or don't buy it at all. Or, stand on principle and go boycott your local gucci store. Try to ban people from entering the store and see how long till they kick you out lmao
and? is someone is force you to buy this skin? what you lose if don't buy it? that the point i dont understand. LOL is free game and all skins cosmetic and optional. why people so furious?
also, where you live? just curious
@@yalmemeit may impact the prices of skins in the future. It’s not just about that one skin. You let it slide once and they’ll keep making skins less and less affordable for the regular folks.
In Thailand $500 USD is over 17000THB and is more than MANY Thai make in a month. So it is a flex that they have enough disposable income to spend a months salary on a cosmetic.
A skin is worthless
Oh I agree it is worthless. But this is a country where people take pride in their knockoff Louis Vuitton. The country is well known for spending money above their means to flout wealth they don't have.
@@slipinslider He didn't say the skin had value. However, it does have a price.
I wish Asmon would move his camera. I don't even know if this guy is still wearing pajamas.
need a foot cam to make sure the Roach King is keeping up appearances and acting broke
Believe me, we don't want to see his 2 months old boxer shorts
3:00 when he’s saying bonded I think he means they are a person who mains ahri, I’ve never spent money on the game but I always made sure to get skins for thresh whenever possible and I was getting to a point where I have most the skins so I understand why someone with most of a champs skins would be angry but the 500$
2:50 you think it’s weird but I think you miss the point of mains.
I one trick Riven, I play her in 95% of my games. And not cause she’s hot ( she is not an over sexualized champion anyway ) but cause she needs higher focus and apm.
I have almost all of her skins and am hunting for the others to complete the whole wardrobe.
I really enjoy when a teammate has a skin that fits one of Riven skins’ theme.
So while some ( or many lol ) might be simping, I think many are just one tricks.
( I have to add, Ahri is indeed a bit over sexualized, but she is a really really fun mobile mage that is easily accessible to new players, yet has a pretty high skill cap )
So not that it matters too much, but if you wanna see a perspective you have not thought of
It's a good sign, all cosmetic items should be at least this much. Milking whales > Milking everyone
I get your point but other people like cosmetics too, they should at least be able to get nice things from chests.. because this skin is not going to be obtainable any other way than with money
@@youtubewontletmeyou can already get cool stuff for free. But at least you are being honest that the whole problem is just people feeling like they should be able to own everything, not any sort of principles or morals
@@youtubewontletme then get a job. I'd love to keep my skin to myself too yk 😢
I have been seeing ahri a lot recently in ARAM mode. Perhaps this is the reason.
statue cheaper than skin OMEGALUL
Although it's true that there are people who fantasize about Ahri and therefore buy all her skins, many people buy skins simply because they just like the champion (in a non-creepy way). It's similar to playing something like Hearthstone for example. You really like playing the Mage class, you will probably try to collect all Mage cards, get golden copies, try to improve your collection - even if it's not gameplay-wise, it can be cosmetic-wise. Since league doesn't really have much gameplay aspects for unlocking, people buy skins and cosmetics for something they are enjoying. I don't think there's anything weird about that. If I was spending a lot of time on something and having a blast, I'd happily get cosmetics and support the company making the thing I enjoy.
5:19 it’s like the spirit healer that says “give us your money friend, loyal customer”
Totally expected this to happen. League players remember the kass perma ban lol
this is just completely not the same , if kassadin was locked in the game was decided , the champ had like no cpa 80% winrate
@@gamingyoshi2280 those obviously aren't the same come on dude on that a layman can understand that. It's evident I'm referring to the ability for league players to band together. This isn't hard to grasp.
Having 500$ isnt a big deal but having 500$ to throw at a game for one skin kinda is.
Could be worse. Could be a $500 Seraphine skin.
Clueless
How fortunate that a $500 Seraphine skin is entirely out of question.
@@greentoby26 for now
also from what i understand as well korea actually has laws where if a game shuts down all the digital goods bought with real money has to be refunded. So in that sense these skins are more a deposit as well as collateral since if the game ever shuts down Riot would be required by law to issue refunds
From that perspective things do make sense.
IIRC, that's for purchases made a few months before the shutdown of the game.
03:00 i think the argument here about ”bonding with the character” is wrong, i myself dont really ever buy skins, but i have done it many years ago. And in League people have their mains, and its very common for one tricks to collect all skins for their main champion, not because they are bonding with the character.
500 dollar in my country is basically, my 3 months salary bro. 😂
it's 8 months salary if we go by minimum wage which most companies don't pay
@@ea_naseer indeed
A hint. You aren't the target audience here.
@@Tnargav Yes, I am not.
Riot will probably make a pay to play system where you can buy tokens to spend per game to play banned champions. 🧠
The spokesperson has been DDos by the Chinese for half a year, but Riot still hasn’t done anything.
Honestly, since there's clearly a market for people that WILL buy this, they'd get less backlash if they just released 4 skins bundled for the $500 price tag. It's still more than the $100 apiece skins, it has the status notoriety for Eastern players, and people don't want to do math, so they're unlikely to realize it's only $25 more per skin than the $100 ones that have become accepted. It also diversifies and eats up the ban allotments.
In my opinion i think it’s not the best idea to just boycott ahri I mean riot games will still make money from these players playing their game and it will not make any impact to the company however rather than boycotting ahri why not boycott the game itself till they lower the price i think this is the most effective way
"this horse does not matter why are you upset about a horse mount".... Now look where we are.
It's not that serious. The ban rate did increase, but only in bronze-silver.
Because she’s not played that much in higher ranks, there’s better picks
@@KuruIShere no she has a very high pickrate in high elo, it is 11-12% from iron to master and drops to 7 % in chally (still very high)
Can't wait for my $1.299 skin next.
The unfortunate part is that even with community backlash, some things will continue to persist. At the end of the day, if the player is tired of the company's questionable business practices, they should consider moving on to a different game. It won't stop Riot from continuing to grow, but it may lead the player to finding something different and more enjoyable they can invest their time (and money) in.
League players didn't care about the skins since it's free to play and it supports riot. I don't care it's $500. I want riot to keep making more money without pay to win like wow. This is fine and people are just crying for no reason. If it's too expensive just don't buy it. you have plenty of cheap skins you can use.
I think that the problem with the skin isn’t so much that it’s $500 dollars(even though it is ridiculous), but that’s it’s tied to the most beloved league of legends player ever. So many people in the world want to support Faker to fullest so I think people feel like they have to buy the $500 dollar version and it’s exploiting a beloved figure in the scene.
It's funny how different boycotting is when it's affirming vs contradicting your own personal opinion lmao
Banning Ahri is dumbest thing ever, If you truly wanted to boycott this you would just uninstall league and stop interacting with anything related to RIot games...
We reached the era where communities who lack self respect for them and they money.
This is just like when Reddit went dark over a weekend.
Everything will just go back to normal as nothing ever happened .
ADDICTION
17:27 have you not seen how 40 year old men defend the $90 Diablo 4 expansion? In a Facebook group, under a post flexing about buying the $90 expansion, I just said "You're the reason AAA gaming companies are now concerned with monetization first, before making good games, and this is why AAA games suck." and bro, I got like 40 replies in 1 hour calling me poor, stupid, asking why I was in the group in the first place, and writing walls of text how we should "let others enjoy things". Yeah - let other enjoy things, BUT only when it is not ruining it for everyone else FFS. Its like saying "ahhh he just loves unaliving people, let him enjoy things!"...
Even if it's not pay to win, it does give them a reason to make sure that a character is at least good. Dunno if that is the case in league, but bad heroes probably won't sell as much skins i assume.
We are on the rise people we must not accept this kind of BS that these big companies are putting up in games.
You know what ? Quick match players can help too by not helping ahri. Just say " we won't help ( insert ahri's lane ) feel free to gank " no matter how expensive your skin is you will feel stressed when everyone in the game is against you and you keep being bullied.
That would only be justified if they're using the skin. Ahri as a champion is fine, any ahri player who refuses to buy the skin should be commended, not bullied lol
BALD
Idk why pll give a fuck about skins or mounts. A company needs to make money so unless they tag a sub to the game, selling cosmetics is def the best thing I would prefer as a player. But only as long as the skins/mounts in game are just on par. Then it’s whatever, rather that than straight up p2w garbage like a lot of mmos or live service games.
4:27 Its honestly not that much of a commitment for anyone who isn't an Ahri main when you have over 100 other champions to choose from.
nice, one of the first
500 dollars might not seem as much. But we're talking about a skin here. The new assassins credd GAME is for 130 dollars. The elden rings dlc is for 40 dollars. So when you put it into prespective, a single skin, which you might not be able to play every game, is worth about 7-10 AAA Videogames.
2:50 if you feel like you are betrayed by a company, your mistake was ever trusting a company.
I used to play Counter-Strike: Zombie Escape on CS:GO. The Asian servers had insane monitization with skins, battlepasses with one server charging $1,000 for a specific set of perks + "hall of fame", and a single map had a $100 "pay2win" item that the mapper had to hard cap due to every time it was played it was horribly unbalanced.
None of this happened in the West. People donated to mappers and servers.
One key difference between east and west is the avenue and expectations of expressing oneself.
The west allows many ways, not as much in the east, so the latter seeks out what they could, that's why they are more willing to pay for skins.
Also, the west tend to allow expression regardless of consequence, whereas the east tend to value social responsibility and thus limit expression that hinders others. So stuff that affect others tend to be more acceptable in the former--such as banning ahri.
So there is less reason for the ban and more reason to be against the ban, ergo the result.
"what we didnt know"
Literally everbody knew and expected this to happen
This is nowhere near enough.
Back in the day, kassadin had over 90% ban rate for more than a season
Its insane that I left the MMO and microtransaction gaming community two years ago and these things have somehow gotten worse. I would've thought these prices would kill games.
20% isnt the highest ban rate ever in game. I believe kassadin has the highest still with like, 90% (and that was when we could only ban 3 characters per team)
And with only a global 20%, the only thing riot needs to do is.... say nothing and wait. The ban rate will go back to normal. And it will be just another day to them.
Riot even added 2 new RP Bundles --> The previous most expensive was like 13k Riot Points für 100$, now we got 2 even more expensive ones with about 30k Riot Points für like 230$ and 60k Riot Points for 430$
In wild rift in the beginning I was happy good skins where about 20€. Now nearly every cool skin is GACHA and up to 100-150€. I stopped a few weeks ago as it got out of hand . Over the years I spend for sure 2000€ in total, and I found myself on a monthly average cost of nearly 150€ spending every month. I quit for good as this is absolutely predatory.
17:28 I earn around 700 dollar (with meal tickets), 500 dollars is the stuff you pay for emergencies.
the point that asmon said that 500 bucks isnt even that much...
für me it is like a quarter of my monthly salary,
u can get a washing machine for less or even the physical statue variant of exact that ahri skin for less
so i think 500 bucks is with a normal monthly salary a too high price
Can only speak for myself but with all the changes with monetization and vanguard in the last 2 years, i completely stopped to spend a single penny on the game when i massively supported them in the past while the content was lacking. Also definetly took a big hit out of motivation to play the game because predatory stuff like this when Riot calls themselves the most or very player friendly company is not ok. Very sad to see how it developed the last few months especially. Any kind of trust is literally gone
17:11 It's not simply 500 dollars, it's 500 dollars thrown in something dumb like a skin. Not that I agree with it, but how I understand it, there are tiers. Spending 500 years in something necessary for survival? that's nothing, spending in something that''s not necessary, but still useful? no big deal too. Something that's superfluous, but stitll seem as notable by society in general, like a music instrument? a bit impressive, and so it goes. Spending 500 dollars in a dumb thing like a skin is more "impressive" than spending it in something like a ps5 for example, because the ps5 is something where everyone can see how it's good to have.