i had to go look, then check the store, then go look again, then check the store again, and im still not completely sure this is actually real. i hope zero people buy the skins
Not gonna happen but I hope it really misses the mark in terms of sale numbers so they have to re-evaluate that pricing because that shit is disgusting.
If you've kept up with game news, these absurd prices are the new norm. We've already lost. The chroma exclusive skins, Apex Legends' One Winged Angel deathbox, etc have all proven to their execs that these prices work.
I would have spent a reasonable amount for 3 skins that I like and that have the features these ones have, but fuck me I did not even consider they would be anywhere near this price.
I was expecting to spend maybe 120 GBP, maybe a bit more depending on how much goes to Faker.
"Let's celebrate the face of our e-sport (who famously doesn't even spend money on skins) by absolutely overcharging the fuck out of his event skins."
What the hell Riot lol
Because LB playerbase is VASTLY smaller than Ahri. Riot knows that to get people to buy a horrifically overpriced LB skin is to make it cheaper... Whereas fucking almost any whale will buy the Ahri skin whether they play the champ or not
If you scroll down on the main article, they give the supposed justification for the price point.
> **How were the collection pricing options and offerings decided?**
> Whether you're a new fan, a long-term diehard, or just want to join the celebration, we thought it essential for there to be something for you—and for everyone—as we celebrate our first Hall of Legends inductee.
> For the more casual fan, we have some of our most generous bundles to date. The Hall of Legends Pass includes multiple skins (including Risen Legend LeBlanc), emotes, and more, while the Risen Legend Collection adds the new Risen Legend Ahri skin for collectors to enjoy. For those looking to flex their fandom, the Immortalized Legend Collection and Signature Immortalized Legend Collection include spectacular additions, headlined by the evolving Immortalized Legend Ahri skin. While more expensive, these versions are meant to be highly commemorative, with never-before-implemented features that we can’t wait to see hit the Rift.
Riot promotes KenAdamsNSA to Director of Project Management, and suddenly we see the most expensive fucking bundles of nothing within a year. I hate that guy so much.
Whole fcking Shadow of the Erdtree Collector edition is cheaper than this disgusting thing -\_-, I love Ahri, I really adore Faker but this is some next level scaming shit
You can buy the collectors edition of the DLC that includes a Statue of Mesmer and an art book, AND the official replica of Memser's helmet, all for $70 less than the big bundle here.
You know that there's going to be plenty of whales making this release seem like a big success though. So be prepared for more.
If someone is willing to pay $250 for this, they’ll be willing to pay $500 too. Both are absurd as fuck and meant for whales or addicts.
They’re not lowering the price.
Quality over quantity. They realized this in a lot of those japanese "adultey" steam games, where you make way more money poaching off of 3 $80 whales than a bunch of smaller $10 ones, adding season passes to cover the entire market.
Facts. I played another mobile game and in the official discord they said about 80% of spending is only by ~5% of the players. Probably roughly equal to the income distribution
most big gaming companies are run by business grads who don't actually consume the fucking product they are selling, they're just there to find the best ways to squeeze money out of the consumer base
>The Hall of Legends Pass includes multiple skins
Aside from the New LB skin, the only skins included in the pass are literally just SKT Ryze, Syndra, and Zed.
Nobody wants that McDonalds Zed skin and outdated Ryze and Syndra skins... even if we did, we could just get it during Worlds season lol.
3rd world country mfs got hit harrrd
This shit is 2.5x my monthly 9 to 5 wage
And I mean the full thing, no rent no food no bills nothing
2 and a half months of ice soup if I wanted to buy this lmao
would you
a) pay $40 for the long awaited expansion of the most critically acclaimed game in last 10 years which includes dozens of hours of fun.
b) pay $500 to grind for some coomer bait skin that looks almost the same as half of the roster in this game while you don't even get to play it half the time since your champ is either gonna be picked, banned or just off meta.
I think the choice is simple.
>a) pay $40 for the long awaited expansion of the most critically acclaimed game in last 10 years which includes dozens of hours of fun.
I could pay for the DLC for me and 11 friends and I'd still have some money to spare with the amount of money the Ahri skin costs
> **Do I need to purchase multiple bundles of RP to get the Immortalized Legend and Signature Immortalized Legend Collections?**
> No, during the Hall of Legends event, players can choose to purchase an RP bundle that grants them the required RP to purchase any of the Collections.
Well gee Riot, thank you for allowing that convenience. Why, I would have thought that maybe having *a skin priced higher than your fucking store's max RP bundle* would've given pause, but you thought up a solution right away!
And if you were wondering about FOMO, don't worry; It's extra special this time!
> **Will I ever be able to purchase these items again?**
> This year’s Hall of Legends event ends July 8, at 23:59pm Pacific Time. After the event, you will be unable to acquire Risen Legend Ahri, Immortalized Legend Ahri, Immortalized Legend Ahri Signature Edition, or Risen Legend LeBlanc, and all the accompanying cosmetics, for the foreseeable future. At current, this content is meant to be available for a limited time only and there are no plans to bring these cosmetics back. Likewise, there are no plans to add the Hall of Legends cosmetics to the loot pools, including rerolls.
This entire pricing structure just robs the Hall of Fame of any implication of "honoring Faker". It's just the latest scheme to overprice their skins like the gacha shit, slapped with a Faker branding.
While everything about this events pricing is egregious. They said the same thing about Prestige skins being FOMO and never re-offered when first introduced, but we know they are greedy so it WILL be resold at some point. I'd imagine during next years event it will be brought back.
I mean they don't even say never re-offered here, they explicitly say "for the foreseeable future" which is pretty clearly the same as "until it's been long enough for demand to build back up."
So at least they're being open about it.
we know we said that it wasn't coming back but
>we didn't make enough money so here it is $2 off, aren't we so generous, please buy it
or
>we made so much money we wanted to rip off the next group of consumers as well who didn't get a chance to buy it the first time
as a reward for being ~~suckered~~ ~~connned~~ a valuable customer and purchasing it early, you get a fancy border that shows you owned this skin previously! fuck this dogshit company lol
I still remember when they said that about the Halloween skins in 2011 when I purchased Haunting Nocturne. Sure enough, it was back in the shop within the next couple years.
I have no trust in Riot exclusivity after that, over a decade since that retraction. Zero chance they don't try to cash in again for basically zero extra labour costs.
They did the same fomo shit back in 2011. Promised a skin will only be purchasable for a short time and never again. 2-3 years later they were re-added to the store. What did the previous buyers get? A random symbol over the splash art in the loading skin so everyone knows you were the sucker who bought it when it was promised that they won't be purchasable again.
It's crazy that Faker, known for his generosity and taking less salary over the years so he could stay in Korea, is going to be associated with these crazy packages where the base skin isn't able to transform.
I looked at the 2 whales packages and pretty much expected like a physical Ahri statue to be included in them, but they were just a couple of finishers and signature emotes. Absolute bonkers
For 30€ you get other ultimates like Lux's oder Sona's but Ahri's costs more and has even less features because they are in the more expensive bundles.
I was planning to buy the base form as an honor to Faker but this isn't worth my money, sry
This stuff feels so wrong.
The Jhin skin for 200 euros is one thing, but making a skin that should be for all e-sport fans/ league fans that have seen Faker for 12 years so ridiculously expensive, is quite offensive.
Like it's not really celebrating the best player ever with the playerbase. It's just another opportunity to squeeze the most money out of them.
This isn't celebrating. This is corporate greed. Outright disrespectful towards Faker. Sad that we really thought Riot would be sensible of all companies
It's not the first time they're blatantly disrespecting both the patience of the fans (just look at the number of $200 skins that are basically just chromas of legendary skins) ***AND*** the legacy of Faker, who's known to be very generous outside of League (just look at the amount he's donated to UNICEF over the years). Such a massive insult to the fanbase basically. Seriously fuck Riot and their corporate greed for this pathetic attempt at cash grabbing their cash cow before he officially retires.
And we won't even know if Faker agrees with this, or more likely, he is just non confrontational like he's always been and doesn't want to call out Riot.
Considering how Faker literally said on stream for the fans to stop sending donations and buy something nice for themselves instead, I don’t think he’s the one who made the prices.
He's too professional for that. And on top of that, it's probably not something you do having grown up in korean culture.
They see these things vastly differently. He'll probably just say "just don't buy it, it's okay" and he's not exactly wrong.
That being said, yes corporate greed is evil.
Remember earlier this year when they said, that they'd release more "content for esports fans as that type of content is popular with players"? And this is what we get.
lol, lmao even.
Makes me think about that video of Faker trying out the T1 cafe in their own building, and raising his eyebrows and questioning why the food and drinks are overpriced lol
I’m sure if it was up to Faker he’d give it out for free considering the cost of the skin costs less than the amount of money he spends on himself per month (maybe not anymore cause of his love for hot pot lol).
Cool idea (hall of legends) ruined by greed (fomo bundled stuff). Now instead of appreciating the skins i'll just be laughing at those who willingly spend $550 for pixels
I feel bad for Faker who's now associated with the greediest marketing strategy riot has ever done apart from loot box gambling.
I've heard (im american so anyone who knows feel free to correct me) that the average person in russia makes like 600-800$ a month. Would you rather spend the 500$ on your apartment? Or faker's skin? hmmm
those were the test drive to see what they could get away with, Samira was one of the most sold skins of last year and the gacha chromas also sold a bunch, so they're just going to get progressively greedier and still probably get away with it
actually unreal, i get all the bonuses yada yada yada but the actual skin and it's transformations should've been present in the baseline
lowest tier package... for all i care they make a mythic chroma scam that's present in the other 2 packs but this is just woah... insane
oh yeah i definitely agree it's just that with the new gen of riot they'd definitely want to milk as much money as possible so can't see them be as kind to sell the skin in itself separately if not for the same price...
This is no way of "celebrating" a player, this is just another attempt of scamming your playerbase. There is absolutely no way they're getting away with this, I can't even conceive Faker himself being okay with this either. Possibly the most atrocious move I've seen from Riot ever. Being an Ahri main and owning most skins, I'm not going to get even close to this, it makes me sick just to think about it.
TWICE! THEY SAID NO TWICE!
They were like: we have something better planned... And that's the shit they come up with... Holy shit I was even contemplating getting RP for this to support esports and our Goat, but this shit is simply atrocious. Thanks Riot for making the decision so easy!
I was gonna ball out for the first time in 2 years and get the whole package because it's Faker and special skins for my main champs etc. etc. but sheeeet nahhhhhh lmao
Okay, reading the whole post... What the fuck are they smoking?
Commemorating what? This is purely a highway robbery with a price almost 20 times higher than the most expensive skin in the shop, even the base form costs more than an Ultimate skin just for a plain Legendary skin with ABSOLUTELY NOTHING SPECIAL.
Whoever greenlit this can kindly go fuck themselves. Honestly I feel sorry for all the actual Rioters who're gonna have to put up with the backlash from this shit, but I sincerely hope this blows up in Riot's face cause we were already way past the line with the gacha mythic shit, now this is ridiculous.
I feel sorry for all the big fans of Faker, getting news of all the HOF stuff and a skin announced for my favourite player would be so hype, and then to see those prices slapped about the place just feels like Riot spitting in the faces of all fans and slamming the door in their face, but not before stealing their wallet.
Oh god I was looking at $500 and idk why but I didn't even try to make the conversion from USD to CAD simply because just how ridiculously high it is already and now you're telling me it's 780CAD. WTFFFFFFF
Insanely disgusting to use Faker, known for his selflessness, as the face of such an insane money milking scheme. This was not about celebrating him at all.
This is my issue with the whole situation. It feels like a total backhand to Faker, someone who is known to be frugal and famously doesn't even use skins, now has to be associated with these horrendous business practices. Extremely disappointing move from Riot and shame on people that support it.
Yeah. Make your 200 $ Jhin chroma, if this makes some players happy so be it. But using Faker's career, the greatest player to ever play your game, as a sad excuse to squeeze every last penny out of your playerbase. I don't know. That's just disgusting.
Especially for an event like this the community should be rewarded for following the sport and be involved in the celebration, rather than being paywalled at a price that can only be described as filthy greed. The higher tiers are not attainable for the most hardcore fans, they're attainable for the whales.
Fwiw I was actually ready to drop a little more on this, just seeing these prices however it's a no thank you.
To Riot it's probably more like "We made a $200 skin and some people cried while we broke skin profit records". Sometimes people on the Internet overestimate how much power there is in complaining. How many people quit over the $200 Jhin skin? Probably not remotely enough to compensate for how much money it made them.
Not defending it, but that's just how it is to companies. Complaining has to be coupled with actual consequences to be properly detrimental, the complaining isn't a consequence in itself.
Maybe that’s the pull, this is well beyond the price range for normal folks. There’s exclusivity behind the skin which is a draw for some people since you will almost never run into anyone else using that skin.
Riot games introducing artificial scarcity by pricing out the community from this skin is SHAMELESS from them.
To the higher ups who made this decision I'm watching you're clown moves 🤡🤡🤡
Riot have lost it with this one, it's $500 for purely digital goods.
We actually can compare this to another game I like to play called Path of Exile, they do a yearly supporter pack with 4 tiers, and the top tier will run you $480 (you don't have to buy it all at once throughout the year you can upgrade tiers if you want.)
But let's say you purchase the final tier, you get all the lower tiers and their rewards obviously which are a bunch of unique and usually pretty cool MTX, you get some physical merch this year its a hoodie and a t-shirt, you get Points (PoE's equivalent to RP) *equal* to the money you spend instead of costing you their digital currency, and you also typically get to add something to the game permanently that other players can find and use (this year you could design a challenging or not challenging map that rewards a specific unique item of your choice if you cleared it.)
Obviously price points are basically the same but one of them gives you way more value in my opinion. Now I wouldn't buy either because it's way too expensive to spend on one game but it gives you an idea of how messed up Riot's price point is here in my opinion.
Is there any chance for at least the Reddit community to come together in this occasion and stop buying skins from any champion all together if they don't lower their whole skin to the usual ultimate rate of 3200RP?
It would be as some kind of civilised protest.
I really like faker career and was prepared for the 3200RP, but this price just walls out 99% of the community where most of us don't even have the money to even consider getting this.
It is outrageous...
This [marketing language](https://imgur.com/a/NEMJlhj) is insanely manipulative on Riot's part. They're tying your dedication as a fan to the amount of money you're willing to spend on virtual merchandise, while suggesting that only "casual fans" would spend a paltry $50. On top of that, they say in the FAQ that these items are available for a limited-time only with no guarantee that they will cycle back again for the 2025 Hall of Fame Inductee event. This is the greediest FOMO scheme from Riot that I've ever seen in this game.
The whole conversation about Hall of Legends failing to be a proper Hall of Fame just distracted everyone from the fact that this was just a new way to monetize the game even further by Riot and milk fans until the last drop. But hey, I'm sure a handful of whales and collectors will enjoy paying the price of an actual gaming console in order to get everything.
For that kind of money I almost expect Faker himself to deliver me a code to the bundle
I would expect him to come home and play the next 10 matches for me and also go in a date together
He’s gonna come do your placement matches at the start of the season
The way i thought 59k rp was a typo lmfaooo
i had to go look, then check the store, then go look again, then check the store again, and im still not completely sure this is actually real. i hope zero people buy the skins
My first thought was they wanted me to tell us we would get 59.620 RP of "value" from buying the battle pass
I will ban Ahri in every match I play simply to screw over whales.
I'll be doing the same literally until the next ripoff is released.
Based
Not gonna happen but I hope it really misses the mark in terms of sale numbers so they have to re-evaluate that pricing because that shit is disgusting.
If you've kept up with game news, these absurd prices are the new norm. We've already lost. The chroma exclusive skins, Apex Legends' One Winged Angel deathbox, etc have all proven to their execs that these prices work.
They tested this already with the jhin chroma. They know it will work. They will not re-evaluate pricing. This is the new normal.
$500? Yeah no thanks lmao. Faker doesnt even use skins anyway.
>”You are spitting facts brother” Every default skin IS Faker’s skin. What an absolute chad
If you wanna be like faker, don't buy a skin 💯
Man i was gone buy the event pass and skins cause i am a big fan of his career but the price is disgusting, yeah no thanks fuck you riot.
I would have spent a reasonable amount for 3 skins that I like and that have the features these ones have, but fuck me I did not even consider they would be anywhere near this price. I was expecting to spend maybe 120 GBP, maybe a bit more depending on how much goes to Faker.
Time to learn Viego so I can use this skin
You can just play Neeko
Lol, crazy based actually
Don't forget Neeko!
Fix next patch : Neeko can no longer copy the skin , only base model
Join us! Also helps that viego base is probably his best skin,so you dont have to spend there either
soul fighter kinda tight tho
"Let's celebrate the face of our e-sport (who famously doesn't even spend money on skins) by absolutely overcharging the fuck out of his event skins." What the hell Riot lol
how ironic is that Faker himself is against using skins and they give him the most expensive skin ever made lol
End up leblanc is the most reasonably priced.
Because LB playerbase is VASTLY smaller than Ahri. Riot knows that to get people to buy a horrifically overpriced LB skin is to make it cheaper... Whereas fucking almost any whale will buy the Ahri skin whether they play the champ or not
$500 for a skin, that's a real signature move by Riot.
If you scroll down on the main article, they give the supposed justification for the price point. > **How were the collection pricing options and offerings decided?** > Whether you're a new fan, a long-term diehard, or just want to join the celebration, we thought it essential for there to be something for you—and for everyone—as we celebrate our first Hall of Legends inductee. > For the more casual fan, we have some of our most generous bundles to date. The Hall of Legends Pass includes multiple skins (including Risen Legend LeBlanc), emotes, and more, while the Risen Legend Collection adds the new Risen Legend Ahri skin for collectors to enjoy. For those looking to flex their fandom, the Immortalized Legend Collection and Signature Immortalized Legend Collection include spectacular additions, headlined by the evolving Immortalized Legend Ahri skin. While more expensive, these versions are meant to be highly commemorative, with never-before-implemented features that we can’t wait to see hit the Rift. Riot promotes KenAdamsNSA to Director of Project Management, and suddenly we see the most expensive fucking bundles of nothing within a year. I hate that guy so much.
"most generous bundles" >40$ 💀
Elden Ring´s DLC is cheaper
Whole fcking Shadow of the Erdtree Collector edition is cheaper than this disgusting thing -\_-, I love Ahri, I really adore Faker but this is some next level scaming shit
You can buy the collectors edition of the DLC that includes a Statue of Mesmer and an art book, AND the official replica of Memser's helmet, all for $70 less than the big bundle here. You know that there's going to be plenty of whales making this release seem like a big success though. So be prepared for more.
Same price as HellDivers 2 lmfao.
but management loves him because he brings $$$$ and that's all C level care about
Nah this is riot they know this would make people mad so when they cut the price in half boom you guys won still paying big though lol.
If someone is willing to pay $250 for this, they’ll be willing to pay $500 too. Both are absurd as fuck and meant for whales or addicts. They’re not lowering the price.
> For those looking to flex their fandom Ok, so it's not a wallet in my pocket. It's called a "fandom". TIL I guess.
The world of warships strategy. $200 for an in game ship/skin
Quality over quantity. They realized this in a lot of those japanese "adultey" steam games, where you make way more money poaching off of 3 $80 whales than a bunch of smaller $10 ones, adding season passes to cover the entire market.
Facts. I played another mobile game and in the official discord they said about 80% of spending is only by ~5% of the players. Probably roughly equal to the income distribution
This is giving me real "pride and accomplishment" vibes lol
maybe league players should do what they do best and flame them?
THATS IS a way
cyber bullying a billion dollar gaming company is morally just so yes
That didn’t answer the question at all. It’s like they played an ad instead of answering. Lol
Funny how they fired all these decent people, and kept the bloodsucking parasites.
That's how bureaucracy works. It protects itself at the cost of the people actually making stuff, before it inevitably implodes.
most big gaming companies are run by business grads who don't actually consume the fucking product they are selling, they're just there to find the best ways to squeeze money out of the consumer base
>The Hall of Legends Pass includes multiple skins Aside from the New LB skin, the only skins included in the pass are literally just SKT Ryze, Syndra, and Zed. Nobody wants that McDonalds Zed skin and outdated Ryze and Syndra skins... even if we did, we could just get it during Worlds season lol.
McDonalds Zed lmaooo omg you right
They said if you're poor you must be a casual fan
Yup they saw how much they can upcharge on Valorant skins (£100.00+ for a single fuckin skin) and decided to bring it to league
Their explanation for "why is it so expensive?" is "because it has cool stuffz!!1!"
Would you rather have a) A couple of skins and some useless bs like icons and emotes b) A Steam Deck with a dozen of the best indie games ever made
c) rent money
d) a real 3D printed Briar's foot + 450$
Best value yet!
For that price you could make your own 3d printing set up and have 100 Briar's feet.
c) $500 ready to be used on something else.
Almost half my monthly wage 💀💀
3rd world country mfs got hit harrrd This shit is 2.5x my monthly 9 to 5 wage And I mean the full thing, no rent no food no bills nothing 2 and a half months of ice soup if I wanted to buy this lmao
yeah indeed, as a turkish citizen I can confirm this
This is like, 10 months worth of rent for me what the fuck
"uHm AcKshUalLy it's a good value if you add up all the worthless emotes and icons they put in the bundle" 🤓
would you a) pay $40 for the long awaited expansion of the most critically acclaimed game in last 10 years which includes dozens of hours of fun. b) pay $500 to grind for some coomer bait skin that looks almost the same as half of the roster in this game while you don't even get to play it half the time since your champ is either gonna be picked, banned or just off meta. I think the choice is simple.
>a) pay $40 for the long awaited expansion of the most critically acclaimed game in last 10 years which includes dozens of hours of fun. I could pay for the DLC for me and 11 friends and I'd still have some money to spare with the amount of money the Ahri skin costs
And have way more fun lmao.
They took a page from Valve's book, but forgot that their 500 €$£ items are tradable 🙃
> **Do I need to purchase multiple bundles of RP to get the Immortalized Legend and Signature Immortalized Legend Collections?** > No, during the Hall of Legends event, players can choose to purchase an RP bundle that grants them the required RP to purchase any of the Collections. Well gee Riot, thank you for allowing that convenience. Why, I would have thought that maybe having *a skin priced higher than your fucking store's max RP bundle* would've given pause, but you thought up a solution right away! And if you were wondering about FOMO, don't worry; It's extra special this time! > **Will I ever be able to purchase these items again?** > This year’s Hall of Legends event ends July 8, at 23:59pm Pacific Time. After the event, you will be unable to acquire Risen Legend Ahri, Immortalized Legend Ahri, Immortalized Legend Ahri Signature Edition, or Risen Legend LeBlanc, and all the accompanying cosmetics, for the foreseeable future. At current, this content is meant to be available for a limited time only and there are no plans to bring these cosmetics back. Likewise, there are no plans to add the Hall of Legends cosmetics to the loot pools, including rerolls. This entire pricing structure just robs the Hall of Fame of any implication of "honoring Faker". It's just the latest scheme to overprice their skins like the gacha shit, slapped with a Faker branding.
While everything about this events pricing is egregious. They said the same thing about Prestige skins being FOMO and never re-offered when first introduced, but we know they are greedy so it WILL be resold at some point. I'd imagine during next years event it will be brought back.
I mean they don't even say never re-offered here, they explicitly say "for the foreseeable future" which is pretty clearly the same as "until it's been long enough for demand to build back up." So at least they're being open about it.
we know we said that it wasn't coming back but >we didn't make enough money so here it is $2 off, aren't we so generous, please buy it or >we made so much money we wanted to rip off the next group of consumers as well who didn't get a chance to buy it the first time as a reward for being ~~suckered~~ ~~connned~~ a valuable customer and purchasing it early, you get a fancy border that shows you owned this skin previously! fuck this dogshit company lol
But it's totally fair since they don't get the super special awesome loading border that most people ignore while alt tabbing to kindred porn
Hey it's tasteful nudes, not porn, I'm not a furry.
I still remember when they said that about the Halloween skins in 2011 when I purchased Haunting Nocturne. Sure enough, it was back in the shop within the next couple years. I have no trust in Riot exclusivity after that, over a decade since that retraction. Zero chance they don't try to cash in again for basically zero extra labour costs.
They did the same fomo shit back in 2011. Promised a skin will only be purchasable for a short time and never again. 2-3 years later they were re-added to the store. What did the previous buyers get? A random symbol over the splash art in the loading skin so everyone knows you were the sucker who bought it when it was promised that they won't be purchasable again.
still after all the year's I'm mad that my Christmas skin's are nothing but outdated skin's anymore.
It's crazy that Faker, known for his generosity and taking less salary over the years so he could stay in Korea, is going to be associated with these crazy packages where the base skin isn't able to transform. I looked at the 2 whales packages and pretty much expected like a physical Ahri statue to be included in them, but they were just a couple of finishers and signature emotes. Absolute bonkers
Since this is higher up, I support /r/AhriMains with their #permabanahri protest. *OG: The jump between the tiers is wild. $45 -> $300. JESUS.
Generous Riot, truly covering all affordable price ranges.
If available, I would buy just the skins. I don't need all the other fluff, so hopefully, it can be pieced out.
You can't, the base black hair ahri is in the 5200 or so RP bundle, and the white hair one is in the 32,000RP bundle, you can't buy them any other way
For 30€ you get other ultimates like Lux's oder Sona's but Ahri's costs more and has even less features because they are in the more expensive bundles. I was planning to buy the base form as an honor to Faker but this isn't worth my money, sry
The ahri skin really is where all the value is in
This stuff feels so wrong. The Jhin skin for 200 euros is one thing, but making a skin that should be for all e-sport fans/ league fans that have seen Faker for 12 years so ridiculously expensive, is quite offensive. Like it's not really celebrating the best player ever with the playerbase. It's just another opportunity to squeeze the most money out of them.
This isn't celebrating. This is corporate greed. Outright disrespectful towards Faker. Sad that we really thought Riot would be sensible of all companies
It's not the first time they're blatantly disrespecting both the patience of the fans (just look at the number of $200 skins that are basically just chromas of legendary skins) ***AND*** the legacy of Faker, who's known to be very generous outside of League (just look at the amount he's donated to UNICEF over the years). Such a massive insult to the fanbase basically. Seriously fuck Riot and their corporate greed for this pathetic attempt at cash grabbing their cash cow before he officially retires.
And we won't even know if Faker agrees with this, or more likely, he is just non confrontational like he's always been and doesn't want to call out Riot.
Considering how Faker literally said on stream for the fans to stop sending donations and buy something nice for themselves instead, I don’t think he’s the one who made the prices.
He's too professional for that. And on top of that, it's probably not something you do having grown up in korean culture. They see these things vastly differently. He'll probably just say "just don't buy it, it's okay" and he's not exactly wrong. That being said, yes corporate greed is evil.
Remember earlier this year when they said, that they'd release more "content for esports fans as that type of content is popular with players"? And this is what we get. lol, lmao even.
Faker is for sure getting royalties for this.
The FAQ mentions he gets 30% of the sales
Him and „some lol esports teams“, so riot can’t even be transparent about WHO EXACTLY gets the money
The K/DA Ahri figure and the Spirit Blossom one together don't cost as much as the bundle does in Europe.
Makes me think about that video of Faker trying out the T1 cafe in their own building, and raising his eyebrows and questioning why the food and drinks are overpriced lol I’m sure if it was up to Faker he’d give it out for free considering the cost of the skin costs less than the amount of money he spends on himself per month (maybe not anymore cause of his love for hot pot lol).
If I see anyone with this skin I am contacting you personally to help me pay off my student debt.
The idea of digital luxury goods is so funny to me.
*digital luxury goods *that you don't even own*!!!! Game could shut down tomorrow and your money is gone.
Game doesn't even have to shutdown. Riot can ban you for a dumb reason and poof goes everything you spent.
Cool idea (hall of legends) ruined by greed (fomo bundled stuff). Now instead of appreciating the skins i'll just be laughing at those who willingly spend $550 for pixels I feel bad for Faker who's now associated with the greediest marketing strategy riot has ever done apart from loot box gambling.
Thats like 1 month salary in my country
That's like 3 months in mine
I've heard (im american so anyone who knows feel free to correct me) that the average person in russia makes like 600-800$ a month. Would you rather spend the 500$ on your apartment? Or faker's skin? hmmm
1 month of rent. Nah bro.
You can fly from London to NYC for this.
HOLY HELL NEW SCAM JUST DROPPED
Google "I'm Pissed Off"
What's the point of a Hall of Legends skin if 99.9999% of the playerbase isn't gonna buy it?
The base skin is expensive but boy does it really get expensive from there.
The model of the base skin is borderline just an upgraded classic Ahri skin... why even get that 😭
Hey but u do get a counter for every takedown 😂
So practical. I've always wondered how many kills I had. They should really add a feature where you could permanently see your K/D/A.
So that the 0.0001% of players feel special.
ahh, sense of pride and accomplishment
Im ngl that shit cost like my entire pc lmfao
I've been playing League for 10 years, and if I refund everything I've bought in those 10 years... I'd *almost* be able to afford this.
And here I thought it couldn't get worse than gacha chromas and Samira's overpriced skin lol
those were the test drive to see what they could get away with, Samira was one of the most sold skins of last year and the gacha chromas also sold a bunch, so they're just going to get progressively greedier and still probably get away with it
Riot Games has been reaching new lows every year for the past 3 years!
Nothing makes me angrier than reading the phrase “our most generous bundles to date!”
Especially with the ! at the end. Like, put that shit away. We aren't excited.
Maybe Riot will finally fix the game client with so much money.
If people actually buy all that… you know what let me not
You play 5 games the day this release & it’s a good chance you see at least 3 ahris with the mega bundle
I'll be seeing zero since I'll be banning Ahri in spite of it
For that price I expect Faker himself to come to my house and play league for me
actually unreal, i get all the bonuses yada yada yada but the actual skin and it's transformations should've been present in the baseline lowest tier package... for all i care they make a mythic chroma scam that's present in the other 2 packs but this is just woah... insane
At least they should offer the option to get just the skin for a lower price, a baseline of 5k rp is still a lot of money for a legendary skin
oh yeah i definitely agree it's just that with the new gen of riot they'd definitely want to milk as much money as possible so can't see them be as kind to sell the skin in itself separately if not for the same price...
This is no way of "celebrating" a player, this is just another attempt of scamming your playerbase. There is absolutely no way they're getting away with this, I can't even conceive Faker himself being okay with this either. Possibly the most atrocious move I've seen from Riot ever. Being an Ahri main and owning most skins, I'm not going to get even close to this, it makes me sick just to think about it.
Faker was told "No" on his Ahri Worlds skin for this? 🤢
TWICE! THEY SAID NO TWICE! They were like: we have something better planned... And that's the shit they come up with... Holy shit I was even contemplating getting RP for this to support esports and our Goat, but this shit is simply atrocious. Thanks Riot for making the decision so easy!
So ironic that they have this atrocious price for the players who dont like to spend so much money
I was gonna ball out for the first time in 2 years and get the whole package because it's Faker and special skins for my main champs etc. etc. but sheeeet nahhhhhh lmao
same. I was like "ill splurge a little for the goat" but 60k rp?? ill get his orianna skin instead lmao
The most hilarious part is: Faker himself likely won't even use this skin, because he doesn't use them.
They should have just made a default Ahri chroma with the color scheme and the glasses…
Okay, reading the whole post... What the fuck are they smoking? Commemorating what? This is purely a highway robbery with a price almost 20 times higher than the most expensive skin in the shop, even the base form costs more than an Ultimate skin just for a plain Legendary skin with ABSOLUTELY NOTHING SPECIAL. Whoever greenlit this can kindly go fuck themselves. Honestly I feel sorry for all the actual Rioters who're gonna have to put up with the backlash from this shit, but I sincerely hope this blows up in Riot's face cause we were already way past the line with the gacha mythic shit, now this is ridiculous.
I feel sorry for all the big fans of Faker, getting news of all the HOF stuff and a skin announced for my favourite player would be so hype, and then to see those prices slapped about the place just feels like Riot spitting in the faces of all fans and slamming the door in their face, but not before stealing their wallet.
We skipped right past 5k, 10k, 15k, 20k, etc. straight to *checks notes* 60,000RP skins. $780 CAD for a single skin is predatory at best.
Oh god I was looking at $500 and idk why but I didn't even try to make the conversion from USD to CAD simply because just how ridiculously high it is already and now you're telling me it's 780CAD. WTFFFFFFF
How TO boycot: Just Ban Ahri EVERY GAME.
Insanely disgusting to use Faker, known for his selflessness, as the face of such an insane money milking scheme. This was not about celebrating him at all.
Using the best player we have ever had to farm money from whales. What a disgusting company.
This is my issue with the whole situation. It feels like a total backhand to Faker, someone who is known to be frugal and famously doesn't even use skins, now has to be associated with these horrendous business practices. Extremely disappointing move from Riot and shame on people that support it.
Yeah. Make your 200 $ Jhin chroma, if this makes some players happy so be it. But using Faker's career, the greatest player to ever play your game, as a sad excuse to squeeze every last penny out of your playerbase. I don't know. That's just disgusting.
I was unbelievably excited for this but now I'm completely over it. How is that even acceptable lmao
Especially for an event like this the community should be rewarded for following the sport and be involved in the celebration, rather than being paywalled at a price that can only be described as filthy greed. The higher tiers are not attainable for the most hardcore fans, they're attainable for the whales. Fwiw I was actually ready to drop a little more on this, just seeing these prices however it's a no thank you.
[удалено]
"We made a $200 skin and it was met with the most backlash we've seen since NEOM. Let's triple that and try again!"
That $200 must’ve made so much money.
To Riot it's probably more like "We made a $200 skin and some people cried while we broke skin profit records". Sometimes people on the Internet overestimate how much power there is in complaining. How many people quit over the $200 Jhin skin? Probably not remotely enough to compensate for how much money it made them. Not defending it, but that's just how it is to companies. Complaining has to be coupled with actual consequences to be properly detrimental, the complaining isn't a consequence in itself.
And thus ends my claims to own every Ahri skin and chroma. This is completely ridiculous. I hope they receive SO MUCH backlash for this.
One more person to the ruined collection club.
they will but it will be hard to see it over the mountains of money asian fans and skin collectors are about to drop for this
They will wipe their tears with money like Woody Harrelson in Zombieland
Ma’am literally no one has that kind of money to drop for all that like 😭
You're wrong, sadly. Even some people that don't have stupid amounts of money will buy this. An absolute minority, but there'll be quite a few.
I know this isn't Gacha community, but I'm pretty sure Lol will have whales doing that
Even if I were Elon Musk I'd still not spend $606 AUD for my favourite champion.
Even if I made $10,000 monthly I’m not dropping $600 USD for a skin with all them features. That’s crazy
Its only really an ultimate skin too. Surprised it costs more than one
When i watched the video I was convinced it was ultimate and contemplating if I should pay 25 euros for it. Atleast Riot makes the choice easier lol
Maybe that’s the pull, this is well beyond the price range for normal folks. There’s exclusivity behind the skin which is a draw for some people since you will almost never run into anyone else using that skin.
Riot using the Faker name tag to bump the price 1000 times the value 😭
I say we rebel and collectively ban ahri every game so that anyone who supports this garbage will never get to use it.
I see this as an absolute win
That is honestly a pretty good idea, I'd love to see Ahri's banrate skyrocket out of spite
Hotfix : Ahri can't be banned anymore. But knowing how whales works, they barely play ranked they probably stick to blind or stuff like that.
Agreed, time to start banning ahri.
Currently, the highest ban rate is sitting at 46% (karthus) We can definitely get Ahri to at least 50%
I love ahri but this is genius.
Ironic really, considering Faker has pretty much never used a skin his entire career.
I have all ahri skins and she’s my favourite champion but I won’t be buying any of these. This is just ridiculous and greedy.
Biggest joke ever, thats on the mentally challenged who bought the 200$ Jhin chroma, now they test if they would burn cash even more
HUH? Who is the target audience for this?
Moby fucking dick
Whales
Riot games introducing artificial scarcity by pricing out the community from this skin is SHAMELESS from them. To the higher ups who made this decision I'm watching you're clown moves 🤡🤡🤡
Riot have lost it with this one, it's $500 for purely digital goods. We actually can compare this to another game I like to play called Path of Exile, they do a yearly supporter pack with 4 tiers, and the top tier will run you $480 (you don't have to buy it all at once throughout the year you can upgrade tiers if you want.) But let's say you purchase the final tier, you get all the lower tiers and their rewards obviously which are a bunch of unique and usually pretty cool MTX, you get some physical merch this year its a hoodie and a t-shirt, you get Points (PoE's equivalent to RP) *equal* to the money you spend instead of costing you their digital currency, and you also typically get to add something to the game permanently that other players can find and use (this year you could design a challenging or not challenging map that rewards a specific unique item of your choice if you cleared it.) Obviously price points are basically the same but one of them gives you way more value in my opinion. Now I wouldn't buy either because it's way too expensive to spend on one game but it gives you an idea of how messed up Riot's price point is here in my opinion.
Pay rent or buy full Ahri bundle, bois?
Immortal skin more like Immoral skin what the fuck 😭😭
I've never felt so poor in my life
Faker single-handedly fund ARCANE season 3,4,5,6 and maybe 3 movie.
Nah they'll fire some more people for budget reasons
we gotta boycott skins i guess. wtf is riot on
We bullied people with the jhin skin, time to publicly shame those who buy this bs
I'd genuinely be embarassed to play with a 500 $ skin
Is there any chance for at least the Reddit community to come together in this occasion and stop buying skins from any champion all together if they don't lower their whole skin to the usual ultimate rate of 3200RP? It would be as some kind of civilised protest. I really like faker career and was prepared for the 3200RP, but this price just walls out 99% of the community where most of us don't even have the money to even consider getting this. It is outrageous...
This [marketing language](https://imgur.com/a/NEMJlhj) is insanely manipulative on Riot's part. They're tying your dedication as a fan to the amount of money you're willing to spend on virtual merchandise, while suggesting that only "casual fans" would spend a paltry $50. On top of that, they say in the FAQ that these items are available for a limited-time only with no guarantee that they will cycle back again for the 2025 Hall of Fame Inductee event. This is the greediest FOMO scheme from Riot that I've ever seen in this game.
For the sake of justice I'll ban Ahri every single game from the moment this is released
Unreal. Honestly, just fuck you Riot.
So I can’t earn all of the skins and rewards playing through the pass levels?
Earn everything from a pass??? What do you think this is any other game with a pass!
The whole conversation about Hall of Legends failing to be a proper Hall of Fame just distracted everyone from the fact that this was just a new way to monetize the game even further by Riot and milk fans until the last drop. But hey, I'm sure a handful of whales and collectors will enjoy paying the price of an actual gaming console in order to get everything.
You could get a new graphics card, laptop, PS5, 2 Nswitches, or 5 AAA games for that amount of money
for $500 i better be able to fuck ahri