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Every week, getting 1000 points will give you 250 tokens via a special weekly mission.
In previous events, these missions would remain available for the entire duration of the event, meaning that if you got the pass on week 3, you would still get the weekly mission for week 1, then when you completed it the one for week 2 would show up, and so on, so essentially you wouldn't miss out on the tokens.
This time around, however, these missions will expire after each week ends, so if you get the pass later you essentially lose 250 tokens per week you missed.
As the Riot Support website puts it:
"In addition to having the same objective, every week has the same reward: 250 Star Guardian 2022 Tokens! Just be sure to grab it while you can, because once each week is gone, so are its rewards."
I feel like this is a particularly anti-consumer move by Riot, and a rather deplorable FOMO technique. This holds true especially when you consider the following points:
This is the first event in which this happens, as I mentioned before (so much for the "big summer event", I guess)...
Token gains have been nerfed with the new time-based system. It takes about two games to get 10 tokens, so missing out on 250 tokens per week is a lot of tokens that go to waste.
This change is also not very clearly communicated. The majority of people won't check the Riot Support article - and why would they, after all? There was absolutely no reason for this change. So they'll end up getting the pass later and missing out on tokens.
It's just another straight up nerf for the tokens, even though the event shop this time around has a lot more content that people will want to buy. Not to mention that the current event is, in general, quite grindy enough already (e.g. the bonds system).
I hope that this post helps someone avoid this mistake, but I still believe that this is a move by Riot that is simply not justified.
Edit: This might be a typo on Riot's part (check the comments). However, just to be clear on one thing: This post is not meant to mislead anyone - I have simply summed up what is stated in the official FAQ Riot published themselves, and as of the time of writing this edit, the information still stands.
Regardless of whether this is a mistake or not, one does not simply add an entire sentence specifically mentioning this in the FAQ, and then also lets it get translated into other languages and published. Such a thing would normally be spotted in seconds by a Rioter. If I could spot it, so could they - and there is no way that nobody proofreads these things.
This leads me to believe that Riot possibly originally intended to ship this token change to the live servers and changed it at the very last moment, hence why the FAQ includes it - and if this is true, it is quite alarming considering the plethora of token nerfs that have been shipped already.
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