Someone has to do the math on this because I'm not convinced it's going to be easier than the old system.
Please do! If we're wrong on our math we'll correct. Between champ shards back from chests, -50% to champ cost and extra BE at end of pass we're pretty confident this should be dramatically easier access to champions than previously. If you're seeing something we're missing though we'll dig into it
they gonna give us those chest but then forget to give us keys back
Chests all come with a key (either at the exact same time if through a mission, or the level before/after on the pass)
/u/RiotMeddler would you have any more details on champ bio updates you mentioned in the last thread or would that be in the following update, since one seems more focused on recent community sentiment regarding the progression changes.
Should still be in the next regular dev update
Are the Rewards the chests give nerfed? If its same odds I see this as a win. This is basically what I hoped the pass would be at launch
Same exact drop table
got a question regarding Rell and Alistar, will there be another way for players to grab their skin since they're gone from the free and paid passes?
That's one of the things on our list to figure out next. Frankly, the Alistar skin in particular just isn't very good. We're leaning towards putting more time into another skin that Alistar has coming later this year instead of trying to improve this one given the starting point isn't that strong.
Feels much more like the intended design goal of simplifying and unifying the system. Thank you
That's the hope. We know it got lost amongst everything else going on, but trying to simplify League's around game systems where they were unnecessarily complex was always one of the goals here, even if our execution didn't leave it feeling that way
Will lowering BE costs by 50% also lower the yield from disenchanting Champion shards?
Short term (next patch) - maybe. At present the disenchant value is linked to the price a champion is sold for.
Longer term (25.6? not sure yet) - No. We don't want to nerf disenchant values, they might be temporarily down for a patch or so though while we decouple them. Would recommend either disenchanting now or holding until we've got that fixed, not disenchanting next patch.
Hope you and Pabro are doing well, it can't have been easy being the community spokesperson these days. Appreciate all that you do :)
Thank you
It’s great that you’re active in this community and responding here. But why does the community have to calculate whether your system is better now? Isn’t that your job?
And to be a bit cynical: it feels like someone at Riot has a great (internal opinion) monetization idea, you implement it, and then you wait for the community’s feedback. Reminds me a lot of the show Mythic Quest
We have calculated, and multiple times too especially after getting prior BE calculations wrong. Always possible we're missing stuff though and want to acknowledge/be open to things we might have missed
Hey u/RiotMeddler can we expect you guys to give the Exalted Skins more than one form, same as Fractured Jinx skin? I miss having the option to choose the skin I want to play whenever and wherever I want during the game. (Not as MF's ultimate skin, for example). I feel like this should be the main thing when it comes to the Exalted Skins. It didn't happen to Setts' skin, once you select one, you can't go back and pick another one etc.
We're still figuring out details on what's most important to improve for Exalted skins. For Morde, team are looking at stuff like anims, armor, more use of the custom music the skin has etc. We'll get a thread up somewhere (MordekaiserMains maybe?) to share our initial thinking on direction, get some discussion
What happened, Riot? I thought chests were unsustainable? You didn't know regular progression and rewards would be important to people despite literally every live service title having something of the sort?
Quelle surprise Riot were lying once more.
While we still need to make sure the business side of League is sustainable this was clearly a poor way to try and do it in retrospect. Very damaging to the player experience, which made making a great game and a sustainable business became a conflict when it should be a synergy. We think when we've been at our best historically it's been because making something really good leads to sustainable business results in the long term
When will we have Leblanc on the PBE?? and will she get any?
Targeting mid March for LeBlanc PBE
Probably 1350 RP each in the shop like any other skin I guess?
But that means that the awful chroma Alistar is 1350rp xdd imagine you waited 4 years for this and you have to pay it like any other skin
We'll be doing a separate Alistar skin, with a different theme, that will come out later this year
For those existing Alistar and Rell skins, still figuring out what we should do about them. We don't think they're in a good state, or to be honest that those were great starting points for skins that are distinct enough from base Alistar/Rell in retrospect.
how is it 60 chests ? arent we having 4 acts this ear so shouldnt it be 40 chests overall ?
6 acts per year (e.g. we're at the end of February and act 2 is about to go live next patch)
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