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It's not unusual for people to be disappointed by their "Your Shop", especially those who've been playing for a while already and have acquired skins for their favorite Champions. So I have small change to consider:

When first accessing Your Shop, the player gets presented with 12 skins, generated by the same algorithm currently used. From there, the player chooses 6 skins to "officially" add to their Shop. Once the skins have been selected, each of those skins gets randomly assigned a discount from 30% to 70% (or whatever the range is supposed to be).

I feel this would increase player satisfaction as well as see a greater amount of Your Shop purchases for Riot. By increasing the amount of skins presented to the player, they're more likely to find skins they'd actually be interested in, and they'd appreciate the feeling of having some control over what they can get. And because the player is actively choosing which skins to get the discount for, it's much more likely that they'll take the next step and actually purchase those skins, which is good for Riot.

Please share your thoughts.

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almost 5 years ago - /u/Rovient - Direct link

Originally posted by Thralee

I haven't bought anything from the past 2 maybe 3 personalized shops. They keep offering me normal versions of skins that I had already farmed for the prestige version of and skins that are dating to 2013.

The algorythm should also prioritze ignoring the skins on champs on who you already have all the skins for except the ugly ones. You don't already own those for a reason.

But ugliness/desirability is subjective.

almost 5 years ago - /u/Rovient - Direct link

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Again, beauty is subjective. Some players love troll skins or think they're funny. I also don't have that data I'm afraid.

almost 5 years ago - /u/Rovient - Direct link

Originally posted by jerichoneric

could we maybe find a way for us to mark what we find cool and what we dislike then? A wishlist for shop maybe. Have tags for the skins that we like "power fantasy" "Comedy" "creepy" etc.

Cause all the skins I got recommended were either creepy or comedy and I don't find either of those very interesting for skins.

I mean, it's just a fun little store promo, not sure it really needs to get any more complex for players to interact with. Sometimes you get project zed, sometimes you get shamrock Malphite. That how I view My Shop at least!

I'm sure there's always room for improvement behind the scenes on our end, but I'd advise against making it more complex than it needs to be.

I don't work for skins or player customisation at all, btw.

almost 5 years ago - /u/Rovient - Direct link

Originally posted by Thralee

That's pretty much what I said. If I haven't yet purchased skins that I've had 9 years to purchase I don't see why giving me 30% off will make me want to purchase them.

Whether you think rusty blitzcrank or prestige irelia are ugly, that's up to you, but everyone's going to find some of them ugly, hence the "You don't already own those (specific ones) for a reason".

Perhaps the reason was price, in which case, maybe 30% is all it takes for you to now want to purchase it.

I'm not being pedantic here, that's legitimately why consoles try to get their price as low as possible late into their life-cycle; maybe you WERE always interested, just not $400 interested. Maybe you're $150 interested, though?

Sometimes a discount is all you needed.