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That is definitely not our intent - to frustrate the biggest supporters of the game. I agree on the orange essence issue. Thanks for your feedback I appreciate it.

I hear you - that is true for many many players. The majority of League players don't spend at all and earn many skins for free. Icons being the only 'rare' thing is part of the issue, for players who are looking for something rare there are no options other than through play (which again is great for most players) which was the feedback we're responding to.

hey Spideraxe, There are players that aren't interested in earning skins only through engagement, which has become more and more clear to us the more surveys and player outreach we do. Now maybe this isn't the way, which is why we're trying it with a mythic variant of a skin that is already available, but having alternate paths defeats the rarity goal for those players.

Sure thing, 1. There isn't a next method planned, it would depend on what worked / didn't work about this offering that would inform what we do next. 2. Nothing I can share now, we're just looking at results for this skin. 3. Yes we have discussed many potential options to better serving players who are seeking rarity, but the feedback that Prestige wasn't cutting it for those players is something we've heard more this year so explorations are still early.

They are not part of this exploration no

We think that will make it less rare, initially, which will make it less appealing for those who are seeking rarity.

Hey everyone, we know many of you aren't happy with Dark Cosmic Erasure Jhin. I want to clarify up front that we aren't going to change the skin or its rollout plan, but I want to explain why and provide information on why this is something we’re doing at all.

We want to offer a range of products for everyone, starting at the low end of free or a few dollars, scaling to more premium content for more. Right now, Prestige skins are the highest end of that spectrum. However, we’ve been getting feedback that they don't fully satisfy those of you who want something more rare.

This feedback makes sense. When we originally released Prestige, we got feedback that lots of players were excited for Prestige skins, not just the folks wanting rare or exclusive content. So, we made them easier to get by doing things like adding the end of year Prestige shop, putting Prestige Points in event pass milestone missions, and adding the Prestige Point cashout bundle to events. When we ...

Wow congratulations!!! That's awesome! So glad you're enjoying the mode

Should we bring back AMA's? They sort of faded away because we focused on doing the insights article for champions and dev blogs for features which can get localized into all languages for all regions. But it's not much of a conversation. Reddit AMA's are very NA-centric. Doesn't mean we can't do them, we just want to make sure they're actually worth it.

Some of the reasons already mentioned are perhaps why some Rioters don't respond much on Reddit, but also, this community is very active and often yall respond to each other with answers that we might. In addition the conversation here can move on VERY quickly, where unless we comment super fast things get buried. It's also not a great format for debate or go back-and-forth so it tends to be a one response kind of thing.

But trust we're here and read and appreciate your feedback. Except about Yuumi those posts we just filter out /s

That’s awesome!! Congratulations you are truly a Legend

We should be able to update you all on this in the next few weeks! The team has just finished a lot of under the hood changes that will make the Essence Emporium more stable & less hand-coded for each one

Jungle bots are a priority! The current system is honestly terrible for new players

We should’ve been more communicative on the Clash issues. Normally when we have bugs in Clash we triage and then try to let folks know how long it will be delayed. But the bugs the past two weeks have been issues we’ve never encountered before and that resulted in less info and understanding. We’re still digging into the issues today and will provide more info before next Clash on what we’ve done to avoid these issues in the future. Your time, nights and weekends are very important and we want you to feel good about planning to play League in the most competitive mode.

Jumping in to help give some more context. Also jumping in because I go Mega Gnar when folks say the skins team is lazy (they aren't) or that they don't care (they do) which I see coming up in this thread. When we created Xayah and Rakan (I was part of the team) we wanted to try a lot of new things - a shared recall animation being one of them. It took a lot of work, blending animations from two champs that could come together at any point during either recall. We also didn't really know if players would care or use it that much, but because of their theme it was worth it to try something new. Many years later it's clear that only a very small fraction of players use the joint recall with the same skin when Xayah and Rakan are on the same team, so we default to the base shared animation. When we look at how long it takes to add this special animation for how little use it gets, we are forced with a hard trade off. Continue doing it, or put the effort into something that will ...

We've tried a few iterations of gameplay changes for Teemo but they haven't met the bar for change vs. improvement. There's still potential though if we can find something that is a clear improvement

We absolutely should have. I pushed for us to make something when it became clear we wouldn't have a cinematic. Brink of Infinity wasn't meant to be a replacement for the CG but it certainly felt that way and taught me to never bring a blueberry muffin to a birthday if everyone is expecting I'm going to bring a birthday cake

We tried to cover as much as we could in a short amount of time (I already think 8 min is a long ask) so while we didn't cover everything we will continue to have updates on more parts of the game in the coming weeks and months

Just posted an update to Twitter, it's still going to be localized but we filmed it quickly and wanted to get it out ASAP

we're still here! Mostly lurking :)

the team is very excited & nervous - it's a big day!!