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Real rito confirmed, flair hasn't been set up quite yet!
Thanks Aether!
Hasn't it always been discounted? Same for a Draven skin whose name I can't remember.
Hey Folks
Primetime Draven and Surprise Party Fiddlesticks are permanently discounted Legendary skins and, like all Legendary skins, are not eligible for additional discounts. Due to the tagging on our older skins (Surprise Party Fiddlesticks is 8 years old, holy cow) these were accidentally placed into the wrong pool and included in our sales schedule. We’ll keep Fiddlesticks in for this week as this is our bad, but this is not our general policy and we will continue to keep them in the scope of legendaries in the case of all future visual upgrades.
ELI5 the reason why Papercraft wasn't made for popular champions than Anivia/Nunu though.
I might just be stupid, but I read this comment and thought it dodged Killroy32's question.
I thought what Killroy was after was something along the lines of "If papercraft was made for more popular champions it would've sold better so Riot should look to try this on more popular champions and see how it does."
I was trying to say that we control for a lot of factors including the popularity of the champion when we measure performance. Unfortunately, Papercraft didn't meet those standards even when accounting for for popularity. Alternatively, its likely Papercraft would've performed poorly regardless of the champion we put it on vs. the champion popularity.
If the question was "Why don't we test new skinlines on popular champs to begin with?" I would say it mostly has to do with risk. If we create a theme no one wants and the skin does very poorly - that's not only a huge hit to our revenue but also means far more players didn't get something they would've wanted instead. To me that's kindof a lose-lose for everyone involved.
But if Papercraft had skins for popular champs it would sell better wouldn't it? Anivia and Nunu aren't the biggest moneymakers.
Hey this is my first post on reddit so be gentle.
...but to add context I work as part of the team that sets the strategy for how League of Legends monetizes which includes skins. We create predictions on how skins will perform before we make a skinline which includes the playrate of certain champions as well as a multitude of other factors. Even accounting for those factors Papaercraft didn't do great. Personally, I'm pretty sad about it as I think they're utterly gorgeous.
I'm not sure what our plans our for next year regarding Papercraft but either way its a really tough choice. Ultimately, we aim to make things for you folks the players and not ourselves so its always a battle between really wanting to believe in a skinline like Papercraft and weighing it out vs. the feedback and engagement we get.