Arcane Jinx Accident

[@F_Print]

People think they saved $178, but really they lost $72.

[@ihootle]

LMAOO

[@thebronzeavengers4194]

If you see it as a Ultimate then 42

[@Henrikpop]

Copesen​@@thebronzeavengers4194

[@Tetrathegod]

That’s woman math

[@pickthenick1]

This one is straight on the point!

[@fujiapples303]

The fact that people pay $72 for a skin and feel like they cheated the system is so dystopian.

[@PincKen]

whoever wanted it means they got it for way cheaper lil bro

[@Chaosfly10]

@@PincKen Congrats on missing the point "lil bro"

[@ennobenno-0]

Honestly I can 100% see it being done on purpose. Nothing gets people to spend money as fast as making them think they cheated the system

[@palap9506]

Riot put the 250 price tag on the skin, then intentionally made that bug so people would think they could get it for ONLY 72. They planned it all along, It’s genius

[@NortonjawX]

@@PincKennot the sharpest tool, are ya lilbro?

[@orang3819]

Kogmaw can still auto during his passive and this gets fixed instantly

[@Dr44kjeGaming]

i reported a bug with kog maw passive over 8 years ago in a support ticket where you can't click on the area where kog dies after passive and it's also still not fixed, unacceptable

[@KarthanRouge]

what? how? Tell me!

[@henrik7364]

@@Dr44kjeGaming also sion

[@colaonyourface]

as kog main i declare it a feature, i've never seen someone do that but me

[@-baluta3087]

​@@Dr44kjeGaming the same always happens for me with karthus passive

[@Bellicosy]

$72 sounds like a steal compared to $250. But it's still an absolute rip off!

[@handlmycck]

imagine the "illegal crazy exploit" is still dogshit in value 😂😂😂 greed has no limits

[@Fabiocean2000]

Reminds me of those ON SALE posters where the original price is way higher than it should be, so the reduced value looks like a steal in comparison.

[@johnstrife7]

It's not even worth 72 it's 50 at max if I'm being generous but it's real worth is 30 or lower

[@santiagoacuna8923]

Poetic

[@mokymode1206]

@@johnstrife7 even 30 is crazy, we just got used to thinking it's normal to change the appearance of a character for half the price of a triple A game

[@ZoraDoom]

Riot being a competent company that's not greedy challenge: IMPOSSIBLE

[@ricardohoang8452]

HoF Ahri skin was already that greedy 😂

[@dyto2287]

Well, they need to pay for Arcane somehow since they lost money on that.

[@gamalm9846]

Arcane anly 250 million but got billions WHAT THE FK U MEAN ​@@dyto2287

[@zee-fr5kw]

i mean the whole game is free, all the skins are optional and you an easily get skins, not spending a cent, if it was forced i would say they are greedy, but it's more people who by them are dumb

[@OrcaD13]

@@dyto2287 ofcourse. but the show isnt just about money. But also a massive marketing tool. ofc everyone knows lol. but the show made people interested enough to actually play lol related games

[@wouterzonneveld2305]

Or Riot is actually playing 4D chess, and making it so people think they are getting a great deal, saving +- 175 euro, whilst in reality they are still spending 70+ euro on some pixels.

[@mysteriouspresent5186]

that ain’t 4D chess, it’s checkers. You guys are just stupid enough to fall for it

[@parkerwilliams7236]

@@mysteriouspresent5186 "You guys are stupid" mf he didn't say he was buying the skin chill out

[@wouterzonneveld2305]

@@mysteriouspresent5186 Hey don't include me, I haven't given Riot a single penny :)

[@colaonyourface]

@@mysteriouspresent5186 so it's 4d checkers?

[@Kubistonek]

it literally is, pokemon go does exact same thing

[@DerpASherpa117]

"Not Refundable" Sorry, Riot, just following your own rules. NO REFUNDS 😏

[@yuko13371]

still paying 72 $ for a skin

[@OuroBoros_Games]

@@yuko13371 no if it was paid with amazon prime bundles

[@LongNguyen-xr4vg]

they still spent the price of an AAA game for a skin...not that much of a win

[@marco2S]

They don't have to refund if they can just ban you account for bug abuse.

[@TheDendran]

@@marco2S i wouldn't call that abuse since its a gross negligence on Riots part for letting this slip through the store

[@yingwen8328]

Oh no, you spent 72 dollars instead of 250 on an average looking skin. Noooooooo riot is losing so much money!!!

[@Vandiril]

they will compensate by doing $1000 skin next

[@derbyblade9572]

​@@Vandiril The skin so fucking ass. You just wasted 72 dollars for 15 dollars skin.

[@Pako679]

that skin is not even average

[@limear]

yeah those people who spent $72 really showed them

[@atomoriii]

@@Pako679 Lux Elementalist >>

[@Kurokonoko]

$15 skin for $72 💀💀💀

[@Toxicotton]

absolute bargain!

[@IBNZ1W]

15$ is still a deal breaker 🤣 I can just play Jinx with no skin, destroy my opponent and feel 72$ richer LOL

[@mileslee8941]

@@IBNZ1W arcane jinx > exalted jinx

[@IBNZ1W]

@ standard skin jinx also costs $72 less. And the 72$ skin doesn’t make you better 🤣

[@SmokinSquirrelRS]

you get 80 skin shards so it's better than buying the battle pass

[@carlosmiguelteixeiraott3643]

Riot with Game Breaking Bug: I sleepz Riot with Money Breaking Bug: *Doom music intensifies.

[@wastingsun]

Remember: its ok and called "business" when a company cheats and shorts you Its not ok, a scandal, and illegal for you to cheat and short them

[@Егор-ы3ю7я]

you;re not really cheating riot though. youre paying 70 dollars for a cosmetic product in a game.

[@IslaWoof]

I still find it hilarious how companies in the US can have it in their ToS that you literally cannot sue them (arbitration clause), looking at you Discord...

[@TehNoobiness]

@@IslaWoof The "funniest" part (as in, if I'm not laughing I'll start crying) is that many of the standard ToS clauses that every company uses...are completely unenforceable. They'd be totally unacceptable if they ever got put in front of a judge and treated like an actual contract. But they're de-facto legal because nobody who's affected by it can afford to sue a megacorporation!

[@MrFakefall]

Which is always the case when there's a significant power gap between the two sides to such a degree that one can basically make it very difficult for the other to exist. Which is why your comment remains true if we change parties from "person" and corporation" to "corporation" and "government"

[@vanjamenadzer]

gamestop?

[@Deathnom]

Imagine paying more than a full AAA games worth + extra for a single skin, and then still having riot potentially banning you for not giving them enough money.

[@saltblood]

Certified riot games moment

[@bryang2375]

Real

[@Trevan2412]

72$ is still 2.5 ultimate skins

[@datmuhq6821]

Yeah, but at least doing it you would have also unlocked the other arcane skins + a decent amount of ME. So funnily enough with the bug it was somewhat fair!

[@Yue_Jin]

and ultimate skins are overpriced as hell.

[@Trevan2412]

@@Yue_Jin The latest ones yes, but used to be that an ultimate skin was when Riot needed to code entirely new tech in the game to make it work. Evolutions for Ezreal, insane visual upgrade for Udyr, controlling in-game music with Sona, entire mini-game inside the game with Lux... But of course you end up running out of things to add. Miss Fortune didn't have any "new" stuff and that's why they reduced the price. Seraphine was little more than a bundle of 3 legendaries... And Samira was a sub-par legendary. But for that last one I have a feeling they couldn't bump it back down to legendary because it was a charity skin and didn't have the option to reduce the pricing after the fact.

[@DeidaraIsTheBest10]

@@datmuhq6821 Spending that much money on a gacha game is still not the best investment...

[@Noctis-lg7xp]

@@datmuhq6821 If you do the math that's around 4-5 event passes which currently hold 125 ME or 16 orbs minimum per pass. That is much more than 72 for few skin and lesser mythic essence...

[@CONNNE]

"Riot has messed up" Proceeds to show how people keep buying pixels they can never sell. Also resulting in people buying Jinx that did not even want it

[@Dutchyman]

Looks like Riot did the opposite of a mess up. They cashed in hard on people who wouldn't have paid, if it wasn't for the 'cheat'.

[@JOhnDoe-nl4wj]

read the tos ur not buying pixels ur renting them

[@CONNNE]

@ Thats also correct, the same goes for every launcher including Steam, but at least Valve understands how big the trading space is and u can sell your ingame items

[@sgtmaggi]

@@JOhnDoe-nl4wj Well, yea. But it makes sense. If the game ever loses its playerbase and shuts down. What are you supposed to do with the skins? Thinking about it, getting the models etc would be really cool

[@johnnybedir]

This is obviously a trap to see if people really want to buy 250$ skin even if it means spending 72$ instead

[@KitKatNisa]

72 might be a steal compared to 250, but 72 is still absolutely ridiculous.

[@felipedisouza4988]

Well it looks like Riot... (*puts on sunglasses*) Jinxed it. YYYEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!

[@luaplay6332]

This sounds like it came straight from a nickyboi vid

[@Nerscy]

Rek sai have a Q bug that can cost you kills and even games, and that bug has been lasting at least 4 or 5 moths, but this gets fixed instantly, yeah...

[@cyriell]

Welcome to playing dodo champions, nobody plays it so why fix it 🤡 P.s dont get me wrong i love play reksai but yeh... Dodo champ be dodo champ

[@teasipper5236]

@@cyriell What dodo champ? Whenever she gets the slightest buff she is instantly top tier.

[@KiyanPocket]

Pantheon has a Q bug where sometimes an empowered Q deals no damage to anything, minions, monsters, or champs. That's a more known and popular champ but that bug has persisted for over a year. Riot is simply too focused on investing in the money maker department and not on the actual game balance department.

[@RiverNunu]

​@@teasipper5236passive heal going from 20-30 to 200 hp isn't exactly what I'd consider "slight"

[@Nerscy]

@@teasipper5236 She's top winrate in jungle tho, but you have to do so much to be that good with her

[@holeintuni]

100% Riot did this "exploit" on purpose to make people who didn't want to pay for this skin initially, pay for it anyway

[@madmax7201]

That does make sense. They know how people been complaining about the price and KZbinrs actively advising people not to buy it. New strat.

[@TheJerbol]

Imagine spending $72 on a game skin and thinking you won

[@MXI-187]

Imagine that: they fcked up and you get the skin over one hundred dollars cheaper and it is still more expensive than two ultimate skins combined, a couple month agos ultimate skins were the most expensive skins that you can buy for rp, thats just so fcked up

[@devolo5947]

I wish, they already introduced way too expensive skins and chromas

[@Kingenious]

and because of whales, they will continue their greed.

[@solo-ru8oi]

“Aha, I managed to scam myself out of 72 dollars instead of 250! Me so smart!”

[@manafront]

when they don't realize we are ripping them off. - Riot

[@ericb-hk3hf]

Man this Chinese NFT printer is poppin off.

[@James_Apk]

72$ is still a devious robbery

[@Orendiz]

Don't worry guys, this is just the alpha version. After a few patches they will reduce the drops you get, reduce the worth of said drops, probably increase the price of rolls, and give you a free icon as a reward.

[@azzedineboukheddad7700]

and with all of that lol is more generous than valorant

[@third-strike]

Tft moment

[@tidewatcher9962]

When this was going to be "we outsmarted riot" and something about a bundle, I thought it was going to be about how the arcane spark from the bundle was bugged and guaranteed Arcane Jinx on the first pull.

[@aminejani2199]

People thinking they gave rito the middle finger; Rito laughs in millions of dollars

[@skepparn1682]

Funnily enough, $72 is still $50 too much for that skin

[@PanRokador]

I wouldn't even pay 10$ for a skin, it's just a visual change afterall 72$ is still a horrifyingly over bloated price

[@xDemon666x]

sounds like stuff poor people would say. why you have a profile pick btw? it's just visuals my guy.

[@duck_t4039]

I mean this is a great precedent to set to build up FOMO on buying these types of skins as soon as they come out, since *maybe* they'll be bugged and drop easier.

[@deividymario2408]

I have a theory that Riot ON PURPOSE let this "bug" happen, so people would all go and "Hehehehe I'm buying the 250 skin for cheaper, look how smart I am" When those same people would not spent a single whatever your money is, into this, truly, a masterfull move, congratulations riot.

[@madmax7201]

That's....that means, no honor? İ wouldn't be able to sleep if I did that to my fanbase.

[@ICozmicI]

I WAS TRYING TO FIND IT FOR THE ICON LMAO

[@awerawer0708]

Riot is genius, convinced people that they were pulling a fast one by only paying $72 for a semi-reskin of jinx LMAO

[@MrBlipman]

$72 is like the price of a triple A game lmfao.

[@LukeLIU0]

Plot twist: Riot meaned to use this bug to let people buy it. The jinx skin is mean to be this price.

[@FunFindsYT]

Could you make a video/deep dive on Mark Sottosanti, the chief financial officer and VP revenue and insights at Riot Games? He is the one responsible for the outrageous monetizations of the game since 2021.

[@saiyansrage4292]

Luigi’s brother should speak to him

[@Dutchyman]

It's Tencent. The real devil that likes to stay silent behind the scenes.

[@StarkCoyotEspada1]

For anyone in OCE I recommend the following Make a support ticket asking for a refund or report it to the ACCC and raise a bank dispute

[@KuroiShiAnimu]

Ah yes Riot "accidentally" released a bug that let's you get the "$250" skin for just $72 even though it's worth like $20 at most. One of the accidents of all time

[@gilzeebroek3978]

I miss this opportunity

[@kirii2668]

Back when the debonair event happened something similar occured where if you'd buy a bundle lf orbs the client would just give you an error and not charge you anything but funnily enough still give you everything included in the bundle so some people got hundreds of orbs for free

[@mannym8ker]

disgusting how riot is slowly turning into blizzard

they're becoming worse than blizzard tbh.. but whatever, I already uninstalled because vanguard crashes my pc even with the games closed

[@aaleven4728]

Nah they've reached Blizzard a long time ago. Including the harassing women part

[@blackwomangamer2637]

Blizzard doesnt have gatcha

[@aaleven4728]

@blackwomangamer2637 your profile picture terrifies me

[@Repteed]

The $500 Ahri skin happened, people meme'd about it but enough people bought it. So here we are, Riot now knows they can get away with this shit and make profit.

[@kazeviu1601]

Good to see that Vandiril also has the never ending loading friendslist

[@dr4g00nk1d]

this was on purpose probably... they get a ton of people who find out and spread the word which in turn acts as FOMO and people who wouldn't normally buy it now see it as a firesale for fractions of the price if they hit pity.

[@Koa_n_Mio]

I love how quick riot was to fix it instead of actual bugs and such

[@fruxo4218]

Small indie dev company Riot Games try not to make the most disgusting system in the game and still managing to fk it up challenge: IMPOSSIBLE

[@Hubertoser]

"Small indie dev company" Are you from another dimension? Riot is owned by Tencent since 2011. Nothing Indie About them in any means.

[@fruxo4218]

@@Hubertoser Brother how far does the joke have to fly over your head?

[@thezucclord-3738]

​@@HubertoserFr even in my head I read it in a sarcastic tone. You're so desperate to go around correcting people that you tried to correct sarcasm. Do better.

[@prebegin]

@@Hubertoser this has literally been a running joke since the creation of league. how dense are you

[@ebudds]

The amount of Jinx players who I've seen today with the skin that CLEARLY have no idea how to play Jinx is crazy.

[@akaikiseki9346]

Lol, even with exploits the price is STILL ludicrous !

[@LostSoul-TeemoMain]

Ofc riot jumped to fix this.

[@Wadenbeisser24]

oh, no, oops, people buy our 20$ skin for 72$ instead of 250$. No, stop.

[@ururubizzareman]

I am amazed at how you pick out such and similar mistakes with incredible speed every time, great job!

[@CottidaeSEA]

$72 is still way too much

[@Gethog]

unironically they probably would have made more money if they left the exploit in the game

[@GMSryBut]

The thing is, people think they're smart because they got the 250$ skin for 72$ instead. You still spend 72$ on a SINGLE skin and yes, you get more stuff but it's still a lot of money.

[@SilverTicketlore]

Ok I do not agree with the model, and I’ve never bought a single rp point but what you get from 80 draws for 72$ is not that awfull. Its 8 arcane skins The 1 Jinx fractured skin And around 3-5 mythic essecence on avarage every pull, giving you an extra 200-300 mythic essence. Based on me suspecting you can get the mythic essence drops multiple times, which might be wrong, in which case its more like 50-100 mythic essence and a bunch of icons.

[@viego-theruinedking5367]

well, if you are an OTP, its great

[@unzkipriime4283]

hilarious how fast they fixed it, they truly got their priorities straight

[@feedbaakxx]

the right price in opinion

[@sentro5382]

still expensive imo :D it's just gun goddess miss fortune with less chroma choices 😂

[@justinbieber8270]

Still overpriced. $10 skin at most.

[@CottidaeSEA]

@@justinbieber8270 I'd say $10-15 for a more advanced skin is pretty fair. A regular skin should be like $3-5. Then they'd be what I'd consider a microtransaction. $72 is a tenth of my rent + loan. I'd rather pay off my loan faster.

[@Avariceeee]

@@sentro5382 not that expensive if you count all the ME, Arcane skins you can get every ten pulls, it's around 100$ for jinx, lot of ME, some of the arcane skins

[@solitudesf8111]

nope. cosmetics should never cost like a triple a game.

[@grimshock6983]

What sucks is there isn’t even a lower season 2 Jinx skin

[@sokel347]

I wonder how long this shit is gonna last Will it die out just like mythic variants, that is the question

[@phoenixflamegames1]

god I hope so but knowing how gacha is accepted in some places.....

[@kintrex117]

With the new moves in riot gacha arrives to stay so, no, its not going to leave. And thats bad. Luckly I dont play this Game anymore

[@Kirbitz]

I love the fact that this happened 1 time with the debonair orbs that came out a few years ago. I was able to buy like, 28 orbs, when I only had the rp for around 10 lmao

[@raksotheslime]

Na bro this not a bug. Probably riot did it on purpose for the players to think "omg I'm breaking the System I have to abuse it and buy before they fix this" $72 is STILL NOT WORTH IT

[@ocskopf]

XDDDDDDDDDDDD I love how when its about money Riot teleports to the scene faster than my dad left for milk, but when it's maintaining integrity of their competitive game, they sleep for a hundred years.

[@DXT706]

72$ No fucking way

[@TailsClock]

No-one that used this was outsmarting Riot. They all just got tricked into buying a $72 skin. To put that in context, actual full entire games cost that amount, or half that much. We're talking Game of the Year contenders. And people bought a skin instead.

[@patrykziemniak9431]

Welcome in times, where buying virtual skin for 72$ instead of 250$ is considered exploit and good deal to abuse. Funny, isn't it? In my times it was considered psychological trick to make you into buying something.But I am not sure, they even fixed it. Tbh they would have made more money keeping it and peopel would be happy to abuse bug while giving RIOT 72$.

[@Para0234]

Every time I see riot do things from afar, I remember that the game I once loved has died a long time ago, and I managed to get out in time.

[@avendurree]

You shouldve posted it asap. Riot deserves to lose money for these monetization tactics

[@MioMillefeuille]

Totally

[@willkyles9156]

I don’t think you realize just how fast this was patched, like I updated my game, 2 games later the bundle was gone, my brother got 8 sparks and the Warwick chroma from one, and then it bugged out and disappeared

[@hehemicaeljakson]

Bro, acting like riot is the one losing money even though ur the one losing money

[@aminulhussain2277]

They've already lost plenty of money from Arcane.

[@matiasbalbuena7189]

​@aminulhussain2277noooooo not the million dollar companyyyyy

[@Ehecatl-Quetzalcoatl]

Addressed it in a day. It really shows where their priorities lie.

[@skiskiskiskiskiskiski]

I spent 1600RP and got nothing I'm so mad, I feel scammed

[@david_ace]

😂☝

[@yuko13371]

clown

[@imsoready1114]

Congratulations, you figured out what gacha is! Good for you.

[@MrkraZzz]

Now you know not to do it again.

[@wickedviewer2346]

in the drop rates section of Sanctum, the S tier has a typo that says "obatin" lmao

[@arnauzer]

The thing is you don't get only jinx, but also all the other rewards : The 3 1350RP skins, the legendary Viktor, chromas and mythic essences. With $72, you're closer to the real price than with 250 for sure.

[@stamatisvragas7720]

That could actually just be a new marketing sstrategy lol

[@claytonroberts1622]

Really happy they announced all these changes right after I spent my mythic

[@TheodoraMoon]

Oh yeah the classic sale trick that makes you believe you've saved money

[@GotwaldTheFifth]

thats technique called anchoring. you put a price for something then reduce that price and humans mind evaluates it as must pull, a steal

[@pectorals]

in riot's new ToS doesn't it say that you're purchasing a "license" for a skin whenever you buy it and they can take it away at any time with zero compensation..

[@Joe-m8w1f]

Since we're posting our lifelong, "How the f*** has this not been patched yet." Bugs, let's talk about the infamous Annie's tibbers + passive bug. (this has been around since before season 1) If you R a champion with Annie's passive up, There's a small area (depending on champion model size) where if you hit a champion directly on top of them, not only will it not do any damage, it'll consume all of your passive stacks as well. And again, this is a known bug since before season 1 of league.

[@selvin7857]

Like i hate it when i see 90% of league community post hate posts on the internet about that skin and next day they have that skin even if they win it in 10 pulls LIKE WHY DO YOU WISH FOR THAT? YOU ARE DOING WHAT THEY WANT AND WE WONT CHANGE ANYTHING LIKE THAT

[@Rin-st8jk]

amazing how quickly they fixed this while gifts are unavaiable for 5 years

[@delko9030]

Skaarl still permanently dissapears if kled gets ressed by renata but this gets fixed instantly

[@dirtylittlesecretman28]

kalista has a bug her e casts itself randomly … i started playing her half a decade ago and the bug is still in the game 💀💀

[@SkiGlovesie]

Anyone who had seen the price of sparks should have recognised immediately that the bundle should've been a one-time thing. However, this was the only way I could find to purchase sparks.

[@sonny167349]

Dang, the spaghetti code karma hit them hard huh.

[@bruvh29]

The swiftness with how they fixed this bug compared to the bugs that have been infesting league is hilarious. Your priorities riot, clearly seen.

[@Aventrixmusic]

If you buy all the other arcane skins you can roll for the other stuff after, then refund the arcane skims (it won't use a token if you don't use the skins)

[@zenweeb8506]

That must have gotten removed immediately, I never saw the bundle and I logged on as soon as I could

[@Axymoon]

Remember everyone, everything is fixable, if it hurts the company's income enough.

[@dorrelmatad160]

They def did this on purpose to capture those people who were not going to spend the 250 dollars

[@MikeSion]

I noticed that problem on the pbe thought they would have patched it before it went live 💀

[@kevintrang6447]

That's like when aliexpress items are reduced from 80$ to 12$ for new customers but actually would have been sold for 16$ instead anyway

[@JohnWarosa999]

wouldn't surprise me if this was planned by rito

[@ashurakusanaga5917]

Riot: "Don't buy the bundles!" Everyone: QUICK! BUY THE BUNDLES BEFORE RITO FIXES IT!

[@gefrmarkus]

And here am I, who only needed 2 Sparks to get the new Jinx skin

[@TheArcticTurt1e]

Riot fixing any bug that could possibly cost them a penny, meanwhile champs that have existed for 10 years still have unfixed bugs lmao

[@help1ng316]

Saved money? No, you got finessed

[@josepheudaly8126]

rest assured, this is the one client bug they will actually take the time to fix.

[@facelessgreen8997]

Honestly $75 seems like a much fairer price that much more people would pay

[@kkkrying-g3e]

People not realising Riot planned the whole thing. This was just a discount for a few hours, maybe less. A lot of people who wouldn't spend 250 but was ok with 72 already worth it for Rito.

[@marekcarlisle6937]

wow that was a fast hotfix, i sure with they'd fix warwicks entire kit

[@CrazyForCooCooPuffs]

Imagine thinking this was a mistake.

[@azul1964]

Seems like Riot spent good money on a marketing consultant