League's New $500 Skin Explained | Asmongold Reacts

[@Yuusachii]

$500 I would have expected a Full nude ahri skin ngl

[@Bayofthe91st]

I bet there's a players who still buying this but said they cant afford owning PS5

[@ricomambozero3811]

just play Stellar Blade 😂

[@erickfw197]

For 500$ you probably can pay someone to make a naked custom skin for ahri

[@cheemslord9917]

@@Bayofthe91st lol player brain rot

[@techno_otaku]

@@Bayofthe91stsad part is the skin still may be the better option considering the ps5 barely has games (It's just a joke guys, do what you wish with your money if it makes you happy)

[@hotchrisbfries]

Just remember: You didn't buy a $500 skin, you paid $500 for a skin

[@Scriptures_K]

"Just remember: you didn't buy a $500 skin, you bought a $500 skin" what

[@cptnbraindead]

@@Scriptures_K buying implies ownership

[@Steamedhams578]

​@@Scriptures_KThey trying to say that skin has actually no real value.

[@SYLin-rs8ob]

@@Scriptures_K you can pay $50 dollars for a coke. Its not worth $50, but you spent $50.

[@YumiVu-gr6hp]

He meant that the skin is not worth $500.

[@shinyyordle9233]

Jhin would be proud of the video length

[@jahcode6132]

Idk if we somehow got different lengths but it's 44:43 for me. Jihn is getting edged lol

[@MikeyMT]

​@@jahcode6132Says 44:44 For me 👀

[@whichhunter7087]

I got 44:44 and OP beat me to the punch

[@jacoblarson8113]

@@whichhunter7087I do too

[@Souffle42]

​@@jahcode6132 Dang 😂

[@-CallMeMarvin-]

Imagine paying 500 $ for a Skin and getting banned for swearing

[@dankmemes8254]

Better yet imagine the champion getting banned or picked from you

[@MrMariobigode]

There was a case that a guy got banned by toxicity, sue Riot by arguing he spend money on the game and got the account back.

[@khryznovikov]

@@MrMariobigode There isn't. The acc is Riot's property, they can do whatever they want, you sign the ToS when you create an acc.

[@josephnelson7293]

@@khryznovikov you know wtf he means stop being a dork

[@hibari759]

@@khryznovikov Riot won't ban a guy that spend like over 1000 $ that easily, there are literally racist people that don't get banned even after tickets

[@DieSerah]

by Comparison, Elementalist Lux was "Just" 30 Dollar and it was technically 10 Skins in 1all with Unique Voice Lines and Effects. oh how Times changes.

[@zShynux]

I doubt the Lux skin took more work than the Ahri skin

[@yanoquierodormir8059]

@@zShynux brother, wtf are you smoking?

[@yanoquierodormir8059]

@@zShynux There is seriously something wrong with you for making a statement like that, Animating 10 diferent models, with 4 spells, each one with different effects, unique voicelines, the thing had a cinematic trailer and a lot of other things. I seriously can't even begin to imagine how a sane person can make an statement like that and be with other human beings, like literally is dangerous for other people being around you with that level of smooth brain thinking.

[@DieSerah]

@@zShynuxSo making 10 Models, 10 times the Voicelines, 10 times the VFX work, And Fighting with League's Spaghetti code to make it work? i know Math is Hard, are you American by chance?

[@Ishakai_]

​​@@zShynux what are you on? Riot employees said before that it was a nightmare to make it has 10 different models (each one are unique )10 different voicelines of each one ,it has its one of the coolest cinematic in league Sidenote : elementslist lux log in screen thats all i need to say.

[@dreamweaver4183]

If any Ahri main actually buys this, they *BETTER* be pulling off no less than 20/0/20 EVERY match. Imagine paying 500 to show off your main, only to suck ass and go 2/16/3, which you likely will since everyone on the enemy team is gonna hyper target you, both ironically and unironically, and your teammates are gonna perma flame and not help

[@zephyr819]

It's sad i am a long term Ahri main and i own all her skins but this is going to break that no skin is worth that much.

[@drakecannon2942]

See this skin should have been gifted to the top Ahri players. They could have made this an insanely competitive reward, bringing incentive to players. But instead they targeted the whales who want to show off their wallets.

[@hankocpharung1383]

If you own a Jordan you have to be great at Basketball?? I know it’s a joke but the logic is very poor. Jokes are meant to hit. Your’s didn’t.

[@gwennygrausamt]

@@hankocpharung1383 it’s not a joke. It’s a matter of fact that part of the community will specifically target people who paid those $520 and thus will make their matches very unenjoyable. The harassment will get worse if the buyer isn’t even good at the game.

[@CHICKENNUGGET69360]

Anyone who can spend 500$ for a skin is already doing better than 99.99% of league players. Also, it's just a skin, if you can't afford it, you better up your game IRL.

[@Dwokisking]

Just don't buy the skin or pass. Its just a shame for Faker's name to be attached seeing how he doesn't even use skins

[@MurrayLime]

isn't he getting 30%?

[@chinjianle269]

that's just sad. yeah, real pro don't care about skin

[@denjideadbrain]

@@MurrayLime not worth, hes stupid rich already, this will only do bad to his image

[@Dwokisking]

@@MurrayLime Yeah but it's still negative attention

[@rosaatra2198]

@@MurrayLime his team is getting 30% so hes probably getting less

[@Neiru24]

Riot next 10years here we go the $1k dollar Ultimate Prestige skin

[@redhgffdsgd1605]

10 years, You're so positive if this is a success, next year 750 and after that 1000.

[@mio-hj4wk]

Riot is 100% owned by Tecent, a pay to win company:-P

[@mattiethekoala5619]

10 years? Why not next event after this? Losers lose

[@andrealupo414]

​@@mio-hj4wk but riot games have not pay to win mecanics now dude, what you mean

[@ha-itsme]

next 10? try next year, they gonna make a bundle of Faker and next year's HoF.

[@daviavila6568]

The price of this skin in Brazil is R$1400. To give you guys an idea, this is equivalent to a minimum wage...

[@SIPEROTH]

How much is that in dollars? Just to check if they at least lower the price a little for poorer countries.

[@twapsgelacio]

Minimum wage here in Philippines is around 200$

[@cocogoat1238]

its 6 months worth of my mother's ( public engineer school teacher's) 6 month salary :v

[@OfficialCANVAS]

​@@cocogoat1238I'm sorry to hear she has to work 6 months to get this skin. Wish her all the best

[@kriggo1]

Great, if people that work minimum wage buys this skin, they deserve it. You get what you pay for

[@NSDaishi]

I remember when Pulsefire Ezreal came out and we were "Holy shit! 25$ for a skin is fu**ing expensive!"

[@mbrown7325]

I did not have not and will never pay for this skins. I’m still waiting for the day I reroll into the udyr skin so I can complete my ultimate collection.

[@colboy1fish]

And it still is.

[@aramisdoucett9090]

I feel like that’s kind of part of the manipulation, people are suddenly more inclined to believe $25 is a bargain 📈

[@pelic9608]

2013, Elementalist Lux, $30 2024, this

[@brunoboldt6336]

@@pelic9608 Also Elementalist can come out from hextech chests / rerolls, and is like multiple skins in one lol.

[@rooster3103]

The real goal here is selling the 50 dollar package. The amount of money for a full game. Already a ludicrous amount of money for cosmetics. But it doesn't seem so ludicrous compared to the 500 dollar package. It's price framing. And if there are psychos who do buy the 500 dollar package, that's just a bonus.

[@RiskOfBaer]

That's correct. This is classic practice of anchoring: show somebody a really bad deal, and then show them a much better deal which now looks more appealing. The more expensive packages are making the less expensive one here look more attractive, that is the true goal.

[@GoldenEagle311]

I agree to an extent, I think their goal is to sell the 500 dollar skin because if they really wanted to anchor hard they would allow you to "level up" the skin like the Seraphine ultimate. That would make the 50 dollar skin even more attractive because instead of paying 500 dollars you can pay 50 and grind it out "saving" 450 dollars.

[@JanDarkyy]

​@@GoldenEagle311u are misunderstanding how it works tho, u cant just devaluate the 500$ to be at the same level as a 50$ bundle by leveling it up, it takes out the "prestige" that will anchor the players to buy the 50$, in other words so u can understand better, riot needs the existance of people buying the 500$ to make more people buy the 50$, if u can just buy the 50$ and level it up to be the same worth then the prestige group would not exist

[@chozer1]

@@RiskOfBaer and that is predatory in every sense of the word, its like always having a 50% sale on something and also illigal in europe

[@GoldenEagle311]

@@JanDarkyy The prestige group would still exist because you would not have the other items in the bundle. It’s like buying other skins in league, you will be missing the border and icon if you don’t buy the bundle. It works the same way with the mythic shop when you purchase a prestige skin from it, so all in all the “prestige” of owning the $500 Ahri will still be there.

[@Kaitios]

In before Riot releases "Limited Edition" skins. Only 10 of "X" skin is made, selling for $10k a pop.

[@CatacombD]

I could almost see that happening, but you wouldn't want to limit it that much, because selling all of those would only get you 100k. (which is nothing to rito) It'd have to be something like 10k a pop, and only 1,000 skins sold. I would have them be individually numbered, and allow people to buy multiples to get multiple numbers. Maybe have it be that you get a random number when you buy, so that the mega whales will splurge to try to get the "good" numbered skins. (1000, 0001, 0420 6969 etc)

[@Kaitios]

@@CatacombD absolutely.

[@marceloxaustivo784]

@@CatacombDcheck your emails, Riot, Ubisoft, EA, Activision/Blizzard have a contract ready for you

[@awakentheblades]

Bold of you to assume it wouldn't be an auction for no ceiling price

[@Kaitios]

@@awakentheblades damn that would bring out the top 1% of the whales.

[@Jufron97]

I have a friend who is broke, unemployed and addicted to League, he immediately wanted to get a job just to pay for the 500$ skin. We are from Argentina, so he realised he won’t make enough to buy it with a regular job so he started streaming league thinking he will get to 500 doing that lol.

[@anjanavabiswas8835]

My condolences.

[@Alan-fx9xb]

A tu amigo lo persigue la inteligencia pero el es mas rapido

[@funguy398]

I think it's a severe depression

[@Jufron97]

@@funguy398 Yeah he’s struggling with depression sadly…

[@daniellacomb917]

Shit spend the 500 bucks on booze instead hell enjoy that more lol

[@BlitzSivam]

2006: horse armor Alot can change in 20 years. You just dont see it when you live it day by day

[@DavidGlendaleArdenaso]

to be fair korean MMOs that time were already having predatory microtransactions

[@ha-itsme]

@@DavidGlendaleArdenaso As a whole, Japan and Korea probably have the headstart on P2W/MTX. Horse armor just the opening shot for Western consumer.

[@TheRetrostorian]

Bro horse armor was like 99 cents. Bethesda didn't invent microtransactions and this makes that seem really insignificant, and it was.

[@TheRetrostorian]

@1337Swiper ESO on the other hand....yikes.

[@JayBigDadyCy]

​@@TheRetrostorianagrees. MapleStory was pretty much the OG of MTX targeting in the west. At least according to that one JSH vid.

[@yoU0Turn]

⬇️Banning Ahri every game button

[@thecake122]

run it down mid

[@lolimmune]

Ahri is permabanned from now on

[@kriggo1]

I'll be surprised if I see anybody with this skin in my plat games

[@xrodrockx2100]

So instead of this skin you can buy 7 AAA games for 70 dollars and a few indie games. Speechless.

[@GabrielSilva-mv4fm]

but is just a matter of recognizing this skin isnt a product for us normal people i dont get the rage over a no pay to win skin

[@dave3275]

But AAA games are trash anyway.. so no one by this shit.

[@rojalD]

It's wind before the storm. Riot will see, that whales will pay almost anything for a skin. And without a doubt, they will continue this practice. The players complained about the 200€ skin, but apparently the numbers speak for themselves for riot. Now imagine you're very invested in something and the company tells you, you got to spend what amounts to night worth in a 5 star ski resort, to get that thing you really want. It's the same with Ubisoft wanting you to pay 180€ to not play 3 days late (or whatever) for a story game. ​@@GabrielSilva-mv4fm

[@Zuchiniii]

@@GabrielSilva-mv4fm it may be pay to win but this sets a precident. This skin is only there because people were fine with the $200 dollar jhin skin. And if there is not enough pushback now, there will be even worse shit. Why indulge corporate greed when they feed you shit? I am so sick of people trying to excuse stuff like this...

[@Gainersy]

​@@ZuchiniiiWhen are you gonna learn your lesson old man, there won't be pushback because normies don't care about this. The battle was lost over a decade ago. You have no leverage over these corporations. And acting indignant because people aren't freaking out like you isn't gonna change that. Uninstall the game and move on.

[@Bayofthe91st]

9:05 Editor please screenshot this rare 'Creepy Woody' Amson face for next thumbnail

[@ToxMod]

Bro that look is peak Asmonbald content, well said.

[@shatteredsentient5321]

Yes, lmao was looking for this 😂

[@DiEMOnd4MOBA]

That was my face when this skin has changed my life

[@bodotrenaud7441]

This is straight 1min of thumbnails of after another

[@randm4246]

Can we take the "micro" out of microtransactions? $2.50 for horse armor is a microtransaction. $500 is a what I pay for both my, and my wife's, cars a month. Combined.

[@alexstreet9470]

Just create drama over your initial price . Say “sorry” and “discount” to $300 . Ez clap . You’ll get celebrated .

[@poonpoon1604]

My guess is they will retract the auto complete pass and bump down the price

[@alexstreet9470]

@@poonpoon1604 and then you just give rewards to the people who paid $500 and keep your whales happy . Start high so you can sell high .

[@poonpoon1604]

@@alexstreet9470 but man as a player who was in the game with the player who got the 200 dollar skin and see how much he got focus down and have his game ruined I can't imagine what the people would do to the person who buy the 500 one 💀

[@FR099Y]

They don't need to. They know what they're doing. They have entire teams that know what price they can make it. They know it'll sell. for every 2000 sales its $1M. They'll make several million from this.

[@theskywalker8416]

Thats a strategy, they want the $520 price look crazy to increase the impression of the other 2 bundles. Now the $50 seem like a great deal and the $200 doesnt sound so bad. It like a strat ppl you in supermarket where they put low price product along side tons of very expensive products to push the sell of the cheap one

[@SpaceGoose_]

"If faker doesn't personally come to my room and sign the tower... I'm not sure if it's worth it" HAD ME ROLLING

[@Chocoroth]

He kinda has to come to your room, because actors from movies/series sign cheaper than 200$ at conventions.

[@brunoboldt6336]

@@Chocoroth For that amount of money i want to be charmed by Ahri herself.

[@bobtony6036]

50k, most people would need to link bank accounts for a wire transfer, they need to keep it within credit limit for most players that want to buy

[@Nasiruify]

For 500 id expect a small statue, artbook, game soundtracks, tshirt and a signed concept art booklet in a very stylized box included with the skin

[@fiethsing9988]

A good game company would make that to celebrate their most famous pro player. Riot isn't that company.

[@marielgalicha8548]

That would make sense

[@Mininoclack12]

Imagine getting a permament ban after paying $520.

[@Arnaere]

I don't have to imagine.

[@6xXx_Jack_xXx9]

​​@@Arnaere make a ticket telling them you wanna buy more skins. Lol

[@Arnaere]

@@6xXx_Jack_xXx9 "make a ticket telling them you wanna buy more skins. Lol" It's worth a shot

[@keegan8517]

I had two one one account with 4k skins on it lol.

[@MNC0617]

well they will just play bots I guess or ARAM and pray to get Ahri every 100 games lol

[@Nermalion]

there is 3 urf icons that has a finisher, only works on urf tho since the first urf release

[@Ok-ie]

I wanted to say this. At most, all three together were probably like 10-15 dollars total. People just don’t know how badly they are getting scammed with these new League practices.

[@JellowGelo]

I miss those days where if you spend more than $100, you get a physical item like hoodies, limited accessories, etc...

[@ikiwheese]

"Hide in bush" is a reference to his ryze hiding in bushes. But also thats the name of his character he typically uses when practicing for worlds.

[@ScoutlolLPL]

That's where the name came from lol

[@Fastshot]

Holy, i remember playing when a $30 skin was the big ask skins and i feel like rhey had more to them. Elementialist Lux has a bunch of different combos you can become for 30 and i think it had an icon or outline. Dj Sona was kinda the same you got a skin that changed form 3 times and changed the global music for your side plus an icon.

[@shatterfall_hunted8236]

Spoiler for non league players this skin is 100% pay to lose , long story short visual clutter for the player and bigger visual abilities which in turn makes the enemy dodge/sidestep wider aka dodging better. In teamfights where 100 diffrent abilities are thrown every second most likely some idiot is gonna panic flash cause of that finisher thing.Also that transformation thingy and the noise it makes also alerts enemies that Ahri used her ult where as in the normal skin you would have to check her bar to see her charges. Fun fact Faker in 11 years of being a pro player played with a skin only once by accident

[@eightsix9]

OK so buy it and just keep it into their collection, use other skins then?

[@janah6473]

Faker already has had multiple skins to his name due to winning worlds 4 times. This is not a new thing, stop trying to make an argument. The pricing sucks for us poor plebs, I agree, but argue correctly at least.

[@eightsix9]

​@@janah6473 I mean you can be poor but still buy that skin. On the other hand, you can be rich and still decide not to purchase that skin. It's all person's preference on how they put their value onto something. I really genuinely don't get why people are so mad about that particular skin when there is even an alternative version of the skin which includes perks that are pretty good deal for a bundle. The fact that they are targeting the signature skin just makes me think that they are mad cuz the skin looks so good but too expensive to buy and trying to make riot put a discounted price. Where were they when Riot slowly increased the price of the skin? Where were they when they implemented the gacha system? Were $15, $20, $30 skins OK since its "kinda" affordable but $500 suddenly became NoNo? Guess what those people who are willing to pay 500 whether they are poor or rich doesn't say a word about it, just like current people stayed quiet over $15 $25 $35 skins since they were affordable to them. So saying that the price is predatory or its ruining the game doesn't win the argument. It's just that they are not the target audience for that product and a lot of people fall into this category due to the price, and the number of people makes it look its a valid voice when it's just another bullsh**t from Twitter and reddit that no one gives a f.

[@entropy7705]

​​​​@@eightsix9 Only on AsmongoldTV do you find random commenters trying to justify $520 skins with non arguments and empty statements such as "You're just not the target audience" or "Where were you when the skins were 10, 20, and 30 dollars????" You're apart of the problem. And don't go complaining when you need to cough up 80-90 dollars for one game in a couple of years because you chose to be silent or wave it off.

[@Stevo.100]

"can we go back to $200 skins?" This is why a lot of gamers have started using the meme "this is the worst update... so far", because we know things will get worse.

[@keikun145]

These same gamers are still going to throw money at other useless shit in their life. Half of them are prob tcg collectors and buys cardboard for more haha.

[@yungchimp]

@@keikun145Its not the same ones man stop being delusional there are special people who will buy this because they simply have the money if 15 people said this is bs and 1 person buys it in riots eyes its still worth Edit: I don’t know the real statistics behind what makes it worth for riot but my point still stands a couple of people buying this bundle will null the opinions of 100+ people

[@christianalanwilson434]

That's exactly what they want. Keep creeping the price point higher and higher. Then when people say "Can we go back to $5, $10, $20, $50, etc." they know they've won because people are accepting the previous level as "reasonable."

[@SIPEROTH]

@@yungchimp The sad part is that not only people that have the money will buy this. I can see many addicted people with low pay jobs just scrapping by paying for this while going hungry because they are addicted.

[@zakizdaman]

"no plans to bring these back" Thats what they said about the caitlyn skin I bought a magazine for in 2012.

[@Fullbringa]

$500 that could be spent on a mini vacation, a new console, new set of tires, groceries for maybe 2 months (or more). There are so many good and better things to do with $500

[@JoseMartinez-qg4dp]

Man i can tell you, in my country with 500 carefully spent bucks you can have the hell of a vacation, nos just a mini version.

[@psylozoff]

Depends for whom... 500$ is only breakfast for some people! Or the minimal amount to give as a tip...

[@theskywalker8416]

you will be surprised how ppl willing to spend when they have money and want to get something. Even Asmongold himself paid thousands of dollars in HSR remember ?

[@2ndhendrix631]

If I'd stretch it, I could live off of 500 bucks for 6 months (food). But I guess some pixels on a screen are more valuable than actual food.

[@brianestrada1993]

How much food do you eat jeez.

[@Krizzald100]

This is supposed to celebrate one of the best e-gamer that uses no skins when he plays championships... By monetizing a 500$ for a skin only a few will buy. There is some irony in this whole monetization scheme.

[@NeoN-PeoN]

What sucks about this, is I DO understand the people at 20:10. I LOVE collecting things. I have collections. I even have my rock collection from elementary school. These skins play on that instinct. It's actually really cool to people like me. However, I've never bought even one skin. That's cause collecting skins in a game is NOT A REAL COLLECTION. I'm telling you now, if you got an itch to collect that Riot is scratching, you gotta get off that junk. Go find SOMETHING ELSE to collect. ANYTHING else. Even rock collections can have a lot of value. Although, I suppose I should ask, is there a secondary market for LoL skins? Can you sell and trade them?

[@CatacombD]

I believe some people sell accounts, even though it is against ToS. I'm sure some of those are being resold because they have rare legacy skins that aren't available anymore... but more often it's people who want to flex an account with a high ranked score, or those who intentionally buy "wood" ranked accounts, (accounts that intentionally lose every game to get down to the absolute minimum ranking) so they can have fun smurfing.

[@NeoN-PeoN]

@@CatacombD I dind't think so. It's going to sting when so many skin collections become absolutely nothing. They'll all evaporate.

[@Diopside.]

Jesus if I paid 520 USD it should also include a nice Ahri cosplayer strip dance at my place, what the fuck is wrong with these industries.

[@ha-itsme]

Because people keep spending on it. Asmon said it perfectly, if you cast 1 vote for $1, there are people casting 500 vote for $500.

[@Hekk.]

With a happy ending too :)

[@Diopside.]

@@ha-itsme Nobody asked my opinion lol, atleast they did a survey or something before this shitstorm ^^

[@keikun145]

Lmao yet I'm sure half of these online gamers are card collectors and drops hundreds if not thousands of dollars for cardboard cards just to collect dust. What's the difference? Lol

[@Hekk.]

@@keikun145 Half? Delusional.

[@jmason0622]

My first thought was, "this is crazy who's the fat whale that would buy that overpriced game transaction", but I stepped back. Oh yeah, people will. Some people will. I live in a world where Supreme sold fucking bricks, Balenciaga selling "distressed" jeans for thousands of dollars, and people buying NFTs not too long ago.

[@Goldy01]

or people buying subscriptions on twitch for already-millionaires 🤣

[@hugotomsu960]

people acting up like this is never before seen in any other game. Look at apex where heirlooms cost 500, or cs where some knives cost upto 1000 euro... For some people the 500 has less value for THEM than the skin they buy. People don't understand that value is subjective to each individual.

[@Microtardz]

Son. There are **still** idiots purchasing NFTs.

[@christianalanwilson434]

Some people dropped six figures on Diablo Immortal like its nothing. Because to them, it is. And as long as a single mega-whale or Saudi prince drops that kind of money, it negates the collective whining of thousands of other players.

[@CatacombD]

@@hugotomsu960 Mechwarrior online introduced solid gold mech skins for 500$ back in 2013.

[@Kaizen.Destroyer.of.Worlds]

I paid $20 for a Warwick skin and a Pantheon skin. Then riot reworked the Champs The skins I bought were removed from the game and replaced with garbage I didnt get my money back and I dont have the skins anymore I stopped buying skins from riot after that

[@chronodis]

I would have stopped playing riot games after that

[@admiralkaede]

ok thats a massive rip why would they take the skins?

[@MrKove]

@@admiralkaede they didnt, they reworked them and i guess my guy here didnt like the rework

[@admiralkaede]

@@MrKove oh

[@michapotorak2092]

the funniest part is that Faker himself is NEVER playing with a skin

[@SWR182]

Most of the time he doesn't but he has played with skins before. So never is the wrong choice of wording.

[@dooddoingstuff]

​@@SWR182 by accident, so if it was up to faker it would be never.

[@Stanzbey69]

Remember lads. Spirit blossom ahri also has 3 forms but costs 15 dollars instead

[@AhriFae]

Man is it just me and now 15 dollars sounds like pocket change? But yeah man if I try to be objective about this, if this skins was also 15$ Id probably keep using spirit blossom lol

[@prdprdprdprdprdel]

Yeah.. When spirit guard udyr came out, I was like "lol, no.. Primal udyr does the same shit for cheaper"

[@tosdiv2886]

lol 15 dollars for a skin. Complete games are 50-70 dollars.

[@SIPEROTH]

@@tosdiv2886 Actually complete games can be just a few bucks. I bought the last three Tomb Raider games for just $8. Yes three big AAA titles for $8. I bought the Metro trilogy for $9. I bought the Batman games for $15. I bought a package of all Doom games for $15 as well. I got all three of the Witcher games(with DLC etc) for $13.

[@bobjohnson5557]

Maybe it's just me but having the tails turn into fox heads looks like something someone would sketch from deviantart circa 2010.

[@Ruukasu97]

this skin is actually pay to loose, bright red abilities are easier to dogde

[@BB-gj3gt]

I beg to differ, because the Arcana Ahri skin is bright red and her charm and her orb animation look almost the same so it's hard to tell the difference between the two.

[@minhocho5487]

Just so people know, There is a cap of how much RP you can buy per month in Korea I am quite certain this skin cost more than the limit. It is so hilarious

[@thanhao5500]

Most likely riot will reduce per diffen sever but still high af

[@netanelgadilov4196]

they said there is gonna be a 60k rp bundle u can buy on the release day

[@conocosz]

I remembered seeing that skins in CN sever are a fraction of the NA cost.

[@Jotolink]

@ 10:28 Urf mode a while back had finisher animations you get if you brought the icon and played urf and yea to this day they still work soo it ain't nothing new

[@kacperdudzinski2264]

Remember that for $500 you only buy a license, you don't own it

[@StoryEnjoyer220]

Honestly for 500 I also expected for them to ship a big figure of the skin, like one of those that actually do cost hundreds. High quality, big and whatnot.

[@kroolcifur2414]

Wait so is the risen ahri skin tier 1 that only cost $50 limited or is it just the teir 2 and 3 thats limited

[@redtorres8667]

In the Philippines this costs about 12k++ pesos. The minimum wage per month in here is 15k Pesos.

[@Hugex97]

In Bolivia this costs 3500 bolivianos aproximately. The minimum wage is 2252 bolivianos lol

[@dramorian4486]

Basically any 3rd world country is fucked since salaries are so low unless you work in IT for overseas company

[@mooncloud6563]

When there were $500 golden Mech skins in Mechwarrior online around 2012. Sometimes people would just turn around and blow them up.. even though they are on the same team..

[@keikun145]

Makes no sense people drop money on cardboard worth more than ps5 just to collect dust

[@Nazgul1393]

bit that shit you can at least sell, when it has enough dust on it

[@alexithymia6288]

Finishers used to exist exclusively for URF (3) and Nexus Blitz (1), and they still do, if you played back then and still have the icons which are no longer obtainable as far as I'm aware. Having them in the standard game mode makes a lot of sense as a business move, so would agree that it's likely gonna be something normalized later on.

[@tek_lynx4225]

500$ for a games skin for a game that looks like it should run on a pentium 200 without 3d acceleration lol. That must of took them all of 30min to make with modern tools.

[@heunha9269]

This is the most clueless comment I've ever seen that never have worked inside this kind of industry

[@heunha9269]

That's kind of an insult to the artists and devs who made it possible on a legacy c++ engine

[@aohjii]

@@heunha9269 tf you talking about? 500 dollars is an insult

[@tek_lynx4225]

@@heunha9269 lol even for when the game was released, I remember the boxed versions of it, it looked like a game meant for an ancient machine. You people feeding them money for low effort is a joke. Also for your second reply if it was actually wrote well it core woulda had been partially in assembly and be able to run on said pentium 200 lol. It's certainly low poly enough to get running @ 320x240 on maybe a voodoo II or banshee shoved in if it was actually coded well for speed.

[@heunha9269]

@@tek_lynx4225 say to me that you're not a developer without saying that you're not a developer, that's being too narrowminded, idk man, smoke your own shit, experience and do the thing before you can criticize shit

[@skenzyme81]

The sick thing is that the $500 bundle will outsell the $250 bundle. 😳

[@TwistedFew]

I doubt it gamers are genuinely starting to stick it to the companies more and more this might be a time that it actually hurts riot. Everyone is mad.

[@ganyumaindayone1112]

@@TwistedFew some people have too much money and not enough irl lives to not spend their money on this shit sadly, riot will ignore the complainers as usual, why would they care as long as those that pay, keep paying

[@Tudas]

@@ganyumaindayone1112 Tbh. why wouldn't they? I also think its not a cool move, but lets be real, the game is completely f2p, those are cosmetics and no other game out there gives out so many skins for free, which are just normal paid skins and not some extra free trash skins, but every skin. I know so many people that have skins for almost every champ without being a single cent. Also its not like they all don't have 5-10 skins already anyway.

[@ganyumaindayone1112]

@@Tudas yeah thats why idc, i dont give any money to riot anyway so they can do w/e the fuck they want just that as usual other companies will copy them and suddenly the skin will start giving ingame avantage in those other games etc... its always like this, first its purely optionnal then it become forced

[@DandyDanonino]

@@TwistedFew hahaha gamers love being treated like cattle

[@Sliider36]

buying implies ownership. this isnt buying, this is renting pixels. or what i like to call "pissing away money".

[@kimacakes]

I genuinely think if they dropped a $20 emote/signature on any champ people would’ve eaten this up. But instead, even as an Ahri main, I get to sit there and genuinely think: why? It’s frustrating. This was a time to celebrate Faker, not get pissed at egregious overly predatory monetization. But those are my two cents. I don’t have $500 to give here. Only two cents.

[@lechugacc3459]

Also mades me think... Damn, Is this the reason why they didn't gave him an Ahri SKT skin? Because this is depressing

[@Quernex]

Yes, this is the reason. They told him that they are gonna release the hall of legends and he can select a champion that gets a skin there too. So he changed the worlds skin to Orianna and Ahri became the hall of legends skin. Thats at least what i heard. If there is anyone who knows better feel free to correct me.

[@theogthugcat]

@@Quernex its more likely that they were already working on the legends ahri skins before he won his 4th hence and he had no other choice but to change.

[@trandaiphuc5342]

Feel bad for you bro. Just know that people will ban Ahri forever now. Me included. Sorry, nothing personal against Ahri main or anything.

[@FR099Y]

Great for you. Ahri will be played heaps due to this. making her WR lower. Likely to see a buff coming :)

[@chriskokkas8590]

I remeber like 10-11 years ago Riot relesed Pulsfire Ezreal the first ultimate skin priced for 20-25 $ and at the time we thought it was a bit expensive but it was the best skin in the freaking game. This 500 $ Ahri skin is of the same quality as pulsfire Ezreal, it could be an ultimate skin and the cost should be 25-30 $ max. They just use FOMO to make ppl buy their skins, but looking back all those limited time skins are not so limited any more so yeah I wont be surprised if this skin comes back in a year or it gets cheaper as the years go by.

[@Gisborne1990]

Why? You can barely see skin on top down games...

[@SmallOneEyedKing]

The Giant Crab singing in the Movie Moana He said "Fish are dumb dumb dumb they chase anything that glitters"

[@howlingdin9332]

An abstract concept like 'predatory marketing' only has meaning if there's also marketing that's considered 'non-predatory.' Abstractions only have meaning if there's an opposite or null-state. There's no big without small, no good without bad, etc.

[@4Jjigsore]

"The customer is always right." People think that this always has something to do with customers keeping businesses alive by buying their products, or customers having the effect of what sales and what doesn't sale. While true, it also mean that if a customer wants to spend $520 on digital turds, then it is 100% in their RIGHT to spend that $520 on digital turds. You can't tell them no, Riot can't tell them no, nobody but the customer themselves, can't decide what they can and cannot spend their money on. If Riot can make ALL the money, they have every right to. Same goes for ANY business. If you start a "Hot Fresh Dog Turds" stand in your neighborhood, and people are paying you $500 a plop, are you going to stop selling those dog turds? No. No you are not.

[@Tudas]

Its literally the same with clothing brands, there its totally normal to have brands with 300-1000€ (ofc also higher and enough cheaper), but no one cares because you arent forced to buy it. Even tho people still say "Its stupid to spend so much on designer brands", but if those people enjoy it, why not.

[@itsomegali5342]

"the customer is always right in matters of taste" thats the actual quote.

[@Osterochse]

I also see no problem with that skin. If they want they can sell skins for 50,000$ and I wouldnt mind. I never bought a skin and if you want one go ahead and buy one.

[@marcop.2788]

"the customer is always right" but if they are addicts you can do whatever you want with them.

[@aokka11]

if they lower the prince for last bundle to 200 or 150$ is reasonably good enough for LoL player i mean skin is cool and sfx that hasn't yet add to other skin yet? yeah seems good what more you got your favorite player emote signaure in your skin? hell yeah LoL whales would buy it without care and what more you get free 100 bp level that make player dosen't need to grinding level for few weeks to get every item in shop now that seems fair for player

[@fixman88]

The $500 skin seems to me to be an in-game example of a Veblen Good: something you buy *because* it's expensive, like a Rolex watch.

[@cheemslord9917]

it suck that not all people can buy this to honor faker

[@Ordoscc]

@@cheemslord9917 You can honor faker by tweeting. It's cheaper than paying for a whole PS5.

[@RandomNon-interestingguy]

@@cheemslord9917 you can buy t1 merch or something you will actually get in real life to honor faker, if you are really that sentimental. Or you can get the $40 version of the skin and honor faker that way.

[@ha-itsme]

Thing is, Rolex timepiece have resell value in real world. You can even pawn it and get it back.

[@janah6473]

@@cheemslord9917 You can honor faker by literally spending 0 dollars. Be a fan of his and support him. Done.

[@_MMWWMM_]

500 is not that much, there are many millionaires+ out there that could buy this skin many times over if they wished

[@NoxiousGLHF]

"[...] you'd paint with such a broad brush that at that point, all marketing is predatory." Why yes.

[@RodrigoTakehara]

Yeah, but actually no. If you see a game trailer with gameplay of the game, a few quotes from famous people and a price, platform and date of release, that's marketing, it makes you aware that the game exists, it gives you opinions from people that you may or may not trust, and it tells you where to get it if you are interested. it 100% is marketing and I wouldn't say its predatory.

[@patrickbrawlhallabyrne3332]

i cant imagine meat riding a player so hard that you pay 500 dollars for a digital copy of their signature and their face to appear after you kill someone or something dude

[@andrewearth469]

Original pulsefire ezreal had "no plans on being coming back." It sure came back.

[@Gevezar]

520$ is like 8 baldurs gate i doubt they did the same job as 8xbaldurs gate's jobs worth

[@keikun145]

No diffence when ppl goes out to buy cardboard.

[@ToxMod]

Pepsi Drink: $2.50 Video Game Skin: $500 Explaining to people the video game skin price while sipping on your Pepsi: PRICELESS

[@54321eclipse12345]

Where do you live that you pay 2.50$ for a pepsi?

[@TheAlppi]

What is that, a 2L bottle?

[@Gisborne1990]

Real life drink vs digital skin thayost when server shuts down lol

[@bagyitaw]

What in the sugar tax is that price

[@MacbookAir_JavaEdition]

2l of pepsi es less than 2 euros

[@Kalt_Schnee]

Regarding not being in crates, previously all skins could be knocked out of lootboxes, which you can get just by playing and not paying. This is the first skin that you can not get so.

[@albinobigfoot1]

40:11 "I honestly dont even know how we got to this point" well you see, it all started with armor for your horse in this game called oblivion, then somebody fucked up a QTE and because of it, a gorilla got shot in the Cincinnati zoo, everything else just kinda happened because of these 2 flashpoints in history.

[@menialepitome]

accurate af

[@jeremyv2163]

Wrong there was finnishers in league. Excluse to an equiped summoner icon in urf mode only

[@kagukara]

The actual prices for NA are $249.97 and $429.99 (limited time bundle)/$443.94, not the values necrit showed on the screen.

[@jonte924]

To put this into perspective: You can buy BG3 for 60$, Helldivers 2 for 40$ AND Eldenring for another 80$ (with the DLC). Three absolute masterpieces for less than half the price of a fcking skin (and some random shit.)

[@FatalEnd021]

Can also buy a whole console, or a budget PC, a Steam Deck…

[@Prudaeng]

Riot thought the more premium the skin is, the bigger the meaning for this hall of fame. So they made it wayyy more expensive than any world championship winner skins to give to make it seem like hall of fame is that much more meaningfull and extravagant. Which clearly isnt going to work and only backfire lol. I personally think they shouldve made this a free skin earned with hall of fame event currency. World championship skins are for fans to support but hall of fame is something for the league community to celebrate.

[@johnways2648]

No, I think they should make this skin a challenge to get, like you have to reach 90 lvl battle pass, then the last 10, to unlock every level, you need to get an S everytime, so once you completed it, players know how you achieved it, this is not the best idea but it's an example, you need to achieve it by doing a hard challenge

[@HazemMaddouri]

@@johnways2648 People would hate that. You already spent money on the pass, having rewards locked behind challenges would make people fume in rage.

[@catbuikhang6482]

Believe it or not, lots of people playing League in my country is defending this, saying that it is actually acceptable and some claimed to work in "Creative Art" industry even said that it's cheap to them, Riot made a right move as this WILL sell, they hit the nerves of the idiotic gamers, if you can sell something at 500$ why sell it at 200$?

[@ChromaticLion]

Bear in mind even the ahari subreddit is advocating the bullying of the skin buyers by banning the champion.

[@keremakyuz1839]

Now I wonder how the monetization will be in their MMO.

[@andrebraga3839]

Probably heavy high, like some mobile games started to be

[@Millicente]

How can we distinguish between good and bad types of marketing? IMO you distinguish by intention. You can argue there's too much gray area when trying to interpret intention but in cases like this it's pretty black and white

[@SynDeus]

I played LoL back in 2010 to 2014. EVERYTHING changed when Tencent bought Riot

[@dramorian4486]

2014 is the year I started scripting. Coincidence? I think not.

[@Carlos-qg2me]

@@ahrenstauff they had some shares, in 2014 they turned into the biggest shareholder.

[@Zhyriaa]

Yes it is. You're just a cheater coping lmao

[@wmedo59]

Don’t even think about buying that. Don’t ever consider it. Just forget its existence. You have to save money for the new $1000 skin coming next year lmao

[@iDeathReapeR1]

Reme,ber guys, 250 dollars 50 years ago you could buy a fuckin house

[@christianalanwilson434]

and a wife and 2.5 kids

[@konaqua122]

If there are people willing to buy a $1500 bag, there are people willing to pay for a $500 game skin.

[@N7sensei]

Daily reminder that a "real" phone costs less than 200$. The newest iPhone costs over a 1000$ and is worse than a Xiaomi Poco, for example. An iPhone is basically a 800$ vanity skin, and most people happily buy it, because they are stupid, and because they think it makes them look cool.

[@konaqua122]

@@N7sensei If you earn $10 000 a week, would you care for a $500 skin in a video game? Do you get my point? I said "There are people willing..." I never said "A lot"

[@janniknielsen9292]

@@konaqua122 If you are price conscious you will. 500 dollars is still 500 dollars, even if it takes much less percentage of your income. If whatever you buy is just inflated 100 fold to match a hundred fold income, you are using the same percentage of your income as a low income, rendering your higher income at large meaningless. If you don't, you will actually feel you earn more than a low income receiver. If your expenses don't correspond directly with higher income(higher income/higher expenses), you will actually benefit. Look at Asmon. He still lives like he is a low income person, but that means his high income isn't wasted. Having a company just means he could write off all these as job related expenditures, if he chose not to, but he mostly doesn't because he is price conscious, thus a millionaire and could stop streaming tomorrow and live well for the rest of his life.

[@ni_tan_paez]

so... it's worst than an NFT. I never thought that would even be possible

[@chronostratus3775]

there was urf icons that when u used them they served as finishers there were like 2 or 3 of them if i remember correctly so to say there werent is kinda of not true

[@chesterbonaparte6787]

Me and my bros here playing autistic farm management sims we bought for 12 dollars... Wtf is happening outside our bubble? 0_o

[@Olivierax]

Don’t ask, stay in your bubble. Stay safe my dude

[@N7sensei]

Bro, farming simulator 22 was free on Epic just a few days ago.

[@3rei532]

dont go out man just stay in your bubble man millions of people already got wiped out by the skin issue

[@redshiftthefox]

The sad part is that there's thousands of people who've already committed to buying this. And there's probably a small portion who are figuring some way to secure a loan to afford it.

[@keikun145]

Then that's on them?? Whose to judge on what ppl do with their money haha. Makes no diffence when players drop money on cardboard like yugioh, pokemon, magic.

[@avinashshaheed9597]

Finishers are in game. People playing URF in 2014 got finishers linked to profile banners.

[@clintmatthews3500]

And remember they can legally cut you off from the game, or cut the game off entirely, the very moment you pay for this or any other DLC.

[@N7sensei]

Yeah. My main HOTS account was permabanned (thanks to false reports) just a few hours after I bought a year long subscription. And Blizzard wonders why HOTS wasn't successful.

[@janah6473]

@@N7sensei That sure happened.

[@bashvash]

​@@janah6473is it so unbelievable?

[@janah6473]

@@bashvash What do you think is more likely. Being falsely reported and banned with no chance of appeal, or being rightfully banned and making shit up to be cool in front of other seething youtube commenters? Or hell, maybe he wasnt even banned at all.

[@axelarkamg196]

Video: 44:44 *Exited Jhin noises*

[@nightfears3005]

It certainly is exorbitant, but as long as it's not AI-generated trash as seen in other corrupt gacha games like nikke they have not hit rock bottom.

[@UnfunnE]

I desperately needed an in depth explanation video telling me why spending $500 on anything that isn't a medical bill is a bad thing.

[@TheBugB]

Idk I kinda wish I didn’t have to pay for healthcare that way I can out that money towards idk a house

[@UnfunnE]

Do what I did. Buy funk-o pop. Build funk-o fort.

[@pirlouit9116]

The reality is that for some people, 500$ is just a drop in a bucket of disposable income. Problem is, it's the people with the less money that tends to spend the most on shit. Do some research on luxury brands and how they target "poor" people, making them think owning a pricey bag / piece of cloth will make them go up in the social scale. It's crazy!

[@N7sensei]

@@TheBugB Yeah, because when you "dO nOt PaY foR heAlThcAre" then the doctors and research and medicine and hospitals just materialize out of the vacuum of space for free, and it is not like healthcare costs just get deducted from your salary via taxes, but now the quality is much worse, and there are months long waiting lists.

[@toby9995]

For some people it’s like 5 dollars

[@RDK325]

Now I am really confident about the Riot MMO

[@CookeiCutter]

"limited time only" yea right, like the Championship Riven skin?

[@evgeniyhristov8644]

I'm so glad I stopped playing League long time ago.

[@shirou_white]

Nowni understand why riot *actually* released their vanguard anti cheat for league... It's so they can't use custom skin mods to get this skin for free....

[@synex7237]

wait but is the ahri skin available in chests and orbs ??

[@dwightronaldlinks6627]

Asmon, everyone, kindly remember that this is the world of Intellectual Property. League wants Faker's persona, and is subscribing to his fans.

[@jeje4131]

Imagine saying to your dad that you have a 520 bucks signature from a nerd. He will be the first one to bully you.😂😂😂

[@kenneth102]

A nerd that is 4x world champion, most famous esport player in the world, and 100x richer than you, tell this to your dad lmao

[@marseille1196]

@@kenneth102that sounds just as pathetic lmao. Like was pointed out in the video, anyone over 50 thinks esports itself is stupid, let alone spending $500 for a skin about a said esports player

[@kenneth102]

@@marseille1196 and I completely agree, spending $500 for a digital skin is insanity, but you don't disrespect the goat, you don't call him a nerd blame riot for their greedy ass my point is.

[@HazemMaddouri]

@@kenneth102 Yeah but older people still don't care. For them it's pathetic and out of touch.

[@jeje4131]

@@kenneth102 for sure. You just pointed out some of the reason why modern society is fucked up and heading towards collapse.

[@btkchaosreaperj.c7642]

How much was that Thenatos or whatever his name on Archon Skin cost back then on Smite?

[@skyofglass1243]

Most marketing is predatory, and we're just programmed to accept it in these other industries. There's 3 arguments when trying to sell someone something, Logos, ethos and pathos; Logos is the only one that isn't predatory. When someone's psychology is taken advantage of, how is their decision 100% their own. The big problem is, these issues don't happen in a vacuum; how much actual profit riot makes will influence others to do the same. While these start with cosmetics it's shown to bleed into pay to win, where companies are sacrificing the sale of a complete product, nor providing sufficient content to players, in favor of sucking more money from the players. Gamers as a whole are getting way less, for way more, when it comes to the AAA industry and the more anyone accepts these practices, the more that industry will decay. That said, there's always indie games if the community as a whole fails.

[@seanmorrison9574]

I tried explaining this to my mom, she’s 65, she says this is the dumbest thing she has heard in a while.

[@keikun145]

No difference when pokemon, yugioh, magic cards are worth 100 - 1000 dollars....it's jusr cardboard with art right??

[@bashvash]

​@keikun145 at least you own those cards, they're physical property. Even if you get banned from every card shop, they won't take all your stuff. Can't say the same for league skins. They're about as much "yours" as your games on steam.

[@keikun145]

@@bashvash if you are ban then that means you've done something wrong correct? I don't think the average person would need to worry if they stayed out of trouble to not be ban lol. If u got malicious intent then maybe you should lose the things.

[@bashvash]

@@keikun145 can you stay on topic please

[@keikun145]

@@bashvash lmao you just salty cause I proven my point. Look I'm not one to judge on what people do with their money but if riot wants to make a skin for 500 then that's on them. Should I start judging you on what you do with ur 500? Lmao go to school kid.

[@GamewizDeluxe]

31:20 make a minecraft/clash of clans clone, but u can buy golden houses in the sky. The sky villagers can buy tools like a vacuums or hammers to steal/murder F2P player resources at any time and can watch from above as F2P players fight over dribbles of power.

[@GamewizDeluxe]

32:05 make a "Buddy System" where F2P/minnows could apply for favor from whales and/or humiliate themselves through whale-made "quests" . 😂

[@kyouninja]

They said the KDA prestige kaisa skin wont return, I felt good about having it, and bam its back in the prestige shop

[@neur0ness]

The next pricey skin should be one that looks like butt cheeks, and instead of throwing fire balls, you throw turd nuggets at your enemies. I'm thinking $1,000 would be good. They can have a legendary skin variation that looks like a giant turd, with prestige version having special effects that do splash diarrhea damage to nearby enemies. For an extra $500, you can have South Park's Mr Hankey show up and dance on the corpse of your enemies.