Why Does This Video Game Cosmetic Cost $500?

More like a MACROtransaction, lol.
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[@crimsoneclipse0618]

Still so fucking funny that this skin is to commemorate a player who known for never using skins. Bro if I paid $500 usd to for this, Ahri better become real and give me the gawk gawk 3000.

[@Mincecroft]

Cheaper to buy a sex doll of Ahri

[@Le-PainCat]

Ay for $500, ill give you the gluck gluck 7000

[@plummeted]

Shi I’ll do it for free

[@Le-PainCat]

@@plummeted yer killin my business here, pal

[@plummeted]

@@Le-PainCat I’m just lonely

[@nloc1929]

"For five..hundred..dollars......" "THAT'S A LOTTA NUTS!!!"

[@FavineMoore]

Faker does not talk shit. Faker in the next Clip: All roads lead to me.

[@rotaryryosuke1552]

Because it's true lol

[@SpaceElvisInc]

Not trash talking, just a statement

[@brian6898]

Fun drinking game, take a shot every time Sumito says 'indoctrination' when he means 'induction'

[@SumitoMedia]

don't do this you will die

[@TheBananamonger]

@@SumitoMedia don’t challenge me fatboy I will drink until I’m on the edge of the afterlife and still come back to gaze upon your magnificent chins

[@LegoDork]

Can confirm, currently dead, and I survived Diehard shots.

[@ItsDylanHarding]

@@LegoDorkwhat’s the afterlife like bro i gotta know

[@og-pretty]

@@ItsDylanHarding bro....he's dead he can't reply

[@tiyenin]

I wanna be indoctrinated into a hall of fame, then inducted into a cult

[@edenmartinrodriguezg.6776]

I was about to make a similar remark! What an idiot, for real!

[@dx-ek4vr]

"I am Assuming Direct Control" - Riot Games, probably

[@pasteghost428]

I sometimes self-indoctrinate vomit by sticking my fingers down my throat.

[@viedal]

Actually kpop stars don't get military exemptions, even BTS who have medals of cultural merit, are enlisted in the military. So that makes the exemption even more groundbreaking.

[@ksr1581]

i think thats why they hated on Faker on that one time?

[@ghostshrimp5006]

I want to point out that while faker gets 30%, that 30% is split among his team, so he and his team basically gets chump change on top of the fact that this is a limited run skin that they will not bring back. So now there’s an added FOMO element to make it extra scummy

[@forgingluck]

Why does this KZbin video NOT cost 500 dollars? They're making money, you should too.

[@wolfe6819]

He didn't sign it

[@TwistedMecha]

Riot knows how to capitalise on their whales

[@tom_mac]

Real Gs use default skin and are happy to see wieners and whales fund the server and updates for everyone else with their electric rainbow capes. As long as it's all cosmetic it's fine, keep game alive long time. I can't be the only person who thinks it's kinda nice when the most sought after skins in a game aren't instantly worn by 60% of players, even tho i always use defaults.

[@jazzingpanda3190]

⁠@@tom_mac not played in a while now but the only skins I like using are the ones with funny / irritating spam emotes (yeah I was one of THOSE guys). Or the legacy skins you get for owning champions before they had a huge visual change (trundle, sejuani etc) The crafting system in game was quite nice for skins, so “legendary” skins can be acquired free and stuff. Seeing someone with an expensive skin doesn’t scream whale as much as it used to I guess Idk, over the years I’ve put money into the game tbf, but sometimes it’s nice to have a cool skin for a champ you play lots Having said that, people put crazy money into the game. Going by $1 for 1 hour gameplay as a general rule is something I’ve seen people going by But if that was to translate to games like League, then shit me that would be insane amounts😂

[@madcat789]

Because they know someone, somewhere, will buy it.

[@cumcumcum148]

Sad. But true even if 10% of usual skin buyers buy this, they will make profit

[@Kroban_d4c]

Man I know its not the point of the video, but as a main support I have to say, 3:15 is 100% Wolf's Rakan play, hes the one that initiates and charms + stuns 4 players. I mean credit where credit is due , idk why the casters where fanboying so much over Faker right there

[@SumitoMedia]

100%,its skt at their best - the rakan ult + the cho silence sets up the faker shockwave. I am also a support main

[@Kroban_d4c]

@@SumitoMedia Yeah true

[@rudeboyspodcast]

God, I miss playing with good Rakan players. A rare breed nowadays

[@justinbrannon1978]

I think the second corporations realized people would pay 5$ for essentially air, they decided they wanted to keep pushing the price tag up to see how far people would go for again essentially air. The crazy thing is they wouldn’t be doing it if people didn’t buy them, I mean valve makes like, 2 million a day on CSGO cases and they just had one of their skins sell for like a million dollars. Yet again, a million dollars for a liscense to use a picture of a skin or again basically air. So I think this trend is gonna do nothing but continue to rise until they finally hit the price tag that literally no one will buy things at

[@QuinnKallisti]

You think that’s air you’re breathing now?

[@justinbrannon1978]

@@QuinnKallisti I can certainly hope my air is worth 5$🤞

[@sigismundafvolsung5526]

Bro csgo knife skins piss me off so bad. Not only are you paying potentially thousands of dollars for a cosmetic, you're buying a cosmetic for the weapon that you almost never see and is effectively worthless for very nearly 100% of your playtime. at least you get to see a moba skin.

[@QuinnKallisti]

@@sigismundafvolsung5526 pretty sure you are supposed to constantly change between your knife and main weapon to move faster bro, the knife should be going in and out constantly, ergo, you see it all the time… Gotta get that uber micro dawg. Git gud

[@sigismundafvolsung5526]

@@QuinnKallisti Yeah, and I absolutely hate that mechanic too. I have a list of reasons i think csgo is a trash game for.

[@ultimotrout7772]

$500 will help them make a better client..... right?

[@Rebel4ebel]

Crying wojak wearing laughing mask

[@maxismozark1124]

The spaghetti code is real

[@sigismundafvolsung5526]

the league client feels like some shit out of maplestory and runescape days. Just make that shit one window like every other game made in the last decade

[@wotruannwah5678]

Horse armor increased your horses health too, so it wasn't purely cosmetic. It was pointless if you got Shadowmere though

[@MrTommylicious]

"All roads lead to me" is insanely cool

[@sigismundafvolsung5526]

It made me hate that mf immediately. idk if its an in-joke or something but its like the single most douchebaggy line i've ever heard in my life. Mf 100% got super bullied in school

[@devastatheseeker9967]

Man that 2070 faker meme just made me realise how much sadder it's going to be to grow old as a gamer. Like, imagine getting to the point in your life shon you realise "shit...I can't move my hands good anymore" Not back, legs, arms etc. just your hands...

[@redwiltshire1816]

That’s the plot of doctor strange

[@devastatheseeker9967]

@@redwiltshire1816 didn't he lose his hands in a crash? Quite a but different than losing functional capability due to age

[@redwiltshire1816]

@@devastatheseeker9967it’s still the same thing tho not being able to do what you love because of a hand injury and trust me when you get older your hands are gonna be the least of your worries

[@devastatheseeker9967]

@@redwiltshire1816 No there's a huge difference. One is getting an injury and the other is age degrading your body.

[@luvhair255]

@@redwiltshire1816 Is it now?

[@EGirlMadeOfPasta]

I mean what is $500 in the GRAND SCHEME of things???? 🧐🧐🧐🧐

[@nachofwg]

It’s something like 1200 packs of koolaid. Really makes ya think 🤔

[@tiyenin]

100 onlyfans subscriptions if they're running their $5 a month deal

[@NotUrDJ]

Yeah it's only like 5 months rent in my country Pakistan. No big deal at all :/

[@Dirtnasty420]

500 dollars is halfway to being a thousandiare

[@GlobinHD]

You could buy like 2 Lego Captain Rex mini-figures, really think about that.

[@MrFantastix]

FLAK ! not slack! Caught some flak, gimme some slack. Completely diff

[@maxismozark1124]

I cringed so hard when he said that

[@sigismundafvolsung5526]

@@maxismozark1124 bro really doesn't know how to talk. Slack instead of flak, indoctrinated instead of inducted. I swear I find a wrong word in every video I've ever watched from him

[@matsuki2256]

Buying skins with 0 value is the funniest shit ever

[@therealeikichionizuka]

"laughs in burning flames team captain"

[@CoobyPls]

Eggs

[@deweycox8409]

The bundle being time-limited is even more egregious. They don't just want you to buy an expensive bundle, they want you to do it NOW.

[@ArmageddonD11]

Fun Fact: Horse Armor *wasn't* just cosmetic. It gave your horse a large health increase. And the quest to unlock it also gave you a free horse.

[@michaelrobertson4298]

I thought "Bullshit, it was only cosmetic." So I looked it up. "Putting the armor on simply increases the health of the horse, rather than applying any kind of protection from damage. For most horses, the health doubles, but only to a maximum of 750." "Quest information - How to receive a free set of horse armor or even a free horse." Holy shit, it literally was a buff. How the hell?

[@DoNotCallMyBrother]

COD gonna drop $1,000 mega booba nuke pack next week

[@AdamOwenBrowning]

i played since season 2, if you told me back then they'd make a cosmetic pack for 59,000+ RP I would've laughed at you but ol' rito knows the whales will come a-swimming

[@LeifEriccson43]

"One of our most generous bundles" 😂🤣😂

[@earthwormjim9739]

Imagine having to pay $500 to play as Michael Jordan in an NBA game.

[@BobGeanis]

Bethesda never changes.

[@zyyysk]

Ninja getting an adidas shoe was def peak gamers

[@micaiahms]

The horse was mocked because it was a single player only cosmetic

[@lordofyggdrasil9633]

havent played it in awhile so idk if they still do but hirez has dropped several skins that cost hundreds, they do be kinda cool tho

[@og-pretty]

Damn WOW looks way different than I remember

[@egsbenedict]

Agreed completely, If you say the plans without what they did, We are first time Hall Of Fame, We want to Honor Faker, We are doing a huge never before done event, It genuinely sounds like they care and they want to show their love, But then you immediately mention purchaseable skin, Even without the price tag sounds like the company is scamming the situation to make money off Microtransactions which is apparently where every single game is headed, But then you also hear $500 and it stops feeling kind or caring at all, It just becomes a giant give us money sign, And duck taped on the corner is a piece of Cardboard with Faker's name Sharpied on

[@kochiyamochiya]

I can't wait to see Ahri 100% ban rate next patch

[@NeverToBeSeenAgain]

only 6.5 mil for worlds? Is Riot broke or something? Valve had a 40 mil tournament in 2021 lol.

[@salis-salis]

Also Eggs

[@irejog]

Still not as bad as Apex Legends when an heirloom item drops in the store. Truly horrible trends in this industry.

[@nucklemonkey]

She sumito on my media till I make a video about gaming

[@16bitpunkrock]

Dunky should've been the first

[@SuperJacques96]

Waiting for the galvinised steel beam memes man

[@Blackobluna]

I dont understand LoL but I hear some Korean dude screaming 'PENTAKIIIIIILL' like his fucking life depends on it, I know we just saw some shitgo down

[@steelblake]

I can't believe that I found a company that put the 60$ gacha skins in Nikke look like F2P friendly cosmetics. Bro the hell is this?!

[@jainahandere657]

I just want to chip in that The International should be the highest Prize Pool though tbf I haven't been updated which is higher anymore

[@Lesson333]

League of Legends Championship: 6.4 million viewers World Cup Finals: 1.5 billion people Yeah... Really not the same

[@Nosliw837]

It hurts a little to hear that Sumito began playing this game about the same year that I quit rofl

[@CoolGuy-dy3kq]

apex players need to hear this 13:09

[@Thor_b]

I like when he talks about how that’s a lot of nuts.

[@chaoz675]

I mean if video game companies just agreed together to make the standard cosmetic $500 I’ll be the income wouldn’t drop much and eventually go up

[@TheAdarkerglow]

For even more context, this comes on the heels of forcing players to use Vanguard Anti-Cheat in League of Legends. It is Riots Kernel Level, always on, anti-cheat program originally employed with Valorant, and it is required to run from boot up, so if you want it off when you aren't playing a Riot Game, you'll need to restart your computer when you want to play a game. Some people have experienced problems with their computers after installing it. There are concerns that because they are a Chinese company it could be used for data theft. So, for them to come out with a $500 skin, to some people in the community, seems like desperation to recuperate the losses of other poor business decisions and the decline of viewership since the end of COVID (because fewer people can stay up to 3 AM watching Koreans play).

[@MIDNITE69]

I love Ahri the Succubus

[@stennostenno1346]

01:20 No disrespect to the 6 million people watching the finals, but it does not at all compare to super bowl or even world cup viewerships. Super Bowl has about 120 million viewers, and the world cup finals had 500 million viewers (3.5 billion views in total).

[@SadeN_0]

The work that went into bringing that skin to life will be paid off by the first ~25 purchases at that price, at most. After that it's all gravy

[@voigto]

I saw new voicelines were added, hopefully the artists animators and VA get paid a mint but I doubt it.

[@FlowertheBear]

Was honestly hoping Faker would pick Ryze for his skin cause when I see Ryze I think of Faker and vice versa, im just kinda bummed it Ahri who I don’t hate but she has so many skins and a mini ASU and just something for Ryze would have been nice

[@FAVOURITEBRO]

No one disrespected faker other than Riot games itself.

[@salsamancer]

This is why i don't buy appliances that connect to the internet. I can't wait until AC units start offering a dlc to enable dehumidifier mode

[@robo1000]

That’s just too much, but they know enough people will buy it. Which is why it was even considered an option. Though for that much, I’d think anyone even the biggest whale would want something physical. A figure, or something.

[@WabbyDoo]

Plat forever baby!

[@comlitbeta7532]

It reminds me of the Magic 30th years anniversary debacle. Wizard of the coast lost a lot of good will on that one

[@Loot_Bugs]

Imma be real with you, I thought the thumbnail was an ai-generated ad. I have severe brain rot.

[@SumitoMedia]

I've been trying to learn making better Thumbnails I don't blame you

[@kekagiso]

If you think $6 million is the biggest prize pool.. I'd like to introduce you to a little game called Dota 2, and more specifically a tournament called "The international".

[@maxrodriguez881]

Wait till you guys hear how much it cost to get an heirloom in Apex Legends

[@attackfinch8397]

better come with a free bowl cut

[@jazzingpanda3190]

Bronze V about to have every Ahri main buying this skin, thinking they’re Faker and picking Ahri, only to have her insta banned each game and dodging☠️

[@binibnladin]

Whats your OF

[@egsbenedict]

And BINGO Boys that's why they did it, You see if they made a custom skin and charged $500 no matter how unique we would all rightfully burn down their studios and make sure they are publicly shamed, But if they tie it into a God King like Faker, Then they can just say, What you don't wanna support Faker, You don't think he deserves it? It's text book abuser tactics, They turn on you and make you feel like the bad guy for saying anything about them or for confronting them

[@abeerharoon2176]

Honestly... 500?? to feed in silver? I mean, wouldn't 200 more dollars buy me a console?

[@jhkrev3]

11:10 bruh minimum wage in Korea is about 1500 USD monthly - the only people in Korea who don't actually make enough to buy this are the ones doing mandatory military service which pays start around 465 USD. not taking away from how outrageous this skin pricing is, but just saying Korean wages ain't too bad unless the government is exploiting you

[@SumitoMedia]

I meant north korea

[@woulfmondsden7520]

@@SumitoMediaeven with that wage its one third of your income, now add living expenses and you are in red numbers easily

[@yosukehanamura3507]

Ngl I still cannot understand what's going in league comp clips even as someone who has played the game LMFAOOO

[@Phoenix0F8]

In Warframe there's a super rare weapon augment that reduces your mag capacity in exchange for a massive boost in damage to the first shot in your mag. (Primed Charged Barrel or something like that, it's been a while) Warframe has a cash shop and an integrated gray market (I'm not sure the devs are 100% cool with people third-party advertising ingame mods for real money and gems or whatever the hell their currency is- again, been a while. Point being it's tolerated at the very least.) where you can go to a marketplace and sell mods, and use various websites to list your stuff and help people find you faster. A few years ago this mod was going for $200 because of its extreme rarity and I remember thinking to myself at the time how crazy that seemed. Now, this is a game all about optimizing your character and making very small percentage increases to your stats to make your gear as effective as possible- for certain builds this mod was actually really nice, for instance with the Prime Vectis it would take the capacity down from 2 to 1 and apply the first-shot damage boost to every shot you take. It wasn't something you *needed* for late game content but it would definitely be noticeable if you're really, *really* going for max efficiency. I still thought $200 was wayyyyyyyy, wayyy too much money to spend on a single item in a videogame and continued to just manually reload between every shot the old fashioned way. Fast forward to now and uh, yeah, $500 for a pure cosmetic is pretty whack. People will always carry water for riot and say it's strictly optional, it lets rich people support the game, yada yada- but I really don't wanna see a creeping normalization of this shit like we've seen with every other facet of videogame commodification. You always get more of what you choose to put up with.

[@mven]

You said indoctrinated so many times I have forgotten what the right word is for when you get into a hall of fame

[@Caleb-jb3gv]

Apex gamers: "First time?"

[@OutrageousOnPurpose]

500$ to be bullied every time you show it off xD

[@jazzingpanda3190]

Skin == Skill ofc. Challenger Tier about to get a whole lot busier 😂

[@mahino420]

sumito so innocent looking at the 6 million dollars prize pool, players in even 10th place teams are probably paid that as a salary

[@purifriedliquid]

Imma start banning ALL Ahri's even if it's in my team, no one gonna see that

[@thematiasmadness7010]

Because they know there’s a bunch of idiots out there that will pay a stupid amount of money for a thing that does nothing

[@salis-salis]

nothing you say? I'd pay good money for that

[@DrakeDoe]

The horse armor is actually a hp buff to the horse and it gives you an in-game quest which ends with both the horse armor and a free horse. So it in fact did do things.

[@salis-salis]

@@DrakeDoe well I'm out then I guess

[@ohboi8854]

Here for the algorithm

[@salis-salis]

aren't we all

[@ItotheCtotheE]

My only dissenting argument here is I don't like people pushing their values on others. I also agree that skins shouldn't cost that much money, but if someone wants to spend their money on it then that is their choice. So calling on others to not buy it is wrong. Someone should only say "I won't buy it because I think this is bad" and others can agree or disagree.

[@brothatisfunny]

How TF Coob gets here so quick?

[@wotruannwah5678]

Path of Exile has 500 dollar cosmetic packs too

[@voigto]

Yeah PoE always seems to get a pass but their MTX prices are absurd. Most full armour sets are $40+ USD

[@hazzaeatsshorts]

maybe this is the wakeup call we need to stop embarrassing ourselves by spending millions on geeks playing video games

[@SnipyShino]

Apparently this skin costs the same as a lifesize Ahri doll

[@GA-br8wj]

Nobody is forcing anybody to buy that, so, say NO to expensive BS

[@user-ci9tt4bp1g]

sumito making a league video

[@mitchconner403]

3:15 I have never played league of legends, but that just made my eyes hurt. I guess the seizer warning is probably valid for this game.

[@SnipyShino]

Also eggs

[@sigismundafvolsung5526]

tbh I think the solution to this isn't to talk shit. I mean keep doing that but it's not going to do anything. The only way companies are going to stop pushing the boundaries on microtransactions is if somehow something happens and like 99% of the people who WOULD HAVE bought the skin end up not buying it. In terms of their bottom-line, a skin being 10x the price of a normal one doesn't mean anything other than they only need to sell 10% of normal volume to justify its creation. They're not just trying to make hella bank (they're doing that too) they're just going about business making money. The problem only ever got this bad because people buy stuff and show the company that rising prices aren't actually deterring people all that much. They wouldn't bother releasing a $500 skin if the thought there was no shot that it does well. If they thought only like 5 people were going to buy it, I doubt they would have priced it like that. It's almost like businesses tend to do what has proven to be effective. I bet an ungodly amount of people bought this skin. I bet they priced this skin at $500 because the $200 Jhin skin sold well enough for them to be comfortable hiking the price even higher. I wouldn't be surprised if this does well and it leads to another outrageous event. Not really because Riot's a greedy company (even though they are), but because players as a whole still buy shit even while complaining about it. Morality doesn't touch companies like that. If the money is coming in, they keep doing whatever tf they were doing. The only time they stop and change is when they do something that fucks up their income significantly

[@MaxBeaulieu]

“Whales”

[@harringtonhibbard9213]

Dota 2 is the biggest competitive game for the competitive scene at least

[@MrGregory777]

11:04 As a South American i laughed when Sumito said $500 is a months salary. It's 2 months😢

[@theGDmenace13]

6 and a 1/2 million people Rival's Super Bowl And World Cup. Meanwhile, Super Bowl gets a 100 million people per year and the World Cup gets one billion. Great Comparison.😅😅😅

[@nicholasbrown668]

it actually is a good comparison to the Super Bowl when pretty much every poll over the Super Bowl shows most people dont watch it for the sport but moreso as an excuse to have a gathering. about 10% max tune in to the super bowl to actually watch and care about the Super Bowl

[@theGDmenace13]

@@nicholasbrown668 It's 6 More than 100 just want to know.

[@nicholasbrown668]

@@theGDmenace13 can't really read can you, about 10-15% of Super Bowl viewers are watching it for the sport, that's about 10 to 15 million, that's wholly comparable to E sports events

[@theGDmenace13]

@@nicholasbrown668 I mean, the average NFL game gets around 8 million Views So 10 to 15 million. Is A disgusting under exaggeration It's the type of numbers the NBA gets for there NBA finals games I would estimate maybe 50 million people watched the game and the rest just watched for the halftime show.

[@nicholasbrown668]

@@theGDmenace13 wow good thing there aren't 3050 million humans on earth, those numbers are impossible

[@aaronmeyer3664]

I found TBSkyen's take quite great. Essentially "This is a bull ass strategy to extort money out of the player base. The skin is fantastic but don't fucking buy it."

[@Brooklyn_Trash_King]

Remember when they started adding $100 skins to valorant? Feels like this shit is just going to keep getting worse

[@D2attemp]

Does this guy know about the $1,000,000 knives being sold on Counter Strike?

[@kekagiso]

I don't think this guy knows anything valve related considering he thinks $6 million is the biggest esports prize pool...

[@octagram2955]

Okay coders, figure it out. I believe in the power of the internet, lets see this corporate plunking.... oh snaps, do still say 'punked' for when someone is put in their place? Don't think I've heard it since Fashion Kutchers show Punked. Is there even a term for that now

[@jamespondy0]

Nobody tell him about Star Citizen

[@WolfnWool]

I paid $695 on the dot for a knife made of carbon fiber and titanium back in 2021, then started playing counter strike last year and goddamn if skin prices arent ridiculously higher 😆

[@Antarctide]

6.5 million does not compare at all with Superbowl/WC, lol

[@idkstudios3768]

Jesus christ oblivion was 18 years ago.

[@alfredotill353]

why did he a Ahri skin tho and not a LeBlanc?