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This thread was added on June 23, 2019, with posts from Bellissimoh, Cashmiir.
Was that... A Lucian and Garen skin tease at the end?
Wut.
We are super excited to bring Demacia Vice Lucian and Garen to the rift. These skins have been a huge passion project for the team. We hope you guys enjoy playing them as much as we enjoyed making them.
The event runs for 1 month which is 2 patches so I suppose these two skins are scheduled to release during the 2nd patch of the event.
This is correct. Demacia Vice skins will be hitting the rift in 9.14.
they just kinda snuk in demacia vice skins for garen and lucian, i hope theyre great
We hope everyone really enjoys them. We would love to explore more of the Demacia Vice thematic in the future, but we need to make sure players are interested in joining us on that journey first. :)
wheres darius?
Darius unfortunately didn’t make this set. Assuming people enjoy Garen and Lucian then there’s a good chance you’ll see Darius and other champions in the world of Demacia Vice.
9.14
That does seem just a bit late? Event starts this Friday, skins release almost 2 weeks later? Not hating, the skins are awesome IMO, just asking
Our summer event runs over two patches this year. So you’ll have to wait unfortunately. :)
Ooh that explains it. Thank you!
No, thank you for supporting League with your passion and excitement. :)
We can’t do any of this without all of you.
I really hope that the player base enjoys the skin line because it looks absolutely FANTASTIC, jesus christ even without ingame preview so far.
Definitely let us know how you feel about them when they are released. We’re open to any feedback, suggestions, or ideas you might have. :)
OFFICIAL THREAD THEME.
Sick track. Absolutely appropriate.
question about the pass, how will it work with the tft pass? and tft in general?
The TFT Team is looking to release, validate that players enjoy the mode, but also validate that it is stable at scale.
Because there’s some amount of uncertainty, we didn’t want to tie the pass to TFT. (Would feel bad if you bought the pass wanting to get tokens via TFT and then something went awry.)
We’re definitely going to examine options for TFT + Event Passes in the future. Just won’t be integrated for its first run around the block.
This doesn’t mean that there aren’t rewards in the current Event Pass that work in both SR and TFT. The event exclusive KO and Game Over emotes will likely be spammed in a TFT game coming to you soon.
Officially my favorite skin line...
We hope it lives up to your expectations. :)
Assuming that you work for skin team, why don't you guys make skins which are more eastern or enchanting type like Butterfly Princess or Mermaid Queen or Flower Kingdom etc
These themes are so crazy here and would work on Ahri, Lux, Kaisa, Janna etc
You guys seem so focused on "mature" and "dark" skins mainly which is so narrow minded of western peopleAlso, when you will update Ahri tail animations ? After SG, i am sure tons of Ahri players find every other skin unplayable.
Maybe you release her at 10th anniversary and also an ultimate skin and return her SG announcer pack. Like why are you all so mean. Let us have SG Ahri Voice pack
While we are a western game development studio we do try to balance between the tastes of eastern and western players alike. There are some skins in the works that hopefully hit on some of the desired aesthetics you mention.
Not gonna lie this was terrible timing with Shadowbringers release this Friday. There's absolutely no way in hell anyone I know'll be anywhere near League for weeks.
Hope you enjoy the expansion and looking forward to seeing you back after. :)
are Garen and Lucian inside the Arcade universe as a sub-universe?
Demacia Vice is it’s own skin universe. We just paired it with Arcade for our summer event this year.
Avid Garen player here, got all his skins. Will definitely be picking it up. Where do I best send feedback when i've gotten to play it for a bit?
Feel free to post here on Reddit once the skins come out. Sure there will be a thread on release.
Massive props to you guys for this. It's a great idea and I can't wait to see how you've executed it. I will defo be getting the lucian one.
Thanks for your support. :)
Please tell me you have a Noxian Vice Draven in the pipe line.
Seriously, Draven oozes the sleaziness and a Vice themed skin would be perfect.
Can’t confirm anything as of yet. Assuming these have a strong reception you can bet that we’ll be happy to hear suggestions. :)
do you mean set or universe?
i suppose set, and if so, when are you guys going to create the arcade universe? one that includes arcade:battle bosses, arcade:heroes and supposing Demacia Vice?
Demacia Vice is a separate thematic from Arcade. We just decided to bundle them into the same event because they’re both colorful, playful, and fun.
GIMME MY DEMACIA VICE LUX NOW!!!
Inb4 meme about Riot only making Lux skins.
As in like, specifically more than usual, or in the sense that every skin is a passion project and you guys are happy with how these turned out?
It’s true that every set of skins we work on are the product of passion and creativity. It’s also true that we’re excited at how these turned out. We’re hoping that players really like and support both Arcade and Demacia Vice so we can go bigger and better next time around.
Hey will there be pool party skin line this year?
Currently we’re not planning on any pool party champs for this year. Is there a particular champion you’re looking yo see in it?
As always Riot delivers on an amazing skin trailer & the music department kills it too. While I won't be buying the skins cause I hate em (cait is bae though) - I said "wtf no way" so loud at the lucian and garen skins at the end that my friends were like "dude you ok?"
=P
Really wish I was good at graphic design or video editing working with Riot would be a dream job.
Never too late to learn!
I'm assuming with Aracde being the summer event that means we won't be getting Pool Party this year?
No Pool Party on the immediate horizon.
Y'all need to get in ckntact with Kavinsky for some music for this skin line! Go all out with the Outrun.
Huge Kavinsky fan. Was actually just listening to this mix that has him featured around 30:00-31:00 mins in: https://youtu.be/85bkCmaOh4o
Ahri would be nice lol.
Not an uncommon request. Definitely being considered for future visits to the Pool Party theme. :)
If these ones sell well, I think there should be a spinoff skinline with other champions that might not fit the "vice" thematic (not hunks), but work really well with the retro/neon aesthetic. I'm dying for more skins like this, but none of my mains would actually fit in the "vice" theme :(
We have a similar hope. Will have to wait and see if players globally really enjoy the thematic, if so then we’d be more than happy to expand the world of Demacia Vice.
Really think so? I'm 28. Lol
Definitely. I know a few Rioters who did complete 180s in terms of career substantially later in life.
Hi! Dont mind me asking, but is there a specific reason why Xerath hasnt received a skin for so long, even tho his playrate has been good for a long time? Is it an artistic or other kind of challenge? I would be really glad to know, thank you for spending your time with my question.
Whenever we make a skin we’re faced with a lot of difficult choices. Not only what thematic world we want to visit but also what champion to make it for.
There are some champions that have much smaller audiences than others. This means that some skins don’t do as good or a job of “paying the bills” as others.
This all being said, we don’t always choose to min-max for revenue, which is why you skins being made for lower play rate champs like Papercraft Anivia or Darkstar Shaco.
One active effort we do have though, is we’re trying to augment our skins and content pipeline through a variety of means. This is both having more people work on League content but also looking at our tools and processes and trying to find more effective ways of working. The end result, we hope, is that we can create more skins for lower play rate champs per year.