retief1

Then you aren't the target market for the $200 skin, and that's fine. There's no way in hell that I'd ever touch one. However, if someone does want to show off that they are willing to dump $200 into a not-particularly-special skin, it doesn't hurt me any. I mean, I guess it's dev time and money spent on a skin I don't want. However, riot constantly releases skins that I'm not interested in for one reason or another, so I can't say I give a shit.

Skins team and Gameplay teams don't really mix headcounts! So personally (as someone on a team that doesn't bring in the bread), I'm thankful for Skins team trying to figure out how to get more bread and bacon with the team they have, so us gameplay teams never have to worry about money :D
In fact, the more that they do, the more likely we are to get more funding the years after so that we can do more things.

DeusVitae69

I have another gripe, why are ‘Young and Hip’ people only hired to speak on the game discussion videos? Meddler, etc are camera friendly is why, and I think aesthetics < talent needs to be looked at more

LOL omg.....
I wish I was more camera friendly. Fun fact, we do the videos because it was our jobs to make those decisions, thus we can speak on it truthfully.
Most of my videos comes out disastrously (my own fault) and I can't stand watching them/hearing them (so I don't).
Def not professionals... I think I'm getting a bit better with practice!
I personally: Sometimes muddles my pronunciations, blinks waayyyy too much because of dry eyes, annnnnd realizing irl expressiveness doesn't translate well on camera.
But I'm glad others are not picking this up and think we do good aesthetics <3

Terrible-Feed-9705

it already involves spending, to craft mastery tokens you need to spend blue essence which accounts that dont have all champs and like to play multiple champs cant afford

Yeah, that’s out.

WoonStruck

The problem isn't where human resources are spent, its where monetary resources are spent.

Riot is paying people to work on these things, and not paying enough people to work on gameplay, the client, the engine, etc.

And Riot already has far more funding than 99.999% of games will ever get, while doing less than many. Saying they need to nickel and time everyone even more for the game to stop its tailspin isn't really helpful.

Riot has had the money to make improvements that needed to happen 7+ years ago for nearly a decade. Its silly to think money at this point is the reason why things don't happen.

Its intentional that the game isn't actively improving anymore because it makes money whether it does or not.

Humans are the most costly monetary resource in game dev.

kuriboharmy

out of curiosity are champion shards given out in a way that lowers the rate of champions i can make the mastery 6 or 7 with. Like for example if i just need an ashe shard for mastery 7 craft i never see an ashe champion shard drop. i have champions that are mastery 7 ready for months but i never see their shard drop.

It's entirely random!

Zarathielis

Hello Lexical, I enjoyed the 4 champs this year, will there be 4 too next year? And are there any plans to do an Arcane collab again or something special for the big anniversary for league?

Stay tuned! We will have more info in the new year :)

JMoormann

Thanks, Probama

Thanks, completely random stranger I have never met before.

How's the kid btw?

Zarathielis

ty for the answer! Last question: Will Skarner come before the marksman since Riot meddler says Skarner will come fairly early next year

He will not be before the marksman! We are still finishing off his skins! End of year gets tough for moving significant needle on production.

Spideraxe30

Hey Lexi can you possibly be more evil in your vids, i liked how reav3 tormented players for months in his dev blogs

Unfortunately the next one was filmed already. I’m not more evil but my hair was out of control. I woke up with really terrible hair day hahahahahaha

WoonStruck

The problem isn't where human resources are spent, its where monetary resources are spent.

Riot is paying people to work on these things, and not paying enough people to work on gameplay, the client, the engine, etc.

And Riot already has far more funding than 99.999% of games will ever get, while doing less than many. Saying they need to nickel and time everyone even more for the game to stop its tailspin isn't really helpful.

Riot has had the money to make improvements that needed to happen 7+ years ago for nearly a decade. Its silly to think money at this point is the reason why things don't happen.

Its intentional that the game isn't actively improving anymore because it makes money whether it does or not.

(Speaking from honest personal view because I’m not the expert on this) The problem with being one of the largest, also mean you are one of the most expensive to just run. It’s not often people gets to see behind the scene costs. I worked on Client, Skins and Champs side previously and it does surprise me where hidden costs are 🤔 Not all regions are equal in terms of profit vs cost.

Blitzedlegend

I'm about to be able to afford putting Tony through college thanks to the blue essence I will be saving from these mastery changes.

Good luck to Tony!