From the event of honoring Faker, the hall of fame has accidentally received a lot of criticism for the decisions of Riot Games. Everything comes from Riot's announcement of the purchase price for the Signature package of the legendary Ahri outfit from up to 59260 RP. It is known that in the international server, gamers have to spend about 500 USD (equivalent to 12.7 million VND) to own this number of RP.
The announcement of the price of the Immortal Legend of the Immortal Signature Ahri package up to 59260 RP makes the community extremely angry
This is said to be too unreasonable for an outfit in League of Legends, even when it comes with many effects, expressions … and after a period of “silence”, Riot has officially explained about this issue. However, this move of Riot only makes the League of Legends community have more reasons to criticize them more.
Riot Meddler: “The legendary hall event is a good opportunity to grateful to the legendary player as well as help in getting more investment funds in eSports. We try to offer different prices to aim for all gamers to experience this event. In addition, we believe we should give a truly expensive version at this event. It is not popular with many players but we believe it is part of the work of keeping the stability of the League of Esports League in the long term ”
“Help in getting more investment costs and eSports? Riot is not a small company anymore. Why don't you do it yourself” – a gamer can't help but be unhappy
“This is really a wrong time to do that. This event is to honor one of the best players of League. I am quite sure if Riot offers a normal price and is suitable for everyone, they will earn the amount they want” – another gamer shared another gamer
“I understand that he cannot say frankly,” we make a $ 500 skin because we want the Whale guys to buy it “but let's go” – another gamer showed disappointment.
“Other games all have similar things with” limited editions “such as statues, posters, not just electronic products. Honoring an excellent player like Faker is not an opportunity to offer an unbelievable price. I think that exclusive items should let the player receive through a limited event, not just for those who want to spend $ 500” – another gamer concluding the conclusion
Indeed, the opinion of the community is quite reasonable that Riot can give a better price, everyone can buy and enjoy this outfit. Moreover, one reason why the community criticized Riot is that the expensive Bundle purchase above does not have many memories. Basically, the costumes, the game version “exclusive items” is no longer too strange to the gaming community. They often come with a great memorial physical product as a thanks from the game house to gamers who have spent money to buy this package.
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Or recently we learned about the “Collector's Edition” of the Black Myth Wukong game with lots of exclusive physical products such as statues, posters … for gamers who bought this game before this game
Meanwhile, Riot's expensive Bundle did not have this and made its meaning greatly decreased. Riot can completely donate some items such as the Ahri statue in the legendary skinless skin or the poster signed Faker for those who buy this package. At that time, the above -mentioned skin package will be much more meaningful and it will probably be supported by the community.
Signature Hol Faker package will be much more meaningful if Riot gives the buyers it with the poster with the signature of “Demon King”
To be fair, Riot Games trying to increase revenue quickly is an understandable move. Although Riot is not a small company, they also have many economic difficulties. Even in early 2024, Riot Games had to make a decision to leave 11% of employees to be able to cut costs. Meanwhile, they are still developing many other projects such as League -playing game League or films revolving around Runeterra universe, so they need a lot of financial resources.
Recently Riot also confirmed that they will publish movies and television surrounding the League of Legends universe after Arcane season 2 ends.
Therefore, it is likely that Riot wants to use Faker's fame and reputation hall to test the sale of “super expensive” items in League of Legends to increase revenue as quickly as possible. Sadly, this test has backfire when it creates a great wave of indignation in the community. Therefore, Riot needs to carefully consider the same plans to avoid being criticized by his own fans in the future.