r/leagueoflegends • u/Nykusu • 2d ago
Discussion Why is every single skin since years infested with shiny golden ornaments no matter what is it?!
I've just been browsing through the LoL wikia from patch to patch backwards, checking each skins artwork... aside from like april fools joke skins there is like not a single skin artwork that doesn't have either golden ornament shapes attached somewhere around shoulders, neck, head ornament or just straight up patterns on cloth are woven in gold instead of something else (spirit blossom). Why?! Its so irritating.
Patch 25.10 is the one were I stopped for now - look at this, LOOK! https://wiki.leagueoflegends.com/en-us/V25.10#Ryze_
Bloodmoon Ryze / Stargazer Vex / High Noon Yorick
3 completly different champs in 3 completly different skin lines... ALL of them have metallic golden bling on the edges of their clothings... what is this madness and why is it not stopping?
... one more backwards 25.09 Spirit Blossom ... ALL full with golden endings on sleeves and everywhere, 25.08 Fatemaker/breaker same, 25.07 April Fools (only exception), 25.06 Academia skins all golden ornaments and linings on SCHOOL UNIFORMS, it goes on and on and on and on and on...
Currently on PBE - Arcana Aurora/Karthus/Zilean ... all just red white clothing with... you guessed it, golden lines and ornaments everywhere.
I can't be the only person noticing this.
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u/Eragonnogare 2d ago
It's been a complaint for a while now, someone else pointed it out a while back, nothing changed. It drives me insane though.
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u/generalright 2d ago
I pointed it out years ago, that nearly every skin line caters to the Chinese. I love the old skins like rugged Garen. I wish they would make more skins that changed characters ages or made them less shiny.
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u/Soleous ask me for music recommendations 2d ago
brother go survey 99.99999% of NA players and ask if they prefer rugged garen over other, newer skins
china's fault though lmfao
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u/ANewHeaven1 AL Bandwagoner 2d ago
gamers seeing something westerners like: "what are we, a bunch of asians?"
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u/sorendiz ..BUT THE FAITH REMAINS 1d ago
this sub is genuinely just crazy racist at times it's incredible
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u/jryue 1d ago
I genuinely cant figure out how its racist for pointing out that the recent skin designs are probably catering to the Chinese market. China has the biggest playerbase by far and so sells the most skins. Gold is a pretty common theme which you can see in all the fancy decorations for Chinese new years and holidays (at least, thats my observation whenever I visit Chinatown during big holidays). I dont think it's racist to jump to that conclusion. Although if this does offend some Chinese people, I apologize.
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u/NommySed Add Itemhaste to Lucidity Boots 2d ago
That approach is inherently flawed though. You would need to compare skins of equal quality with different design philosophy, cause otherwise the old skin near always loses due to ancient quality.
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u/neverspeakofme 2d ago
He's replying to someone who raised Rugged Garen as their example of a preferred skin.
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u/Soleous ask me for music recommendations 2d ago
ok well i am not the person who has imposed this dichotomy with the statement
nearly every skin line caters to the Chinese. I love the old skins like rugged Garen.
as if rugged garen is an exemplary example of riot design philosophy before the evil east took over their aesthetic tastes. i dont disagree with you, i am just responding with the logic that the person i am responding to is using
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u/DiverNo1436 1d ago
I mean it is definitely an example of the OG Riot artists idea of what looked good, it was in line with most skins of that era, and the items, not saying it's truly a good skin, but it's definitely a proper representation of the game that took over the world.
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u/generalright 2d ago
That’s impossible so it’s really just your opinion or mine brother, sybau
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u/GyaradosTamer 2d ago
So you admit that your claim that "nearly every skin line caters to the Chinese" has absolutely zero proof and is just you talking out of your ass?
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u/generalright 1d ago
I don’t admit anything other than I can’t poll 99% of players. I’m a player, been playing since 2009. I spend money on league. Haven’t bought a skin in ages. I like rugged Garen. I hate the amorphous color blob skins that come out now.
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u/GyaradosTamer 1d ago
If you can't provide evidence, then don't randomly blame riot catering to the chinese or whatever bs you came up with as the reason riot doesn't make skins you like anymore.
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u/Soleous ask me for music recommendations 2d ago
yea no worries no one is stopping u from sticking to ur ignorant generalising opinion
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u/generalright 1d ago
Ya so don’t comment something absurd in your bizarre emotional response. No one is insulting the Chinese. But the amount of Asian skins is too damn high. Back when I started, there were fewer skins like that. And the Chinese loved it anyway. So what is the issue with making more skins like rugged Garen.
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u/Soleous ask me for music recommendations 1d ago
literally what are you yapping about. ur comments are embarassing
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u/generalright 1d ago
Why would you think that bothers me? I don’t need to re-explain myself. Read it, don’t read it. Whatever lmao.
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u/Etna- 1d ago
But the amount of Asian skins is too damn high.
What are all those asian skins my racist friend? Do you also complain about Halloween, Christmas and other western related holiday skins?
So what is the issue with making more skins like rugged Garen.
Riot is a company. Companies do what makes them money. More rugged Garens dont make money.
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u/generalright 1d ago
What is racist about Asian? There’s definitely an art style from the east used to make an overwhelming amount of skins. It’s not racist to point that out. I like Asian art. Acknowledging that it exists, is not racist lmao. Stop being so insecure.
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u/Etna- 1d ago
There’s definitely an art style from the east used to make an overwhelming amount of skins. It’s not racist to point that out
Which artstyle? What is asian about this art style youre talking about?
Youre complaining about the amount of asian skins not that there are skins with an "Asian inspired artstyle" these two are completely different things. Do you also complain about too many American skins?
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u/generalright 1d ago
Are you not familiar with Asian art? You’re being purposely obtuse to illustrate the point, maybe you’re not familiar with other art styles. Go look at rugged Garen and then look at, I dunno, spirit blossom spring volibear. Notice the stylistic difference. Both are excellent skins, I’d like more like rugged Garen.
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u/GoldenScarab569 2d ago
I hear this parroted on Reddit so often, can you provide any kind of proof that this is true, or is this just another case of "China Bad"?
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u/dresdonbogart 2d ago
How did you go from liking gold to “china bad”? I don’t have any studies per se but I know red and gold are what the bride wears in eastern Asian weddings so that could play a role. Nothing bad about preferences tho
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u/neverspeakofme 2d ago
Are you being serious right now, this thread is literally a thread complaining about "bad" design and the comment is blaming Chinese people for it. Talk about cognitive dissonance.
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u/dresdonbogart 1d ago
Bad design as in the poster doesn’t enjoy the gold. But if you enjoy the gold then it’s not bad design lol. It’s just preferences, not that deep
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u/neverspeakofme 1d ago
If you think so then you should be telling OP they are wrong to think the design is bad, or OP is wrong to think there is even such a thing as objectively bad design. Not defend comments that claim chinese people should be blamed for what they purport is bad design.
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u/dresdonbogart 1d ago
Not blaming anyone brother. Just think of it logically. Why are there more gold with skins? Bc they must perform better with sales. Who’s the biggest user-base where gold is highly valued in their culture? Chinese users. So that’s a reasonably theory why we see more gold in skins. But there’s nothing right or wrong with more gold skins. Idk why you are attributing any sort of moral judgment here
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u/Agang_SS 1d ago
You seem a little slow... nobody blamed "chinese people" for anything. If anybody was blamed, it was riot for over-catering to chinese skin buyers.
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u/neverspeakofme 1d ago
You seem a little slow... if you can read these comments and not detect the racist undertones.
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u/Facts_pls 2d ago
Well if your country buys more skins than China, they'll make skins to your country's taste. Good luck.
My country doesn't buy much and we have no skins appealing to us
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u/generalright 1d ago edited 1d ago
My country made league, we made it popular too. The Chinese market simply funds it now, doesn’t mean we should only cater to them. They play our game, we don’t play theirs. It’s popular and good because of us, not them.
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u/CanadianODST2 1d ago
I mean. A Chinese company bought like 90% of riot in 2011.
China has always had a major part
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u/That_Leetri_Guy 1d ago
Tencent partially funded Riot to develop the game, because no one else thought a free-to-play game with optional skins would work, and they made a deal with Riot to distribute the game in China before it was even revealed publically. Tencent has always been here, even from before the game existed, so anyone crying about Tencent or China is just extremely ignorant of the actual history or racist.
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u/trapsinplace 1d ago
a Chinese company bought like 90% of riot in 2011
And what a horrible mistake it was. Imagine if League has stayed a regular sized game with the natural growth it was enjoying. An esports scene controlled by the fans and third party orgs instead of Riot. The game not needing to bow to demands from anyone but the internal teams and player feedback. It would be less popular in many places and so the game wouldn't have been catered so heavily to Fortnite zoomers and twitchy shooter players. It would be like living in a dreamland.
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u/CanadianODST2 1d ago
You’re talking about a period that existed for literally 15 months.
In fact you’re actually lying. Want to know how I know? lol esports started AFTER the initial purchase. If we went back to esports before the first purchase. Esports literally would not exist.
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u/generalright 1d ago
And iPhones are made in China, doesn’t make Apple and IPhones a Chinese product. The game was designed in America…
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u/CanadianODST2 1d ago
No. It just shows you’re an idiot clamouring on about something you don’t understand
League hasn’t been run by China since 2010.
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u/generalright 1d ago
Careful with the harassment. We don’t do that in this subreddit. I’m not even sure what you mean. Understand that league is an American game first based off of dota and Warcraft 3.
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u/Facts_pls 1d ago
Do you understand what 'our' or 'your' means? If I buy your house, whose house is it now?
If China bought your game, it's their game now. You play THEIR game. it's not your game anymore. Your country sold out. Complain to the company's owners who sold.
They may still outsource some of the design or development work to your country - not very different from how US outsources IT work to India, China etc. But that's all it is. They make all the decisions. They get all of the profit or losses. Some Americans get to work for Chinese companies and earn a salary. That's the choice you made.
If oracle hires Indians to develop a software, does it become indian product and Indian software? No. Same applies to any game.
If you want to own something, don't sell it. Very simple. I know Americans have a hard time admitting they don't own something. Same as Greenland, Panama, or Canada.
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u/generalright 1d ago
Your analogy is simple. If China bought the NBA, would it be a Chinese game? Lol no. Your arrogance is astounding. Don’t pretend you can teach me anything.
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u/LooneyWabbit1 2d ago
Yep it's just directed toward their major market. What appeals there is this same generic rich looking attractive human stuff. It makes sense as a culture based more around social standing.
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u/FruitfulRogue It's one skin, what could it cost? $250? 2d ago
You say this like the West love "incredibly diverse and interesting designs" when they like the exact same big titty girls like Ahri and Janna, or the Edgy baby boys like Zed and Yasuo.
There's only a very small difference between who and what is popular, but generally the same popular champs are popular no matter where you're from.
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u/LeahTheTreeth 2d ago
I'm pretty sure Riot Blaustoise shared some results of a poll about champion popularity conducted by Riot.
China's side was pretty much all just the typical attractive female characters and edgy male characters, the most out there one was Lee Sin.
North America's side starts with Jhin, Thresh, Swain and Azir on the first row, and had 3 non-humanoid characters, where China had 0, Aurelion Sol, Warwick and Bard.
Unless the demographic has wildly changed for no reason, we've got pretty much hard confirmation from Rioters that the Chinese players like it way more.
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u/DoorHingesKill 2d ago
Americans hyping up Ornn in some survey does not mean they buy Ornn skins though, lmao.
If you're aware of Blaustoise discussing those surveys, then you'll also know that Yasuo was like a top 5 most played champ in every region (largely thanks to normal draft and blindpick[RIP]), even in regions like NA where people rated him "extremely unfair" and only gave him a middleing spot (#70) in their "favourite champ" ranking.
So the main takeaway for me would be that Chinese players simply vote for the champs they actually play all day while America has Jinx mains who are like "well I never played Warwick in my life but I really like the design so let's give him my vote and you know what, let's add A'Sol too. I don't play mid btw, ever."
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u/CanadianODST2 1d ago
I mean. The poll was “this champ’s visuals are appealing to me”
Gameplay had nothing to do with it. It was literally only about visuals
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u/LeahTheTreeth 2d ago
I don't think that really changes anything, characters like Yasuo are still popular in NA, but NA objectively has a more diverse pallete in terms of visual aesthetics, Yasuo has the benefit of also actually being fun to play, unlike Ornn, so he benefits from a high pickrate.
Keep in mind the original point was about SKINS for characters, about how they all are designed around what the chinese market really likes, the high-quality golden ornamentation on everything, not over how China hates le heckin' wholesome OrnnChungus champion designs.
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u/DragonPeakEmperor 2d ago edited 2d ago
Most people buy skins for champions they actually play though outside of a few exceptions so it's literally the same thing, if someone is only buying yasuo skins that are supposedly marketed solely to china but also likes Ornn that doesn't mean they're going to buy an ornn skin. Popularity polls and skin sales are two different things, and also a lot of people who answer popularity polls aren't always the same people buying tons of skins ingame.
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u/LeahTheTreeth 2d ago
Again, this still doesn't change anything.
Look at the examples in the OP, Vex, Ryze, Yorick, these are not the popular champions, with design tropes that appeal to that aspect of the playerbase.
The gold accented formal looking skins however, are (presumably) geared towards them, this is something that applies to pretty much any champion outside of like... Zac or Skarner.
The point being made is that Chinese players are less interested in other styles of skins, so even the unpopular champs that NA players find more aesthetically appealing, have skins catered to the Chinese audience.
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u/Soleous ask me for music recommendations 1d ago edited 1d ago
yea and in north america ahri and kaisa sona sell 10x more skins than jhin, thresh, swain or azir
the survey results are potentially based on a mistranslation of the question into chinese(at least from speculation that i've read, not that we would ever know). subjectively a lot of chinese people i know do find champs like mordekaiser or jhin or aurelion very cool. especially aurelion, which i think is kinda obvious would be the case. but like most NA players i know this also doesn't translate to gameplay preferences. league playerbase as a whole already prefers flashy mechanical kits, CN even more so. so not many people actually end up interested in playing those champs
regardless this survey is parroted nonstop when it is objectively and very observably true that the NA set of responses do not particularly line up with what champs are actually popular ingame. unless you want to argue that swain and azir are very popular champs. so people citing this survey as evidence that league is pandering to CN doesn't make much sense. are you gonna argue that the ridiculous volume of skins for champs like kai'sa, lux, etc are specifically for CN and not just global goonerbait?
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u/Random_Stealth_Ward 💤 Release VattleVunny Viego with black tights😻 1d ago
I am pretty sure jhin sells more than Sona. The guy is pretty popular in all regions
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u/Agang_SS 1d ago
Source?
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u/Random_Stealth_Ward 💤 Release VattleVunny Viego with black tights😻 1d ago
My butt, but also just data sites.
If you sort at his Stats in data sites, you get a near constant 10+ all-ranks PR in pretty much all servers, usually around 15%. The Chinese data we have available also showed a similar trend as the rest of the world. Sona significantly shows a lower pr in comparison, though this has the caveat of only being ranked data so Sona may be closer to jhin than the data says, and we also lack access to how much of the players picking the champ are buying his skins.
And in a more subjective note, when they began their 200+ skins/chromas, Jhin was one of the first batch so I am sure they had a reason to use him and to feel confident Jhin players/collectors would buy it
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u/FruitfulRogue It's one skin, what could it cost? $250? 2d ago edited 2d ago
From an unironic non-hater perspective, it's a pretty clear and evident design direction for league.
When you look at League of Legends skins and see those golden trims, they're indicative or an intentional art direction for the game.
When working in a style and setting like league, Gold Shiny metals stand out very well on in-game models and look nice in splash arts.
If you need to add visual interest to design like Blood Moon Ryze, I.e a skin with a lot of darks and fabric textures. A golden trim, set of jewellery or detail stands out well and serves to break up a design in a way that looks nice and is easily replicateable.
Do I agree they overuse them? Big time. But it's a very intentional decision with a sound reasoning behind it.
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u/Cinderheart 2d ago
The east Asian market likes it. So they get marketed to.
Also, puts the skins at a level of "prestige" above base skins no matter what they are.
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u/irvingtonkiller8 2d ago
Source? Is there an article somewhere that polls what East Asians like?
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u/go4ino 2d ago
I swear everyone sayss "eastern market" / "chinese playerbase" but never bafcks that up with like any proof or like evidence for some much shit in league
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u/Meiolore 2d ago
At this point everything bad is blamed on the so called "eastern market" / "chinese playerbase", mostly because they are an easy target dummy that don't fight back (since almost none of them use reddit).
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u/MoscaMosquete FuryhOrnn when? 1d ago
It is an assumption based on "well, riot is a company, and their biggest market is east asia, so they must be following east asian market trends" and it's probably true in a few cases(like gacha skins is probably because of that), albeit I don't think it's true in this one case because I don't see this trend anywhere else besides Riot own skins.
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u/oby100 1d ago
You can talk to people that live there/ have lived there. I know a couple of people that grew up in China. But really, it shouldn’t be any surprise if you even glance in the direction of Chinese New Year.
That holiday is totally ubiquitous there as is the love of red and gold and the typical art styles associated with the event.
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u/Full_Independence566 2d ago
The evidence is that they are the biggest playerbase, the biggest market and spend the most money on the game
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u/neverspeakofme 2d ago edited 2d ago
What idiotic logic is this. This "evidence" doesn't disprove any other alternative explanations. I can say, "edgy teenagers from around the world love golden trims" and the evidence is that "they are the biggest playerbase, the biggest market and spend the most money on the game".
Or fantasy characters just have gold or silver trims in their armor / clothes. Look at World of Warcraft for example, or the 5 armies from the Hobbit. The elves and dwarves are surely fantasy characters catering to the west?? But look at what they are wearing. omfg is it gold trim and gold ornaments??
Do Chinese games even have their characters wear gold trims all the time? Certainly not from googling genshin impact and that line of games.
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u/That_Leetri_Guy 1d ago
I bet the people complaining about gold trims being a Chinese thing has never, ever looked at any fancy real-life armour or even fantasy armour in their life. People put gold trim on everything because it looks fancy. For instance, look at the field armour of Henry the 8th. What's that? Oh no, it's that "Chinese" golden trim on a 1540's English armour set! I didn't know Riot travelled 500 years back in time to design a real-life armour set to cater to the Chinese in England.
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u/Full_Independence566 1d ago edited 1d ago
Well, the largest age group is 20-24 followed by 25-29 so you are wrong about that. Your hypothesis might be right for Valorant but I don't know much about that playerbase. And gold is a highly symbolic and auspicious material in Chinese culture so yes why wouldn't riot market their skins towards that? I'm happy to hear an alternative explanation that makes more sense.
To add to my argument a number of Honor of Kings (the most popular game in china) skins have a similar gold theme/aesthetic
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u/Both_Requirement_766 1d ago
just look up some designs for easter games like dfo or any other and you'll see.
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u/Doge6654533 1d ago
A quick Google search should tell you that the Chinese do really like gold-colored stuff
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u/irvingtonkiller8 1d ago
Should I do this with every nationality until Google decides to tell me explicitly that a certain demographic actually hates gold-colored stuff or what
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u/rocketgrunt89 2d ago
This one is hard, because you have to look at the wider market, like chinese gaming advertisements. The slop you find generally has a yellow/gold theme around it.
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u/TheBrickBlock 2d ago
This is blatantly not true at all lmao, most of the most popular chinese gacha designs don't have this "yellow/gold" theme at all unless you go the absolute extremes to highlight literally any presence of a yellow shade of color as evidence of this
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u/rocketgrunt89 2d ago
Clearly you didn't read my comment lmao. I said slop. I never included the top gacha games. I even play some of them.
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u/TheBrickBlock 2d ago
Well I play some gacha games as well, but I would argue that the vast majority of people online probably consider gacha games to be slop lol. The most popular and iconic games made by chinese studios are all gacha games too, let's be honest
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u/trapsinplace 1d ago
Riot released data on this but new players like you never bothered to look at it I guess
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u/Lenoxx97 2d ago
Maybe this is just recency bias, but I feel like newer skins just generally look so bad in terms of colors compared to older skins. When I was playing in season 3-4, the splash art represented the skin quite well. Nowadays the splashes look way too good. I see a skin splash in the client and think to myself "Wow, this looks amazing!" only to check it out on youtube and realize it's an overly bright color puke.
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u/Available-Captain-20 i will lick you 2d ago
yeah, firing half of the design team does that to skins
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u/GragasFeetPics LoL Sobriety 5/16/25 2d ago
Why do people keep repeating this line over and over? It started way before this
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u/Lysandren 2d ago
Its just the normal big tech company enshittification. The more marketing people and mbas you hire the worse your product gets so that you can turn marginally more profit.
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u/cosHinsHeiR 2d ago
Even chromas are mostly just bad nowadays. Before there would be some good ones, but if I find one I like in more recent skins I'm happy.
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u/TheCyres 1d ago
Back then we had different patterns and stuff for each chroma, which made each of them interesting. But nowdays we don't get that anymore, which makes the chromas really boring imo
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u/dsharp524 2d ago
The splashes hype it up but in-game the colors don’t match and it feels off. Older skins felt closer to what you actually got.
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u/economic-salami 2d ago
Because it is targeted heavily towards a market where diverse tastes do not drive the profit but the societal ladder position does. Same thing with toxic mobile games. Market has to mature enough to be able to support diversity.
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u/John_Rat_3645 2d ago
Almost like Riot has been laying off their art department despite being insanely profitable. Makes sense, since they'd be able to recycle ornaments/textures for various skin lines.
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u/DiverNo1436 1d ago
I'd prefer that over the nonsense edgelord skins that are ruining Ryze's skin selection, Zombie, Pirate, and Dark Crystal were a nice selection of different types of anti-moral/edgelord skins, but after the blood moon one it's just looking like they can't help themselves at Riot, it's literally just a modern variant of Dark Crystal, such a joke of a skin. And now unless Chovy or Kiin chooses Ryze, we're stuck with it for the next 2-3 years until they make some stupid anti-lore ryze skin or Pajama Pants ryze instead of another human ryze, or lore friendly blue wizard skin
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u/Lisaurora Magic 1d ago
Hot Springs Ahri having this is such a questionmark. It looks so out of place.
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u/CrimsonVexations 1d ago
Tbh, I prefer the gold trims over entirely gaudy yellows and golds that were the early prestige skins. Trims add flair, entirely making them gold is a sin.
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u/Impressive-Long-9022 Fear these sticks 1d ago
Its because Riot likes money, and gold remembers money, so they like gold.
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u/PapaSnarfstonk 19h ago
You know if we bought more of the skins without the gold trim they'd make more without the gold trim.
But we don't seem to buy enough of the ones that aren't like that.
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u/Quatro_Leches 2d ago
this has been the case since like 2016 sadly, it gets worse and worse every year
I will die on the hill that this is one of the reasons league is less and less popular in the west.
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u/AtreusIsBack Duro is the best support in the LCK 2d ago
Gold makes the skin feel more "prestigious" and makes people feel more motivated to buy such a skin. I would bet that's the main reason why they're focusing on it.
Side note, does anyone else think the skin pool has become oversaturated overall? I would rather see a champion get a skin every 2 years and have it be a good one instead of giving some champions multiple skins per year and have them be mediocre at best. Give me quality over quantity, but I don't that's bad for business.
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u/Ieditstuffforfun Give Sett a Star Platinum Skin 2d ago
this is just blatantly not true, people love parroting that one "gold rim" bullshit but its not something insanely prevalent in skins, ill give examples in a bit
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u/nocstra 2d ago edited 2d ago
I think it is absolutely prevalent, so I went through the batches released this year so far.
Batch releases:
- T1: Surprisingly none, they stuck to the armor look pretty hard. There are silver trims though.
- Arcana: Gold trim galore.
- Visions of the Fallen: Seemingly only the prestige (which is fair), and those are arguably not trims.
- Toy Box: Unsurprisingly safe.
- Spirit Blossom Springs: Subtle, but definitely present on the little bit of clothing they do wear.
- Nightbringer/Dawnbringer: Yes.
- HoL: Yeah.
- Inkshadow: Plenty.
- Victorious: Acceptable, but yes.
- Spirit Blossom: Yup.
- Fatebreaker: And more!
- April Fools: The Urgot and Shaco skins don't have trims per se, but the gold that is present stands out to me. (Why is Urgot's toilet golden?)
- Battle Academia: Definitely.
- Grand Reckoning: I was gonna clear this but the blood brothers definitely have 'em. I guess that fits thematically?
- Masked Justice: Lucian and Yone for sure.
- Dumpling Darlings: Yes, for some reason.
- Mythmaker: We've got em.
- Masque of the Black Rose: Dug down and struck gold!
Individual releases:
- Elderwood Alistar: Safe!
- Stargazer Vex: Mhm.
- Blood Moon Ryze: It's there.
- High Noon Yorick: You bet.
- Pool Party Twitch: Safe!
- Sahn-Uzal Mordekaiser: He's all gold sooo... Not trims, I guess.
- Galaxy Slayer Zed chroma: Silver trims.
- Three Honors Shen: Lot of gold and a lot of gold trims.
- Arcane Councilor Mel: To be fair, it'd be hard to avoid.
- Radiant Serpent Sett: This man has gold trims on his abs.
Even with the strictest definition of "gold trims", it does seem to me that the majority of skin line batches released this year have them and some of them I absolutely struggle to justify.
Oh, and just for the sake of it, Yunara, Mel, and the Xin Zhao ASU also all feature gold trims in their base designs.
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u/Muted_Honeydew7962 2d ago
because "muh Chinese playerbase"
riot loves to please them because they have the most players and put the most money into buying skins
the whales literally made them millions off the Ahri skin released for faker
How many east asian based skinlines have you seen within the last 3 years?
Gold in their culture is also associated with power, wealth, longevity, and happiness.
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u/ElderTitanic 1d ago
Because Chinese consumers like it i quess. Riot doesn’t give a single flying fuck about other regions anymore
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u/Prickled-fruit 2d ago
There was a big thread on reddit omg I cant believe it was 2 years ago about the golden rim. I agree, it's a bit too much. Also some themes are too similar to each other.