PC Gaming @lemmy.ca alessandro @lemmy.ca 5mo ago

Ahri ban rates soar as League of Legends players commit to protest [due to absurd skin cost: $435]

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League of Legends players are protesting the obscenely expensive Ahri Faker skin by banning the champion and kicking her from matches.

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“Protest”

Y’all are still engaging with the game. Stop playing, stop paying. That’s all corporations actually care about.
- lmao exactly
Seems less like "protesting" and more like "fucking over other people in the game" to me, which sounds about right for the League of Legends player base.
Can't wait for the R34 of a $435 skin
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Rule34LoL/comments/1devqp2/immortalized_ahri_bobartnsfw/
  
  There you go it's like the top post of the month haha (NSFW obviously) (yeah its reddit sorry)
  
  If you ever need to go to reddit, you always need to change it to "old.reddit".
  
  So instead of: https://www.reddit.com/r/Rule34LoL/comments/1devqp2/immortalized_ahri_bobartnsfw/
  You want: https://old.reddit.com/r/Rule34LoL/comments/1devqp2/immortalized_ahri_bobartnsfw/
  
  Damn all I see is "this post is marked NSFW, go to the app to see this content or be redirected to reddit main page"
If you play league still it is your fault.
wow, i thought it would be a while before someone had the chutzpah to out-greed Battlestate Games. I definitely need to stop giving these corporations the benefit of the doubt. but of course, the culprit is Riot.
I will never give them my money.
Honestly I hate any game where the other team can just, arbitrarily decide "Nah you can't play the character you like, fuck you" and it's one of the innumerable reasons I don't like League.
- I hate league with passion but this is the dumbest reason to argue against any moba game.
- You could play a different game mode
  
  As for draft, banning maps is a much better system
  
  You got me I actually do in fact dislike all MOBA type games.
  
  That particular mechanic of "banning" characters may also fuck right off though. I can't ban sniper when I play TF2
- That's a hot take and a half
I feel like if anything has the right to be ridiculously expensive, it's art.

It's not a necessity for survival.

It's not a necessity to live a fulfilling life.

There's so much else available to us that can fulfill the same purpose that are cheap/free.

A one time $435 cost feels a lot more expensive than lots of small purchases adding up to the same amount, meaning this is more likely to be purchased exclusively by people who can actually afford it, unlike the latter which can trick people into spending more than they can afford.

It funds free entertainment for everyone who don't have the ability to pay.

What's the downside?
- What’s the downside?
  
  Customer manipulation.
  
  You could say "of course don't affect me" to FOMO, p2w, whales, dark patterns and alike... but just because you personally ignore it, it doesn't mean it's going to vanish. Industries live and evolve through money, the next iteration of video gaming is made by where money went.
  
  LoL players came from a mod of Warcraft III; Riot is slowly cooking (put in warm-to-boil water) their frog customers in something people don't consider healthy (generally with "they are them, not me, so I don't care").
  
  Worse than what they've been doing for the last decade? It seems to me like this is a better state of things because it's clearly a lot of money for one big purchase, so you know immediately that it's not something you can afford. Better transparency, so less manipulative.
Do people protest brick and mortar stores for having high priced items or do they not buy the items / shop in other stores?

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