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Riot is getting cancelled once again and
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over the course of this video we'll go
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over every single reason on why it's
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completely deserved for those of you
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that have been living under a rock
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recently Riot has been undergoing the
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great hex tech situation where they
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recently removed Hax Tech chests and
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they told the community that they were
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never going to give them back over the
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course of the last several weeks Riot
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has been eating [ __ ] from countless
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people that have been making posts
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making memes and even making videos
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criticizing them and criticizing the
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situation but yesterday things got a
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whole lot worse after many weeks of not
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responding to anything that was sown
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against them they actually decided
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yesterday that they would release a
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tweet on Twitter but on that tweet they
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weren't apologizing they weren't
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bringing back hextech chess and they
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weren't telling the community that they
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were sorry for their greedy practices
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instead what they did was the complete
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opposite they actually released a new
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$250 skin called son uzal Mizer as you
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can imagine people have been in uproar
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Reddit has been full of hate threads
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people have even made songs criticizing
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the skin and using hate comments as the
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lyrics for the song and on top of it
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skin spotlights which which is Riot's
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biggest Advertiser on YouTube that
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showcases all of their skins even made a
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snarky comment in the thumbnail calling
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it another lackluster exalted now
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instead of being like the other channels
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that are just going to sit there and
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report on the situation I wanted to take
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time to talk about why the hate is not
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only deserved but should be a million
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times higher than what it is right now I
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don't know how many of you guys have
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been playing league for years like me
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but I started back in season 4 and I
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remember back when RI used to actually
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put effort in this game they would
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always find ways to incorporate League
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of Legends with the real world to make
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it way more immersive whether it be
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through the winter map whether it be
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through skin lines like the soccer skin
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line back when it was the World Finals
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or even things like constant Halloween
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or Christmas or Valentine's Day skin
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sets they always found ways to make
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League feel like you were really at home
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and back then when they would release
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pricey skins they would always be worth
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it when I think of old school pricey
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skins I think of spirit guard uder DJ
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Sona and Elementalist Lux keep in mind
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that the base price for skins normally
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is around $10 us and Riot since they
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were charging 25 us for these ultimate
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skins actually decided to give them
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ultimate levels of effort Spirit guard
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udar had four different forms that you
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could choose from that when you would
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have your abilities fully maxed out
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would have these different effects and
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these different cool visuals DJ Sona
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would play songs that her entire team
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and if I'm not mistaken the enemy team
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could hear with form changes as well and
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different songs that would respond to
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the different form changes and even
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recently skins like Elementalist Lux had
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entire cinematics dedicated for them 3
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minute long cinematics to Hype up a $25
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skin that had 10 different form changes
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10 different sets of effects and
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everything and when you would look at
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all of these the one thing that you
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would think is wow that's quality and
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the craziest thing about it is that you
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would only be paying around double what
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you would normally be paying for a skin
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for these ultimate skins now I want you
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to sit there and compare that to the
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exalted skins I want you to compare
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ultimate to exalted and you'll find the
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real reason why ride is getting so much
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hate the community is completely in the
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right for [ __ ] on Riot and it's for
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the simple reason that if you compare
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ultimate to exalted skins there is no
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difference between the two apart from
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the price how can skins sit there and
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have 10 times the price of other skins
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that were released years ago with less
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Resources with less people working on
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them with less access to CGI and back
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then the Skins were even arguably higher
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quality nowadays we're getting $250
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skins like the set one or the moris one
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or even the Jinx one where they just
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don't even feel that different like yeah
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you can make the argument of but they
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have different walking animations or
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they have a lot of these like different
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new animations but I can point to you
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winter blush cyana or in Shadow y that
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have completely revamped their entire
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character but the only difference is
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that instead of paying 200,000 RP you're
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only paying 2,000 RP the truth is that
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these exalted skins were not made
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because Riot had these crazy new ideas
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for skins that they really just wanted
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to slap a crazy price on because they
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knew they were of great quality the
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truth is that these exalted Skins are
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just a marketing tactic for the
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predatory gacha system that they put in
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the game that was honestly just an
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excuse to funnel more people into giving
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more money into the shitty battle pass
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rewards and the problem with Riot skins
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isn't even just the exalted skins it's
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the fact that all the recent Skins are
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extremely low effort and low quality
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Riot can sit there and they can cope as
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much as they want saying that hextech
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chess are the reason people aren't
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buying new skins but the truth is that
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look at this page since November since
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the release of the second season of
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Arcane these are the skins that riots
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released and I want you to answer me
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right now if any of them look like
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they're worth buying the mask of the
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Black Rose ones don't even look like
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actual skins they just look like lore
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skin recolors the Arcane skins also look
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whatever like yeah sure they're a bit
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different from the base model but is
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anyone really going to spend that money
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on them and to top things off out of the
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last 18 skins two of them have been
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exalted if you can't even have five
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skins that happen between two exalted
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skins then is the future of League of
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Legends just constantly releasing these
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shitty $250 skins that should honestly
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be priced at $1 1820 there's just an
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extreme amount of laziness when it comes
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to the Skins recently not just with the
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actual visuals but also with the ideas
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behind them what happened to all the
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crazy ideas they used to produce like
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elderwood or even Darkstar Darkstar was
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such a hit that they actually had to
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reuse the skin line three times you're
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telling me that with all the teams that
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they have they can't actually figure out
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any new fantasy theme lines that might
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be insane they have literal teams of
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people that are dedicated to these skins
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that are probably not even allowed to
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explore their creative freedom because
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the truth is that the higher ups are
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just using the skin lines to Market
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their show it's at a point right now
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where I feel like nobody can really deny
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that League of Legends is not anymore
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the game League of Legends it's just the
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medium that allows them to get enough
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money to fund the actual projects that
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they want to do like Arcane or noxis
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they're just pushing out these skin
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lines that are in all honesty not really
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that interesting nor are they any good
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at all because they just want to Market
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their shows and the funniest thing is
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that the real way that we can figure out
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how big of a fraud ride has been with
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skins not only recently but over the
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course of years is by looking at custom
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skins the fact that people that have
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access to no teams to no Riot sanction
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resources or to any of the million dooll
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facility that Riot has are able to
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create skins for Champions that are not
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only infinitely better than what Riot's
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been putting out there but are also free
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is unreal anyone that's ever used or
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seen any custom skins will know that all
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it takes is one person with a few days
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of effort and they can create an
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entirely new skin from an entirely new
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thematic with entirely new themes that
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look insane with new animations and it's
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free so how can riots sit here and
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deliver bottom of the barrel content
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consistently but then price it at these
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extravagantly overpriced levels even
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things like chromas if you ask any
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custom skin developer all it would take
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them is about an hour of effort and they
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can instantly deliver you a chroma for
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any skin in the game the fact that Rya
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charges money for that and on top of it
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that they don't even do them for the
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majority of the Skins either is Criminal
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an analogy that I gave on my stream
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yesterday that I think perfectly
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encapsulates the situation is this
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imagine you take a person and you make
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him get married to a woman and initially
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in the beginning stages of their
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marriage he's just giving her a clean
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glass of water and every time he does
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she him and then over the course of
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years it gets to a point where now even
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if he gives her Gucci bags and Louis
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Vuitton she won't even give him a kiss
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that's how Riot feels nowadays it feels
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like they're underd delivering and
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overcharging because the truth is that
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they just don't care about the game
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anymore for any content creators that
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have been in the scene for years we know
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how little Riot actually cares there are
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many events that they could have done
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over the years there are many ways that
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they could have actually increase the
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hype of the game but they just chose
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against it when you look at games like
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fortnite or Marvel Rivals and you see
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how their development teams actually
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manage to market the game and push it in
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a way that makes everyone enjoy it it
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just makes you wonder what the [ __ ] is
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Riot actually doing and the truth is
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that I don't think they know either I
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think that they just have a couple of
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high-ups that are telling the rest of
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the entire riers hey we need to get as
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much profit as possible and they're just
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trying to work them like literal sweat
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shops the reason why ride has actually
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been losing potential profits over the
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years has nothing to do with hex chests
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it has to do with lazy delivery it has
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to do with lazy events and it has to do
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with lazy skins I think that right now
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we're at this precipice where we as the
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community could actually somehow find a
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way to really change inner workings
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within Riot but the truth is that if
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people are still going to go out and buy
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the moris or skin slop or they're going
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to spend money on the GAA system or buy
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the battle passes then Riot will never
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change their ways at the end of the day
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Riot's just a company but even though it
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is a company we are their employers it's
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the people that actually give the
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company money to operate so if that
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stops then they're forced to actually
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reassess things so I just urge all of
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you to not keep supporting Ry in what
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they're doing and please for once let's
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actually take a stand against it cuz at
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this point I feel like everybody can
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agree that it just doesn't feel good to
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play a riot game anymore and honestly I
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think that the community has the power
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to change that but only time will tell
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if they're actually able to
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