Renowned League of Legends esports player Lee Sang・hyuk is the first inductee to be inducted into Riot's new Legendary Hall of Fame, its own custom・built Hall of Fame. To commemorate this occasion, Riot is releasing a limited-time League Of Legends cosmetic bundle featuring new "Legend" skins for Ahri - the most expensive of which costs a whopping 59,260 Rps. In other words, Faker has the unique title of being the first player Riot's has been honored with a skin that costs close tohon500USD. Congratulations! League players, of course, are not excited. At the time of writing, more than half of the threads on the front page of the League Of Legends subreddit are filled with players complaining about the latest, which feels like a constant inflation of cosmetic costs. For comparison, Ultimate Skin, which is some of the League's most flashy cosmetics, usually costs 3250 rupiah, or about 30 US dollars. On the other hand, even the cheapest version of the new Ahri Faker skin bundles costs 5430RP, about 50 USD. Of course, in the bundle there are other cosmetic nuggets, such as provocation, icons, emotes. Whether that justifies the price remains as an exercise for readers. Listed on the Hall of Legends page as "some of the most generous bundles ever" at the Hall of Legends Event Cosmetics, Riot seems to be dabbling in psychological tactics aimed at making bundles more attractive. If you buy a cheaper skin bundle, the upgraded version sold right next to you will still have fewer or compromised products, and if you are only buying a 1950RP Battle pass for the event, you will be able to unlock the rest of the cosmetics when the event clock goes down. It can be difficult to ignore the ignore500 bundle's 100 pass level. These are not new strategies, but with potential costs involved, I feel clearly sickly. Often called Michael Jordan of esports, Faker has played 4 World Championship titles, multiple League of Legends Champion South Korea MVP Awards, kills, assists, among other accolades too long about how much I have achieved in my couple of additional years on Earth. Holds the LCK record of the game, the game won. And having been inducted into the ESL Esports Hall of Fame in 2019, he's not the first to receive Hall of Famer treatment. Naturally, people like a man — to add an extra sting to the already absurd pric500pricetag. As Reddit user SwiftRespite writes, "Almost all league players love Faker," but Riot "chose to take advantage of their love for Faker for their own benefit."As noted by a user in the Reddit thread linked above, Faker rarely uses skins on his own and usually sticks to the default champion look throughout his professional career. As Redditor Arcuran puts it, "I already have the skin of Faker Arli. It is called the base skin."
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