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Ultimate skins are supposed to be the Gucci or Louis Vuitton of League of Legends cosmetics. They command a premium price for an extraordinary product that's supposed to add something special to the game. DJ Sona plays new music tracks, Pulsefire Ezreal evolves throughout the game and Elementalist Lux gives you 16 skins in one convenient package. Gun Goddess Miss Fortune (GGMF), the newest Ultimate skin, lacks a wow factor on par with other Ultimate skins, and fans are not happy.
Gun Goddess Miss Fortune costs 2,755 Riot Points (RP), which translates to about $20. An Ultimate skin is usually 3,250 RP, but in a State of Skins video released last week, Product Manager Supercakes explained that GGMF didn't warrant full price. The skin has four forms, each with its own unique VFX and costumes. That would be amazing for a skin of Legendary quality or lower, but for an Ultimate, fans expect Riot to do something awe-inspiring. Based on the GGMF reaction, it appears Riot severely undershot that goal.
The League of Legends subreddit is full of disgruntled players expressing their disappointment. They have myriad complaints, from the skin being lackluster to its incredibly odd price point. Since you can't buy RP in exact amounts, fans will have to buy larger amounts of RP just to get the skin. European Reddit user Egohearts says: "At the end of the day, it doesn't matter for Riot what you use your RP on, what matters is that you spend 20€ regardless." You can spend that leftover RP on other skins, but Riot still gets your money.
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Riot Cactopus, a vocal member of the community team, tried to explain why Riot won't be reworking the skin into something worthy of full price and has been getting downvoted into oblivion. His current comment has been downvoted 1,816 times by angry Miss Fortune mains and bandwagoners looking to jump on a trend. "Our plan is to just listen for now (reading what players are saying all over the world—not just the Reddit echo chamber) instead of engaging in arguments in comment sections like these," Cactopus wrote.
Riot Lovestrut, a QA analyst, went to the League of Legends forums in an effort to be as transparent about the GGMF process as possible. Her animations are close to the base model, he explained, because they want MF to still be readable even after she changes forms. The "the forms seem like chromas rather than new skins" argument is moot because GGMF can't be changed at this point of production. In summary, the skin can be tweaked, but we know what we're getting.
There's a ton of effort that goes into making a League of Legends skin, with dozens of different people designing, tweaking and programming it to perfection. The community backlash has to be discouraging to those folks but sends a clear message to Riot that fans expect a lot from Ultimate skins in the future.
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