Riot Mort on skin prices "Realistically we won't be making many (if any) lower priced skins. We've found that players would rather their champ get a higher quality skin like a 1350.

Thinking artist work less before is not true at all, just look at any concept art of a playstation 1 game, they looks as good or better than any concept art done today, and the same can be done about modeling and sprite/3d artists/cg,etc, it can even be said that they have to work a lot harder and fight with a lot of limitations in the past to achieve good results, is crazy how many tricks they use in old games to manage to deliver what they want gameplay and graphic wise. Argumenting that the quality was worse before because lack of work or talent is an insult to the artists that actually work hard on it with the limitation of that time

Technology IS a limitation, and league skins and champions take advantage of the improvement of technology , same as the maps, just look at season 1 maps and champions and see how many pixels they use, how are they render, etc , thinking league didnt improve a lot in the graphic department is being out of touch with reality, and of course skins are gonna improve with it, is not the same result in trying to make a skin for minecraft than for WoW even if you use the same team and work the same for both

Did they hired "better" artists with more experience ? for sure, did that increase justified the rise in prices? no, just like going to watch Avengers Infinity War doesnt cost you more for the ticket than going to watch Bohemian Rhapsody even if one cost 6 more times more money that the other to produce, because they expect that the investment pays off in numbers of sales, just like better skins should sell more than bad skins, there is your pay off, not expecting to sell more AND increasing the price, but hey gaming companys can do wathever the hell they want, things than any other industry try to do it would get huge backlash (Excepet apple :P) and some ppl would fall for it with a smile

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