Gamers are rioting in r/leagueoflegends over gacha-style changes being introduced
Riot Games (developers and publishers of League of Legends) is introducing a new system for a mythic chroma.
Mythic = top tier skin that is usually only available with specific currency called Mythic Essence, which is often a random drop (or given freely at milestones in certain reward tracks, usually battlepass or loot milestones). The drops can be quite small, 5-10 at a time and take considerable effort to get without spending $$ each month. To the point where some people can play for years and never make it past 100-125 at a time, with new released Mythic-class skins being 125 on launch, and 100 on rerelease later.
However, as it turned out, this new skin is not a Mythic chroma of an existing legendary skin ($15-18 roughly in ingame currency) but a new skin in a gacha-style reward track where some estimates are you need to spend $200+ to get a guaranteed drop, vs the 1% drop rate on capsule opening.
This has, unsurprisingly, caused quite a riot (pun intended) in r/leagueoflegends!
Multiple threads about it have been made, some removed, here's the ones I could catch now:
Thread comparing the skin to a low RP chroma variant of another skin entirely
Thread ranting about the new system
Thread claiming Riot's gone crazy
Thread from a high spender's POV
Poster makes PSA warning about the skin being a loot milestone one
Upvoted:
User comments about it being FOMO exploitation
User warns it's a test run and further down people attack OP and get in fights over him
User makes comment attacking high spenders
Downvoted:
Person defends the decision, gets dogpiled in downvotes and replies
Person thinks its good and a way to support Riot
Person claims to not care, sparks a small fight
Poster says he's buying it to piss the sub off
Flairs!
Exploiting PlayStation 1 FOMO! XD
Free speech is overly dramatic
I love shit in my mouth, but not piss
I'm buying gacha skins to upset you all
This is developing drama, there's a lot of fury both on and off Reddit over this. Some major content creators (presumably part of Riot's partner program) are actively hostile towards Riot on social media over it.