We finally have some details on those fancy new ward skins thanks to Riot's most recent announcement. As we heard about before, some of these skins will cost you RP, while others will be available for IP. Regardless of how you buy them, they are still, unfortunately, temporary.
"We’re excited to announce ward skins, a new customization option that allows you to change the appearance of your Sight and Vision Wards on the Fields of Justice. In keeping with the season, these ward skins are inspired by the haunting guise of the Shadow Isles. Activating a ward skin will transform your wards into ghosts, spooky trees, spiders, creepy stone statues, or pumpkin-headed bats with their own unique visual effects, sounds, and animations.
Here’s how they work. When you purchase a specific ward skin from the Wards tab of the League of Legends Store, it gets added to your inventory for one week. You can activate a specific ward skin to change the appearance of your wards in game. You can keep up to a year’s worth (52 weeks) of ward skins in your inventory at a time, so don’t hesitate to stock up if you have a favorite. Ward skins function the same as a regular Sight or Vision ward.
Here are the first five ward skins available to unlock:
- Deadfall Ward – 200 IP
- Haunting Ward – 800 IP
- Tomb Angel Ward – 25 RP
- Widow Ward – 75 RP
- Bat-O-Lantern Ward – 165 RP
These particular ward skins will be releasing with the Shadow Isles patch and will be available until November 13, so buy a few extra weeks if you want to frighten friends and foes alike all year round."
Of course the biggest critique of this new content is about the duration and why we can't just have a permanent unlock, to which Hippalus replied:
"The goal here is not to have ghosts and bats popping up all over Summoner's Rift all year round. It is a Harrowing/Shadow Isles promotion to add a new element to the event and help us understand how players like and use ward skins."Furthermore, he expanded on that by adding in:
"If players like the concept of ward skins, the longer term plan would likely be to have permanent ward skins year round plus lower cost rentals for the holidays. This is an experiment with a new type of content and it doesn't make sense to offer permanent non-holiday ward skins until we see if players use and enjoy it."
NO WHAT IS THIS!?
ReplyDeleteMe are ferstes
DeleteRiot releases these great new skins, and maps and a great new long awaited champ and then they fish out this crap about 1 week ward skins? no... no... boycotting, i'd do it if it was IP maybe but RP for one week... GTFO
DeleteThere are rp and ip ones. Most seasonal stuff is... Seasonal. Not sure why that would make you boycott.
DeleteBoycotting makes sense because they are essentially trying to make you use your left over RP instead of saving it. Aka making you buy more RP. Personally i don't find it that bad, they DO have them for IP as well. I actually like these though and i hope when they release permanent ones these are among them and don't simply get trashed after November.
Deleteup: agree
DeleteWhat`s the point ? Buy it if you want. Or don`t. It`s a simple decision of an average customer, not a 'boycott' (lol).
DeleteWTF NO VOLI SKIN?
DeleteAnd that's how to easy earn money xD
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They shouldnt be temporary. If thats the case why arent the character skins temporary? You can run around as Santa Gragas all year round. If you bought them then you should be able to keep them all year round. Also if this is the case... do we get them next year or do we have to buy them again? That's another good question to be asking...
DeleteIt isn't releasing great new content, its teasing with great new content. Rate down for the temporary. Boycott? excessive, but I myself won't be purchasing a temporary item.
DeleteIf you don't like it, don't buy it. Stop whinging like children telling others to boycott if you don't like it.
DeleteWhile I may not like the concept of temporary, I have to respect that this is what they've decided for now, until further decisions are made. They've at least given the option of ward skins through IP.
Furthermore, you should've saved up IP for october anyway, they always do something which at least requires some IP, so that's no excuse either.
Bottom line: Don't be such whingers
im gay
ReplyDeleteRight there with ya buddy
DeleteThree's a party
DeleteEzreal says: "You belong in my bed!"
DeleteR.I.P R.I.P I like popcorn.
DeleteWeekly durations? Hahahahahaahah must be a joke!!! Bad joke!!!
ReplyDeleteFor 1300ip you can get the 25ip one for a year.
Deleteoh thats rp my bad
Deleteits 25 RP not IP, definitely not worth it
DeleteTo be honest, no one wants summoner rift littered with Halloween wards all year. Having this temporary is a great idea.
DeleteSo they shouldn't sell it ... that's all
DeleteI'd pay 1300 rp for unlocking them permanently...
Deletedont want them now
ReplyDeletetemporary stuff is never worth it
ReplyDeletenot cool at all, i would want permanent version
ReplyDeleteWhich is acutally OP
Deleteewwwww , they should just make it like half a full price skin in rp, or like 3150 ip for 1.
ReplyDeleteNope, lost all interest in it. I'm keeping the regular wards
ReplyDeleteNo. Period.
ReplyDeleteMeh the tree is my favorite anyways and at 200 IP that's my FWOTD So I am not too terribly upset about that one.... the others are a bit ridiculous. Maybe we will see more people warding in solo Q to get their money's worth. *keeping hope alive*
ReplyDelete"QQQ one week duration blahblahblah"
ReplyDeleteTHEIR HALLOWEEN SKINS.
They should be permanent if you have to pay for them. They could just give us free skin during halloween for free if they have to be temporary. ;) I would spend 6300 IP or 975 RP for those ward skins. This time they were not smart enough.
DeleteThey're. please troll with correct spelling
Delete"I would spend 6300 IP or 975 RP for those ward skins."
DeleteI do agree with you their. But I personally dont mind that they cost pennies for a week. its not like their a major vanity item. Majority of the people complaining probably dont even buy wards that often. Being a support player i will use the years worth i buy, and i shall admire them.
Also, Mr anonymous, i dont really care that much about my grammar, go elsewere for your daily grammar "policery"
DeleteIf they where permanent I would buy them, but for only one week I will pass, I'm not too fond on purchase temporary cosmetics.
ReplyDeleteTwo new posts about it. :)
ReplyDeleteI hope HARROWING ones are weekly, but the future ones will be more expansive, but all lol long.
how about... NO
ReplyDeleteHow dare they try to make money off of the free game they put out that you can play without ever having to pay a dime! Entitled.
ReplyDeleteLmao, you guys are some poor bastards. Not to mention that the cheapest one is only 200 IP for a full week. I can get that in one game with my win of the day.
ReplyDeleteUnless you have all champs and have stockpiled on runes and pages, its not worth it
DeleteThat's what I was thinking. It's practically 1 or 2 IP wins, for a weeks worth of wards. I'm so confused as to why everyone's crying lol.
Deletenot permanent xD fail
ReplyDeleteExplosion in the Riot Forums over this little None- permanent problem
ReplyDeleteWill stick to tha basic
ReplyDelete250ip is nothing I'd buy it! Cool to change up the look of wards, even if temporarily, and it helps them create an ip sink that I'm sure they need.
ReplyDeleteThey could just make it a lot pricier and permanent though.
DeleteIf it was permanent and pricier, you'd all whine about the price and you know it.
Deletei will buy just the ips one.. anyways it would be much better if you could unlock for ever but only use them for harrowing..
ReplyDeletemeh
ReplyDeleteXD As much i jump on the "damn you Riot!" wagan, i agree with the comment above^. Shuts down that side of my brain everytime. "Oh yeah, i don't HAVE to spend my money on this game" *goes and buys more RP*
ReplyDeleteNine out of ten LoL fans thought this was a neat, little idea... then promptly wondered what a Ward was.
ReplyDeleteHAH SNAP
DeleteMake it
ReplyDelete975 RP / 10.000 IP
each ...
BUT PERMA!
No, then you'd complain about the price. Do you realize just how much 10K IP is? If it was permament, it would have to be RP only. Just like a skin.
DeleteThis is ridiculous. Im definitely not buying it!
ReplyDeleteMeh, just farm Dominion games. You get more ip faster. I think it's not that big of a deal, we get to spend ip on something else for a change and this will encourage warding a little more for lower tiered players.
ReplyDeleteChampionship Icon is availiable
ReplyDeleteFor those of us that own all the champions we want and have enough full rune pages for our amateur League of Legends career, this is a great idea. And even if you don't spend money on this game and don't have all those rune pages and champions, you can get a week long rental of 200 IP skin for one First Win of the Day. or with 4 wins you get the 800 IP. That's 4 out of 7 days you have to play one game to get these. Not a big deal at all. I'll be getting these every week. For free.
ReplyDeleteMake them last a year and have some promo prices, like 350 RP or something. Otherwise it's not worth it.
ReplyDelete"not to have ghosts and bats popping up... all year round"
ReplyDeleteThey already have ghosts (Haunting Nocturne) and numerous seasonal/holiday skins popping up all year round. Festive Maokai (a Christmas tree) was seen numerous times at the recent World Championships and it's not currently Christmas time.
Obviously they're just looking for a new way to make more money (akin to WoW's $15/month subscription cost on top of the money people already spend on buying new champions / skins).
if they only last 1 week i would still buy them for ip not rp. the ip cost is so low so can make that up fast and it would be good for people who have played soo long that they already have every champion they want and have a lot of extra ip. :D
ReplyDeleteSo much whining around here, and I don`t really see why. The game remains 100% free, so what`s the point of these all accusations ? You don`t have to spend your IP/RP on the wards if you think one week is too short.
ReplyDeleteBTW, the tomb angel skin looks actually funny and it costs whooping 15 cents. And you can have a deadfall one just for one 1st win of the day. Small reward, small price - looks fair to me.
So.. im wasting real money or ip for skins to wards that most of the time will be shown only for my teammates and the common site to place them is in the bushes.. so they cant apreciate them completely?
ReplyDeleterabble rabble rabble rabble
ReplyDeleteExcept for the fact that their main income has and will always be skins. Making a new feature that players have been asking for rentable for ridiculous amounts of money is not okay.
ReplyDeleteYeah, i dont want halloween wards all the year. Next step riot should take is to make that people cant use seasonal skins when isnt the right time. So i'm using my striker ez on 2014. /sarcasm
ReplyDeleteNICE MOVE, RIOT!
You won't be able to use Red Riding Annie unless there is a grandma Warwick on the other team.
Deleteeverybody is crying about the new stuff is too expensive and other things, people forget that THIS GAME IS COMPLETLY PLAYABLE FOR FREE!!!! If u want extra stuff go pay for it, this is how it works.
ReplyDeleteDo it atleast for a full month RIOT... Every year, 1 month before the Season ends and Halloween comes along, having these unlocked every year for the ones who already paid previous year would be awsome. But this, no.
ReplyDeleteDamn, 25 rp IS ridiculous!
ReplyDeleteWard skins rental. Revolting.
ReplyDeleteJust like irl ppl buy decorations for the holidays , but don't keep them up all year long. I don't mind buying the ones for ip since I have a ton of ip an u can always get some more, but also the rp ones are cheap, just 25, what else you gonna do with 25 rp XD
ReplyDeleteBut yes that ghosty ward will be mine :O
Yeah, a totally free game. Good luck having champions _and_ runes upon arriving at level 30 without buying RP.
ReplyDeleteDotA2 is more f2p than League is.
I have to say this is a bad one riot
ReplyDeletebad one
One of the things i loved about LoL was taht there was no of this shitty "buy for a week" stuff as there are in every other thing :/
If only they were not temporary. I would have rather buy a pricey permanent skin for wards than the current system.
ReplyDeletewhat are you talking about? i hit lvl 30 and had 2 full rune pages and 30+ champs.
ReplyDeleteu wont see them in the new TT :'(
ReplyDeleteIf you think it's such a lame game, then why are you on surrenderat20? That confuses me. Also, you may want to work on your spelling and punctuation.
ReplyDeletesame here..that guy must be a noob..
ReplyDeleteand he's a dota lover...gtfo xD
But what if I WANT bat wards all year round???
ReplyDeleteWhat if I LIKE Halloween/spooky/creepy stuff in my free to play game all year round???
What if I DON'T give 2 bodily functions about whatever the Christmas wards are gonna look like???
T.T
Not to mention you cant buy Runes with RP, only with IP.
ReplyDeleteAlso, unless you are retarded and bought tier 1 and/or tier 2 runes, by the time you hit lvl 30 you should have enough money for Standard AP, Standard AD and Jungle Rune Pages (buying an extra one, also with IP).
You will also have spare IP to buy a few champions most likely some 6k ones too.
Also, Riot made it so low level players earn more IP, so its even easier to rack up on IP from lvl 1 to 30.
Maybe Im lucky or something, but if I remember correctly when I reached lvl 30 in my first account I had bought around 18 champions and 3 full rune pages all with IP.
This does seem like a bit of a stretch, however Riot is still staying true and at the very least is not selling power.
ReplyDeleteRiot needs to make these permanent!
ReplyDeleteYou can stack buy them. You could get 53 copies of the 200 ip one for 10k ip and have it for a year. By that time they will probably have newer better permanent ward skins.
ReplyDelete1st
ReplyDeleteI would pay more for permanent unlock.
ReplyDeleteWhat's wrong about being a dota lover? I'm a dota lover and lol fan but that doesn't make you any better than me. You fanboys show your nature way too much. You should be the one getting the hell out of a conversation like this. Jeez.
ReplyDeletelol chumps most pro players in leagues didnt even buy RP to unlock champs or pages they used them to buy skins.
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