SO Lunar Revel is coming...and No new Diana skins?
I'm not sure exactly what the thought was, but I think we wanted to make her a skin independent of this holiday just because she's by default.. ya know.. all about the moon. Do we do like.. Double Moon Diana? WHAT DOES IT MEEEAAAN?
I don't think we want to pigeon hole too much. There's some good themes we can attach to her beyond Lunar Revel. I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's sort of a rule of thumb that we don't have a champion's first post-launch skin be event related. It's a pretty good policy I think in that we want people to become more familiar with the champion outside of events or holidays first. I'm not sure how strict we are about it, but I think that was brought up in the LR discussion. However, I could also be full of benedryl (sinus headache).
We have new skin ideas for her, and yes, I'll probably be doing the concept for whichever one is next =)
There's probably more but these are champs who got their first post-launch skin to be event related or limited.
yeah, there isn't really a rule or anything, but we do put extra consideration in whenever a limited skin is suggested for a champion's first post-launch skinwe're hesitant to do that nowadays. the only recent failures here are maokai and leblanc, if memory serves, and those were over a year ago (although we totally did it again with the second post-launch skin for maokai ). anyway, the gist is that going forward we'd like the first post-launch skin to hang around in the store all year so you have at least two to pick from at any given time.
as for the first post-launch skin being tied to an event, we don't have any reservations about thateveryone is fair game in that regard!
Fiora's first post release skin is a legacy not that I mind much but yeah that's fairly recent =P
oh, for some reason i thought we left that one in the store
well, that applies to hecarim too then come to think of it. i thought we decided to leave 3 of the event skins in the store, but i guess all 6 of them were legacy (or whatever the term for 'can come back later' is). poor hecarim, fiora, and maokai. ; _ ;
so, yeah, that's why we want to be very mindful about limited/legacy skins in the futureit's cool to see something besides launch skins available for a given champion.
Be less mindful of the limiteds! Y u no want my monies?
haha, i was just talking about limited/legacy skins as a champion's first post-launch skinnot about those kinds of skins in general. for example, it would be nice if draven's next skin would be available all year. that doesn't mean that there isn't a chance it could be limited/legacy, just that we'd put extra thought into the decision and make sure it really is the right choice if we were leaning that way.
Ah, sorry, I knew I didn't have a complete picture of post-launch event-relates skins. My bad!
I think though that there were better options that were a bit more festive. Diana I don't think adapted quite as well. Plus I think we came up with a few more appropriate themes for her for her first post-launch skin.
IronStylus, we Diana players are waiting for a new skin to keep fightning our enemies!
Is any one being worked on? or are we getting a new one 'soon'?
I have not yet put stylus to cintiq but it's on my list of upcoming projects. No estimated date whatsoever, but It'll be in my hands to execute when the time comes.
I'm not sure exactly what the thought was, but I think we wanted to make her a skin independent of this holiday just because she's by default.. ya know.. all about the moon. Do we do like.. Double Moon Diana? WHAT DOES IT MEEEAAAN?
I don't think we want to pigeon hole too much. There's some good themes we can attach to her beyond Lunar Revel. I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's sort of a rule of thumb that we don't have a champion's first post-launch skin be event related. It's a pretty good policy I think in that we want people to become more familiar with the champion outside of events or holidays first. I'm not sure how strict we are about it, but I think that was brought up in the LR discussion. However, I could also be full of benedryl (sinus headache).
We have new skin ideas for her, and yes, I'll probably be doing the concept for whichever one is next =)
Correct - I'd like to avoid event or holiday-themed skins as a "first" skin for a champion, partially for some of the expectations reasons I laid out in the Lux thread. This will become more sensible as we fill in a lot of these expectations - I'm more OK with something like Mistletoe Zyra once we have a great core skin for her, for example.
Lunar Revel...No Diana Skins?
I don't think we want to pigeon hole too much. There's some good themes we can attach to her beyond Lunar Revel. I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's sort of a rule of thumb that we don't have a champion's first post-launch skin be event related. It's a pretty good policy I think in that we want people to become more familiar with the champion outside of events or holidays first. I'm not sure how strict we are about it, but I think that was brought up in the LR discussion. However, I could also be full of benedryl (sinus headache).
We have new skin ideas for her, and yes, I'll probably be doing the concept for whichever one is next =)
as for the first post-launch skin being tied to an event, we don't have any reservations about thateveryone is fair game in that regard!
well, that applies to hecarim too then come to think of it. i thought we decided to leave 3 of the event skins in the store, but i guess all 6 of them were legacy (or whatever the term for 'can come back later' is). poor hecarim, fiora, and maokai. ; _ ;
so, yeah, that's why we want to be very mindful about limited/legacy skins in the futureit's cool to see something besides launch skins available for a given champion.
I think though that there were better options that were a bit more festive. Diana I don't think adapted quite as well. Plus I think we came up with a few more appropriate themes for her for her first post-launch skin.
Rest assured, we have ideas.
Is any one being worked on? or are we getting a new one 'soon'?
I don't think we want to pigeon hole too much. There's some good themes we can attach to her beyond Lunar Revel. I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's sort of a rule of thumb that we don't have a champion's first post-launch skin be event related. It's a pretty good policy I think in that we want people to become more familiar with the champion outside of events or holidays first. I'm not sure how strict we are about it, but I think that was brought up in the LR discussion. However, I could also be full of benedryl (sinus headache).
We have new skin ideas for her, and yes, I'll probably be doing the concept for whichever one is next =)