Pricy bundles and costly DLC usually are not unusual amongst gaming firms. However Riot Video games could have taken issues to a brand new stage with its newest League of Legends bundles. As a tribute to esports icon and League of Legends participant Lee ‘Faker’ Sang-hyeok, Riot is providing three bundle tiers, with the best one set to value roughly $450.
As introduced on Riot’s official site, Faker has been inducted into the corporate’s corridor of fame, the Corridor of Legends, for being the most-successful participant within the historical past of League of Legends, and for his contributions to esports. Faker and Riot additionally collaborated on the brand new bundles to have fun his induction. The primary bundle, the Risen Legend Assortment, features a Corridor of Legends Cross, a Takedown Counter Taunt, an icon, an emote, a banner, and Ahri with a singular orange-and-white pores and skin for for 430 RP or $40. The second tier, the Immortalized Legend Assortment, contains all the things from the earlier bundle and provides unique pores and skin transformations, finishers, the Immortalized Ahri pores and skin, and extra. That bundle may even embrace a considerably larger value of 32,430 RP or about $250.
The third and ultimate tier is the Signature Immortalized Legend Assortment, which goes for an astronomical 59,260 RP or roughly $450. For that, gamers get all the things from the primary two bundles in addition to a Faker-themed signature transfer and construction finisher, an unique border, banner, 100 cross ranges, a Last Boss Faker title, and extra content material.
Amongst League of Legends followers on social media, the reactions to that price ticket have been swift and virtually universally unfavorable.
Riot addressed the pricing of the bundles on the FAQ part of its official web site.
“For these trying to flex their fandom, the Immortalized Legend Assortment and Signature Immortalized Legend Assortment embrace spectacular additions, headlined by the evolving Immortalized Legend Ahri pores and skin. Whereas dearer, these variations are supposed to be extremely commemorative, with never-before-implemented options that we will’t wait to see hit the Rift.”
All three bundles shall be accessible from June 12 to July 8 through the League of Legends Corridor of Legends occasion.