Event Pass Adjustments

TL;DR here is:

In upcoming events, it'll take slightly longer to unlock Prestige skins when comparing against the recent Night & Dawn and Mecha Kingdoms events.

However, earning tokens will still be noticeably easier than it was in events prior to Night & Dawn.

Milestone missions will be down to 15 points needed per mission rather than the 20 that every event other than Night & Dawn has required.

Events used to ask you to play around four games per day to earn the event's Prestige skin. Your feedback was that that was too much, and we agreed, so we decided to lower the play requirement to between two and three games a day. Since most of us can't play as much during the holidays, we decided to go even further for the Night & Dawn and Mecha Kingdoms events and lowered the requirement to around one-and-a-half games per day for those events specifically.

However, because many players no longer had holiday commitments and their play time went back up during Mecha Kingdoms in January, we saw a lot more players getting the Prestige skin or Prestige Points during the Mecha Kingdoms event.

We want prestige skins in events to be something you have to work for—not just something you easily get for buying the pass. During Mecha Kingdoms, the vast majority of pass buyers got enough tokens to unlock Prestige Mecha Kingdoms Garen, even those who didn't play much.



So, we made the choice while working on Galaxies earlier this year to reduce the tokens being granted such that it typically takes between two and three games per day to get a Prestige Skin. We believe this will help keep them more exclusive, but because this requirement is significantly lower than the approximately four games per day required from events last year, we hope it still feels fun and fair to achieve.

On a related note we’ve also adjusted the number of points needed for milestone missions. Historically those have needed 20 points per mission to complete. For Night & Dawn we tried 15, though we had it back to 20 for Mecha Kingdoms. After reviewing both events our conclusion was that the increased accessibility of milestone mission rewards Night & Dawn had was appropriate so we’ll be sticking with 15 points required going forwards.

As always, we’ll be reviewing this event and your feedback to help inform if we should make further adjustments. Thoughts much appreciated.