User blog comment:ZanaLyrander/Thoughts on Legacy Skins/@comment-5077844-20130729163243/@comment-11759251-20130729174044

See, that's the thing, I don't curse Riot, certainly not for things like this. Sure, I might whine about the odd nerf, but in terms of financial decisions, I respect them. I completely agree, they handle the whole free-to-play model much, much better than most game developers, and paying never feels mandatory (which ironically enough, actually makes people feel more comfortable actually paying for stuff)

I have no problem with retiring legacy skins if it actually does make Riot money, but as I mentioned, I find that hard to believe. How can it be making them money if no one can buy them? discontinuing a skin, one which they already spent time and money to make but which requires no investment to maintain seems odd to me. Creating false scarcity is a tactic many businesses try to use, but I have to wonder if they wouldn't make more money just leaving the vault open.

Again, I'm not a marketing associate, I don't have any actual data, I just have to wonder what the costs versus benefits are of such a choice.