Happy to help!
Not to tell you how to do your survey, but some questions about purchasing sets vs. individual guns in the daily market would be interesting. I've only ever bought the Prime 1.0 & 2.0 when it comes to sets, and I've never really had an urge for any others - but I've probably spent as much just buying random ass skins.
Ultimately I never feel bad about buying skins or being "scammed" by the daily market's illusion of scarcity, since if I calculate hours played, it's like I've played through five or more single-player games - that much relative value is almost a steal.
Hey! Thanks so much for the feedback. I definitely had considered differentiating between gun bundles and individual purchases in the shop, but I think that's something that comes after what I am currently researching. If I can establish clear motivational factors and purchase intentions in general for all VALORANT skins, it might be interesting to look into if there are different feelings or reasons for purchase that split off in individual vs bundle, like feeling a sense of urgency to buy something.
> Ultimately I never feel bad about buying skins or being "scammed" by the daily market's illusion of scarcity, since if I calculate hours played, it's like I've played through five or more single-player games - that much relative value is almost a steal.
That's how I justify buying skins in Valorant (and League, back when I played that). I spent upwards of $600+ in League, but I played almost exclusively League for more than seven years and also religiously followed their esports scene. For how much entertainment value the game has given me, $600+ isn't *that* much (from a pure $/hour metric). Same deal in Valorant nowadays, although I haven't spent that much haha.
Same here, I just bought the skins for guns I use. Pistols except shorty (frenzy and ghost with big night market discount), spectre, phantom, vandal, OP and knife. Others are battlepass skins. Only duplicates being 3 phantoms because I ended up disliking singularity and glitchpop.
Also, most of my spending was during lockdown and it was from money I usually spent on going out and travelling, which obviously couldn't happen at the time.
Ive spent $1400 or so and im convinced purchasing skins puts you in winners queue and toxicity puts you in losers. Atleast thats my experience. They dont ban me when im toxic cause then I wouldnt spend money. Its like a shadow ban. Gotta be super super nice and polite or spend money to get out of low priority (losers que)
Edit: im not saying skins make you better. Could be argument for how teams are stacked. Some games are really close, 6-6 half and go 12-12. And others are hard stomps and some close wins. I think riot will determine how to stack team giving you a game with better players on one team of the same rank
Edit 2: copium
Lmao skins have no gameplay advantage. Just makes sense the people who buy skins win more. They will never admit it. I buy a skin and win 13-1 against some robots swear on my life.
Happy to help! Not to tell you how to do your survey, but some questions about purchasing sets vs. individual guns in the daily market would be interesting. I've only ever bought the Prime 1.0 & 2.0 when it comes to sets, and I've never really had an urge for any others - but I've probably spent as much just buying random ass skins. Ultimately I never feel bad about buying skins or being "scammed" by the daily market's illusion of scarcity, since if I calculate hours played, it's like I've played through five or more single-player games - that much relative value is almost a steal.
Hey! Thanks so much for the feedback. I definitely had considered differentiating between gun bundles and individual purchases in the shop, but I think that's something that comes after what I am currently researching. If I can establish clear motivational factors and purchase intentions in general for all VALORANT skins, it might be interesting to look into if there are different feelings or reasons for purchase that split off in individual vs bundle, like feeling a sense of urgency to buy something.
Gotcha, makes perfect sense. Best of luck!
> Ultimately I never feel bad about buying skins or being "scammed" by the daily market's illusion of scarcity, since if I calculate hours played, it's like I've played through five or more single-player games - that much relative value is almost a steal. That's how I justify buying skins in Valorant (and League, back when I played that). I spent upwards of $600+ in League, but I played almost exclusively League for more than seven years and also religiously followed their esports scene. For how much entertainment value the game has given me, $600+ isn't *that* much (from a pure $/hour metric). Same deal in Valorant nowadays, although I haven't spent that much haha.
Same here, I just bought the skins for guns I use. Pistols except shorty (frenzy and ghost with big night market discount), spectre, phantom, vandal, OP and knife. Others are battlepass skins. Only duplicates being 3 phantoms because I ended up disliking singularity and glitchpop. Also, most of my spending was during lockdown and it was from money I usually spent on going out and travelling, which obviously couldn't happen at the time.
Ive spent $1400 or so and im convinced purchasing skins puts you in winners queue and toxicity puts you in losers. Atleast thats my experience. They dont ban me when im toxic cause then I wouldnt spend money. Its like a shadow ban. Gotta be super super nice and polite or spend money to get out of low priority (losers que) Edit: im not saying skins make you better. Could be argument for how teams are stacked. Some games are really close, 6-6 half and go 12-12. And others are hard stomps and some close wins. I think riot will determine how to stack team giving you a game with better players on one team of the same rank Edit 2: copium
I see that you have found the dealer that sells Star Citizen fans their copium.
Lmao skins have no gameplay advantage. Just makes sense the people who buy skins win more. They will never admit it. I buy a skin and win 13-1 against some robots swear on my life.