I have no issue spending money on a game I like and the skins themselves look fantastic in Valorant.

Logged in today knowing I was going to be buying the RGX bundle so went ahead pulled out the nice metal card and swiped $100 which got me 11k Valorant Points. Opened up the shop and nearly 9k goes to buying the whole bundle, a bit pricy but no big deal it's a cool skin line.

Now the problem if I want to get the another color variant that's 55 Radianite PER weapon and the bundle includes 4 weapons + knife so a total of 245 Radianite. Reminder that the battlepass only gives you 160 and that's after playing the game for a few weeks to max it out.

So as any other reasonable person I took out my credit card again and swiped, no way I'm playing with vanilla weapons! Now I had around 13k Valorant points which let me get 160 Radianite for 10k points and used that to upgrade most of the guns excluding the Operator for the time being.

I just find it mind blowing that any game today can release a skin line product like this and expect it's users to drop $250-$300 if they have any intention of actually getting all the 'features' of it. I've played League for years and will occasionally drop $100 to buy some of their super duper bundles but that at least comes with every single thing unlocked and doesn't pay wall me even further.

Honestly Radianite is the biggest scam which I've come to see. It simply should just not exist and if they want it to exist the only thing it should be used for is color variants. The guns have no reason not to come fully loaded with animations and vfx. I'm spending $30 on a Phantom skin and then you want me to spend another $30 on making it usable?

I'm gonna keep buying of course but it still feels like a scam!