Night Market once again came and went while the gamer folk scratched their heads or spewed forth their sickness. These recent discounted skins have upset the gaming community; some meme traffic even went through the roof, and trash emojis littered the place (12 times). The Night Market was supposed to be a lucky draw for top-end cosmetics, but it is fast turning into a glorified garage sale for stuff nobody asked for.
Valorant‘s tweet about the Night Market haul gave rise to mixed reactions. Several Valorant skins such as Sovereign Marshal and Singularity Spectre were deemed by some to be “actually good” and by others as “shite”. “They don’t want us to buy good skins, so why have Night Market?” said one player, sarcastically.
But here’s the thing: Night Market has always been somewhat of a controversial topic for Valorant. Even when it began, there were complaints about the randomness of the discount; others said no real premium skin was ever on discharge. Other voices felt that Riot Games was just recycling skins that were just unwanted inventory. This one now really, really raised the level of frustration from sarcastic praise (“Crazy how they still get away with this”) to calls for action (“Do something @riotgames”).
Of course, some scored some pretty good deals, as one player showed off an Ego Knife, and another flexed with pride over having the Tethered Realms Vandal, calling it “the GOAT”; still, for every happy buyer, there were at least five others stuck with what they’d dubbed the “5 greens” (translation: bottom-tier skins).
The larger issue here? Night Market’s structural setup. While Valorant’s usual skin vendor refreshes every day, Night Market was a seldom appearance much of the time leading to disappointed expectations. “If it’s gonna be six random skins with mid discounts, why not just make it monthly?” shared one player. Several others have mentioned Riot should guarantee at least one top-priority skin on every rotation, or allow customers to re-roll what they view.
Riot has not yet responded to this recent torrent of complaints, but the backlash cannot be swept under the rug any longer. Players compare their Night Market pulls to trading cards (some even rate them from zero to ten), signaling an immediate need for changes to the system. This could very well be changes to better odds, more frequent rotations, skin selections, or all of the above.
Until then, Valorant fans could only keep their fingers crossed that the next Night Market won’t be classified as a dumpster fire as well. To quote one who perfectly summarized this: “My Night Market is always shit 👎.”
So what’s next, Riot? The players are waiting; you know they’re not going to be patient for very long.
