@SlivPTS focus group testing, qa and surveys are the way everything gets tested nowadays. You can't put an untested product on the market. The discount in the store is not a test, that move had to be planned before the event, they're not a grocery store 🙂. But if they are actually testing on public...that would be really, really bad...
Regarding the profit, it's not just an assumption, it's simple logic. Let's say a skin sells for 15$, 5$ for development and 10$ profit. If that skin is reduced to 10$, then the profit becomes 5$. Twice as small is something, right?
I can also say that you're assuming huge amount of players are not buying. I've seen a lot of these new skins in every match, so it's hard to say from the player level. The devs know better, they have the actual numbers and we may never find out the actual truth.
