Quote Originally Posted by Piper139 View Post
It is by design. The second it becomes a gameplay advantage to buy the skins, it becomes pay to win. Currently a free to pay player can have the same maxed base I have. But, if my heroes are stronger because I bought skins and they didn't, the balance is broken. And many of us would delete the app the same day.
Quote Originally Posted by Piper139 View Post
A quote from darian regarding visual effects for skins:

We wanted to get the 3D architecture of the Heroes out first. In this coming update, we've added additional tech to the Heroes to showcase new things like fiery footsteps, or a mist of magic, etc. They probably won't be retroactively applied to previous Heroes but newer ones will gradually showcase and take advantage of the new tech.
I might have missed it 😅 thank you.