Why can't i buy Chests Keys for IP?

Macilento·Mar 26, 2016·3 votes·831 views

? I got exactly 163280 IP as of right now, i thought that the keys to open the chests were buyable for IP as well. (someone metnioned it some time ago)

Is this still a possibility? i ltierally have nothing to do with IP except buying new champions at release

6 Comments

LatetotheRaceMar 26, 20161 votes

Well if you think about it, you're going to come to a point in the future where you have tons of keys, and no chests. Due to the way the system works, you can only get 4 chests per month, and (possibly) infinite keys.

UirayaMar 26, 20161 votes

Keys are not infinite. Once you build twoish you basically stop getting drops. I won five games of full fiveman premades last night and only got one, and that was my first in probably two weeks. I got the first seven right away!

I guess we all got swept up in the idea that this wasn't just another cashgrab, I suppose.

LatetotheRaceMar 26, 20161 votes

Well sorry to say, but I've made three keys so far, with one piece left over. It's just statistics, and it's free stuff. Take what you can get, and don't complain. Similarly to the 1 year free skin (For decent players) this is something you can get every so often for participation alone.

Mysticman89Mar 26, 20161 votes

While key fragments might be theoretically infinite, the probability of getting a fragment does decrease with each one you get (resetting on a monthly basis), so actually getting 12 per month might be statistically improbable. (And who knows if it decreases down to zero if you play enough and get sufficiently lucky, we may well be capped at 12 fragments per month or something.)

It might be balanced right so we'll break about even, or it might be that if you ever take some time off you won't be able to manage 12 frags/month (and so end up with excess chests), or it might be the case that some will end up with excess.

Depending on the balance, it might be viable to allow keys to be bought with ip, just to save people some win grinding and as a possdible ip sink, but it might be too early to say.