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Change to rarely dropping key fragments?!

Mirai Sayu·4/4/2016, 10:53:31 AM·2 votes·1,237 views

Please hear me out and consider this idea before downvoting!

As a post/comment recommended it on Reddit, it might be actually a better idea to have the keyfragments drop every x-th time. For example you get a key fragment every 5th won game. 5 wins is not that easy to obtain, but at least we could keep opening the boxes, would feel more motivation to play and even strive to win the game. Now we reached the point where it is relatively easy to obtain the boxes and everyone has like ~3-6 boxes unopened and NO SHARDS AT ALL.

If we are honest, if we want to buy hextech content for RP , the key only is 125 RP, while the combo key+box is 195 RP. Most of the people will buy the 195 RP one if they spend anything on it anyway. That leads back to the problem, still have a big amount of chests and no key frags at all.

I've forged last month 2 keys, key frags came every 2nd won games. Now I cant get a single key fragment for 3 weeks by now, and it's not that I've lost all of my matches. The drop rate is probably set to every 27th win or something.

Riot, please consider making the drop rates fixed, and not random. I'm sure there's a good fix frequency. You can even make it 6-8th win and that would probably still work better!

11 Comments

Angry Monster4/4/2016, 10:56:53 AM1 votes

and you are an example of what is wrong with the community.

Riot can not make the system in a way that is going to drive down sales. All they have is micro transactions to fund the servers.

RhInoserocity4/4/2016, 11:39:50 AM1 votes

They stated in a red post collection on Surrender @ 20 that the key frag drop rate chances decrease as you earn them, so the more you have earned in the season the less likely to get them.

In layman terms, With 0 fragments, 1 frag every 3 wins. With 6 fragments, 1 frag every 30 wins (that's not the actual numbers)

Sheolraver4/4/2016, 1:07:00 PM1 votes

So basically you are not happy the RIOT is giving you free stuff.....you want MORE free stuff and you want it faster. Why not just have 1000 keys and boxes drop after every game? Or better yet, after every 3rd game the winning team gets credits they can trade in for USD or gold coins? And maybe RIOT should start paying everyone hourly to play LoL? Maybe RIOT should pay your internet connection as well.....

The Sword Saint4/5/2016, 3:06:55 PM1 votes

It gets harder to get key fragment as the MONTH goes on. The drop chances reset at the start of a new month (note, a month measured from some point in time that we don't know, not necessarily the 1st of every month).

The point of it being easier to get keys the less you have gotten that month is so that players who only have time for a few games a week can still reliably get 1-2 opened chests per month of playing, while the really dedicated players who have time to spam games can get up to 3-4 opened chests per month if they really play a ton.

A fixed drop rate system would screw over people who don't have time to spam so many games as would be needed to evenly space out a droprate so that you can get only four opened chests worth of keys per month as someone who plays regularly.