Runes Cost Too much

Considering that Runes give you an ingame advantage, I never understood why they cost IP in the first place. Riot treats runes like LoL is an MMORPG where you built up your existance before going into battle, but it's a MOBA. Everyone starts at Lvl.1 and should be given the same opportunity to build up their own runepage with provided runes like everyone else. In a game where you need to UNLOCK characters to play them, it really shouldn't be mandatory to buy stat enhancements, too. This is just an unnecessary trap for new players that prefer getting a new character to try out over essential runes that will win you the game.

As it stands right now, runes are far too important ingame to be a Pay 2 Unlock feature. Honestly, try winning a Lvl.30 match without runes, it's insanely difficult as anything that isn't a Support.

Or just make them free [zombie-brand-clap]

Here is an idea if the runes actually are too expensive for the new players: Make a rune starter bundle that can be bought with RP or IP. Of course the IP cost would actually be like half the amount it would normally cost if bought separately. It could include the most basic runes:

flat armor yellows, flat AD reds, flat MR/AP blues, flat AP/AD quints.

They could even divide the starter pack into 2: one for basic AD runes and another for the basic AP runes (health yellows instead of armor, magic pen reds instead of AD)

or.. [slayer-jinx-unamused] not.

EDIT: here is another idea: remove T2 runes. They are a trap for the new guys.

The reasons runes cost so much is because you have to decide between getting new champs or having a slightly stronger in game, they already lowered t2 runes

Rune pages too. Not entirely sure why we have to buy rune pages anyway.

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Could we like, cut the cost of runes by 75%?

ths post just goes to show that the league community is fucking stupid as fuck and needs shit simplified immensely to get behind it.

i did a post with all of the math shown on how much runes cost in IP in relativity to real dollars.

gets downvoted to obscurity.

this fucking guy just says 10 words, and gets 40+ upvotes.

congrats riot community. you're all a bunch of idiots.

This is the 30th thread I've seen on this but for some reason 0 rioters have ever commented on them.

Runes and Rune pages are massive IP sinks which forces people to buy rp, Riot does not want to decrease profits. There have been hundreds of threads with massive upvotes back in old forums and nothing changed

This would make Riot lose money on champion sales and Ip sales. Don't hold your breath.

Runes are so extremely cheap, I don't even know where all the complaints come from. If you play casually, maybe 1-2 games a day, you should have enough IP to get rune pages for every role by the time you hit Lv30. Before runes aren't worth the IP anyways. At the same time you have enough IP to unlock a few champions for yoursef. Obviously not all, but if you want to get better at specific roles or champs you shouldn't own all champions anyways.

Either have more sales, cut the price by at least 25%, or what one guy in the comments said, have a starter rune bundle.

On the one hand, It would be nice if the game was kinder to new players.

On the other hand, I have at least 6 unique rune pages, and 14 rune pages that are situational iterations of them that I earned purely from IP so I don't think it's fair that other people don't have to spend months and months grinding IP like I had to.

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