Riot, Im sorry but events just arent exciting anymore.

And its a shame too. Because you put so much effort into them. More than you did when i started in season 4. We get so much more to look at in events, so why do they feel so god dang uneventful?

I think i figured it out.

Our current events seem to be clockwork now. They go like this: "Reveal skins, there is gonna be an event for skins, unveil either a new gamemode or a skin that we will see during this event and never again, hype builds. Then it comes out and we get all these skins, the gamemodes we will never see again, EXCLUSIVE icons, EXCLUSIVE emotes, EXCLUSIVE borders for bundles, and missions that give pretty lackluster rewards ending with an emote. And dont forget the skins themselves are not very cheap either (Riot plz more 750s, dont even need events, just something cheaper than 1350s)

EVERY SINGLE EVENT FOR THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF HAS BEEN THIS (minus emotes before they came out/and missions.)

Listen, missions and hextech added SO MUCH cool new interactions with league, but i feel like the potential is wasted.

The only thing to come out of events now is a mountain of hextech crafting items, and an exclusive icon for the idiot that spent 40% on a gemstone and a chroma.

"Well what were events back when they were exciting to you?" some people may ask. "We got a party IP buff, an icon for IP, and a returning gamemode" I would respawn

THATS IT?!

Yeah, but it was so much more fun, the events werent categorized by random drops or spending hand over fist on the items you want. And gamemodes returning means if you had fun in it, you can have fun in it AGAIN. The star guardian game mode was fun, the project game mode was fun (but busted) blood moon returning was nice (when rgms were still a thing actively happening.) Back when there were only 2 or 3 alternate game modes it was nice when they returned.

AND THE PARTY IP BUFF GAVE YOU A REASON TO PLAY WITH A FULL PARTY. Ill be honest the amount of times i have played in a group of 5 since they removed the IP party buff weekends, and events, is DEPRESSINGLY low. And even though it was just IP back when you earned it per game, you felt SO good playing with friends, not only was it more fun, but I earned probably 5 times in that one weekend what i do through EVERY mission in current events.

You left an event saying "Man it was nice to play Urf again" or "I made so much IP to progress through my mountain of champions i need to buy" or "I havent played in a party of 5 in forever, that was nice"

Now i dont wanna come out of this saying "Riot is money grubbing bastards, who want way too much money" But events just arent fun anymore, they took out the fondness for events to shove a mountain of exculsives down your throat.

So Riot if you see this (and i hope you are, seriously) Nothing is wrong with exclusive interesting content. they are cool and you deserve to get paid for it. But it is saddening that it is the entire appeal of the events.

So if you want to fix events do this: Make these gamemodes/other interesting things less one-offs, let us play these gamemodes AT LEAST 1 other time a year, so it doesnt become "I hope we get 'x' again so i can play this fun gamemode again." Make the missions feel more impactful on your account, you should walk away feeling better than "Wow that is a very basic emote/icon ill never use, and the 1 skin shard, 400BE and 1000EXP i earned over the course of 2-4 weeks was nice"

AND FOR THE LOVE OF GOD BRING BACK PARTY BONUSES. Seriously i dont know why they were removed, it encouraged playing with friends. I suppose back when Riot didnt know what to do with IP Whales giving more IP wasnt an incentive, but now that level scales infinitely gaining the exp from these events would feel nice, FOREVER.