Runes before the preseason

As most of us know by now the new rune system is supposed to be free when it is released in the preseason however that is still a few months away. Although I may not be a new player i still have never been able to save up enough IP to successfully buy all the runes and i've been playing for 4 years probably put about 100+$ into the game and still only recently been able to afford all the champions. As a pre preseason release why do we not see a reduction in price of runes if not make the runes virtually free similar to the t1 and t2 runes if not made 1 ip each why not just make them like 1/10th of the price or something.