Will old runes be refunded?

Spongibobu··2 votes·1,278 views

I know this has been asked a lot, but are we going to receive refunds on rune pages and runes? Maybe we could send tickets to Riot with a list of runes we have and get refunded that way?

Right now I'm at 17 rune pages. And here's a list of my Tier 3 runes:

Marks: x9 Armor x9 Attack Damage x9 Attack Speed x9 Critical Chance x10 Critical Damage x9 Lethality x9 Magic Penetration x9 Precision x1 Scaling Magic Resist x1 Scaling Mana

Seals: x9 Ability Power x9 Armor x9 Attack Damage x9 Critical Chance x9 Critical Damage x8 Gold/5s x1 Health x9 Magic Resist x9 Mana x9 Mana Regeneration x9 Percent Health x8 Scaling Health Regeneration x9 Scaling Mana Regeneration

Glyphs: x9 Ability Power x9 Armor x9 Attack Damage x9 Attack Speed x9 Cooldown Reduction x9 Critical Chance x9 Critical Damage x1 Health Regeneration x9 Magic resist x9 Mana x9 Scaling Ability Power x9 Scaling Magic Resist

Quintessences: x3 Ability Power x3 Armor x3 Attack Damage x3 Attack Speed x3 Critical Chance x3 Critical Damage x1 Experience x3 Gold x3 Life Steal x3 Mana x3 Movement Speed x3 Percent Health x3 Scaling Ability Power x3 Scaling Mana x3 Spell Vampirism

The rune pages I've bought mostly with RP with the exception of two or three that I used IP to buy. I think I purchased some sort of bundle way back in season 2 or 3 that consisted of 10 or so. Can't recall this reliably though, since it's been so much time since that. But let's assume the rune pages cost me around 5000 - 6000 RP which is about the amount of the 35€ bundle. That's quite a lot of money for me, you know. And the time I've spent earning IP for these runes? Hours after hours. It adds up to a ludicrous amount of IP that I could spend on those last unlocked champs I have. So I would consider this as a fine trade. In the end, I only have Camille, Ivern, Aurelion Sol, Azir, Gnar, Vel'Koz, Aatrox, Nami, Zed, Draven, Viktor and Xerath unpurchased. The amount of IP from those runes probably greatly exceed the amount of IP those champions cost, since some of the runes are very expensive.

So in short, I would settle with 5000 RP and getting those champs unlocked on my account.

7 Comments

NoPaxt2 votes

Did Sony refund your your VCR when the DVD came out? No, you bought it and used it, and now it's obsolete...

Spongibobu1 votes

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Did Sony refund your your VCR when the DVD came out? No, you bought it and used it, and now it's obsolete...

Because there is obviously no line between real material and virtual content, duh.

NoPaxt1 votes

You purchased runes with FREE IP. You spent no real world money on it. You made a purchase and used that purchase. @Riot doesn't "owe" you anything, that's the point.

Spongibobu1 votes

I mean I guess I have to settle for anything Riot decides, but I mean come on man. Be fair please.

Mysticman891 votes

They're going to compensate us for runes/rune pages we've bought, they haven't said precisely how yet though as they're being super careful in making sure they know exactly how much people spent (so accounting for various sales, the old rune combiner, etc.).

They have said that they won't do something like a random icon or a similar token shiny, but I also doubt they'll just do a big IP dump since that'd be kinda lackluster as well. Who knows what they will end up doing though, but they do assure us they'll see to it we're suitably compensated, and they're going to err on the side of overcompensation rather than undercompensation if it comes to it.

Spongibobu1 votes

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They're going to compensate us for runes/rune pages we've bought, they haven't said precisely how yet though as they're being super careful in making sure they know exactly how much people spent (so accounting for various sales, the old rune combiner, etc.).

They have said that they won't do something like a random icon or a similar token shiny, but I also doubt they'll just do a big IP dump since that'd be kinda lackluster as well. Who knows what they will end up doing though, but they do assure us they'll see to it we're suitably compensated, and they're going to err on the side of overcompensation rather than undercompensation if it comes to it.

Yeah, I don't even really mind getting undercompensated myself, since I do see the trouble behind making all this happen, especially if there are such disastrous events as receipts being lost. That's why I thought that sending tickets would be a good idea.

For example, you can tell that some of the runes I have there are pretty much from the rune combiner (extra critical damage mark, a couple of single runes, realistically estimating between 2000 - 4600 IP worth), but the argument is still pointless, since there's still an estimate of +100 000 IP invested in these runes. I could do proper calculations, but what's the difference, when I'm gonna use the IP to unlock 71 000 IP worth of champs anyway, and the rest is just adding to the ever growing pile. So in this trade, I lose IP, but I don't really care for IP.

And as for the RP, I'm totally fine with that 5000 RP. I think I lose a little bit in this, but hey, it's not like we're talking real money here anymore. I spent that money, not even knowing if I'd still be playing this game after a couple of months. So I'm not about "getting my money back" really, but about an act of appreciation from Riot's side for supporting them all this way. The game has grown very extraordinary on moba genre from it's original roots of a DotA clone. I hope that the new rune changes will help Riot solve some of the current balance issues of the game.

I mean I love the changes they are doing. Don't get me wrong. But the single thing I hate about this change is that I'm a completionist. AND I NEVER GOT TO COMPLETE THE FULL SET OF EVERY RUNE GODDAMMIT D: But hey, that's my own fault :P But I mean in a weird way it's sad to see the old runes go. I'll definitely miss collecting them. But so they say, "Every journey has an end".

But it's definitely good to hear that there will be some compensation. Of course, I can't speak for the whole community with my standpoint of view and therefore they need to form some sort of common guideline as such refund everything according to the receipts or give a general package for everyone, or make an in-game system where you can disenchant old content in rewards such as IP, RP, key fragments, chests and other stuff like that. In fact, the latter sounds actually pretty awesome, if you ask me!

l Dárius l1 votes

yeah im pretty glad riot decided to announce our cool new runes system about a month after i decided to use rp to buy the runes pages bundle and spend 10000ip i had saved up to buy more champ specific runes

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