Rune IP Costs: Enough is Enough

Penta Penguin·Sep 3, 2015·4 votes·237 views

There is no reason why a bunch of minor stat bonuses should cost anything. No reason why people need to grind out and get game-experience before having runes. Getting level 30 is already enough game-experience for people to mostly understand what they want extra stats for and why.

And no the IP you get from lvl 1 to 30 isn't enough. Maybe for you, but not for everybody. This thread is not for you if you want to cross your arms and shout "BUT I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH IT!!" Go make your own thread about how much you like paying IP for Runes... it would probably be the first, because not many people F'ing like it.

One very real example of why this is so bad;

Jungling REQUIRES some of these stats in order to get through clears, especially certain champions and especially after Season 5. We all know those games where you forget your jungler pages and can't even clear two camps before having to back.

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NiyumiSep 3, 20151 votes

See, League is an F2P game. With the title of F2P comes a few characteristics, chief among them is that the base game is so grindy and unbearable that you're all but forced to pay money to enjoy yourself. Runes cost a lot of IP BECAUSE Riot wants you to spend years grinding for them, and that's why you earn IP so slowly; it's an incentive to go out and buy IP boosters and all that.

This is one of the problems with F2P games, and why I hate F2P as a concept. But, that's what you have in League. It isn't going anywhere soon, despite how much people may hate it, because Riot wants every single penny they can get from you -- and even then, they won't be satisfied.