What does Riot get out of making Runes so expensive?

ABlueQuaker··1 votes·366 views

At best, it creates an imbalance between players of one role and players of another. In my mind, a Mark is a Mark, a Quintessence is a Quintessence and so on and so forth.

I don't get the whole 'let's just randomly make this Mark 50% or 150% the standard cost for Marks' logic that Riot comes up with.

I mean, at this point I'm collecting runes for the mere sake of it, but it is something that has always confused me.

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Dominick Destine1 votes

Uh, what? I have like 300k IP just sitting around.

Runes are cheap as hell...

Drezmal2 votes

new players dont have that especially since they want to buy a new champ every other day

Valderis Vandala1 votes

It's pretty much just an IP/money sink, its horrible design for player satisfaction but diabolically addicting. It isn't just runes, all their prices are horrible, and the upcoming mastery chest and keys are just gonna be another layer on top of it all.

Sarutobi1 votes

This is probably the reason why they want to remake the whole rune system. it was pretty bad, and especially now for newer players its basically a trap because anyone new to the game will want to buy these to help improve themselves without knowing that there is a tier 2 and 3. They should have just only had tier 3 runes so that people arent trapped with getting tier 1-2 runes, and losing out on getting better runes or champions!

Dragfin1 votes

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At best, it creates an imbalance between players of one role and players of another. In my mind, a Mark is a Mark, a Quintessence is a Quintessence and so on and so forth.

I don't get the whole 'let's just randomly make this Mark 50% or 150% the standard cost for Marks' logic that Riot comes up with.

I mean, at this point I'm collecting runes for the mere sake of it, but it is something that has always confused me.

They are expensive compared to what?

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