PSA about eternals
In order to unlock Eternals for every champion in the game, which provide no gameplay difference or real cosmetic improvement you would need to pay 246,500 RP or 1643.33$ to unlock stat trackers. Half of these can be found completely free on sites like op.gg. I understand realistically no one is going to want to track stats for every champion but the fact that its almost 10 dollars per champion simply boggles my mind. At this point to me, it's less about how scummy this is or how much of a cash grab it is and more about just why. Riot has so many options to create things that can be put behind a paywall and people would happily pay for it, Announcer voices, minion skins, etc.. This further aggravates me because it's not like they'd need to make any drastic changes these are all things that have already been implemented into the game before for star guardian, project, worlds. It just feels like riot looked at what they could do to sell things and just picked the laziest, most uninvolved thing and went for it. And the fact that the justification is that "other games" have implemented systems like these is not a reason for you to jump on the microtransaction train. Systems like these will earn you money but at the cost of a dissatisfied player base and anger from the community. Riot needs to take a step back and listen to their community and realize that these decisions don't sit well with people who have been playing the game for years now