Runes Reforged: Good, Bad, Or Ugly

In all honesty the new patch is very demoralizing for me as I really enjoyed the last patch and the mastery tree made sense to me but now that we are seemingly paying for the masteries that we had last patch I am a little thrown off to say the least. From my point of view, if you play more than two archetypes of champions you HAVE to spend either a large amount of blue essence or some real money to have more than two pages. It comes off as a money grab to me personally. Disregarding my personal distaste for some of the new runes in general, I am extremely dissatisfied with the game at the moment and would like to see something along the lines of quite a few more free rune pages so that I am not essentially paying for the masteries I received for free last season. Because lets be honest, the new "runes" are much similar to masteries than runes from the previous seasons and it takes away part of the free to play aspect of the game as you now must pay to have multiple personal setups for different champions. Yes, I do realize I could change my runes before every game to match my champion, but it seems unreasonable because last season I could just select from my precreated sets of masteries. I realize I keep comparing the new runes to masteries but thats because some of them (I'm looking at you Grasp of the Undying) even have the same NAMES as masteries that had unlimited free combinations as of last season. I know for a fact I am not the only one upset about these things as many of the friends I play with are angry or have already decided to quit. I have also spoken to people in game and they seem relatively unhappy with the new system as it stands so please consider a change

Sincerely,

A Slightly Nostalgic League Player

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