I have 16 keys and no chests cause I only really play one champ.

Play only a few champions or only one role. Then you'll understand.

If you look at it like that, yea. But at the same time... Would they be the developer of the world's most popular PC game if they DIDN'T have an income? What point do we stop that income? Just limit it to what we are putting into it right now? Then there's no room for growth. Some needs to be put into current expenses, future expenses, paying interest on loans (100% possible, even companies with large cash flows will use loans because it can take something expensive and spread out the payments on it, resulting in that (part of) large cash flow), and even putting money into repair and maintenance (this is separate cost than upgrades) and of course they need to pay the employees and the investors.

The last part is where people get really damn pissy. See, the investors only care to make money off it, but that's actually pretty deserved because if the company needs cash or is not at a point of growth then the investors supply the money. Do you really think people just say "Oh yea, here's $50,000,000 you can just pay it back... whenever, no interest or anything, no stake in your company, nothing, just $50,000,000 that you can pay off whenever." Do the investors get greedy sometimes? Sure, but it's that income for them that allows them to invest more which allows for more companies to grow and gives the investor more money. Both sides benefit from the transaction, we can't ignore the fact that Riot does benefit from that investment.

Now more on point... Yes they have an income. A company NEEDS an income. Do YOU really want to spend 60 hours a week developing a game just for people to say "You're a greedy bastard, give it to me free Rito!" Of course not, but you expect all sorts of people to do it.

I've paid for my share of RP, but look at this: If I buy a game Super Franchise Series 2, that has 60 hours of gameplay for the story and 120 hours with side quests and missions. Now if I buy that game I am paying let's say $60 (it's a super franchise game, of course). That means I am paying $1/hour for the base game and $2/hour for the everything. I've racked up a few hundred games on League, and let's take a conservative estimate of 30 minutes a game (some ended at 20 others went an hour) and let's say 200 games (I am past that). So that's 100 hour of gameplay, and I can accomplish all of that with $0/hour and 0 advertisements. That's what free to play means, it's free. This game is truly free to play, you can access 100% of the base game without a single dime spent (although it does take time).

So yea, let's just bitch about the fact that a company with a game that can easily provide 10x the entertainment time of a typical PC or Console game for precisely 0% of the cost trying to have an income. I don't care if the income is high: they use it well. The employees seem to be happy and I read that they also subsidize the salary for Pro players (which my understanding means they pay part of the salary so the player's income is at least partially guaranteed because sponsorship deals can change and may not be enough).

But yea, let's just stop buying RP.

you missed my point.

I'm totally fine with that, but why should I have to wait a full 12 months to get another chest on my primary roles? I have received chests from non-primary roles, but I am running out of those choices. This coming from someone who has been playing since season 1 and owns all of them. There are just too many champions that, for whatever reason, are not good choices for me to learn - either because they do not seem interesting to me, my internet is not good for them (110 ping is as low as it gets here, Alaskalyfe) or they do not fit my teamcomp/are not in the meta/whatever.

I'm totally fine with choosing other champs. I just think that instead of everyone getting their reset at the start of each new season, it should be -x- amount of time from when you get the chest, so the fact that I got Janna's chest day 1 doesn't remove me from getting her chest for 12 damn months, whereas anything closer to the end of the season will get refreshed in weeks/days/or A month at worst.