Riot, you're breaking your biggest promise and making the game officially pay to win

WexAndywn·Apr 28, 2015·3 votes·1,378 views

I like most of the changes in the patch, but there's one small thing that invalidates everything you've done to the economy of League of Legends.

Skin boosts have been permanently enabled on ARAM. They cost 95 RP and grant you and your teammates a one-time random skin for your randomly-selected champion,** as well as 100 IP (200 for you)**.

You are letting us buy IP. This is NOT OKAY. We should not be able to buy runes with real money, this would give us an advantage in-game by spending money. Remove the IP from the Skin Boost now.

9 Comments

usul1202Apr 28, 20156 votes

This is not pay to win. This is pay to fast-pass. most IP costing things can already be bought with RP, like champions. Runes i believe are the only exception. And the conversion rate for $ to boosts to IP to champions/whatnot it far worse than IP boosts, which have been around for a while.

The premise of pay to win is that paying makes you better than those that don't. This DOES NOT DO THAT AT ALL. Please don't misuse the term, someone out there will believe you, and that can cause actual problems.

1000angrybeesApr 29, 20152 votes

This sounds incredibly whiny for letting one person buy a round of free shit for four other people to have fun on ARAM.

Miku Lv99Apr 29, 20152 votes

It doesn't give you a very good exchange rate tbh. It's not worth spending money to get IP like that anyways. It'd be much more efficient to buy an IP boost for a week or something and play a whole bunch of games while you have it. Or just spend your RP on champions so you have more IP to buy runes anyways. I don't really see this as a big deal and I really don't think many will abuse it.

CrettApr 28, 20151 votes

Hold on there. You can ALREADY buy IP. IP boosts have been around for a long time. This will not change the status quo or the state of the game. It's just a fun little prize you'll get in aram sometimes from nice players.

WexAndywnApr 28, 20151 votes

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Hold on there. You can ALREADY buy IP. IP boosts have been around for a long time.

Those boost IP that you would have already gained. This gives you IP for doing nothing.

CrettApr 28, 20151 votes

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Those boost IP that you would have already gained. This gives you IP for doing nothing.

It gives you IP for playing the game. If you could mass buy IP, then it would be broken, but you still need to go into aram and play a game to get basically the equivalent of an IP boost.

WexAndywnApr 28, 20151 votes

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It gives you IP for playing the game. If you could mass buy IP, then it would be broken, but you still need to go into aram and play a game to get basically the equivalent of an IP boost.

The IP is given before the game is launched.

CrettApr 28, 20151 votes

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The IP is given before the game is launched.

Is that really any more pay to win than IP boosts? You can't abuse this feature any more than you can boosts (and ip boosts don't really affect gameplay anyway. if people are doing better because their runes are putting them ahead they'll be matched up with people who are doing similarly well)

Extreme TrollerApr 28, 20151 votes

you are pretty noob if you discover lol is a pay to win. some skin offer 1 reducition damage, others give visual informative stuff like sona arcade and the 20%debuff, some other offer invisible skillshot, that's why some skin are banned in lcs.