Can't believe how much stuff Riot are giving us, TBH do we even need to pay money any more? Lol
I've gotten way more skins for free than I've bought, now I'll get even more & also champions too. Also free runes.
For anyone who doesn't appreciate this, 99% of game owners would barely give a fraction in return for the upcoming changes.
Riot are honestly cool af
You forgot to mention the part where we have to endure a balance nightmare for 3 months.
Honestly though 100 BE (ex IP) for each rune is ridiculous considering how much they used to cost, quints were like 2k, for a full set of quints it was the same as a new champ.
For anyone who doesn't appreciate this, 99% of game owners would barely give a fraction in return for the upcoming changes.
Is there even a precedent for a major game completely removing a form of currency from their shop? I think many big studios would have gone out of their way to ensure their customers' satisfation.
I'm honestly fine with the partial refund, but I can't help but feel they could have been more impartial, for example by refunding 50% of rune value. That way people wouldn't feel bad about having bought hybrid pen or 800 IP crit runes.
Most game studios wouldn't fuck over their long time/day 1 players this hard either though. [vlad-salute]
It's pretty ridiculous the amount of free stuff I was getting from hextech. Sure it wasn't always for champions I play, but sometimes I would try out those champions because of the skin and have some fun or just refund the skin to save up for the next one.
They are literally copying Blizzard with their preseason changes, they wouldn't be doing this if there wasn't profit to be made, and they did see Blizzard making ridiculous money with their loot boxes in OW and HotS.
I'm actually impressed on how they will go into everyone's account to compensate based on exactly how much runes you owned.
And what pages are bought in IP or RP.
They could've just give everyone a summoner icon for getting 10 runes as compensation kappa
Speaking of free stuff, I got Elementalist Lux from hextech after dozens of champ shards and skin shards of champs I will never touch. A $30 USD value for completely free. That's impressive.
someone gets it at least theres one thread on gameplay that isnt just hate and salt towards riot
If not for the free stuff, I really would've gone elsewhere. This isn't the same game that I started liking all those years ago where strategic thinking was actually important.
most people already own all champions anyway and have 100k extra IP without knowing what to do with them
Indeed all the free skins i have already gotten, those great lore updates/stories and now this. Im actually starting to feel a bit guilty not spending more on this game considering the 1000+ hours of amusement they gave me. Also a great new system for now players/smurf accounts. No more changing gameplay based on lvls because you dont have the runes or masteries. And more champions for new accounts is also great. I have been playing waaaaay to much time since s2 and i still dont have all champions
As far as large game companies go, Riot is probably the best out there in terms of PR and free stuff.
Anyone complaining about how much refund they get for runes is pathetic, you played a video game and expect to be compensated for your time like you were doing research to cure some disease... riot doesn't owe you shit for the time you spent on this game. Hell we are lucky to get 10% refund they could have just removed everything its a free to play game stop crying already... you can tell its all kids who have never worked a day in their lives and think the time they spent playing a free game was "invested work" EL OH EL.
