I was curious if anyone thought that it was nice to have such a large free champ pool during the Shurima event launch. I felt like it gave people more options for champions to learn and possibly lead to a new favorite character. I don't currently have access to all champs so it was pretty neat for me. Any feel like Riot should increase the default free champ pool size?
I would just like if every champion had an equal chance of being on the free rotation, or if it's possible to have an advanced schedule on which champions are going to be on free rotation, that way we could avoid buying champions just to try them out, only to learn they would have been on the next free rotation. A lot of champion pools, marksmen for example, is very small compared to others, so often you'll see a marksmen champion several times before that one fighter you're looking to play, etc.
I agree with you, however Riot has kinda stated that they're not increasing the amount of free champions on the weekly rotation.
At first the proportion of #free-to-#ofchamps was 10/40 which means that 25% of the roster was free, now it's down to 10/122 which means that roughly 8.2% of the champions are free to play/test (the number of champions represented by the free rotation was about 3 times larger those days.).
I think that rotations should serve as testing champions for old players and learning champions for the new ones. You can't master a champion in a weeks worth of time so I believe the entire concept of rotations is kind of out-dated since you would actually be trying out the champion.
What I would like would be if we could somehow get meaningful champion price reductions, have all champs free in customs so that we can test them, or have a number of over-time-renewable "trial tokens" per champion. I feel that there are many many more solutions than just these three, and if Riot wanted to, they could pull it off.
I am speculating that part of which they are keeping the rotation small is because of IP grinders. Under this scope, if Riot were to increase the number of free champs playtime would potentially decrease -> revenue would decrease in response. Another part of this fact is because if content is easier to get you get less incentive to spend RP, and a substantial amount of the playerbase purchases RP quite often.
Gonna tag this thread with @Hippalus / @Wizardcrab / @RiotHippalus / @Riotwizardcrab/ @Riot in case they ever decide to show us they care about free content by engaging in meaningful discussions with us.
I really don't like the idea of increasing the free champion pool. It is unfair for some fellow ~~summoners ~~(excuse me, players...thanks riot) to buy Champions and they soon become available for free a number of times. It defeats the purpose of actually trying to get IP for Champions rather than just Runes.
Honestly, I'm just getting annoyed of free weeks always having 7 or 8 champions that I already own.
Would be cool if they put 4 skin in sell at the time (becose of ALL the new skin avible) it would make scence :P
I can understand what some people are saying when it comes to having already purchased champs. I imagine it can be frustrating to see champs you purchased, ( maybe even with RP) come up on the rotation right after you purchase them. I feel like it would be a good way to encourage newer players to save IP to buy champs. I don't mind when someone I main ends up on the free rotation. More often than not I'll end up in a mirror match in blind pick and newbie Leona gets rekt. I just remember being pigeonholed into whatever was free as a new player since I obviously didn't have the resources to purchase a champ. Nothing really matches up to the disappointment of buying a champ to play and finding out you totally are trash with them. -_-;;;
I want to say yes, but I feel like the free champion pool should stay at about 10% (rounding down) of the champions in the game. This means that every 10 champions, a new slot would be added to the free to play roster. Having a lot of champions to play is fun, but having too many available to other players can be frustrating, when everyone wants to play the same few champions. Having few champions free to play encourages players to try those champions out. If I didn't try Zac in this week's free to play, then I probably wouldn't have put him very high on my wishlist, but trying him made him feel more special than any champion that wasn't free.
If there were 20 champions free all the time, it wouldn't feel special, assuming that 20 is almost 20% of all champions in the game.
I liked having an increased free champion pool. I'm finally past the half way mark in term of owned champions, and with the current amount of free champions, I'm lucky to have two champions that I don't own be free to me. This week I was able to try about four or so champions, which was really nice.
Also, I do agree with other comments I see about how it would be nice for Riot to consider things like a "Try me!" option in the store or being able to make custom games with champions unlocked.
One idea that came to mind while writing this is a "Share champions" option for custom game creation where all participants share their purchased champion pool so everyone can try new champions.
I agree that it would be nice for new players, but I'd suggest less than three number this week. Consistency is the best way to improve. That doesn't exist when you're playing so many different champions from the start. I do think you should start with one champion unlocked for each role. Even if part of that was Garen, Trist, and Alistar but without the skins. Just add in a jungle and mid.
Dota is giving them all for free. Why should we be so limited here?
I would suggest changing each week to 12 or 14 champs. 20 is a bit too much, especially for new players to handle, but i have long thought the number of free week champs is too low.
... there are extra free champs right now?
