My Concern About Runes for New Players...
I've been playing this game for quite some time now, over the past few years I have noticed many good players and many players who are ill-informed and have no guidance. Many players are lost and seem to want help while others just want to troll till their hearts content which is fine. Below is game I just had against a player where I felt kind of bad for him/her. They were playing well but we took advantage of our roaming and just decimated him.
I am in no way singling out this player at all, what I'm pointing too is his runes. The only reason for this is if someone has a new account or is a new player and doesn't understand how runes work or that they're too expensive (which they are :S).
I feel like there should be no Tier'd runes at all, make them cut and dry by making them all the same teir, lower the cost of the runes and put more information into the Champions info screen. Maybe show a graph showing what most players use for that particular champion with a simple mastery setup as well. I also feel like we should have community appreciation days such as increased IP for a certain period, or half off of runes/champions, reduced RP prices for a certain time period. Keep us interested by adding to the game, maybe give us community game modes once a month. I have all the champions and runes for this account, I just think it would be fun to re-level a new account. As of now I am not leveling one up because of how expensive runes are.
Just a thought :)
P.S. For instance a rune page such as this: http://i.imgur.com/gAjXa1O.png?1 the cost is a bit high, it would take someone on average about 71 games (assuming they got 150 IP every game which is rare). If a player wanted let's say....4 more rune pages with the same cost it would take 284 games. What I'm saying is the grinding for this game is FAR FAR worse than WoW ever was or will be.
