riot i want to recruit friends to league. but champ/rune system heavily turns them off
this is a problem im sure many other people like me share. your champ/rune system is very outdated. and i believe you would make more money and have a more popular game if people had more ways to purchase full power in ranked
I think my ideas would "increase" the quality and enjoyability of league of legends and make it a better game.
by making league a "better" game, it will by nature become "more popular" and make "more money". Because when a game "gets better", it simply will make more money and become more popular and spread its reach off its own entertainment value.
"better game" = "your company makes more money" That is the simple nature and logic of the gaming industry.
Now ill get right into my ideas, and why i believe those ideas are good for league and would make league a better game and increase riots cashflow.
before i get to my points. i want to define terms i will be using
CGM = competitive gaming male. this is riots target audience, males that have a high level of competitive spirit and are looking for a fun form of skillful competition to spend their hours of free time on. and then after spending hours and hours on league, those CGM's are likely to develop an "addiction" to the "fun". it is "bad" to be addicted to "drugs" because drugs kill you. but in my opinion there is nothing wrong with being "addicted" to something because its "fun" (such as sex or video games). if someone becomes addicted to league of legends because its "so fun they wanna play all the time", there is nothing wrong with that in my opinion. and that is riots primary goal in creating a customer base
HALP = highly addicted league player. a league of legends player that plays league alot and thinks about it all the time when he is away from his computer and not playing. this is riots primary customer base that they can market skins and products towards and use to create cashflow
- i think riot should add a "full power pass". It costs 10 dollars (or maybe 10 dollars of RP. i dunno. both are fine ideas) to activate the pass on an account. When you activate the pass, it gives the account 30days of 100% rune + champion access. you may buy another 30day pass when your current one runs out
i think this pass is a good idea for new competitive gamers that come to ranked. competitive gaming males quickly learn any new game they play and quickly improve their skills. it is not fair to "shackle" these males and "reduce" their power with the rune/champion system. this system will only make CGM's look at league and say "screw that game. i dont wanna play ranked without full power. what a stupid system"
by giving these CGM's a way to pay some money to obtain all power in the game. it will make them want to play, it will make them play, and ultimately it will make them become addicted. which is riots goal as a company
Im sure many CGM's will gladly pay 10 dollars a month to have "full power" in ranked. And then after they use IP to obtain all the champs+runes for their main champions, they will stop using full power passes.
But at that point, those CGM's will have developed an addiction to league and they will probably become a highly addicted league player. And every HALP is a resource for riot that has a chance to spend money on skins that they think are cool or beautiful
- I think riot should allow a 30 dollar "bronze 5 boost" for any account below level 30. This will immediately boost an account to level 30, give it +20k IP, and place it into bronze 5 rank/elo. There will not be "placement games" for this account, it will simply be put straight into bronze 5 rank. The 20,000 IP is enough for some champs and runes, but most competitive gaming males will want full power in ranked and they will play a few months with full power passes in ranked.
Also when someone purchases a bronze 5 boost, there should be a little window that pops up and tells the player "hello summoner. thanks for buying a bronze 5 boost. we highly suggest you save your 20,000 IP and you play ranked using a full power pass which gives full access to runes and champions. and then after you find the runes and champions you enjoy you can purchase those with IP. then after you have all your desired runes and main champions you can can stop using full power passes"
I think the boost should be bronze 5 only (no placements) because I feel it is unfair to give a new player who "gets lucky / carried" in placements the chance of hitting silver elo and ruining silver games. but bronze 5 players are "just as bad" as that new player, so its fair to let them play together. If you are above bronze 5 and say this isnt fair. Your wrong. You dont understand just how "bad" bronze 5 players actually are. and if this "new player" wins 20 games in a row against bronze 5 players and reaches your "bronze 4 elo" then that means he is just as skilled as you. He isnt "ruining your game" if he gets out of bronze 5 and reaches bronze 4 and plays in your game. Your just as bad as him. accept it and just play the game.
I believe this idea is good for the game because most CGM's want to get directly into ranked. They wont wanna waste time levelling for 200 hours. Also, the truth is most CGM's who want to play ranked will ALREADY simply purchase a unranked smurf which costs 15 to 20 dollars for a fresh unranked level 30 smurf. CGM's ALREADY have the ability to "buy" a level 30 account and jump right into ranked. And it only costs 15 dollars. I see nothing wrong with riot marketing directly to these CGM's and allowing them to pay 30 dollars in a supported method to jump right into ranked.
Competitive gaming males are highly competitive, highly confident, and they learn any new game quickly and they quickly improve their skills. Every CGM i know who i am friends with (dota 2 players, starcraft 2 players, CSGO players, overwatch players, call of duty players, heroes of the storm players) who i want to recruit into league, i am confident they could play ranked in bronze 5 and win most of their games, even when they have never touched league before in their life.
I see nothing wrong with letting CGM's jump directly into ranked for 30 dollars. Its what they WANT riot, and they are already able to do it by buying accounts and many of them are. Then when they buy the new account, they get turned off by how riot "limits power" in ranked by restricted access to runes and champions. So this large playerbase ends up just "not playing" your game riot. They dont play and they dont get the chance to become addicted. Riot you are losing alot of your cashflow by not allowing CGM's to pay some money to obtain full power in ranked
I see nothing wrong with allowing a "riot supported" way to do what CGM's are "already" doing in terms of buying accounts. And i think its in riots best interest to give those CGM's a way to pay for full power, or those CGM's will laugh at the game and not play it seriously and never have a chance to get truly addicted.
With this 30 dollar bronze 5 boost, and full powerpass, it will be much easier for me and for people like me to recruit their friends into league of legends. And many of those CGM's we recruit into league will turn into HALP's which is riots primary source of steady income.
I want to recruit my CGM friends into league of legends. But the current league system of "limited power" and "200 hour lvl30 grinds" is a large turn off to competitive gaming males.
those are my 2 main ideas. if you believe in everything i wrote please bump for a riot response.
