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For all those who blame Riot for Eternals...

Memelord Shuky·8/14/2019, 11:39:27 AM·6 votes·1,084 views

League of Legends is free game, You can buy all champions and runepages by PLAYING GAME not by PAYING real money.

For all those who can play enough, they can get skins FOR FREE, so you neither have to buy skins.

You are blaming RIOT GAMES for many things, including a lot of bugs in game.

Now tell me something, you want free game, you want free skins and stuff, how the fuk u expect them to work? For free?

They will publish eternals, if you want to buy them then buy, if you don't then go on, nobody forces you. I am going to buy it and I will have 5 lines above my mastery emote, something that you will not. That's cosmetic and noone cares about it. They gave you everything for free. Ofc there is stuff like prestige skins that u must buy for $$, but they are PRESTIGE, and they set people with money apart.

As I already mentioned, NOONE FORCES you to buy ETERNALS, so if you don't like them just go on.

[slayer-jinx-catface]

5 Comments

SEKAI8/14/2019, 11:43:25 AM3 votes

Making achievements paid is just too hilarious to be true, even in a free to play game.

Also, there are certainly people who'd buy the full price package like idk, $60 or something and have everything unlocked. But Riot is not gonna do that, are they? Obviously selling the content bit by bit is a lot more profitable than selling everything in 1 go on a typical retail price (or what used to be the typical retail price; now the "full price" is like $120 since full price doesn't include the full game anymore but that's another topic). That's all you need to know that free to play is a strategic model, and not a charity.

DARCKD00M8/14/2019, 5:20:46 PM2 votes

not only am i not buying them i will mute them too ;p

FURRY V28/14/2019, 11:54:26 AM1 votes

Can't wait to see those new super emotes above 0/6/0 heroes.

I won't ask "did you get your mastery by losing?" but instead "did you really pay for this? Why?"

DeathBurst8/14/2019, 6:06:08 PM1 votes

You have a point, but you are oversimplifying this issue.

OF COURSE they need to get money somewhere to be able to publish the game for free. But that doesn't mean they can make us pay for anything and we cannot criticize. It's not all white or all black.

A Free-to-Play game that pretends to be competitive needs to have a strict divide between the skills aspect and the paid aspect. Paying for Skins? Totally fine. Paying for Icons? Sure, go ahead. Paying for in-game stats or extra gold? Of course no.

So what about these new Eternals? They are supposed to display your mastery of a champion. They are supposed to be bragging rights about your skills. What if the Ranked borders were blocked behind a paywall? Would you be OK with that?

I mean, this is clearly in the grey area in the middle. It's not a terrible decision that will kill LoL as a competitive game, and it gives no unfair advantage, it's not in the black area. But this is still making people pay to display their skills, it's definitely not in the white area either.

Ideally, they should give both a RP and BE price. Like champions.

WoonStruck8/14/2019, 9:26:51 PM1 votes

Riot made their game with only champions and skin sales. (And boosts)

Grew with only champion and skin sales.

Hit their peak with only champion and skin sales.

Now they're trying to nickle and dime everything and are making less money than they have.

Hmmm...i wonder if its because they're focusing too hard on making money instead of fixing/improving gameplay experience.

I wonder if its because Riot wont expand their art team and so all of the new skin concepts are reused, uninspired, and are only ever redeemed by the quality pieces they sometimes manage to put out under orders. Concept is huge, and Riot isnt putting out on that front anymore unless its to try to make some premium item/feature for us to pay too much for.