Rakan/Xayah Gifting Event Was Too Short

TaienV·4/28/2017, 2:13:31 AM·1 votes·670 views

Just want to say that it was pretty much impossible to get the IP required for this event in the very short amount of time it was active. You pretty much had to have the IP ahead of time. Pretty lame, since it means I couldn't get the icons unless I played at least 8 hours each day of the event, and I don't have the time for that. Fail on Riot's part, imo. We played as much as possible (my GF and I) on the double IP weekend (which was also an extremely weak event - the double IP only applied to the base IP, not any bonuses like IP boosts), and didn't even come close to being able to unlock the champs for each other (we needed about 2k more IP at the end, even using Skin Boosts).

Please try to make your events have a reasonable path to completion in the future :/ This one wasn't as good as past events which lasted longer.

5 Comments

COLDSNOWKILLER4/28/2017, 2:33:23 AM1 votes

You could have also gifted them with RP.

Also it's nobody's fault that you didn't have enough IP when the event was going on and if you didn't have enough IP yourself then that's more of a personal matter now isn't it?

Magical Zoe4/28/2017, 2:47:57 AM1 votes

If you bought an extra ip boost then you could have just bought the champs for $10 each.

OnlyYouCanHearMe4/28/2017, 3:06:00 AM1 votes

While I don't have a problem with the IP gifting event being short-lived, as it was a special event and Riot is certainly not under any obligation to make it so that players are able to gift champions using IP, I did have a concern about the limitation on earning the icon for playing both champions together. As with any new champions, they were highly contested. Both by other teammates wanting to play them, or banning them so that I could not play them, as well as by the enemy team doing the same. It took quite a bit of effort to get both matches in, and It might have made it a bit difficult to have the games played icon event coincide with their release. Perhaps that event might have been better if it had happened at the time when they both come out as free champions?

rcrc05264/28/2017, 3:16:54 AM1 votes

I mean I was saving for xayah anyway so the gifting helped because i basically got her for 6300 because i actually have friends

TaienV4/29/2017, 2:01:52 AM1 votes

A) Some people don't have limitless time to watch league boards and threads to know an event is happening ahead of time, so since there was no prior warning ingame, I had not saved up IP for the event, so I was starting at zero. B) I also have been actively trying to buy all runes in the shop with IP, so of COURSE my IP was near zero when the event started. C) Most of the comments made against me do not in fact refute the point I made, which is that if you're going to run an event, you should make the event long enough that someone who had no prior knowledge of the event's arrival can still earn the event items. I wasn't as much concerned with the acquisition of the champions as I was with the limited-time icons that were available but pretty much impossible to get unless you knew the event was coming. Yes, we could have bought the champs with money, but we didn't have any for spending at the time. Never did I say that we didn't already have that RP sitting around for skin boosts...we just didn't have enough for a champ.

"Also it's nobody's fault that you didn't have enough IP when the event was going on and if you didn't have enough IP yourself then that's more of a personal matter now isn't it?"

I really disagree with this one. A person shouldn't be expected to have to study news posts on a constant basis in order to get enjoyment out of an event. I had no knowledge of the event until it started, and like I said above, I've been working on buying all the runes, so my IP was near zero as it has been for months. A successful event should be reasonably achievable from a zero-start scenario. Nothing I've read here changes my opinion on that. We played the entire weekend and were still several thousand away from being able to gift the champs, and that's despite skin boosts. The double IP was really more like 1.1x-1.2x IP because it only doubled the base IP and not the match bonus, boost bonus, or any other bonus.