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This Blue Essence Shop is COMPLETE SHIT

Falcon Of Death·11/8/2017, 9:06:18 PM·67 votes·20,448 views

1,500 BE - Mystery icon box (guaranteed to be an icon you don't already own) 2,000 BE - Chromas (includes all chromas that have been available for at least six months) 2,500 BE - “Mystery Mini” Icons Box (exclusive to the special BE store) 3,950 BE - Mystery Champions (guaranteed to be a champion you don't already own) 4,900 BE - Mystery ward skin box (guaranteed to be a ward skin you don't already own) 6,000 BE – Essence Collector ward skin (Exclusive to the special BE store) 50,000 BE - "Make it Rain" emote (exclusive to the special BE store) 50,000 BE and up - Gemstones (First one costs 50,000, second costs 75,000, third costs 100,000. Limited to three per account during the special BE store sale) 75,000 BE - “Money Bags” emote (exclusive to the special BE store) 150,000 BE - URFWick skin (now exclusive to the special BE store)

##I'll start this off by saying that I won't even complain about how we got a 10% refund on hundreds of thousands of IP's worth on runes

#Any Chroma worth buying is locked behind spending RP on the skin first, or hasn't been out for 6 months (which any remaining decent chromas are locked behind). So my options are limited to https://i.imgur.com/pBwTzU5.png

Wow, thanks.

#Option 2, I can buy an in-game fucking Emoji that cost 75000 blue essence, aka 1000 games worth of ip.

Wow, thanks.

#Option 3, I can buy a mystery ward skin (not even the luxury of choosing one I want to get if I wanted one) when I have a T3 Triumphant Ward from Season 4, which is factually the best ward skin in the entire game.

Wow, thanks.

#Option 4, I can buy a Mystery Cham- oh wait I've owned all the champions for 5 years from RP that I won playing tournaments, that Riot also decided to shut down, along with APIs.

Wow, thanks.

#Option 5, I can buy a Mystery Icon (not even the luxury of choosing one I want to get if I wanted one). Not like I own every Icon in the fucking game already since season 2, excluding Esports and Individual icons that cost RP.

Wow, thanks.

#Option 6, I can buy a shit ward skin, after I just got a different shit ward skin for spending more than 125k on runes

Wow, thanks.

#Option 7, I can buy a gemstone (aka a mystery skin shard) for 1000 games' worth of IP.

**Holy shit, wow thanks so much Riot!!!! **

#Option 8, a downgraded version of an exclusive, 750rp value skin for a champion that is more spaghetti than Eminem's sweater.

Fuck yeah, man. I love how generous Riot is with their money and content.

#Atleast I got a free Conqueror Emoji that I can use in game and nobody else can see because people can mute them.

Seriously? Is this a fucking JOKE directed at people who have spent a decade playing this game? Bravo Riot. Fucking Bravo.

64 Comments

Biscuit Bite11/8/2017, 9:09:51 PM15 votes

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Stop complaining, those are not the real problems right now. BE shop will come twice per year. The real problem now is the rewards you get for leveling up.

DiabolicalDude11/8/2017, 9:12:58 PM12 votes

Totally agree. With 80k blue essence, I just spent half of it on champions, because they don't have anything cool to purchase with blue essence. I guarantee I will never spend the other 40k I have.

Colgate Gator11/8/2017, 9:32:16 PM12 votes

And people wonder why the League community has the bad reputation of being self entitled pricks.

Asamas11/8/2017, 9:27:29 PM11 votes

Free stuff that Riot don't even need to give. And yet complains... Go buy all the skins, ward, icons and chromas rich boy veteran but I will enjoy the free things.

Myrkrvaldyr11/8/2017, 9:27:10 PM10 votes

Did we really get 10% of what we spent? Why so stingy, Riot-kun?

Falcon Of Death11/9/2017, 6:09:20 PM6 votes

I love how all the NA people agree with me, and all these EU kids don't. Here in the US, we believe in capitalism. Where businesses practice ethically to have the privilege of having customers. What Riot did was unethical and broke the customer-business trust. It's not illegal. It's scummy. It's borderline stealing my time from me. I will not spend a single more dollar on this fucking game as a result. If more people held the company accountable for their actions, they would realize that they need the players, not the other way around. Players have control, but are too busy dickriding Riot to care that they're having their 1 season of time stolen.

Vacuum Chamber11/14/2017, 8:30:42 AM5 votes

This is such a garbage post. Riot has only ever required money for cosmetics. It's their revenue stream. It makes the paychecks for the devs and everyone else who gets paid at Riot. You're basically complaining that they didn't gut their revenue stream and give away all the cool stuff that people would otherwise pay $$$ for. If they gave every single committed player access to whatever cool skins they wanted, what incentive would be left over for them to pay anything at all to Riot? People deserve to get paid, mate. They gave you BE with which to buy more of the non-$$$ items if you so choose. Already have all the champs? Then what are you complaining about?! You had access to all the free content before the change, and now you have access to all the free content after the change. Tell you what. Next time you change jobs, how about you sign over your bank account to your old employer. At least then you'll have compensated them for whatever change you put them through.

MLSweatyG11/10/2017, 5:40:45 AM5 votes

The way I see it is Riot made a global (non premium) currency, this means there are more things to buy with said currency. There's nothing inherently wrong with doing so, but it seems as though you earn BE slower than IP in the old system yet most prices are unchanged. That's what I'm pretty frustrated about.

Hyne11/8/2017, 11:42:21 PM4 votes

100 % agreed this post

NichtVerrückt11/9/2017, 12:15:37 AM4 votes

For real, I really expected at least a few more cool options, like seriously what good is all this BE if all I can buy are champs!? What is the point of even giving out champion shards at this point!? You can pay for the one you want or pay to upgrade a random shard.... Super Disappoint. I expected to at least have the chance to spend some of that essence on something cooler then chromas and 1 skin for all the time and money put into this game.

Skullgetti11/9/2017, 12:20:07 AM4 votes

"A free to play game developed by hundreds of extremely talented artists, programmers , designers , voice actors and many other talented people who put sweat and blood into this game took away a part of my "earned" points i got for playing this game for free in order to transform the old, horrible grind-based and unrewarding system into a new system that rewards winning and gives randomized and fun rewards, as well as gave options for the people with alot of points to spend on little cosmetic rewards, how DARE a company want to make money by introducing something that's a very mild annoyance along with introducing a supreme and more rewarding system!"

Malice41511/9/2017, 4:38:18 AM4 votes

I'm not quite as fired up as you are about the BE store but I agree it seems like it could be done better. I have mountains of BE to spend but the pinnacle item (Urfwick) is a champ I rarely play. It would have been nice to have 3-5 rare skins to choose from. I don't care so much about icons. Being able to buy some gemstones is cool. But beyond that I'm not sure what to spend it all on. BTW I was able to buy dozens of chromas if i wanted them. I'm not sure why you would only have one available. Buy more skins ? Overall somewhat disappointed. The new rune system better be good.

Modl Ryden l11/8/2017, 10:31:30 PM4 votes

I am a bit miffed that the emotes don't come with a gemstone as an added bonus. Especially since they're not actively seen as much as the summoner icon.

Kailyou11/11/2017, 8:06:42 PM3 votes

I know your feel. There is like 0 motivation in grinding league of legends. I have tons of BEs and 0% use for it. If I cannot grind for skins it is a wasted time for me. Play HotS, there you can spend your earned shards for skins.

Who is Taliyah11/8/2017, 9:42:25 PM3 votes

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I have a T3 Triumphant Ward from Season 4, which is factually the best ward skin in the entire game.

Nah, Season 3 Victorious ward is the best ward in the game.

IronFistSS11/10/2017, 4:17:07 PM3 votes

I have to give my opinion. I like what Riot did with the shop. I had zero IP left, because i spend it all to get every single champion. And suddenly they gave us so much BE back , which i could spend for nice free chromas and a nice Emote. That was like a free Gift for me. Chromas which before where only available for RP!

For people who complain about the high prices in the BE shop: They dont need to spend it there and could keep their BE for champions in the future. The expensive Urfwick is for people who really have everything and dont know how to spend all their BE.

And the last thing i need to say: Rito employee pls, could you timeban this "Falcon Of Death". He is so toxic. He insult every single player from EU for no reason.

I still enjoy this game to play. And all the stuff in the shop is just a minor matter.

Captain Aishi11/9/2017, 2:54:17 AM2 votes

Went with Option 7... Got a Teemo emote...

alright I get it... Riot doesn't want me playing their game anymore...

Kegse11/9/2017, 5:26:06 PM2 votes

i understand you complaining about most of them, but u say a gemstone is a mystery skin? if you disenchant gemstones you are either not interested in any of these skins (which you are probably not interested in any cosmetic at all so why cry at first) or you dont even want to try to collect a skin. and this shop is for people who have everything to buy for ip or be to show off that they can buy it. and for some people who collect these skins its a chance to actually get the gemstones without spending a huge amount of rp.

Rune Ocarina11/10/2017, 4:21:56 PM2 votes

I thought that the emotes that were recently released would be purchaseable with BE, how disappointed I was when I found out they weren't. Like, they couldn't even do that for us. They're way too much in RP, I wish the new reward system was like Heroes of the Storm were you actually get stuff like actual skins and emotes and icons.

UnboundHades11/8/2017, 9:45:55 PM2 votes

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tordue11/9/2017, 9:20:05 PM2 votes

Granted, it's a free game, but I do wish the icons and emotes weren't chibi, and we had more chromas available with B.E. Bought Urfwick, sitting on 40k left, don't really want anything else unless the ward becomes legacy content. Still, thanks Rito for keeping things fresh.