Everyone Should Have Unlimited Runepages and FREE Runes

DubWubWubWub·6/8/2015, 7:19:16 PM·76 votes·6,537 views

Runes are a big part of making league of legends unique; they allow us to fine tune our characters stats according to how we want to play that particular game. I believe that unlimited runes, and rune pages should be made available for everyone to use how they want for a number of reasons which i shall list below to make this post easier to read.

  1. It would allow players a greater flexibility in how they build their characters from game to game.

  2. It would make characters more universally balanced because there would be no dependency between players who had good runes or bad runes; and players who had only a few runes to match a few of the champs they love to play, and players who have loads of rune pages with good runes on all, each tailored to a specific game play style specific to the champion they are playing.

  3. Unlimited Rune pages and Runes for all would allow us all to easily spend time customizing our game play even more so than we already can. We would be able to put more energy into thinking out our game plans which can be very fun and rewarding, rather than playing games for the sake of earning IP to spend on Runes.

  4. We would have more IP to spend on Champions we would like to buy, thus creating a greater feel of progression in your league of legends account.

  5. New, and experienced players alike can be greatly discouraged to continue playing the game because they see just how much of a grind it is to create a decent rune page, and then also the fact that its a whole other grind to get more rune pages

Those are all the relevant things i can think of for now.

League of legends is suppose to be all based around balanced game play, and no pay to win. As league players yourself, wouldn't you like to have a good ability to endlessly customize without having to pay to get it?...and i'm not just talking about paying with money, i'm talking about paying with your time.

135 Comments

Drunk Rummate6/8/2015, 7:24:37 PM26 votes

Sure, on one condition - I demand a refund for every rune and page I've already bought.

Except Riot won't do this because I sunk a LOT of IP and some cash into it.

So no. Sorry OP, isn't going to happen.

JAGMAG6/8/2015, 7:21:28 PM17 votes

No

Migrañaboy6/9/2015, 12:48:06 AM8 votes

Won't happen soon, reasons:

  1. Business model: The runes and rune pages system is an IP drain, which motivates players to buy champions with RP or IP boosts. It isn't strange from Rito that they release something good (e.g. limited-time set of skins) and they suddenly put a 2x1 rune page sale or 50% rune discount before that.

  2. Old players who grinded IP for rune collection will complain.

  3. Collecting stuff (a.k.a. putting your effort and time) like champions and runes increases attachment to the game/account. (Can also be the opposite, but I'm sure that their hidden data shows that it has more pro's than con's, reason that it hasn't changed).

Deep Terror Nami6/8/2015, 7:26:39 PM6 votes

The Rune system exists solely to pressure new players into spending RP for IP boosts or on champions so they can use IP on the Runes that are needed to not be at a disadvantage. I don't see them giving up this system any time soon, as much as I abhor it.

ChaoticPinecone6/9/2015, 12:18:13 AM4 votes

the same argument can be applied to having all the champions for free as well. its a F2P game, and the only thing stopping you from having runes is grinding. You cant even buy runes with RP, so grinding is very important to getting runes.

plus, runes only give a small advantage to the player. my go-to example being Faker's smurf who is rank 3 in KR at the moment http://www.op.gg/summoner/rune/userName=Hide%20on%20bush which only has 2 rune pages - one for AD and one for AP

iainB856/9/2015, 12:42:07 AM2 votes

Your arguments make sense if this was a game we all bought.

However, it's F2P, and all F2P games need to put in gates like this to try to entice people to dump money into the game. It's a sad but unavoidable fact of the F2P games we play today.

grumpyfrogy6/9/2015, 12:54:11 AM2 votes

absoultey not, i actally want to spend my ip on somthing and not have it pile up

Also, in reason 4 you mention "Creating a greater feel of progression in your league account" i actally find grinding out rune pages to have much more progression than just mindlessly buying champs, once you finally filled out a full rune page its an amazing feeling that you worked hard for and alot more satisfying than buying a champ, sorry but i dont want masteries in circle form

pro crastinat0r6/9/2015, 11:27:33 AM2 votes

No thank you. I've spent years grinding IP to fill up my rune pages and grow my champion pool. If I had to do that so should everyone else.

ComannderShepard6/9/2015, 8:04:57 PM2 votes

Please no, what am I going to do with my reimbursed 50k+ IP?

However, I think Riot should overhaul runes and rework the ones that offer pitiful bonuses and maybe come up with some other ones like giving wards a larger vision radius or having them affect summoner spell CD's.

FooDang6/9/2015, 12:39:58 AM1 votes

Runes give the new players something to grind for. I had to grind for my runes and so can you.

Silent Pace6/8/2015, 7:29:10 PM1 votes

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FormationX10/16/2016, 6:35:28 PM1 votes

BUT then they would need to increase the IP cost of champions.