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Is riot really earning more money than before, with this state of the game ?

option paralysis··27 votes·13,145 views

I mean, there has to be a reason they're doing literally nothing to decrease the dmg in the game. Idk where they get their money from tho... I never played less league than this season and right now. I almost only play nexus blitz for the missions and at least there you know the game should be around 10-15 mins long.

I still like the game and when I'm not home I get the craving to play my fav champs, but then I get home and I just can't bring myself to press the play button, because I know I'll just get into some unbalanced matchmaking and vs. some bullshit riot approved broken champ. And that's just for normals, if I ever play solo q, I know I will 90% of the time be in a spot where I'll have to hard carry or lose in a who one shots who first game. It's not fun at all and I'd like to grind like before but for my mental state, it's literally better to not play this game... but I don't see why riot is doing jack shit to improve the state of it.

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ØrnnToGetTrolleÐ20 votes

They might be doing something about damage as we speak.

It's just that everything they do takes WAY TOO LONG.

KARABICA JEBAC 9 votes

For example "Buffing" turrets took them the whole season.

ØrnnToGetTrolleÐ16 votes

The funniest part is they didnt complete their work. Towers are still paper and Baron is insanely broken.

King Braum1 votes

at least early tower dives don't happen that often anymore.

FSRER1 votes

Akali

No Chat System1 votes

[{quoted}](name=KARABICA JEBAC ,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=vXybMTtd,comment-id=00020000,timestamp=2019-01-04T14:54:19.927+0000)

For example "Buffing" turrets took them the whole season.

When I last played DOTA2 their turrets were nice.

charge attack1 votes

??? Dota2 do negative damage compared to league turrets.

No Chat System1 votes

Well, when I played was many years ago as well. They would take you to ten percent hp if you were hit early levels even twice. Armor was not as efficient at negating it.

Ahri Inari1 votes

I'd argue it took 3 seasons.

Infernape13 votes

I mean when they're making Prestige skins left right and centre and tying them to a paid mission pass, which is tied to an event (like K/DA) they're going to be raking in money.

sphinxthelion77 votes

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I mean when they're making Prestige skins left right and centre and tying them to a paid mission pass, which is tied to an event (like K/DA) they're going to be raking in money.

yeah if you're dumb enough to spend money on that.

Infernape1 votes

Judging by the fact that we got two passes back to back (the worlds event then snowdown), you can pretty much assume a lot of people bought them.

MLDzXnRRR3 votes

It has gigantic playerbase and people buy skins. Just because someone quits doesn't mean that the game is dead. E-sports are good promotion despite the state of soloQ and exciting Worlds probably brough many new kids to the game. Good luck promoting the game with farm fest e-sports...

charge attack1 votes

Especially they have way more data than anyone on boards could hope to have. As much as people are like "the game is dying", it doesn't look like it's dying looking at twitch/youtube/op.gg's ranked playerbase numbers. Yes, its not at it's peak like s3/4, but its been pretty steady for the past few years.

Not to mention skin qualities going massively up, hextech chest RNG stuff introduced, mission passes, started monetizing LCS after years. Even if they don't have the most players in their history I wouldn't be surprised if they're making the most money now.

Jamaree2 votes

Probably, wouldn't be surprised to hear that like the Chinese and Korean like this speed of game.

Infernape2 votes

LoL is still the most popular game in Korea by a large margin (according to gametrics.com). The short games fit their internet cafe/PC bang culture.

IainG101 votes

Now if only they could learn to region-split the balance like all the J/KRPGs that get marketed over here have, because different cultures like different things.... (grind is WAAAY down in the Western versions of things like BDO because we don't get as much of a catharsis from having REALLY earned that item through painful grind; it just pisses us off)

KFCeytron2 votes

As of a few months ago, YoY revenue was down 21% (one of many sources).

Jamaree1 votes

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As of a few months ago, YoY revenue was down 21% (one of many sources).

Huh, Dungeon Fighter Online is really that popular? Nice, always did like that game and like going back every once in a while.

ModCaptainMårvelous2 votes

Seems that by November, League's back to being #1.

Would have to see December results.

Marshbouy1 votes

It's almost like games have high and low points! Wow!

ModCaptainMårvelous1 votes

I'd say it's less high/low points, more what comes out that month. November was the end of the worlds pass, halloween skins and (probably most influential of all) K/DA. Plus end-of-year is when people buy gifts, Riot has their tournaments and there are quite lucrative holidays.

Abibyama II2 votes

Probably yes since a fuck ton of views at (especially Asian views) at worlds and each KDA skin earned like 2-4 billion dollars

sphinxthelion72 votes

I dont know man. i stopped buying skins I can tell you that. With the exception of a jinx skin when I hit silver.

Ηuawei2 votes

That's exactly how i feel like right now.

There's so many times i want to play but when i open the client im like "Nah, no" and close the game again. I prefer to lurk the forums and shitpost than play.

That speaks volumes for the state of the game

Crownless Exalt1 votes

I rarely do end up playing a game but I have the same experience you do like 7/10 times.

Warlord Rhinark1 votes

I am guilty of buying the recent Worlds and Snowdown Passes in the hopes I get a Gemstone.

But as of yet, I still haven't gotten any.

I got really frustrated when I found out that you can't even buy Orbs with the Snowdown tokens and you can only buy Masterwork Chests (and then also have to buy Keys on the side as well).

If the next pass (which will inevitably come) doesn't have anything good in it, I won't be buying it.

KFCeytron5 votes

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I am guilty of buying the recent Worlds and Snowdown Passes in the hopes I get a Gemstone.

But as of yet, I still haven't gotten any.

I got really frustrated when I found out that you can't even buy Orbs with the Snowdown tokens and you can only buy Masterwork Chests (and then also have to buy Keys on the side as well).

If the next pass (which will inevitably come) doesn't have anything good in it, I won't be buying it.

https://i.imgur.com/EsdXPs4.gifv

KARABICA JEBAC 1 votes

Well there were posts talking about Chinese like this dmg meta and since they are their the biggest playerbase (the most income) Rito wont do anything. Why would they fix this game when they can milk chinese cashcows nipples

Moonscourge1 votes

It's the preseason, nobody should give a shit about the state of the game when everybody KNOWS the actual season start is when things happen.

It's like you're complaining about the game before a patch even shipped that could address anything.

JulianMX13 votes

[{quoted}](name=Snake of Avarice,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=vXybMTtd,comment-id=0008,timestamp=2019-01-04T14:56:32.268+0000)

It's the preseason, nobody should give a shit about the state of the game when everybody KNOWS the actual season start is when things happen.

It's like you're complaining about the game before a patch even shipped that could address anything.

What things happen? Like last year? Its pre season , oh we just start the season relax , oh its mid season we have to prepare for , oh its the end of the season so in pre season. Oh its pre season relax.

No?

Moonscourge1 votes

Nope, that's not how it goes. But trash players like to blame everything but themselves for having a bad time. Just end yourselves /shrug you and your r%%%%%ed circle jerk has no place in this world.

sphinxthelion75 votes

[{quoted}](name=Snake of Avarice,realm=EUW,application-id=3ErqAdtq,discussion-id=vXybMTtd,comment-id=0008,timestamp=2019-01-04T14:56:32.268+0000)

It's the preseason, nobody should give a shit about the state of the game when everybody KNOWS the actual season start is when things happen.

It's like you're complaining about the game before a patch even shipped that could address anything.

have you seen the upcoming patch notes?

Nea1045 votes

Hahahah another one who is living in January 2018 :D

Nea1041 votes

Considering that NA and EU are very depopulated, I think they are having bad times.

TisBis1 votes

If they keep making SG stuff, they'll keep getting $

LordGeovanni1 votes

They probably are earning more money through inflation and loot boxes but they wont change damage because if they alienate mages and adcs their 2 largest classes those guys might leave and put much more of a damper on their money becuase they only release good skins for mages and adcs because those two roles have all the cute girls for skins that do well Ahri Akali Ashe Evelynn Caitlyn Jinx Kaisa Katarina MissFortune Lux...Annie

Gnar Is A Cat1 votes

If you think about it though, I'd be looking more towards players that are joining than players that are leaving. The only reason players who've been playing for a long time are quitting is because the game is becoming unbalanced as compared to Seasons 1-4/5. Players who are just joining have nothing to compare it to, so this state becomes 'the normal' and they enjoy or they don't enjoy it so much. As a result, Rito keeps getting people to buy stuff because there are still a significant amount of people playing the game. Also they just keep pumping out skins which I very much dislike because if you look at the quality of the 2016 project skins and the 2017/18 skins even though the particles may look smoother, you can tell a lot more effort was put into the 2016 skins than any of the others (excluding the legendary skins cause they're all good). But that's another topic

TurboÐonger1 votes

They just keep making this game worse and worse, i'd say it takes around 1-5 years from this time for this game to die out if they wont change their current objective they are currently working towards at, whatever this objective is (probably just milking our wallets, judging from the skins and champions they shit out every month, instead of fixing the matchmaking not only in ranked games, but overall and reworking old champions so they could have at least SOME chance to win against newly released champions that have incredibly toxic and unfair kits to play against)... And im bumping this year old post cuz eff it

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