Gifting champs with BE?

lVlizuxe·Nov 19, 2019·6 votes·5,692 views

I dunno where else to post this, so forgive me if I'm wrong.

For those of us that have been playing for a long time, Blue Essence tends to pile up, right? Even with buying new champs the day they release the number just keeps going up. I know we get the yearly BE sales on rare skins and such but as someone that isn't really interested in what it has to offer, what do I spend it on? What I'd really like to do is gift my newbie buddies that champ they tried on free week and loved, get them hooked on the game so I have more people to queue with, but I don't have the RP for that.

So, why not let us do it with BE? Champs only of course, I know Rito's main money maker is RP for skins. It gives us a place to use all the extra BE while pulling in potential new Real Money™ spenders for Rito. Keep the prices in line with what they already are (ie 7200 if I wanted to gift Senna right now) or even a modest increase as a 'convenience/gifting fee' (~500 more maybe?) for using BE.

Just spitballing here. A friend I'm trying to get in thinks is dope as heck and I wish I could hook him up.

7 Comments

DreamspitterNov 19, 20192 votes

I bought an RP champ like....maybe once.

PumpedheroNov 19, 20191 votes

Now this argument is made almost every seasons (particularly a big case in uh.. I believe S7?) and the main counter argument for this being no, is that it helps smurfs and encourages people to grief low elo with their alt accounts.. I am in favor of gifting with BE, but there would need to be a solution.

Lux Yuumi ZoeNov 19, 20191 votes

Would be abusable, also riot apparently makes a decent amount off people buying champs (i heard this somewhere, but always thought it was weird cuz I never bought a champ with rp) so doubt they would do it.

Seriously champs should just be free like in dota but riot gotta get that $$ i guess

SukishooNov 19, 20191 votes

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Would be abusable, also riot apparently makes a decent amount off people buying champs (i heard this somewhere, but always thought it was weird cuz I never bought a champ with rp) so doubt they would do it.

Seriously champs should just be free like in dota but riot gotta get that $$ i guess

i know that I've bought a couple over time with rp. Used to buy the launch bundles a lot, though having all champs and skins now I just use BE for champs and reroll skin stuff. So I think they do make a decent amount off champs with RP still.

OKIDJNov 20, 20191 votes

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Would be abusable, also riot apparently makes a decent amount off people buying champs (i heard this somewhere, but always thought it was weird cuz I never bought a champ with rp) so doubt they would do it.

Why not just have a minimum time limit someone has to be on your friends list, for gifting champions to be available? Like a year or something, it would definitely solve some smurfing and they are going to get the champs they want in that time frame anyways.

Glory97Nov 19, 20191 votes

Riot does earn from people buy champs with rp. But I think it would be cool if they did somekind of event for christmas, where you can gift 1 or 2 champions with BE to friends or something.

Mr DallowayNov 20, 20191 votes

I bought a bunch of champs with RP on my account but I would always wait for them to be on sale. The others I got when we could RR 3 shards of champs and get a random champ. I doubt they will ever let us gift people with BE but I just wish it was more useful once you owned all the champs.