Does anybody like the event passes?

XYGSYS·8/8/2019, 11:10:02 AM·52 votes·14,459 views

I don't remember exactly what post it was, but on one of the posts RIOT made about this season said they would be focusing more on community favorites. One of the "favorites" they listed was event passes. Does anybody actually like having to spend $15 and play a lot of games just to get anything from the event? I mean, for your money you get some chromas and skin shards. Doesn't seem worth it to me. I always felt like the passes were just a cash grab, and I can't imagine anybody thinking they are a good deal.

So, do any of you guys like the event passes, and if so, why?

37 Comments

Jesi Oni8/8/2019, 11:15:04 AM25 votes

Charging for something that should be free. Needed only one prestige skin from the list so never gonna buy it again... and I am not some greedy for free stuff person because I paid for 16 skins, 3 emotes, ward and 2 pictures 🤑

Events should be rarer and should be free. PERIOD Stop being EA

Julevi8/8/2019, 11:41:05 AM9 votes

I like the event passes per se but only buy them if I am 100% happy about the loot. As a person with a lot of spare time (+ wasting it usually in LoL) and the willingness to grind for those items over weeks it's a beneficial situation for me.

PolkaDotPimp8/8/2019, 1:50:50 PM9 votes

I would never spend money on the event passes because I think league is overcharging for a great number of things.

I do like events because for simply playing and completing some challenges, I do get some free stuff. The free stuff is the only reason I don't complain about the obvious money grabs they do. There are players who will pay ridiculous amounts for an "Exclusive Skin" and that's fine. I'll stick to my non exclusive free ones.

Naalith8/8/2019, 2:17:41 PM8 votes

Not really. You could unlock 100s of items in a battle pass system like Rocket League in the time it takes to just get the damn chroma/ 100 PP in these events. Riot is trying to copy battle pass systems and pretending like they're offering something of value with the passes, the truth is there is one item people actually want and have to spend 80% of their free time for an entire month to get it. The ward skins are alright, the loading borders used to be free so they just ripped those and put them in the pass, random skin shards are just RNG garbage.

I bought the Rocket League battle pass on the 9th week of the 16 week event this summer and was shocked that I not only finished the pass playing just a couple hours here and there a week, but after the pass (which has 70 levels) if you continue to level up you get sick recolored versions of items from the pass. I'm now level 140 or so on the pass and it only cost $10 and a little chunk of my time, plus the game is actually fun to play. This means I have over 140 new cars, animated paint jobs, paint finishes, wheels, etc. to play with. By comparison, Riot charges $15 and the goal is a single chroma and some other trash that should just be attainable in game and it takes at least 4 times the time investment. Yikes.

Quil Evrything8/8/2019, 1:56:10 PM6 votes

not to mention that even if you DO buy the event pass.. the amount of grinding required to get something decent is INSANE. Ugh. IMO if you have to spend $15, there should be no more than about HALF the current grinding required to get the dangled skin each time.

Targon8/8/2019, 3:36:07 PM4 votes

Nobody I know likes the event passes.

Spotty8/8/2019, 2:52:04 PM4 votes

yes I love when companies try to milk me of my money

Jennifer4208/8/2019, 3:30:46 PM4 votes

riot likes them

HeIINBack8/8/2019, 6:17:53 PM4 votes

The game is free

Skins aren't required...

15 euros to get free skins is worth it... Don't complain if you don't have time to make it worth... If you go to normals and you get S in every champ in the season you can open a massive amount of chests aswell, will you complain about the time it takes for a shit like you to be able to do that...

THEY KEEP ADDING STUFF SO WE CAN GET FREE STUFF THAT WASN'T AVAILABLE SEASONS AGO, STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT EXTRA CONTENT.

Don't complain about accessories... Rather complain about the bugs in game.

PS: if you don't get the skin you want that's your problem not theirs... Most people complain about this... What do you want? Them to send you an email... "sorry my man, take this ultimate skin just because you really want it" [slayer-jinx-unamused]

Wild Geese8/8/2019, 5:16:37 PM3 votes

I like them, you get more boxes from playign than you would from from buying boxes for your money... You can get a lot of value as long as you don't get the prestige skin, unless that's really worth $20 to you.

Sukishoo8/8/2019, 5:19:35 PM3 votes

I enjoy them.

Spice and Wolf8/8/2019, 7:58:22 PM3 votes

I like them cus they are cheap. I hope they make more so it annoys people like you

Camille Ferrøs8/8/2019, 7:14:19 PM3 votes

Riot LOVES them.

Yordle Xayah8/8/2019, 10:06:58 PM3 votes

No, I don't like glorified casinos.

Moon Mom8/8/2019, 4:12:22 PM3 votes

Yes... otherwise they wouldn't keep making them?

Rockman8/8/2019, 7:24:52 PM2 votes

There's too many with not good enough rewards. I shouldn't have to play 400 hours for a skin

Better Ban Neeko8/8/2019, 6:45:11 PM2 votes

I'd rather have a season long battle pass instead of a month long specific event pass. I like the idea of saving up between events.

Charging about 15 dollars for each event is kind of lame. And takes a lot of commitment assuming you play the game the whole month. we should just have generic event tokens that work for all of them and "transform" into the specific event type.

ProExpertKing8/8/2019, 6:47:59 PM2 votes

Honestly I feel like the event passes should be free, or at the very least, available with blue essence. It makes no sense on why you would gate your community from enjoying an event that was ment to be for everyone

KittyMcMeowMeow8/8/2019, 6:52:20 PM2 votes

I'd just like the 'event' to have a new/old game mode attached, not some little changes made to SR

Pxerkza8/8/2019, 7:26:01 PM2 votes

i don't particularly like them but i get way more than their worth

for 1650 rp i usually get a bunch of epics sometimes some legacy skins that are awesome and i got twice lucky with an ultimate skin

so they are worth their RP cost i just don't like how lazy the missions are but thats just an aftermath of awful mass feedback

Laughing Fish8/8/2019, 8:55:46 PM2 votes

Yes some people like them.

Specifically Riot.

As they are a shameless cash grab which is right up Riot's ally these days.

Joycons8/10/2019, 4:13:52 PM1 votes

It’s iffy for me... I have the money to buy them so I do, because I know I’ll play enough to earn what I want. But I also know that not everyone wants to spend $15 on an event pass that could easily be a free event. The only upside to the event pass that I think is truly a positive to buying it is the ability to earn those 25 prestige points, but even then, Prestige is a very large cash grab.

I don’t know how to feel about them. I just wish Riot would realize that a lot of people play this game because it’s free and they don’t have the money or want to spend it on shit like that, which is 100% understandable. Events should realistically be free and the rewards should be obtainable by everyone within REALISTIC means.

Not everyone can sit and play for 12 hours a day.

PaladinNO8/8/2019, 8:22:25 PM1 votes

I bought the "first" event pass when K/DA Kai'Sa Prestige Edition was released. Because I got sucked into the hype thinking those things would actually be "prestige". But I digress (sorry, been watching way too much JayzTwoCents lately) - no, I do not like event passes.

However, I might have liked them if not for these things:

Ahri Baka8/8/2019, 10:43:36 PM1 votes

I do

LPelican 8/9/2019, 1:10:46 AM1 votes

i have only ever bought one to get 20 champions on a smurf because I ended up having like 7 champions at lvl 30

FantasySniper8/9/2019, 1:51:59 AM1 votes

No. If they lasted a lot longer or came with a way higher token rate, I wouldn't mind buying them, but as is they are way too expensive for how little they actually guarantee you.

Boo Koo God8/9/2019, 2:20:40 AM1 votes

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I don't remember exactly what post it was, but on one of the posts RIOT made about this season said they would be focusing more on community favorites. One of the "favorites" they listed was event passes. Does anybody actually like having to spend $15 and play a lot of games just to get anything from the event? I mean, for your money you get some chromas and skin shards. Doesn't seem worth it to me. I always felt like the passes were just a cash grab, and I can't imagine anybody thinking they are a good deal.

So, do any of you guys like the event passes, and if so, why?

I hate the event passes there just a money grab

kaijukitten8/9/2019, 9:02:17 AM1 votes

I like the Event passes for the ability to grind for the orbs which guarantee skin shards (even tho you might get one that could be crap, at least you're 100% getting a skin shard), unlike chests. But if you don't have the time to grind, they're basically a waste of money.

I think the Event Passes would feel more fun and/or worthwhile if they had special gamemodes to go with them (cough RGMs cough), maybe where you could earn a teeny bit more tokens playing that mode over SR or ARAM, but you could still earn tokens in SR or ARAM if the gamemode didn't suit your fancy. Or the special gamemode enabled you to earn prizes via the pass.

Banuvan8/9/2019, 12:11:40 PM1 votes

Event passes are garbage. Never bought one and never will.

In Borke Veritas8/9/2019, 1:36:22 PM1 votes

I don't but I can easily tell you who does, the normies that follow the "See product, consume product, ask no questions, get "excited" for next product" algorhytm.

ChrisBrownze8/9/2019, 10:29:40 PM1 votes

I like them cus if you cash in all your tokens for champion shards, they're the fastest way to earn BE and unlock champions.

Ztoka8/8/2019, 8:46:55 PM1 votes

It's actually nice, because they are releasing things that have no appeal to my wallet..