Why do people get mad about "Riot Money Garbing"?

PickIe Rickkk·3/2/2018, 11:36:28 PM·2 votes·423 views

>Think that you have a restaurant that you like. One you always go to every single day after class. It's where you met your girlfriend. It's where you do allot of your homework. It's nice, quiet, clean, and serves good food with good customer service. You learn all the staff's names and are good friends with them. If there was ever a problem with an order, they'd fix it timely, free, and friendly. Sometimes even getting something extra with it for the inconvenience.

>4 years later many more people start to come to that restaurant you and notice that it isn't as clean anymore. You ask the manager and he replies with "We're doing it to save money". Then you reply with, "How can you not afford to run the place as well as before now when you have 20x more customers than you did?" He shrugs it off and walks back into the kitchen.

>The 5th year, they up the prices on all the food, and add more food to the menu. It's not bad food. It's just food you could do without.

>6th year rolls around and they make your food cheaper and you have a reserved seating area if you're in a premade group. The same year, your order got mixed up with another customers and made a complaint. They tell you if you want a new order, then you need to buy a new order.

>7th year rolls around and they have finally finished significantly changing every meal you did like to get there, but there are significantly more things to choose from.

> Then they added a mystery meal box. The mystery meal box was a reward for being a customer, giving you a free mystery meal box on your receipt if you do the survey. People really liked it. Being rewarded just for being a customer. You feel fulfilled and rewarded, even though all the other things have been kinda terrible. You could get a 2-4$ meal for free, which was kinda nice compensation for all the other things going bad. Later that year, they decided to up the prices by 20%, but everybody who was happy with all the new changes got that 20% difference removed from the bill. Anybody who wasn't happy with the changes had to pay that 20% fee. The mystery meal box was changed to 1$ items only and it was conditional that you were happy with the changes.

>Soon after, they made their own store currency that you had to buy at the counter at a fixed rate. Similar to Chucky Cheese, you need to buy tokens, then you buy things with the tokens. You can't buy anything else with the tokens except things in the store. The prices of everything in the store stayed the same when the conversion happened, but you got 20% of your dollar's value upon changing currency. Now you can't even buy things at your lifetime cafe stripmall. None of the food is what you like anymore. The place went from a minimalistic humble place, to a rave club. There's far more people there buying things, but it's not what made you happy for all the years.

>Every week you leave a 2 star review on your survey, asking him to make positive changes to accommodate the customers that made them who they are now from so many years ago. None of the changes are made, but you stick around just for the hope something will change for the better.

This is the delema of the old players.

21 Comments

Krigjer3/2/2018, 11:41:45 PM3 votes

I don't mind companies trying to sell me things. I don't mind them making money.

I don't appreciate being insulted in an attempt to separate me from my money.

Jamaree3/2/2018, 11:55:32 PM3 votes

You forgot to mention how the restaurant gives you free food

Colonel J3/4/2018, 5:51:14 AM2 votes

tldr but i will assume this is about lootboxes so I will just say that lootboxes aren't gambling.

KVbqbFsC8e3/3/2018, 12:30:18 AM1 votes

As someone who never spends money or bought skins on this game, I have no complaints. Before the loot system I would never get anything at all.

Onotori3/3/2018, 8:37:45 PM1 votes

The issue is that no one taught the current generation of gamers what quality looks like. People who gamed in the 90s and early 00s know what a good game looks like, and used to laugh at the concept of F2P, DLC and all that.

Now, people just don't care. As long as they have a way to waste time, they couldn't care less how good or bad the quality is.

Destaice3/4/2018, 5:46:58 AM1 votes

These kind of threads are always one sided with the logic.

Remember when Riot established what qualities a skin needed to have to be in a price tier and broke those rules a couple months later.

The problem comes when Riot is being unfair. And we're not dumb. We can tell when people are getting the shaft with prices.