Rather than letting all that IP amass and sit there for nothing, could you not give veteran players an incentive? Reward those players who own all champs and runes with something not obtainable by putting down $$$?
Make those early season players happy by throwing them some goodies?
Pretty please?
I wish they'd do this with OLD skins. You know, the ones they can't sell.
Like: Ruthless Pantheon Armor of the Fifth Age Taric Bird of Prey Anavia French Maid Nidalee Myrmidon Pantheon Giant Enemy Cragot Bilgewater Katarina Enchanted Galio Guerilla Tristana Forsaken Olaf Cowgirl Miss Fortune Shurima Desert Zilean Grim Reaper Karthus Waterloo Miss Fortune Queen Ashe (strangely) Infernal Mordekaiser Sanguine Garen Commando Garen Frejord Rammus Junkyard Trundle Desperada Cassiopeia Siren Cassiopeia Commando Galio Sun Goddess Karma High Command Katarina (strangely) (newer) Lord Mordekaiser Gothic Oriana Harbringer Kassadin Ravager Nocturne Dark Forge Jarvan IV Earthrune Skarner Crimson Elite Talon Winged Husser Xin Zhao Runeborn Xerath Boneclaw Shyvana Darkrider Sejuni Blood Night Hecarim Dark Valkyrie Diana Oktoberfest Gargas (trying too hard) Jade Fang Cassiopeia Blade Queen Lissandra
Most of these will be owned, but are more than likely unused. Some bought only because they looked nice. Others were bought but looked over by newer skins.
Either way you look at this, Riot loses money never the less. This is a "free game" and they depend on us for income.
I'd love more than even this for a new game mode that could stay (forever).
I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand, we really do need a huge IP Sink and I like the idea of selling certain skins for MASSIVE amounts of IP (50K and up). While this would certainly be a high-five to active and long-time players, it would also create a whole new market for botting games for IP. Think about it, out of every 10 people who play this game probably 2 or 3 of them would be willing to pay someone to bot IP for their account to get these skins illegitimately. So you'd probably have a quarter of the people who own these IP skins be people who actually earned them, and three fourths would probably just be bots and botters who want the skins so they LOOK like they've been playing a long time.
Also, from a financial viewpoint there's simply zero profit in this for Riot. Now now, don't insult them for that, it's true. Companies need money to operate. It's not greedy at this point, it's a fact. Now, charging 1350 RP per skin is a bit greedy IMO but that's another topic entirely.
If they were to implement an IP sink regarding skins I think it would be as follows:
50,000 - 80,000 IP for a random skin out of a predetermined pool of skins. Basically, an IP self mystery gift, but with restrictions.
Restrictions:
1 - 3 per year maximum, or whatever the average amount of IP earned by an active player could afford. This is to discourage botting, as you wouldn't be able to get more skins than the above-average person anyway. It's not flawless, but it sets a fair cap.
The pool of skins would be limited to skins that do not sell very well, and maybe some of the Legacies that still don't sell even when they leave the vault. Basically, you wouldn't see any "popular" skins in them. Think of it as a bargain bin. This minimizes profit loss on Riots side (if you get the skin for free you won't buy it with RP if you otherwise would have), while it also maximizes advertisement of the skins (Someone sees you playing with a generally unpopular skin but they think it's neat so they go out and buy it).
Keep in mind that the price of this IP skin chest would NOT be tuned for everybody to be able to afford whatever the cap is every year, but rather as a reward for those of us who play a LOT. So potentially everyone could afford one, but the more actively you play LoL the more frequently you can purchase them.
Also, having any "IP chest specific" skins would just encourage botters a whole lot more than it would encourage active players, so I think that would be a bad idea.
Or make it cost some RP PLUS high IP. (even though i like the reward thing better... :P)
Do you realize that it's already extremely difficult to farm 6300 to buy a CHAMPION?
5-6 games a day it takes me TWO WEEKS to get that much.
So to buy a skin it should take me 20 weeks (7 months) to 40 weeks (13 months, which is over a YEAR) to reach that much IP?
It's an awesome idea and I'm shocked that this hasn't been implemented yet! If anything though I feel like recolored types of skins should cost IP. I mean how much IP we talking about per skins. I mean since there are teirs for rp skins they should also make it if they do IP skins. It would suck if you only needed like 100k IP just to get the ultimate skins!
1000 IP for 1 RP is the best they would even do if they still want to make money out of this game. Literaly
Honestly, this isn't too greedy. The people who have been here since season 1 and have a ridiculous amount of IP saved up but can't buy anything are being given no reason to play if you can't get anything with the IP.
