Can key fragments PLEASE drop more often?

datfatguy·12/25/2016, 9:48:25 AM·99 votes·4,664 views

Because I have 9 unopened chests and I get so many but I can't ever open them because I get barely any key fragments. I open one chest every like 2 weeks which is seriously annoying and the loot I get is quite crap anyway. It's really annoying that I keep getting more and more chests but I can't ever open them because I have no keys. Please just make key fragments drop more often so we can open a chest more often. I know there is some system with them that affects how often they drop, but can't you just change it so we can get them more often?

100 Comments

Death and Doom12/25/2016, 5:47:01 PM22 votes

Would people please STOP complaining about hextech crafting? Riot gave us FREE SKINS something you used to only get from throwing money at the game, and you have the nerve to complain???

idc if you downvote me, i have said what i have too.

Zelorxon12/25/2016, 10:03:25 AM9 votes

I have 13 unopened chests and i've noticed that since i don't craft/reroll/disenchant skins since i want to keep them for later, i've been started to just get champion shards recently. I'm not saying that riot is doing this on purpose like 150% of what they do but...

Stephenizgod12/25/2016, 8:22:47 PM9 votes

This system is designed to want to make you buy keys so you can get skins. If you do end up getting what you want, it is possible to get something for a lot cheaper.

On the other hand, this system is designed to also reward the patient who are completely fine waiting for 3 key fragments so they can unlock free content.

So those saying this system was designed out of greed, no shit its a company and they want to make money off the product they are dishing out to us. They game is entirely free to play and requires not a single cent to do anything. To those saying it was done purely out of kindness, wrong also, while it is a very nice mechanic, it does try to get you to buy keys by making them hard to obtain.

I see nothing wrong with it or their approach to be honest, if you don't want to spend money DONT. If you don't like having 20 chests and no Keys, who cares? you are lucky to even have a chance at free loot, i mean I have seen people get Elementalist Lux and other ultimate skins FOR FREE... So you have no right to complain.

Leetri12/25/2016, 5:25:23 PM6 votes

You can earn 4 keys and 4 chests a month, so on average you should have no spare chests. You gotta win a fair number of your games to get all the keys though, which is probably where the issue stems from. They could lower the exponential curve of fragment drops so you don't need as many wins, but if they increase the number of key fragments that drop you're just gonna end up with a ton more keys than chests. And then everyone's gonna complain that they don't have any chests to open and we're back to square one. Most people don't play 50 champions (or even own that many) well enough to get all the chests anyway, so I can see why Riot doesn't think this is an issue worth trying to solve.

TL;DR I agree keys should be a little easier to earn, but the majority won't have this problem so Riot might not be able to justify spending resources on it.

Godhri12/25/2016, 9:54:03 PM5 votes

It's a system meant to give you access to PREMIUM items for free. How can you ask them to make it easier for you to get stuff for free? I can see it as maybe a holiday event, but anymore than that is just being ungrateful.

People were whining about RP items being inaccessible so Riot made it possible to access it. It's honestly a pretty great system. I've gotten some nice skins from doing this. A couple of the skins were skins that would normally cost 900+ RP.

MohawkBird12/25/2016, 6:54:15 PM5 votes

"I'm already getting free stuff, but I want more free stuff because I am ungrateful and selfish!"

Seriously dude, just deal with it. Be lucky you have a chest to open even every 2 weeks because Riot didn't have to do any of this. They could've easily kept it like any other valve system and made it so you could only get it by paying.

Yordle Xayah12/26/2016, 12:49:18 AM5 votes

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Stormshadow350312/26/2016, 3:35:45 AM3 votes

What? I have 8 keys and no chests right now...

Zelius12/26/2016, 3:40:54 AM3 votes

It's been said many many times before.. FREE SKINS and products.. which cost money.. legit no reason to complain about it.

Also.. crafting is far from useless, I got an ultimate skin from my chest.. which is about $30 worth.. so yea

Ningendo12/25/2016, 11:52:30 PM3 votes

12 boxes, no fragments....

2Behold12/25/2016, 9:21:18 PM3 votes

I mean you are getting free things from the hextech boxes so Riot probably wont make it easier to do that

Fegone12/26/2016, 10:43:02 AM2 votes

It's the opposite too. I see myself either with an overwhelmingly high amount of chests, or with lots of keys and no chests at all. It's either or throughout the season, never balanced.

falldown01012/26/2016, 12:11:46 PM2 votes

i get keys for days ... but chests are so rare for me, maybe one in two weeks D;

HazyCloud712/25/2016, 8:52:20 PM2 votes

Ironically I've never gotten more fragments than in the last ~week or so. Feels like the rate went way up.

InHaruhiWeTrust12/25/2016, 7:21:50 PM2 votes

I have 23 chests and 1 key frag... rito pls!

Narasimha12/25/2016, 11:22:05 PM2 votes

I'd be fine if Champion shards were left out of it. You can already buy shards directly with IP. Spending time and effort to get 3 key fragments, turn it into a key, use it on a chest, and then have it pop out a champ shard just feels insulting. I already own all the champions in the game. I don't have that much interest in getting them all to rank 7, and even then I could buy shards with IP.

Egregious Teflon12/26/2016, 5:22:39 PM2 votes

Well i had 80 games without dropping a single one so i know the feeling and the droprate honestly sucks

the weeaboo12/25/2016, 8:25:20 PM1 votes

Its the reverse for me. So many keys never enough chests.