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Champion price changes (for free?)

eeeyyyaaalllDDD··4 votes·443 views

As somone who have friends that's new to league and have a smurf i see the problem with champion prices (the cost is to high). I know that there are the prices so new players won't have hard time in the game (to know all 130 champions abilities is a problem). But i was thinking about a solution and i think i found a good one: What if, each level you get will give you some champions for free? you will still get IP each game and you will be able to buy champions with the IP as well. for example: Each level you get will give you 2 - 5 champions for free ( difficult level according the level you got or random champions). And maybe it will be a good idea to fix the cost of all champions to something like 3150?
So if i got to lv 10 and i didnt got Gangplank i can save IP to buy him. So we keep the difficulty level for starters (about learning the champions abilities) and we let them play and get new champions at the same time. There is a possibility that it will help if you can see the champion abilities in the loading screen, after champion select, so if there is champion that you don't know his abilities you will be able to see what he does before the game begin.

And of course that will be extra champion you won't get until level 30 that you will have to buy.

i will be happy to hear every one opinion! (and even more happy if this change or something similar will go live)

Ps. sorry for my english :)

16 Comments

Hyperiön2 votes

The price is perfectly fine. Why make it too easy to get? The way it is now is that you actually need to play to get champions. I don't want it to only cost like 10 games for a champion.

It may be a little Bias coming from someone who has all the champions, but still, it is something to work for. just just get for free.

Chamuel852 votes

I've been playing every day for almost 3 years (minus that one month I spent in Ireland). I still have 140,000 IP to go. It's not black and white of "make it cheaper = too easy to get". I FINALLY own all the 3150 and below, but still only have like 25 champions to get. It would be nice to not have to spend... oooo you know. 3-4 years playing daily to get all the champions. Hextech Crafting will probably reduce that itself if you choose to turn 3 champion shards into a random champion.

I've bought runes (which definitely have changed the 'best general runes for a class' over the couple years), and some champions with RP. Playing 3 years to get the champions (and it just grows) is a bit... much. Especially with each year being about 3 new champions which is about another 13000+ IP that you need to get caught up.

Hyperiön1 votes

I have been playing since the sping of Season 3, Ive played every day since besides last summer.

I have all of the champs, and all of the runes that I need. That is without buying boosts and what not. I guess it is more of how many games you play and how many games you win.

It still is tedious, considering i only finished the champs last month.

Chamuel851 votes

Yeah, I enjoy the game but almost didn't continue playing because of the daunting task to owning champions by buying them with IP. It's a barrier that I feel Riot would find value in considering. However, they are reviewing Runes and such too which was another IP sink.

Hyperiön1 votes

Well I mean, tbh, you don't need all the champions. I pretty much play only about 10-20 champions on a regular basis. and maybe a little fun random champ here and there.

Chamuel851 votes

Well... sometimes some people have .... compulsions

eeeyyyaaalll1 votes

You remember how much champion you bought before you find your 10-20 most loved champions? And maybe you are someone who likes to play the meta? and than you have to get new champion/s each patch(not every patch)

eeeyyyaaalll1 votes

but it is hard for new people to start get in the game like that, and right now there are people who leave lol but there aren't new players. if you know that the next level you get will give you new champions and you miss 3~ games you will try to play more and get these champions. It gives another reason to play for new players.

(sorry for my bad english)

eeeyyyaaalll1 votes

it doesnt make sense to me. I play for 1.5~ years and i miss 6 champion ( i have 6 rune pages with tier 3 runes). How you miss 25?

Chamuel851 votes

Depends on how many times per day you play. There are a good amount of weeks where I only get first win of the day. Also how many champions you bought with RP, etc, etc.

eeeyyyaaalll1 votes

I think i have 2 from RP (when they when on discount) and i think(don't sure) that a friend got me the starter champion bundle(it have only low IP champion like 450 )

eeeyyyaaalll1 votes

If you a starter, and each for level you get 2 random champions that gives anther reason for you to play, it isn't instead of the regular payment method for champions.

eeeyyyaaalll1 votes

Don't forget that most of the players that are gold or lower have 20-40 champions, and if you get 80IP per game , and each game is 30 mins, you need 20 hours of games(40 games to be exact) for a 3150 IP champion. And there are people that play once or twice per day, so it is a month for a 3150 IP and 2 months for 6300 IP. you probably don't remember how it is to wait so long to get IP for a champion, and maybe in the end you even don't like it that much?

Hyperiön1 votes

Oh i remember perfectly well how much time it took me to get to where I am now, and I know how much time i put into this game, well over 3000 hours, if not more.

I only play a small percent of the champions that I own, but I have the rest to trade/have fun on normals with.

Commit Sudoku1 votes

the point of earlier levels is to play and test free champions to learn their abilities buying a champ early on probably means you are only playing that champion instead learning many also league of legends in general is bad at acclimating new players to the game

eeeyyyaaalll1 votes

I disagree with : "the point of earlier levels is to play and test free champions to learn their abilities buying a champ early on probably means you are only playing that champion instead learning many " you can see the champion ability and like them, so you would want to buy the champion, not to play only him, you are the first one i see that thinks that you shoud buy only champions you will only play them (sorry if my english sucks)

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