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(wut happent)
Long story short (seriously):
Last summer, Riot came up with a community event, the "Team Up & Pool Party," where players around the world could play premade 5 ARAMs for points that would go to a series of prizes. You could also get extra points by gifting players Mystery skins (at the cost of your own RP).
The top prize was a free Pool Party Mundo skin (and champion) for all participants (worth around $15 for both). Other prizes included a free champ, discounts and bundles in the skin store and two weeks worth of minions dressed up as beach bums.
What Riot never said (and this was confirmed by WizardCrab on Reddit), was that Pool Party Mundo was impossible for the community to obtain through free play alone. Everyone had to bump up their RP buying and spending in order to have a chance. This goes against long standing statements and policies by Rioters that said players should never feel compelled to spend money for the game.
So, Riot had a cynical win-win situation. They'd get extra cash for their eSports events whether or not the community reached the otherwise impossible goal. It's one thing if the players failed to win if they had an honest chance at the goal (strictly through game play), but it's entirely another to make the goal impossible from the start then make players feel sad that they failed at the end.
This is just one of several examples of why I no longer believe Riot is a company that is "all about their players" but has turned into just another other corporation that will sacrifice their inconvenient ideals for a few extra dollars.