A problem with Riot's "Guaranteed Gemstones" offer

Forhonor321··1 votes·1,627 views

So this is going to discuss Riot's recent announcement of their guaranteed gemstones offer with the Project skins being released soon and overall a discussion of them in general. So of course, like many other people most likely, I view the Project Distruption page they set up. I look through it and see the section about crafting and then the section on how to get the gemstones. They said the only way to get them is through the bundles and only once a day. Now I wasn't made that I could only get one a day, that's a reasonable thing for them to do. Having gems limited to bundles only? A little teeth gritting but again understandable. Paying 2950 RP for the Augment Bundle even though the Augment Caches are 295 and so you're basically paying for 10 individual caches, just so I can get one gemstone that day............. WHAT THE FUCKING HELL RIOT!?!? You're basically going to be paying roughly $20 over the course of six days, if your stupid enough, just to get six gemstones and with that you'll have spent $120 dollars.

If you think I'm wrong or overreacting then let me put this on: one hextech key and or chest separate are 125 RP each. The bundle for one of each is 195 RP, 55 RP cheaper if you were to buy the key and chest separate. The bundles also continue up to save you money rather then buying the items separately along with bonuses if you do buy them, encouraging you to do so. Here it literally makes no difference if you buy them separately or in the bundle except for the fact that you get a free gemstone, and the rest of the bundles don't fall far from that same concept either. Riot the reason we bought the bundles for your already stupid gambling system is because it was to save us RP and for the bonuses when we did. Here your guaranteeing us a gemstone but at the full price of buying 10 of these caches at the same price, no discount or anything else.

When you said sometime on some post that you wanted to help players get gemstones, did you really think it was a good idea to slap it on something with the same price as buying 10 of those individual things rather then putting the bundle on a discounted price like the rest of your bundles to better encourage us to buy it? I'm sorry but with this, and I really hate to say this, you just lost all my respect and nearly all my faith. I really wanted to believe that you wanted to help us get these gemstones due to your stupid system never really dropping them as frequently as they should, but if your telling us that we have to roughly pay $120 for 6 gemstones then I'm just not going to think of you guys any better then just now scamming us for our money. I am willing to spend money on you guys, but not in ways like this where I just feel like I'm getting nothing better out of it.

5 Comments

Sett a trap1 votes

People have blown $400 to get the hextech skins. This is actually a cheaper method if you're looking for crafting one of them.

Forhonor3211 votes

Ehhh that's true I guess. But even with that I still don't feel like the bundles offer anything but the gems. Basically what they're saying to me is that a gemstone is basically worth $20 and that's just for one. Even if it is cheaper then spending hundreds of dollars I still don't think spending $20 should be the price of buying one gem per day. And when I see this bundle I'm just insulted by it. When I think of their bundles I think of getting more stuff at a much lower combined cost then buying them separate. Here it's literally buying 10 of the caches separate at the same total just with a one gem bonus with it. That doesn't sound like a deal to me.

ShishiAnnie1 votes

You seem to misjudge something here. The augment caches contain MORE than the hextech chests. Like, out of the top of my head I think an augment cache contains 1 guaranteed skin shard and on top of that 2 more shards or so. + PROJECT core's and possible gemstones.

Oh and I bought a bundle myself. 20 euros. 10 augment caches. Next to the free gemstone I got 3 more. That's right. 4 gemstones for 20 euro's.

Forhonor3211 votes

Really? 4 gemstones? That's some insane luck you have there. As to your argument I guess you do have a point. Idk maybe I just overreacted over the fact that the bundle is essential 10 separate caches for the same price, but I guess I forgot that you can get skin shards out of it. I didn't even know you could still get gems by opening them either. Again, I may have overreacted but I still hold my reason that paying for the bundle for the same price as the separate caches just with one guaranteed gemstone is still nerve wracking to me, even if I can get more gemstones from opening caches. To me it's still a hextech box with a fairly slim chance of getting a gemstone in one of them.

ShishiAnnie1 votes

Yeah it really was insane luck. I was actually mad for being behind on my friends with the gemstones. Having only 3 (after purchasing 50 euro's worth of normal hextech chests). And then on my first 20 euro augment cache bundle I get 4 gemstones. More than what I already had. I was already prepared to pay like 120 euros for getting the 20 euro bundle every single day. Now I only need 3 more at most. :D

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