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So Riot, what's your plan to help people with massive IP pools?

ModCaptainMårvelous··3 votes·303 views

Because at this point this is getting beyond ridiculous.

Icons, which could easily be IP sinks for 1500 or more, continue to be RP only. Chromas, which could again be easy IP sinks for 6300-ish, continue to be RP only. Mystery Gifts, a wonderful IP sink to give to friends? RP only. Buying champions for friends can only be done with RP. I could go on but you get the point.

The only non-gameplay IP sink is name changes, which I've heard of some players changing their names FOUR times in one day simply because they have tons of IP and absolutely nothing of worth to spend it on. This is a joke at this point that we can do nothing with huge IP pools and yet the options which should have always been IP are still there.

As a long time player, you're really insulting people who have put time and effort into your game by not giving us anything to use our IP on. It's beginning to leave a bad taste in my mouth and I sincerely hope you do something (and soon) to rectify this.

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TeemoJenkins3 votes

{quoted} As a long time player, you're really insulting people who have put time and effort into your game by not giving us anything to use our IP on. It's beginning to leave a bad taste in my mouth and I sincerely hope you do something (and soon) to rectify this.

Riot gives you free currency to buy champions / runes for free... but that leaves a bad taste in your mouth? You want to buy optional content with free currency? This game can be 100% free to play, while operating at a cost of ten's of thousands a month to maintain... but you want more... for free. What have you done for free lately that others would be paid for? Entitlement is a disease... seek a cure.

ModCaptainMårvelous1 votes

Straight up

This argument is bullshit. Bullshit.

Why is it bullshit?

DoTA2 gives you all heroes for free and gives you random cosmetic drops. SMITE gives you log-in rewards as well as their currency (The paid one) for dailies or something. Heroes of the Storm has chromas and skins unlocked with both time and in-game currency.

What you are telling me, as a consumer, is to not ask Riot to step up and improve the quality of their game because it's free to play. You're telling me that I should be happy with whatever I get because it's free, even if there are people offering better services that I would like to see implemented in league. You're telling me that I shouldn't ask for League to be improved because "FREE GAME LOLOL"

Entitlement is a two-way street friend, and the other end of the street is holding yourself on a pedestal because you're happy with what you get.

EDIT: As an aside, I'm not asking for Riot to hand me free skins or free wards or whatever. I'm asking for the option to be available to me. As it should.

Daen2 votes

I'm not sure this argument is particularly relevant. CaptainMarvelous, from what I've gathered, is essentially asking Riot whether there are plans to add IP sink purchases. These don't necessarily have to be high effort or even particularly cost-efficient, it's just that there are people playing with tens of thousands of IP sitting around and no use for it.

Overall, I dislike the argument of entitlement. Yes, it's a bit entitled to ask for phr33 st00fs, but at the same time we are consumers that would like a use for the currency we earn by dedicating time to the game. The game being free doesn't exclude it from criticism or feature requests, and in my mind asking for an IP sink is similar in concept to asking for a better matchmaking feature (e.g. Team Builder).

FurriesAreHot3 votes

I thnk we need like a 1500 ip to 50 rp currency swap

ModCaptainMårvelous1 votes

Completely fair choice and/or option.

Daen1 votes

While I agree that it would be nice to have an IP sink, it's a bit difficult for Riot to implement. Players with insane amounts of IP lying around are an extremely small minority, and opening existing content to IP purchase could potentially either lose Riot copious amounts of money or be such high IP requirements that the average player would view them as unfair (see: Tribes: Ascend).

I will agree entirely on one thing, which is summoner icons. Riot has repeatedly said that they would be available for IP unless tied to an event, but since you can define almost anything as an event they rarely have that option. Chromas...I just disagree with the entire pricing model. I think it's disingenuous of Riot to force bundling on Chromas, and it's a practice that is widely regarded as being a bit greedy.

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