Riot, I've been wondering.
For new players and old players, these are just some thoughts I've been having.
For new players, why is it that:
You give little IP for a win? I could play for 40 minutes and gain 80 IP if I lose, why can't I gain 160 IP if I win? Its not fun also playing about 6-9 games to get a 450 IP champion. Just think about all the games I'd have to play (with the win of the day bonus) to get a 3150 IP champion. Then double that amount for a 6300 IP champion. There are now 125 champions. No matter what, the price is high in how much you need to achieve to collect them all. At the moment, it costs over 160,000 IP obtain at least 10 6300IP, 10 4800IP, 10 3150IP, 10 1350IP, and 10 450IP champions.
Runes are a rip off now? Its not worth it to by those puny tear 1 runes. You'd have a better time allowing new players to collect a rune after a match, tear 1 rune, and collect them to put into their rune sheets. Then, when they have enough runes at tear 1, they can combine in the rune combiner to be tear 2. You can also buy tear 1 runes in the shop. When you reach a higher level, tear 1 runes are replaced with tear 2 runes all together, just a small bit higher in price. You now also gain tear 2 or tear 1 runes after a match. Then after level 20, you can gain level 3, 2, and 1 runes after a match and tear 2 runes are replaced with tear 3 runes in the store. You can even sell old runes for IP. Once you hit level 30, you no longer gain runes.
For older players, why is it:
Majority of players already have all the IP items and have stored countless IP and have no where to spend it? Yet, you keep bringing in RP items that could cost IP such as icons and the new chroma skins. I really want to know why all the icons, besides the championship 1 IP icon, have been RP and not also IP as of recent. You had, honestly, 5 icons that could had been 1500 IP each, and easily took 7500 IP off of those who had accumulated over 10,000 IP. It's also not fair to someone who bought a skin like Lee Sins for 750 RP and turn around and add 520 to all it to be multi colorful. Old skins that are at rock bottom, the ones at 520 RP, those could be sold at 3000 to 6000 IP each.
There are only 2 modes of play? We either have Destroy Inhibitor match up (Summoner's Rift, Twisted Treeline, and Howling Abyss) or Dominion. Why don't we have a monthly game put in. You have Ascension, 6v6, All for one, and Poro King. I don't even understand why Doom Bots couldn't be permanent. (If you bring back URF, please allow HP based champions the freedom to have NO COST like all the others. And please remember that some champions like Hecarim or Nidalee don't need to buffs in URF as they already have low cool downs and they also make the games less fun.)
You took away the lore? Now what? We just sit here on the boards and discuss LC$ and bugs? I want to know more in Zac's origins, I want to know how the yordles live, I wish to see how Demacia works, and I want to have a story with such interesting champions.