Riot creates a cool event where we get free stuff for playing with a full group of friends/encourages us to make new friends and everyone freaks out saying the point system was badly made and it's all a plot to get money from us. Chill out, it's a game, it's for fun, and regardless of anything, we get free stuff out of it for doing nothing more than playing games with friends.
It didn't encourage me to make friends.
I dropped people from my groups like a rock if I didn't like them. The forums made it easy to pick new people up. Started a group with a RL friend, who isn't very good, and one of the randoms I had invited said 'If this guy plays again, I'm not playing the next one.' Fine, no reinvite for you. Done and done.
I'd just like to see a proper event again that doesn't revolve around a sell or a batch of new skins. I like game modes for example, because they aren't trying to sell you anything, you are just playing. This is obviously just a way to get people to buy as many skins as they can manage.
I mean they have 5 new skins for people to buy, and if you notice, the sale "reward" is the second reward, where the skin people want is the last one. If they really wanted to reward people, they would switch those.
Look at how the points are gathered.
5 points for playing.
10 points if you gift someone (mystery gifting for example) So double the points if you spend money.
20 if you do both (gift at the end of a game)
So the incentive here is spend money, and spend money. Good reason to be cynical :P Not saying it is a terrible idea, but come on, it is pretty obvious this is all just a way to get people to spend money. That isn't 100% wrong either, but let's not paint a pig red and pretend it isn't a pig.
Up Voted.
What do you expect from people of the boards?
Teamed up with several new random people who I met, and had plenty of success in unranked. Lots of fun, too! The event boosts (IP, XP, future rewards, etc) had us group together for a good three game streak and continue a few days later.
All in all, I think it's working fairly well.
