Pay to get to ranked series

Zedious·Mar 8, 2016·1 votes·411 views

With the ranked LP system as it is I always seem to get in the 90+ LP range. With never knowing the kind of teammates you are going to get, this makes being so close to getting to a promo series very frustrating. I think Riot could introduce a option to pay lets say a $1 to get to a series once you are in that 90 + LP range. This could be a great way to keep the game free but create a revenue stream for riot that doesn't exist. Also could help with some frustration of the ranked system and matchmaking. I see people spend rp all the time on that stupid ARAM skin boost. I think people would no doubt spend that to get to a promo.

3 Comments

KieliahMar 8, 20161 votes

While it would help ever so slightly with toxicity, it defeats the purpose of the whole ranked system. If you're paying to get promoted, you're paying to win, which is not what this game is. I don't know if you're talking about boosting your LP by 10 or completely bypassing your promos (pay to get from gold 2 to gold 1), but it would defeat the purpose. It takes skill and teamwork to get your LP up and unfortunately that means you will have to deal with those who don't care as much about that.

Additionally, it's not a feasible price at all, $1 would not be worth it for Riot. As you get higher tiers, LP gets more and more valuable. I'd say to get 10 LP from B4-B3 might be worth a dollar but to get from P2-P1 would be easily worth $30. It would have to increase as you got better.

ZediousMar 10, 20161 votes

I was more talking about a boost to get to the promo series. Which from rereading my post seems fairly clear to me, sorry if it was not communicated clearly. Bypassing promos would be a kind of cheating and not good for the game I agree. It just struck me after getting to 90+ LP multiple times, playing well and not getting to my promo that I would pay for a boost at that point to play a promo series. As for the feasibility of it, I think you underestimate the amount of people that play in each region and how much they bounce between divisions. If they make 500K a year just for making a Pay for boost button I would call that feasible.

KieliahMar 10, 20161 votes

You have to think though, a lot of those accounts are inactive, and of those that are active, a lot aren't into ranked (like myself and many of my friends), and so don't play it. Then you have to take those that are active (which is about 7% according to last year's stats) and are nearing their promos. That is less than 10% of all of those who do play ranked, assuming an equal distribution of LP across all ranks. So right there you're looking at a very niche portion of the community, and I'd guess that not even half of those playing would want to boost anyway. Riot wouldn't make very much off of .35% of their player base, and based on the 67 million people that play, at $1 a pop, that would only be $250k. And while that may seem like a lot of money, for a company of their size, it's negligible.

Either way, boosting your LP would completely undermine the purpose of ranked, as you're supposed to work better in order to gain that LP. This would be an example of Pay to Win, which Riot actively tries to avoid.