Hextech Key Fragments as IP sink?

razthesummoner·3/28/2016, 1:05:53 AM·7 votes·1,076 views

I was wondering if riot considered making key fragments an item players could buy through IP since some people are just sitting on it. Additionally maybe an IP - essence converter?

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Necrolegion893/28/2016, 3:11:49 AM2 votes

At another game I used to play, World of Tanks, there was a system like this but you still had to pay. You could convert regular XP into "free" XP for researching and unlocking modules and tanks for any branch. I think the conversion was 25 "free" xp for every 1 gold.

180 gold = 1 USD, or if you bought the expensive gold packages it was 240 gold = 1 USD

XP was something that you'd accumulate over time on a tank that you'd already fully researched and you couldn't really do anything with all that regular XP.

Riot could do something like this, but then again, they made the starter Hextech bundles relatively cheap. 125RP for a key which is about 1 USD or 1 Chest and Key for 1.50 USD.

If we used the outrageous conversion from IP to RP using the Rune Page with 1388 IP = 1 USD, we could get something like 2082 IP for 1 Hextech Chest and Key. OR alternatively if Riot were to be kind we could get it for as cheap as 1260 IP for 1 Chest and Key using the champion prices.

BUT I doubt Riot will ever do any of this seeing as how there are bots who just farm IP all day. This would be extremely exploitable by bots to farm skins and then sell the accounts.