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Riot's Business Model is transparent?! At least people are happy.

TheEdgeOfDestiny·1/26/2017, 12:11:59 PM·3 votes·1,111 views
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Beforehand let me say it again. I'm pretty mature to understand that Riot is a company. It does stuff and makes money out of it. It produces stuff. It has employees. Etc. I fully understand that. Moreover I'm really happy that they do stuff professionally. I mean they balance champions, make awesome skins, make interesting mods to retain people, organize championships and support pro players to keep us entertained and involved. They evolve the game and setting. Which is pretty awesome. Few companies do this on such scale and level.

In regards to business model and why Blood Moon Jhin promo is attached to post. I created a post recently with some examples of things that doesn't seem fair. I'm not saying I'm against them. They just don't seem... transparent enough and sometimes straight deceiving.

It wouldn't be a big deal if not for one issue. Blood Moon Diana skin is used to promote Blood Moon Jhin skin. It's an old marketing trick where you place a few inferior products next to one you want to promote. To make people want it more. Even if you argue that it's a matter of taste and you want to say that you like Diana skin more and actually Diana skin got more effort put into it... original promo featured Jhin (in form of Jhin's weapon... in kind of strange depiction... but let's say it's only my dirty mind). The bad thing in this is that Diana's lore is tied to the Moon and community wanted to see Blood Moon Diana skin for quite long time. And then. It was just used as a wingman skin for a champion that is played more and have greater probability to create more sales. Lore and community dreams thrown at the feet of marketing.

In original post ignoring some generic or toxic comments I got a feeling people don't trust my words. So I decided to extract one of points into separate post.

Fact that RP gain diminishes the bigger amount of RP you buy. Riot states that you gain huge amount of RP by purchasing bigger RP pack. And compare it to lesser 2.5$ pack. And show you some HUGE gains like hundreds of RP. In reality money to RP gain ratio decreases. Here is dull and antifun graph that shows that gain ratio slowly decreases the bigger pack gets. Each RP gets cheeper but the ratio at which it becomes cheeper decreases.

If the ratio at which RP gets cheeper of 50$ pack would be the same as 5$ pack you would get 10500 RP instead of 8250 RP. To put it simple.

6 Comments

Elite4Runner1/26/2017, 1:05:20 PM2 votes

I may not be keying on the point that you are really hoping for, but I think it is strange that people don't expect that Riot should have favored products.

EVERY other company does this.

Some products are not the newest or best thing that they offer, therefore don't get the same level of attention, development, marketing, .. etc.

For example, car companies. Every car company has their pride and joy, their sports cars, their heavy duty pick ups, their economy cars, ... but they also have their SUVs, vans, sub-compacts, sedans.... that don't sell as well

Fast food! McDonalds!! There is the Big Mac, the McRib, even the McDouble Cheeseburger. But there is also the McChicken, even the Double Cheeseburger which is literally the same thing as a McDouble with two pieces of cheese.

It's simple, as a business, they are going to put more effort into marketing and developing the more popular products because they make them the most money.

They are a good enough company to try and keep the less favorables on the map, and to an extent, letting some of them slip into nothing long enough to establish some hype for a rework (Yorick) is still a part of marketing.

TheEdgeOfDestiny1/26/2017, 12:14:37 PM1 votes

Btw. I asked Riot whether it is an outdated business model or diminished gain is intentional because it was a really-really old trick for mobile and social network games to make players buy bigger packs.

venomous frost1/26/2017, 12:21:06 PM1 votes

what's the point of this post? Ever compared a 0.2l coke bottle to a 0.5 litre? a 0.5 litre to a 2 litre?

People like to buy small quantities, and companies have been abusing this for decades