Allow Gifting with IP

XaiverVI·Jul 18, 2015·42 votes·1,824 views

Ok, so I have a lot of Influence Points, but I've already bought most of the things that I could ever want with them, so I've decided I want to start buying my friends things. One of the things I've noticed though, is that you can currently only gift using Riot Points. It would be a good idea if Riot started allowing people to gift using Influence Points. I understand if they don't because some people would possibly abuse the game and make multiple accounts for the win of the day. But there would also be some people that wouldn't abuse it. It would be a better system to have you be able to gift with IP and a lot of people would really appreciate it.

26 Comments

Matthias9119Jul 18, 201515 votes

...and then there were a thousand times more bot accounts grinding out IP.

Sorry, causes way too many problems.

LICENSED HOOKERJul 19, 20153 votes

This.

RawJul 19, 20153 votes

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...and then there were a thousand times more bot accounts grinding out IP.

Sorry, causes way too many problems.

If bots are able to grind from level 1 to level 10 (level requirement for gifting) without getting caught, that's Riot's fault for failing to detect botting.

Sincerely,

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EL HAMSTEROJul 19, 20151 votes

okay its riots fault. but its still happening non-stop so....

Matthias9119Jul 19, 20151 votes

Unfortunately, it is extraordinarily difficult to detect client-side botting. Literally every online game I have ever played where botting offers advantages has had it present -- every MMO where "gold selling" is possible has bots trying to grind gold, people use aimbots in FPS games, or macros in RTS games, bots to play poker or chess on their behalf...

It is much more effective to limit the incentives for botting than to try to detect individual botters. That's a cat-and-mouse game where you are always one step behind the botters.

Ancestor007Jul 19, 20151 votes

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...and then there were a thousand times more bot accounts grinding out IP.

Sorry, causes way too many problems.

But after they develop a system that deals with the bots, this would be awesome

Rew711Jul 19, 20151 votes

Or, you can give the IP to me. I don't have enough to get what I want. I'd really like to finish up on getting all the champs, then I'd like to start getting runes. With how things are going, I should be done... in about another year. To get the rest of the champs that is.

JupiterlightJul 20, 20151 votes

Maybe set it so only level 30 and above can gift and a set limit for a set time. Just a thought.

malekdarshinJul 20, 20153 votes

How about a 100 to 1 conversion?

100 IP > 1 RP

thePandevJul 18, 20152 votes

If you set a high min. of IP that must be donated, then the FWotD point is invalid. Also, gifting should only apply to 6300/4800 champions nothing less.

SuperSourCatJul 19, 20152 votes

All the people who play this a lot could gift their smurfs

BakedPotatoGodJul 19, 20152 votes

It would be a good idea if Riot started allowing people to gift using Riot Points.

Mistake you made there :)

XaiverVIJul 20, 20151 votes

Thank you, it has been changed.

SunflowerQueerJul 18, 20151 votes

yes ^

ChocolateMeowchiJul 18, 20151 votes

I think this would be really cool I also think it would be cool to give like your extra ip to people but I do feel like that would be abused like how you said

Hello I am BirdJul 18, 20151 votes

Cool! I love bots grinding not only for level 30 accounts, but now they can do it through 30 to get IP! Amazing

CasterGilgameshJul 19, 20151 votes

the amount of time spent grinding for anything good would take so long lol so whats the point of worrying about that

iltJul 19, 20151 votes

you know how many ways people can exploit that? streamers with hundreds of thousands of ip can give viewers champions

SmokedAlmondsJul 19, 20151 votes

This would be awesome so that I can start buycheapchamp.com and find players to sell champs to other players with IP for like $1 and I can take a cut.

XaiverVIJul 19, 20151 votes

Ok, so you guys do bring up some points with all of the abusers and bot accounts, but I would like to bring up is that you have some of the same setups with gifting RP. What I am saying is that you would have to be a certain level to gift IP or anything bought with IP.

SunriseSkaterKidJul 19, 20151 votes

This is a bad idea. Its a free to play game the only way riot makes money is through Micro-Transactions and sponsorship. Being able to gift with IP would ruin a way of earning money for them. Unless one gift was like 20K IP lol

FriendIy PsychoJul 19, 20151 votes

As it would be convenient riot still needs a way to make money. there would be no point in having RP in this case.

EL HAMSTEROJul 19, 20151 votes

yes plz. my smurfs want more champs

YOU BEEN WARNEDJul 19, 20151 votes

If gifting IP was an ability ~~purchased with 450 RP~~ required the summoner to charge RP to his account first + grants a donor icon, that wouldn't be a problem because even abusers must buy RP to use this feature.

ZombiemasterJul 19, 20151 votes

Well, the only thing you would be able to gift with IP anyways would be champions, since everything else you could gift literally only costs RP. If Riot made it possible to gift anything with IP, that would certainly lose them A TON of money, so they would definitely have to limit this to champions only (that is if they were to do this).

However, I think it's safe to assume that a large majority of the players still spend quite a bit of money to buy champions with RP since it takes so long to build up enough IP to get a decent amount of champions, not to mention also needing to buy runes with IP. Since there are a lot players with a shit ton of IP that they can't spend on anything, they would just spend that IP to gift a lot of champions to their friends. So even if Riot were to limit this to champions only, they would very likely lose quite a bit of money from RP purchases because of it, since people would likely no longer feel the need to buy RP to unlock champions.