Changing regions

I dont understand why do i need to pay 40 bucks just to play a few games with a friend. Like seriously..Why do you need to pay for that!? Oh look its my german friend! Hey there! Wanna play league? Well we cant! One of us needs to create an account on the other server! This is pointless IMO...Excuse me while i spam bots and aram to get myself a level 30 account...