Are you kidding me? The type of artwork they receive from their artists cost a lot more than you think. Think more in the HUNDREDS for just a nice splash art and then the artists also probably do the GIF images as well. I've seen equal art to their's (some even better) run upwards of 400$ standard for a single piece (Yes that's the reality of it). Now to keep up with costs to their own servers from around the country, do you know how much those cost to run? a ton, Tons of Money. Then their workforce probably takes a nice chunk of their money as well. Running on average around 33% of the profits (Hiring that expert coder to learn your code that is 6 years old and constantly improve upon it is very taxing and difficult, you try poking around league's coding, see how far you get). Give Riot some props for keeping their game free to play. I pay money to SUPPORT riot, the skins are just nice rewards I take along the way. Riot is an amazing company that actually reads your comments and takes them into account. Yes they patrol the forms and message boards looking for those that need help and such, then we have people like you who berate them for people doing their jobs. I don't think you realize that they are people too! Not some machine that you can just pay money to and expect instant results. They make mistakes, they break the game. They have testers who tirelessly test, break, bug splat, and balance out the thing you love playing in your off hours. Give them a break kid... Leave riot alone and let them do their job.
~Violet Fox 