We're changing RP's name

Riot·Oct 17, 2019·2 votes·50,835 views

Hey folks,

We've made a few big announcements in the last few days, including the reveal of some new Riot games. With that in mind, we wanted to let you know that we won't be using Riot Points across all our present and future games. Our newly announced mobile titles, Legends of Runeterra, TFT, and League of Legends: Wild Rift, will be on the Google Play Store and the Apple App Store, which do not allow different games to share game currencies. This restriction and other logistical complications of having multi-platform game currencies pushed us towards having a different one for each game.

For those curious about the mobile version of TFT, while you'll use a different game currency on mobile, you can expect a shared inventory between the two platforms.

With that being said, game currency on League of Legends and Teamfight Tactics on PC and Mac will be known as simply "RP". Any RP cards that you own or previously purchased will still work and the price structures are not changing at this time.

115 Comments

Lux ˉ BotOct 17, 201945 votes

RP now stands for Rito Plz

SukishooOct 17, 201926 votes

So my RP, is just RP, which is just nothing.. hmm

I'll still call it Riot Points XD

XedlordOct 17, 201919 votes

What's the point of doing this?

KoDwFireDancerOct 17, 201965 votes

It's not Ritos choice. It's because apple store and google play do not allow different games to share a same currency.

ntbcoolOct 17, 201932 votes

Because the name "riot points" implies that they would work for riot services, which was mostly true until now. Now they only work for league and TFT PC and not all the other new games. This was a good change tbh, have logical branding is a good thing.

Old Man BaltoyNov 8, 20191 votes

won't the "riot points" be capable of being used on all pc versions of riot games like for the fighting game and shooter in the future?

ntbcoolNov 8, 20191 votes

TM YoukaiNov 5, 20191 votes

If you read the damn post, you wouldn't be downvoted into the void.

XedlordNov 5, 20192 votes

I read the post, but I still couldn't quite understand the point, thankfully though I found a reply that laid it out straight so that I finally understood.

CithriaCOct 17, 201919 votes

TLDR:

Riot can't share rp through pc and mobile because of rules.

They are also not calling RP, "riot points" because people might complain and lawsuit(?) if their "riot points" don't work on all their riot games, because you could reasonably assume that.

This is a public announcement of the change so they can cover their bases.

Sora OmoOct 17, 201918 votes

So if RP doesn't stand for "Riot Points" anymore then what does it stand for?

Queue the meme lord suggestions

Ice Weasel XOct 17, 201984 votes

Regretted Purchase? (Not blaming Riot for this, just thought it funny)

xGvPxOct 18, 201931 votes

Reused Pennies

mage192117Oct 18, 20194 votes

Renaissance Period

CombatMooseOct 18, 20198 votes

Random Poodle

SomeGuy5302Oct 19, 20194 votes

Rare player

ModJikkerOct 21, 20198 votes

Rito Points obviously

HammermancerOct 23, 20192 votes

Reallyover Priced

Gear5LuffyNov 7, 20191 votes

Rick Pickle

OKIGorgonOct 18, 201914 votes

Really? Not standing for anything? And here I though we will have Red Essence with our Blue Essence and Orange Essence. All you woould need to do is change 'P' to 'E'.

PopaForPresidentOct 18, 20195 votes

Actually really like this.

4sh KetchupOct 18, 20195 votes

The thing is there is already tons of RP gift cards (in store) that would still exist and you can’t change that "P" to "E". And would just create confusion to new players etc

Gene HikazeOct 21, 20192 votes

There is such a thing as a recall. Stores do it all the time to replace bad gift cards. I worked for a company that stocked those cards and we pulled cards all the time for marketing change reasons, a picture on the card was no longer under license, their codes or strips had become compromised, etc. etc... It's not unreasonable to assume they could across the entire market replace the old Riot Points cards with ones that said "RP Card". All in all it doesn't actually change anything and the whole thing is just a bunch of legal BS to cover themselves from lawsuits for them not being usable across games which is stupid to begin with.[slayer-jinx-unamused]

Vhan8765Oct 17, 201910 votes

You read the post, it makes sense; you acknowledge how many RP cards there are already produced or in production, it makes sense. Is it still just a tiny bit silly RP no longer stands for anything and is literally just is "RP"? Yes, but it makes sense.

FxmuffincowOct 17, 20197 votes

Tft Is a pointless and unpopular game mode. Invest your time elsewhere, thanks.

AlsiusOct 17, 20197 votes

You know, just because you say something is unpopular doesn't automatically make it true.

MoshiMochiOct 18, 20192 votes

I mean I really don't like it at all, most people I know played it for the first week and none of the people on my friends list ever play it. I'm sure there are some that like it but there aren't very many from what I can see personally.

Røbot LoveOct 18, 20194 votes

It really is pretty popular. It's generally pretty hard to get an idea for how popular something you don't play is. The best way to get an idea of its popularity is probably looking at somebody like Scarra. Scarra was decently popular before TFT, but his viewership jumped up a lot when he moved to TFT.

KazekibaOct 18, 20192 votes

Interestingly it looks like LoR will eclipse - and possibly kill - TFT. Especially with Disguised Toast, Legends of Runeterra is drawing FAR more viewers than TFT ever did, and it may well keep going as it looks cool as hell to watch. I think if not for Worlds being on, actual LoL would be losing to LoR.

Agent CorgiOct 17, 20196 votes

So for example, I won't be able to use the RP I purchased or the 27k Blue Essence that I have accumulated on League PC to buy champions/skins when League: Wild Rift becomes available?

OleandervineOct 17, 201911 votes

Obviously not because they said it's part of the rules and regulations on the app stores that the currencies cannot be shared with other apps/games.

madeonOct 17, 20191 votes

hearthstone does that?

OleandervineOct 17, 201917 votes

Hearthstone is the same game across multiple platforms. It's not sharing that currency with other apps or games.

ModAttysu The PoroOct 17, 201915 votes

Nope! But if for example; you use that RP for TFT on the PC, that inventory is then shared with your mobile version. You just can't cross currencies.

GreenKnightOct 17, 20196 votes

Sorry, but what the fuck is the point of it?

sinZsoulOct 17, 20199 votes

Either reread the statement, or read some of the comments, or just read this: Riot needs to do this in order to comply with Google Play.

ntbcoolOct 17, 20198 votes

So did half the people commenting just not read the article, or just have shit comprehension skills? I'm really wondering cause the comments here are really dumb.

KazekibaOct 18, 20195 votes

No one ever reads an article past the title. Like 70% of the time.

GreenKnightOct 18, 20192 votes

{quoted}

Either reread the statement, or read some of the comments, or just read this: Riot needs to do this in order to comply with Google Play.

It tells me nothing of the reason. WHY do they have to change the name for it to comply?

KazekibaOct 18, 20194 votes

Because Google play and the Apple store do not allow multiple games to share currencies. They cannot have RP sold for Wild Rift and also sell RP for mobile TFT.

Inkling CommandoOct 17, 20195 votes

on one hand i want to play Wild Rift when it comes out. but on the other i don't want to fall back into this hell hole known as League.

The BirchOct 17, 20194 votes

Wild Rift is supposed to be a lot faster paced, so hopefully it's able to sate your urges if you don't like what comes with the normal Rift.

Linna ExcelOct 17, 20194 votes

Why not just affix a real world price to every item instead of having currencies at all?

ntbcoolOct 17, 20199 votes

honestly not a terrible idea. I think the reason a lot of game do this is so they can give you "bonuses" when you buy more and also to make sure you always have a little extra to try and convince you to buy more. It also probably has to do with the fact, if you really think about how much you pay for skins (like when you go to buy a skin it says it costs 5 dollars) many people wouldn't do it.

StiylMagnus931Oct 18, 20197 votes

A point system also serves as a conversion to store credit, which makes it quite clear that you cannot simply pull your investment in the future. If I saw "$16.50" in the client, it would imply that I could "cash out" upon choosing to quit the game, or if I simply needed some money back in my bank account.

Perhaps the most important element of this structure: You've made your payment. Your funds now belong to the receiving party. If you're sitting on RP, you're sitting on something that has no monetary value. You've already bitten the bullet and may as well enjoy spending the points over a period of time.

[sg-poppy]

AntiSkillshotOct 18, 20193 votes

A little bit of a confusing title, but once read it makes sense.

The TL:DR is that the mobile games will have their own currencies, separate from one another, while the PC versions will stay the same. There'll be no "shared pool" of currency between them, because google and apple doesn't allow that. Idk about things like TFT having shared information/data of accounts, but I doubt that (I was corrected on that in a reply).

Anyway, now with the TL:DR out of the way... The title is slightly misleading, as it implies that the name "RP" (or Riot Points) is no longer going to be a thing and is going either to go away or just be outright changed to some other name.

OleandervineOct 18, 20192 votes

Rioters have explicitly stated elsewhere that your inventory section regarding TFT in the client will cross over to the TFT mobile - i.e. your collection of Lil Legends and probably your summoner icons.

flanunuOct 19, 20193 votes

Now I can finally say "RP points" without my friends correcting me.

StexeOct 21, 20192 votes

{quoted}

Now I can finally say "RP points" without my friends correcting me.

Now YOU'RE going to have to correct them! :-P

KFCeytronOct 18, 20192 votes

I suspect that another, more surreptitious reason for this change is that Riot's mobile game purchases will be more expensive to compensate for Apple's and Google's 30% cuts. The hilarious part is that iOS only has a 15% market share compared to Android's 85%, and it's easy to manually download and run an Android app without getting it from the store, so Riot could just be Android-exclusive and market their games directly from their website, with no third-party fees, approval processes, or other restrictions to worry about. Riot is a huge company and doesn't need to piggyback on someone else's marketplace to get users.