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Yeah they aren't forcing you. The same could be said that it was unfair for riot to have sales in July, and not in Decemeber when people usually get gifts. The truth is probably that riot has a huge spike in profits in Decemeber from Christmas and then a HUGE low in Jan, cause no one is buying so they need to have incentives to keep people buying. I'm not mad about this. You got your full amounts worth at Christmas, this might be incentive to buy again, or not. Either way its only a skin or two difference. And the thing is, these Riot employees are great. No where else have I ever seen GM's so invested in their players. Listening, fixing bugs, joking with us, playing with us, answering questions. They're great.

(Sorry if I'm doing this whole reply thing wrong, I have no idea how to do it correctly) Sparty's point rings true. It is a way to keep the flow to pay employees and keep the servers running that you play on for free. You don't HAVE to pay them (a.k.a. buy RP) to keep on doing what they do, it's not forced upon you. I'm also pretty sure they did this for the past couple of years, just they didn't have a big announcement on it.

Like Sparty said there is a low but Rito NEEDS the money to keep this fabulous game going so we can all enjoy the poro-throwing, nexus-smashing, baron-buffing good game. It is a free to play game that you choose to purchase little things that do not impact the game. You choose to buy RP for skins for most people but some just like to do it to support the makers and they are content. Everyone doesn't have to blow their lids over an announcement that can help keep this ball rolling. They have employees to pay, servers to keep. how else did they make the gorgeous new map? With money people chose to pay them. If you don't like it, deal with it. The reason I don't play ranked too often are the toxic members of the community who ruin it by just feeding ON PURPOSE (not to be mistaked with just getting beat in lane), the trolls who refuse to cooperate and then flame the team claiming to be a D1 smurf who expect wins and ranks to fall into their laps. I can bet that most of the angry people here are those guys. You chose to spend your money on something that helps this game and community stay alive and a better deal came along and your mad. If you want to take advantage of this deal go buy RP then. If not, oh well. They had that big sale when Pickpocket Twitch and Safecracker Eve came out and no one got skin refunds on skins that were on sale. No one complained. Suck it up champ and go spend your time working on skillshots and last hitting instead of whining.

They aren't forcing people to buy it, and but riot does need money to keep running. They do get a big spike in profits during the holidays, plus those who bought any of the snowdown specific skins wouldn't have been able to buy those skins if they hadn't bought it earlier. Also no one would be complaining if they didn't do this, and instead didn't give anyone extra bonus riot points. They do something nice and everyone spites them for it, seriously, wtf?

I still don't get it. They provided an incentive to increase sales during their down-season. Every business does this because it's good business model: ever heard of happy hour? Christmas is their most busy season while January is their least busy season. It makes sense to offer/announce promotions after the busy season... Every reason keeps sounding more and more like "I bought merchandise at full price because I was too eager and didn't want to wait for a promotion, and now I'm mad!"

ermmm... name me a company that doesn't try to make profit? All company in the world are trying to make profit lol

Besides, the game is pretty much free to play from the start. All the champion, runes, rune pages can be obtained through IP.

The only thing you can obtain through RP is skin and maybe some icons... If they don't do it, how are they gonna make profit and survive?

People forget that riot is in fact, a business.

Except you choose to spend money, Riot is a business and they don't try to "piss of their fans" they try to make money to keep their business strong for themselves AND the players. People trying to make Riot the enemy when they let you play their free game. Just another normal day among the LoL player community.

I don't understand why you specifically cited Riot as a business out to make money while still trying to use the "it's a free game" excuse. They don't complement each other at all, to say the least. Yes, people choose to spend money on a company with content and business practices they appreciate. When that company does things they don't appreciate, they complain, as per their right to complain (about anything, but especially things they give money to). If their complaints aren't heard and their grievances get worse... well they might stop spending money. This is how customer service works. Everywhere

Axle the Beast- It's both a free game and a business, it's truth no excuse.

Riot is a business, most games are a business. they are just smart enough to offer a game for free so people will be interested in it. The problems is people think they deserve everything and have a say in things when this is just a free service. The offers they give are perks to show off, like the many other games out there. If you don't want to spend the money, then don't complain. Most people will shut me off now, since they don't like to be blamed or shown the truth. But for those who still are reading this, they used the holiday for some more income, just like Halloween and the summer skins. It is a business on the side that people like so be happy this game is free to play not pay to play.