Refer-a-Friend Update is now live

Riot·Feb 2, 2015·0 votes·79,339 views

We started RAF to reward players for their part in growing League and we’ve updated the program to simultaneously remove incentives for abuse and better serve most League players. As we were working on the update, we found that the majority of League players refer between one and five friends.

The updated design now rewards you for bringing those friends into the game. With the new update, for every friend you refer who reaches level 10, you’ll earn 1000 IP. You can refer a total of five friends, and with three successful referrals, you’ll unlock the Grey Warwick skin. Recruit five friends and you’ll unlock Medieval Twitch.

There are no additional rewards to earn, and everyone who participated in Refer-a-Friend in the past have been transferred to the new program with the same number of referrals as before. For example, if you’ve already referred four friends, you’ll automatically earn 4000 IP and Grey Warwick. Please note, we’re also auto-redeeming unclaimed rewards for players who used previous versions of Refer-a-Friend, but this process could take a few days.

We’re excited to launch the update to the Refer-a-Friend program, head here to get started — good luck and have fun bringing your friends into League of Legends!

178 Comments

not a starburstFeb 4, 201553 votes

5000 IP and two skins?

Time to find some friends :P

WuhyunFeb 4, 201510 votes

Problems about playing online games, we don't have many friends except other gamers :p

MeesterMooFeb 5, 20153 votes

And?

Michellelg00Feb 5, 20158 votes

that means you dont have anyone to refer...

voidterror1Feb 5, 201544 votes

Friends? What are those? Amumu

Booblahblah215Feb 5, 20155 votes

You got no friends singing

KidSyncroParadoxFeb 7, 20158 votes

item 3151 plz no.... the feels (Amumus's song plays in the background)

SNSD TiffanyxFeb 5, 201545 votes

none of my friends want to do this, they are all like "ooooo video games are for nerds! imma play some basketball!"

so i slashed all their basketballs and broke all their sporting equipment. that will teach them

OcalissaFeb 5, 201510 votes

What a real man Draven

Michellelg00Feb 5, 20156 votes

i bet they secretly play cod :3

League is a DrugFeb 8, 20154 votes

LeeSin I don't see them.

drink chlorine Feb 8, 20154 votes

Urgot i keep scaring mine away

CJ Entus ThunderFeb 9, 20154 votes

Teemo They don't see me.

Hazreti LucianFeb 10, 20154 votes

Ahri they are in love with me

MrSecondPlaceFeb 10, 20152 votes

RekSai I keep eating mine

Shiron WindragonFeb 11, 20152 votes

Chogath So am I...

AuraMaxFeb 12, 20153 votes

Gragas Mine keep passing out

AlëkFeb 4, 201514 votes

The downvote bots lol

Zac x MeFeb 4, 201513 votes

Could you at least re-add the free Rune Page in as reward at 4 friends? It's sad having to miss out on that imo.

DJZLotFeb 4, 20155 votes

I know I had a referral that was 3 levels away from getting the rune page Amumu

46104328_DELFeb 4, 201513 votes

How is it RAF took like, a week to take down, update, and put back up, but Tribunal is STILL down?

CheshaFeb 4, 20158 votes

Well to be fair, the Tribunal is a lot more complex with way more factors to take into consideration. RAF is pretty "easy", just fix how players are rewarded for referring friends. Tribunal on the other hand... You have to make a good incentive for players to participate, but still have a system that punishes those who need to be punished. You also have to take into account what the offense was. For instance a player may have been reported for feeding and the players score seems like they were feeding, but the in game chat and footage may show differently. Things like that is why it's probably taking longer. Also I would imagine there's wayyy more coding... And coding can be a huge troll lol. :)

WereSlothFeb 4, 20157 votes

Have 0 referrals All friends are currently playing League or are not interested Extremely introverted, have moderately sized group of close friends But I want these Q_Q

Aerith LillyFeb 4, 20157 votes

This is kind of pointless. How are players who have all champions and max rune pages supposed to be motivated by this. I've pretty much maxed out what I can get in this game, so skins and gameplay updates are the only thing at the moment keeping me around in terms of exciting updates. Hopefully this process works out, but I don't see a driving motivation to bring players into the fold. Perhaps market saturation is already upon us with no more major growth?

Thanotos OmegaFeb 4, 201523 votes

The old system made it feel like a waste of time if you didn't have like 20-30 referrals, the new one rewards faster and isn't as great a motivator for people to use bots to farm refer a friend rewards,

GhastlyPompanoFeb 4, 20156 votes

well, if you don't have all the champs, this is very exciting for you... I like champs.... I like this...

Thanotos OmegaFeb 4, 20153 votes

So do I,

DraykowFeb 4, 20154 votes

I have all the champs, but runes get expensive; I'm happy with this.

McAnnexFeb 4, 20156 votes

Sweet, I forgot that I referred a friend two years ago who went to lvl 30! :) 1,000 RP already. I'm motivated to refer again. :)

MeesterMooFeb 4, 201519 votes

RP? I wish...

IzbizFeb 4, 20155 votes

What is stopping a player from just making smurfs? I know it's against T&C, but let's be honest...

If it's IP address, i have 3 roommates who don't play yet.

sliftyFeb 5, 20155 votes

Please note, we’re also auto-redeeming unclaimed rewards for players who used previous versions of Refer-a-Friend, but this process could take a few days.

But Riot, I never moved from the first version because I was clinging to my goal of getting 5000 friends and being flown to LA to design a champion :(

Does this mean my dreams can never come true?

GladiatorATCFeb 5, 20154 votes

opened my browser and for a very brief second thought this said URF...RIP

djumpFeb 7, 20154 votes

I'm one of the (apparently rare) people who got a large number of legit referrals in the old system and already earned Grey Warwick before the change. I heard talk of some sort of special loading screen border or icon or splash given to people who earned these skins before the change. Is this happening?

I spent a long time putting ads out for league on all sorts of forums to get those referrals and Grey Warwick used to feel like a very special and rare reward for that. But it's pretty cheap and easy to get now. I understand and support why the change was made, and I understand that a large majority of people that earned it in the old system were cheating. But as someone who wasn't, it feels pretty crappy to not have a unique reward anymore. Even just the token of a special watermark or something on the splash would feel like an acknowledgement of the effort I put in.

Now with all that said, I can't complain too much, because I got most of my referrals in the first system, so I got them AGAIN in the second system, and now I'm getting rewarded a THIRD time at least for the first 5. So I can't say I didn't get my fair share. It's just a little sad to lose a unique status I was proud of with that skin.

FizzesSharkFeb 6, 20153 votes

Rito... Don't kill me..... I only have one legit referral, the rest were smurfs.... Don't ban my main.... item 3070

Misplaced FaithFeb 4, 20152 votes

Question, If you don't Twitch, and you get all five refferals, will you just get the skin until you can unlock him, or will you get the skin and the champ?

Bohrisaurus RexFeb 4, 201513 votes

if you earn a skin that you don't have the champion for, you will always unlock the champion with it.

DurzaStrikerFeb 5, 20154 votes

Yup, I got 5000 ip, 2 skins and twitch for free plus a bunch of benefits from the old system before they switched over. Pretty sweet deal!

Booblahblah215Feb 5, 20152 votes

Yeh ultamte

Undy500Feb 5, 20152 votes

Is there a way to see your progress towards the rewards?

RedesignatedFeb 5, 20153 votes

Yes, you can check your progress on the Refer-A-Friend page: http://rewards.na.leagueoflegends.com/

IceSword1Feb 9, 20152 votes

I need some friends that want to play league to refer

MarsnessFeb 4, 20151 votes

does this mean i will get my IP rewards again as well as the skin or just the skins?

GhastlyPompanoFeb 4, 20155 votes

you get the IP as well.

CrowstoneFeb 5, 20151 votes

Thank you riot for the free IP :D I already had one referral from way back, so I used some of the 1000 IP I got to buy Warwick Warwick! I asked three more friends to join me already, I plan to use the 3000 IP from them to finally get Twitch Twitch! I've been wanting to get Twitch for a real long time. I could probably get a fifth referral, we'll just have to wait and see!

Mr FrankFeb 5, 20159 votes

if you can get 5 friends, you'd get twitch and his skin for free, without having to buy him

Shwod3Feb 6, 20151 votes

Can I just say that everybody has forgotten about Zac Zac . Honestly I think that they should give some free stuff for the champions nobody ever plays, like Zac and Yorick . Just saying.