IP Betting on friends

PunisherJBY·Dec 3, 2015·1 votes·359 views

So perhaps this is a stupid idea (probably was brought up before i ever even started playing) but i think it would be a cool idea to allow us to bet on our friends to win. But only for our friends to win (that way they do not throw a match so that you make money). The idea would of course require you to place the bet before the game starts. You would be allowed to see the champions picked by both sides (perhaps during that 5 minute wait you have to do when spectating a friend when they first get into the game.) It would allow you to gain IP while supporting your friends. It would of course need to have some way for it to prevent people from making tons of IP by only watching people but it would simply be an idea to bounce off of people's heads.

P.S. Go easy on this :3

3 Comments

HalloweenDeathDec 3, 20151 votes

Seeing as both teams can easily talk to each other with all chat this would be a bad idea. That and more of an issue is that you can just bet on a challenger smurf and that would very much lead to a league of legends black market that already exist on other stuff such as accounts. Some challenger or a bronze scammer claiming to be a challenger can make an account and get people to bet on him. There are no work around for such a cheat sense even if you only allow it to be done on accounts that have existed for a while or you've been friends with for a while. These people will just buy accounts from the already existing market of bots farming on 3v3 and dominion. These bots can be programmed to add people to their friends list for a future farming of ip if you make it so they have to be friends for a certain amount of time. Really any idea you come up with it will just make the job harder but not impossible. Riot will never even think about implementing this idea

PunisherJBYDec 3, 20151 votes

I see your point but I am talking about IP. Which can only really be used for champs and runes. I mean yes obviously everything can be abused, and will be abused. I don't see how getting extra IP from watching a game can lead to a black market.

HalloweenDeathDec 3, 20151 votes

There is already a big black market for accounts. All those accounts provide is a crap load of ip when you get on them because they play a 100 games a day with not that low of a winrate because 90% of games they are facing bots of equal skill. This would lead to a much much bigger black market seeing it's much much less of a risk. The owner of the account can't just provide proof to riot to get the account back after 30 days so you can't refund. Most of all, most people who want ip aren't going to use another account. This change will let people get ip on their main account further increasing the amount of people willing to indulge into the black market of league of legends.