The take a "penny leave a penny" of league of legends!

Joes·Oct 15, 2016·1 votes·473 views

Hello, I just want to start something the community can do to better itself, I figured we can make our salty community less salty and as toxic as twitch autos by helping one another. So the system I purpose works like this, you comment maybe a skin or champion you have had your eye on, then someone else posts what they want, and you both gift the person what the other wanted. Example:

JoesPancake I really want kha'zix (side note: I do want him been trying to save money so I have RP for him)

XxMid0rfedxX Cool I really want syndra

End Example. I dunno if this is a bad or good idea, just a concept to make more trust in this community, let me know your thoughts.

6 Comments

SarutobiOct 15, 20161 votes

Im not quite sure i understand. Do you mean like trading content you have (champion/skins)? This could not work in the sense that Riot would lose money because people will just trade and not buy champions/skins anymore.

If you mean gifting (using RP) you can already do this, granted its not really something you would want to do since people can scam you out of free stuff. eg someone ask for Kha, you want Syndra, you gift them, but they dont gift you back.

CobaltTheMadMageOct 15, 20161 votes

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Im not quite sure i understand. Do you mean like trading content you have (champion/skins)? This could not work in the sense that Riot would lose money because people will just trade and not buy champions/skins anymore.

If you mean gifting (using RP) you can already do this, granted its not really something you would want to do since people can scam you out of free stuff. eg someone ask for Kha, you want Syndra, you gift them, but they dont gift you back.

I think he means for this thread to be like a charity gift exchange where people can post champs or skins they want and other people can gift those people what they ask for, possibly in exchange for a gift of their own.

Though the latter scenario seems a bit unlikely since if you can afford to buy someone else a skin you can probably afford to buy yourself one.

SarutobiOct 15, 20161 votes

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I think he means for this thread to be like a charity gift exchange where people can post champs or skins they want and other people can gift those people what they ask for, possibly in exchange for a gift of their own.

Though the latter scenario seems a bit unlikely since if you can afford to buy someone else a skin you can probably afford to buy yourself one.

oh i get it. I use to do that during xmas on Steam. I could see something like that happening. Basically make a gift giving thread. The only problem would be the time limit since you need to be friends with someone for 24 hours in order to gift them.

JoesOct 15, 20161 votes

So we could set up a charity post, anyone want to take the initiative to make said post or should I? It could be a end of season post to celebrate, after you ask for the champ talk about how your season went and what you enjoined most about it, stuff like that.

ValyrianBladeOct 15, 20161 votes

The problem is trust exactly - who goes first? How do you make the other person respond?

Let's assume only 5% of the community is bad. So then you have a 95% chance at it being okay, right? No - if only 5% of the community would actually like to participate in this, that means a 50% chance it won't work out. If even more are turned off because of the chance... well you see where this goes.

I also think the idea has a core flaw - take a penny leave a penny is basically something negligible that most people don't care about. In general I don't care about coin - I don't like having them weigh down my wallet, so I typically give coin to the homeless guy if I have any on me. Likewise, if you're a few coins short of making a payment (instead of receiving a bunch of coin as change) it would be great to have them!

Skins on the other hand can be rather expensive, up to $20 for an ultimate.

AstôlfoOct 15, 20161 votes

What if it was like a banking system, where you have to go ahead and buy the RP first to be able to even enter this "trade place"? To enter the "trade place", you'd have to put in at least as much RP as whatever you want to get (which you can type in/select/whatever) is worth. And then you'd get matched with other people who want something similarly worth in RP (who have also already 'banked' their RP for the trade). You both look at what the other wants, and if you both click like an 'Agree' button to the trade, the system automatically handles it?

But yeah, the issue is, this is too much work for something one can do themselves (just buy the skin themself).