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Ideas on spending IP

ChaoSkuhl··2 votes·341 views

Maybe...

  1. flash sales on regular champion skins
    OR
    make champion skins (not the legendary ones or other specialty skins, but ones that have been out for a while - timing tbd) available for ip for a day or two....random skins every week. That way there is no way to know which skins will be available so no predicting, yet we, as a community, have another opportunity to get skins. [Although, now with the chest and key system, depending on how likely it is to get a skin, this may not be a viable option]

  2. Make ward skins and summoner icons available for ip as well, sort of like champions are right now. Also the chroma packs.

  3. maybe make up to 3 rune pages available to buy with ip, for those early on. That way they can have a decent number of rune pages for every lane, and/or multiple situations (5 total, after that, I believe)

Those are just some thoughts. IP gets kind of useless after a while. And there are only so many rune pages a person can have...

5 Comments

Korillo2 votes

If you are going to introduce an idea like this, you have to explain how it will help Riot's bottom line. Right now you get skins through RP, which creates revenue for Riot. So how will allowing players to buy skins for free (through IP) make them more money then making them spend RP?

ChaoSkuhl1 votes

Yes, you make a good point. I honestly can't think of a way for rito to make more money by doing this.

Korillo1 votes

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Yes, you make a good point. I honestly can't think of a way for rito to make more money by doing this.

Ya I mean sometimes giving out free things can help you make more money. I mean League is already a Free to Play game. They could have easily chosen to sell the game and create expansions to it like many other games out there. Instead of releasing new champions every few months, they could have released 10 or 20 all at once and called it an "expansion" and sold it as such etc.

But they went the free to play route with mostly aesthetic options available for purchase (excluding the champions themselves I suppose - that's more than just aesthetics!) and it has worked quite well for them, so free can definitely be profitable still.

I think Riot could do more with IP. It takes a lot of game time to have nothing to spend IP on, but it does happen. I think they could do something like this:

  • I'm at work so I don't recall how much RP $1 would buy, but let's so $1 = 100RP just for the sake of the argument
  • You could use your "IP" to buy RP at a slightly discounted rate
  • Something like 5,000 IP buys $5 for every $20 you spend
  • So if you buy $20 worth of RP, you could have the option to also spend 5,000 IP for an additional $5 of RP, so 2500RP total for the price of 2000!

This way, you still have to spend real money to cash your IP out (ie, you can't just buy RP with your 5,000 IP - You must purchase a certain amount of RP before being allowed to do this), but your IP isn't completely useless.

I'm not sure if this would provide them with more money or not, but it could be a good incentive and still fits the general theme to what you're looking to do.

ChaoSkuhl1 votes

That is actually a very good idea. I like that. I guess, i was just like..you know... i have all this ip and nothing to spend it on.

I like the extra rp, for the ip because even with that small amount you are still able to purchase something. That actually takes care of my concept of having things going on sale for ip. Tis basically the same concept, yet you do need to, initially, purchase some rp to take advantage of the ip bonus.

Rozair1 votes

It's all about the money riot makes man. They don't give a Shit about us. Just our money

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