So I was looking through my discount shop when I noticed Dragon Trainer Lulu skin "on sale" for 50% off.
$5 USD = 650 RP $10 USD = 1380 RP
The skin is normally 1375 RP ($10) but its sale price is 675 RP. So how can Riot claim the skin is 50% off when you still have to spend the full $10 to buy it?
ModWulf Helhammer3 votes1350/2 = 675
It's a discount on the RP prices. However much RP you buy is an entirely separate transaction
ChompyWulf1 votesIt's not entirely separate. It's fair to say most players buy RP based on the prices of what they are considering buying.
The fact that Riot set up their system that way to create odd RP amounts and incentivize future spending doesn't make it entirely separate, just partitioned.
Shreddermen573 votesThe reason why you get 1380 for spending $10 is from a little bit of bonus RP for purchasing something else besides $5 of RP. You normally would get 1300 for $10 if it wasn't for that bonus, so $5=650 650x2=1300. The skin itself is 1350 normally, so 50% of that would indeed be 675. There is nothing wrong with the pricing for the skins, the reason why it looks that way is due to that bonus RP mentioned earlier.
swordofsun3 votesI'm really confused. It's half the RP cost, thus the 50%. What does buying RP have to do with anything?
You are literally spending less RP on the skin, thus the discount.
rtbf803603922 votesYou still have to buy $10 worth of riot points to get the skin.
yeulx1 votesthats not really a scam..... 3 skins are below 5$ and 3 are below 10$ tho if you really like the skin and want it... thats not that much money.. and its still a discount even if you have to spend 10$ to have all the rp to get it.. but 90% of people dont have that issue... money is not hard to get
Xidphel6 votesMkay. I see that when you stop thinking there, I'd agree. Problem here is the "stop thinking" part.
swordofsun1 votesBut I have RP. I have a bunch of RP. I don't need to buy RP for this one thing.
The discount is to the price of the skin, not to the price of RP.
rtbf803603921 votesThe value is there if you have existing RP. If you have no RP you're being forced to buy $10 worth of RP to buy a skin that's supposedly 50% off its normal $10 worth of RP price.
swordofsun3 votesAgain, the sale is on the skins not the RP. These are two separate products.
Do you only want the discounted rate to be equivalent to $10? That seems awful and would leave out a lot of fun skins.
Hexs Fortune2 votesIt's a common practice to get you to pay more than you normally would when purchasing an item. The extra rp then encourages you to spend more in the future as to not waste it.
Manipulative? Yep! Although, now that it's everywhere, we've grown used to the pain.
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Nylisa1 votesyep!this is true in almost every market!
on most MMORPGs , for example: a new outfit on market cost 11 euro worth of cash shop coins , and you can only buy 10-20-30 euro coin packages! so in order to buy the 11 euro item, you are forced to spend 20 and keep the rest!
rtbf803603922 votesThe point is you still have to spend $10 to buy the $5 skin, regardless of the excess RP you end up getting. No one should have to spend twice the worth of a skin to get the one skin they want.
ModWulf Helhammer4 votesDiscounts have never been about the amount of RP you have to buy, and likely never will be.
Arthem691 votesyou just got unlucky https://imgur.com/a/WDTiE
rtbf803603922 votesLooks like it. Oh well no money for Riot.
Anastaecia1 votesThis is no different than weekly 50% off sales. You are just noticing the RP thing now?
Ebonmaw Dragon1 votesFirst of all: WRONG BOARD
second: You can ask for those 25 rp extra that you need if you send a ticket.
Nyloaf1 votes??
you buy $10 worth of rp and spend it on the normal price so you have alot less left over
you buy $10 worth of rp and spend it on the 50% off price and you have alot more rp left over
how is that a scam?
rtbf803603921 votesCurrency conversions may be a bit confusing but I'll try to once again explain:
$5 gets you 650 RP. $10 gets you 1380 RP. A skin that costs 1350 RP goes on sale for 50% off (675 RP). This still forces you to spend $10 to get the skin. You can argue that you have RP left over (675RP) but what good is that when you only intended to buy 1 skin in the first place?
So if 1350 RP = $10, shouldn't 675 RP = $5? Why did real money suddenly lose a margin of its value against RP?
ForFoxSakes1 votesAre you for real?? The difference in RP price is for the bonus RP you get which is explicitly stated with each purchase The price is half the RP cost which it actually is
rtbf803603921 votesThere is a disconnect between RP value and real money value. 675 RP means you can't buy $5 RP to get the skin. You STILL have to by the $10 RP to get it even though it's on sale. That's where the problem is.
Shreddermen571 votesI know I am a bit late on this reply, but did you take some time to look at the reply I submitted detailing the bonus RP that is received upon buying tiers above $5 in RP?
I feel as though I explained it pretty well, but if you disagree that is fine by me.
Just wanted to give some clarity! [slayer-jinx-wink]