How Greedy Does Riot Seem After Their Little Legends Gambling Offers (Vote Scale)!?

UnstoppableMaybe·7/13/2019, 4:15:05 AM·4 votes·2,401 views

The Little Legends do nothing for the game itself, and are purely just for looks. They are merely just companions and don't do anything besides be expressive on the screen. Something like this should have an option to buy with Blue Essence in game loot as well, so the fact they cost purely only RP (Riot Points), is nothing but absurd despicable greed! Not to mention that they cost around 700 RP at the least, which is absolutely ridiculous! The greed from Riot here is very real, and I advise pushing back, either waiting for Blue Essence in game loot to be an option for these Little "Greedy Useless" Legends, or at the very least, they cost much less RP. I advise the cost of Little Legends be dropped to around a Hextech Key cost, so about 150 RP or even less than that since they don't do much for the gameplay experience. So if not 150 RP, perhaps 50 RP, which is enough to buy a skin shard with in game event tokens. A final option would be to throw in some Champion skins with the cost of the Little Legends Bundle, and actual champion shards to activate for champion ownership.

These are the options if Riot wants more buyers, more Legendary finds from having cheaper costs, and more interest in what the game mode can offer. For now, I will stick to buying champion skins, since at least I know I get what I want, and there are quite a few skins I will get, but since Little Legends is a gamble, I will not buy any until it's at least reasonably fixed!

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https://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/teamfight-tactics/p7QvZW11-little-legends-series-egg-guide

To further backup my claim, players have had to spend around $200 or more just to get their preferred Legendary Little Legend (which is posted in the Link above as proof). So if spending $200 for something that does less than a Free Poke'mon is not greedy or absurd to you, then you have a slight problem accepting the truth here, because it is greedy and unnecessary by "definition," and overall proven statistics. Not to mention the UK just had a Court trial against EA to ban Loot Box gambling in their country for greedy gambling tactics, so it's at the very least "quite greedy" if we're going to be honest without trolling. but I don't expect a vote to be without trolling votes either. Afterall, this isn't a serious court case, so we don't need lawyers anyways to make our point clear for this. At the end of the day, I don't mind what is decided, it's not my company or project.

Finally...we still can't deny the fact that Champion skins are more useful for the game than the Little Legends that do nothing for the players during gameplay, and thus have no reason to cost more than the Champion skins, nor a Hextech Chest which can provide more than a Little Legend can! Let alone the fact the Champions can be bought with Blue Essence, with the option to buy skins after owning the champ, and you are guaranteed the champion skin you want with real money, whereas Little Legends it is a gamble. The Little Legends cost clearly absurd at the least if we're using logic overall.

(This is where the fans of League of Legends are, so having a vote as a newcomer can lead to trolling the truth, therefore just telling how it is by statistical facts does the same as a vote that would be based on actual facts without trolling, so there is no need for a vote at this point since we already know the answer...so long as there's proof, denying the truth won't rule as true.)

30 Comments

Scyns7/15/2019, 4:35:36 PM2 votes

Gambling/morality/legal issues aside (since that is a much longer, broader and more complex issue to cover), I for one was happy to see that Riot came up with a way to monetize TFT without impacting game power or balance at all. In fact, I was happy to buy some LL eggs to encourage Riot to keep supporting TFT. It is a completely free game that I really enjoy. Any one that enjoys it too should be happy to see Riot developed a way to make money off of it. If they can't make money, they will not support it, no matter how many people love the game. That is just the way companies work. If you can come up with a better way to monetize the game that still makes enough money for Riot to pay for all the employees that have to work on the game and still turn a profit, I am sure Riot would love to hear your suggestions.

Marshbouy7/13/2019, 4:27:34 AM1 votes

The Little Legends do nothing for the game itself, and are purely just for looks. They are merely just companions and don't do anything besides be expressive on the screen. Something like this should have an option to buy with Blue Essence in game loot as well, so the fact they cost purely only RP (Riot Points), is nothing but absurd despicable greed!

would you prefer that they have an effect on gameplay AND cost RP? Cause uh, that's a terrible idea.


Companies: release a free game

Players: download and play that game

Companies: monetize cosmetic items to be able to make a profit off of that game

Players: shocked pikachu face

haaaaaaalp7/14/2019, 3:40:42 PM1 votes

Little legends and other aesthetic items are exactly the type of things I want riot to charge players for. They can pull tons of money from whales while providing a free game for players like myself without effecting competitive integrity. If anything, I want riot to increase the price of the skins in the base game to make all champions free.

Blåsigt7/16/2019, 9:37:53 AM1 votes

Little legends are so dumb, who cares if they charge money for the chance to receive a rarer pet? I agree, though - if you are willing to pay money for the pet, why make it a game of chance? We, as players, need to hold companies like riot to account for this predatory practice. Stupid mobile platforms made people used to this kind of payment scheme, and now, unfortunately, this slot-machine style of payment is popping up everywhere.

haaaaaaalp7/17/2019, 12:16:38 PM1 votes

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True but technically Grand Theft Auto Online is free to play as well, because it comes free with the single player experience. The excuse of why League of Legends should charge more is not only your pure insane nonsense, but Grand Theft Auto Online can easily depart from the single player experience since it's technically free to play, and in this respect, it blows League of Legends out of the water! Grand Theft Auto Online has made more profit than League of Legends has, and it also has nothing similar to Little Legends awful greedy desperate gambling system. Plenty already agree with me on multiple other Forum posts, so you not in agreement is only a small fraction. Not to mention Poke'mon Go is also based on a free to play experience.

On top of that, War-Frame even if it made more, would not be desperate enough to sell something as greedy and simple as Little Legends like Riot has done. War-Frame has pets to, but they actually do far more. You can post anything you want, but at least I posted the truth of the situation, and I have several who agree, and more! So what now then, since you can't deny the facts or the truth successfully at this point. TwistedFate

Also denying their Little Legends gambling system being greedy and desperate would be foolish, and not only this, but it's not my company, so I also don't have to care. Rumble Ziggs

GTA sold the game for full price first and then tacked on microtransactions after the fact. Once they pulled as much money out of consumers as they could with a full priced game, then they went free to play to milk even more revenue out of microtransactions. That is a far greedier model than league which was free to play from day 1.

Also, where are the "plenty" of people who agree with you? You can't just make that stuff out of your ass. Even if you can find a few handful of idiots who agree with your asinine comparisons, that doesn't make them any less asinine.

CreedXIII8/15/2019, 7:57:47 PM1 votes

lowering the price of little legends may not turn a long term profit because less people will want a 3 star if everyone has it. The gambling system needs to be improved though