How does Riot even stay in business?
by
, 06-10-2012 at 08:58 AM (9115 Views)
Seriously, the way they handle League of Legends is so piss poor that it's disgusting. Everything they do revolves around getting people to buy their new champions every week.
For starters, they've been pricing every new champion at 975 RP and 6300 IP. Clearly the millions of dollars they keep putting into MLG tournaments isn't enough for them so they just make every new champion cost as much as humanly possible.
Second, they overpower every new champion and then nerf it a week later. Every new champion gets a nerf the patch after it's released, I wonder why. I bought Draven with IP and I can tell you for sure he's getting nerfed. First game I ever played with him I carried so hard. I played about 6-7 more games with him after that and I either carried, or if I lost I still went positive.
Third, they purposely program bugs in their champions that make them OP just to get sales. Darius is a prime example. His ult sometimes would recharge on non killing blows, yet there is nothing in the description of the ability that says it should do this, and when the Draven patch video was released, they passed it off as "We're changing it so his ult only recharges on a killing blow." You mean, like it's only supposed to do? You didn't think we'd notice?
Lastly, runes. Runes are a required part of the game. They are highly stupid on their own, but they give players the incentive to purchase RP. Why? Because the cost of runes is so high that simply buying champions and runes with IP just takes so damn long.
So yeah, I don't know how scumbag riot stays in business, but with DoTA 2 giving you the game plus all heroes for free, I don't see how league will compete.