Board Thread:General discussion/@comment-4499980-20130108214805/@comment-3238314-20130119032940

The thickness is amazing. Yes, riot is increasing early access ip costs. They are also dropping the cost of old champs. What this means is that they are compensating for the loss of money they'll see from people no longer purchasing the old 6300 iurp champions with RP, because with the new business model, you can easily predict when a champion will hit the price reduction. To further evidentiate the fact that they are losing out, if you did a bit of math, you'd see that the early access IP price is higher than the normal price by the exact same number that the reduced price of an old champ is lower than his normal price. Basically, 6300 - 1500 = 4800, 6300 + 1500 = 7800, and this is only valid for the first week, because after that, riot technically loses out, especially since every 3 releases they down the price of a even lower tier champ.

So riot is greedy for giving people an incentive to buy early access with RP? God forbid they'd try to mitigate their monetary losses that would follow with reducing ip costs so greatly over time.