Board Thread:General discussion/@comment-4499980-20130108214805/@comment-207.157.127.160-20130109185903

Another thing people forget when they complain about Riot getting greedy, the servers cost money to run, that cost goes up when more people play, LoL is the most played game online on the PC and a large percentage of those players never give a single cent for their game time. No one at Riot is rolling in cash from this game and if they don't continue to increase their revenue while they continue growing at the rate they are they'll be the biggest gamming flop because everyone played their game (ironic, isn't it?).

Sorry if I got on a soapbox there, but some people are total dumbasses about it. One person posted on the forum's that "$1000 each day and is not enough for them." Or some such non-sense without a single ounce of irony. That wouldn't be enough profits to cover server costs, and if that was the profits daily after such costs they could barely pay their workers minimum wage. Riot's daily profits are probably in the five, six or seven digit range, but after splitting that amungst the stockholders that number becomes quite small.

To point one thing out, I am a Democrat, I am the 99% and I in no way support corperate greed. I simply believe that when one releases a product one should be able to make a profit (espicially when they actually have very, very, very consumer friendly buisness practices). I hope this has enlightened a few of you.