Board Thread:General discussion/@comment-4499980-20130108214805/@comment-80.139.159.22-20130120101440

Rapacious wrote: 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.

Funny thing is that Riot always claims to bring up changes and content by making up sorry excuses, for example to improve gameplay experience, even tho everyone knows they mainly want to push their sales.

That in itself isn't bad at all, but how they're trying to cover it up makes alot of us feel like they consider us extremely stupid.

(Our birthday present to you is Surprise Fiddle, only catch is you have to buy him... Who hasn't sold presents at his party before, seems legit)