Do you feel like runes should be cheaper?

I concur, and this has always been a debated and discussed issue on the LoL forums themselves. We all feel like the runes shouldn't be MUCH cheaper, but at their current price they simply aren't economical until level 20+ when you've ground enough IP to buy the good runes. And even then, sometimes you have to wait until 30 for the full effect.

I just think their pricing tier system for champions should be expanded to their rune system. Different tiers for different potency of runes, therefore making the bad ones dirt cheap. Plus their rune mixer always gives me back the same crappy runes in exchange for 4-5 nice runes. Not really worth it - they need to make it less random, or at least show you what you're getting ahead of time. (Unless they have, haven't really messed with this feature in quite awhile to be honest).

But they're simply too much, if you take in the fact you need A LOT of them (9) to fill in a category. Just think 9x Red/Yellow/Blues of a 3000+ IP rune = ridiculous amount of scratch that could have been used to buy a champion or something. It's just simply too much.

 

Yeah they are kind of dumb, they just removed tier 1 and tier 2 and do little re-do for them, I mean its not like the runes are random and don't help. There is a set best rune set and if you don't have it you are at a distinct disadvantage. Also little fun bit I bought a league card the other day to get runes then found out they only cost IP -.-

 

I know that feeling once I dumped a bunch of RP and wanted runes and was like >.<

So I used RP to only buy skins/champs, and IP for runes and things. Didn't know they axed the first couple tiers. Hopefully they'll do more with it

 

I think everything should be cheaper but that's because I am cheap, LOL. But you have a solid argument there when I was first starting out I had to research the optimum rune because it cost so much that I had to save up for it.

 

Yeah. The game should have some level of investment to get to know it, but driving too much on pregame things like runes and masteries and being called a joke if you don't run meta rune sets is kind of impossible for a levelling up 20 to get all their 30 runes and still a champ or two. Unless you drop real dough, which is where I spent most of my RP levelling up. Champs. Boosts. Pages.

 

To hell with new players, even someone like me, who plays more than enough Runes cost too dang much. More so some of the obscure runes people don't use like crit % damage or things like lifesteal quints, costing 1k per rune. Freaking ridiculous. But I guess they mi ght not want to change the price of those runes because they want to get people to buy their IP boosters otherwise they would have changed the pricing more by now.

 

Categorically, no. Just imagine the influx of people who buy runes, for say, 100 IP. It takes only one match for that most of the times... it's not fair. Just think about it. I think it should stay at the same value.

 

I agree that they're a bit overpriced, but it just can't be that cheap so it will be bought by absolutely everyone in the League. There's got to be some sort of differentiation at early levels between summoners, and well... keeping their price relatively high ensures just that.

 

Categorically, just think of using a different tier system. Why did you come up with 100 as a number? I'm just saying a rune that is 1k IP (four daily wins or so) for ONE RUNE is stupidly overpriced. maybe 500? Still have to earn it (a couple dailies and a couple matches). It doesn't have to be to the ridiculously low end. It just NEEDS lowered.

 

No, the amount of new runes that would flood in would just about unbalance the game to the point of extinction. I'd rather they be overpriced than under priced because at that point, the game would just become pay-to-win.

 

I'd have to agree, but it helps the company make money, and it does keep things from being pay to win (for the most part, I'd say).

 

We're not discussing new runes. We're not even discussing pay-to-win, because IP has to be earned. I totally fail to see the direction of this comment on the current conversation? Bit confused.

I'd rather them be "Fair Priced" then cheap as shit. Or overly expensive. There's no reason for it be as high as it is, especially since they keep re-arranging their champion tier prices. 6000+ for a hero? DAFUQ. That's weeks and weeks. It basically enforces pay to buy champions - that's not winning, that's just getting a champ before one who doesn't use RP can get it. But everyone can earn

Also as a fact, Pay-to-win doesn't really exist in this game. It's aesthetics and boosts, but at the end of the day it doesn't give a leg up on competition at level 30. Only while leveling which isn't the primary goal.

And people who agree with this mindset, don't understand. Lowering the runes in the long run doesn't hurt anything, or anyone at all. People just see a change and "Freak out". Honestly - those 500 runes could just be equivalent to tier 2 and at the end of the day would be replaced by tier three runes or quints of better in the long run. Nobody loses, and Riot becomes more loved.

Win-Win.

 

I think the prices are good. When I was still new in League of Legends, whenever I purchased a rune, I felt a sense of achievement. It felt especially good when I finished my first rune page.

Now, I have enough IP to buy 10+ more 6,300 IP champions.

 

Runes need to have more purpose, but the price is right! (pun) as long as they keep the runes at a minimum, and appropriate of course.

 

If not, they really need to reduce the cost of their champs or not make the tiers so lopsided when it comes to buying a champion that's easily two or three other champions. If they're so much more IP and groundbreaking, then they really just need a massive rebalancing patch or something.

The runes are ridiculous for some of them, especially when like I said you need NINE of them. And there's three categories? And that's minus the QUINT prices. I feel Quints are appropriate. Something that big should cost.

But if no rebalancing on pricing is a thing, then at least consider champion prices. You're still going to make bank with people buying RIOT points anyways, it's not like they can't cut a break to the average Joe will never make MLG or a circuit you know.

 

They definitely are too expensive, especially if it would be for a new player to buy them, but this is the way that RIOT use to do their business I guess.

 

Yes, I feel like runes should be definetly cheaper but I really doubt Riot will decrease the price anysoon. Infact, to me, it took really a long time in order to finish the builds. Of course all these inhibitions will be removed if you pay as usual...

 

You could give the illusion of cheaper runes by just lowering them a bit, or tiering runes similar to how you tier champions, placing the best runes in a set category so they don't just shift from 1k ip to 5k ip or something insane.

 

I think they should just make them free. Give everyone a fair chance from stage 1. Not because you play 24/7 doesn't mean you should have everything that we all can get at higher priority just because we have lives.