Whether you pay $300 or $0, League of Legends is a fun game

June 17th, 2011

League of Legends is one of the more popular PC games right now. It's no World of Warcraft, but it's certainly one of the most played top 10 games today. 

What makes the game unique, despite being a DotA clone, is the price of admission. It's free for most -- paid for by the more compulsive gamer who likes to collect stuff.

Like this guy commenting on PC Gamer: "After doing some quick math, I found that if you wanna buy every single champion with real money, it will cost you around $300, maybe less."

Of course, you don't have to use real money to buy better characters; you can use in-game rewards to do the same.

Like this guy: "I have been playing for more than 10 months and I haven't spent a dime." Or this guy: "I've been playing the game a long time and I've yet to pay money for a champion. I'm currently missing only 4-5."

What about you? Have you paid to play League of Legends? If so, how much have you burned? If not, how does the game compare to other freemium games in your opinion?

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Great game, only there is a problem like SERVER STABILITY. I dont get it how does US server have no bugs, chat isnt broken, have no lags etc... and on EU there is like 2 bugs per day. Its really awesome that game is F2P but they earn money coz there is a lot of us that want to look diferent from the others (skins) so i think that they would earn much more money for themselves if they fix EU server and give us max pleasure of gaming this best pvp game ever.

http://www.lolking.net/summoner/euw/20191374

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I haven't played LoL yet but even if I did, I know I would never pay for it :D F2P FTW!

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I have yet to spend any money on LoL and just use my earned points to get more champions and runes.

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i haven't played this game, but if you say you would pay 300 dollars for it, then i believe this game must be pretty cool.

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I do play LoL

and I dont have paid anything for that game and its although funny

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elvedin1986 said: Great game, only there is a problem like SERVER STABILITY. I dont get it how does US server have no bugs, chat isnt broken, have no lags etc... and on EU there is like 2 bugs per day. Its really awesome that game is F2P but they earn money coz there is a lot of us that want to look diferent from the others (skins) so i think that they would earn much more money for themselves if they fix EU server and give us max pleasure of gaming this best pvp game ever.


Server stability is an issue in the US, but for the most part the issue is with their client. Adobe AIR was a poor choice, and people still run across SCRIPT errors and client closes. It's a fun game, but I'm waiting until they fix the major bugs before I buy skins.

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i dont have too many server problemz

dont make fun of the wayz i type.

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I must say I prefer the graphics and equality everyone have in HoN above LoL where time invested=more champions. HoN costs 30 bucks.

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I too play LoL, haven't payed for anything but that's for two reasons; 1. The skins suck, and it's not worth buying champions when it's fun to gather in game money to get them, and 2. I haven't really set my thoughts on whether or not I want to keep playing after the large numbers of noobs that play the game.

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Played the game over a year and as a proud player i have spent money on this game. No regrets. I really dislike those people who put down the paid part of this game, as the customers are the ones who keep this game alive, not the good in Riots heart(as much as we always want to hope).
Just saying next time ya go to the store remember those who help keep this game alive...

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Sever1ty said: I haven't really set my thoughts on whether or not I want to keep playing after the large numbers of noobs that play the game.


Sounds like you're not noob-friendly :(

Nigioh said: I really dislike those people who put down the paid part of this game, as the customers are the ones who keep this game alive, not the good in Riots heart(as much as we always want to hope).


If you throw money at a game, of course it'll be kept alive. As customers however, it's preferable if the game doesn't require some money seeing as it already demands a lot of your time :D

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I have spent eight thousand dollars.

:P just kidding, but I have spent a good $25 or so, so far. I love the game, and once you get a champ you really like, some skins are worth it. (Veigar Greybeard, Cottontail Teemo, etc)

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HoN community is terrible, I dont know about LoLs because I have not played it before...... simply put... HoN graphics and style out plays LoLs

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Only paying for on sale skins :)

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dodolidot said: I have yet to spend any money on LoL and just use my earned points to get more champions and runes.

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I only spent the 350RP they gave us for free. I'll not use my own money for a basically free to play game.

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I didnt paid any real money for the game, and i still got 350RP a skin code from the old account on America server, free skin for facebook accout, you can get anything you want for free you dont need real money to get something.

:D

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I play all the time and i have not spent any money.

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Wow I didn't realize kids mmos grew so popular.

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deadmike1 said: Wow I didn't realize kids mmos grew so popular.

>_> it's not only for kids, today, yes today, the LoL dreamhack tournie is going on for 100k to the winning team

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There are more players and there are also more server stability issues.

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Another problem in League of Legends is the price of the champions. They are too imbalanced, 3150 IP champions cost the same in RP (975) as 6300 IP champions, so you should buy the 6300 IP champions with RP and the others with IP.

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definewikipedia said:
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Sounds like you're not noob-friendly :(

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If you throw money at a game, of course it'll be kept alive. As customers however, it's preferable if the game doesn't require some money seeing as it already demands a lot of your time :D


These noobs are different, they ruin the game for 4 others due to one simple misunderstanding, or disagreement. We call it feeding, they just suicide run into the the other team giving them advantage in money. There's also a big problem with leavers, and AFK. Not even mentioning the cursing.

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League of legends is fun since spending money doesn't really give you any benefits other than unlocking things faster, so you aren't getting completely destroyed by people who are willing to pay for items.

But... RTS is just not for me.

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I play Heroes of Newerth. I really dislike LoL, dont understand why people play it.

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