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Crazy you think Riot Games is extremely profit driven. I have played League of Legends for 13 years and not once have they required or requested a single penny

• devilsdata 1y ago
  This is like saying Google isn’t extremely profit-driven because we don’t pay them.
• cheschire 1y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_Delivers_People https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_Delivers_People Perhaps you may benefit from reading this. But basically, if the product is free, then you are the product.
  • arealaccount 1y ago
    Bummer there’s no link to the video
  • papa_bear 1y ago
    This isn’t a given since there’s still a way to give them money directly for cosmetics (which makes them a ton of money). Many freemium business models give away a lot product for free with the goal of convincing a minority of users to pay and subsidize the rest.
• throw10920 1y ago
  This is wrong in almost every possible way. It's invalid to say "a profit-driven company wouldn't do x" for almost any value of x. It's also invalid to suggest that a company that doesn't require money isn't profit-driven. There are thousands of free-to-play games run by greedy companies that push monetization on users (even if they don't require it). There are tens of thousands of companies that use ads to monetize their games. There's also ample evidence of Riot's greed over the past few years - $500 skins, progressive removal of more and more free cosmetics from the game despite record revenue, encouraging and enabling smurf accounts (which absolutely ruin the experience for other players) because they buy more skins, and many, many more instances.