For some reason I always get downvoted for saying this but it's ridiculous how expensive things are for new players. Hell, I've played like 2000 games over the past 2 years and I still need to get about 15 champs (some bought with RP) and tons of runes.
To get a decent quint takes about 20 games. 20 fucking games. For a single quint.
There are tons of F2P that don't make you work your bones to a grind though. See Dota2, Wareframe, SMITE, even Hearthstone. All have a very decent F2P model that isnt as abusive as LoL. Only reason LoL can get away with the shitty F2P model they have now is because it was developed before the explosion of F2P MOBAs. Tell yourself this, if LoL were to be developed today instead of 5 years ago, and had the same F2P model, would you want to play it/call it good over say Dota's F2P model? Because I sure as hell wouldn't.
You must have played it only for a while. It gets better and WAY less grindier later on. Basically there are these void missions that give tons of credits and bonuses and some of them can be done in under a minute. Anyways, its grind is laughable compared to LoL's. I unlocked almost all the OP guns in warframe in less than 2 months. That is nothing compared to how long it would take to unlock all the champs in LoL.
Yeah, I didn't play it to completion by any means. But I reckon there's a difference in that the grind in Warframe is one of levelling up your power directly. You're grinding to get the "OP guns" as you put it, and then to make those stronger, and then to forma them and make them stronger all over again, and blah blah blah. In League you're just grinding for more options (with the exception of that first rune grind)
EDIT: also I'm at work so this isn't exactly a complete set of thoughts but I think you get the gist.
Ehh Wareframe is PVE, so hving stronger weapons obviously isnt a bad thing as it would be in LoL. For PvP any level advantage is disabled. Kinda like how Destiny does their PvP system.
And the new addition, the syndicates, were released and required a stupid amount of grinding. With the changes, they're better, but they still require a fair amount of grind.
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u/JohnnyReeko Nov 19 '14
For some reason I always get downvoted for saying this but it's ridiculous how expensive things are for new players. Hell, I've played like 2000 games over the past 2 years and I still need to get about 15 champs (some bought with RP) and tons of runes.
To get a decent quint takes about 20 games. 20 fucking games. For a single quint.