binary solo said:
My understanding is that you can, albeit indirectly, so not in the way I described above. You can buy IP boosters which gives you more IP from playing, which can then be used to buy Runes. Is that not true? Also you can pay money to buy champs, which frees up IP to buy runes. It seems like there's the potential to infinitely argue about whether LoL is pay to win in any meaningful way. I guess it's wrong to say it's strongly pay to win, but it has pay to win elements. But the matter is simple with a game like Smite because there are no equivalents to Runes in Smite so there can never be any argument about pay to win. |
You can get all the runes and champions you need by leveling up to 30, which is when Ranked play happens. Sure you can spend money to buy champions just like in Smite. The argument for Pay to Win is similar to World of Warcraft, where you can buy an instant level 90. Which allows you gear up more classes faster and be more desirable to Guilds. But in strict gameplay these pay to win elements are largely irrelevant.
