“At this point it's been more than a year and recent fluctuations have been fairly minimal, so we think the time is right to make a change.” “The value of currencies goes up and down, so we wanted to leave it for a while to make sure the change was sticking,” Benshirro wrote. That same 35-pound expense will award just 5,950 RP, as opposed to the 7,450 as before.
When the new prices are implemented on July 25, players will get just 790 RP for their five pounds. only gets you 7,200 RP, for example - it’s clear that Brits are currently getting a discount. can get 7,450 RP for 35 pounds, or about $45, while $50 in the U.S. (Five British pounds is equal to about $6.50.) While the differences at higher tiers are even closer - those in the U.K. for less than two times the amount of points. players pay almost twice as much as those in the U.K. The currency is used to purchase skins, characters and other customization options. In the U.S., players can purchase prepaid cards for Riot Points, or RP $10 gets you 1,380 points. It currently costs five British pounds to get 975 Riot Points, the cheapest option available to League of Legends players. “This change meant that while UK players were spending the same number of pounds on as before, players elsewhere in the world were paying a lot more in comparison.” voted to leave the European Union, triggering a drop in the value of the pound relative to other global currencies, particularly the US dollar,” explained Benshirro, who’s in charge of publishing in Riot’s Dublin office, in a post on the Western European League of Legends forum. A 20 percent increase in prices for the in-game currency will be effective starting later this month, and Riot Games is pointing to “Brexit” as the cause of the change. Buying Riot Points for League of Legends is about to get costly for players in the U.K.
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