What’s wrong with League battle passes?

Disagreements continue in the League of Legends community regarding each game’s new features at the beginning of 2023. After the resounding failure of the season’s cinematics, little or no promised content, and months of imbalance, the LoL community has had enough of Riot.

League of Legends players have analyzed the Battle Pass system and proposed different action plans for the developers to improve it.

Reddit is on the prowl

It is no secret that Reddit has been the main enemy of Riot Games, especially at the beginning of this year. Not only for League of Legends but for all its games in general.

In a post made on January 15, the community expressed their frustration, rejection, and, above all, disappointment with Riot Games, but this time because of the Battle Passes. Players point out that these Battle Passes have not improved even once since their launch.

Event Passes are still a joke from leagueoflegends

In the post, we can see that the user says:

“I know, this topic is quite discussed, but it bothers me that you have to grind like shit to get to level 50. Grinding should start after this point.

Let’s do the math: we have 2 quest packs, which grant 5k pass experience each. So 10k PE from quests. You need 20k to get to level 50, so you need to grind another 10k. That equals 1,667 minutes of games won and 2,500 minutes of games lost. Let’s say a game lasts 30 minutes: that takes 56 games won or 84 games lost.

I totally agree with the rewards, but the grinding is ridiculous. There should be another set of quests that award another 5k, so the grind would be half as big.”

Problems with the Battle Pass

Another big problem with the Battle Pass is that players have to spend much more time playing to earn minor rewards like chromas. In addition, they also have an RNG element with orbs and capsules that in no way guarantee an event-related skin.

The League of Legends community is in tune regarding this issue. That is why they have proposed to Riot Games that they redesign the battle pass system. They indicate that it should be done as presented by Epic Games’ Battle Royale, Fortnite. These regularly reward players with event-related skins. Furthermore, they argue that the main reward should be the prestige of the Battle Pass.

In addition, with this Battle Pass proposed by the community, players could earn coins, allowing them to select the rewards they like the most per level. Undoubtedly, the community would get much more rewards and would not force community to play for so long.

In different communiqués and even in a video of its developers, Riot promised additional changes focused on the players’ comments. So now, we must wait for this great debate on Reddit to be reflected in Riot and for them to decide to make an update regarding the Battle Pass.

Header: Riot Games