Originally Posted by
Burnt
I never said they were all P2W, the post I quoted was implying that P2W doesn't exist anymore, and I was informing him that it still exists, but it has moved away from overtly P2W and settled into a comfortable grey area.
The thing with LoL is that you are choosing to not get the cheaper champions, but instead going for what you personally consider the big payoff. That choice right there is the difference. If you are given the starter set, but unhappy with it simply because you view it as inferior, and the monthly (?) rotation of free champions is also not good enough then the problem isn't the game. The class balance between the 900 ones and the 6300 ones isn't gamebreaking, and if it is then it is quickly fixed, or if it is too OP people will just ban it. They want you to spend money, but they have made it so that if you don't want to spend money you are at no more of an advantage or disadvantage as someone that doesn't mind spending money.
Also I think those figures may be a little off, I never spent a dollar and I got Dr.Mundo, Caitlyn, Warwick, almost all the cheap ones (Annie, Soraka, Nunu, Poppy, Master Yi) and Twisted Fate, and I only played to level 13 I think over the course of maybe a month, 2 tops. Unless the IP has changed drastically over the past 6 or so months I would have to say there is something off with those numbers, or they aren't taking something or another into account.