If corki is given away for free then they all pretty much got ripped off. If I known corki was going to be given away for free I wouldn't have been saving up for him for so long and instead buy other champions or runes.

I really don't even see the problem with skin alone =_= Its a reward for the game, they don't even need to make a prize, besides with the LoL community how it is now most don't even deserve anything even if they won.

But the decision whether to give Corki away for free right now doesn't change the fact that they already spent their 6315 IP points or whatever. They've already spent this--they are not getting it back either way. And they aren't really affected by this decision either way.

Okay, points against giving Corki away for free:

-it's 'unfair' to the people who saved the IP/RP to get him
-it'll affect (negatively) the meta-game (whatever that means...?) What would the effect be of making a champ like Corki freely available? A Corki or two in every game you play from now on?


Points for it:
-Corki's a great champ
-it's one more champion unlocked every rotation. Little more variety I suppose.
-it's FREE!!!


On one hand is giving only the Corki skin as promised, on the other side is giving 6.3k IP to everyone + the skin. Just slightly less extreme is giving Corki and skin. Not owning Corki myself, I do see how it could suck for people who actually bought him, on the other hand, they're not really affected in any way.


Maybe a middle solution would be giving the skin and making Corki available for a reduced price (half?) for a while? Giving 6.3 IP to people frankly sounds like a terrible idea.


On an unrelated note: Malphite is the shiz.

I had to vote for HoN xDD

the more i think about it the less i want everyone to have corki. if everyone has him there's more of a chance i'll end up having to go against him or race someone to picking him :x

Everyone who bought him just got screwed over. We had to work hard for it so should everyone else, that's how it affects us. I really don't see the harm in just not giving him away for free. Who does it affect? No one..

Ok. Let's make this example about money.

Let's say everybody has a bank account. Some people have $1, some people have $2, some people have $3... etc. Some people even have $10.

One day, the bank says that they will give everybody enough money so that everybody has $10.

If the bank does decide to do this, how does this "screw over" the people who already have $10? It doesn't.

However, if the bank doesn't give away this money, who does this hurt? It hurts the people who don't already have the $10 in their bank accounts because they didn't get this extra money that was being given away for free. It's an opportunity cost.

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I think the issue here isn't so much that Corki is being given away free but rather that there's a jealousy/grudge issue here. It's a pretty well-documented phenomenon and I would quote you the literature if I had it readily available.

Here's another (albeit extreme) example.

Some people have food, some people don't.

There's free food available. Why should the people with food say that the people without food shouldn't get this food?

That's not really an accurate example. An accurate example would be this:
You and your 3 siblings get money from your mom from doing things around the house. You each get different amounts of money since you each spend different amounts of time doing work. Now lets say 100 ip is like a dollar. Now it takes you about 2 weeks or maybe more to get 63dollars. Now lets say you've been saving up for 2 weeks to get 63 dollars when your other siblings just spend it on whatever or save it up or whatever. Now lets say you bought a 63 dollar phone. A few days later your mom decides to give everyone who doesn't already have one the same phone. Wouldn't you feel like you got ripped off and wouldn't you want your siblings to have to work for that phone instead of just it being given away?

i think ralath is talking about the idea of giving everyone 6.3k ip and lirange is talking about the idea of just giving everyone corki.