Riot Games Coming to Xbox Game Pass on December 12 - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 08 December 2022 / 1,453 Views
Microsoft and Riot Games have announced Riot's biggest PC and mobile games will be available on PC Game Pass on Monday, December 12, along with added benefits.
The games from Riot that will be available on PC Game Pass includes Valorant, League of Legends, Legends of Runeterra, Teamfight Tactics, and League of Legends: Wild Rift.
Read the details below on the extra benefits for the games:
Valorant
- All current Agents
- Access to every new Agent as soon as they’re released
- 20% Match XP boost given to Battle Pass, Event Pass, and active Agent Contract progress
League of Legends
- All 160+ champions
- Access to every new champion as soon as they’re released
- 20% XP boost
Legends of Runeterra
- All cards in Foundations Set
Teamfight Tactics
- 1-Star Rare Little Legend Tacticians
- 4 Arena Skins available until April 2023, and 1 Arena Skin that’s on a monthly rotation thereafter
League of Legends: Wild Rift (coming in January) unlocked benefits include:
- All 80+ champions
- Day-one access to every new champion as they’re released
- 20% XP boost
Plus, as an added benefit, players who link their accounts before January 1, 2023 will receive even more bonus rewards from Riot:
- Valorant – Pocket Sage Buddy
- League of Legends – Masterwork Chest and Key
- Teamfight Tactics – Little Legend Rare Egg
- Wild Rift – Random Emote Chest
- Legends of Runeterra – Prismatic Chest
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This is a pretty massive get for Game Pass! Just League of Legends by itself gets 117 million monthly active players. And I'm sure many players don't want to pay thousands of dollars to unlock all 160+ champions lol
And Valorant's support is just getting started!
Seems everyone thinks this is a massive deal what am I missing? Aren't all these games free? I used to play Valorant on my PC free. Got tired of the sniper gun though and quit.
Ok that's pretty cool I wouldn't exactly equate it to a massive get but more content is always better for GP. I'll pass on these games as I had enough of them already but Chained Echoes just got added and that's where I'm headed next. Well maybe I'll wait for FF7 instead not sure yet.
I would love to know how much microsoft paid them for this, it must be a fucking insane number.
My guess is deal like this don't get a static amount but a dynamic one that get recalculated on the pro rata of hour played vs the total hours played on GamePass for said time frame.
Let say those titles achieve 2% of total hour played and MS reserve 30%(classic store cut) of GamePass revenue than that would mean this deal value is 2% of 70% or 1.4% of total GamePass revenue for a specific timeframe (likely a month or quarter).
You could well be right. Microsoft tailors the deals to the wishes of the publisher/developer. If the developer wants a flat up-front payment (to help get the game finished, for example), they'll try to negotiate one that both parties can agree too. But if the publisher would rather a monthly fee, or be rewarded by the number of downloads, or the number of times the game is booted up, or the number of hours of play, or any number of other metrics, they'll negotiate around those points instead. That's one of the reasons why some games come and go from Game Pass, and other stay for a long time. "Human Fall Flat" has been in Game Pass for years now, which it presumably wouldn't be had they just gone for a single up-front payment, for example.
It's in Riot's favour, if MS paid loads for the FREE portions of these games. What makes Riot money from is the skins or in LoR/TFT case maps, not champs or card packs.
Having all the champs from the get go is fucking insane, i played this game for YEARS and didnt had all the champs in the end.
And the xp boost is insane too.
Oh it is but the champs are certainly not the money makers for Riot. I too have most champs, the only ones I don't have are ones I have no interest in or have played from free rotation and decided they aren't for me. Never spent anything on the game but my time. XP means little, unless you just want to get to level 30, after that levels unlock level capsules which contain champs... which you will all own.
Not saying it's bad, not at all but Riot is in my view heavily in favour here. MS paid for the FREE stuff.
