The Refer A Friend program is the reward system Riot Games created to motivate players to recruit friends to the game. On 25 April 2012, Refer A Friend 2.0 was released.[1]
Referrals can be accumulated by sending out an email using the form on the referrals page, or with your account's personalized referral link. Referrals will be accepted from both EU and US; it does not matter which server they sign up with.
Current Version
Version 3.0
Players can Refer-a-Friend five times, each time getting IP and/or with an Exclusive skin when they reach level 10. Obtaining Riot Points will no longer be available with this system.
- 1 – 1000, "Recruiter" forum title and badge
- 2 – 1000
- 3 – 1000; Exclusive Template:Csi skin, Warwick champion and "Senior Recruiter" forum title
- 4 – 1000
- 5 – 1000; Exclusive Template:Csi skin, Twitch champion and "Master Recruiter" forum title
Past Versions
Original version
Every time someone that you have referred reaches summoner level 5, the player that invited him is eligible for a reward. Every friend that reaches level 5 will let you a 4-win IP boost that you can redeem whenever you want. In addition, every time you reach one of the following reward tiers, you will receive a unique reward.
- 1 – "Recruiter" forum badge
- 10 – 975 (sometimes stated as "tier 3 champion")
- 25 – "Recruiter" forum title
- 50 – Template:Csi champion skin
- 100 – The League of Legends Digital Collector's Pack
- 150 – "Senior Recruiter" forum title
- 200 – 10,000
- 250 – "Master Recruiter" forum title
- 350 – Ultra-rare champion skin [2]– Template:Csi
- 500 – Get your name added to the “Wall of Fame” in the Riot Office
- 1,000 – A content element will be named after your summoner
- At least seven people have unlocked this before the referral policy was altered by Riot:
- Ohmwrecker - The Masked Gamer, a Youtuber, with the , and song of the same title.
- Grez, who initially had a now removed monster named after him, is now honored with .
- Athene, the namesake of .
- Wriggle, who is also a character in Touhou Project, got now removed item Wriggle's Lantern
- Malmortius, immortalized in-game with the item .
- TotalBiscuit, The Cynical Brit, the sweetest item named after him - .
- Tim Buckley, a character from his Ctrl+Alt+Del webcomic is featured as .
- Wooglet, who had the named after him.
- At least seven people have unlocked this before the referral policy was altered by Riot:
- 5,000 – All current and future content permanently unlocked.
- 10,000 – All expenses paid trip to visit Riot Games and develop a champion with the Riot Design Team (the expenses may not exceed $5,000)
- Tim Buckley lost his chance to design a champion after suggesting an eccentric Spider-Shark champion based on the Japanese horror manga, Gyo. Because the theme didn't fit with the lore, he only visited Riot Games HQ.
Version 2.0
Players earn 250 each time a referral reaches level 5 and milestone rewards as they reach level 10. Milestone rewards are one time only prizes unless otherwise noted, and are unlocked once the appropriate number of level 10 referrals is obtained.
- 1 – 500, "Recruiter" forum title and badge
- 2 – 500
- 3 – 500
- 4 – 500
- 5 – 500 and a Rune Page
- 10 –
- 25 – Exclusive Template:Csi skin, Warwick champion and "Senior Recruiter" forum title
- 50 – Template:Csi and
- 75 –
- 100 – and "Master Recruiter" forum title
- 150+ – for every 50 referrals after 100
References
- ↑ http://na.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?t=2058940 "Presenting Refer-a-Friend 2.0!"
- ↑ http://www.leagueoflegends.com/board/showthread.php?p=902450#post902450 "Official" Reference to Pendragon's Skin Choice