Raknor

Resetting favor was, I feel, a bad move. I feel I am being punished for something that I did not do.  The reason that has been given is that because some favor was not reported correctly for some games.  From reading posts on these forums, it seems the same thing is happening again after the patch.  It also seems that because the cause has not been fixed, the same thing may happen again sometime in the future.

I had spent 4000ish minutes (70ish hours) getting roughly 11k favor.  I do not relish the prospect of having to grind out that favor again.  I am not a fan of being forced to do something over and over again to get back to where I was to begin with.  As an example, in Call of Duty 4, I played online with some friends.  There was the option to reset your level from 55 back to 1 in order to get a fancy new icon next to your name.  Some of my friends said they enjoyed earning all their achievements over again and releveling.  I, however, chose to keep my five little stars because having to earn every weapon all over again was NOT my idea of a good time.

Taking away something someone has earned is, on the whole, something society sees as bad.  A better solution would have been to just give everyone some bonus favor to make up for any that had been inappropriately lost.  Those people that got a little bonus favor through errors in the system would be ahead, but really this would not have been such a big deal.  Those people that intentionally abused the system should be dealt with on an individual basis through warnings or bans.

In the future, I hope this will not happen again, or that it is handled a different way.  I'd be in favor of returning all the favor that was taken in this instance as well.

-- Tukulis

STARDOCK - I don't really expect a response, but I will take exactly 1 shot at this.  I and many others asked if there would be a favor reset.  You guys didn't answer in any post I or anyone else I read made.  Surely at least 1 member of your staff saw the questions (as these were posts that your staff were active in), but there was no answer.  Why?  Why couldn't this be a poll or discussion amoungst the community?  I personally think you made a mistake going this route.  Why shouldn't this be a community discussion (you know, the people who spent their time earning the favor that was going to be removed)?  Can we have a discussion regarding this at all?  Some things you guys should just make you best decision on... but others, you should engage us.  Seriously... the economy's a shit storm and you decided it would be cool to take away my hard earned favor for some reason (no need to really explain yourself, btw... not like it isn't cool to just take shit people worked for away and smile).  Trivilize that if you want, but I could have spent that time doing anything at all, and you took it away without warning or discussion.  I even asked you if you were planning on taking it... and you apparently couldn't even tell me that's what you were planning on doing.  You're a great company and all, but burn us, and I, at least,  won't spend a dime on your shite again... and others just might agree. You share alot of information, but also choose to be as fucking quiet as a mouse on other topics.  stardock = consistent?

I'm sure other people have great points to add... but if you agree me with, echo my sentiment and I'm sure we'll get an answer.  Spare this thread the blah blah is favor is imbalanced on blank item, etc... but it I'm out of line, squelch my post to your hearts content.  Otherwise, I'd be thrilled to hear from Frogboy or someone on the SD staff.

I've had lots of fun with this game; I don't know how I implied it otherwise. When I used the word "work," I meant that I put effort into achieving a goal. I had fun doing that. Now I have to do it all a second time. I'm not going to have fun doing it all over again.

What's made the game less fun?

The lack of favour items due to the reset favour figures? If this is the case, and I'm not saying it is, does this mean the game was no fun until these items became available?

Oh my, I guess I'll have to get the premade back together to grind some favor...won't that be fun for everyone.

Yeah but after the reset all your existing characters didn't get deleted.

Good, I should hope not.

Yes yes... It's a typo.  Hours = minutes.  Corrected.

And thanks for completely missing the entire point(s).  The point is, it's not fun having to earn all that favor AGAIN.  And that taking stuff from people is Bad(tm).  There was an alternative which I and many others would have found preferable.

-- Tukulis

Guess I'll have to save up another 750 for Blood of the fallen again. Oh the humanity.

O my gozor i must play wizout favor itemz im lost¡¡¡

Cmon guys... "working hard"? "farm again"? wtf... if u see that way videogames i recomand u to stop playing them or be a PRO and get money fo it.

If u feel that the sky is falling because u have not your pwnzor favor item just create/join games without favor items until u get your pwnzor favor item.

A good player adapts well to any situation if u fell that u are completely gimped because u dont have your favor item just ltp.

Much harder was the reset in Stats for me, cause matchmaking now put me against all those Pros.

Man, i got owned hard yesterday. Sorry to all those who had to play with me.

/end rant

Listening to the playerbase before making decisions will usually decrease the amount of displeased customers getting refunds, and get them more sales on future products.

 Also there is so much wrong with most aspects of the game at the moment that everyone who paid money has a right to complain, it feels worse than a beta product in a lot of important areas.

Meh, fav items are bugged again. I've played a match in Panth, bought some item, then played a custom match and that fav item was still available for buying and my fav points were intact, like i never bought it before. This is getting absolutely RIDICULOUS. Ffs, i can say now that i HATE fav items, they should make them free for all and be done with them. They are a pain in the ass.