You....don't play MMOs do you.

Played WoW for 3 years.

Yes, Favor and Stats are linked.  They can't really have a new Epoch without resetting both.  Every time a new version or expansion of WoW comes out, most the items your woked for (for months or years sometimes) are obsoulete; just how games have to work sometimes when dealing with expansions, updates, and patches.

And yes, I'm guessing in the next Epoch, they will reset them again most likely.

pls this isnt wow stop comparing to that

And yet, you somehow found a way to blubber a long non-sequitur.

You are in the recreational camp of gaming. That's fine. I'm in the competitive camp of gaming. To me, it's about honing skills, inventing strategies, and being a part of a community. You see this in go, chess, tennis, and even "Axis and Allies." Let's pretend that the FIDE chess rankings got reset, and all Grandmasters lost their titles. You could try yelling at them "ITS JUST A GAME LOL." They've worked hard to achieve a level of performance, and they've been recognized for it. Similarly, I've tried to hone my skills in Demigod. It's a hobby for me this summer. It's not my life. I never said it was. I've reached a level that I was happy at. Now, I have to do it all over again. I'm not going to spend time doing something I already did once. It's not fun for me.

People make careers out of games all the time. I'm not even talking about just computer games. I'm actively involved with chess. I play competitively, because I want to be good enough so I don't lose. You can win money and make a living at it if you are good enough. Similarly, I've worked at Demigod to become good at it. I WANT to be good at it. People have hobbies and try to become good at them merely for the sake of becoming good at them. Merely because you view demigod as recreational doesn't make me a loser for taking it seriously.

wow, what a bunch of babies in this thread.

suck it up and play the damn game. I remember I played my first 10-15 games without even knowing what favor items were and I had no problems winning games. Some guy said this change "favors people with no life" , wtf you could say that about pretty much any game. Get over it and stop flooding the forums with useless crap and make threads about legit bugs k thx.

Favor items affect the gameplay in some drastic ways (when the players who have them are not noobs). They are not simple achievements for e-penis size. I don't want to play against a rook with +800 life from Blood of the Fallen. I don't want to play against a Regulus with Poisoned Dagger. Just because some no-lifer spent his entire day after the patch, farming for his fav items. Some people don't have time for this shit, they play 1 or 2 games per day, but when they play, they want to have a fair game, based on skill, not on free time available to farm. This is not a MMO, ffs.

I hope this is the only time when fav points will be reseted.

I'm gonna repeat myself:

just play a couple of matches without favor items allowed if you don't want the enemy to have an advantage over you.

i had to play exactly two games to get my anklet back, and tomorrow i'm gonna play 4 more so i'll have BoF back.

And to those who cry about their hard earned stats:

A ladder reset is a totally normal event... in diablo people are looking forward to it, waiting anxiously to join the run for the first lvl 99 char.

I'm happy that i finally have the oppurtunity to get into the top100 fair and square,

and the top ranks are not blocked by some exploiters like razattack1337

So they reset the stats and favor standings, big deal.

After all the heartache Demigod has been through since launch I'm not suprised the devs settled on reseting everything and have everyone start with a clean slate. 

I'm sure that like me (wow for 2 years) Charvel1 had the same epiphany, It's a game.

Yeah you can have a "job" playing pro, but unless your on a sponsered PVP team your a gold farmer working a 8 hour shift sharing a computer with 5 others.

i see, yes you are right there could be more or better uses for the favor points (sadly gpg isn't too giving on additional content right now  i'd really love costumes or sumthing like that).

they simply put it in to add some element of persistence between the matches, and failed hard because more expensive fav. items aren't better or are even weaker than cheaper ones, and you can get them all by playing one week or less.

i could live with them being free for everyone, just being an addition to the rest of the items

I agree Creep, getting +15% movement so easily (with relatively little Favor) always feels odd.  You'd think it'd be 10% max.  Costumes would be cool; maybe a magic litter-box for Celia.

I agree completely, in a game of skill vs skill, why allow someone with a job (limited time)  to be at a disadvantage to a player without a job (ie has more time to farm). Make the favour items - chooseable and let it be a strategy item. and if  favour is going to be meaningless (i.e. can be reset at anytime)....do like the above poster said and make it cosmetic.

Personal insults do not make arguments any better or worse. Can we please stay away from personal insults? Everyone has their passions, whether it be computer games or soccer. They're both games.

Anyways, I think favor needs to be changed, and changed soon. Items should not be bought with favor.