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Gaile Gray · Jan 21, 2008, 02:15 AM // 02:15

I relayed the situation about Noon today. Sent an email to a full team; contacted the QA manager on IM so that he'd know what was going on. I've no response yet to the email, which makes sense because this is a Sunday.

I am sure we'll know more tomorrow and when we have information about this, I'll pass it along.

1 up and 2 down · Jan 21, 2008, 02:56 AM // 02:56

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Originally Posted by Gaile Gray

I relayed the situation about Noon today. Sent an email to a full team; contacted the QA manager on IM so that he'd know what was going on. I've no response yet to the email, which makes sense because this is a Sunday.

I am sure we'll know more tomorrow and when we have information about this, I'll pass it along.

Since its a bug can we get that 35k favour back?

Dark-NighT · Jan 21, 2008, 04:53 AM // 04:53

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Originally Posted by 1 up and 2 down

Since its a bug can we get that 35k favour back?

yeh right, we already got 23k favor back again, aint that enough for a while?

1 up and 2 down · Jan 21, 2008, 04:55 AM // 04:55

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Originally Posted by Miss Presler

yeh right, we already got 23k favor back again, aint that enough for a while?

Oh so we should let all that favor go to waste? The favor is basically a reward for maxing titles, why should we not get what we earned?

I can understand if we can't get it back because it's not possible. But if we can get it back, we should.

GWCaptain · Jan 21, 2008, 05:08 AM // 05:08

2+2=5

12ch

RhanoctJocosa · Jan 21, 2008, 05:15 AM // 05:15

who cares?
12c

HawkofStorms · Jan 21, 2008, 05:56 AM // 05:56

I think the QQing in this thread is mainly about the fact that

a) if it was a technical bug, A.net didn't really plan for these events accordingly. Even if they didn't forsee all this favor coming, once the weekend hit and they saw the favor climbing so high so quickly, they had more then enough time to correct the code to prevent an overflow problem. As someone else said, it literally only takes a couple of seconds to change how the favor is stored. Basically its a sloppy mistake.

b) if it wasn't a bug and was intentionally done... that's just a stupid thing to do on A.net's part.

AW Lore · Jan 21, 2008, 06:18 AM // 06:18

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Originally Posted by HawkofStorms

I think the QQing in this thread is mainly about the fact that

a) if it was a technical bug, A.net didn't really plan for these events accordingly. Even if they didn't forsee all this favor coming, once the weekend hit and they saw the favor climbing so high so quickly, they had more then enough time to correct the code to prevent an overflow problem. As someone else said, it literally only takes a couple of seconds to change how the favor is stored. Basically its a sloppy mistake.

b) if it wasn't a bug and was intentionally done... that's just a stupid thing to do on A.net's part.

a) yes because anet staff dont have the weekends free and they stay 24/7 there ready to work at the whim of the players.

b) i dont really think it was intentional, or at least not expected, wait till Gaile gets us more info.

Articus Red · Jan 21, 2008, 06:54 AM // 06:54

they should make it how it used to be when you had to fight and if your country won you'd keep that lead. made it seem cool to root for your country to excel in pvp play

I Is Special · Jan 21, 2008, 07:01 AM // 07:01

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Originally Posted by Articus Red

they should make it how it used to be when you had to fight and if your country won you'd keep that lead. made it seem cool to root for your country to excel in pvp play

They should also make it so monsters kill eachother in pve like they did that one time...

No. They shouldn't do either.

bilateralrope · Jan 21, 2008, 07:27 AM // 07:27

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Originally Posted by Miss Presler

yeh right, we already got 23k favor back again, aint that enough for a while?

I doubt anyone will care too much as long as ANET restores the lost favor before we lose favor again. And two weeks should be plenty of time to come up with some way of doing so. If all else fails they can just make favor permanent*.

But we should make our feelings on matters like this known as soon as possible to give ANET more time to deal with things

*If it wasn't for this bug I would expect us to get permanent favor under this system anyway. Consider:
- For a few weeks before the GW:EN release the favor was constant and favor remaining was increasing. Then GW:EN came out and distracted everyone from the favor titles.
- It only takes 20*24*365 = 175'200 titles per year for constant favor (175'680 in a leap year)
- Before GW:EN went on sale ANET announced 4 million copies sold. Assuming that all were part of merged accounts this still comes to >1.3 million accounts. This is higher when you consider that there are some people who didn't merge accounts.
- Therefore we need at most 0.13 titles earned per account per year for constant favor. Meaning that even if more than 85% of the accounts were inactive we still only need 1 title per person per year.

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Originally Posted by Articus Red

they should make it how it used to be when you had to fight and if your country won you'd keep that lead. made it seem cool to root for your country to excel in pvp play

Except for the minor fact that the people we were cheering on didn't care about favor. Or if you were in one of those regions (like taiwan) which didn't win favor often because they simply don't have enough good players.

Esan · Jan 21, 2008, 07:53 AM // 07:53

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Originally Posted by bilateralrope

- It only takes 20*24*365 = 175'200 titles per year for constant favor (175'680 in a leap year)
- Before GW:EN went on sale ANET announced 4 million copies sold. Assuming that all were part of merged accounts this still comes to >1.3 million accounts. This is higher when you consider that there are some people who didn't merge accounts.
- Therefore we need at most 0.13 titles earned per account per year for constant favor. Meaning that even if more than 85% of the accounts were inactive we still only need 1 title per person per year.

This does not take into account the favor resetting to zero after every major game build.

Dorvan919 · Jan 21, 2008, 08:02 AM // 08:02

LOL! I was a bit shocked in that XD. After I got my legendary spearmarshal title yesterday I saw around 40k favor then it disappeared...i thought it was my fault it happened lol.

bilateralrope · Jan 21, 2008, 08:30 AM // 08:30

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Originally Posted by Esan

This does not take into account the favor resetting to zero after every major game build.

I have never heard of that happening before. Nor is it listed on either wiki.

And when GW:EN came out I remember that the favor didn't reset with its update.

So why do you think it does reset with each build ?

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Originally Posted by Dorvan919

LOL! I was a bit shocked in that XD. After I got my legendary spearmarshal title yesterday I saw around 40k favor then it disappeared...i thought it was my fault it happened lol.

Imagine being the person who earned the title that triggered the reset.

vixro · Jan 21, 2008, 08:34 AM // 08:34

I helped add to the disappearing minutes. At first I didn't feel upset because there were so many minutes, but now after thinking about all the work I put into getting the title (even on double weekend) it seems like such a waste and I wish my 3 minutes were still there for everyone.

Kashrlyyk · Jan 21, 2008, 01:38 PM // 13:38

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Originally Posted by bilateralrope

Imagine being the person who earned the title that triggered the reset.

Omg, he killed Ken... Favor!

Lykan · Jan 21, 2008, 02:00 PM // 14:00

Some bug lol.
My prediction for now....

Gaile will come back with some bug report and maybe some numbers and a bit of an apology but..... it wont be re-added.
(Apology may include promise of a favor free weekend or something tho)

puffzilla · Jan 21, 2008, 02:03 PM // 14:03

The fact it gets reset every update anyways means we're probably already over the amount of favor we'll be able to use.

RotteN · Jan 21, 2008, 02:05 PM // 14:05

plenty of favour left to go wild in UW/FoW, so what's the fuss about ?

Shayne Hawke · Jan 21, 2008, 02:05 PM // 14:05

I'm curious as to how many people that are complaining here actually use the favor.