*gulps* Sometimes...I...I play for favor. But I definetely agree, it's about WINNING, or atleast having FUN! I'd rather lose a game while having fun along the way. To me that's better than winning when someone concedes in the first 5 mins and you get 170 pts.
My point is this, you don't step into the game lobby going, Man, I sure hope I get 170 favor this game! No, you want to win a really close fight, thats the ideal situation.
Winning is not the only objective, or even the prime objective. For most people, the prime objective is to have fun, regardless of winning or losing.
Game objectives != personal objectives for playing a game. There is only one primary goal in the game of demigod that you try to reach every game, to win. You cannot argue this fact.
There are other objectives however, such as the actual rewards you get when you win, which contribute to how much fun you have. Because you see, rewards = fun is a psychological truism, whereas win = fun is not. I've won many games that weren't fun at all, whereas rewards always makes it worthwhile.
No it's not a truism. Do you feel great getting that participant award often buddy? Rewards that are meaningless, are exactly that. Meaningless.
In Demigod, the reward is favor points. The fact that you can buy items with favor is actually irrelevant. The main purpose of favor is that it is supposed to be an indication of how well you did as an individual player. This is currently measured in "most X" or "most Y", and it is broken because destroying 30 buildings or killing 500 creeps does not necessarily make you an effective player, yet the rewards system thinks it does.
In demigod, the reward is FUN. See how logical it sounds now? I never picked up a game to take it home and be rewarded with more options! No, I buy games to enjoy them. Meaningless favor points do not make the game any way remotely more "enjoyable" lmao.
Even if we buy your flawed argument and accept that winning is the only thing that matters, then favor points actually distract people from that by encouraging them to do retarded things that do not necessarily contribute to winning.
Wheres the flaw?
Yes, they do. To an ignorant player that would somehow feel favor points are the most important thing. I see this fairly often, and it's idiotic at best that they would hurt their chances of winning for meaningless titles and numbers. Luckily I don't play with people with such a naive view of the game, and I havn't even checked my favor points in the last 20 games. Never once has somone on my team waited to get the last hit on purpose risking the enemy getting away.
