THERE ABSOLUTELY SHOULD BE A "GRACE" PERIOD TO GET HONOR UP FOR SEASON REWARDS!!!!!
Players should absolutely be given time to get their honor up to lv 2 to earn the season rewards for several reasons.
- TFT gives no Honor
- Playing with friends gives little to no honor.
I'm a casual player who has played since S1 and I still play a few times a week. When I do have time to play I usually play with four or five of my friends. I got a chat restriction back in early July, my first one in years (and first one ever since they added this honor system) and I think it was a 5 or 10 game restriction which ever one is the lowest one and my honor was reset to 1. But There was still four and a half months to regain it, so I didn't think anything of it. This is the first time I've had my honor reset so I didn't know how long it would take to get back to honor 2, but didn't really think it would be an issue. Now as everyone knows this is a once-in-a-lifetime unique skin that is being taken away from players for something extremely trivial. I've earned every Victorious skin and really don't want to miss this one due to their draconian system. As well as missing out on the other rewards. It discourages me from playing the game completely.
- Not allowing honor in TFT, and yet incentivising people to play tft.
Riot came out with a new game mode that is pretty cool. And as a new game mode lots of people wanted to try it out. I ended up liking it and when I logged on to play I played tft. Many of my friends were playing it as well. Riot also incentivized playing TFT by giving out a fair amount of rewards for playing it, and making missions to do in it. But playing tft doesn't allow you to gain any honor. Which creates a problem, should we play your new game mode riot, or grind bot games on the rift to gain honor.
- Not allowing honor when you play with your friends.
When I wasn't playing tft, I played the rift with my friends, because I enjoy spending time with them and rarely get to see some of them in person anymore. Turns out, you get little to no honor when honored by someone you are partied with. I don't even know how many times my buddies even sent me an honor when we played. But around October I realized my honor hadn't moved in check points since getting reset in July.
When I talked to a Riot employee about the matter they said I would have to grind bots 24 hours a day for over a month to have any hope of getting back to honor level 2. This seems bad for multiple reasons including incentivizing using a bot program (as many people do i discovered) to allow you to do this. I have a full-time job and a family as well as other real life obligations as do many of us do. It really feels like Riot is punishing their more casual players. I don't have time to grind 20 bot games a day, nor do I want to spend my time that way. Encouraging people to play against bots instead of with friends is not a good message to send to its player base. As of now I am still at check point 2 of 3 to get back to honor 2 after playing many bot games for the last month, it's really really lame.
For the above reasons I urge riot to allow a few extra months ( so that people can grind bot games which is so much fun and seems like such a great way to make people gain honor) so that they can get the once in a life time skin. I know last year Riot allowed people time to get their honor back to 2. This year it seems even more appropriate to do so.
I've already vowed not to spend another dime on the game unless this horrible system is fixed. And I am debating on walking away from it altogether if they are going to be taking people's rewards away for trivial things. I encourage all of you to not spend any more money on the game either.
