Talk:Affinity/@comment-96.48.25.0-20130721210206

The latest patch has somewhat screwed up the affinity levels or its rate of increase or decrease. Characters with near max or very high affinity before drops affinity to near nothing in around 5 (haven't tried to measure it effectively since you can't count days on BBI) game days. I think this was done due to all the players who complained very loudly about unwanted love interests without effectively managing their interactions affection levels.

However, this new rate of increase/decrease is more of a pain to manage, due to the fact that you need to juggle your affinity levels more frequently. You need to acquire more gifts should you desire a high affinity level from a character at a certain period of time. I guess to counteract that possible problems of managing merchant's affinity levels and their "secret" shop inventories, the new patch makes all NG+ players gain instantaneous max inventories from all merchants.

This takes all the fun out of it. The new patch suck beyond belief.