YankeeJim:I guess I would accede to your point of view were it not for the just plain ludicrous statement about "being stolen from." LIke WGT is stealing from you. LMAO. Get serious.
I have stated on several occasions that, when my ball lands in such a spot to where, in the real world, I could just walk over and pick it up, but WGT says my ball is lost and takes it from me, I believe it to be stealing. I have also said that I believe their pricing policy on virtual equipment that costs them next to nothing to reproduce to infinity, especially in leui of all the sponsorship dollars and advertising they do, is predatory almost to the extreme of being outright theft, if from the willing victim.
So I suppose the question becomes "If you willingly allow yourself to be stolen from, is it theft?"
And the OP is correct... WGT should program it so that when a game is lost due to a glitch, the ball reverts to it's original state with the original ball. Otherwise, what is NOT stealing about it? Do I get to keep all my experience I earned up to that point? Any achievements I got? If it costs me a % of the price of a ball, then I certainly should get credit for anything that those strokes produced.