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Zookatom
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6 days ago

Just a though on Heirloom shards and Exotic shards

So had an idea. Will probably get ignored but wanted to throw it out here anyways.

Right now the reactive skins for exotic shards is both underwhelming and quite frankly a poor investment of the in game currency. However, I think there should be a way to get old battlepass content in game as with over 25 seasons of content new player should have the opportunity to own some of the amazing things respawn has put out. Now, Respawn has already stated that they won't directly sell old battlepass skins from early seasons and even now there is no way to get the lvl 110 skins other than by playing the season they are released in and while the skins for exotic shards is neat I don't believe there is a fair value between the monetary cost of the currency to the product received. So, here is my thought. Instead of directly selling the reactive skins that are not quite valuable enough on their own make it so that players can purchase and grind the old battle passes themselves, skins, tags, emotes and all, by selecting a single season and using the challenges to complete it using the current star system. And when I say to grind I do mean grind, not "here's 110 lvls of free stuff". 

Now you may be saying "What if I already bought the pass will I have to buy it again?" Or "Won't the players that played then just complain?" and for that I say First, I don't believe that if you bought the old pass you should have to rebuy it for shards and Second, for the older players give them compensation for having completed it first. Mainly 50 heirloom shards per fully completed season with the new players able to recieve the same upon completion (I said 50 because 3 season is about the equivalent to 1 years worth of playing and 1 year for 1 heirloom seems fair).

See I think by this point nearly every player agrees heirloom shards themselves need a slight adjustment to their rarity. After all, with the additions of both prestige skins and mythic weapon skins the pace for new heirloom items far exceeds the ability to reasonably gain the shards to buy them outside of spending ever dime you have on a collection event. So, with that in mind what better way to reward players who have either been playing your game diligently for years or those who poured their hard earned money into your battlepasses then by giving them a solid way to earn a currency that currently does nothing but encourage gambling or spending 3 months worth of decent rent.

Anyways, there were more details I had to the idea like giving the current seasons battle pass a 10% progress boost to have players grind it first or reworking the old seasons so they still give all the rewards but follow the new model but I feel all that would be something Respawn would handle in house anyways so with all that said let me know your thoughts.

 

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