OK here I go:
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Dear EA, Respawn, Community Managers, Super Users, and Community members all.
I was having a Chat with another of our Community members...
Only way to really get around this is to collect the packs up by the 100, and then open them. Then do that up to 5 times 🥳
I have a another 100 collected and going to open them tomorrow evening. That will take it to 373, of a potential 500 packs opened 😃 These are not bought packs.
The recently published drop rate from packs is at 0.045%, thats fairly negligible. The least thay could be done is to take the counting stress out of it. The figures are easily available there somewhere, how else would they know to give the shards on the 500th pack.
Good spot for a pack counter is in the lobby next to the coin/exotic/cm counters.