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mxl6z3kvqc8n
Seasoned Newcomer
1 day ago

Please Rebalance 120-Rated Player Shard Costs

EA, please consider reviewing the shard costs of older 120-rated players.

Right now, newer 120-rated players cost around 14,000–20,000 shards, while older cards from events like Worlds Game still cost 50,000+ shards. Because of this, players are choosing cheaper 121–122-rated cards from newer events, while the older 120s are barely being bought.

Please consider reducing the shard costs of older 120-rated cards to better match the current market. This would make these cards more relevant again and, most importantly, give F2P players more affordable options instead of making expensive older cards practically unusable.

A shard-cost rebalance would make the market much healthier and fairer for everyone, especially F2P players.

3 Replies

  • Shard and transfer markets are broken and EA doesn’t care. They are the ones who created these markets, but they can’t be bothered to make them function in a healthy/useful way (instead they’ve created artificial price floors and engineered scarcity in order to manipulate users into spending $$$). Says about all you need to know about their priorities. The question looming over all this is “why should the user invest money in this game if EA can’t be relied upon to maintain its proper functioning?”

    On a related note, I just completed my 70th draft and, as always, I got stuck with the lowest available card (120 OVR). Why would I pay for more drafts if this is the best reward I can expect (cuz let’s be honest — almost no one wins a 122!)??? And the fact that shard market is so broken only magnifies the problem since the shard cost of a top card (122 OVR) is many multiples of the value of the 120 I just claimed. It’s such a rip off it’s down right insulting!

  • mxl6z3kvqc8n's avatar
    mxl6z3kvqc8n
    Seasoned Newcomer
    17 hours ago

    Did you already try to get this to the devs in fc mobile and raised this as a issue not only for the player but also fc mobile itself, becuz if players don’t buy or use shards on them, they’re gonna be useless. And no transaction will happen if they put expensive packs on them in fc mobile store for fc points

  • It was requested multiple times already, and no change has been made to date. Instead, EA released new, expensive packs to get these 120 Icon cards, so yeah, shard cost for the old cards isn't happening. Focus on the new events