Leak: Narrative Description for Shard Shop. Max character stars for GOH is 7?

Agee with comments above
- can't force exchange unless there is confirmation there is no other use to excess shards ever
- limiting shard purchase in shipments for 7 stars would be appropriate but unlikely given it permits people to encourages crystal spend now with update. It's just encourages ea to make a high cost for purchases in shard exchange. 5:1 seems reasonable some am tempering my expectations at higher premium. Justification with me "end game" functionality used the for GW updates. I struggle with the concept of creating "end game" content for a game still in development.

"Qeltar;82483" wrote:

"xJazzx;9274" wrote:
Remember, the more Characters you have at 7*, the more shard currency you get when you visit the Shard Shop."

So basically: unless you're a whale, never even set foot in there. I hope that setup is not actually as dumb as it sounds.
I get that they want to discourage people from just getting one 7* and farming more shards for it, but since the conversion is automatic this means we can't even look around without getting shafted. The forums are going to be filled with complaints.

Well if you only have a few shards and one 7*, you can visit and poke around and not lose out on much.

But how many 7* would you want before trading in those shards? I guess that'll be a personal decision. People will post the formula soon enough after it goes live.

And yes people, obviously this means there will never be 8* characters. Why would there be? Do you really want there to be? God, I hope not. Level cap and gear increases are enough without farming another 125 shards or whatever they came up with. Let us finish a character and build our roster, FFS.

They could avoid these problems by simply making a button on each character's sheet that you press to convert excess shards to currency in this shop. That's it, problem over. Or put it in the shop.
Doing anything "automatically" with valuable resources is ASKING for complaints.

I imagine this new shard currency will show up in whatever $100 deal they come out with. Maybe 4* Yoda, 4* QGJ, 6k crystals and a bunch of shard currency?

"Puglio;82502" wrote:

"Qeltar;82483" wrote:

"xJazzx;9274" wrote:
Remember, the more Characters you have at 7*, the more shard currency you get when you visit the Shard Shop."

So basically: unless you're a whale, never even set foot in there. I hope that setup is not actually as dumb as it sounds.
I get that they want to discourage people from just getting one 7* and farming more shards for it, but since the conversion is automatic this means we can't even look around without getting shafted. The forums are going to be filled with complaints.

Well if you only have a few shards and one 7*, you can visit and poke around and not lose out on much.

But how many 7* would you want before trading in those shards? I guess that'll be a personal decision. People will post the formula soon enough after it goes live.

And yes people, obviously this means there will never be 8* characters. Why would there be? Do you really want there to be? God, I hope not. Level cap and gear increases are enough without farming another 125 shards or whatever they came up with. Let us finish a character and build our roster, FFS.

you'll never be apart of the cash grab team =p

My worry is if they have a limited selection of caracters in the shop and only a 24 hour reset.

And if they note how often they reset

Or if it's like the shipments where it's a limited selection a day then resets to a new selection

While I doubt they will answer anything regarding datamined information, I do hope someone reads this and rethink the shardshop.

"ioniancat21;82604" wrote:
All characters need a trade-in value in my mind and anyone should be able to trade any characters they choose. If they limit it to people with excess shards only, 99% of the customers will have no use for it but to see it, which will just make more anger than good..

Doubt they can do this. that's why they force you to exchange all your shards.

This shard shop is pointless for me at this time. I don't have any extra shards to trade. So, what 's the point if 99% of the player base can't use it? This seams like a worthless updated.

"Reddplague;82694" wrote:
So, what 's the point if 99% of the player base can't use it?

To get the people with more dollars than sense to open their wallets again. That is the prime motivation of this feature. It's not for you and me, it's for people who spend the price of a car on chromium packs, so they won't feel like they've "wasted" their purchase when they get shards for characters they already have.
This also gives CG an excuse to keep the chromium packs giving shards for characters that are already maxed out: "well, you can use the shard exchange shop". They want to keep doing this because they want to keep the pool of characters diluted so that the whales keep spending $$$$$ trying to get the new characters while most of the time getting the old ones.
That's all this is about: facilitating chromium pack sales.