Next Content Update Preview - Part 1

"EA_Jesse;7844" wrote:
Greetings Heroes,

Today we’d like to give you a preview on one of the big features we’re adding to our next major update in February, the Shard Shop.

This will be the place to trade in those extra shards for characters that you already have at 7 stars. The Shard Shop will have multiple character shards rotated in and out, and may eventually have an exclusive character that has been highly requested by the community :)

The Shard Shop is just one of the many new features that we’re adding to Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes. As we get closer to the next major update we’ll continue to preview content that will be included. Stay tuned!

Cheers

"Naecabon;68428" wrote:
Are we only able to trade shards for shards in the Shard Shop?

Are we deconstructing shards in to a new currency or actually just trading them straight up for some kind of ratio?

How does a Shard Shop that only sells shards help the big spenders you have in your game that have 7* of most/all characters already? One new toon in the shop won't really cut it. Are there plans to let us maybe use the shards/new currency on random pieces of gear or MKIII Ability Mats, similar to the Cantina/Shipments sections currently in place, but just a bit more premium in quality?

If the Shard Shop is seriously only character shards, and specific ones you set at that, this is going to be really, really disappointing...

"Naecabon;68455" wrote:

"EA_Jesse;68444" wrote:
@Naecabon I can't share further details at this time. Feel free to ask your questions over in the thread I just created though.

...why? This is the part I don't understand. You guys have an update coming in a few weeks, you already know 100% what's going in it, you have the ability to answer questions a large portion of your playerbase are hungry to find out more about, and you just... choose not to?

I guess I'm just really having a hard time understanding the company policy you guys have adapted on information pertaining to your game. The Shard Shop is something a lot of your big spenders have been patiently waiting months for, and this isn't really a "preview" at all. This was just confirming what a different dev said weeks ago, in that this was "coming in the next update." We knew that already. This post didn't give us any new information we didn't already have.

Why the tight lips on stuff like this? Why wait until the last possible second when a patch is going live to ACTUALLY preview new content? Is it a concern a lot of us are going to be unhappy with it and you don't want to hear about it prior to launch? I have no idea why else you guys would be so so so adamant of keeping us in the dark as long as possible until the last second.