Next Content Update Preview - Part 1

"Naecabon;68724" wrote:

"pay2win;68722" wrote:

"MRFREE2PLAY90;68708" wrote:
Yeah CG, cater to the whales forgetting everyone else GJ. Your primary audience are small spenders btw and they make up more money for you then the wallet warriors whale spenders.

That might not be true. One person spending

"Naecabon;68717" wrote:

"xxgozitaxx;68684" wrote:

"Naecabon;68647" wrote:

"secretvodka;68640" wrote:
There have to be some other things that we can exchage with excess shards as well such as Action Point or Gear. Otherwise, it is useless to those that already have maxed out the characters they use.

EA_Jess, please suggest it to the dev team.

Don't bother trying in this thread, it won't do you any good.

This is standard procedure in nearly every online game which delivers content regularly. How is this anything new to you?

Where is this ridiculous notion even coming from? Why are so many people echoing this absolutely insane sentiment? Have you seriously never played even as much as a Blizzard game before? There's a perfectly fine, very mainstream example of a company that gives patch notes and full content previews months, sometimes YEARS in advance... so what exactly are we even talking about here? What parallel universe are we living in where gaming companies are supposed to keep all upcoming content and changes secret until the last minute?

Elyndria hit the nail on the head earlier by saying they simply could have avoided this entirely by not allowing us to open packs with "duds" in the first place. It's not catering to whales when you're actually FIXING something that's cutting them at the knees with their purchases, and even then if this is only character shards offered in the Shard Shop it's not even catering to the whales regardless! It caters to f2p players waaaaay more if they can cash in Sid shards etc from various shipments and acquire different shards in the store.

Why do you think I was freaking out at the announcement? I'm a big spender that was waiting since my first week of playing months ago specifically for this update and it offered nothing that put my worries to ease at all, and only made them worse. Believe me, I've quickly realized I'm in the very small minority here and there's no point in arguing about it because the majority are not whales and the majority don't see our perspective, and we can't make comments that show any sort of disdain in the forums unless we're willing to endure the wrath of the whacists. If you disagree with something you're outed as a crazy person.

Has this option been know months ago? Seems like you took a huge risk.

Actually yes, they've been saying this sort of system was coming for a very long time now, in both these forums and on Reddit. And, as mentioned, it was confirmed a while ago by a different dev in these forums that the shard exchange was coming in the next major content update. But this is all that's ever been said. "It's coming" and "but we can't talk about it yet" with no definitive details on what we can actually expect from it. We're still sitting on our hands waiting.

Also, keep in mind - I've mitigated any future risks by not making more purchases until announcements of the system and it's functionality were made. Hence the antsy stance of wanting to know as much as possible about it, as soon as possible. This isn't just content being added, it's an entire system that dictates how much a lot of us spend in the game for the rest of the time we play it.