What's the point on giving shard on Normal Conquest if you're gating the rest of the shards behind the Hard Conquest GP gap?
This will only make people below 4M even less invested on Conquest (and less interested in spending on it). Quite an absurd move tbh, even by CG standards.
The worst part is that this is not affecting f2p per se, but NEW players, so you're making it even less appealing for new people to get invested in the game. Way to shot yourselves on the feet CG.