Thoughts on (Rumored) Shard Exchange

"Mittens;24479" wrote:
I'm not sure you understand what the term 'rumored' means. This sounds like you suggesting your ideas of a new system. That being said, I do agree that you should not get shards from chromium for characters you have maxed at 7* and there should be a system to remove these 'wasted' shards. However, i do not agree that you should be able to pick and choose your shards on a freeium game. If you could just trade in all the characters you don't want, for the few characters you feel are 'OP' or FOTM, they would not sell as many bundles or chromium packs. Playing to keep progressing your favorite characters is how they make money. If you could quickly (and freely/cheaply) get your desired characters, most people would get bored and stop playing as there is nothing to play for. Remember, CG is a business and they need to make money. Implementing ways for people to NOT spend money is just bad business. Packs are a gamble and are treated as such. Again, my opinion is that when buying packs, you should not get shards that you CANNOT use (which is different than DO NOT WANT to use).

I'm all for the gambling and the uncertainty. Re: rumors, I'm intrigued by what the best option is for all stakeholders: F2P, P2W and house. Also interested in forum views.

There'll probably be consensus on blocking chromium shards drops (and not be able to choose shipment shards) for characters with 7-stars.

Sounds like getting the best way to get rid of the shards for past-7-stars character will be a random re-drop.

In addition to that, I think that CG would collect extra crystals if they instituted a way to re-gamble undesired shards.

Example: I have 10 Lando shards that I'm not interested in. Instead of paying 350 crystals for a new chromium card, make it so that I could buy a new chromium card with the 10 Lando shards plus crystals.

I don't see why that wouldn't work. It caters to the 'low spender' P2W player, vs the 'big spender' P2W player.