Leak: Narrative Description for Shard Shop. Max character stars for GOH is 7?
January 30, 2016 9:20PM
edited January 2016
Leak from Game data files: "Congratulations! You are now part of an elite group of players who can trade in extra shards from your existing 7* Characters. All of your extra shards are automatically converted to shard currency every time you visit the shop. You can spend this currency on anything in the shop. However unlike other Shipments, the shard shop only resets once per day and cannot be manually refreshed. Remember, the more Characters you have at 7*, the more shard currency you get when you visit the Shard Shop."
Do you have guesses on what to expect?
Or do you see potential issues?
Chip in with your thoughts...
@Naecabon brought up a good point about 8* characters. Whales must be very careful and accept the risks before clicking on shard shops. Going in there means all your extra shards will be gone and if they lift the star limit to 8, you will rage again at the loss of extra shards that could have helped you get 8* characters.
Do you have guesses on what to expect?
Or do you see potential issues?
Chip in with your thoughts...
@Naecabon brought up a good point about 8* characters. Whales must be very careful and accept the risks before clicking on shard shops. Going in there means all your extra shards will be gone and if they lift the star limit to 8, you will rage again at the loss of extra shards that could have helped you get 8* characters.
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Good thought. I think it should be 5 shards which is consistent with all their shipment shards.
This is what I think. 400 is consistent currency for other purchases, as well as 5 shards. So basically, a 5:1 exchange rate.
On another note, how is an announcement that was made like a week ago by the devs exactly a 'leak'?
This description is taken from the official game files.
That kinda sucks, I was hoping to ditch my Royal Guard shards xD
CG, YOU MUST TELL US THIS AND CONFIRM WE WILL NOT BE GETTING 8* EVER
http://imgur.com/gallery/bZvzVdg
I'd love this too. Won't happen though.
I'm tempted to start...
@CG_JohnSalera @EA_Jesse @CG_AaronNemoyten. can you help address this issue? If your shard shop takes away all shards beyond 7 stars, does this mean there will never be 8* characters? thanks
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.
7* (read $800 to $1600 to max a new Chromium-only character) must be the max. Confirmation would be great, but I won't bet on it. The bet I would take is: lots of players, including whales, quit and make a ruckus if there is another $$$ tier to maxing out characters.
- 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.
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.
Doing anything "automatically" with valuable resources is ASKING for complaints.
you'll never be apart of the cash grab team =p
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
Example: if you are looking to farm a specific toon and he can only appear at most once a day in the shard shop and assuming you can only buy one shard per toon, what does that really amount to? I want to know if you can buy more than one shard per toon per day, or if it's more like 5 shards per toon etc.
Furthermore, will 7* toons appear in the shop? It looks like aquiring shards for a specific character via the shard shop isn't going to be ideal, but it would just add insult to injury if sidious keeps appearing and you already have him 7*.
Doubt they can do this. that's why they force you to exchange all your shards.
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.
I will agree they should confirm/deny it but weather they do or not makes no difference in reality. You have to decide what to fo (or not do) in your game with the information presented. More info may help/influence your decision BUT its your decision and no mayter what info is given (or not given) understand your not forced to do ANYTHING in this game. Its all up to you and you alone
"Something isn't for me so therefor its worthless update"
Here's an idea
At some point this update that apply to many ahead of you may one day be useful to you and you will be grateful its here. So thank others who have the need for this now and are waiting for it so it will be ready for you when you are needing it
Nailed it! Why would f2p need this? The only time you will have extra shards is when you finish GW and are thrown a few. I have said it before. These guys act like they don't know what's happening, but they certainly put the hours in to craft this niche for the premium players to feel justified in spending more money. It's never a bad thing when your business can get back items at a 5:1 ratio and convince people that you are doing it for their benefit. Lolz!