Globetrottin' to 62.5% of a cover

Yeah it's official. I hate shards. 
They're like the sneakiest change the devs have made, in the sense that people actually think it's a good change.
All the while slowly reducing the rewards for the other currencies in the game and lowering the bonus hero rate (all the while with dilution slowly increasing). 
 :'( 

Daredevil217 said:

Twysta said:

Yeah it's official. I hate shards. 
They're like the sneakiest change the devs have made, in the sense that people actually think it's a good change.
All the while slowly reducing the rewards for the other currencies in the game and lowering the bonus hero rate (all the while with dilution slowly increasing). 
 :'( 

I’ve been saying it since the beginning. Hopefully more and more people realize this. The developers do a great job with these spins that get the community fighting amongst one another rather than seeing these changes for what they are.  I kept my low review after Shardgate because I said it’s not about the rewards for me, it’s about behavioral changes which I’ve yet to see. Communication is still at an all time low. 

By the way I don’t expect to see BH back ever. I can’t imagine the amount of developer time and money that went into this shards thing but I don’t imagine it’s an inconsequential amount. So for better or worse it’s here to stay which is why I’m done rallying against it. I wish more people had in the beginning but it is what it is now. 

Don't take this the wrong way, but once they started the development process there was no going back.  Shards were the way forward.

Now, it's possible they can tweak things to make them more generous and supposedly when they get implemented (when???) in event rewards it will be a tick up in cover distribution.

One thing shards does better is ALL pulls build toward a cover.  I realize that not everyone plays PVP, but the PVP tokens you pull which often are just 2's do keep building toward a 3 and a 4.  Same with the new release tokens.  If you assume that MAYBE you (would have gotten) a bonus cover from pulling enough times in those stores, it is better to have all your pulls building towards a targeted cover than just hoping that random chance was going to give you a bonus cover from the small number of pulls you made there.

Heroics, Standards, Elites  - stuff you get all the time - feel like a hit right now but it's not all bad when you consider that the small number of tokens you get from events with stores also build up towards that extra cover.

Godzillafan67 said:

Twysta said:

Yeah it's official. I hate shards. 
They're like the sneakiest change the devs have made, in the sense that people actually think it's a good change.
All the while slowly reducing the rewards for the other currencies in the game and lowering the bonus hero rate (all the while with dilution slowly increasing). 
 :'( 

Shards can ge a good change, but, as they're currently implemented, you're absolutely right and reducing our rewards is Talos's tiny kitty. In a few months' time I'd like the devs to have finished their tweaks and for you to be completely wrong. But Bob's not my uncle.

If something isn't in place this month via event shard rewards I fear we will be looking at another Supports level rollout where procrastinating instead of implementing and then adjusting if needed will destroy player confidence. There should be a new Boss Event call "Stop the Dithering" where we can all join in to try and get the Devs to implement this is in a way that isn't completely dragged out.