Collection Suggestion for shard exchange store

[Aoskull]

The Shard Exchange Store is great function to get guaranteed fighters you want, but the current store lineup is too limited and very disappointing.
So, here’s my suggestion of shard store improvements!

- I think it would be a good idea to add a “Daily lineup” section to the store. This would make it even easier to get the fighter you want! I'll explain the lineup contents later.

- In daily lineup, 5 golds and 2 diamonds are displayed. The displayed fighters are randomly selected from all fighters currently available in normal relics. This means that the exclusive fighters will not be displayed until it is added to the normal relics!
Fighters in daily lineup can be bought by 4000 shards. Found it cheap? Yes, that's right! This is intended to make exclusive fighters even more valuable.

- As usual, exclusive fighters are still available for 1 month in new “Featured” section and can be bought by 5000 shards. It's expensive than daily, but considering the timing of additions to normal relics and the size of the daily lineup pool, it may be a good deal!

- It costs 5000 shards to get the exclusive fighter, which is more expensive than usual, but if you miss it, you'll have to wait a long time for it to be added to the normal relic pool and then also wait for long to added in the daily section… You'll need to pull a lot of relics to collect 5000 shards, so have to work hard to collect them, but can't miss the 4000 shard daily section either... What an amazing system that blows our minds...

 

[Dusty00]

I’d be happy with this system. Hope the devs implement something like this.

 

[Kheul]

Hope you are doing well, I was not expecting this topic but here is what I think:

I was already hoarding my diamond relics way before shard exchange store was released. I was lucky because I could buy whatever I want when it was released with many options to choose from. Was it a good addition to the game? Hell yeah. Those who have almost all the characters didn't feel the incentive to open their relics, like ever. With the addition of this exchange we can at least get some exclusives we want, and it is already way too pricey which indicates it is only worth for those in very far in the late-game. I can easily say, I will never ever open diamond relics as long as shard exchange store exists this way it also increases the units I don't have slowly, so I might actually feel the need to use my other relics in the future.. But adding even more options which are just a tad bit cheaper doesn't really help how it operates.

"Daily lineup" is way too quick for such a pricey and important rotation. It would be more agreeable if it was a monthly lineup with 3 or 4 diamonds. But still, at this point I'm just hoarding to get more exclusives I want. I am expecting to get some of my missing diamonds from monthly diamond relics anyways, which itself is a motivation to play and expect more. Making everything purchasable with shards makes the gacha aspect of the game really lackluster. Would you open 8 diamonds relics and try your luck getting meta units or just spend 8k shards to get Death Wish and Stand Out? It just strips away all the excitement you can expect from diamond relics. Everyone will hoard for Death Wish and Stand Out then what? You will only get the meta units very slowly but surely. I bet it would be more detrimental than it would be beneficial to the longevity of the game. This would scare away newer players, it would make them feel like they need to hoard 4k shards to get a decent unit.

Current shard exhange store is a tailor-made addition for those in very-late game, it is nothing gamebreaking and it doesn't need to affect how the game operates more than it does right now.

 

[Dusty00]

My original suggestion when this was released is that there should be a slot featuring one card missing from your collection, refreshed every month. So we would have 3 per month: 1 exclusive gold, 1 exclusive Diamond, and 1 gold/diamond you are missing.

I’d gladly trade my 10 extra copies of Standout for a Death Wish… There is 0 excitement with opening relics once you are in super late game missing just a handful of diamonds from the entire collection. Shard Exchange is the only thing worth playing for because there is a 99.9% chance of getting a dupe for normal relics and 80% dupe with the monthly prize fight Diamond relic.

You can’t even be competitive in Rift if you don’t have Death Wish. Buff cleanse and Hex is just that stupidly broken with an easy activation criteria. How is the game fun if you can’t gain access to competitive mode locked behind RNG?

What we really need is some sort of a pity system or long term goal for super late gamers.