Destiny 2 is going to get rid of one of its currencies like it did with its content
Bungie has introduced in its newest Future 2 this Week at Bungie weblog a significant change to the sport’s financial system. Legendary Shards, one of many recreation’s many, many currencies goes away.
Bungie can be eradicating the foreign money completely from the sport with the launch of the following growth, The Last Form. Nevertheless, adjustments will begin happening on the launch of Season 23, which is kicking off on the finish of November.
First, Legendary Shard prices can be faraway from the Monument to Misplaced Lights. Then, non-Adept focusing will now not value Shards. Lastly, all Legendary Shards can be take away with the discharge of the growth.
The difficulty of Legendary Shard’s place inside the wider Future 2 financial system is lengthy and complex. The foreign money has existed within the recreation for years, and it is typically gained by dismantling Legendary gear. Legendary Shards are used to Masterwork gear (mainly, maximise their energy), and to decode Engrams.
The issue is that veteran gamers have far more than they may ever spend. On the identical time, new gamers are struggling to earn sufficient Legendary Shards to interact with the brand new methods/options that preserve getting launched, which depend on them.
Bungie defined within the weblog put up that no quantity of adjusting the Legendary Shard prices could be each attainable for brand new gamers, whereas being impactful for current gamers with hundreds of them.
Legendary Shards have additionally suffered from a number of soft-exploits over time, which allowed gamers to get extra of them than Bungie anticipated.
“For a very long time now, it has been our purpose to make the sport simpler to know and to cut back the bloat of currencies, consumables, and objects, whereas making certain that gamers really feel like their time is valued for a way lengthy they’ve spent taking part in the numerous actions throughout the sport,” Bungie’s financial system group defined.
“Generally we get this proper, typically we don’t. We at all times be taught.”
Whereas the developer is conscious that it may be irritating to lose, properly, something you have been accruing over time, it isn’t planning on providing gamers any compensation. Earlier than the change goes reside with the following season, you possibly can head to the Cryptarch’s Supplies Trade and swap your Legendary Shards for one thing you may want as an alternative.
