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Get rid of Trade Tokens for Shinedust

It makes no sense to burn rare cards for Trade Tokens when we could use shinedust. I have so much shinedust and nothing to use it with. Shinedust becomes more useless if I have to use spare cards to get Trade Tokens. It's an easy fix to this terrible trade system.

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  • TheJeffers
    TheJeffers Member Posts: 1,624 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    It is a common tactic in apps like these to have multitudes of different currencies to ensure that you can never be sure what you are really spending.

    Furthermore, if there is one useful currency, everyone will simply dedicate all their time and resources to acquiring that.

    And finally, if trading were actually an efficient and viable way to aquire cards in a trading card game, you wouldn't spend as much money on packs.

    The easiest fix is to remove the restrictions and let players trade openly. But they won't. It is bad by design. It's a feature, not a bug.

  • DoubleCure
    DoubleCure Member Posts: 1,597 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Restricting it to old sets, only up to 1 star, with a stamina bar (with trade hourglass to speed it up), only same rarity trade and only with friends... this are already very significant restrictions... the trade tokens it's too much especially if it requires to burn so many cards...

    This is to much, they will lose more money this way, no one is happy with this... not whales, not regular players, not casual players, not new players.

    Some people will actually leave the game or invest less if this doesn't change for better.