Featured Crystals need to be distinguishable.
XiLeon
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So I have been hoarding featured crystals in anticipation for the new pool and turns out that pool is locked to the time you bought the crystal? If this were the case, each new featured crystal would need its own name or be dated with the month and year.
I guess I assumed it was like a champ entering the basic pool being able to get it from a crystal purchased before the champ entered the pool.
Hopefully kabam understands this and updates it to avoid people like me who have all the champs in the old pool and now am sitting on 30x crystals that I can’t use for the new pool as I intended. Will update this as I get info if anyone else is having the issue.
I guess I assumed it was like a champ entering the basic pool being able to get it from a crystal purchased before the champ entered the pool.
Hopefully kabam understands this and updates it to avoid people like me who have all the champs in the old pool and now am sitting on 30x crystals that I can’t use for the new pool as I intended. Will update this as I get info if anyone else is having the issue.
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The latter is a personal issue where the former is more economic based. I’m working this with support and are getting close to an understanding. So far there’s no disagreement that there is room for confusion and no real guide on this.
Now, if you're hoarding Abyss nexus crystals, those do update the pool available.
To your point an abyss nexus is called an abyss nexus. Any champs entering can be received post purchasing the crystal.
There is no naming difference with the featured and the only identifier is color at most. So I’ll bite the bullet with my unopened 30x if kabam is unable to just revert them back to shards, however I think it does NO HARM to implement a system that says like “featured crystal 1 23” first number being month second being year, or just do them like many other games with just the month after the featured.
I appreciate all the input and if at the end we just want to call me dumb that’s fine. But me being dumb doesn’t mean the game can’t be more clear
Or the Featured 15,000 shard crystals (like what just changed for 6* today) ?
If it's the 15,000 shard ones, those indicate what their full contents are, and if you didn’t intend to open them and wait until they updated, wouldn’t have been a reason to actually “convert” 15,000 shards into the actual crystal. Just keep shards increasing until there's a 15,000 version you want.
So, I’m assuming you mean the twice monthly Feature-Preview with increased odds of individual champ crystals. Which, yes, really can’t save up on the resources used to buy them, they are limited time offers.
*But those are specifically tied to that month's new preview champ.
And pretty sure in your Crystal Inventory afterwards, clicking on the (info) icon will tell you WHICH Feature-Preview Champ is the one in there with increased odds.
You’re not buying like a Basic 4* crystal which if use 2000 shards to buy a 4* shard crystal, will (I’m guessing) constantly get new contents as champs are added to Basic Pool.
If you convert 2000x of 4* shards once a month, over 6 months, those 6 “fully formed” 4* crystals are all lumped together in the same inventory count.
Even though “converted” in different months, when there were different champs in the Pool at the time.
So I assume the contents of those already-formed 4* will always reflect Current Basic Pool when opened.
I also knew that I would be tempted to snag other dual class crystals if I let the shards sit so I just always converted to featured a when I could and there was no temptation to roll it since I had everything I wanted from this batch.
I totally understand people saying that the information I thought was correct is wrong and that I could have looked elsewhere to find the info, however I just learned about these forums even today haha. So for me the best place for the info would be the game.
With that said I’m not asking kabam to like undo my rolls etc. I’m asking for the simple courtesy of noticing these crystals have sat for a long time and if they can be reverted to shards. Not asking for anything additional or compensation etc. Just a 1 to 1 value. This post was to get peoples input with the added bonus of “hey I can’t be the only person who didn’t know and there’s potentially a better way to do this.”
Here we are. Me who made a genuine mistake which I can admit may have been preventable if I knew where to look, but also with a solution that can help future summoners
You could try submitting a Support Ticket. Asking for refund (of that Sigil Black Market reduced cost).
They'd have to track down from where you purchased them, and only return you the discounted shards you actually paid (not a full 15,000 as if you got them in normal Crystals tab)
But, FYI like I mentioned above, within that store they have that (i) information icon on upper right corner of panel. That would show you which Feature it is before you even buy it.
(think that is maybe half of what you were asking for initially ? a way to identify them ?)
I did Submit a ticket as you mentioned and it’s being worked. I appreciate your input!
If you want to hoard shards indefinitely, that's your prerogative, as it is for anyone else. But if they let players buy featured crystals and then see what future crystals contain and then let them ask support to revert the crystals to shards, that would be no different than the player being handed the contents of past and future crystals and allowing them to pick which one they want. That's explicitly something they changed crystal announcement policy to prevent.
It is not my job to tell you no, but I will be very interested to know if support tells you yes.
We will see what happens and I think support should be able to figure out if I was saving for a reason or just abusing them. Either way life will go on and I will let you know.
If it makes u feel any better.. previous one was red.. this one is blue
How does info help u when u bought them before the new one is released....and its not the first time Feat crystals appeared... U should have saved the shards...
Bank error in your favor. Happy hunting.
I’d be happy to share the chat in a message if interested but otherwise man thanks for checking back in! Happy hunting to you aswell!