5 star cost reduction

Anyone know if the cost of 5 star crystals will be reduced with the introduction of 6 stars? I’m not holding my breath, but it seems kind of odd to me that they’ll remain 10,000 shards when that’s the same cost 6 stars will be.

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Thecrusher_9756

Premiums, 3 star and 4 star crystals are all the same price aren’t they? Also Kabam said the price of 5* will stay the same

Deadbyrd9

4* shards crystals weren’t reduced when 5* came out

Buck_52

But 5* never did cost the same as 4*. And considering how much stronger 6* are going to be, I figured it would make more sense to lower the cost of 5*

SpiritOfVengeance

Did you really compare the price of a 4 star to a 5 star price deadbeard? Why reduce a price of 2000 shards? 10000 makes much more sense to reduce to about 8000. But anyway it won't happen they are making them more available.

Deadbyrd9

Who assumed I was comparing prices of the crystals in today’s game? 2000 shards seems like a lot in the game right now but it wasn’t 2 years ago. It took a few weeks for a non grinder to get a 4*. Same with 5* today. I’m comparing the rarity of getting a 4* when 5* came out to 5* when 6* came out. I’m not comparing the shards in today’s meta. It doesn’t matter that 10000 is more than 2000. It matters how quickly you are able to get shards now versus 2 years ago

DNA3000

Buck_52 wrote: »

Anyone know if the cost of 5 star crystals will be reduced with the introduction of 6 stars? I’m not holding my breath, but it seems kind of odd to me that they’ll remain 10,000 shards when that’s the same cost 6 stars will be.

Probably not, because they've been increasing the availability of 5* shards instead. Those are fundamentally the same thing.

DNA3000

Buck_52 wrote: »

But 5* never did cost the same as 4*. And considering how much stronger 6* are going to be, I figured it would make more sense to lower the cost of 5*

SpiritOfVengeance wrote: »

Did you really compare the price of a 4 star to a 5 star price deadbeard? Why reduce a price of 2000 shards? 10000 makes much more sense to reduce to about 8000. But anyway it won't happen they are making them more available.

Actually, on a relative basis 5* crystals cost about the same amount as 4* crystals in at least one sense. We get 55 4* shards when we dup a 4* champion. It thus takes 2000/55 ~= 36 dups to earn enough shards for one 4* crystal. We get 275 5* shards for duping a 4* champion. It thus takes 10000/275 ~=36 dups to earn enough shards for a 5* crystal.

The 5* crystal costs five times more shards, but we get five times more shards for duping a 4* than a 3*. We get more 3* champions than 4* champions of course, but that's no different than the situation where we get a lot more 2* champions than 3* champions. We normally consider the 2000 shard price for the 4* crystal to be comparable and equal on a relative basis to the 2000 shard price for the 3* crystal, so by that standard the 5* crystal should cost about five times as many shards to have the same relative price, compared to the amount of shards we get for duping a champion.

We get shards in other ways besides duping, and those ways don't have the same ratio as duping does. So it is more complicated than that. But if we are going to talk about the cost of 5* crystals compared to 4*, relative to the cost of 4* compared to 3*, we have to account for the fact that a major source of 5* shards is numerically larger for the same activity as 4* champions, in precisely the same ratio that 5* crystals take more shards than 4* crystals to buy.

Deadbyrd9

I left out a “not” in my last post. “2000 shards is not a lot”

Vegeta9001_

Increase in resources is equal to a decrease in price. So there is no need to decrease the price with the amount of new sources of 5* Shards, I get one a fortnight/3 weeks these days, and lately I've been nearly completely F2P