So these are the Currencies/Materials that shipped with Vanilla Destiny (4 months ago):
1.Glimmer
2.Strange Coins
3.Motes of Light
4.Crucible Marks
5.Vanguard Marks
6.Spinmetal/Spirit Bloom/Helium/Relic Iron
7.Hunter/Warlock/Titan clothing
8.Weapon Parts
9.Ascendant Energy/Shards
10.4 Glimmer Buffs (Ether Seeds etc.)
11.Tempered (Iron Banner Buff)
12.Weapon XP buffs (Telemetry)
13.Sparrow Buffs
14.Iron Medallion (Lost IB Matches)
The first DLC alone added this stuff:
1.Exotic Shard
2.Radiant Shard/Energy
3.Runed Core (upgrading the Murmur)
4.Crux of Crota (upgrading to Necorchasm)
5.Vanguard Commendations
6.Crucible Commendations
If HoW keeps up this trend and will be introducing Furry Shards/Energy it`s time to consult a brain plumber. Especially for new Players it has become an utter mess.
Out of the new 6 Mats, 2 are there for gimmicky purposes only (Runed Core/Crux of crota), seriously needed each of these wepaons its own material?
Why is there no Hawkstone or Thornblood or Stutter of Crota to upgrade certain Handcannons? (I´m joking, don`t do it)
Please think this through:
you made a good start by letting us buy materials with Marks, now see to it that the other mats/currencies vet players are drowning in get a reasonable use in this game.
Motes of Light and Ascendante Shards/Energy have no use at all for Players playing your Endgame Content. Make your currencies dealable, like you started to do so with the possibility to exchange Shards/Energies at Eris.
Stop bombarding us with useless ships that not even drop 10 Glimmer when I scrap them and take longer than an Exotic to dismantle!
Why is it that I can`t exchange 10 Ascendante for 1 Radiant Shard?
Why can`t I buy Plasteel Plating when the progress on my Titan simply is blocked because I might have already Raid/Exotic Armor pieces, but can`t level him up because I lack Plasteel?
There are so many issues with this Currency-Creep, not the least that our Vaults are bursting, please come up with some exchange rates, that takes maybe the average time a 30+ Player needs to gain stuff and take that as a thumbrule for a Vendor that lets us exchange stuff.
1 Hour Endgamegameplay:= 5 Radiant Materialy := 15 Ascendant Materials:= 5000 Glimmer := 0.5 Commendations := 1 Mote of Light:= 50 PLasteel/Hadronic/Sapphire
Find a way to let us exchange the Materials/Currencies we have in abundance with something that has actually use for us.
I´m not suggesting that you are making everything buyable with Glimmer alone, but atm it`s really not working for some of us, that have no use for the 10th Commendation, and the 150th Mote. I´m not even suggesting that you make these Deals permanent, maybe Shards/Radiants can only be exchanged on Weekends and There could even be a rotation were this Vendor only has 3 options per day, and a special Offer for male or female Exos/Human/Awoken/Titans/Locks/Hunters only each day, a little bit like Xur, if you will.
[b]TLDR; Make a Vendor that exchanges Materials/Currencies[/b]
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Maybe in 10 years we will understand...