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Jamairoqui
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@datguygamer But the calendar gives out 8 shards per month. If you get to platinum you can get 8 shards per week. Shards are *really* valuable in the new game economy since they are so hard to get. That makes grinding arena worthwhile if you are a “cheap” player looking to advance without paying real money for LCs to buy shards. Get to diamond or platinum early in the season, and you could get almost 100 shards, which would take you a year through the calendar (and of course, that would allow you to max out two set items, so the whole enterprise is ludicrously stupid if you take a step back and think about it, which is why I stress you *should not*, never ever, take a step back and think about it).

Plus, in the “new game economy,” snoutlings are more valuable since it is much harder to accumulate them. Especially if you are also trying to buy as much mastery as possible through the dojo snout offers. So getting a high place in arena, with the 2000+ snoutling payout, is not a trivial prize (although in the heyday of SRC and DPC, 1000 snoutlings represented about 10 minutes of game play on auto).

The more I think about the way the game got restructured, the more I kind of respect Chimera in a sick twisted way. They really put some thought into the best way to bleed car payments out of people.