No, I'm not going to spend an hour spending them on over 3,000 phantasmal fragments one by one. That's horribly boring and a waste of time, as well as too much inventory space used.
I've been trying hard to spend them, getting down to about 32k, but the next thing I know, I stop for a moment and I reach back up to 35k.
Bungie, please. I know you don't like it when veteran players hoard things, but if you reward players a sprinkle of something for participation but never give that player a good incentive to spend that something, of course it's going to build up over time. These shards are a manifestation of the time we as players have invested. Can we PLEASE get some reasonable way to spend them before they vanish?
EDIT: For those who are telling me basically "to just spend them" I have to say that I HAVE been. Did you not read the title of this thread? Months ago when the announcement was made, I started trying to spend them up. I was sitting around 60k. I'm now about 33k and rising. At this rate, it's not going to happen.
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I went from 44k shards to 13k when they announced they would remove it for good. So I went on to spend it as much as I could, and somehow I'm back at 42k -__- I delete most of my loot because there hasn't been anything better than what I have to replace what I have now that im using. Shoot, I even masterworks all of my weapons in the vault, lol. That's why I never understood when they were saying that vets and regular players have an abundance, and we need to even the grounds for new players and casuals. Even though they just want us grinding more again. They need to give us something we can exchange these shards, whether it be cores or the golf balls. I don't even care about the price. They can make it 100 shards for 1 core lol, just give us the damn chance to do so.