Yes. They lowered exotic drop rates substantially so now, if you want to have a similar drop rate to before, you have to spend resources to get there. It is a break-even scam to artificially add value to shards through forced scarcity. This is the most likely explanation. It's just sad that, as usual, their solution to making something meaningful involves taking something away, rather than adding something. They should have just stuck with the ability to spend shards at vendors. Subtracting B from A and then selling B back to achieve A+B has never set well with anyone in this community. So then, they'll say it was glitched, and "look into it." This constant question of "are you underhanded and shady or just incompetent and stupid," I keep seeing it somewhere else every day, I just can't put my finger on who it is......