Bungie never has and likely never will have a good economy in the franchise. If they make things cheap, or valuable, players burn through whatever they can earn or their allotted limit too quickly. If they make things expensive, or meaningless, players don't spend and instead hoard, or only spend when they are unaware of the mistake that they are making. If you play a lot, and play in a conscious way, you'll have tons of every mat and feel like there's nothing to buy or no reason to keep playing, and it'll be less fun. If you are casual and just play to have fun without thinking about the consequences of spending all your currencies, you'll constantly be broke and it'll be less fun. They have NEVER struck a balance between these two states, or two kinds of players and instead of accepting that there will always be differences between them, Bungie has always tried to reset the advantage of long time players. All this does is set a very temporary road block in front of those players, which they blow by because they play DIFFERENTLY than casuals, not just MORE.

Though I already commented, I do have to say, I come to terms with Legendary Shards being removed. At first, it bothered me cause I literally spent about the last 2-3 seasons earning LS for Final Shape. I thought I should increase my LS amount even further, so I can have the luxury of upgrading every time I get a higher leveled item, and not wear an ugly random outfit or be stuck using just one loadout till max level. I had like 20,000 but Lightfall cost me literally over 11,000 shards just on upgrade cores so I wanted enough to live comfortably for Final Shape and the episodes after. But then I started seeing that Bungie doesn't give a -blam!-, they are still proceeding with the idea, and I realized I still am willing to play, just for the sake of playing. I also saw someone who was asking what exotic he should get from the kiosk and that poor guy has a decent amount of time on this game, yet, he still needs 10 more shards to even get the 1 exotic. The system is broken. The less you play, the less loot you have to dispose of, the less Legendary Shards you can accumulate, the less decent or good stuff you can even buy. The more you play, only if you play alot the threshold you need to hit is so many hours on a consistent basis, the more you are breaking down things, because everything dropping has no value for you, you already have the good stuff. Telling someone with no Legendary Shards they need to play more is counterproductive. So people with jobs and families and commitments, just aren't allowed to enjoy Destiny when they get free time? They need to dedicate a huge chunk of their time into this game, way more than they are now, so what.... so they can achieve more Legendary Shards in Destiny, that's a valid reason?

Or does it make the economy useful and worthless at the same time? Hmmmmmmmmm….

Considering how tied in legendary shards are to literally every aspect of the game…. Yeah, there’s a very real possibility that the entire system will fundamentally be broken. I mean they are literally necessary for literally everything in the game. I’m not seeing this change working out well at all, giving how entwined they are with everything. I guess for those who stick around, we’ll see what happens in the end. But on paper this just seems like a bad call.

Bungies upset that people have a stock pile so they are removing it because they are the cringes devs on the planet.

Only reason they are removing shards is their cringe obsession with dictating their players to play when THEY want them to play and as often as THEY want their players to keep playing constantly. Bungie is a horrible company. The veterans earned those shards over the last 6 years. Imagine if Blizzard just decided to remove Gold as a currency from their players in diablo or world of warcraft. Oh boy, they would not get away with that let me tell you. But the sentiment towards destiny is at an all time low anyways so i guess most players can't be bothered to care anymore anyways just like myself. Still the scummiest thing a dev can do. Devalues their loyal players time to the maximum just to force them into grinding seasonally for temporary engram rewards while HAVING to spend those within a time frame or they will be deleted. Simply scum, thats what this is.

What economy? There’s no economy that’s gonna be left

It doesn't break the economy but it changes it back to being glimmer limited which is what bungo wants so that we are forced to grind for it to inflate play time stats as that is the principle metric investors look at for a game like this. Many maybe even most of us that have played since day 1 have large stacks of shards as there was never much to spend them on and it doesn't help bungo messed up multiple times with bugs that allowed players to make them in huge numbers, there are people that even hit the 999,999 cap. Their only real use is that I never have to ever think about glimmer for anything, I have ~160,000 earned over the years which is 160,000,000 worth of glimmer. If it want to spend 2-3 million levelling a bunch of crafted weapons I don't even need to think about it and can get it back in a minute. Farming that from events though would take 20-30 HOURS of play and that is what bungo wants us to have to do and is the real reason for their removal.

I don't care if they take them away.... but at least remove the weekly cap on amount of ascendant alloys we can buy from rahool so I can spend them before they go

So much of this game is broken because Bungie have felt the need to cater to too many factions of the community. I can't believe this is the game they wanted to make. It seems as if they've made too many compromises along the way and have been painting themselves into a corner. Every time they think they see a way out of that corner, they do something to paint themselves into another corner. There are either too many corners or too few in this game. I can't decide. I any case, I'm on sabbatical until things are better sorted, if ever. It's just too frustrating for me to play, right now.

Did... did you just say you don't play the game for fun? I mean, I know grinding rewards is not fun, but the rewards let you have fun.

So you play D2 for shards ?!!😂

Doesn’t break the game if you stop playing.