In their "Update Highlights 4.50" Plarium announced that they will remove the Daily Reward's (271+ days) 5 star chicken and Sacred shard and replace it with fragments which players can collect for 4 months to get 1 champion.
Their announcement text:
Daily Login Rewards Changes
We’ll be making changes to the 271+ Days section of the Daily Login Rewards and include guaranteed Champions to the mix. Namely, the Rank 5 Chicken and the Sacred Shard will be replaced with Champion Fragments. The first Champion you’ll see is Cleopterix - a Skinwalkers Legendary - who will make a great addition to your collection. It will take 4 months to gather enough Fragments for the Summon, and once you’ve done that, another Champion will take Cleopterix’s place in the Daily Login Rewards.
This is a net negative change = nerf: PROS AND CONS:
PROS:
- New Legendary champion for players after 4 months
- Guaranteed champion vs. RNG
CONS:
The cons are a lot more:
(Note: fragment collection for 4 months means 4 x the replaced rewards, so the loss is 4 x the chicken and 4 x the shards)
- Dupe Champion for those who already have the offered champion.
- 4 x 5* Chicken are a Total Loss - not replaced with anything
- 4 Sacred Shards would give at least 4 Epics (and you know some Epics are much better than some Legendary champions), maybe Legendary champions and move the Mercy counter by 4
- Complete loss of 2000 points in Summon Rush event (fragments cannot contribute to it) or loss of 500-1500 points in Champion Chase event (minimum points for 4 Sacred Shards are 1000 (4 Epics x 250) and maximum points are 2000 (4 Lego x 500) while the gain (only for Champion Chase) is 1 x 500 points after 4 months).
- 4 months is a very long time to wait for many people
- Offered champion not excluded from shard pulls, which means players can can end up with dupes
- Not having the 4 Shards for x2 or x10 or X pulls events (for example there could be an event to pull 10 or 15 shards to get a guaranteed champion and players will no longer be able to gather these shards if they removed)
