Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-26581304-20150906194347/@comment-1577342-20150907024201

I actually think it's the opposite. Most folks at upper levels, like I am now, have run out of uses for shards. I see Tribal Island as a way to use those shards in a productive way. Prior to Tribal Island, I was just converting every 30,000 shards to a gem. Now I can invest the same shards and get a bigger return in gems. Also, Etherial and Shugabush are not available to all players, if only because of the need to breed the prerequisite monsters. I don't think that BBB would do a special unless every player had a chance to benefit from it.