After 6 years of dupes and complaints, Bungie's removing Legendary Shards from Destiny 2 – which could be amazing, or the MMO's next currency disaster

gamesradar.com:

Every Destiny 2 player I know is either constantly strapped for Legendary Shards or utterly incapable of spending them fast enough, and between this wealth gap and the comically frequent Legendary Shard dupes, Bungie's gotten so sick of the currency that it's straight-up deleting it in The Final Shape after six years of – say it carefully – Sharding.

Bungie announced the MMO's megaton economy change in its latest blog post. "How many Legendary Shards do you have?" the developer asks, as Shard dupe profiteers casually avert their eyes and whistle inconspicuously. No matter how many Shards you've hoarded, they're all about to vanish. Start buying those raid banners now, folks. The good news is that nothing is replacing Legendary Shards. They're just... gone. Bungie says it wants to streamline Destiny 2's currencies, and just as cutting off my arms would technically streamline my torso, it's making drastic changes. 

Just to hammer the point home, Bungie adds: "Couple the Legendary Shard wealth disparity with the fact that we have seen more than a few loopholes players have found to farm (our regards to Rahool and Eva Levante, as well as more recently to Ikora), we have made the decision that it’s time to simplify the economy by removing this currency from the game ... we truly believe their removal is in the best interest of both the game and the players."

The death of Legendary Shards will come in phases, starting next season, Season 23. First, the Monument to Lost Lights will no longer require Legendary Shards, letting "new and returning players unlock weapons they may have missed more easily than ever before." 

Also beginning in Season 23, focusing ritual engrams will no longer require Legendary Shards – just Glimmer and