Rift should be unlockable with shards.

I will only be talking about cosmetics, as I think the shard price for characters is pretty decent. Could be lower but it's not awful. The shrine sucks as buying the character and levelling them is much easier and realistic for getting the perk you want. Those are my thoughts on those two features.

Shards are meant to unlock things for free, but you can barely buy anything with them realistically. A whole outfit, which is often a limited selection in itself for the purple ones (the ones people actually want), take almost a whole devotion level to unlock. Unless you're grinding the game 5 hours a day for a week you're not going to get that easily. And that's all assuming the skin you want is even unlockable with shards.

On the dev stream one of the devs openly admitted that they do not want shards to be easier to obtain. Because it is a free currency they don't want us getting too much of it. But in all honesty that doesn't even matter. Because as I stated there's not a huge selection to choose from with shards. For this reason I find it hilarious they even mention it. But what would bhvr lose from it? The game it's self is already over 100 bucks for every dlc. And that's not counting the time investment for leveling these characters. So would that extra 10 bucks on like 1/5 of skins occasionally lost hurt so bad?

I know they won't change that, and I doubt they will even consider my suggestion. But I propose that the rift become unlockable for free. I have 2 ways of executing this. Both are very simple.

1. The shard change mentioned in the title. I believe that for a reasonable price, the rift should be purchased with shards. This would make the game's content more accessible for everyone. People could get cool skins for their characters that they wouldn't normally be able to afford AND get rewarded for the time put into the game. People would feel more compelled to play if they could unlock things for free.
2. Alternatively, give us a couple auric cells on the free track. 505 in total on the track. This way people could afford every other rift, OR buy a skin of their choice. And the ones who did pay for it get a little discount the next time.

My main gripe with dbd's monetization is how cheap quality it can be at times. Personally I find the rift to be 10 dollars worth of filler with occasionally good stuff in it. I think a lot of people would be happier if shards had value outside of 150 thousand bp. Healthy monetization would make people feel better playing the game and encourage them to come back more.

This or make the rift be worth the 10 dollars. I don't need 2 more pages of charms I won't use.