Hello!
Thank you for the feedback, always interesting to hear!
The Black Pearls are not available for purchase for a few reasons. We don’t want everything in the game to simply be bought off the bat as soon as it’s released, there’s no fun in that. If they would only buy cosmetic changes, it might have been more appropriate, but as it also affects multiplayer aspects of the game it would lead to some imbalance and could be seen as unfair. We want to award players for participating in the Daily Challenges and doing well in the Arena, because we simply think that’s more fun than giving it away to players who are willing to spend.
We might open this up later on when there are more hats, I don’t know, but for now there’s no plans for it.
The new hats will not exclusively be more expensive, they will also come in similar price ranges as there are today so don’t feel like you HAVE to spend on sets that are expensive if you don’t want it.
And who knows… maybe there will be a new place to earn Black Pearls in the next update…? ;)
Take care!
/Hank