The new shard bombs look very viable in the future. Obviously they're still in their preliminary stages, but I see them coming out well. With some tweaks, bugfixes, and time, these bombs will eventually do very well. I understand that it might be hard to part with the old RSS, as they were the main spiking bomb of SK, but I assume this is what OOO had in mind when the bomb was created. As Nick has said, and many have agreed with, they weren't very bomb-like. This may or may not be a good enough reason to change them, but these are a bit more unique/special. It's a fun new mechanic of bombing along with these bombs. The fact they changed it so long into the game's development is definitely a bad idea, along with the compensation of the tickets. There still is hope, and I'd like people to remember that there is still potential for these bombs... and for SK in general.
"It's one step back, two steps forward."
"Not very bomb like" is an extremely poor excuse for a game that has swords that create 5 explosions with status or "shoot" sword blades.
The bombs should of been tweaked when they were on the test server and lots of people urged for changes, the bombs haven't been changed at all from when they were originally put on the test server.