spacekadt Posted:

No. There were the very vague rumblings that prices would be brought in line (same rumblings here in flamebate) but nothing specific… I bought 10 hoping I could make a few flezz with the bumumption the price of master balls would increase instead of other stuff decreasing. It was a (fairly logical) gamble… but we never knew things would *disappear* – that shocked the hell out of me when I saw it and I’m honestly kinda bummed. I have a few alts that couldn’t afford the cheap price… now it’s gonna be a long bum time before they can afford one.

Pretty much agree. They were already in the economy, by removing them the players who were not in a position to acquire them (i.e. generally younger players) are automatically discriminated against, both in the amount of flezz required, and the fact they’re going to be rare as hens teeth. This was going to happen anyway with a rebalance, but this was an overreaction.

The correct move would have been to remove them from all players, refund (at full price) and allow them to buy again at the new price if they chose. Speculating on game designer whims as they try to fix previous mistakes is a ****ing terrible way to run an economy, and it’s already happened too often.