I think what tends to be overlooked is the underlying “this change will make this other thing pointless.” It doesn’t mean that CZ can’t do whatever, we are all aware that it is their game and they can do whatever. The Master Ball thing doesn’t have any impact on any character of mine that I still play, but I can see how insanely frustrating it is for some people.

Every time a change is made that instantly devalues the effort based things in the game, the players who want to play a game lose interest. It is not simply a bawwww moment, it is a matter of constantly making game goals pointless.

If the Master Ball is going to show up in the Ppwn Shoppe, none of this matters. If it is coded to never show up, yes, it is definitely a sort of screw you to those who have been working on the flezz peen as well as being a game skewing power item that a select group have allowing them a fairly solid end game advantage. I guess we’ll just have to see.