CoreyJess Posted:

Maybe there should be a separate store for past Itembuildr items that have been pulled from the main store. That alone would solve the problem.

Honestly, that would defeat part of the purpose of letting past Itembuildr items that are designed poorly to quietly fade away as well as making it so that each Itembuildr item would actually have to be unique and distinctive.

While there have been plenty of complaints about the nearly identical items coming out of itembuildr, we’d be willing to wager that the complaints would have been significantly less if the itembuildr store was cleared out and the piercings *weren’t* all just moved to the appropriate emo stores.

We would even go the other way and say that *fewer* itembuildr items should be moving into stores. ET is moving anything that isn’t a meta-reference into stores, it seems (the only things to disappear are the fix itembuildr tattoos). We aren’t saying any of the items being moved were necessarily bad, but is the emo store benefited by having four to six piercings that are all +6/+6 with minor tears variation and wildly varying prices or is it now just cluttered with a bunch of items that are completely foolish to buy?

But, if those same piercings only appear occasionally in the Ppwn Store, some people would at least be interested in collecting them which would be better than the non-use they have now.

The Master Ball is just unique in that it’s so much more powerful than anything else that came out of itembuildr. If it was just in a store, it would be ‘that thing you have to buy to play’ and the rest of the game would have to be balanced around it. As a limited ‘maybe it will appear in the Ppwn Shop again, if you’re lucky’ item, it has spawned a large number of threads, huge price wars amoung people who had low interest in Kyoubai, and rumors of conspiracy and price fixing.

It isn’t fair to people without it but we’d say the Master Ball has been better for the game since it was pulled out of the itembuildr store than it was when it was available to everyone.