Sorry for the super belated response here, I got bogged down in coding gym pages and then forgot I hadn't replied!
I guess my issue is, I feel that adding it would negatively affect the game as a whole. Having one character have it by accident and then never again if/when that character leaves the game would mean it's only a "problem" confined to a small place and time. Introducing it widely to the game as a whole means it's now a permanent fixture that can't be easily removed even if it ends up causing problems.
And I really do think it contradicts established game canon thus far. Victory Road and Route 29 before it have always adhered to primarily taking the videogames at a very literal level, down to having constant background music being a feature of the setting. Adaptations are made as needed for the sake of making a RP setting possible, but I strongly disagree with the notion that the game plays "fast and loose" with the source material. It's always been quite the opposite! Which is what makes this such a huge deviation, and I think risks losing some of the game's charm along the way.
I also think that, either way, it should be removed as a starter option, because it just... creates an inherent balance/fairness issue if people are able to continue apping into the game with it right from the start. It's unfair to the rest of the playerbase because it's an "easy" way to get it, and it's unfair to the character apping in with it because of how limited its usefulness would actually be.
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I guess my issue is, I feel that adding it would negatively affect the game as a whole. Having one character have it by accident and then never again if/when that character leaves the game would mean it's only a "problem" confined to a small place and time. Introducing it widely to the game as a whole means it's now a permanent fixture that can't be easily removed even if it ends up causing problems.
And I really do think it contradicts established game canon thus far. Victory Road and Route 29 before it have always adhered to primarily taking the videogames at a very literal level, down to having constant background music being a feature of the setting. Adaptations are made as needed for the sake of making a RP setting possible, but I strongly disagree with the notion that the game plays "fast and loose" with the source material. It's always been quite the opposite! Which is what makes this such a huge deviation, and I think risks losing some of the game's charm along the way.
I also think that, either way, it should be removed as a starter option, because it just... creates an inherent balance/fairness issue if people are able to continue apping into the game with it right from the start. It's unfair to the rest of the playerbase because it's an "easy" way to get it, and it's unfair to the character apping in with it because of how limited its usefulness would actually be.