I have, and continue to have, this battle with WGT about them randomly taking balls out of play.
This practice has zero logic to me. They "excuse" is that a ball losses decompression and is less effective. Hogwash, IMO. Whether you want to buy that argument that a ball losses decompression after a set amount of time or not, the fact that WGT makes that decision for me is ridiculous. Add to the fact that I purchase these balls and they take them away without me losing them.
Lets, for a second, agree that balls do lose compression and should be taken out of play. If I were to do this in real life, I still have the physical ball that I purchased in my bag. This doesn't happen here, WGT just takes them away and forces you to eventually spend more money on others. This leads down the path of a scam. Competition or not, it should be up to the individual to take a ball out of play. They can make a tweak to the formula that after a certain amount of time the performance of a ball gets worse and would then force the competitor to make a decision but to just flat out take them away is stealing!