Its bad luck, he pretty much confirmed its not nerfed yet. I took that screenshot like 30 minutes ago, its not old. He was in MA, he also said there will not be name changes and ALSO said he didn't liek mudkipz =/
A mod leak tells me that they're trying to fix it asap, but until then, it's just PKing and is not against the rules. So my advice is to abuse it whilst you can.
I actually want this to happen :-/. The skyrocketing prices are totally annoying, and everything is gonna crash right when they take it out, so I can't buy anything at the moment. If they are gonna do it eventually, I would prefer it asap.
They can't do anything to the actual 26k trick, everything would interfeer with pking/clan warring etc, the only thing they can do is make it a bannable offence, and if they do that they'l be banning 10000s of people >_<