User blog comment:Alartan/My appraisal of champions design in last year/@comment-24648781-20151115084821/@comment-24648781-20151117030137

As stated above me, Riot only removed the passive global effects or scaled them down to aura effects around the champion. Global ultimates have always persisted in the game.

As for the "bad or good" point, when you mark something as a rule and then note that certain characters "break the rule" - that has some sway in either direction, generally a bad one, seeing that rulebreaking is generally bad.