Always appreciate the Solemn opinion! And yeah, this is a scary trend. I suspect it's a budget thing? But I think Konami really needs to be weary of the competing new games because they're HUNGRY!
not having a way to play yugioh casually is insane to me tbh locals are a coin flip because some are competitive and some arent. im lucky because theres a small speed duel scene next to me at least but even that may soon be over in europe
They should just give prize moneys, yes Takahashi didn't want to have prize money but that was in the 90's, for a game that you need to expend so much in the game to compete with a meta deck they should expect an actual reward for their time they invested in this game
@@kauanjos3199this 100% . People that invest all this money into their decks just to possibly win a switch. Those people can simply buy themselves a switch lol the prize support is horrendous. If pokemon can offer cash prizing so can yugioh but Komoney is just stingy and cheap.
@@djjorge87 I think he said that because the prizes are not good, so they compete for prestige. But that would change if prizes were better, then people would compete for both prizes and prestige.
@@erichindy8688 yugioh tcg part is really managed very very poorly. they dont know or they dont care if they apply ocg rarity in tcg all tournaments will be crowded a lot. right now i cant play paper bc i dont have that kinda cash. im seriously wishing to be born in japan and be an ocg player just for this
The sad part is that countries like Panama are being very active recently with 2 locals per week with 30+ regionals with 70+ players and konami d cided to not give us the national
This video is sooo ON POINT! I literally watched Joshua Schmidt win YCS bologna, so I bought his exact Runick deck. I would have never spent those $450 dollars buying that deck if it wasn’t for that YCS existing.
1. Spend time & $$ to play solitaire 2.0 for an average of 3 turns... Win closet souvenirs...donated by other companies. 2. Wait 2-3 months for Konami to *gradually* chip away at player's investment into the new Boogeyman archetype's power only for them to replace it with another 2-3 right after. Look at that, format rotation hidden in plain sight!! 3. If a game is so turn 1-reliant and only a handful of new cards matter, it's no wonder new sets don't sell well. The game's pacing doesn't give the majority of cards *time* to do their thing. The cards may not actually be bad in a slower paced environment. There would also be more things to build besides combo decks as well. The game's rules are *extremely* outdated. They're still using the same starting life point total from 2002. 4. How can a game be around for over 20 years and only have one fully company-sanctioned format? I would think something like a pure archetype format (they sell them in every set) would exist after all of this time, but no. It would be the perfect avenue for card design for newer, smaller and older archetypes.
Man, point 3 in particolar is something that i've been saying for a long time. There's very little design space when you power creep the game so much that every deck desperately wants to turbo everything as soon as possibile. Konami was so careless and managing power creep that they've basically removed non searchable trap cards from the game. You have all these summoning mechanics that are different on paper, but become pretty much the same when they become so easy and consistent to spam on the field.
I cant even find any LGS' in the county i live in, there are like 2 or 3 of them in the entire county for all i know. I barely can find a locals to go to
Casual players in Yugioh are just players Konami failed to convince it was worth it to buy expensive cards and participate in events. Oh boy, a Nintendo Switch for first place 🙄
It's just sad really. Like Giant Cards are cool prizes, and they are unique, so it's a shame they don't do stuff like they used too. The first Worlds (I think it was the first) had like 12 unique steel prize cards for the champ, and the rest went away. Those were one of a kind and that was pretty sweet. They need to do stuff like that again
@@720pchannelI think most people in this community believe and understand this. The issue is most ygo players have "beaten housewife syndrome" and they don't want to start another card game after investing 20 years and untold amounts of dollars.
This video is full of Hilarious expressions, comparisons and jokes that I laughed my ass off 😂😂. Otherwise you really brought a lot of good points, I really hope they start organizing some Ycs Events, I would love to go with my friend as competitive players.
YGO shouldve double down supporting time wizard tbh to get those older players back, even new players. Goat edison tengu hat etc. And they can reprint cards from those formats too. Side events in every YCS is nice and all but they havent invested on it enough. No stream coverage of the tournament with commentators yet.
@@LuciferArc1Rush would be a company competing with itself. There isn't as much of an audience for kid's playable TCGs in the West. Let the Rush dream exist on Duel Links.
Something is definately going on at Konami Europe. For example: this years German nationals aren`t in Dortmund anymore, but instead in Munster in a most likely much smaller location. Demand for products (AGOV 2nd print would sell like hotcakes) and events is incredibly high here, but Konami however decided to give us neither.
It's weird because Europe especially in Germany has the largest attendence for ycs. Something must be causing issues and Konami being them aren't being vocal about it. Also side events>main events. Side event prizing is so much better and it's why I'm only doing side events at events anymore.
I wonder if it has something to do with gambling laws or something. I don't know the particulars, but I do know there's been a crackdown on what does and does not constitute gambling. They're also being harder on anti-consumer practices over there, so Konami is a bit more limited in what they can get away with.
@@DG_Raizen that would only affect Sweden and denmark currently. Germany and the uk as well as spain and italy are all fine for now which are where the ycs typically are
In Spain we were about to have a continuos series with Grand Duelist hosting Big tournaments with GD Series, however, now the next series has been cancelled due to a copyright demand. Konami IS really trying to not continue YuGiOh in Europe
@@scruffy_bear Cause it's true, I hate how these d*** youtuberis try to accolate them moralistic. Yeah, they know exactly what's going on. This dude is probably on all too. I mean the nonsensical ran kind of points to it
We have a YCS on mexico on april but they decided to host it the same day as a the Mexico Bushiroad Spring Fest and I'm torn betwen as you said give my sneke eyes a good use or defend the title on the bsf.
I wish Konami would just sell yugioh to a company that would take this game more seriously. They treat this game like we are privileged to play it. And they drip feed everything they possible can.
Konami could literally solve this problem immediately and they already have the answer. Print all the secret rares and ultras in each set as also super rares in the same set as it is in Japan and stop the short prints. The game would be flooded with new ans returning players and people might actually buy product instead of just singles. Also older formats need to be officially supported.
Id wish the same but im pretty sure the moment they do this it would absolutely kill the game here because no one would buy sealed products anymore because everything is cheap now.
The thing i don't like about people down playing regionals. Is because in my area Houston, Texas caps out at 650. Which is 10 rounds of play, and compared to other regionals in the USA are smaller that cap at 200 tops. The state itself is is probably bigger than Germany, so guess by European standard. Texas regionals are premiere events.
Some German regionals also reach 600 players. You are right these are hard to top. But the prestige of them was diluted by the 40-player regionals in other places existing. No one counts them as premier events.
its the fact another regional in some random ass town can have 50 players and they have same prizing/awards. not ur fault or ur areas fault just how it is. whereas ycs events go beyond 1000 and the prizing is specific to YCSs
The balkans, along with I assume a handful of other slightly less rich countries also have a problem with mass counterfeiting yugioh cards, to the point where you're bound to just try your luck in finding a properly printed fake card or actual real cards in order to play. I've had some luck with that, but it took a very long time.
There was joy in playing and topping locals and often times back then that was more than enough. I don't know what it is now at my ygo lgs after changing card games but I do think Konami should amp up the number of events and prizing to entice more people to participate in events.
My way of enjoying the game casually is going to Speed Duel locals, but the new set, only product to be released in March btw, was confirmed to be cancelled in EU. So yeah, everybody takes the L, casuals and pros.
I started playing Yugioh in 2016 and got to know players from the European master landscape. I always played casual Dark Magician and Blue Eyes and never really achieved anything with them. Last spring, I invested almost 70 euros in new support (we're talking about a handful of cards here, of course) and realized that no one in my circle of friends was playing anymore. Then we played Speed Duels for a while and finally I started playing Digimon. I don't have a community for it in Germany, but the casual decks are put together for a few Euros and are great fun. I built four solid Digimon decks for the price of my YuGiOh support cards... YuGiOh is just very unattractive and unnecessarily complicated. As much as I love the anime, I won't be investing any more money in new cards... not worth it for me.
Konami still needs to make cards more available in Europe as well as every card atleast costs 1.5x more from any secondary market compared to USA which is dumb. I'd atleast like a deck to have to go to a local
I hope someone just pulls a Golden Boy by topping a big event as a new player then riding off into the sunset on their mizuki 5 towards their next accomplishment that ain’t even yugioh related.
Just like the quite quitting in the business world i think of this phenomenon as a non-issue. we are talking about playing with inscribed pieces of cardboard in centralized places.... Just like the business issue, a lot of the problems are so far up the chain that to tackle them we would have to make large changes to society itself. And if life in business isn't fun, then people aren't going to do business. Same with Yugioh, it is a leisure activity, please let it be fun for as many as possible (*it currently isn't) This doesn't refer to JUST yugioh.
In rome people stopped playing advanced and just started playing edison, goat or even tengu lmao, and all of these scenes are hyper competitive and you don't have to spend a lot of money to get the best decks. Other players moved to one piece because as you said holding a 1500€ deck for locals is just not worth it. I think that time wizard is the future of yugioh and konami should really start supporting it more
After so many years I finally sold all my cards and am switching to another TCG. I loved the time so much and also loved your channel but I can´t take Konamis bull... anymore. Still thank you so much for all the content these years!
Playing for prestige isn't worth it imo. Spending all that money to compete only to get weak prize support, on top of Konami not having events for Europe...It makes more sense to be casual and start making those Friday night local events at this point (in all honesty).
My belgian boiiii speaking the truth, the TCG in Europe is kinda whack tbh.. Anyways, will visit Leuven tomorrow for a dubstep event haha and might cop 2 happy meals while I am there just for the Yu Gi Oh themed toys, that's as far as I am going rn spending money on this format or YGO in general lmao
I whish playing yui gi oh was easier, not in a "oh let's make the game simpler" but in a "let's have more ways to play the game". I discovered domain format, sort of a yu gi oh commander, and I want to play in that cause I know I'll never be able to go compete with consistency since Brazil only has 2 events a year, the only card games that can manage to stay relevant at my store (in terms of people playing and buying stuff reguraly) are magic and FAB we are trying to make a bandai carrd game scene even if just a casual one
Not having a YCS is like FIFA not having pro games. Just look at the US. Football's not held i as high regard. No prestige at the top affects the whole scene, not just the top players/
I play MD and collect some TCG cards since a few years (never played in locals or competitive and don't plan to)....And lately, MD's meta its becoming so bad and boring that I literally started playing Solitaire in my spare time, and regarding TCG, prices are so fucking high with so few nice cards, that I'm seriously considering changing to Pokemon...So, I agree that there are some people silently leaving the ship, because that' exactly what I'm planning and of course, that' a serious problem if starts to multiply....and its COMPLETELY Konami's fault for being lazy/greedy/incompetent as fuck....But I'm sure people with more time in the game have seen worse in the past...and I suspect that no matter what konami decides to do (probably nothing at all..as usual), there will be still some people who will pay the 1000 dollars bill for the next snake eyes deck...
Yugioh is actually not so different than solitaire if you play it without communicating, and even more terrible in MD because it is a BO1 format which develop some stun decks
@@bdc129I know....which is exactly why I changed to that...However, I didn't care about the BO1..or even the stun decks in MD (I always put evenly and reboot for that)...It was the moment some synchron guy calamity locked me after what seemed like 10 minutes that I just decided to go full solitaire..
@@pabloac.8100 that's why bo1 is so bad, evenly and reboot do nothing against heavy combo deck, meanwhile stuns are almost immune to handtraps which are needed to stop those combos
Unless you go to YCS events I can't see why you'd wanna or ever need to spend $1000+ on a deck to compete at locals. As long as you're having fun with whatever archetype that's competitive and can win games, that's what matters. I do get where you come from with the how expensive it gets, that's why I quit magic the gathering. And I'd highly recommend totally play yugioh and pokemon. Pokemon is crazy dirt cheap. Like you can buy 2 of the same level 2 or level 3 decks, and deck build like the yugioh structure decks and its crazy how competitive the deck is.
this isnt a collectible card game like pokemon or other games, it strives solely of the competitive scene there are no games or animes anymore to justify collecting the cards all the iconic cards have been printed and are available buying ygo cards if there are no tournaments is a pure money sink
When my boys topped YCS vegas I was talking with them at the airport, and I was really disappointed for them that all they got out of it really was just a nice mat. They definitely did get the clout and thats always good but man the prize support in this game is trash
It really is death by a thousand cuts. The game has been bleeding bad ever since it was released, but the players and the hype of the IP kept it going. Now? We are old, competition is getting fierce, konami is worse than ever. Are we really shocked that it's slowly going away? I felt like konami has been turning up the milking of player up a notch and let OTS stores die over time because they are slowly sunsetting the game... at least the TCG.
I'm sure there was a way to ask for more events, without taking a massive dump on the rest of the events. Aside from being a TCG ran by a bad company, it's also a ruined by a terrible "community".
I did not take a dump on any events. An overwhelming majority of competitive players agree regional tops aren’t premier tops. An overwhelming majority of competitive players understand the massive difference between a nats and a ycs top. These are just facts. They are being valued very differently because the difficulty of topping them is very different. The main issue is that events are branded by name only when player count can skew so much harder (some German or California or Texas regionals can be as large as certain YCSes), which is a “flaw” in how we value tops, but that is not something I chose. That’s a branding issue that could use fixing.
@@solemnyugioh I would argue that getting to day 2 at a latin american YCS is probably easier than topping a european nats considering things like mystic mine burn, swordsoul or runick stun win/top YCSs there
Did you just casually call my queen Meren a weak commander? 😮 Don't get me wrong the entire commander format sucks donkey balls but Meren is one of the best commanders out there. 😂
Nono, Meren is plenty strong but it’s a precon from anthology so lots of casual commander players got a semi upgraded weak Meren deck (myself included 😂)
Why am i here? The next local to me is about 150km, i can't even get the ots packs or play even if it is to get destroyed. I'ts been 6 years since i've played an irl game yet i'm still watching this. I wish i cared about competitive people but i really don't. Good luck wasting your money, i don't think there is an answer to this since highly competitive people will feed the company no matter how toxic their practices be.
Its a good game its just run by the worst most greedy company the banlist is just a means for sales now its so disgusting its not about balance at all its only there to sell cards they dgaf about balance they print the most broken cards and make the extremely hard to get and then everything else is somehow more unplayable than DM era cards i sold my collection and only play online
You du say it well, i started to look into other card games to play, next to yu gi oh. It will be pokemon now, played the online one long time, before the new shitty app. Actually wanted to play vanguard, but nobody play it where i live so ey.
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Belgium doesn’t get yugioh events, but they do get hello kitty and YGO crossover happy meals!!!!😂😂😂😂😂
TRUUUEEE
Always appreciate the Solemn opinion! And yeah, this is a scary trend. I suspect it's a budget thing? But I think Konami really needs to be weary of the competing new games because they're HUNGRY!
And this is happening during Yu-Gi-Oh!'s 25TH ANNIVERSARY... 🫠🫠
It's dead. Sadly but true.
We kind of need yugioh to die completely.. so years later it can be resurrected
not having a way to play yugioh casually is insane to me tbh
locals are a coin flip because some are competitive and some arent. im lucky because theres a small speed duel scene next to me at least but even that may soon be over in europe
im working on it
We’re the only card game with dogshit prize support
Bare minimum, give the tops way more exclusive shit to sell instead of a fucking Switch like starlight cards or loads of gems on Master Duel 😂.
They should just give prize moneys, yes Takahashi didn't want to have prize money but that was in the 90's, for a game that you need to expend so much in the game to compete with a meta deck they should expect an actual reward for their time they invested in this game
@@kauanjos3199this 100% . People that invest all this money into their decks just to possibly win a switch. Those people can simply buy themselves a switch lol the prize support is horrendous. If pokemon can offer cash prizing so can yugioh but Komoney is just stingy and cheap.
According to this genius, prizing doesn't matter, so why do you even care? It's all about the prestige and how much adderall you take OBVI
@@djjorge87 I think he said that because the prizes are not good, so they compete for prestige. But that would change if prizes were better, then people would compete for both prizes and prestige.
im gonna comment on this later on now im just high
You still high? What's your opinion?
@@erichindy8688 yugioh tcg part is really managed very very poorly. they dont know or they dont care if they apply ocg rarity in tcg all tournaments will be crowded a lot. right now i cant play paper bc i dont have that kinda cash. im seriously wishing to be born in japan and be an ocg player just for this
Any updates after almost a week?
i think i forgot what i wanted to say :D@@jorda8915
😂 is bro ok? Is been two weeks
The sad part is that countries like Panama are being very active recently with 2 locals per week with 30+ regionals with 70+ players and konami d cided to not give us the national
This video is sooo ON POINT! I literally watched Joshua Schmidt win YCS bologna, so I bought his exact Runick deck. I would have never spent those $450 dollars buying that deck if it wasn’t for that YCS existing.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Not even close this is just 1st world narracasit projection
So you just bought a Deck into the blue cause it won a YCS?
You’re telling me my South Dakota regionals doesn’t matter 🥲
Runick Bishbalkin 😂😂😂😂 my dude you went off 😂😂😂😂
The McDonalds regionals joke kills me lol😂
1. Spend time & $$ to play solitaire 2.0 for an average of 3 turns... Win closet souvenirs...donated by other companies.
2. Wait 2-3 months for Konami to *gradually* chip away at player's investment into the new Boogeyman archetype's power only for them to replace it with another 2-3 right after. Look at that, format rotation hidden in plain sight!!
3. If a game is so turn 1-reliant and only a handful of new cards matter, it's no wonder new sets don't sell well. The game's pacing doesn't give the majority of cards *time* to do their thing. The cards may not actually be bad in a slower paced environment. There would also be more things to build besides combo decks as well. The game's rules are *extremely* outdated. They're still using the same starting life point total from 2002.
4. How can a game be around for over 20 years and only have one fully company-sanctioned format? I would think something like a pure archetype format (they sell them in every set) would exist after all of this time, but no. It would be the perfect avenue for card design for newer, smaller and older archetypes.
Man, point 3 in particolar is something that i've been saying for a long time.
There's very little design space when you power creep the game so much that every deck desperately wants to turbo everything as soon as possibile. Konami was so careless and managing power creep that they've basically removed non searchable trap cards from the game.
You have all these summoning mechanics that are different on paper, but become pretty much the same when they become so easy and consistent to spam on the field.
Funny that this is posted during YCS Sydney Australia.
wait you guys are getting ycs's
Yugioh is the best card game but is run by the worst company.
No
Very true
since 2000 by the konmais
I mean, could be run by Bushiroad who doesn't even follow their own metagames and only considers representation.
Yugioh has been the worst TCG since 2015 lol.
I cant even find any LGS' in the county i live in, there are like 2 or 3 of them in the entire county for all i know. I barely can find a locals to go to
Casual players in Yugioh are just players Konami failed to convince it was worth it to buy expensive cards and participate in events. Oh boy, a Nintendo Switch for first place 🙄
It's just sad really. Like Giant Cards are cool prizes, and they are unique, so it's a shame they don't do stuff like they used too. The first Worlds (I think it was the first) had like 12 unique steel prize cards for the champ, and the rest went away.
Those were one of a kind and that was pretty sweet. They need to do stuff like that again
Playset of bonfire and an S:P pays for a switch. Crazy how they think a 300€ tech product would be a great price for such a huge event xD
Sounds really expensive for European players 😕
Yugioh is expensive asf everywhere. Its just that some people dont notice
@@720pchannelI think most people in this community believe and understand this. The issue is most ygo players have "beaten housewife syndrome" and they don't want to start another card game after investing 20 years and untold amounts of dollars.
@@720pchannelExtra Expensive for EU because they’re going to need to fly out to the USA for events.
This video is full of Hilarious expressions, comparisons and jokes that I laughed my ass off 😂😂. Otherwise you really brought a lot of good points, I really hope they start organizing some Ycs Events, I would love to go with my friend as competitive players.
😂😂😂 good points did contradicts himself every two min lol how old are you?
Belgium prob won’t have a nats either.
Also, the latest Speed Duel box won’t be released in europe for some reason…
And Australia too, midterm destruction is skipping us as well
Ive been keeping up with this largely cuz of Speed Duels not being announced for EU either. Something is going on here and its super weird
YGO shouldve double down supporting time wizard tbh to get those older players back, even new players. Goat edison tengu hat etc. And they can reprint cards from those formats too.
Side events in every YCS is nice and all but they havent invested on it enough. No stream coverage of the tournament with commentators yet.
And bring rush duels to the west. Thats how they could easily get new players. Especially kids. It's a simple format to pick up
@@LuciferArc1Rush would be a company competing with itself. There isn't as much of an audience for kid's playable TCGs in the West. Let the Rush dream exist on Duel Links.
@@geek593 I'm saying scrap modern yugioh for rush entirely
@@LuciferArc1You and me both.
I guess this is why OCG and AE formats are much more popular due to the price range.
Something is definately going on at Konami Europe. For example: this years German nationals aren`t in Dortmund anymore, but instead in Munster in a most likely much smaller location.
Demand for products (AGOV 2nd print would sell like hotcakes) and events is incredibly high here, but Konami however decided to give us neither.
It's weird because Europe especially in Germany has the largest attendence for ycs. Something must be causing issues and Konami being them aren't being vocal about it. Also side events>main events. Side event prizing is so much better and it's why I'm only doing side events at events anymore.
I wonder if it has something to do with gambling laws or something. I don't know the particulars, but I do know there's been a crackdown on what does and does not constitute gambling. They're also being harder on anti-consumer practices over there, so Konami is a bit more limited in what they can get away with.
@@DG_Raizen that would only affect Sweden and denmark currently. Germany and the uk as well as spain and italy are all fine for now which are where the ycs typically are
I stoped playing when link cards where introduced and tbh I still don’t understand how they work
In Spain we were about to have a continuos series with Grand Duelist hosting Big tournaments with GD Series, however, now the next series has been cancelled due to a copyright demand. Konami IS really trying to not continue YuGiOh in Europe
I remember there were 2 YCSs in Spain years ago and that's it.
Kinda funny you mention Belgium, at my locals in Belgium they have a jank sunday where meta is forbidden fridays is for everyone
Well we haven’t got an event in turkey since jan 2020 :D
Playing Yu-Gi-Oh is like a business these days, what a shame.
Nah, it is about how much adderall you take and how much you can get other people to pay for your flights and cards
COVID turned Yu-Gi-Oh into a cryptocurrency. 😂
@@djjorge87damn broski. I was saying the same thing. That's wild
@@scruffy_bear Cause it's true, I hate how these d*** youtuberis try to accolate them moralistic. Yeah, they know exactly what's going on. This dude is probably on all too. I mean the nonsensical ran kind of points to it
@@scruffy_bear mark my words I will expose these dudes
We have a YCS on mexico on april but they decided to host it the same day as a the Mexico Bushiroad Spring Fest and I'm torn betwen as you said give my sneke eyes a good use or defend the title on the bsf.
We Hebben Een Serieus Probleem.
Bro why you hating McDonald's so hard?
I LOVE McDonald's :(
I wish Konami would just sell yugioh to a company that would take this game more seriously. They treat this game like we are privileged to play it. And they drip feed everything they possible can.
But i enjoy my mc flurry i got with the fire deck i bought from you...❤
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Konami could literally solve this problem immediately and they already have the answer. Print all the secret rares and ultras in each set as also super rares in the same set as it is in Japan and stop the short prints. The game would be flooded with new ans returning players and people might actually buy product instead of just singles. Also older formats need to be officially supported.
Id wish the same but im pretty sure the moment they do this it would absolutely kill the game here because no one would buy sealed products anymore because everything is cheap now.
I'd still buy singles since there would be only a few cards per set I'd want
The game isn't worth investing in
Maybe they are preoccupied with staging Challenger Cups on Master Duel?
the last Euro YCS was Bologna right? Dang that was last year.
yup that was the last one
Brought some good point but was vibing more to donkey kong country ost
This video is so true it hurts. It really does 😢
Cool, hope I can see you at Pokemon EUIC!
It's funny you mention Happy Meal prizes when we got a Hello Kitty x Yugioh crossover McDonalds toys announcment
You’re forgetting that one piece is so overhyped that it’s blowing every other tcg price out of the water
It's burning itself out
Speed running that pricing out casual players meta
Yeah everyone’s overhyping the game. NOBODY CAN FIND PRODUCT.
“Oh just buy singles”
Did you not hear me. NO PRODUCT MEANS NO SINGLES.
11:32 my man legit turns this video into a Varg Vikerness video for half a minute
The thing i don't like about people down playing regionals. Is because in my area Houston, Texas caps out at 650. Which is 10 rounds of play, and compared to other regionals in the USA are smaller that cap at 200 tops. The state itself is is probably bigger than Germany, so guess by European standard. Texas regionals are premiere events.
Some German regionals also reach 600 players. You are right these are hard to top.
But the prestige of them was diluted by the 40-player regionals in other places existing.
No one counts them as premier events.
its the fact another regional in some random ass town can have 50 players and they have same prizing/awards. not ur fault or ur areas fault just how it is. whereas ycs events go beyond 1000 and the prizing is specific to YCSs
@@Remehdise yup exactly
The German Open is 512 people for comparison.
@solemnyugioh gotcha yeah I blame Europe for that lol.
The balkans, along with I assume a handful of other slightly less rich countries also have a problem with mass counterfeiting yugioh cards, to the point where you're bound to just try your luck in finding a properly printed fake card or actual real cards in order to play.
I've had some luck with that, but it took a very long time.
Magic Friday is called speed duel, that format I soo chill
Yugioh speed duel also... next box is only for america...
Hi solemn, love your content because tcg is so expensive rn i started edison to not left the game thanks timewizard exist
There was joy in playing and topping locals and often times back then that was more than enough.
I don't know what it is now at my ygo lgs after changing card games but I do think Konami should amp up the number of events and prizing to entice more people to participate in events.
I just play Shadowverse Evolve now. At least then I can have fun with my limited events.
My way of enjoying the game casually is going to Speed Duel locals, but the new set, only product to be released in March btw, was confirmed to be cancelled in EU. So yeah, everybody takes the L, casuals and pros.
Its not confirmed 100% also few german, italian etc. sites already have the box listed on the webshop for preorder. So i don't think its cancelled.
It’s sad when you say winning regional and national tournaments don’t matter
They matter, but they’re not the same level as a YCS and that’s how people see them
really hope konami comes across this cause this is pin-point accuracy
I live thear and i have not arealy big inkomen and my locaal has some more walther players i litterly cant defeat them
At this point can we even be surprised?
Great video
Digimon?
Might as well be banned
I started playing Yugioh in 2016 and got to know players from the European master landscape. I always played casual Dark Magician and Blue Eyes and never really achieved anything with them. Last spring, I invested almost 70 euros in new support (we're talking about a handful of cards here, of course) and realized that no one in my circle of friends was playing anymore. Then we played Speed Duels for a while and finally I started playing Digimon. I don't have a community for it in Germany, but the casual decks are put together for a few Euros and are great fun. I built four solid Digimon decks for the price of my YuGiOh support cards... YuGiOh is just very unattractive and unnecessarily complicated. As much as I love the anime, I won't be investing any more money in new cards... not worth it for me.
Konami still needs to make cards more available in Europe as well as every card atleast costs 1.5x more from any secondary market compared to USA which is dumb. I'd atleast like a deck to have to go to a local
Ey yooooo a McFlurry as a prize sounds pretty good lmao excellent video I’m defeintly making a response to this
I hope someone just pulls a Golden Boy by topping a big event as a new player then riding off into the sunset on their mizuki 5 towards their next accomplishment that ain’t even yugioh related.
A freaking mc flurry as a trophy 🤣🤣🤣
australia getting 1 ycs per year 😭
Marketing side has been atrocious. They need to ramp it up.
I personally love the eu commentary team and find it a big shame there isn't more europe ycs
i always paly yugioh for fun though, i dont care about meta i just want to have fun lol
Hi from germany, my husband and droped down ygo because we feel like casuals are not much wanted from konami now we are playing magic 😂
Just like the quite quitting in the business world i think of this phenomenon as a non-issue.
we are talking about playing with inscribed pieces of cardboard in centralized places....
Just like the business issue, a lot of the problems are so far up the chain that to tackle them we would have to make large changes to society itself.
And if life in business isn't fun, then people aren't going to do business.
Same with Yugioh, it is a leisure activity, please let it be fun for as many as possible (*it currently isn't)
This doesn't refer to JUST yugioh.
thank god my fire king snake eyes deck only costed 200usd cus indonesia is OCG format official 😂
In rome people stopped playing advanced and just started playing edison, goat or even tengu lmao, and all of these scenes are hyper competitive and you don't have to spend a lot of money to get the best decks. Other players moved to one piece because as you said holding a 1500€ deck for locals is just not worth it. I think that time wizard is the future of yugioh and konami should really start supporting it more
After so many years I finally sold all my cards and am switching to another TCG. I loved the time so much and also loved your channel but I can´t take Konamis bull... anymore. Still thank you so much for all the content these years!
Playing for prestige isn't worth it imo. Spending all that money to compete only to get weak prize support, on top of Konami not having events for Europe...It makes more sense to be casual and start making those Friday night local events at this point (in all honesty).
Sir I WOULD play that regional. Forget tjem robots.
Why do you have Tistina cards on your wall they are so bad😭😭😭😭😭
Won the oversized card n thought it looked cool, I know it’s competitively ass 😭
@@solemnyugioh Very solid art indeed
This was golden
God yes someone agreed that yugiohs a bad casual game I say this all the time and people look me weird.
Well the game being competative instead of casual is a major appeal of it tbh.
My belgian boiiii speaking the truth, the TCG in Europe is kinda whack tbh..
Anyways, will visit Leuven tomorrow for a dubstep event haha and might cop 2 happy meals while I am there just for the Yu Gi Oh themed toys, that's as far as I am going rn spending money on this format or YGO in general lmao
this man chose to speak facts
I love the Urshi Dark picture 😂😂
I whish playing yui gi oh was easier, not in a "oh let's make the game simpler" but in a "let's have more ways to play the game". I discovered domain format, sort of a yu gi oh commander, and I want to play in that cause I know I'll never be able to go compete with consistency since Brazil only has 2 events a year, the only card games that can manage to stay relevant at my store (in terms of people playing and buying stuff reguraly) are magic and FAB we are trying to make a bandai carrd game scene even if just a casual one
Yugioh had so much potential to be a good card game
and then they added a mechanic that allows you to spam summon you're entire deck for 15 mins
Not having a YCS is like FIFA not having pro games.
Just look at the US. Football's not held i as high regard. No prestige at the top affects the whole scene, not just the top players/
I play MD and collect some TCG cards since a few years (never played in locals or competitive and don't plan to)....And lately, MD's meta its becoming so bad and boring that I literally started playing Solitaire in my spare time, and regarding TCG, prices are so fucking high with so few nice cards, that I'm seriously considering changing to Pokemon...So, I agree that there are some people silently leaving the ship, because that' exactly what I'm planning and of course, that' a serious problem if starts to multiply....and its COMPLETELY Konami's fault for being lazy/greedy/incompetent as fuck....But I'm sure people with more time in the game have seen worse in the past...and I suspect that no matter what konami decides to do (probably nothing at all..as usual), there will be still some people who will pay the 1000 dollars bill for the next snake eyes deck...
Yugioh is actually not so different than solitaire if you play it without communicating, and even more terrible in MD because it is a BO1 format which develop some stun decks
@@bdc129I know....which is exactly why I changed to that...However, I didn't care about the BO1..or even the stun decks in MD (I always put evenly and reboot for that)...It was the moment some synchron guy calamity locked me after what seemed like 10 minutes that I just decided to go full solitaire..
@@pabloac.8100 that's why bo1 is so bad, evenly and reboot do nothing against heavy combo deck, meanwhile stuns are almost immune to handtraps which are needed to stop those combos
Unless you go to YCS events I can't see why you'd wanna or ever need to spend $1000+ on a deck to compete at locals. As long as you're having fun with whatever archetype that's competitive and can win games, that's what matters. I do get where you come from with the how expensive it gets, that's why I quit magic the gathering. And I'd highly recommend totally play yugioh and pokemon. Pokemon is crazy dirt cheap. Like you can buy 2 of the same level 2 or level 3 decks, and deck build like the yugioh structure decks and its crazy how competitive the deck is.
@@michaelh.1484yugioh should make rush duels their main format. It's simpler and would get new younger players into the game
yugioh needs an actual prize pool.
WTF IS A KILOMETEEEEEEEER 🦅🦅🦅
Show some respect for the Europeans Konami!!!
I eaven buy pokemon cards just 2 colect them 😅
I switched to Ygo because Magic doesnt have decent competitive scene. If Yugioh loses this I will leave.
this isnt a collectible card game like pokemon or other games, it strives solely of the competitive scene
there are no games or animes anymore to justify collecting the cards
all the iconic cards have been printed and are available
buying ygo cards if there are no tournaments is a pure money sink
When my boys topped YCS vegas I was talking with them at the airport, and I was really disappointed for them that all they got out of it really was just a nice mat. They definitely did get the clout and thats always good but man the prize support in this game is trash
Sounds like a reseller problem
And how are you getting your cards? Buying 5000€ worth of sealed product? Id rather buy singles.
Crazy, sold my fire deck 1 week ago and got me a Yubel deck to play in my ots locals.
It really is death by a thousand cuts. The game has been bleeding bad ever since it was released, but the players and the hype of the IP kept it going.
Now? We are old, competition is getting fierce, konami is worse than ever. Are we really shocked that it's slowly going away?
I felt like konami has been turning up the milking of player up a notch and let OTS stores die over time because they are slowly sunsetting the game... at least the TCG.
I'm sure there was a way to ask for more events, without taking a massive dump on the rest of the events. Aside from being a TCG ran by a bad company, it's also a ruined by a terrible "community".
I did not take a dump on any events.
An overwhelming majority of competitive players agree regional tops aren’t premier tops.
An overwhelming majority of competitive players understand the massive difference between a nats and a ycs top.
These are just facts. They are being valued very differently because the difficulty of topping them is very different. The main issue is that events are branded by name only when player count can skew so much harder (some German or California or Texas regionals can be as large as certain YCSes), which is a “flaw” in how we value tops, but that is not something I chose. That’s a branding issue that could use fixing.
@@solemnyugioh I would argue that getting to day 2 at a latin american YCS is probably easier than topping a european nats considering things like mystic mine burn, swordsoul or runick stun win/top YCSs there
Did you just casually call my queen Meren a weak commander? 😮
Don't get me wrong the entire commander format sucks donkey balls but Meren is one of the best commanders out there. 😂
Nono, Meren is plenty strong but it’s a precon from anthology so lots of casual commander players got a semi upgraded weak Meren deck (myself included 😂)
Why am i here? The next local to me is about 150km, i can't even get the ots packs or play even if it is to get destroyed. I'ts been 6 years since i've played an irl game yet i'm still watching this. I wish i cared about competitive people but i really don't. Good luck wasting your money, i don't think there is an answer to this since highly competitive people will feed the company no matter how toxic their practices be.
EU crew probably didn't want to commentate snake eye mirrors for 12+ rounds more than they have to
Its a good game its just run by the worst most greedy company the banlist is just a means for sales now its so disgusting its not about balance at all its only there to sell cards they dgaf about balance they print the most broken cards and make the extremely hard to get and then everything else is somehow more unplayable than DM era cards i sold my collection and only play online
You du say it well, i started to look into other card games to play, next to yu gi oh. It will be pokemon now, played the online one long time, before the new shitty app.
Actually wanted to play vanguard, but nobody play it where i live so ey.