I've learned things from Rudy that school didn't teach me... now my family is financially stable and i will be able to retire. Thank you Rudy. You're helping people.
*Living a life of luxury is like a dream for some people and for others it's constant reality, the key is having financial stability and strength but the question is how to*
Yeah!! Due to the fall in the stock market, I don't think it's advisable holding, it would be more beneficial and yield more profit if you actually trade on cryptocurrency I've been trading since the dip, and I've made so much profit trading.
@Alice Spencer that's why you need the help of a professional like Mr Edward Martin's who trade and understand the market more to earn good income, these professionals understand the market like it's there own farm and make s maximum profit for investors.
@@Sanlee578 Yeah, My first investment with Mr Edward Martin's he earned me profit of over $25,530 US dollars, and ever since then he has been delivering
I worked as a bankruptcy lawyer for about 10 years, for many people it's such a good decision.....Also, Illuminati is such a cool game. One With Everything!
I’m gonna be honest. I’ve never been interested in card games or magic the gathering but this channel has a ton of gems on it. Watching you sit and talk in front of the camera about random topics is mesmerizing.
This reminds me of the frenzy on Kickstarter 10 years ago, specifically in gaming. The people with proven track records mostly delivered on their promises, whereas others either imploded thereafter (usually after taking off with all the funds) or delivered a steaming pile many years later. Anything I see on Kickstarter these days is immediately suspect, since you've got to wonder how badly undercapitalized they are in the first place to launch on Kickstarter. How many of these projects can withstand the pressures of development, release, and maintenance in the long term? It's even more difficult for something like a TCG!
See, you claim to remember the Kickstarter frenzy from a decade ago, but you then immediately forget that the most catostrophic failures were from industry titans. Mighty no. 9 was directed by a 20+ year industry veteran. Yogventures was pushed by the largest gaming youtubers at the time. Robotech RPG Tactics had a massive IP behind it. Star Citizen was directed by Chris Roberts. Godus was a Peter Molyneux title, but we all knew that was going to backfire because Peter fucking Molyneux. The issue is you're discarding hundreds of card and video games developed through that time that delivered successfully, and I don't blame you. It's a lot less interesting to hear about 100+ NES homebrews that get funded and successfully deliver to backers over the past 4 years, or the thousands of board games and Tabletop RPGs that were completed successfully, but didn't rake in millions during initial pre-orders because they weren't made by a famous artist, animator, or game designer. And it's understandable that you wouldn't know about these stories, because they're not engaging to us as a readers/listeners. When we're looking at Kickstarter stories, we're only interested in hearing about wild success stories or absolute trainwrecks, so that's what gets reported on.
@@Markpichot His point is wrong. I was pointing out that he's basing things off of a flawed understanding of how Kickstarter works, and the fact that campaigns run by "more established" creators are usually the ones that failed the hardest, while smaller/newer creators historically have a higher rate of success.
@@6502chip How’s it wrong? You didn’t present any evidence that he was wrong. You have your opinion which sounds totally incorrect. I can guarantee that there were way more failed kickstarters than triple A companies that went bankrupt. Thinking otherwise is ridiculous.
Lots of good stuff here - that is for investors. As a investor and player, I see this market more like the board game market of 2014-2018. There are some INCREDIBLE games out there that can be fun to play, open, and experience at a $200-300 price point. They can provide hours of entertainment to you and your play group and mix it all up. As investment pieces - I completely agree!
Rudy thank you so much for taking the time to share this very informative video with us. You are the reason I got into FAB and Metazoo. Truly appreciate you ❤
Don't forget the Decipher rule: Don't mismanage the company so badly that you have to embezzle all the money out of it after you lose all your license deals
@@hosersupreme I dunno, I played the crap out of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings back in the day, but Star Trek still eludes me - it wasn't clear that an opponent was required to play that game, and you could still lose?
@@TCGBulkKings That's exactly what I was referring to. Star was was pretty good, never played LotR, but Star Trek was...a series of failures at every level. I wanted it to be good, but it was barely playable. My play group modified the rules slightly and added our own clarifications to the rules to make it playable, but even then, it was clunky and difficult to consistently win.
I want to play it but man is it convoluted and bloated. At least my last memory of it. Which was right before death star 2 and the end of the decipher licence
I thought the CCG based on EVE Online had a lot of potential. Suprised the Star Wars ccg failed. I forgot about all my mtg cards purchased from 94-99. One day a co worker said he played mtg. Told him hadn't played in 20 years. Left me amazed at what these old cards go for. I started watch Rudy because of my coworker bringing up how mtg was vety much alive today.
Rudy i watch your videos for entertainment purposes. 36 and the only cardboard i own is the stuff that needs to be recycled on Monday. I agree with alot of your insights.
First Rudy vid I've ever watched where I didn't learned something. Not complaining because I know other people might not know these things but the more you learn about finance, collectibles, and the creation of products, you find that it is far more common sense than anything else.
This is real talk. I have been working on my game for 1 year and 5 months. Ive looked up many videos, your videos, Kohdak videos, e commerce, kickstarter, etc. You need influences, bad or good publicity, literally anything and everything to benefit you and it needs to be done online. I cant win against Magic, Pokemon, Yu Gi Oh. From a buyers perspective which is what I think of all the time when I think about selling my game. I can not convince myself that anyone would buy my game which has no valuable cards, run by me myself and a few artist, and its not an online game or has literally any presence at all in an LGS or any tournament play. Literally the only way I could see my game starting at all, is making it a free to print to play. It takes the inventory management away, I can adjust cards in case something is to broken, and I can get somewhat away from the distribution chain. My goal is to have people play my game, I like and want money from it but I just cant expect anyone to pay for my game being backed by me only basically. My goal is to log into Reddit and see a subreddit with my game on it, and people shitting on it. That is my goal.
I just noticed rudy's sounds dampers(shall we call them taco holsters or taco holders). It really does make my foils unwarp and my tacos from floppy to hard
I remember working for a friends LGS in the late 90's and the distributors wouldn't let him buy just magic without buying say Wyvern ect. I laugh when I see that box in the background. Some of those card games look amazing. I tried to play as many as I could and learned so much from them but what seems to happen is people tend to stick with the games they know best like Magic. My LGS only played L5R, Magic and Pokemon and lesser so Star Wars and Middle Earth. For a game to make it it has to have everything including all the support you mentioned. Its crazy to see so many games and know they are not going to make it. Im pretty sure nobody ever bought Wyvern at my store if they did it was like a pack or two max. Some of those games have amazing mechanics and art too but it wasn't enough
It doesn't matter how much money your kickstarter makes. If you don't have experience and connections in the printing, packaging, shipping, distribution, and retail outlets for the industry your product is aimed at, your product will not make it to your customers. If the first update after the kickstarter drive closes is "Okay folks. We just interviewed with our first printer. They said they didn't have any openings in their schedule for us. We'll see how the next three interviews this week go and get back to you." You will never see the product you funded.
D-Spirits Kickstarter product actually blew me away. Thought it was going to be just another Pokemon clone judging by the sample cards, but I saw a couple box breaks and the quality is out of this world. The packaging and presentation is next level. I love the updated artwork they have. Gameplay seems fun and easy, like early yugi. It has enough for adults like me, but I really think that kids and families are going to go nuts for it.
I miss legend of five rings granite I never played or collected it but always wanted to play it but again I was into buying magic for when I stopped/ retired from working. Mainly because it tied to my high school/ delayed entry program.
Hi there... in the video it is mentioned that there are companies trying to to revitalize old card games... where can one find these companies? Is there a list? Company names perhaps?? Just asking to find out if anybody might know anything... I'd appreciate it thanks.
RUDY! I learned something today. While you don't regularly cut your hair or shave, it's apparent that you pay particular attention to plucking what appears to be a Mono-Brow to make it into two. Although, in this video, if you look carefully, you can see that you missed a few plucks. This is what happens as you age and your near vision fades.
And some companies like Decipher fell because insider fraud(owners relative stealing). Also some games that US may look as failure may have been a success elsewhere (Vampire). TCG world had it's wild west moment then and it seems like there is 2nd one baking. I just hope that there is more room in competitive environment after this boom/bust cycle.
Signing a piece of paper that lets you take money you owe and legally not pay back ? Genius! Well … as long as you don’t need to borrow money afterwards because you planted a few pallets of Arabian Nights in your goldfish bunker secretly under your competitor Timmy’s emporiums basement. You struggle for a few years after running various side hustles flipping shrimp tacos at the local McSonic but after waiting a few years you launch your plan. You use what you saved slinging tacos to buy the drill used to dig the tunnel for the English channel (subsequently to make the casino shake in oceans 13 because you have a hotline to brad Pitt) you start digging on a Tuesday. The shop is closed. You bust through the concrete and rock to find your pallets and a taco with a note. It says “todays the day.” You smile , put the note in a pocket. You carefully load your pallets into the uhaul you rented. You kick out the supports and tie a rope to the last one. On your way out you yank the rope . The ground trembles when suddenly the floor caves . Pallets , cardboard and fold out tables tumble and on top of the rubble. A box of dragons maze and fallen empires . Lay. Perfectly sealed covered in stop tape. You take them as a memento. You hid out in your creepy warehouse you had under your moms name. A few days later you go to the scene of the crime. Timmy’s emporium lies a pile of ruble. You glance Timmy’s Wife … Standing to the side while Timmy argues with the insurance appraiser. She’s wearing her two hats. Beautiful as ever. You pass by slyly. Pass her the note. She glances back , she looks at Timmy. She drops her 2 hats and begins to quickly but calmly walk away. You catch a flight to Toulouse , take a drive in the Dolorean you bought and stashed in an old barn. You drive through the night, then in the moonlight. The ivory tower. You spend the rest of your life slinging Arabian boxes on eBay .
I dont have a pitch for a ccg but I've been thinking about opening a small game store dealing in dnd ccg and possibly sports cards..at the moment there is only 1 store like 100 miles I go to it and its constantly busy I'm just kind of fearful about taking the leap. What do you think Rude Man? Should I just go for it or is it the one way trip to failuresville because the local game store has gone the way of the dodo?
He’s done many videos on this. He seems to be of the opinion that LGSs are a dying business model. Unless you’re a rich hobbyist who can afford to have an unprofitable business then you might be better off doing an online business like Rudy did.
The real problem is when you have all these Paper Trading Card Games / Collectible Card Games tied to a Loot Crate / Loot Box Business Model and a Secondary Market competing against each other when only two or three of these card games demand the most amount of money being MTG, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and Pokémon TCG. It makes it hard for all these other competing games to stay afloat because the amount of disposable income to multi-task these card games all at once is very minimal due to most players only making paycheck to paycheck unless they're making $1,000+ an hour or more than what minimum wage requires. That's why a lot of these companies outside WotC, Konami, and TPCi don't invest much of their resources on Organized Play at Local Game Stores (LGSs) and Convention style events when they're under short term contractual obligations until they ultimately pull the plug and move on to another card game project. These In-Person Community based games is too much high risk for very little reward where the reward has already gone to those who done it first when the genre was fresh back in the mid 90's where there wasn't as much competition back then where as now the cost literally can't keep up especially with FOMO involved.
no smaller company wants to pay an LGS's rent so they can barely sell or advertise their product, even taking into consideration the anticompetitive practices by those big 2
@@abolishshekeluse3782 How exactly are companies like Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro, Konami, The Pokémon Company International (TPCi), etc. are paying rent for these Local Game Stores (LGSs) to publicly advertise for their Paper Trading Card Games / Collectible Card Games? Isn't that the responsibility of the store owners and staff by paying rent to their landlord? If the geography is terrible then that's on the store owners who are renting the property unless they don't have a choice or they're stupid enough to own it themselves. For the longest time Local Game Stores (LGSs) have solely relied on Organized Play to help advertise specific Paper Trading Card Games / Collectible Card Games to help increase revenue for their brands but when the pandemic hit two years ago EVERYTHING changed. We're now starting to see a paradigm shift that's stripping away of why people invested their hard earned money into this gaming hobby by making it less community based with In-Person social interactions that's being traded for a less desirable experience gone digital.
@@456jm you can't get startup capital to run a business in this industry without a bank loan and they insist on you paying rent because they can work with the landlord directly and owning a commercial property yourself is dumb because you won't get it insured and your customer base is toxic and hellbent on trying to rip you off because you're taxing them by providing what is essentially a roof over a park bench to play at because it's near their sales counter. like sure the in person game is going to be better but without that in person game experience the digital version would never sell, it's a terrible attempt at mimicry of the full tabletop experience and quite honestly digital versions ruin the casual experience via netdecking and pay to win. the misconception you have here is that LGS's provide a niche, expert, or essential service to the trading card game economy and that couldn't be farther from the truth because the market would flourish without usury, timing mass snap-ups, and harsh markups of buy prices systematically by the LGS owners and they completely disincentivize player trading and selling for no purpose other than selfishly pretending like they're "stand up pals" that regularly carry incredulously disrespectful and ungrateful attitudes due to pure unadulterated expectations of exploitations. there was no pandemic it's just an excuse to cover up for a completely fraudulent election
@@abolishshekeluse3782 The bottom line here is that Local Game Stores (LGSs) provide a physical In-Person place for people to play despite terrible business practices that cause them to lean toward other LGSs within the vicinity. Why take that luxury away from people whose invested millions of dollars into this gaming hobby? Sure we don't get to fire In-Person Paper Tournaments like we used to but at least we get to have a few games of EDH / Commander here and there. LGSs can't survive on EDH / Commander alone. What about other Paper TCG's? How is Pokémon TCG doing well right now despite the absence of Organized Play and events at LGSs? How is Yu-Gi-Oh! still competing? Some LGSs DO provide an essential service to the TCG economy, the problem is that the local distributors that provided that service for LGSs are now being replaced by Amazon fulfillment and other e-commerce businesses by cutting the middleman while the LGS can't even break even in terms of sales without going bankrupt.
@@456jm That "physical in person place for people to play" is not an asset, it is something almost all businesses are expected to provide on their storefront to foster an environment of collective consumption to help mitigate buyer's remorse. The LGS's near me don't even want commander players to use their tables. The in person paper tournaments receive prize support from wizards which obviously is just to subsidize their rent, as if they enhance rather than strictly detract from the tournament experience by providing the occasional judge call and specifically banning and embargoing hostile players in a gambling, rather than a gaming for pleasure scenario. If the tournament does not fire, it is rarely the fault of the gamestore, but mostly the responsibility of wizards for allowing chris cox to talk. Many LGS's began under a real market economy where rent was affordable and EDH players were valuable retention mechanisms and not considered a nuisance. Unfortunately we are under a globalist coup. Pokemon and yugioh are both thriving in their in person paper events and sales because they are simpler games with a greater hold over their target audience, have gripping and engaging, high quality television shows and movies supporting their fantastic art, (of which MTG used to have illustrative rivalry frequently prior to khans of tarkir), and ultimately they just don't treat their customers with such wicked and abrasive decisions to plumb all value and hose the players like MTG. Also the single mom epidemic from the excessive female jobs, contributes to the playerbase of these games, since they aren't able to do other activities such as take vacations or attend concerts due to the parenting complications. No LGS provides any "essential" service in the economy. Players can participate in the market themselves, and often benefit from doing so. The secondary market is in a recession whenever an LGS can afford to undercut them, something nobody without a rent fire under their bum would bother to do, and they invest heavily with mass box openings on crashing prices to make sure that tournament winnings are "investment" caliber instead of the passive income source they're portrayed to be. Amazon is a distributor, and this whole narrative about LGS's "barely breaking even" is a boxcutter taken around a feast or famine story. Some LGS's are millionaires making extreme profit margins yearly, and others stay open with no real customer base and eventually have to admit that they are not in any charge of the market's location and purchase preferences. WoTC has caught on to the LGS dilemma and amazon will never give them the grief that the LGS will in terms of trying to completely eviscerate the people who are actually enjoying the game and trying to have a good time without the demarcations of the intercepting profiteers. LGS conglomerates in big cities sponsor streamers and WoTC hires twitter celebs and hatsune miku, none of them are in need of a bailing bucket or even remotely underwater. The little guy is just playing the mom-and-pop role knowing full well that the majority of his success or failure is beyond his control, and 95% of small businesses fail in the first 5 years. If I recall the LGS statistics correctly, I think they're actually double that average, with 10% of LGS's lasting a full 5 years.
Rudy, I would LOVE LOVE LOVE for you to do a video on Steve Jackson Games. Illuminati, Car Wars, Munchkin and many other games they've done with success and compare it to these failing kickstarter games.
PK Cards did well until they ran out of cash. They had a draft, standard play. Gold points to redeem physical rewards Started developing a cartoon. Good games, not even funding / advertisement.
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I enjoy these videos where you chop it up in front of the camera for 20 plus minutes. Watched all the way through. Good insight as always.
These videos, shelf videos, and long card sorting videos are epic, and amazing knowledge, from a wise old fart 🤪👍🏻
2022 is the new 1991 👌🏻
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Join Flesh and Blood?? 👀
Couldn’t agree more! These are my favorite!
@@orphancharmander1168 What happened in 1991?
I've learned things from Rudy that school didn't teach me... now my family is financially stable and i will be able to retire.
Thank you Rudy. You're helping people.
Can confirm, I've gone into bankruptcy and my life has never been better.
Did you spend all your money on Kobe Bryant memorabilia?
@@flutebasket4294 No, Modern Horizons and hentai.
@@phothewin6019 Understood
@@flutebasket4294 if he did that he wouldn’t need to file for bankruptcy 😂
@@ClumpyPro Very true
*Living a life of luxury is like a dream for some people and for others it's constant reality, the key is having financial stability and strength but the question is how to*
Yeah!! Due to the fall in the stock market, I don't think it's advisable holding, it would be more beneficial and yield more profit if you actually trade on cryptocurrency I've been trading since the dip, and I've made so much profit trading.
@Alice Spencer that's why you need the help of a professional like Mr Edward Martin's who trade and understand the market more to earn good income, these professionals understand the market like it's there own farm and make s maximum profit for investors.
I heard that his strategies are really good
@@Sanlee578 Yeah, My first investment with Mr Edward Martin's he earned me profit of over $25,530 US dollars, and ever since then he has been delivering
He has really made a good name for himself.
I worked as a bankruptcy lawyer for about 10 years, for many people it's such a good decision.....Also, Illuminati is such a cool game. One With Everything!
I’m gonna be honest. I’ve never been interested in card games or magic the gathering but this channel has a ton of gems on it. Watching you sit and talk in front of the camera about random topics is mesmerizing.
Came for the life lesson, stayed for the ending.
this is basically the TL;DR of every interview i've ever done with a TCG / CCG maker
Damn this was a great talk. Going concern is important. Great points Rudy.
Failed tcg's was my first video I ever seen them yours wow what a wild ride has been these last 10 months
This reminds me of the frenzy on Kickstarter 10 years ago, specifically in gaming. The people with proven track records mostly delivered on their promises, whereas others either imploded thereafter (usually after taking off with all the funds) or delivered a steaming pile many years later. Anything I see on Kickstarter these days is immediately suspect, since you've got to wonder how badly undercapitalized they are in the first place to launch on Kickstarter. How many of these projects can withstand the pressures of development, release, and maintenance in the long term? It's even more difficult for something like a TCG!
See, you claim to remember the Kickstarter frenzy from a decade ago, but you then immediately forget that the most catostrophic failures were from industry titans.
Mighty no. 9 was directed by a 20+ year industry veteran. Yogventures was pushed by the largest gaming youtubers at the time. Robotech RPG Tactics had a massive IP behind it. Star Citizen was directed by Chris Roberts. Godus was a Peter Molyneux title, but we all knew that was going to backfire because Peter fucking Molyneux.
The issue is you're discarding hundreds of card and video games developed through that time that delivered successfully, and I don't blame you. It's a lot less interesting to hear about 100+ NES homebrews that get funded and successfully deliver to backers over the past 4 years, or the thousands of board games and Tabletop RPGs that were completed successfully, but didn't rake in millions during initial pre-orders because they weren't made by a famous artist, animator, or game designer.
And it's understandable that you wouldn't know about these stories, because they're not engaging to us as a readers/listeners. When we're looking at Kickstarter stories, we're only interested in hearing about wild success stories or absolute trainwrecks, so that's what gets reported on.
@@6502chip Seriously irrelevant to his point
@@Markpichot His point is wrong. I was pointing out that he's basing things off of a flawed understanding of how Kickstarter works, and the fact that campaigns run by "more established" creators are usually the ones that failed the hardest, while smaller/newer creators historically have a higher rate of success.
@@6502chip How’s it wrong? You didn’t present any evidence that he was wrong. You have your opinion which sounds totally incorrect. I can guarantee that there were way more failed kickstarters than triple A companies that went bankrupt. Thinking otherwise is ridiculous.
Grand Archives and D-Spirits?
Lots of good stuff here - that is for investors.
As a investor and player, I see this market more like the board game market of 2014-2018.
There are some INCREDIBLE games out there that can be fun to play, open, and experience at a $200-300 price point. They can provide hours of entertainment to you and your play group and mix it all up.
As investment pieces - I completely agree!
Right now is probably the best time to get a tcg launched.
I agree, RUclips presence is so important!
Thank you Rudy's I always appreciate these kind of talks your inside really gives a different perspective given your experience
Two minutes or so left in the video “viewer discretion is advised”. That gave me a good chuckle.
Nice video. Truly experienced insight. Thank you.
Rudy thank you so much for taking the time to share this very informative video with us. You are the reason I got into FAB and Metazoo. Truly appreciate you ❤
You’re videos are hilarious but at the same time extremely informative I wish you were my marketing professor.
The valley of the shadow of death is not just about physical death, good allegory Rudy
I still have the Illuminate, Shadowfist, and Nuclear War cards from that era. Still play the games with friends from time to time.
Still sad Legend of the Five Rings fell out of favor. What a fabulous game that was!
considering it got a new investor purchasing asmodee looking to reinvest in key brand there is always hope.
Don't forget the Decipher rule: Don't mismanage the company so badly that you have to embezzle all the money out of it after you lose all your license deals
Don't to include their top game making strategy: make high-profile IP games that are nearly unplayable
@@hosersupreme I dunno, I played the crap out of Star Wars and Lord of the Rings back in the day, but Star Trek still eludes me - it wasn't clear that an opponent was required to play that game, and you could still lose?
@@TCGBulkKings That's exactly what I was referring to. Star was was pretty good, never played LotR, but Star Trek was...a series of failures at every level. I wanted it to be good, but it was barely playable. My play group modified the rules slightly and added our own clarifications to the rules to make it playable, but even then, it was clunky and difficult to consistently win.
This is why I subbed, love u rudolph!
Starwars CCG is still kicking.
I want to play it but man is it convoluted and bloated. At least my last memory of it. Which was right before death star 2 and the end of the decipher licence
The last three seconds of this video is what you are looking for.
here's a picture of my crotch... wait what? RUDY!
came for the sound investing advise stayed for the wallstreet bets' sponsored Rudy sidecam
Wall street bets is a shell. Now It's all lose porn.
Wall street silver is where it's at
Real talk Rudy is like the big bro that puts us on game.
I thought the CCG based on EVE Online had a lot of potential. Suprised the Star Wars ccg failed.
I forgot about all my mtg cards purchased from 94-99. One day a co worker said he played mtg. Told him hadn't played in 20 years. Left me amazed at what these old cards go for.
I started watch Rudy because of my coworker bringing up how mtg was vety much alive today.
it failed because the mechanics sucked
@@davidrosenzweig1380 and yet Eve videogame continues yet the mechanics suck🤷♂️
Rudy i watch your videos for entertainment purposes. 36 and the only cardboard i own is the stuff that needs to be recycled on Monday. I agree with alot of your insights.
speaking of old card games that I'd love to see come back... Mythos (cthulhu ccg) and Highlander ccg.. oh.. and The Crow ccg...
This is my favourite type of Rudy video
Diamond hands with Wyvern, to the Moon!
Chapter 7 in 2016. Taught me a lot.
I'm 40... And I remember. I played spellfire, doomtrooper, lord of the rings.....
I want a set of Sorcery: Contested Realm, that is one I will definitely follow
The creator of that is one of the founders and owners of Path of Exile...
Rudy's talking but I'm starting at the wsb clock bc I know that time is intentional.
First Rudy vid I've ever watched where I didn't learned something. Not complaining because I know other people might not know these things but the more you learn about finance, collectibles, and the creation of products, you find that it is far more common sense than anything else.
When you youtube Metazoo and sort by view count Rudy is the top 3 videos
RUDY IS BANKRUPT!! 🤑
This is real talk. I have been working on my game for 1 year and 5 months. Ive looked up many videos, your videos, Kohdak videos, e commerce, kickstarter, etc. You need influences, bad or good publicity, literally anything and everything to benefit you and it needs to be done online. I cant win against Magic, Pokemon, Yu Gi Oh. From a buyers perspective which is what I think of all the time when I think about selling my game. I can not convince myself that anyone would buy my game which has no valuable cards, run by me myself and a few artist, and its not an online game or has literally any presence at all in an LGS or any tournament play. Literally the only way I could see my game starting at all, is making it a free to print to play. It takes the inventory management away, I can adjust cards in case something is to broken, and I can get somewhat away from the distribution chain. My goal is to have people play my game, I like and want money from it but I just cant expect anyone to pay for my game being backed by me only basically.
My goal is to log into Reddit and see a subreddit with my game on it, and people shitting on it. That is my goal.
I just noticed rudy's sounds dampers(shall we call them taco holsters or taco holders). It really does make my foils unwarp and my tacos from floppy to hard
Oh yes, I remember the plethora of card games back in the 90's. Do you remember Kult?
The computation power required to make the reflection of Rudy on the green screen...we're in the 2010s now baby!
I remember working for a friends LGS in the late 90's and the distributors wouldn't let him buy just magic without buying say Wyvern ect. I laugh when I see that box in the background. Some of those card games look amazing. I tried to play as many as I could and learned so much from them but what seems to happen is people tend to stick with the games they know best like Magic. My LGS only played L5R, Magic and Pokemon and lesser so Star Wars and Middle Earth. For a game to make it it has to have everything including all the support you mentioned. Its crazy to see so many games and know they are not going to make it. Im pretty sure nobody ever bought Wyvern at my store if they did it was like a pack or two max. Some of those games have amazing mechanics and art too but it wasn't enough
I just like the stoc.... er, clock. 🚀🚀🚀🚀 Put some batteries in that poor thing, Rudy!
I met a person who loved Netrunner and hated MTG for killing it.
Incredibly good game, theres a dedicated base still keeping it going with new cards and rulings.
Then theres jinteki online game
It doesn't matter how much money your kickstarter makes. If you don't have experience and connections in the printing, packaging, shipping, distribution, and retail outlets for the industry your product is aimed at, your product will not make it to your customers.
If the first update after the kickstarter drive closes is "Okay folks. We just interviewed with our first printer. They said they didn't have any openings in their schedule for us. We'll see how the next three interviews this week go and get back to you." You will never see the product you funded.
D-Spirits Kickstarter product actually blew me away. Thought it was going to be just another Pokemon clone judging by the sample cards, but I saw a couple box breaks and the quality is out of this world. The packaging and presentation is next level. I love the updated artwork they have. Gameplay seems fun and easy, like early yugi. It has enough for adults like me, but I really think that kids and families are going to go nuts for it.
It does not have solid foundation like metazoo and fab imho
Illuminati was the shit. The true OG of CCGs.
13:32 this is my new ringtone
Nice Wyvern booster box! I still have my cards from my youth!
Thank you for making this VIDEO! THank you so much!
I miss legend of five rings granite I never played or collected it but always wanted to play it but again I was into buying magic for when I stopped/ retired from working. Mainly because it tied to my high school/ delayed entry program.
Granted
Remember Keyforge? Pepperidge Farm remembers..
I would kill for an Illuminati reboot, so much fun.
That cat with pants still talks, amazing. So all gimme your dollars, I might create the next big ccg!
I don't even look at new or coming soon card games until multiple customers bring them up.
I want to start my own card game too Rudy... Been actually working on it since pre metazoo boom.
Other note: I miss Wyvern.
Loved highlander, great card game.
The nice special surprise for the people who stick it out til the end of the video
always surprised with the good lessons that come from Rudy's wild video titles
At the end I thought you were gonna poke an eye out.
Sorcery: Contested Realm is one to watch
Best part was right at the end!
Hi there... in the video it is mentioned that there are companies trying to to revitalize old card games... where can one find these companies? Is there a list? Company names perhaps?? Just asking to find out if anybody might know anything... I'd appreciate it thanks.
I AM the Illuminati card game irl lol
I walk the tylez.
Symbolism.
Numerology.
-Manly P. Hall
Rudy!!!
Love the economics videos!
RUDY! I learned something today. While you don't regularly cut your hair or shave, it's apparent that you pay particular attention to plucking what appears to be a Mono-Brow to make it into two. Although, in this video, if you look carefully, you can see that you missed a few plucks. This is what happens as you age and your near vision fades.
Why are you judging another man's grooming habits 😂
Great video as always, but that ending though...
lolz to the ending. Good chat Rudy
And some companies like Decipher fell because insider fraud(owners relative stealing). Also some games that US may look as failure may have been a success elsewhere (Vampire). TCG world had it's wild west moment then and it seems like there is 2nd one baking. I just hope that there is more room in competitive environment after this boom/bust cycle.
Anyone remember when Inquest use to make fun of Spellfire every issue?
I miss spell fire
Signing a piece of paper that lets you take money you owe and legally not pay back ? Genius!
Well … as long as you don’t need to borrow money afterwards because you planted a few pallets of Arabian Nights in your goldfish bunker secretly under your competitor Timmy’s emporiums basement.
You struggle for a few years after running various side hustles flipping shrimp tacos at the local McSonic but after waiting a few years you launch your plan. You use what you saved slinging tacos to buy the drill used to dig the tunnel for the English channel (subsequently to make the casino shake in oceans 13 because you have a hotline to brad Pitt) you start digging on a Tuesday.
The shop is closed.
You bust through the concrete and rock to find your pallets and a taco with a note.
It says “todays the day.”
You smile , put the note in a pocket.
You carefully load your pallets into the uhaul you rented.
You kick out the supports and tie a rope to the last one.
On your way out you yank the rope . The ground trembles when suddenly the floor caves .
Pallets , cardboard and fold out tables tumble and on top of the rubble.
A box of dragons maze and fallen empires . Lay.
Perfectly sealed covered in stop tape. You take them as a memento.
You hid out in your creepy warehouse you had under your moms name.
A few days later you go to the scene of the crime. Timmy’s emporium lies a pile of ruble.
You glance Timmy’s Wife …
Standing to the side while Timmy argues with the insurance appraiser.
She’s wearing her two hats. Beautiful as ever.
You pass by slyly.
Pass her the note. She glances back , she looks at Timmy. She drops her 2 hats and begins to quickly but calmly walk away.
You catch a flight to Toulouse , take a drive in the Dolorean you bought and stashed in an old barn.
You drive through the night, then in the moonlight. The ivory tower.
You spend the rest of your life slinging Arabian boxes on eBay .
What happened to Argent Saga? I remember both it and FAB were introduced here together at the same time.
To bring it to market, well said!
And that is why Rudy featured Metazoo lol
Oh Rudy, you're so pretty, can't you understand?
It's guys like you, Rudy
Bankrupcy is a financial tool. It is one that should not be used lightly but it can save your future.
History Repeats is not the title of the video!
Great video as always. The ending lol
I dont have a pitch for a ccg but I've been thinking about opening a small game store dealing in dnd ccg and possibly sports cards..at the moment there is only 1 store like 100 miles I go to it and its constantly busy I'm just kind of fearful about taking the leap. What do you think Rude Man? Should I just go for it or is it the one way trip to failuresville because the local game store has gone the way of the dodo?
He’s done many videos on this. He seems to be of the opinion that LGSs are a dying business model. Unless you’re a rich hobbyist who can afford to have an unprofitable business then you might be better off doing an online business like Rudy did.
If there's any card game that I want to come back it's Pirates of the Spanish Main.
I like how Rudy's hair looks like some of it was drawn onto his face with a brown marker.
Absolutely great insight…..
Dang it Timmy I love the ( showed up trophy) cause i tried and some genious once told me its okay to fail.
I can NOT believe he had pants on. I feel like I have been lied to.
The real problem is when you have all these Paper Trading Card Games / Collectible Card Games tied to a Loot Crate / Loot Box Business Model and a Secondary Market competing against each other when only two or three of these card games demand the most amount of money being MTG, Yu-Gi-Oh!, and Pokémon TCG. It makes it hard for all these other competing games to stay afloat because the amount of disposable income to multi-task these card games all at once is very minimal due to most players only making paycheck to paycheck unless they're making $1,000+ an hour or more than what minimum wage requires.
That's why a lot of these companies outside WotC, Konami, and TPCi don't invest much of their resources on Organized Play at Local Game Stores (LGSs) and Convention style events when they're under short term contractual obligations until they ultimately pull the plug and move on to another card game project. These In-Person Community based games is too much high risk for very little reward where the reward has already gone to those who done it first when the genre was fresh back in the mid 90's where there wasn't as much competition back then where as now the cost literally can't keep up especially with FOMO involved.
no smaller company wants to pay an LGS's rent so they can barely sell or advertise their product, even taking into consideration the anticompetitive practices by those big 2
@@abolishshekeluse3782 How exactly are companies like Wizards of the Coast / Hasbro, Konami, The Pokémon Company International (TPCi), etc. are paying rent for these Local Game Stores (LGSs) to publicly advertise for their Paper Trading Card Games / Collectible Card Games? Isn't that the responsibility of the store owners and staff by paying rent to their landlord? If the geography is terrible then that's on the store owners who are renting the property unless they don't have a choice or they're stupid enough to own it themselves.
For the longest time Local Game Stores (LGSs) have solely relied on Organized Play to help advertise specific Paper Trading Card Games / Collectible Card Games to help increase revenue for their brands but when the pandemic hit two years ago EVERYTHING changed. We're now starting to see a paradigm shift that's stripping away of why people invested their hard earned money into this gaming hobby by making it less community based with In-Person social interactions that's being traded for a less desirable experience gone digital.
@@456jm you can't get startup capital to run a business in this industry without a bank loan and they insist on you paying rent because they can work with the landlord directly and owning a commercial property yourself is dumb because you won't get it insured and your customer base is toxic and hellbent on trying to rip you off because you're taxing them by providing what is essentially a roof over a park bench to play at because it's near their sales counter. like sure the in person game is going to be better but without that in person game experience the digital version would never sell, it's a terrible attempt at mimicry of the full tabletop experience and quite honestly digital versions ruin the casual experience via netdecking and pay to win.
the misconception you have here is that LGS's provide a niche, expert, or essential service to the trading card game economy and that couldn't be farther from the truth because the market would flourish without usury, timing mass snap-ups, and harsh markups of buy prices systematically by the LGS owners and they completely disincentivize player trading and selling for no purpose other than selfishly pretending like they're "stand up pals" that regularly carry incredulously disrespectful and ungrateful attitudes due to pure unadulterated expectations of exploitations.
there was no pandemic it's just an excuse to cover up for a completely fraudulent election
@@abolishshekeluse3782 The bottom line here is that Local Game Stores (LGSs) provide a physical In-Person place for people to play despite terrible business practices that cause them to lean toward other LGSs within the vicinity. Why take that luxury away from people whose invested millions of dollars into this gaming hobby? Sure we don't get to fire In-Person Paper Tournaments like we used to but at least we get to have a few games of EDH / Commander here and there. LGSs can't survive on EDH / Commander alone.
What about other Paper TCG's? How is Pokémon TCG doing well right now despite the absence of Organized Play and events at LGSs? How is Yu-Gi-Oh! still competing? Some LGSs DO provide an essential service to the TCG economy, the problem is that the local distributors that provided that service for LGSs are now being replaced by Amazon fulfillment and other e-commerce businesses by cutting the middleman while the LGS can't even break even in terms of sales without going bankrupt.
@@456jm That "physical in person place for people to play" is not an asset, it is something almost all businesses are expected to provide on their storefront to foster an environment of collective consumption to help mitigate buyer's remorse. The LGS's near me don't even want commander players to use their tables. The in person paper tournaments receive prize support from wizards which obviously is just to subsidize their rent, as if they enhance rather than strictly detract from the tournament experience by providing the occasional judge call and specifically banning and embargoing hostile players in a gambling, rather than a gaming for pleasure scenario. If the tournament does not fire, it is rarely the fault of the gamestore, but mostly the responsibility of wizards for allowing chris cox to talk. Many LGS's began under a real market economy where rent was affordable and EDH players were valuable retention mechanisms and not considered a nuisance. Unfortunately we are under a globalist coup. Pokemon and yugioh are both thriving in their in person paper events and sales because they are simpler games with a greater hold over their target audience, have gripping and engaging, high quality television shows and movies supporting their fantastic art, (of which MTG used to have illustrative rivalry frequently prior to khans of tarkir), and ultimately they just don't treat their customers with such wicked and abrasive decisions to plumb all value and hose the players like MTG. Also the single mom epidemic from the excessive female jobs, contributes to the playerbase of these games, since they aren't able to do other activities such as take vacations or attend concerts due to the parenting complications.
No LGS provides any "essential" service in the economy. Players can participate in the market themselves, and often benefit from doing so. The secondary market is in a recession whenever an LGS can afford to undercut them, something nobody without a rent fire under their bum would bother to do, and they invest heavily with mass box openings on crashing prices to make sure that tournament winnings are "investment" caliber instead of the passive income source they're portrayed to be. Amazon is a distributor, and this whole narrative about LGS's "barely breaking even" is a boxcutter taken around a feast or famine story. Some LGS's are millionaires making extreme profit margins yearly, and others stay open with no real customer base and eventually have to admit that they are not in any charge of the market's location and purchase preferences.
WoTC has caught on to the LGS dilemma and amazon will never give them the grief that the LGS will in terms of trying to completely eviscerate the people who are actually enjoying the game and trying to have a good time without the demarcations of the intercepting profiteers. LGS conglomerates in big cities sponsor streamers and WoTC hires twitter celebs and hatsune miku, none of them are in need of a bailing bucket or even remotely underwater. The little guy is just playing the mom-and-pop role knowing full well that the majority of his success or failure is beyond his control, and 95% of small businesses fail in the first 5 years. If I recall the LGS statistics correctly, I think they're actually double that average, with 10% of LGS's lasting a full 5 years.
MON TO 1K........MONEY MACHINE GO BRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!
DONT YOU FORGET ABOUT ME
Is that a ghoulie? F'N rocks!
Rudy, I would LOVE LOVE LOVE for you to do a video on Steve Jackson Games. Illuminati, Car Wars, Munchkin and many other games they've done with success and compare it to these failing kickstarter games.
I buy old ccg's all of the time. I hope they do bring a bunch back
How about that Wyvern Card game!!!
Surprise ending. Lol wisdom and humorous always.
PK Cards did well until they ran out of cash.
They had a draft, standard play.
Gold points to redeem physical rewards
Started developing a cartoon.
Good games, not even funding / advertisement.
One shot, one oppertunity....will you capture?
If you want to be scarred for life watch till the END
I hope my graded vintage POG collection will be worth something someday.
Oh man I wonder how many CCGs from the 90s just from off the top of my head. INSANITY
I miss buying boxes of Decipher Star Wars cards