Finally a content creator who knows how take quotes or bullet points from some else's video and comment on them. Instead of sitting through some else's video and chimming in with there points, its super lazy way to make content plus its super boring to watch some watch some else's video. And you told viewers to got watch the real vid. Good on you dude!
I dont mind jesse or joshua’s reactions videos, they have more shock value and natural reactions since they are not scripted and planned. Combine that with chats input from time to time and you have a healty discussion with discussing the topic at hand, in this case its more of a predetermined angle of conversation.
Farfa calls this “free content.” He just slaps his commentary on top of the full original video. A lot of times they don’t say or add anything of substance for minutes or if at all. I always watch these “reaction” videos on x2 speed because it’s low effort content and 90% of the time I’ve already seen the original video. You want to hear a content creator’s opinion on a subject and there’s 3 of them doing the same reaction video so you have to sit through the same content just to hear 10% new content/opinion that you might consider a decent take. I prefer this type of commentary video. Borderline plagiarism verses an actual summarized video plus your opinion is so much easier to digest.
The thing I hate the most is things like OCG getting multiple rarities for a card ( example Magia ) & TCG only gets it as a QCR making the card price ridiculous & it’s so difficult to pull it’s not even worth buying booster boxes
I get that for the TCG side it's done to raise profits to sell new sets but, considering we are making Konami bigger profits worldwide from Global than the JP side does in revenue I don't see why they won't consider doing the same thing with rarities that is done and JP to where it shouldn't effect their profit margins? Then again, maybe they have such higher profits from Global BECAUSE of the scummy higher rarity on popular meta card practices that they do. Only Konami knows for sure lol
@@azaizer this is a huge copium sir, entire ocg side has always been made more money than global. You see in many games not even yugioh, if the company expect less players in certain region the price of that game is also significantly higher to offset the lack of players buying their game as a meant to balance the book, yugioh is not the exception. They have to make boxes more expensive in tcg because printing, employee and shipping cost are significantly higher in the west than asia.
@@azaizerlets we compare mtg japan to english You see there is BIG fat differrence in price especially in staples in japan than west, because the mtg casual scenes in japan is pretty much not existent and the low number of players only play competitive. Exactly what happened to yugioh in the west.
@@r3zaful if it's copium then a lot of yugitubers have been spreading fake news because a lot of them say that Global YGO market is the biggest money maker for Konami, even more than JP. However, it would stand to reason that it actually DOES make sense why they sell and market differently Globaly because they need to offset the smaller player base and less sales by increasing prices and rarities to keep their profits balanced outside JP it makes helluva sense.
@@azaizerlets say one example of this Japan honkai impact 3rd vs SEA You will notice that japan server have more expensive in game purchases but they give you double in game rewards. In sea you got half the amount of japanese server has, but the in game purchases are significantly cheaper. Japanese there are less players but more whales so the hook should be strong enough tp make them pay, sea have more players but less spending power, so mihoyo can lower the in game rewards in order to make people to spend, but the ingame purchases are almost half of japanese server. ❤ Gamers behavior and spending power is differrent for each continent so you really have to treat them differrent. now in yugioh case in ocg if they release New boxes they will be sold very quickly, and they can afford to sell at lower price because it will sold out. In tcg with differrent customers some boxes can straight up doesnt sell and ends up in bargain bin(valiant smashers is the Best example of this, top 5 Best selling set in ocg last year but meh in the west) konami which then lose money, how to balance the loses? Make more expensive product with gimmick.
I don't know where this idiotic narrative of casual / new players liking shitty uninteractive floodgates came from, but as somebody who is casual and plays this game with a bunch of my casual friends, we all make fun of floodgates and think they're stupid as fuck and make games too zero sum. You can make decks that are easy to pilot without these kind of cards, too. Chimera is extremely straight forward and most builds of it don't run any kind of floodgate style cards. You might see like an odd list here and there running something like droll or d. barrier, but even that isn't very common and is more of a meta call or sideboard option for competitive players.
@@r3zaful Yeah, I play them too, that doesn't mean that I like them or think they should remain a part of the game specifically for players like myself. It just means the deck I'm using is so shit it's the best thing I can do with it. OCG players also are all playing Maxx C, but if you ask a lot of them how they feel about the card, plenty of them will tell you it's stupid and it needs to go.
The playerbase has boycotted a bunch of things and been sucsessful. There’s a list of product we never got becausw olayers said they did not like it. There has been product that Konami stopped doing because no one bought it. Sucsessful boycotts are rarely ever organised
Infinite Forbidden got me back into the game after 15 years, and it's all thanks to Exodia getting even more support. The game's more fun with all the weird archetypes that've come out, but the vintage monsters and historical fantasy are what made me interested in the first place.
@dudono1744 I personally like the modern game. While I do prefer old cards and their retains due to nostalgia, it's still a fun game. Yeah it plays different, yeah I'd prefer some things to be different, but ultimately, it's alright. Would love if they shifted away from universally usable engines and endboards to more archetype centric cards, like they used to back then, or even before archetypes really became a thing, but you know. Games have to change or there will be no growth
‘The casual audiance pays for everything’ The fact content creators needed the guy that was in charge of Konami to explain the most obvious thing will never not be funny.
They cannot fathom that their spending 1k on a single deck, even for a thousand+ partecipants, is but a drop in the bucket (and not everyone is on the 1k deck realistically, even now many play tenpai because much more affordable). 1k X 1500 people= 1.500.000 total money spent (much of wich goes actually to the vendors, not konami, and the vendors HAVE to make more money on selling than what they give to konami or they'd drop selling the game, so realistically konami of that sees a fraction). This for a BIG event, not calculating the enormous cost of renting the space and organizing the event. Truth be told, the tournaments are run probably near zero profit, if not even at a loss. To make that same ammount of money on say a structure deck that costs 15$, you would need 100.000 people to buy one copy, realistically a third of that because most buy 3x. This is infinitely easier to achieve than profiting via tournaments. The pros like to think they are at the center of everything, but honestly it's the casuals that keep the game afloat.
Konami does not love their casual audience otherwise they would balance the game and put out a proper support to all types of deck out there. But they sure do love their krakens buying meta cards and pushing out overpriced cards or short printing them to make that money.
A lot of content/"pro" players can learn a lot from Galzo when it comes to content creating. Dude using bits and pieces of a vids talking point presenting his own thoughts. Unlike others who just watch someone's else's whole video and claim it as content creation. They should call it copy and paste content.
@@r3zaful Depends on the floodgates. Personally as someone nearly retired from the game and Uber casual and pining for the old days, I love skill drain and would keep it at 3, but would ban most other floodgates like rivalry of the warlords.
@@djordjebokun4420 Oh, it is profitable. I have a fiendsmith engine extra deck included for only $60. Since everyone can enjoy the META, everyone buys the META
So basically there is no incentive for them to even have a community because the main bulk of their money comes from people who never participate in anything. Every single complaint the community ever had its real then, from short printing to making broken cards that destroy the game and selling them in mediocre boxes. This has been going on for insanely long and they were not just aware but doing it on purpose the whole time. Keep sustaining this company, you get exactly what you deserve.
Of course they put good things in medicore boxes. Some products don’t sell in the TCG well but they have to print those cards. So they out in good cards so the competative players do not complain too much.
@@mrbubbles6468 you don't understand, the mediocre cards are created as such on purpose. They created their own problem and then "fixed it" by putting some insanely good short printed secret rares in there to drive up their price even more. You think competitive players want this? This is how you get a deck to cost over 1000 dollars.
@@diaha4398 I’m saying the mediocre cards aren’t actually mediocre but they aren’t obviously interesting to competitive players over here. A lot of the products sell perfectly fine in the OCG but fail in the TCG due to the playerbase.
Speaking as one of those people who go into stores and buy, and never go to tournaments - its nice knowing that Konami does acknowledge players like me, even though we don't appear on data. One particular thing I don't mind as much as other players is them releasing expensive, high value cards like engraver in INFO or wanted in AGOV. Those just boost the value back for players like me opening core sets, and helps justify buying booster boxes every once in a while - which is something my casual friends and I enjoy doing. We don't play meta decks anyway, so this way we can sell off the high powered cards to competitve players (we sold our tracts and engraver), and we can keep opening booster boxes for fun, and build our casual mid tiered decks.
@@bobtheboulder4949 but wouldn't it still be valuable if you could, for example, get a super rare engraver *or* a secret/collector's engraver? I still think they should do multiple rarities of the same card on the same box
@@Izumocchi we definitely need OCG rarities. There are A LOT of us invisibles that WOULD play competitively if we had OCG rarity’s. I almost guarantee Konami could then afford better prizing. The demand for sets would be insane. Imagine a world where you could buy a box of a set for 80-150 and be guaranteed to pull a playset. Maybe a different rarity but still a playset. Locals would be PACKED. I’m okay with that.
This explain why Konami TCG is afraid to hit decks like Snek eye directly because they want to sell the cards to Bad-but-rich players. Yes, those "META" decks can make players win easier than the floodgates. I know Floodgates can win the game by itself, IF YOU DRAW THEM. But for overkill decks like Snek or Fin Smith. You aren't relying on drawing 3-of to create "powerful" setup. . Tenpai field never protect you from your mistake. If you messed up because you take the wrong action, you still messed up. Decks like Snek or Fin Smith can protect your mistakes better, because if you messed up, there are still a lot of alternative cards that do the same thing.
it's still super shady how all the best cards are higher rarity and hard to get than the rest, needing money to 'pay employees' by borderline scamming the consumers with the way they print sets is unfortivable, there are other ways to do it a box of cards in my country costs as much as me working 2 full days (i need to work 18 hrs to buy a box that has a very slight chance to grant me 1 or at most 2 copies of 12+ cards i might be pulling for konami make insane amounts of money, don't pity the billionaires so much, we're the victims no matter how we look at it, printing the cardboard (low quality in the tcg btw), wrappings and shipping are nowhere near the end cost that we have to pay for product it's like restaurants buying watermelon for 0.15 euro per kilogram and selling slices for 2 euro in the menu, and the man said it too, if we stop buying these fraudulent sets, we might see change sorry if i seem salty or upset (i am) but i care a lot about the game and players even though being a casual and it always grinds my gears when it comes to konami
Just boycott it ffs.. buy other cardgames to support your locals until konami changes anything.. noone would be mad if his card is banned when you are able to buy it as a cheap super rare
The one thing we've been taught sadly is: all around the internet and all these yugitubers is 1. Competitive players > Filthy Casuals. Reason: we take out big bank loans and are more serious about the game, we make this our livelihood so you filthy casuals have no right to have fun. So if anything i hope the casuals just drop the game and move on to other games till all this competitive player worshiping stops. The casual voice deserves a better platform now. Enough of listening to these competitive takes.
The one thing I want to know is why sometimes the rarities in OCG are different from the TCG? The dragon master magia card being a QCR only in the TCG meanwhile the OCG it has three different rarities. But I am def going to watch the podcast!
3:28 , " Konami wants to cater to them more then the competitive audience " *Konami proceeds to make magia a single print QCR that only casuals would play, but is also tooo expensive to drop +700$ on. but buying a couple packs and hoping is easier to justify lol😂😂😂😂
I think shifter and dimensional barrier are very hated even from the casual players. They help like the lowest possible level players but they make the game unfun for most of the players , casuals and competitive.
@@mrbubbles6468 lol, sure. They print all the competitive staple as secret rares because that's what the players want. Ignore the fact that no other TCG (or even the OCG for that matter) is this scummy. The main thing Konami cares about is raising quarterly sales for their shareholders, not player satisfaction or sustainability.
@@michalljubljanac312 the players do. When they print the majority of stuff at lower rarity people complain the Secret Rares are terrible and not worth it.
My problem is why not make the casual decks good or at least t2 worthy so they get more mileage out of them. Blue-eyes support was a step in the right direction but the evil heroes support was a kick in the throat. Like it's like they designed them to be bad on purpose from all the restrictions off the little things to bad requirements for the monsters. The new evil hero neos would have been perfect if it was 1 neos and 1 effect or hero. But they specifically say the monster has to be on field. That sounds like nothing till you see how heros play and how inconvenient it is.
@gravemind76 you're supposed to super poly for Neos Lord. Basically once you blow your load of the Shining Neos Wingman off of Favorite Contact, you flip the super poly that was set last turn from Infernal Rider, and summon Neos Lord with either 1 Monster on their field if there is one left, or any extra Hero effect Monster you control. After playing with the Evil Hero package on Duelingbook for a few hours today, I was able to make it a tight 50 cards for a smooth OmniHero build. You can go up to 60 if you want to max out hand traps and extenders, but 50 is doable.
@robertfox960 that sounds terrible, superpolyin for 1 is neg. 50 cards? That sound worse as you just added more bricks. For omni, the only good card is prism, necrom and adjusted. Which are all 1 ofs at most. How does this support help play through 2 ht? Most players will stop you from adding poly.
You have to play Toxic Bubble. It's a free extender, and if you summon it in sequence after the Inferno Wing, it's a +2. Hero will always lose to 2+ handtraps, and that's not even if we brick from the start. Your endboard, on your turn, should be Wonder Driver, Shadow Mist, Plasma, Kuriboh Lv6, Facedown: Favorite Contact, Mask Change, Dark Supremacy, Miracle/Poly, and Super Poly with DPE in grave ready to come back. On opponents turn, as they attempt to out your board, you let them commit depending on how you want to exhaust their plays. And you still have 2 or 3 in hand to pay cost for Super Poly. At the end of their turn you should have Dark Law, Neos Lord/Shining Neos Wingman, DPE(or in grave), Plasma, and whatever you stole if you summoned Neos Lord and they should have 0 cards.
@robertfox960 yes but an extender don't mean anything if your locked into heros. The draw 2 effect is nice but you need to already establish a dark fusion monster that is midway into the combos, so drawing him is a brick as he doesn't add nothing. That's what the support is supposed to help with. It's my fault for hoping for yubel level support since evil was the most neglected sub archtype. All you did was make the combo longer, lose harder to droll, and play more into nib. How does this stop 2 board breakers? Now we have to cut out ht or board breakers to play or play 60 with ht which is neg , which means we are now allowing decks to always full combo. Also beside dark assault non of the new cards are good on the draw. In a game playing 18ht, do you think this is gonna resolve? Every hood play stops vyon poly search which shuts down most the deck and pray on having fusion destiny.
Being locked into heroes is never a problem in the build? Winged Kuriboh is ALWAYS treated as an Elemental HERO card. We're gonna lose to Nib anyway, so why not try to go all out? We're gonna lose to 2+ handtraps anyway, so why not attempt to build a huge board if they can't stop our extenders? This support IS on par with the Yubel support we got. Yubel was such a disaster originally that it seems like OP support. And I'm only looking at the direct Yubel support here. Not fiendsmith/Unchained/sacred beast cards that support the general Fiend type. We play Droplet and Talents in main specifically for going 2nd when it does happen. Even in 60 card, you can max out on board breakers like evenly, Nib, and crossout. You have to play with it to understand how it feels. It's a glass cannon but it feel so good to pop off with it.
competitive players made a casual player like myself play with only my buddies bc those foos don't even talk. they just point at cards, stonefaced and is generally not fun to play against.
@@r3zaful yeah I think it would be awesome to run tournaments with a third party sponsor. Probably really hard to find. But I think it would fix the prizing problem.
@@galzo It’s really not complicated at all. Just compare our prizing to other cards games and it’s obvious that we are the worst by far. But ok. Let’s pretend that it’s very complicated.
Explains why this game is a net negative. Literally no positive unless you just like to have fun with friends. Playing seriously gets you absolutely nothing but missing money from your bank account
@@roostertutor When I thought the game was terrible I did stop. Voiced my complaint at that time as well. Currently I think is doing good which is why I’m back.
Konami is like that toxic gf/bf who misstreats you and if you think about leaving konami says. You cannot leave me because you LOVE ME ! And they are right..😢 😂
Theyre a company with profits. Like anyone else. Dollars make decisions. Either more or less of it. If we all didnt buy the next set flat out....theyd dive into the playerbqse and flip rhe game upside down in our favor.
The most successful time period of Yu-Gi-Oh! was when the game had the best player experience. The thing is, this "balance" of player experience and business metrics is too much of a rollercoaster ride these days, where they'll meet in the middle sometimes, but most times Konami leans into their business metrics rather than doubling down on the player experience. People would want to buy products more if they like playing the game, like in the past. It's really simple math, but I think the stigma of failing is why Konami cares about the money so much in most cases. Nothing's guaranteed like in the past. Like when Yu-Gi-Oh sets hit the shelves in the past, they knew it was gonna sell no doubt. Now, nobody can really be so sure if something will do well. And I believe it's all attributed to the fact that Yu-Gi-Oh cannot hold players and keep them entertained anymore. Ofc, there's no players to buy it these days, the casuals breathe life into this game, like the video said. And sadly in normal spaces, even in locals, there's no way to enjoy the game for them. So as a conclusion, I believe that going all in on the player experience will ultimately lead to the money Konami wants, because as stated, many people still love Yu-Gi-Oh. But the problem is many people do not "enjoy playing" Yu-Gi-Oh, and that's the disconnect Konami needs to fix. If people love playing the game and are interested in playing, they will buy products. "People will just play master duel or Edo which is F2P". There was no incentive to buy paper cards, back then it was just the only way to play freely. For most casual players, cards will just collect dust since there's quite a few ways to play Yu-Gi-Oh without buying physical cards now. So they need to give people a good reason to buy paper, because as of right now, other than flipping cards, there isn't a good reason.
Finally a content creator who knows how take quotes or bullet points from some else's video and comment on them. Instead of sitting through some else's video and chimming in with there points, its super lazy way to make content plus its super boring to watch some watch some else's video. And you told viewers to got watch the real vid. Good on you dude!
@@Capt_Gjallarhorn aka Jesse kotton
Thats your opinion yet you state it as a fact
I dont mind jesse or joshua’s reactions videos, they have more shock value and natural reactions since they are not scripted and planned. Combine that with chats input from time to time and you have a healty discussion with discussing the topic at hand, in this case its more of a predetermined angle of conversation.
Farfa calls this “free content.” He just slaps his commentary on top of the full original video. A lot of times they don’t say or add anything of substance for minutes or if at all. I always watch these “reaction” videos on x2 speed because it’s low effort content and 90% of the time I’ve already seen the original video. You want to hear a content creator’s opinion on a subject and there’s 3 of them doing the same reaction video so you have to sit through the same content just to hear 10% new content/opinion that you might consider a decent take.
I prefer this type of commentary video. Borderline plagiarism verses an actual summarized video plus your opinion is so much easier to digest.
Don’t watch it then lol
The thing I hate the most is things like OCG getting multiple rarities for a card ( example Magia ) & TCG only gets it as a QCR making the card price ridiculous & it’s so difficult to pull it’s not even worth buying booster boxes
I get that for the TCG side it's done to raise profits to sell new sets but, considering we are making Konami bigger profits worldwide from Global than the JP side does in revenue I don't see why they won't consider doing the same thing with rarities that is done and JP to where it shouldn't effect their profit margins? Then again, maybe they have such higher profits from Global BECAUSE of the scummy higher rarity on popular meta card practices that they do. Only Konami knows for sure lol
@@azaizer this is a huge copium sir, entire ocg side has always been made more money than global.
You see in many games not even yugioh, if the company expect less players in certain region the price of that game is also significantly higher to offset the lack of players buying their game as a meant to balance the book, yugioh is not the exception.
They have to make boxes more expensive in tcg because printing, employee and shipping cost are significantly higher in the west than asia.
@@azaizerlets we compare mtg japan to english
You see there is BIG fat differrence in price especially in staples in japan than west, because the mtg casual scenes in japan is pretty much not existent and the low number of players only play competitive.
Exactly what happened to yugioh in the west.
@@r3zaful if it's copium then a lot of yugitubers have been spreading fake news because a lot of them say that Global YGO market is the biggest money maker for Konami, even more than JP. However, it would stand to reason that it actually DOES make sense why they sell and market differently Globaly because they need to offset the smaller player base and less sales by increasing prices and rarities to keep their profits balanced outside JP it makes helluva sense.
@@azaizerlets say one example of this
Japan honkai impact 3rd vs SEA
You will notice that japan server have more expensive in game purchases but they give you double in game rewards.
In sea you got half the amount of japanese server has, but the in game purchases are significantly cheaper. Japanese there are less players but more whales so the hook should be strong enough tp make them pay, sea have more players but less spending power, so mihoyo can lower the in game rewards in order to make people to spend, but the ingame purchases are almost half of japanese server. ❤
Gamers behavior and spending power is differrent for each continent so you really have to treat them differrent.
now in yugioh case in ocg if they release New boxes they will be sold very quickly, and they can afford to sell at lower price because it will sold out.
In tcg with differrent customers some boxes can straight up doesnt sell and ends up in bargain bin(valiant smashers is the Best example of this, top 5 Best selling set in ocg last year but meh in the west) konami which then lose money, how to balance the loses? Make more expensive product with gimmick.
Most casual players I know would rather play Fiendsmith than Dimenison Shifter. However, they can't because of the cost.
I don't know where this idiotic narrative of casual / new players liking shitty uninteractive floodgates came from, but as somebody who is casual and plays this game with a bunch of my casual friends, we all make fun of floodgates and think they're stupid as fuck and make games too zero sum.
You can make decks that are easy to pilot without these kind of cards, too. Chimera is extremely straight forward and most builds of it don't run any kind of floodgate style cards. You might see like an odd list here and there running something like droll or d. barrier, but even that isn't very common and is more of a meta call or sideboard option for competitive players.
@@DarkAuraLord in ocg the casual side are always the people who play floodgate just saying
@@r3zaful Yeah, I play them too, that doesn't mean that I like them or think they should remain a part of the game specifically for players like myself. It just means the deck I'm using is so shit it's the best thing I can do with it. OCG players also are all playing Maxx C, but if you ask a lot of them how they feel about the card, plenty of them will tell you it's stupid and it needs to go.
Lowkey, maybe a boycott is what we need. At the same time, the player base will 100% not rally together for one...
The playerbase has boycotted a bunch of things and been sucsessful. There’s a list of product we never got becausw olayers said they did not like it. There has been product that Konami stopped doing because no one bought it.
Sucsessful boycotts are rarely ever organised
Infinite Forbidden got me back into the game after 15 years, and it's all thanks to Exodia getting even more support. The game's more fun with all the weird archetypes that've come out, but the vintage monsters and historical fantasy are what made me interested in the first place.
Just curious, do you like the modern game ? Because the difference in gameplay is quite staggering.
Same for me!
@dudono1744 I personally like the modern game. While I do prefer old cards and their retains due to nostalgia, it's still a fun game. Yeah it plays different, yeah I'd prefer some things to be different, but ultimately, it's alright.
Would love if they shifted away from universally usable engines and endboards to more archetype centric cards, like they used to back then, or even before archetypes really became a thing, but you know. Games have to change or there will be no growth
‘The casual audiance pays for everything’
The fact content creators needed the guy that was in charge of Konami to explain the most obvious thing will never not be funny.
Suspecting something and getting evidence for it are two different things
I know right? Like that should be obv🎉
@@d.r.6177 the evidence for it was all around though. That’s why people being surprised was funny.
They cannot fathom that their spending 1k on a single deck, even for a thousand+ partecipants, is but a drop in the bucket (and not everyone is on the 1k deck realistically, even now many play tenpai because much more affordable).
1k X 1500 people= 1.500.000 total money spent (much of wich goes actually to the vendors, not konami, and the vendors HAVE to make more money on selling than what they give to konami or they'd drop selling the game, so realistically konami of that sees a fraction).
This for a BIG event, not calculating the enormous cost of renting the space and organizing the event. Truth be told, the tournaments are run probably near zero profit, if not even at a loss.
To make that same ammount of money on say a structure deck that costs 15$, you would need 100.000 people to buy one copy, realistically a third of that because most buy 3x. This is infinitely easier to achieve than profiting via tournaments. The pros like to think they are at the center of everything, but honestly it's the casuals that keep the game afloat.
Konami does not love their casual audience otherwise they would balance the game and put out a proper support to all types of deck out there. But they sure do love their krakens buying meta cards and pushing out overpriced cards or short printing them to make that money.
@@josedelfuego they do put out support for all types of decks.
A lot of content/"pro" players can learn a lot from Galzo when it comes to content creating. Dude using bits and pieces of a vids talking point presenting his own thoughts. Unlike others who just watch someone's else's whole video and claim it as content creation. They should call it copy and paste content.
Very legit comment! 100% speaking facts!
Pro players should also take this interview to heart and stop buying product and gobbling Konami up as the good cucks they are
2:42 I'm pretty sure that casuals hate cards that say "you can't play".
Casual players in reality wants to win with their pet deck, which can be means floodgating the hell out of you.
@@r3zaful Depends on the floodgates. Personally as someone nearly retired from the game and Uber casual and pining for the old days, I love skill drain and would keep it at 3, but would ban most other floodgates like rivalry of the warlords.
Still does not make sense to me why they pump White Forest cards rarity from Super Rare to Secret Rare
Yes it does if the rarity decision was made before banning baronne.
Did you miss the bit about the cards people want being high rarity sells product? People were really interested in White Forest.
As an OCG player, I thank the TCG community for basically funding the game for us.
@@Dandylion30 If the OCG part of the game wasn't profitable by itself, they wouldn't do things the way they do there.
@@djordjebokun4420 Oh, it is profitable. I have a fiendsmith engine extra deck included for only $60. Since everyone can enjoy the META, everyone buys the META
So basically there is no incentive for them to even have a community because the main bulk of their money comes from people who never participate in anything. Every single complaint the community ever had its real then, from short printing to making broken cards that destroy the game and selling them in mediocre boxes. This has been going on for insanely long and they were not just aware but doing it on purpose the whole time.
Keep sustaining this company, you get exactly what you deserve.
Of course they put good things in medicore boxes. Some products don’t sell in the TCG well but they have to print those cards. So they out in good cards so the competative players do not complain too much.
@@mrbubbles6468 you don't understand, the mediocre cards are created as such on purpose. They created their own problem and then "fixed it" by putting some insanely good short printed secret rares in there to drive up their price even more. You think competitive players want this? This is how you get a deck to cost over 1000 dollars.
@@diaha4398 I’m saying the mediocre cards aren’t actually mediocre but they aren’t obviously interesting to competitive players over here.
A lot of the products sell perfectly fine in the OCG but fail in the TCG due to the playerbase.
Speaking as one of those people who go into stores and buy, and never go to tournaments - its nice knowing that Konami does acknowledge players like me, even though we don't appear on data.
One particular thing I don't mind as much as other players is them releasing expensive, high value cards like engraver in INFO or wanted in AGOV. Those just boost the value back for players like me opening core sets, and helps justify buying booster boxes every once in a while - which is something my casual friends and I enjoy doing. We don't play meta decks anyway, so this way we can sell off the high powered cards to competitve players (we sold our tracts and engraver), and we can keep opening booster boxes for fun, and build our casual mid tiered decks.
@@bobtheboulder4949 but wouldn't it still be valuable if you could, for example, get a super rare engraver *or* a secret/collector's engraver? I still think they should do multiple rarities of the same card on the same box
@@Izumocchi Funnily enough, only having the low rarity is also annoying (can't get shiny version). So we need both.
@@Izumocchi we definitely need OCG rarities. There are A LOT of us invisibles that WOULD play competitively if we had OCG rarity’s. I almost guarantee Konami could then afford better prizing. The demand for sets would be insane. Imagine a world where you could buy a box of a set for 80-150 and be guaranteed to pull a playset. Maybe a different rarity but still a playset. Locals would be PACKED. I’m okay with that.
This explain why Konami TCG is afraid to hit decks like Snek eye directly because they want to sell the cards to Bad-but-rich players. Yes, those "META" decks can make players win easier than the floodgates. I know Floodgates can win the game by itself, IF YOU DRAW THEM. But for overkill decks like Snek or Fin Smith. You aren't relying on drawing 3-of to create "powerful" setup.
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Tenpai field never protect you from your mistake. If you messed up because you take the wrong action, you still messed up. Decks like Snek or Fin Smith can protect your mistakes better, because if you messed up, there are still a lot of alternative cards that do the same thing.
it's still super shady how all the best cards are higher rarity and hard to get than the rest, needing money to 'pay employees' by borderline scamming the consumers with the way they print sets is unfortivable, there are other ways to do it
a box of cards in my country costs as much as me working 2 full days (i need to work 18 hrs to buy a box that has a very slight chance to grant me 1 or at most 2 copies of 12+ cards i might be pulling for
konami make insane amounts of money, don't pity the billionaires so much, we're the victims no matter how we look at it, printing the cardboard (low quality in the tcg btw), wrappings and shipping are nowhere near the end cost that we have to pay for product
it's like restaurants buying watermelon for 0.15 euro per kilogram and selling slices for 2 euro in the menu, and the man said it too, if we stop buying these fraudulent sets, we might see change
sorry if i seem salty or upset (i am) but i care a lot about the game and players even though being a casual and it always grinds my gears when it comes to konami
From the balkans, you are exactly right
Just boycott it ffs.. buy other cardgames to support your locals until konami changes anything.. noone would be mad if his card is banned when you are able to buy it as a cheap super rare
Seriously people with super big platforms just need to complain constantly and get their fans to be super pissed off
@@croczOTK im actually working as an editor for one of those in germany
The one thing we've been taught sadly is: all around the internet and all these yugitubers is
1. Competitive players > Filthy Casuals.
Reason: we take out big bank loans and are more serious about the game, we make this our livelihood so you filthy casuals have no right to have fun.
So if anything i hope the casuals just drop the game and move on to other games till all this competitive player worshiping stops.
The casual voice deserves a better platform now.
Enough of listening to these competitive takes.
Lmao, imagine this toxic ass community ACTUALLY being nice to casuals 😂
Guy is a dreamer, that's for damn sure.
The one thing I want to know is why sometimes the rarities in OCG are different from the TCG? The dragon master magia card being a QCR only in the TCG meanwhile the OCG it has three different rarities. But I am def going to watch the podcast!
@@ericlol99 he is under a lifetime NDA so he can't say exactly why but he basically implied that they do it because it sells product.
@@gamingsuperun thanks! But still sucks
@@ericlol99 because the OCG and TCG have different playerbase and expectations. It’s why the TCG sometimes skips over products.
3:28 , " Konami wants to cater to them more then the competitive audience "
*Konami proceeds to make magia a single print QCR that only casuals would play, but is also tooo expensive to drop +700$ on.
but buying a couple packs and hoping is easier to justify lol😂😂😂😂
I think shifter and dimensional barrier are very hated even from the casual players. They help like the lowest possible level players but they make the game unfun for most of the players , casuals and competitive.
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Konami pays a lot of attention to players. The players just never realise it.
Konami pays a lot of attention to players. They just also hate the players.
@@michalljubljanac312they don’t routinely they do exactly what people want. When they don’t it’s undoubtedly because they can’t.
@@mrbubbles6468 lol, sure. They print all the competitive staple as secret rares because that's what the players want. Ignore the fact that no other TCG (or even the OCG for that matter) is this scummy. The main thing Konami cares about is raising quarterly sales for their shareholders, not player satisfaction or sustainability.
@@michalljubljanac312 the players do. When they print the majority of stuff at lower rarity people complain the Secret Rares are terrible and not worth it.
its all about that money money baby
My problem is why not make the casual decks good or at least t2 worthy so they get more mileage out of them. Blue-eyes support was a step in the right direction but the evil heroes support was a kick in the throat. Like it's like they designed them to be bad on purpose from all the restrictions off the little things to bad requirements for the monsters. The new evil hero neos would have been perfect if it was 1 neos and 1 effect or hero. But they specifically say the monster has to be on field. That sounds like nothing till you see how heros play and how inconvenient it is.
@gravemind76 you're supposed to super poly for Neos Lord. Basically once you blow your load of the Shining Neos Wingman off of Favorite Contact, you flip the super poly that was set last turn from Infernal Rider, and summon Neos Lord with either 1 Monster on their field if there is one left, or any extra Hero effect Monster you control.
After playing with the Evil Hero package on Duelingbook for a few hours today, I was able to make it a tight 50 cards for a smooth OmniHero build. You can go up to 60 if you want to max out hand traps and extenders, but 50 is doable.
@robertfox960 that sounds terrible, superpolyin for 1 is neg. 50 cards? That sound worse as you just added more bricks.
For omni, the only good card is prism, necrom and adjusted. Which are all 1 ofs at most. How does this support help play through 2 ht? Most players will stop you from adding poly.
You have to play Toxic Bubble. It's a free extender, and if you summon it in sequence after the Inferno Wing, it's a +2.
Hero will always lose to 2+ handtraps, and that's not even if we brick from the start.
Your endboard, on your turn, should be Wonder Driver, Shadow Mist, Plasma, Kuriboh Lv6, Facedown: Favorite Contact, Mask Change, Dark Supremacy, Miracle/Poly, and Super Poly with DPE in grave ready to come back. On opponents turn, as they attempt to out your board, you let them commit depending on how you want to exhaust their plays. And you still have 2 or 3 in hand to pay cost for Super Poly.
At the end of their turn you should have Dark Law, Neos Lord/Shining Neos Wingman, DPE(or in grave), Plasma, and whatever you stole if you summoned Neos Lord and they should have 0 cards.
@robertfox960 yes but an extender don't mean anything if your locked into heros. The draw 2 effect is nice but you need to already establish a dark fusion monster that is midway into the combos, so drawing him is a brick as he doesn't add nothing.
That's what the support is supposed to help with. It's my fault for hoping for yubel level support since evil was the most neglected sub archtype. All you did was make the combo longer, lose harder to droll, and play more into nib. How does this stop 2 board breakers? Now we have to cut out ht or board breakers to play or play 60 with ht which is neg , which means we are now allowing decks to always full combo. Also beside dark assault non of the new cards are good on the draw. In a game playing 18ht, do you think this is gonna resolve? Every hood play stops vyon poly search which shuts down most the deck and pray on having fusion destiny.
Being locked into heroes is never a problem in the build? Winged Kuriboh is ALWAYS treated as an Elemental HERO card.
We're gonna lose to Nib anyway, so why not try to go all out? We're gonna lose to 2+ handtraps anyway, so why not attempt to build a huge board if they can't stop our extenders?
This support IS on par with the Yubel support we got. Yubel was such a disaster originally that it seems like OP support. And I'm only looking at the direct Yubel support here. Not fiendsmith/Unchained/sacred beast cards that support the general Fiend type.
We play Droplet and Talents in main specifically for going 2nd when it does happen. Even in 60 card, you can max out on board breakers like evenly, Nib, and crossout.
You have to play with it to understand how it feels. It's a glass cannon but it feel so good to pop off with it.
If they really wanted money they should've printed fiend smith into the ground.
competitive players made a casual player like myself play with only my buddies bc those foos don't even talk. they just point at cards, stonefaced and is generally not fun to play against.
So what your telling me is, that the filthy casuals who hate pendulums are the reason why my electrumite still banned
What do you mean you disagree that Konami gives us shit prize support ???
It's more complicated than just "prizes are shit" and I don't think it's that big of a factor of why things are problematic.
Im just a casual. But does Konami ban private tournaments that could be made for cash prizes?
@@superbarriobros3372 ocg? they didnt
@@r3zaful yeah I think it would be awesome to run tournaments with a third party sponsor. Probably really hard to find. But I think it would fix the prizing problem.
@@galzo It’s really not complicated at all. Just compare our prizing to other cards games and it’s obvious that we are the worst by far. But ok. Let’s pretend that it’s very complicated.
Thanks for the tldr galzo
I just topped regionals in Puerto Rico (13 place) and didn't got anything from it besides the nat invite, really discourages you from trying
I love ur content men, interesting video as always.
I appreciate that!
Explains why this game is a net negative. Literally no positive unless you just like to have fun with friends. Playing seriously gets you absolutely nothing but missing money from your bank account
Who not call for a boycott? You and so many Yugitubers have the influence to make change for the better. Wish you had more love for this game 😢
Did you miss the part in the vid where he pointed out they are tiny compared to the actual playerbase?
If you want to boycott the game just do so.
@@mrbubbles6468 I do. And I hope you join as well. I hope you love this game more then the yugitoobers
@@roostertutor
When I thought the game was terrible I did stop. Voiced my complaint at that time as well. Currently I think is doing good which is why I’m back.
@@mrbubbles6468 I’m glad you’re enjoying yourself. I just hope they do more in the long run
@@roostertutor Hopefully they will. Stuff seems to clearly be getting back to them.
Konami is like that toxic gf/bf who misstreats you and if you think about leaving konami says. You cannot leave me because you LOVE ME ! And they are right..😢 😂
Frequently Konami does actually listen to you though. Players have a bad habit of not realising it.
Did you ask if takahashi said no cash?
@@masterflamewing234 That’s been confirmed by multiple people to be the case already.
@@mrbubbles6468 source?
Theyre a company with profits. Like anyone else. Dollars make decisions. Either more or less of it. If we all didnt buy the next set flat out....theyd dive into the playerbqse and flip rhe game upside down in our favor.
Competetive players ya'll are welcome! lol
The most successful time period of Yu-Gi-Oh! was when the game had the best player experience. The thing is, this "balance" of player experience and business metrics is too much of a rollercoaster ride these days, where they'll meet in the middle sometimes, but most times Konami leans into their business metrics rather than doubling down on the player experience. People would want to buy products more if they like playing the game, like in the past. It's really simple math, but I think the stigma of failing is why Konami cares about the money so much in most cases. Nothing's guaranteed like in the past. Like when Yu-Gi-Oh sets hit the shelves in the past, they knew it was gonna sell no doubt. Now, nobody can really be so sure if something will do well. And I believe it's all attributed to the fact that Yu-Gi-Oh cannot hold players and keep them entertained anymore. Ofc, there's no players to buy it these days, the casuals breathe life into this game, like the video said. And sadly in normal spaces, even in locals, there's no way to enjoy the game for them.
So as a conclusion, I believe that going all in on the player experience will ultimately lead to the money Konami wants, because as stated, many people still love Yu-Gi-Oh. But the problem is many people do not "enjoy playing" Yu-Gi-Oh, and that's the disconnect Konami needs to fix. If people love playing the game and are interested in playing, they will buy products. "People will just play master duel or Edo which is F2P". There was no incentive to buy paper cards, back then it was just the only way to play freely. For most casual players, cards will just collect dust since there's quite a few ways to play Yu-Gi-Oh without buying physical cards now. So they need to give people a good reason to buy paper, because as of right now, other than flipping cards, there isn't a good reason.
Konami has always made changes depending in feedback or not spending. It’s the reason certain products get skipped over.
Hmm