This is almost a perfect inversion of the problem at hand. The issue isn’t “too many reprints. Too many good cards” the problem is “the products being sold don’t contain enough of the valuable cards to make purchasing the product worthwhile” Competetive staples should not cost over 50 dollars and be nearly impossible to pull from packs. If konami stopped being greedy assholes, they would expand their player base and make more profit. But right now the Yugioh fandom is relegated to a small niche because the cost of entry is so high.
@@TheChoujinVirus it’s still a rich man’s game. Just look how hard they are pushing that tacky silver dark magician card. Konami may have stopped printing competitive staples as Tournament prize exclusives, but they didn’t stop their exploitative bullshit. They are milking collectors for all they are worth. And players. Just look at the rarity bumps on vanquish soul making the archetype literally unplayable in the TCG. That shows how much the cost/utility ratio effects the appeal and success of the product. The entire Trading Card Game is becoming the Vanquish Soul of Card games. Because it’s too hard to get and just not worth the price.
Yeah. If I wanted to play a meta deck I just wouldn't be able to for a long time because of the financial barrier because of stuff I won't get into. That's why I like my Speedroid deck and my Lyrilusc deck and my Synchrons but then I don't have anywhere I can play those decks irl, meaning Yu-Gi-Oh irl has been a game I dream about playing instead of actually playing it, it sucks
A lot of people don't understand this Basically they have each set be super top-heavy, with very few cards being difficult to pull and cost a ton of money, making it extremely risky to buy the box itself Instead they should release (if possible) sets with multiple decent cards that are easier to pull, 10, 20, 30 dollar cards where buying a box doesn't immediately kill its value if you don't get the chase card
I don’t know what Konami is thinking about discontinuing Yugioh TCG entirely, I hope they’ll regret and change their decisions please because this really pisses me off a lot!!! 😞😡🤬 #yugioh #Komani
Man, I'm truly disappointed in Konami long time ago, but I don't believe Konai will ever stop printing the cards, that's their strongest ace, but they definitly should see some critics about their way of working which lasting for a years, something need to be changed!
true and am sure they will go on for a while, hopefully they change in the right direction though and take a step out of pokemons book as they are crushing it with their releases
I don’t care what anyone says, synchros, xyz, pendulum and link monsters ruined yugioh. When I saw the first two new types I knew it was the beginning of the end for such a beloved card game. They couldn’t just stay to the core game and create upon that, the card game was changed way too much and is now unrecognizable.
Yugioh started to suck when they made the Special Summons too common... I remember when you had to strategize to get hour star monster out. Now people spepcial summon 4-5 6 star monster per turn. Too many arquetypes this game doesn't want you to create your own unique deck.
The main reason why I’ve quit Yu-Gi-Oh, and only occasionally watch videos is because I’ve been more or less priced out overtime. All of my current cards are damn near useless to play on a somewhat decent competitive level. And for some reason I wanted to update all of my decks which would take hundreds of dollars which would be used elsewhere.
This is really interesting coming from the magic the gathering world. Magic also has been going through a release crisis. People have been saying too many products being released. I am not sure how it is effecting the game financially. One big difference is Yu-Gi-Oh has the reprint tins. Magic doesn't really have an anolog to this.
Except Magic: The Gathering has destroyed it's entire competitive scene by outsourcing Paper Standard players over to Arena where the game itself is literally surviving on EDH / Commander alone. I'm guessing Yu-Gi-Oh! also outsourced their In-Person Tournaments at Hobby Stores over to Master Duel because of when the world shutdown from the pandemic a few years ago and their COVID-19 safety protocols are making it hard to play In-Person.
@@456jmYeah. At least, they seem to have understood why that is a bad thing since they try to change it once again and strenghten paper standard more in the months to come. Not sure if we will have a positive outcome or yet another drama situation again. But at least they started to react. The problem with Konami TCG is this however: Konami is even more terrible than WOTC as a company. They are just taking suggestions from customers and present them in a way that is only favorable to themselves. Look at starlight rares. They came because we called for multiple rarities of cards to make them more accessible. So what did they do? They released an even harder to get rarity so the « standard rarity » looks easier to get in comparison. Of course that calc doesnt come clean. I might not be objective enough here as i hate Konami with all my body, but to me, it seems that Konami is just getting worse and worse surpassing even wotc and the pokemon company. I could go on and on and even present other examples but it would make the comment explode in size. Konami seems to suck in revenue as much as they can for now because they seem to prepare for an eventual discontinuation of the yugioh products if the metrics show that too many people stop buying products and they can’t make the planned ahead profits.
They need to do something asap. Product is failing and secondary prices are at an all time low. Player base is dropping at locals all across the country.
Either Konami is: 1) Phasing out physical cards 2) Taking back control over sales. What if they want consumers to buy directly from them? Is that something they could do or would want to do?
Yeah I could totally see this as a frog boiling in the pot scenario and even if the frog notices and discontinues sales, it still ends up shifting control of the market to Konami.
I mean logically right. If I’m the printer and the creator; do I really want a 2nd party holding a profit from my products? Like it’s all nice by the hobby stores to sell singles and stuff right, but really you want to control box sets in a economy? I really think Konami is just tryna churn hobby stores.
@@hyquiemistheg.o.a.t1671you actually want a 3rd party, since the game Is a competitive game, and the reason people play Is to compete. No stores --> no competition --> I don't buy your product. Also, konami actually only organizes YCS, Continentals and World Championship. Amy smaller tournament (regionals, Nats etc.) are run by shops. If the shop does not have Yu-Gi-Oh, why would It run a tournament? This market direction Is totally dumb.
@@francescolofaro8258 shops and online stores aren’t the same tho. If you’re a reseller online, you probably at best have some mini locations where you do host tournaments. However, you’re whole scheme is on buying big and selling big. A small shop in the middle of town barely gets to compete with a well known online store.
@ManuelRiccobono lmao it's the seller community that cause it. We don't by boxes we buy singles and there are to many 3rd party non OTS sellers compared to buyers. I myself is part of the problem. Sellers only price up a small number of cards and everything else falls because of no competition dropping price on the fake market witch is TCG players. Konami is making plenty of money this is not thier issue yet. But you all will also complain when there 100 dollar staples as well. So yall will never be happy. But again this is a issue we created no konami. Ad they say. We are so close to the trees we can not see the trees.
@@djjorge87it’s sad that your point is valid, but the community is so blinded to these collector stores. This happens with almost every TCG, staples form box sets get marked up absurdly due to demand, and now instead of taking the odds to buy a box set people buy the staple instead. Really it just comes down to interference.
Reprinting cards is a good thing, not every staple should be £10+ for entry, I do believe konami should increase pull rates slightly and decrease the rate of the sets but apart from that yugioh is fine
That might be good for players and the competitive scene but old school player who no longer play the game will have no interest in the collection aspect of yugioh because they know every chase card they own will just automatically lose value.
@@dark_antihero absolute nothing argument, every single tcg reprints their cards more than yugioh does and their chase cards are worth 100x anything yugioh has, this is what raritys are for, if you want a chase card you print in a high rarity and print it more common for actual players
@@QuankyFlacidFilms Do you have any critical thinking in your brain or do you just parrot what you hear on a youtube video, a handful of hobby stores discontinuing a product isn't vindictive of the global market, my local forbidden planet doesn't sell pokemon or magic the gathering cards anymore, I guess that means they are dying too and not that they couldn't shift enough product with recent demand for the products. These X is dying videos always perform really well no matter the original franchise being mentioned, there is a financial insensitive for creators to always create these videos, people were saying yugioh is dying every master rule update. Don't reproduce
@@QuankyFlacidFilms This is actually incorrect. LGS's aren't necessarily "losing money." I pretty much never see an LGS sell for tcgplayer low on boxes. They go MSRP or higher. And my locals always sells their boxes, despite being near double tcgplayer low. (Which baffles me to say the least.) But on their end, they aren't losing money. The only way they lose money is if people don't buy or they sell below markup.
I used to play Yugioh from 2003- 2013. I stopped buying physical cards because it was getting to that point where you had to pay to win. You had to keep up with the latest/best cards in order to win. And during that time Konami was releasing way too many cards. At least that’s how it felt in 2013. Not sure how it is in 2023, but I see a lot more scalpers now. Especially the 25th anniversary. Looking back, I am glad I took that decision. I remember my senior year (2012) I spent more money on Yugioh cards than clothes or school supplies. Now I’m looking at this video , I am disgusted by how Konami is handling the situation. PS: I still play Yugioh with friends but now we play online with virtual cards. It’s so much cheaper that way.
Yep and it's only gotten worse over the years, with new meta decks coming out every set (2 weeks), it truly is crazy to see and just hope konami fix there shit so we can continue to love this game for the years to come
Well not really.....you can also play stun decks...I mean the 60 card deck that just says no to whatever ur opponent it's playing.......it is fun...for you maybe....but after a while it's just....meah
The best part is the sellers and yugioh market channels are the reason why it's like this but they are to close to even notice lmao. Yet they are the ones complaining haha.
exactly and I freaking hate it.. .not everyone cares about you opening the next set sometimes.. people just look for what they are interested in.. not the next thing.. and the next thing..and the thing after that.. geez. As as as I know they are the ones who are the real problem!!.
Well that explains why other cards are taking up the Yu-Gi-Oh card section. Dragon Ball which I collect, one piece etc. Yu-Gi-Oh cards have been discounted so low at my local stores it's insane.
I feel like that's a all around problem like literally the problem is if people are trying to get out of the game they can't sell their stuff because the value dropped people want to play the game but they don't want to spend money for the game I say that card should keep the value and also people should just buy cards and everybody should be happy for the people who are complaining about is so expensive or they don't like this set take a break and come back at the and of the day people complain too much in general if you really like this game it doesn't matter you keep on playing it
This issue was singlehandedly caused by the collectors and scalpers who kept hiking their prices because of "value." Konami literally had no choice if they wanted to continue to make profit so they began reprinting like crazy which decreased the "value" of scalpers and collectors. This is honestly a consequence caused by greedy Konami, greedy collectors, and greedy scalpers. This is why there's such a discrepancy between global and OCG. Honestly speaking, collectors and scalpers screwed over everyone who just wanted to actually play the game competitively and for fun. Us regulars should be blaming the "raise the value of my card hurr durr" collectors and scalpers. Regular collectors who don't care about "value" and prices and just want to show off their super cool cards are the ones I like.
Well... could be worse though. Near me, I heard Target and Walmart are beginning to discontinue to stock YUGIOH, and TCG Player is fueled by personal sellers and card shops, so, if not now, then this will be a large problem due to the cost of the sets and the poor ratios we get in reverse of the OCG (where good cards have better ratios), and we are seeing the ramifications of Konami being greedy in the TCG as we speak. They even use the Banlist to push product and don't balance the game usually as the first priority, the last Banlist didn't address anything major really apart from Ariseheart. Also, if they supported older decks which need updating and stopped printing throwaway commons per core set, I think people might also come back to play their favorite decks from the past. They already started with decks like Ice Barrier, and now Infernoid. They should continue, especially if they haven't received meaningful in-archetype support in greater than 5 years (ie, Hieratic, Skull Servant, Rose Dragon, Burning Abyss, Crusadia, Gemini, Koa'ki Meiru/Adamancipator, Phantom Knight, Flip Monsters, Normal Monsters to name a few types of cards), while creating cards that create the back and forth play that is fun and interactive. Instead of creating 4+ new decks during the span of a couple months, they should support the older decks. I'm not saying new decks being made is a bad thing, but I feel like Konami spreads their resources thin when they make more than one at a time. For example, Ogdoadics were thought to be kind of good on release because of snake rain being a card, but they don't do much without snake rain. While I was playing them, they were dismantled by a 2014 deck after they got their new structure deck around a year prior (3X shaddoll structure deck).
I agree on giving older decks support. Most people discovered the game through the anime, so they are familiar with some older decks. However support should go to all decks not only protags' decks. I write that while I know my favourite decks wouldn't get support anytime soon.
@@dudono1744 totally agree legacy support can't be decks like blue eyes, dark magician, and HEROs; which don't need more support. Rather, I think decks that were used around a decade ago should get some support first, but then decks made in the last 5 years after those get buffed. Especially decks from during quarantine when people were picking up the game because that's all people could do at home.
Yugioh is extremely expensive. I stopped buying cards except for the structure decks and instead started making my own proxy cards. I only play for fun and not in tournaments, so it was a cheaper alternative except for all the sleeves, deck boxes, printing paper, glue, and junk cards I needed to make them. As we all know, there are sometimes decks where you need three copies of numerous cards that are CRAZY expensive to the point where a single deck could cost hundreds of dollars to make. So instead, I choose to now make proxy cards at a fraction of the price but have to make up for the cost in terms of finding high quality images of proxy cards, printing them, cutting them out perfectly, glueing them onto junk cards, and sleeving them.
I find this extremely funny because these collectors are saying that YGO is ruining the game by the amount of cards they print but let's be real, they're only saying these because they're concerned with the VALUE OF THEIR CARDS and HOW THEY WON'T BE MAKING AS MUCH MONEY AS BEFORE. 😂😂😅 For people who actually play the TCG/OCG, this is great news. Imagine finally buying staple cards for a lot cheaper and with that, more people won't be as scared to get into YGO because of the price and availability of the cards.
Short sighted way of thinking. Stores make money by cracking cases and selling singles too. If they cant make money cracking cases, and nobody's buying boxes to crack for themselves, stores will just stop carrying the product
Its interesting that every card game seems to be going through the same thing right now. Mtg, yugioh, and vanguard, their entire communities are saying "please company slow down"
Man thats awful what's going to happen now it's going to cause scalpers to buy all the stuff and double triple their money because the stores can't carry it anymore
The sad reality if more stores do close and shut down, as whoever we will have to buy cards through will have full control on setting prices due to no competition and no other stores selling
I just see a bunch of card scalpers crying because we are getting a lot of reprints and they can't be rich by selling a couple of cardboard cards lmao This video is just over dramatic af
@@shadowcatboy7852 I use to buy sets when I first started. After less than a year chose to start buying singles. After realizing the value of my work and money, the importance and fun in rogue, and how the meta/market shifted and made my target cards drop to a cheaper value if I were patient and I just quit buying boxes.
It is and truly just hope to see yugioh back where it was in 2020 so many epic sets like eternity code, toon chaos, battles of legend Armageddon with everyone loving release after release
Don't take it only negatively, obviously it's sad to see the downfall of such an iconic card game but often times with such massive companies like konami the only way to push them into a corner where they actually have to innovate and improve is hitting them in their pockets where it hurts the most exactly like this
Wtf what a gold digger It's the best for a game if the cards are very cheap so everyone can affort them and no one will gain money of buying out the products to keep them for reselling much more expensive I hate those toxic people who try to earn money from reselling products this way.
Yeah so cheap that stores lose money on every set released, and have to stop buying it as they just lose money, you have no idea how bad this is do you
It's more than that, Konami has made an no win situation where they print whole archetypes in high rarity slots to the point where it is un reasonable to even try pulling packs because all you'll get is some archetypal trap you can't use.
I think this is the most costly year for me collecting cards due to so many different packs and boxes coming out all at once, and it kind of puts you off from buying anymore cards long term. Konami definitely need to slow down and take a breath.
Half of the sets literally say "25th Anniversary" or "Quarter Century" in the set names. Therefore, after this year Konami won't print that many products. It is a problem EXCLUSIVE to 2023.
True but yet still a problem until it's not, and right now it's a big problem for stores, plus realistically out of every set this year to release, how many have you bought in total? Me 3 (lob mrd and ioc boxes) out of 12 or so releases, and sure I'll probably pick up a rarity collection, but just so so many options
Here’s the thing, Konami needs to decide whether it’s a collectors product or a play focused game, because it’s gutting both communities which have gotten to the point that they can not coexist due to how Konami has evolved the product
I served my time in the trenches from 02’-05’. Sad to see it not selling well, but it sadly boils down to trash ratios to pull and rules bloat. The old game was better. I moved to other games years ago and others should speak with their wallets as well. Weiss Schwarz, WiXoss, and Shadowverse Evolved are so much better games.
I hope that Konami realizes that they are hurting the customers and that they will leave for other card games, and Konami needs to make cards that maintain their value before they reprint the cards in the mega tins or side sets but who knows maybe they are trying to build enough capital before they sell the rights
it is a frustrating one and as a collector of yugioh not a player, have been very disappointed besides some cool sets like ghost from the past and the reprint boxes, and am sure the rarity collection will be a fun one, however they definitely need to take a step back and look at what they are doing and how they are hurting stores, customers, collectors, players, all areas of people who buy, love and play yugioh
but they do in game. its not konami problem you can't resell a card for 50$ or more to some kids. if anything cards are way more long lasting this days. look at 50%-80% of any deck now. its the same staples and side deck cards. some are years old. what this if not cards that maintain their value. to THE PLAYERS not the scammers that want to sell cards for unreal amounts of cash.
@@anatoli1234567890I'm really focused on the 20 packs 1 secret rare. This is less of a problem in the ocg because of how things are there but here they just take whole archetypes and make them ultra plus and then fill garbage cans with a 20 playset of cold feet. The ratio have to be reevaluated to make these sets actually worth it.
@@brutalnobody5240exactly. This is the real problem. You have to open up a box of bulk before you have a CHANCE of seeing one copy of an actually playable card. You can’t sell packs that way. And konami has leaned into this making secret rares even more impossible to pull, meaning only stores can open the amount of product necessary to sell the valuable singles. It severely limits the player base.
I'm leaving this game for pokemon. at least there i can afford a competitive deck without making "budget" versions of better decks that are exclusive to whales. Looking at you triple tactics thrust, pre-reprint pot of duality, and pre-reprint desires. balls to that mess
I know the market is saturated, but I just started recollecting Yu-Gi-Oh since last year and just started collecting the 25th Quarter century Cards sets I don’t want Yu-Gi-Oh to die in the USA and might end up having to be on the OCG like Korean cards and Japanese if this continues
The 25th Century push is the only reason why there is product glut. After this year, QCRs won't exist anymore, no more printing old sets, no more pure nostalgia product, etc. Konami has one year where things slip up, and everyone screams fire... MTG is twice as bad and nobody cries this loudly.
I'm a long time Magic player and this video really struck me because MTG is suffering from some of the same issues. So many new expansions and supplementary products are being released now---it's overwhelming. For the past couple years, the game has existed in a state of perpetual hype and "spoiler season" never ends. I don't think Hasbro is mismanaging MTG as poorly as Konami is with YGO, but Magic's current direction doesn't seem sustainable either. You guys may be aware of the parallels already, but I just thought it was worth mentioning. Hopefully Konami hears you guys and starts to actually give a shit.
Watching this video as a a magic player, just let me say...we feel your pain. Seem two of the OG's are determined to kill their own product by too many releases, and too little effort.
lets just freaking pray everyone, Pray! This is really such a good franchise, but now is just about to die!? that really sucks! and just as Im starting to get into the meta!
lets pray because im sure non of us want yugioh the game we all love to die, it has been too big a part of our lives, and hope to see it improve for the better in the coming years
I don't see it going under, people have been claiming that for years, but if it did, I'd probably laugh. They made it ridiculous to collect, to play, to get new players into it, and they can't even make a non-pay2win digital game.
I haven't touched Yu-Gi-Oh ( the cards) for years but I do follow them and I do agree some of the cards aren't worth it especially when they are put in the games but I don't believe they are going away any time soon cause they still have their three biggest sellers which are Walmart Target and TCG Player
@@BlancoHimself have they ? Cause mine still have a lot especially Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh and recently started selling Digimon cards but I think they only sell the BT line for Digimon though I don't know how the other Walmarts are doing
my local card store, which there is three of them i know of. NONE of them sell yugioh cards anymore... that was the whole point of me being there. magic the gathering and other card games, when someone was to ask if there was a card available, they can ask for it. But when i asked for a yugioh card, ANY. they don't have a single one available. that hurts. Im just staying to online game instead. when i asked why they arent selling any, "it wasn't profitable anymore." but then i see some packs of digimon cards they are selling on display. No hate any any other card game, but i grew up with yugioh, kinda hurts that the locals no longer sells any and are just gone.
Master Duel is more likely to die since the physical game is the most profitable part of the game. The worst selling packs make more than any port of GTA V.
I played Yu Gi Oh way back when things were simple. Once we got to Xyz, link, pendulum ect, I gave up. I loved Yu Gi Oh. But the changes were a total drag that really hurt my fav decks. When it came to physical deck dueling, I used to buy decks until they got stupid expensive. I had to find certain cards to keep my Black Luster Deck relevant and stuff. So I was like. Okay. I'll play digitally. I played Master Duel. And it was even more of a drag. I realized the meta was busted and the effects were out of control. It became super easy to get your best cards out sooner, and win within a few turns. Your opponent would concede and move on before you even got your payoff. They could see it was over because they couldn't do anything at all. I had so many stupid effects at my disposal. It felt one sided. I left Master Duel after a few months. It was just people using the best card effects/trap/magic/chains to win. It wasn't about fun. To sum it up, I loved collecting cards and playing Yu Gi Oh, but I will not dump half the price of a used car into new card decks.🤦 There are way too many good cards in Yu Gi Oh now. So much so that the text can barely fit into the description box. What does that tell you?🤦
There is no problem with Yugioh (and MTG too), the problem is people want to purchase a product that costs 10 and expect to make 100$ out of it lol are you all crazy? This is just a bunch of cardboards, not gold. TCG has became a gambling game, mtg is a good example of that with booster boxes selling for 400 - 600$.
@@MrJuan_Vzla konami or wizards can do whatever they want. If people are stupid enough to waste 250 on a MTG anniversary booster with pieces of cardboard with the ugliest and oldest artworks ever then that's on the consumer stupidity, not on the seller. I can sell my feces in a jar, if someone is stupid enough to give me 1k for it, that's on them. People need to have self control.
The reason I stopped playing yugioh competitively is because I hate how hypocritical and strict the yugioh banlist is. I hate investing in a good deck only to later get the ban hammer and killing the whole deck power level. And even if I decided to reject the banlist so I can play with cards I spent my hard earned money on, most yugioh players don't allow playing banned cards which is stupid if we're not in tournament. Oh but then konami prints even more busted archetypes than the previous ones which completely invalidates their previous bans.
Only people doing good seem to be... well I think it's just Pokemon. I think Digimon is slowly dying, Dragon Ball is being hard carried by Latin America, Bushiroad have Weiss and SVE going for them but CFV isn't in a great spot due to promo staple distribution. Magic is Magic. The veteran player base seems to be quite toxic. Can't say much for Flesh and Blood, but I've never seen anyone buy it All TCG companies seem to be in a rough spot right now
Magic’s honestly too big to die though with WOTC’s last couple of decisions it’ll be the end of them if they don’t smarten up. Yugioh’s been dying since 2017. Links fucked this game beyond repair.
@@Nephalem2002 links arent responsible. What is responsible is that konami keeps introducing more and more powerful archetypes that dwarf what was previously new and to keep people buying them, and creates a massive power creep. Like the tearlaments and the last few archetypes released have very few if any link monsters. Saying link monsters have ruined Yu-Gi-Oh is incredibly short sighted.
I used to play both Vanguard and Yugioh I quit playing Yugioh in 2016 because everything was getting too expensive for my 16 year old ass, and the power creep was getting ridiculous. I decided to focus on Vanguard. Sadly, now that has many issues, it relies heavily on a promo system that works only in Japan, and those promos are always staples for certain decks. And the distribution of those promos in Europe sucked. It's not completely horrible though. I'd probably play Yugioh but only in things like Edison or on simulators.
truly crazy how much faster yugioh is to mtg. even so, the last time i purchased single packs was as a kid and i remember sets took a very long time to release.
I went to a card store last week here in Queensland, I asked where are the single cards? they told me one very telling thing, "it isn't worth selling them here" I thought wow, I looked around and all I saw were Pokemon cards, some of them worth at least $4000. The Yugioh release schedule is massively unsustainable, and it is hurting the community as a whole, Konami is oversaturating the market with far too many cards that no one wants, even with legacy sets no one asks for, including the first few sets. What Konami should do, is release a booster every 3 months, and on special occasions release a special set every 6 months, Structure Decks should be released every 4 months, and tins should be released every 3 years.
But keep in mind that most modern Pokemon cards are worth literal pennies lol. Cards that hit thousands of dollars aren't the typical hits people find.
The OCG literally does this. They print the power cards and staples in multiple rarities, but the TCG cannot compete with the wider range of card games that are cropping up and they're losing out shelf space to Pokémon, Flesh and Blood, MTG and so on
Clickbait video, made sure to watch with adblock. After watching, you literally took Joshua Schmidt out of context too. He actually thought that the tins were quite good and that the only thing not getting reprinted is big welcome and kurikara.
I love yugioh but it's true. Having to buy so many products and still being unable to build what you aim for it's plain bad market strategy. At least before you could use most of the cards in random decks, now they are too specific and achetypes being spread on different products makes it just too stupid.
As a professional yugioh player from back in the day... Im NOT surprised! I seen this literally when ash blossom was released and i AUTOMATICALLY noticed a shift in the game/market and overall. Since i used to be excessively competitive yugioh before turned a profit and used to pay for itself AND maintain it self. I stopped because i noticed the writing on the wall and my suppliers ALL dropped yugioh purchasing because you automatically lose money even before you buy cases. Every single local in N.J most closed down and my only access to play is NYC. Unfortunately i no londer or invest thus not buying the game why spend $1000 making a deck to two months later spend another $1000 buying a "new" thing. Yugioh give HORRIBLE prize, OTS pack production is HORRIBLE also pulling ultimate damaged from factory. Konami is AND has always fucked up and DONT care about the customer.... But..... Do you balme them???? Apparently people STILL travel to YCS to win a NORMAL MONSTER AND pay more for entering 😂😂😂 I'll pass I'm smarted with my money i rather play Master duel and receive my packs mailed to me!
Huh? I got ash blossom in the crystal beast structure. You're supposed to be 2-3 years behind if you want affordable stuff unless you get lucky with an archetype. Kinda reminds me how dirt cheap dark armed dragon was compared to teledad dark ages lol. Master duel was kinda sluggish with new cards and didn't start with dragoon. Do correct me if I'm wrong.
Eh, after covid the market crashed, only morons were paying high prices online cause all the shops couldn't buy anymore, and Konami were greedy Basically, IT'S TIME TO-DU-DU-play sp yugioh games
Not the end of Yu-gi-oh; as long as they can roll in money from Master Duel. But physical? It's not good. But also; exactly 10 mins... all stolen content, nothing of your own... clickbait image...
Yugioh looks more and more like a dumpster fire from the outside. As a Weiß/Schwarz Player i cant wrap my mind around the fact that you need atleast to buy a new case every 3 month just to get newest meta relevant cards in a playset or if not buying a case but singles that you sink in multiple $100 to stay ontop of the meta. Meanwhile im chilling grabbing a set I like sink in $200 per playset and Im done wit the set or if Im fancy i buy displays and get the missing as singles. Also getting enough time between 2 sets correlating to one series so that I can can fully focus on that set.
if konamy manages to make the game fail, during the fuking 25th aniiversary and 1 year after the death of the creator, i am fuking burning the company to the ground with all its bosses inside.
Reality: The creator passed away. The regular card store tournament players horde those places. Grown men that go "duel" every weekend. You know who I'm talking about, the ones who claim "ThAts Not How you Play a TRAP card!". Arrested development amongst those nerdy (most likely sober like a nun) dudes that just have to win the newest card pack. 😀
Konami lost its audience at the begining of season 3 and end of season 2. When branded finished. Majority of players left. That's the end of it. Konami will becoming like most woke things go. Bankrupt.
I dont play YuGiOh but i played a lot of magic in my day, a game that is starting to run into the same issues and will probably be at this point soon. Sad for tcg players that two flagship brands are failing.
a big thank you and completely agree, and love collecting it and staring at the shiny cardboard, i just wish konami would look at whats happening in yugioh and cater to all types of yugioh consumer, whether player, collector, stores etc
Correct me if I am wrong but I think OCG products are doing well still. It's much easier to pull good cards in them. And there basically every card has more than one rarity in the same set which is bringing value to the sets. Budget players can buy the cheper lower rarity cards while collectors abd show-offs can buy the shinier more expensive cards
Remember Konami is a foreign product 😂 They take care of their own... 😂 America not so much! Plus years ago koanmi tried to take advantage of their own people and the general public literally started a riot 🤣🤣🤣😂😂 Imagine the streets of Japan hundreds of people protesting Konami. In America we won't do the same since we are lazy and like to take it in the face 🤭 And unfortunately money talks!! If we keep supporting Konami they'll won't change their ways.
I work in a card store. Yugioh just constantly loses money because its just not worth it to open products. The boxes are so top heavy that its both better and smarter to just wait for a set to tank and buy singles.
The beginning of the end. When someone important passes away on a franchise, the rest dies with it. Tom Clancy's passed and now anything from there is terrible. Now it's yugiohs turn.
That’s what makes Magic so good; how accepting the playerbase and game itself is towards proxies and new players. The Precons for Commander range for Miles and upgrading majority of them is extremely cheap. Then it comes down to skill and improvement.
Here's something that will get me unalived but true I feel for the collectors wanting value but it was the collectors greed that made Konami's so called down fall it's there greed for value which made konami release so many sets back to back to get their money hense helping all filthy casuals like me to finally afford these cards and have a chance to finally play my theory is konami played not only the collectors also the budget and casual wallets too they screwed everyone equally lmao 😂😂😂 last thing if collectors would of stopped flexing this would of not happen lmao R.I.P collect stamps they can't reprint that lmao 😂😂😂😂
True, coming from the collectors side though as I don't play due to the high complexity of the game, konami need to be looking after all areas of the game starting with stores, focusing down releases, putting more time between sets for players and collectors to open and use product, as well as really focusing on what should be in sets and how to make them appealing to all people
@@DrChickenz Dont get me started, last time I played YuGiOh was in (I think) 2003 and it already had major complexity and playability issues. Having since designed multiple boardgames and also teach game design in college it's just plainly a game that's held together by the love of it's fans and duct-tape. I recently got some YuGiOh cards in a card lot when buying Digimon cards and good god only the visual style for gameplay is just plain awful. I have Doombearer psychopompus next to me, it's basically a short story as to what it doe to the point they had to shorten basic terms all while keeping the a small text spot so it become actually hard to read if you don't have optimal lighting, dyslexia or (I imagine) slightly off eye sight. And that'd be unbearable during gameplay unless your opponent plays YuGiOh so much they remember most or all cards and their effects. And that's just talking about how information of the card is conveyed. That's not even starting about poor theming, poor deckbuilding support within the system, just a clusterfuck of cardrules and it's outright hostile in its visual and game design towards new players. It does have nice images though.
I must confess, i'd rather see all cards go down to less than a dollar, at least them people would buy to actually play the game, I hate that those shiny pieces of paper gets so overvalued that making a deck means spending 50 doll in 1 card
Honestly, I hope not. I jumped back into the game so I could go out and make friends with people. I'm looking at building Branded Zombies and it will cost me under $100 for a pretty damned good Deck.
Its not, people like OP have this fantasy that the game's attendance isn't going up constantly and engagement with the game isn't at at a peak right now.
Some of these sets could have been compressed to make it more tolerable. For example: take the 5 Legacy sets and make them mini boxes like the ones common in Japan. You get like half a case for half the price or can buy a full case with assorted boxes. It's still a little much but its logical to release all 5 of those sets at the same time and this change would get stores to buy all the sets for what should be 1.5x-2.25x the price instead of 5x. This whole anniversary should have had more content to back it up and should have had everyone at least considering returning to the game. Honestly I'd say anime content would be preferred even if it's a Duel Links or Master Duel movie. Even releasing 6 structure decks based on each era but more modernized throughout the year would probably have been better than 5 old packs because it gets people back into the game even with older decks.
In my opinion it comes down to 2 things... 1) Konami has seen what Hasbro forced Wizards to do with the amount of cards released in the span of a year and thought "THATS WHAT WE NEED TO DO ON A GREATER SCALE" and 2) They don't care about the LGS's, Konami wants to get rid of the middle man no matter if it's an LGS or Amazon or any retail store...
instead of tcg series just make it a game franchise without pay to win or greedy anti-fan tactics just have all cards from the manga and anime or japan only cards
Probably an unpopular opinion but... don't care. To be fair, the game needs a major overhaul anyway. I just don't find it entertaining when the same 2 decks are used by everybody. It defeats the original idea to use a structure you've created. They're reprinting cards for nostalgia reasons but you can't use them in modern competitions because meta and now speed duels. Duels are over in seconds. What's that Dark Magician going to do? Lol
Dark magician was never doing anything, it was always a worse option, if you wanted 2500atk, go summoned skull for 1 less tribute, at 2 tribute something like BEWD was better as it was simply stronger, (and even that was not playd really because it was to slow and to easily to get rid off). the game did NOT fundamentaly change in that regard, it became faster etc, but the underlying "you either go meta or bust" didnt, the meta was always "the same few odd cards"+your archetype HECK IT WAS WORSE, in early yugioh the decklis was "30 stable cards you either had or went bust, and like 10 cards of personal flavour and you hope that "flavour" was Lajinn"(in very early yugioh) also to the new player experience. Kinda anecdotal evidence i know, but a few weeks ago there was Gamescom in germany(a gaming convention) where konami always has a Stand with YGO in the merch area, and i was just bored and used up half of a day i was there(out of 3) to sit there, do some duells and just look at other players, and that did bring a decent amount of new players in, people who havent played in years, people who never played but always wanted to try, booth 20+ and like around 14 in even numbers. how many of them who bought a deck and learned the Rules from one of the helpfull people there, i cant say obviously, but saying" the game dosnt get new people" is just kinda wrong
@weberman173 Like I said, Dark Magician is a bad example because then he was worthless and now he actually has a role, I think maybe OP was just referring to that infamous "told you I'm the master" commercial that promised a nostalgic return to "old-school Dueling". 😂
Quit Yugioh around Performapal/Draco tier 0. Game has just been negate meta since, horrible. Game shifted at Dragon Rulers into every card needing 3/4 effects.
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This is almost a perfect inversion of the problem at hand. The issue isn’t “too many reprints. Too many good cards” the problem is “the products being sold don’t contain enough of the valuable cards to make purchasing the product worthwhile”
Competetive staples should not cost over 50 dollars and be nearly impossible to pull from packs.
If konami stopped being greedy assholes, they would expand their player base and make more profit. But right now the Yugioh fandom is relegated to a small niche because the cost of entry is so high.
which is ironic, because the constant reprinting was originally made to eliminate the "Rich Man's Game" problem that Yugioh had in its early days
@@TheChoujinVirus it’s still a rich man’s game. Just look how hard they are pushing that tacky silver dark magician card. Konami may have stopped printing competitive staples as Tournament prize exclusives, but they didn’t stop their exploitative bullshit. They are milking collectors for all they are worth. And players. Just look at the rarity bumps on vanquish soul making the archetype literally unplayable in the TCG. That shows how much the cost/utility ratio effects the appeal and success of the product. The entire Trading Card Game is becoming the Vanquish Soul of Card games. Because it’s too hard to get and just not worth the price.
Yeah. If I wanted to play a meta deck I just wouldn't be able to for a long time because of the financial barrier because of stuff I won't get into. That's why I like my Speedroid deck and my Lyrilusc deck and my Synchrons but then I don't have anywhere I can play those decks irl, meaning Yu-Gi-Oh irl has been a game I dream about playing instead of actually playing it, it sucks
A lot of people don't understand this
Basically they have each set be super top-heavy, with very few cards being difficult to pull and cost a ton of money, making it extremely risky to buy the box itself
Instead they should release (if possible) sets with multiple decent cards that are easier to pull, 10, 20, 30 dollar cards where buying a box doesn't immediately kill its value if you don't get the chase card
I don’t know what Konami is thinking about discontinuing Yugioh TCG entirely, I hope they’ll regret and change their decisions please because this really pisses me off a lot!!! 😞😡🤬
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#Komani
That's craaazy, I just started to get into the collecting aspect of it. Went to a card shop for the first time and spent about 130. My heart has sunk.
Man, I'm truly disappointed in Konami long time ago, but I don't believe Konai will ever stop printing the cards, that's their strongest ace, but they definitly should see some critics about their way of working which lasting for a years, something need to be changed!
true and am sure they will go on for a while, hopefully they change in the right direction though and take a step out of pokemons book as they are crushing it with their releases
@@DrChickenzfailure? I loved all of the sets.
2025: Yu-Gi-Oh Snap-Duel. Because speed and rush just turned into regular Yu-Gi-Oh.
i only buy Yu-Gi-Oh cards the ones i want that it
I don’t care what anyone says, synchros, xyz, pendulum and link monsters ruined yugioh. When I saw the first two new types I knew it was the beginning of the end for such a beloved card game. They couldn’t just stay to the core game and create upon that, the card game was changed way too much and is now unrecognizable.
Yugioh started to suck when they made the Special Summons too common... I remember when you had to strategize to get hour star monster out.
Now people spepcial summon 4-5 6 star monster per turn. Too many arquetypes this game doesn't want you to create your own unique deck.
The main reason why I’ve quit Yu-Gi-Oh, and only occasionally watch videos is because I’ve been more or less priced out overtime. All of my current cards are damn near useless to play on a somewhat decent competitive level. And for some reason I wanted to update all of my decks which would take hundreds of dollars which would be used elsewhere.
This is really interesting coming from the magic the gathering world. Magic also has been going through a release crisis. People have been saying too many products being released. I am not sure how it is effecting the game financially.
One big difference is Yu-Gi-Oh has the reprint tins. Magic doesn't really have an anolog to this.
Yeah, we do, a printer and ink
Or magic30, if you really wanted to go there
Except Magic: The Gathering has destroyed it's entire competitive scene by outsourcing Paper Standard players over to Arena where the game itself is literally surviving on EDH / Commander alone.
I'm guessing Yu-Gi-Oh! also outsourced their In-Person Tournaments at Hobby Stores over to Master Duel because of when the world shutdown from the pandemic a few years ago and their COVID-19 safety protocols are making it hard to play In-Person.
@@456jmYeah. At least, they seem to have understood why that is a bad thing since they try to change it once again and strenghten paper standard more in the months to come. Not sure if we will have a positive outcome or yet another drama situation again.
But at least they started to react.
The problem with Konami TCG is this however:
Konami is even more terrible than WOTC as a company. They are just taking suggestions from customers and present them in a way that is only favorable to themselves. Look at starlight rares. They came because we called for multiple rarities of cards to make them more accessible. So what did they do? They released an even harder to get rarity so the « standard rarity » looks easier to get in comparison. Of course that calc doesnt come clean.
I might not be objective enough here as i hate Konami with all my body, but to me, it seems that Konami is just getting worse and worse surpassing even wotc and the pokemon company.
I could go on and on and even present other examples but it would make the comment explode in size.
Konami seems to suck in revenue as much as they can for now because they seem to prepare for an eventual discontinuation of the yugioh products if the metrics show that too many people stop buying products and they can’t make the planned ahead profits.
They need to do something asap. Product is failing and secondary prices are at an all time low. Player base is dropping at locals all across the country.
This greatly saddens me 😢 it's true that you can live long enough to see your heroes turn into villains. Shame on Konami 😤
Their board is dogshit criminal to the VG department. Atleast when it doesn't involve sports games. 😂 nothing new man..
If you didn’t see what they were doing when they first took over the tcg idk what to tell you
You watch way too much batman
@@robertbarber1198what does tcg stand for
@@hydrablaze36912 trading card game
Either Konami is:
1) Phasing out physical cards
2) Taking back control over sales.
What if they want consumers to buy directly from them? Is that something they could do or would want to do?
That is an interesting prospect, and they already do that with the platinum cards, so could see it for future sets cutting out the stores
Yeah I could totally see this as a frog boiling in the pot scenario and even if the frog notices and discontinues sales, it still ends up shifting control of the market to Konami.
I mean logically right. If I’m the printer and the creator; do I really want a 2nd party holding a profit from my products? Like it’s all nice by the hobby stores to sell singles and stuff right, but really you want to control box sets in a economy? I really think Konami is just tryna churn hobby stores.
@@hyquiemistheg.o.a.t1671you actually want a 3rd party, since the game Is a competitive game, and the reason people play Is to compete.
No stores --> no competition --> I don't buy your product.
Also, konami actually only organizes YCS, Continentals and World Championship. Amy smaller tournament (regionals, Nats etc.) are run by shops.
If the shop does not have Yu-Gi-Oh, why would It run a tournament?
This market direction Is totally dumb.
@@francescolofaro8258 shops and online stores aren’t the same tho. If you’re a reseller online, you probably at best have some mini locations where you do host tournaments. However, you’re whole scheme is on buying big and selling big. A small shop in the middle of town barely gets to compete with a well known online store.
Too bad Takahashi isn't around anymore. I'm sure he'd be like, "Stop!"
It is a true shame, and only can hope yugioh changes for the better and good of all the community
at least he cannot see how bad his creation has become
Didn’t this whole problem start when the legend died
@ManuelRiccobono lmao it's the seller community that cause it. We don't by boxes we buy singles and there are to many 3rd party non OTS sellers compared to buyers. I myself is part of the problem. Sellers only price up a small number of cards and everything else falls because of no competition dropping price on the fake market witch is TCG players. Konami is making plenty of money this is not thier issue yet. But you all will also complain when there 100 dollar staples as well. So yall will never be happy. But again this is a issue we created no konami. Ad they say. We are so close to the trees we can not see the trees.
@@djjorge87it’s sad that your point is valid, but the community is so blinded to these collector stores. This happens with almost every TCG, staples form box sets get marked up absurdly due to demand, and now instead of taking the odds to buy a box set people buy the staple instead. Really it just comes down to interference.
Reprinting cards is a good thing, not every staple should be £10+ for entry, I do believe konami should increase pull rates slightly and decrease the rate of the sets but apart from that yugioh is fine
That might be good for players and the competitive scene but old school player who no longer play the game will have no interest in the collection aspect of yugioh because they know every chase card they own will just automatically lose value.
@@dark_antihero absolute nothing argument, every single tcg reprints their cards more than yugioh does and their chase cards are worth 100x anything yugioh has, this is what raritys are for, if you want a chase card you print in a high rarity and print it more common for actual players
Reality: Every set is losing stores money and retailers are dropping the product.
You: "yu-gi-oh! is fine"
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@@QuankyFlacidFilms Do you have any critical thinking in your brain or do you just parrot what you hear on a youtube video, a handful of hobby stores discontinuing a product isn't vindictive of the global market, my local forbidden planet doesn't sell pokemon or magic the gathering cards anymore, I guess that means they are dying too and not that they couldn't shift enough product with recent demand for the products. These X is dying videos always perform really well no matter the original franchise being mentioned, there is a financial insensitive for creators to always create these videos, people were saying yugioh is dying every master rule update.
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@@QuankyFlacidFilms This is actually incorrect. LGS's aren't necessarily "losing money." I pretty much never see an LGS sell for tcgplayer low on boxes. They go MSRP or higher. And my locals always sells their boxes, despite being near double tcgplayer low. (Which baffles me to say the least.) But on their end, they aren't losing money. The only way they lose money is if people don't buy or they sell below markup.
Ah, the poor collectors are panicking that people will actually be able to afford the cards and play the actual game now, what a drama 😢
I used to play Yugioh from
2003- 2013. I stopped buying physical cards because it was getting to that point where you had to pay to win. You had to keep up with the latest/best cards in order to win. And during that time Konami was releasing way too many cards. At least that’s how it felt in 2013. Not sure how it is in 2023, but I see a lot more scalpers now. Especially the 25th anniversary. Looking back, I am glad I took that decision. I remember my senior year (2012) I spent more money on Yugioh cards than clothes or school supplies. Now I’m looking at this video , I am disgusted by how Konami is handling the situation. PS: I still play Yugioh with friends but now we play online with virtual cards. It’s so much cheaper that way.
Yep and it's only gotten worse over the years, with new meta decks coming out every set (2 weeks), it truly is crazy to see and just hope konami fix there shit so we can continue to love this game for the years to come
Card games have always been pay to win. This isn't a video game. Paying to win is expected in the card game business model.
@@Cybertech134right?
Well not really.....you can also play stun decks...I mean the 60 card deck that just says no to whatever ur opponent it's playing.......it is fun...for you maybe....but after a while it's just....meah
@@razielcroft-mo8ll subjective!
The best part is the sellers and yugioh market channels are the reason why it's like this but they are to close to even notice lmao. Yet they are the ones complaining haha.
exactly and I freaking hate it.. .not everyone cares about you opening the next set sometimes.. people just look for what they are interested in.. not the next thing.. and the next thing..and the thing after that.. geez. As as as I know they are the ones who are the real problem!!.
What I been saying
Well that explains why other cards are taking up the Yu-Gi-Oh card section. Dragon Ball which I collect, one piece etc. Yu-Gi-Oh cards have been discounted so low at my local stores it's insane.
I feel like that's a all around problem like literally the problem is if people are trying to get out of the game they can't sell their stuff because the value dropped people want to play the game but they don't want to spend money for the game I say that card should keep the value and also people should just buy cards and everybody should be happy for the people who are complaining about is so expensive or they don't like this set take a break and come back at the and of the day people complain too much in general if you really like this game it doesn't matter you keep on playing it
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This issue was singlehandedly caused by the collectors and scalpers who kept hiking their prices because of "value." Konami literally had no choice if they wanted to continue to make profit so they began reprinting like crazy which decreased the "value" of scalpers and collectors. This is honestly a consequence caused by greedy Konami, greedy collectors, and greedy scalpers. This is why there's such a discrepancy between global and OCG. Honestly speaking, collectors and scalpers screwed over everyone who just wanted to actually play the game competitively and for fun. Us regulars should be blaming the "raise the value of my card hurr durr" collectors and scalpers. Regular collectors who don't care about "value" and prices and just want to show off their super cool cards are the ones I like.
You are forgetting the "regulars" that bought it from scalpers and collectors, if they don't sell prices drop (clearly, hahaha).
Well... could be worse though. Near me, I heard Target and Walmart are beginning to discontinue to stock YUGIOH, and TCG Player is fueled by personal sellers and card shops, so, if not now, then this will be a large problem due to the cost of the sets and the poor ratios we get in reverse of the OCG (where good cards have better ratios), and we are seeing the ramifications of Konami being greedy in the TCG as we speak. They even use the Banlist to push product and don't balance the game usually as the first priority, the last Banlist didn't address anything major really apart from Ariseheart.
Also, if they supported older decks which need updating and stopped printing throwaway commons per core set, I think people might also come back to play their favorite decks from the past. They already started with decks like Ice Barrier, and now Infernoid. They should continue, especially if they haven't received meaningful in-archetype support in greater than 5 years (ie, Hieratic, Skull Servant, Rose Dragon, Burning Abyss, Crusadia, Gemini, Koa'ki Meiru/Adamancipator, Phantom Knight, Flip Monsters, Normal Monsters to name a few types of cards), while creating cards that create the back and forth play that is fun and interactive.
Instead of creating 4+ new decks during the span of a couple months, they should support the older decks. I'm not saying new decks being made is a bad thing, but I feel like Konami spreads their resources thin when they make more than one at a time. For example, Ogdoadics were thought to be kind of good on release because of snake rain being a card, but they don't do much without snake rain. While I was playing them, they were dismantled by a 2014 deck after they got their new structure deck around a year prior (3X shaddoll structure deck).
I agree on giving older decks support. Most people discovered the game through the anime, so they are familiar with some older decks. However support should go to all decks not only protags' decks.
I write that while I know my favourite decks wouldn't get support anytime soon.
@@dudono1744 totally agree legacy support can't be decks like blue eyes, dark magician, and HEROs; which don't need more support. Rather, I think decks that were used around a decade ago should get some support first, but then decks made in the last 5 years after those get buffed. Especially decks from during quarantine when people were picking up the game because that's all people could do at home.
Id be so sad if it really ends...
Same here, would be the end of an era
Yugioh is extremely expensive. I stopped buying cards except for the structure decks and instead started making my own proxy cards. I only play for fun and not in tournaments, so it was a cheaper alternative except for all the sleeves, deck boxes, printing paper, glue, and junk cards I needed to make them. As we all know, there are sometimes decks where you need three copies of numerous cards that are CRAZY expensive to the point where a single deck could cost hundreds of dollars to make. So instead, I choose to now make proxy cards at a fraction of the price but have to make up for the cost in terms of finding high quality images of proxy cards, printing them, cutting them out perfectly, glueing them onto junk cards, and sleeving them.
I find this extremely funny because these collectors are saying that YGO is ruining the game by the amount of cards they print but let's be real, they're only saying these because they're concerned with the VALUE OF THEIR CARDS and HOW THEY WON'T BE MAKING AS MUCH MONEY AS BEFORE. 😂😂😅
For people who actually play the TCG/OCG, this is great news. Imagine finally buying staple cards for a lot cheaper and with that, more people won't be as scared to get into YGO because of the price and availability of the cards.
They all deserve it
Short sighted way of thinking. Stores make money by cracking cases and selling singles too. If they cant make money cracking cases, and nobody's buying boxes to crack for themselves, stores will just stop carrying the product
Where will you buy staples from if stores don't sell cards, Walmart? Scalpers?!
Other places sell dude! I brought staples from a store I never even heard of before recently and so did my friends @@DrChickenz
@@0Asterite0yup, exactly. Poor people getting catered to per usual and then everything goes to shit immediately after lmao
Its interesting that every card game seems to be going through the same thing right now. Mtg, yugioh, and vanguard, their entire communities are saying "please company slow down"
Man thats awful what's going to happen now it's going to cause scalpers to buy all the stuff and double triple their money because the stores can't carry it anymore
The sad reality if more stores do close and shut down, as whoever we will have to buy cards through will have full control on setting prices due to no competition and no other stores selling
@@DrChickenz it sucks man is all of the game stores doing or just some of them
Scalpers don't even want this crap Lol
@@epicnessallaround5024this video is exaggerating a real problem, most game stores still carry yugioh.
@@hihellothere100 bullshit, they know the competitive meta is still needed
I just see a bunch of card scalpers crying because we are getting a lot of reprints and they can't be rich by selling a couple of cardboard cards lmao
This video is just over dramatic af
Bro, you know what the saddest thing? There are people who still spend all of their money on each new set every 2 weeks.
That is pretty sad, I just buy single cards at reasonable prices
@@shadowcatboy7852 I use to buy sets when I first started. After less than a year chose to start buying singles. After realizing the value of my work and money, the importance and fun in rogue, and how the meta/market shifted and made my target cards drop to a cheaper value if I were patient and I just quit buying boxes.
It truly is sad to see the people putting the most trust into konami buying ALL they release getting the most screwed
This is definitely the worst news we've gotten so far this year. A change is much needed
It is and truly just hope to see yugioh back where it was in 2020 so many epic sets like eternity code, toon chaos, battles of legend Armageddon with everyone loving release after release
Don't take it only negatively, obviously it's sad to see the downfall of such an iconic card game but often times with such massive companies like konami the only way to push them into a corner where they actually have to innovate and improve is hitting them in their pockets where it hurts the most exactly like this
@@jimtsap04 This is the best thing to happen to yugioh
Wtf what a gold digger
It's the best for a game if the cards are very cheap so everyone can affort them and no one will gain money of buying out the products to keep them for reselling much more expensive
I hate those toxic people who try to earn money from reselling products this way.
Yeah so cheap that stores lose money on every set released, and have to stop buying it as they just lose money, you have no idea how bad this is do you
It's more than that, Konami has made an no win situation where they print whole archetypes in high rarity slots to the point where it is un reasonable to even try pulling packs because all you'll get is some archetypal trap you can't use.
I think this is the most costly year for me collecting cards due to so many different packs and boxes coming out all at once, and it kind of puts you off from buying anymore cards long term. Konami definitely need to slow down and take a breath.
Half of the sets literally say "25th Anniversary" or "Quarter Century" in the set names. Therefore, after this year Konami won't print that many products. It is a problem EXCLUSIVE to 2023.
So true, who can keep up with 12 different releases this year... unless you have a share in konami 🤣
True but yet still a problem until it's not, and right now it's a big problem for stores, plus realistically out of every set this year to release, how many have you bought in total? Me 3 (lob mrd and ioc boxes) out of 12 or so releases, and sure I'll probably pick up a rarity collection, but just so so many options
Here’s the thing, Konami needs to decide whether it’s a collectors product or a play focused game, because it’s gutting both communities which have gotten to the point that they can not coexist due to how Konami has evolved the product
I served my time in the trenches from 02’-05’. Sad to see it not selling well, but it sadly boils down to trash ratios to pull and rules bloat. The old game was better. I moved to other games years ago and others should speak with their wallets as well. Weiss Schwarz, WiXoss, and Shadowverse Evolved are so much better games.
As a magic player, this feels like a video that could be about magic.
I just started to play Yugioh I don’t want the game to end
I really hope it doesn't end
I hope that Konami realizes that they are hurting the customers and that they will leave for other card games, and Konami needs to make cards that maintain their value before they reprint the cards in the mega tins or side sets but who knows maybe they are trying to build enough capital before they sell the rights
it is a frustrating one and as a collector of yugioh not a player, have been very disappointed besides some cool sets like ghost from the past and the reprint boxes, and am sure the rarity collection will be a fun one, however they definitely need to take a step back and look at what they are doing and how they are hurting stores, customers, collectors, players, all areas of people who buy, love and play yugioh
but they do in game. its not konami problem you can't resell a card for 50$ or more to some kids. if anything cards are way more long lasting this days. look at 50%-80% of any deck now. its the same staples and side deck cards. some are years old. what this if not cards that maintain their value. to THE PLAYERS not the scammers that want to sell cards for unreal amounts of cash.
@@anatoli1234567890I'm really focused on the 20 packs 1 secret rare. This is less of a problem in the ocg because of how things are there but here they just take whole archetypes and make them ultra plus and then fill garbage cans with a 20 playset of cold feet. The ratio have to be reevaluated to make these sets actually worth it.
@@brutalnobody5240exactly. This is the real problem. You have to open up a box of bulk before you have a CHANCE of seeing one copy of an actually playable card.
You can’t sell packs that way.
And konami has leaned into this making secret rares even more impossible to pull, meaning only stores can open the amount of product necessary to sell the valuable singles.
It severely limits the player base.
I'm leaving this game for pokemon. at least there i can afford a competitive deck without making "budget" versions of better decks that are exclusive to whales. Looking at you triple tactics thrust, pre-reprint pot of duality, and pre-reprint desires. balls to that mess
I know the market is saturated, but I just started recollecting Yu-Gi-Oh since last year and just started collecting the 25th Quarter century Cards sets I don’t want Yu-Gi-Oh to die in the USA and might end up having to be on the OCG like Korean cards and Japanese if this continues
The 25th Century push is the only reason why there is product glut. After this year, QCRs won't exist anymore, no more printing old sets, no more pure nostalgia product, etc.
Konami has one year where things slip up, and everyone screams fire... MTG is twice as bad and nobody cries this loudly.
Hopefully konami makes some big changes in the right direction
Maybe so, but konami could of went about it a lot better, as now stores are suffering, and we suffer after that if stores close down
I'm a long time Magic player and this video really struck me because MTG is suffering from some of the same issues. So many new expansions and supplementary products are being released now---it's overwhelming. For the past couple years, the game has existed in a state of perpetual hype and "spoiler season" never ends. I don't think Hasbro is mismanaging MTG as poorly as Konami is with YGO, but Magic's current direction doesn't seem sustainable either. You guys may be aware of the parallels already, but I just thought it was worth mentioning. Hopefully Konami hears you guys and starts to actually give a shit.
Watching this video as a a magic player, just let me say...we feel your pain. Seem two of the OG's are determined to kill their own product by too many releases, and too little effort.
One of my best friends died earlier this year.
He loved Yu-Gi-Oh but he would be miserable to see news like this if he were still alive.
lets just freaking pray everyone, Pray! This is really such a good franchise, but now is just about to die!? that really sucks! and just as Im starting to get into the meta!
lets pray because im sure non of us want yugioh the game we all love to die, it has been too big a part of our lives, and hope to see it improve for the better in the coming years
I don't see it going under, people have been claiming that for years, but if it did, I'd probably laugh.
They made it ridiculous to collect, to play, to get new players into it, and they can't even make a non-pay2win digital game.
I haven't touched Yu-Gi-Oh ( the cards) for years but I do follow them and I do agree some of the cards aren't worth it especially when they are put in the games but I don't believe they are going away any time soon cause they still have their three biggest sellers which are Walmart Target and TCG Player
Let's hope as non of us want to see konami go
Been noticing Walmarts have stopped selling a lot of trading cards, not just yugioh. Sucks to see :(
@@BlancoHimself have they ? Cause mine still have a lot especially Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh and recently started selling Digimon cards but I think they only sell the BT line for Digimon though I don't know how the other Walmarts are doing
my local card store, which there is three of them i know of. NONE of them sell yugioh cards anymore... that was the whole point of me being there. magic the gathering and other card games, when someone was to ask if there was a card available, they can ask for it. But when i asked for a yugioh card, ANY. they don't have a single one available. that hurts. Im just staying to online game instead. when i asked why they arent selling any, "it wasn't profitable anymore." but then i see some packs of digimon cards they are selling on display. No hate any any other card game, but i grew up with yugioh, kinda hurts that the locals no longer sells any and are just gone.
It is truly crazy to see a day and age where yugioh one of the most popular card games for the last 2 decades is too unprofitable for stores to carry
I doubt yugioh will die from this, at worst physical will and it'll continue online with things like master duel and such with how profitable they are
Master Duel is more likely to die since the physical game is the most profitable part of the game. The worst selling packs make more than any port of GTA V.
I don't think this is the end but its definitely a rough spot in yugiohs timeline.
Im fine with no new cards do more once a year i stopped in like 2005/2006
The end of yugioh....No! Noooo!
yeah, it feels like it's gonna be a massive rough patchh in Duel Monsters history.
I sense a reboot on the way
I played Yu Gi Oh way back when things were simple. Once we got to Xyz, link, pendulum ect, I gave up. I loved Yu Gi Oh. But the changes were a total drag that really hurt my fav decks.
When it came to physical deck dueling, I used to buy decks until they got stupid expensive. I had to find certain cards to keep my Black Luster Deck relevant and stuff.
So I was like. Okay. I'll play digitally.
I played Master Duel. And it was even more of a drag. I realized the meta was busted and the effects were out of control.
It became super easy to get your best cards out sooner, and win within a few turns.
Your opponent would concede and move on before you even got your payoff. They could see it was over because they couldn't do anything at all. I had so many stupid effects at my disposal. It felt one sided.
I left Master Duel after a few months. It was just people using the best card effects/trap/magic/chains to win. It wasn't about fun.
To sum it up, I loved collecting cards and playing Yu Gi Oh, but I will not dump half the price of a used car into new card decks.🤦
There are way too many good cards in Yu Gi Oh now. So much so that the text can barely fit into the description box. What does that tell you?🤦
There is no problem with Yugioh (and MTG too), the problem is people want to purchase a product that costs 10 and expect to make 100$ out of it lol are you all crazy? This is just a bunch of cardboards, not gold.
TCG has became a gambling game, mtg is a good example of that with booster boxes selling for 400 - 600$.
Yeah, they are the ones hurting the game.
Konami should make more reprints more and teach them a lesson 🙃
@@MrJuan_Vzla konami or wizards can do whatever they want. If people are stupid enough to waste 250 on a MTG anniversary booster with pieces of cardboard with the ugliest and oldest artworks ever then that's on the consumer stupidity, not on the seller. I can sell my feces in a jar, if someone is stupid enough to give me 1k for it, that's on them. People need to have self control.
The reason I stopped playing yugioh competitively is because I hate how hypocritical and strict the yugioh banlist is. I hate investing in a good deck only to later get the ban hammer and killing the whole deck power level. And even if I decided to reject the banlist so I can play with cards I spent my hard earned money on, most yugioh players don't allow playing banned cards which is stupid if we're not in tournament. Oh but then konami prints even more busted archetypes than the previous ones which completely invalidates their previous bans.
Man. Wizards of the coast and konami are really painting a really fantastic picture of the future of trading card games in general.
Only people doing good seem to be... well I think it's just Pokemon.
I think Digimon is slowly dying, Dragon Ball is being hard carried by Latin America,
Bushiroad have Weiss and SVE going for them but CFV isn't in a great spot due to promo staple distribution.
Magic is Magic. The veteran player base seems to be quite toxic.
Can't say much for Flesh and Blood, but I've never seen anyone buy it
All TCG companies seem to be in a rough spot right now
Magic’s honestly too big to die though with WOTC’s last couple of decisions it’ll be the end of them if they don’t smarten up.
Yugioh’s been dying since 2017. Links fucked this game beyond repair.
@@Nephalem2002 links arent responsible.
What is responsible is that konami keeps introducing more and more powerful archetypes that dwarf what was previously new and to keep people buying them, and creates a massive power creep.
Like the tearlaments and the last few archetypes released have very few if any link monsters.
Saying link monsters have ruined Yu-Gi-Oh is incredibly short sighted.
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I used to play both Vanguard and Yugioh
I quit playing Yugioh in 2016 because everything was getting too expensive for my 16 year old ass, and the power creep was getting ridiculous. I decided to focus on Vanguard.
Sadly, now that has many issues, it relies heavily on a promo system that works only in Japan, and those promos are always staples for certain decks.
And the distribution of those promos in Europe sucked.
It's not completely horrible though.
I'd probably play Yugioh but only in things like Edison or on simulators.
Yugioh died. When the creator died and when atem left yugi and friends in the anime.
At this point unbanned everything konami lol
it is sad and i just hope to see yugioh have a comeback with all its potential and lives its touched
Its only bad for people trying to make money. Casual players should be hopping for jolly
This happened in my country yugioh die instantly this is one of the reasons. You can't find any card vendor anymore.
truly crazy how much faster yugioh is to mtg. even so, the last time i purchased single packs was as a kid and i remember sets took a very long time to release.
I went to a card store last week here in Queensland, I asked where are the single cards? they told me one very telling thing, "it isn't worth selling them here"
I thought wow, I looked around and all I saw were Pokemon cards, some of them worth at least $4000. The Yugioh release schedule is massively unsustainable, and it is hurting the community as a whole, Konami is oversaturating the market with far too many cards that no one wants, even with legacy sets no one asks for, including the first few sets.
What Konami should do, is release a booster every 3 months, and on special occasions release a special set every 6 months, Structure Decks should be released every 4 months, and tins should be released every 3 years.
But keep in mind that most modern Pokemon cards are worth literal pennies lol. Cards that hit thousands of dollars aren't the typical hits people find.
I think Konami has failed the game the last few years, hopefully they can fix the mistakes
Fingers crossed my broski, as we all just wanna see yugioh flourish 🤞🤞🤞
They won't. Konami is famous for killing their franchises. Management in that company is just atrocious
Honestly they could’ve done like digimon tcg does. Make a two same cards one high value other common so people could get and enjoy game.
Konami are too out of touch do something like that with YGO unfortunately (as ideal as it would be)
The OCG literally does this. They print the power cards and staples in multiple rarities, but the TCG cannot compete with the wider range of card games that are cropping up and they're losing out shelf space to Pokémon, Flesh and Blood, MTG and so on
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After watching, you literally took Joshua Schmidt out of context too. He actually thought that the tins were quite good and that the only thing not getting reprinted is big welcome and kurikara.
I no longer see any yugioh cards in any shops that i used too. Only pokemon
I love yugioh but it's true. Having to buy so many products and still being unable to build what you aim for it's plain bad market strategy. At least before you could use most of the cards in random decks, now they are too specific and achetypes being spread on different products makes it just too stupid.
As a professional yugioh player from back in the day...
Im NOT surprised!
I seen this literally when ash blossom was released and i AUTOMATICALLY noticed a shift in the game/market and overall.
Since i used to be excessively competitive yugioh before turned a profit and used to pay for itself AND maintain it self.
I stopped because i noticed the writing on the wall and my suppliers ALL dropped yugioh purchasing because you automatically lose money even before you buy cases.
Every single local in N.J most closed down and my only access to play is NYC.
Unfortunately i no londer or invest thus not buying the game why spend $1000 making a deck to two months later spend another $1000 buying a "new" thing.
Yugioh give HORRIBLE prize, OTS pack production is HORRIBLE also pulling ultimate damaged from factory.
Konami is AND has always fucked up and DONT care about the customer....
But.....
Do you balme them????
Apparently people STILL travel to YCS to win a NORMAL MONSTER AND pay more for entering 😂😂😂
I'll pass I'm smarted with my money i rather play Master duel and receive my packs mailed to me!
Huh? I got ash blossom in the crystal beast structure. You're supposed to be 2-3 years behind if you want affordable stuff unless you get lucky with an archetype. Kinda reminds me how dirt cheap dark armed dragon was compared to teledad dark ages lol. Master duel was kinda sluggish with new cards and didn't start with dragoon. Do correct me if I'm wrong.
Eh, after covid the market crashed, only morons were paying high prices online cause all the shops couldn't buy anymore, and Konami were greedy
Basically, IT'S TIME TO-DU-DU-play sp yugioh games
Not the end of Yu-gi-oh; as long as they can roll in money from Master Duel. But physical? It's not good.
But also; exactly 10 mins... all stolen content, nothing of your own... clickbait image...
If Ygo tcg extinct and konami stop printing tcg cards, its good for the TCG owner since the price of tcg cards will rise up as years pass by.
Yugioh looks more and more like a dumpster fire from the outside. As a Weiß/Schwarz Player i cant wrap my mind around the fact that you need atleast to buy a new case every 3 month just to get newest meta relevant cards in a playset or if not buying a case but singles that you sink in multiple $100 to stay ontop of the meta. Meanwhile im chilling grabbing a set I like sink in $200 per playset and Im done wit the set or if Im fancy i buy displays and get the missing as singles. Also getting enough time between 2 sets correlating to one series so that I can can fully focus on that set.
Made me smile when I saw that's really happening :)
if konamy manages to make the game fail, during the fuking 25th aniiversary and 1 year after the death of the creator, i am fuking burning the company to the ground with all its bosses inside.
we all will, we all will!
I am really hoping Kamui is listening watching all Yu-Gi-Oh community videos and listening to us.
same here, as we all just want yugioh to improve
Reality: The creator passed away. The regular card store tournament players horde those places. Grown men that go "duel" every weekend. You know who I'm talking about, the ones who claim "ThAts Not How you Play a TRAP card!". Arrested development amongst those nerdy (most likely sober like a nun) dudes that just have to win the newest card pack. 😀
Konami lost its audience at the begining of season 3 and end of season 2. When branded finished. Majority of players left. That's the end of it. Konami will becoming like most woke things go. Bankrupt.
I dont play YuGiOh but i played a lot of magic in my day, a game that is starting to run into the same issues and will probably be at this point soon. Sad for tcg players that two flagship brands are failing.
Konami keeps getting record profit each year since 2018, I don't see them ever discontinuing TCG products.
I really love yugioh but can't play it anymore.. just collecting cards I like or that shine a lot 😂
Great video btw 🎉
a big thank you and completely agree, and love collecting it and staring at the shiny cardboard, i just wish konami would look at whats happening in yugioh and cater to all types of yugioh consumer, whether player, collector, stores etc
Most disgusting clickbait 2023
Correct me if I am wrong but I think OCG products are doing well still. It's much easier to pull good cards in them. And there basically every card has more than one rarity in the same set which is bringing value to the sets. Budget players can buy the cheper lower rarity cards while collectors abd show-offs can buy the shinier more expensive cards
Remember Konami is a foreign product 😂
They take care of their own... 😂
America not so much!
Plus years ago koanmi tried to take advantage of their own people and the general public literally started a riot 🤣🤣🤣😂😂
Imagine the streets of Japan hundreds of people protesting Konami.
In America we won't do the same since we are lazy and like to take it in the face 🤭
And unfortunately money talks!! If we keep supporting Konami they'll won't change their ways.
I work in a card store.
Yugioh just constantly loses money because its just not worth it to open products. The boxes are so top heavy that its both better and smarter to just wait for a set to tank and buy singles.
Them: Can you make drama out of nothing?
You: yes
The beginning of the end. When someone important passes away on a franchise, the rest dies with it. Tom Clancy's passed and now anything from there is terrible. Now it's yugiohs turn.
It is truly sad, and to know they still have so much potential yet fuck it up is crazy
Great video! Sad state, and hope Komoney pulls it together to keep YGO going as a top tcg
I hope so too, slow down a bit and focus more on quality over quantity so we can look forward to each new set
I've jumped ship to magic. Much more proxy friendly, and a lack of archetypes as we know them in yugioh just makes deckbuilding so much more open
unfortunately it's starting to suffer the same issues. but it still has a lot of life left.
That’s what makes Magic so good; how accepting the playerbase and game itself is towards proxies and new players. The Precons for Commander range for Miles and upgrading majority of them is extremely cheap. Then it comes down to skill and improvement.
Here's something that will get me unalived but true I feel for the collectors wanting value but it was the collectors greed that made Konami's so called down fall it's there greed for value which made konami release so many sets back to back to get their money hense helping all filthy casuals like me to finally afford these cards and have a chance to finally play my theory is konami played not only the collectors also the budget and casual wallets too they screwed everyone equally lmao 😂😂😂 last thing if collectors would of stopped flexing this would of not happen lmao R.I.P collect stamps they can't reprint that lmao 😂😂😂😂
True, coming from the collectors side though as I don't play due to the high complexity of the game, konami need to be looking after all areas of the game starting with stores, focusing down releases, putting more time between sets for players and collectors to open and use product, as well as really focusing on what should be in sets and how to make them appealing to all people
@@DrChickenz Dont get me started, last time I played YuGiOh was in (I think) 2003 and it already had major complexity and playability issues. Having since designed multiple boardgames and also teach game design in college it's just plainly a game that's held together by the love of it's fans and duct-tape. I recently got some YuGiOh cards in a card lot when buying Digimon cards and good god only the visual style for gameplay is just plain awful.
I have Doombearer psychopompus next to me, it's basically a short story as to what it doe to the point they had to shorten basic terms all while keeping the a small text spot so it become actually hard to read if you don't have optimal lighting, dyslexia or (I imagine) slightly off eye sight. And that'd be unbearable during gameplay unless your opponent plays YuGiOh so much they remember most or all cards and their effects.
And that's just talking about how information of the card is conveyed. That's not even starting about poor theming, poor deckbuilding support within the system, just a clusterfuck of cardrules and it's outright hostile in its visual and game design towards new players. It does have nice images though.
If they just mastered the hologram technology yugioh would be the biggest thing in the world
Even regular people who don’t play would want to play
True, one day fingers crossed, one day...
Master duel lets go
😂😂😂 at least we still have that
Well put together man!
Thank you my casual broski 😁
I must confess, i'd rather see all cards go down to less than a dollar, at least them people would buy to actually play the game, I hate that those shiny pieces of paper gets so overvalued that making a deck means spending 50 doll in 1 card
Honestly, I hope not. I jumped back into the game so I could go out and make friends with people. I'm looking at building Branded Zombies and it will cost me under $100 for a pretty damned good Deck.
Its not, people like OP have this fantasy that the game's attendance isn't going up constantly and engagement with the game isn't at at a peak right now.
YGO won't die yet. People have been saying this since Synchros were released and the game is still going on.
Magic the Gathering fan: "Welcome to our world."
This makes me incredibly sad cause this game is one of two tcgs I grew up playing
Bruh. When you have to resort to using clickbait, you know you're desperate trying to let the big yugitubers notice you.
Click bait yes, is it real that this could be the end of yugioh due to hobby stores closing, yes too
Some of these sets could have been compressed to make it more tolerable. For example: take the 5 Legacy sets and make them mini boxes like the ones common in Japan. You get like half a case for half the price or can buy a full case with assorted boxes. It's still a little much but its logical to release all 5 of those sets at the same time and this change would get stores to buy all the sets for what should be 1.5x-2.25x the price instead of 5x.
This whole anniversary should have had more content to back it up and should have had everyone at least considering returning to the game. Honestly I'd say anime content would be preferred even if it's a Duel Links or Master Duel movie. Even releasing 6 structure decks based on each era but more modernized throughout the year would probably have been better than 5 old packs because it gets people back into the game even with older decks.
In my opinion it comes down to 2 things...
1) Konami has seen what Hasbro forced Wizards to do with the amount of cards released in the span of a year and thought "THATS WHAT WE NEED TO DO ON A GREATER SCALE" and 2) They don't care about the LGS's, Konami wants to get rid of the middle man no matter if it's an LGS or Amazon or any retail store...
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instead of tcg series just make it a game franchise without pay to win or greedy anti-fan tactics just have all cards from the manga and anime or japan only cards
game I mean video game
Yeah. Our local card shop (which is an official tournament store) skips dead yugioh product all the time because they lose so much money on it.
So it sounds like yugioh is about to have a 2021-22 Magic phase.
Unfortunately so, let's just hope it can bring a change for the better like magic and not worse
not sure how would yugioh bounce back from this.
Magic player here.
The "phase" you mention is not a phase
I am completely lost. This whole video was so unclear as to what's actually happening.
Probably an unpopular opinion but... don't care.
To be fair, the game needs a major overhaul anyway.
I just don't find it entertaining when the same 2 decks are used by everybody. It defeats the original idea to use a structure you've created.
They're reprinting cards for nostalgia reasons but you can't use them in modern competitions because meta and now speed duels.
Duels are over in seconds. What's that Dark Magician going to do? Lol
true, the game does need a major overhaul especially to bring in more casuals and new people
Turn into Dragoon and end the Duel in seconds, that's what. 😂
Dark magician was never doing anything, it was always a worse option, if you wanted 2500atk, go summoned skull for 1 less tribute, at 2 tribute something like BEWD was better as it was simply stronger, (and even that was not playd really because it was to slow and to easily to get rid off).
the game did NOT fundamentaly change in that regard, it became faster etc, but the underlying "you either go meta or bust" didnt, the meta was always "the same few odd cards"+your archetype HECK IT WAS WORSE, in early yugioh the decklis was "30 stable cards you either had or went bust, and like 10 cards of personal flavour and you hope that "flavour" was Lajinn"(in very early yugioh)
also to the new player experience.
Kinda anecdotal evidence i know, but a few weeks ago there was Gamescom in germany(a gaming convention) where konami always has a Stand with YGO in the merch area, and i was just bored and used up half of a day i was there(out of 3) to sit there, do some duells and just look at other players,
and that did bring a decent amount of new players in, people who havent played in years, people who never played but always wanted to try, booth 20+ and like around 14 in even numbers. how many of them who bought a deck and learned the Rules from one of the helpfull people there, i cant say obviously, but saying" the game dosnt get new people" is just kinda wrong
@weberman173 Like I said, Dark Magician is a bad example because then he was worthless and now he actually has a role, I think maybe OP was just referring to that infamous "told you I'm the master" commercial that promised a nostalgic return to "old-school Dueling". 😂
NOOOOOO DONT SAY THAT PLZ KONAMI WILL SEE IT AND I DONT WANT YUGIOH TO GO EVER
Quit Yugioh around Performapal/Draco tier 0. Game has just been negate meta since, horrible. Game shifted at Dragon Rulers into every card needing 3/4 effects.
It is a weird meta, and a super unfriendly one to new players and kids which konani desperately need to fix if they want the game to last
As someone with expensive hobbies that doesn’t include Yug cards, I find this funny