Konami's greedy PRICING is what the issue is. There's no reason boxes in the West have to cost $80-120 while boxes in the East cost $20-30. It's all cheap cardboard, but Komani absolutely drains the pockets of players and stores with sealed product pricing. If they cut box prices in half, they'd likely sell MORE than enough to make up for the difference.
I'm glad that QCB is beating the 2024 Tin to submission. To be honest, the tins have been the worst thing they have ever made, it's not worth spending our money on them, and the cards they put in the tin and the total number of cards is B.A.D. Bonanza is the best in terms that ratio pull being good, old and new cards are in here in every rarity, and it has all we need for both meta and non-meta decks.
Yeah, it sucks All my LGS have stopped carrying Yu-Gi-Oh And my big box stores will only put a few out each week and by the time I get there they're gone Idk what happened A couple years ago my LGS would hold Yu-Gi-Oh nights and it would be packed! Now they don't even host them
Invest into the banlist xD 2 turn games are too fast for a card game ...ban all the broken cards, increase life points etc. to slow down games 0% creativity to play the same broken enginge cards+handtraps in every top tier deck competetive yu gi oh is trash sadly....I only enjoy my casual rogue decks vs friends and collecting
Budget Players dont mind this. They go on locals and are crybabys if a card is more than 2 dollars. "The Shop? Hey the shop is here right? i dont care about this store and how they make money, I WANT MY CARDS CHEAP AND NOW". Budget players are ignorant. They always claim "Its a game for kids, it should be cheap", but they are not intelligent enough to think a bit further. How does a shop make money? Not with reprints, they make everything worthless. They lose money on every reprint. Pick the Set Duelist nexus. A not so good set, but its hard to sell for more than 30 dollars right now, and shops bought it for around 50 to 60 dollar. But hey, no problem as long as we all can play the game in cheap! Man this pisses me off. I hate ignorant budget players.
This is a very narrow point of view. While it is correct that stores will be hit financially by over printing chase cards so frequently, it is not the customers' (in this case the budget players) fault. Konami is to blame for this. Not the players who just want to play the game and don't care for the individual prosperity of stores. So don't be mad at players, but at Konami instead.
@@drstrangelove77 yes, this is entirely konami's fault. If they adopted the OCG rarity spread (like they even sort of attempt in these rarity collections) then the entire game would be cheaper, and the whales would still be opening product to get the higher rarities to bling out their deck. It's literally a no brainer. So calling budget players "ignorant" for wanting the game to be affordable when housing costs are at an all time high, and the entire situation is by konami's design in the first place, is ironically, ignorant. If more people can afford the game >>> more players more players >>> more sales (without turning away the whales) Obviously it will be harder and harder to sell the older sets if they adopt this structure, but that was entirely their fault to begin with, and they're already not selling. That, and konami literally forces the vendors to carry a certain amount of every product when it releases as well. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
Wait, if the game is for kids… why the money grab. Konami is finally doing what the 95% of players want, finally I can have a good deck and eat my cake too 🤷🏽♂️
@oliverhoschi6135 Very narrow minded thinking. Ill echo what's been said already. Its on Konami. I'm a budget player and I can assure you that the game can run on a cheaper side netting more sales cause it will allow younglings to afford getting into it. Bonfire when it first came out was like what 70ish dollars PER card. Little Timmy or Susie couldn't afford that in a month let alone the weekend it came out. The player or collector base can cycle with every new generation of folks provided it was more affordable. Id assume you're a whale player or collector and honestly have no place in a community like this. To each their own I guess.
Stores need to move product quickly to maintain cash flow & cover their expenses (rent, utilities etc.). Bonanza cannibalized the tins so you get stores stuck with a bunch of them with no way of selling them or having to sell them at a loss.
Cards are like stocks. If you rely on them to appreciate then you better expect them to depreciate first lol. That’s life my friend. No guarantees.
Konami's greedy PRICING is what the issue is. There's no reason boxes in the West have to cost $80-120 while boxes in the East cost $20-30. It's all cheap cardboard, but Komani absolutely drains the pockets of players and stores with sealed product pricing. If they cut box prices in half, they'd likely sell MORE than enough to make up for the difference.
that would kill everything. 70-80% is more reasonable
I'm glad that QCB is beating the 2024 Tin to submission. To be honest, the tins have been the worst thing they have ever made, it's not worth spending our money on them, and the cards they put in the tin and the total number of cards is B.A.D. Bonanza is the best in terms that ratio pull being good, old and new cards are in here in every rarity, and it has all we need for both meta and non-meta decks.
The tin was a scam with how much trash was in it.
I mean that's konami's fault Konami should come out with better products in time their product releases better, it is what it is.
My local no longer sells Yugioh. It's unfortunate
Shoutout sparkman that’s sick congrats on the host for the tournament bro
Yeah, it sucks
All my LGS have stopped carrying Yu-Gi-Oh
And my big box stores will only put a few out each week and by the time I get there they're gone
Idk what happened
A couple years ago my LGS would hold Yu-Gi-Oh nights and it would be packed!
Now they don't even host them
Ayyy thanks for the shoutout! Gonna be a good event for sure.
That poster fell like yugioh locals are. They are really disappearing since covid. Lorcana poppin tho.
I'd honestly prefer that over what konami gives. Too bad y'all are definitely too far for me.
Dang man wished you were located in Houston Texas lol.
Invest into the banlist xD
2 turn games are too fast for a card game
...ban all the broken cards, increase life points etc. to slow down games
0% creativity to play the same broken enginge cards+handtraps in every top tier deck
competetive yu gi oh is trash sadly....I only enjoy my casual rogue decks vs friends and collecting
casual games are more complex than the top tier meta games tbh
@@verycalmgamer4090 as long as the game last more than 2 turns and you don't have to watch the enemy combo for 15min until you give up....
Hey sparky
wow and yikes
Budget Players dont mind this. They go on locals and are crybabys if a card is more than 2 dollars. "The Shop? Hey the shop is here right? i dont care about this store and how they make money, I WANT MY CARDS CHEAP AND NOW". Budget players are ignorant. They always claim "Its a game for kids, it should be cheap", but they are not intelligent enough to think a bit further. How does a shop make money? Not with reprints, they make everything worthless. They lose money on every reprint. Pick the Set Duelist nexus. A not so good set, but its hard to sell for more than 30 dollars right now, and shops bought it for around 50 to 60 dollar. But hey, no problem as long as we all can play the game in cheap! Man this pisses me off. I hate ignorant budget players.
This is a very narrow point of view. While it is correct that stores will be hit financially by over printing chase cards so frequently, it is not the customers' (in this case the budget players) fault. Konami is to blame for this. Not the players who just want to play the game and don't care for the individual prosperity of stores. So don't be mad at players, but at Konami instead.
@@drstrangelove77 yes, this is entirely konami's fault. If they adopted the OCG rarity spread (like they even sort of attempt in these rarity collections) then the entire game would be cheaper, and the whales would still be opening product to get the higher rarities to bling out their deck. It's literally a no brainer. So calling budget players "ignorant" for wanting the game to be affordable when housing costs are at an all time high, and the entire situation is by konami's design in the first place, is ironically, ignorant.
If more people can afford the game >>> more players
more players >>> more sales (without turning away the whales)
Obviously it will be harder and harder to sell the older sets if they adopt this structure, but that was entirely their fault to begin with, and they're already not selling. That, and konami literally forces the vendors to carry a certain amount of every product when it releases as well. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
Wait, if the game is for kids… why the money grab. Konami is finally doing what the 95% of players want, finally I can have a good deck and eat my cake too 🤷🏽♂️
@oliverhoschi6135 Very narrow minded thinking. Ill echo what's been said already. Its on Konami. I'm a budget player and I can assure you that the game can run on a cheaper side netting more sales cause it will allow younglings to afford getting into it. Bonfire when it first came out was like what 70ish dollars PER card. Little Timmy or Susie couldn't afford that in a month let alone the weekend it came out. The player or collector base can cycle with every new generation of folks provided it was more affordable. Id assume you're a whale player or collector and honestly have no place in a community like this. To each their own I guess.
@@drstrangelove77this made no sense bro 😅
I didn't get your point. What does bonanza has to do with stores closing? You didn't give any argument lol
Stores need to move product quickly to maintain cash flow & cover their expenses (rent, utilities etc.). Bonanza cannibalized the tins so you get stores stuck with a bunch of them with no way of selling them or having to sell them at a loss.