@@TwistedNightmar3Gaming that’s right. Konami treats the OCG as their primary version of the game. Like to them it is the definitive Yu-Gi-Oh! card game. And to be fair, it makes sense. Because it came out first and it was released in 1999 around the time the Yu-Gi-Oh! Mongo was gaining popularity and the anime didn’t come out until a year after so given the history of the game it makes perfect sense why they heavily favor the OCG over the TCG. Though there are some warranted reasons why they don’t like the TCG as much as the OCG. But yeah, they are using the TCG as an international money maker because they don’t care about foreign consumers. They only care about their native Japanese consumers, which is pretty self evident given how xenophobic that country really is these days.
These glue eaters don’t understand math or saving money. I keep telling people to buy singles especially if the set offers nothing for your deck. After all the azamina hype died down I finally got it for my branded deck for like 1/3 the price
@rockmandude173 u absolutely right!! I'm glad I switched to buying singles....sad though cause I am a collector as well but I ain't being they cash bag F that 😂 well....not anymore anyway 😂😂
I usually buy a box to support my locals. But this last set I pulled a $240 card, flipped it and got 2 more boxes. Still up $120 cuz I got another $250 card and bought a deck core. That said, don't go buying sets expecting that type of luck. Buy them if you need a ton of cards from a set and wanna support your local shop.
I just order higher rarity singles from my locals, well the complete set anyways. Usually 800-1200 for a complete higher rarity, Rarity Collection set.
Broski they do this every single year, everyone tries to figure out best deck after December, But Ko-money tells you Deck a or Deck b, they're unreasonably broken then get banned then repeat.. That's a big issue with this game no creativity the best decks are chosen each year
The ban list just needs to go and let the new meta begin! That way you couldn't really prepare for anything.. and its basically the wild wild west at that point which is how it should be.. long as everything else is legal within play.
@@Zachary-jt5uzI'm not dealing with ftks all the time but if it's just take off decks without ftks maybe? There would be tons of problems tho playing against just tear.
@greysunomain i mean they would have to come out with some new overall general rules to go along with it. Cause I know theirs plenty of busted strategies if it was freed up like that. Like no hand loops for one that can straight up be a rule like maybe having a hard limit on certain cards activations that are not once per turn maybe have a hard set to like max 3 period that turn. They could make it happen easily with rule revamps. And it would actually work.. but then konami wouldn't be pushing product off the shelves as much so this would probably never happen unless they have a alternative "official" format is the overall best solution for everyone. I jusr don't think we have enough support and players for that to be even worth it to kobami at this point unless they seriously revamp.their entire IP with a new anime and alpt of major changes. But again... don't think that's likely to happen until we see a serious drop.off of players and honeslty I think.their end game is just to ride the yugioh wave out till all us Millennials are to old to play or don't care anymore ever since they ended the anime I think that's their end game with yugioh sadly.
@greysunomain and just to add this.. these changes that konami needs to make happen way to far and between to make a difference when it needs too. Its been the same for years and its not gonna change.. no matter how many videos people make or what they say.. behavior and patterns tell you all you need to know.. ill just leave it at that.
Has no one ever watched MonkeyTCG's content on this matter or open sealed product? Lol Its not a new revelation that Konami's anti consumer practices in the west are a scam. In fact, we just sort of just been either been in denial or just apathetically accepted the reality of it all as a community (no feasible way to change it. Can only buy Singles to compensate). Sure the Rarity Collection sets are nice but the core idea of having low and high rarity of the same staple/chase cards remains absent in Core and Side sets. We keep buying sealed product in large quantities as players and it makes money. We are litterally enabling the scam to continue.
I'd argue Rarity Collection and reprint sets have only enabled TCG Konami to continue with the trend as players fervently buy into core sets to buy the the secret rare staples and rarity bumped archetypes then the casual player base will buy into reprint sets in the hopes of catching up to the whales who've had these cards for months or years. At this point, Konami can somewhat comfortably start chipping away at the old meta that's been reprinted now that they double dipped the community.
The scummiest thing Konami does is probably releasing stuff in the OCG first. Seeing which cards are good. Then increasing the rarity of the good cards when they later release them into the TCG. So we always pay 10x more for cards in the TCG.
I mean they release in OCG first mainly because they are based in Japan, an asian country. OCG is the Asian format TCG is western format Not that hard to understand that they get product first being..... Well Asia
@@theunknownshadowishyou don’t realize they format it that way on purpose in order to up the rarity. There is no logistical hurdle they would have to solve to just have one release and one format.
Make yugioh more affordable and more players can buy cards which means more money for konami. It isn't rocket science. Also more players playing means more people paying for admissions to big events.
@PheonixT-ki8rx or they can make the game fun, like it used to be. Then, more players wouldn't mind dishing out $$$ for a decent deck. It's such a one-way game these days. You either win, or you lose. Gone are the days you can lose, shake hands, and say "good game" because it was an *actual* good game. Back and forths, choosing between conventional or unconventional strategy, etc. Imagine spending $$$$ on a deck, and getting TKO'd 10x in the first two turns. You don't even get to *use* the deck.
@@xStrife1997x I had a amazing game against labyrinth vs my synchron adventure Kash. Sometimes its really fun. In person tho I can't not be nice. It's such a dumb mindset to me to not play for fun and learn.
@xStrife1997x honestly the game is fun when you have access to all the resources you need. The problem is accessibility. You buy a $300 deck just for it to become $40 the next week and another $300 deck to replace it. Also no resources to learn to play the game at any level, beginner to advanced...
@@xStrife1997x accurate. many problems in the game atm. This is why u see retro formats popping up more and more and growing. Im from Chicago, which used to be a stronghold for YGO and competitive players. We had several YCS/Shonen champs and many top 16 players at one point. Now the scene is dead comparatively from what it was many years ago. Even some of players who held on longer than most finally gave up in the last few years. Swapped over to other TCGs that offer more reward and cost less to play. But Tengu format/Edison tournaments are growing in place of modern.
@@Xx3SPAZxX Konami needs to stop with new mechanics bullshit. If you need to implement new mechanics every few years, then your game is flawed. This adds to the frustration of learning the game. Even old yugioh players struggle to catch up on new mechanics when attempting to try modern and thus give up. Imagine a completely new player trying to learn not only the cards but the mechanics. Assuming a new player sticks around long enough to learn all the summon mechanics etc and actually gets to a point where they can play competitively, a new mechanic is announced and its back to YGO class 101 to learn the new mechanic XD.
Yeeea..... This was a thing long before Kazuki's death. Wouldn't be surprised if somewhere down the line Kazuki saw what was happening and agreed with what was being done. Otherwise they wouldn't have been able to do it had he been against it.
@@Stixz04 well think about it, I mean really if Kazuki was against it, he would have brought the franchise to a different company. While alive when Konami made money off the product, HE made money off the product. Now no one can really dispute what they do with the franchise cause the creator died, and if I am mistaken they currently hold full rights to it.
I honestly think mixing rarities or changing numbers of hits per box would help a lot to the playerbase, let's say 4 SCR, 8UR per box with a possibility for QCR or collector would make people more interested or buying boxes and it would make konami more money, we all would win
The Komoney loop. Make expensive card staples/decks, reprint, ban because it's suddenly problematic now that it's budget friendly. This isn't to say the cards aren't/never were problematic, just that it's scummy how quick they get banned AFTER finally being less than $60. Examples: Baronne, Borreload Savage, Appolousa, Prosperity (limited), the Snake Eyes engine (a few hits), very likely the Mulcharmies will follow suite, and the list goes on.
Honestly as a more casual player.. i've found that even if i want a certian card that's expensive.. i find a card that works until prices go down.. but my competitive mind doesn't always want to buy tins when i might only want 10 cards out of the entire tin
Calieffect, you are on the ball about Konami scamming us because when they introduced us to the rarity collection with some of the reprints, that was easy to obtain. However, when the banlist came, they put some of the cards to the forbidden section, such as baronne de fleur, borreload Savage dragon , and apollousa. This means that it was a trap, and Konami scammed us yugioh players of paying for the rarity collection. It was also an excuse to ban them.
@ethio6308 True, however, her effect has a cost, and that cost is that your monsters can't attack directly, and as for the second effect, it can't activate during the damage step. I think the prometheon princess may actually be banned or accesscode talker due to being able to help maliss with banishing their link monsters in the grave.
It is ironic that Konami painted Domino City as a classist dystopia in the 5Ds anime, but they are acting like the Domino city by making the game only accessible to some, and leaving casual players with “junk” cards and policing cheap strategies that can compete “like Tenpai dragon” which was never able to become a tier 0 deck despite being cheap and powerful, but it was strong enough to compete and they needed players to prefer to play ryzeal or Maliss instead if they wanted to be able to participate. Now to play Tenpai you have to add the expensive stuff which is arguably more broken than the cheap stuff they banned. I am sure Tenpai could still be played fully released now and it would not become a tier 0 deck. The same applies to many other strategies that were good enough to compete and were sanctioned just so people had no other choice but playing the new cards.
@@casketbase7750 shaddoll and fluffal enjoyer here. I hope they get a giga broken support one day lol. Honestly fluffal don't need much but consistency and a good card to end on go first and/or a way to consistently put tiger on their turn. Tiger pop 3-4 is actually great if you count other things deck can do easily
Went back to Pokemon TCG after a hiatus and haven’t looked back. I love me some YuGiOh but I refuse to play this game competitively as it’s just absurd what they’ve done to this game. I refuse to pay $60-80 a copy for Mulcharmys or Primite Lordy Lodes. You can build ENTIRE competitive decks in Pokemon for the cost of ONE OF THESE CARDS!!! I preordered my 3 Blue Eyes White Destiny Structure Decks and that’s that. Not an another dime. I’m fine just playing casually.
@@Ehrle6969 Kid lol that’s funny. Trust me, I can easily afford them. However just because I can afford the cards doesn’t mean I’m supporting this nonsense. Blue eyes can easily be played pure.
@@marny129 meta is nonsense anyway, thats why goat or edison is the best way to play. Or just tier 2 decks or rogue with homeboys in the Kitchen. I Just ment meta decks in those formats r cheap asf digga.
I'm pretty sure everyone is at least aware, just in massive denial because they've invested too much money and time into the game to let go. Massive respect for calling out trash cards as they are. Konami does so many questionable things that would never work if they were a new card game or trying to sell a product to a real business client.
Someone needed to say these things, a lot of players dont find them out until they are already invested. BTW, Thanks for being nice to me and taking a picture with me at nationals austin.
An example of the goofy reprint policy is that when Konami announced Maxx C being in a Speed Duel set that some people started theorizing they might be planning to unban it.
So totally agree. I've been personally down on life luck for the past two years trying to find a meaningful job that doesn't make me eat a bullet. This game and the friends I've made keep me going some days. However, the constant printing of sets and manipulation of the secondary market that Konami does prices me out completely. I'm still playing Floowandereeze not just because I enjoy it, it's because I can do things with it people don't expect and it's really all I can afford. I played tenpai bc it was insanely cheap (borrowed the Trident) and then it got hit so now the only way to play the game and win is to combine Fiendsmith with EVERYTHING. And when the whole engine is my mortgage payment, that's just bullcrap.
Yeah! I think the most annoying part of all this is the time gap between OCG and TCG sets. It gives Konami time to see which cards become must-have meta picks. Sure, the ban lists are different, but at the end of the day, it’s still the same game, and things play out pretty similarly. Then we get these prints where OCG rares - like all three Mulcharmies (spread across three sets), Deception of Sinful Spoils, etc. - end up as Secret Rares in TCG. And on top of that, they take OCG commons and bump them up to Super Rares, making you think that the "1 guaranteed foil per pack" is worth something when it’s really not. We can all keep complaining and being mad, but as long as we keep playing by their rules, nothing will change. Why? Because, of course, Konami has to make money. But let’s be real - OCG does it in a way that actually feels fair. Meanwhile, in the West, it's all about greed first. And as long as that mindset stays the same and we keep playing, nothing will change. And don’t even get me started on the quality control - miscuts, print color variations, booster boxes that look like they came from some sketchy underground factory, and cards fresh out of the pack looking like they’ve been through a shredder. It’s actually embarrassing.
French living in Japan here, after learning enough Japanese I'm so glad I shifted from TCG to buying OCG cards: so much cheaper, get new cards earlier, more rarities including ultimate rare cards my favorites. But mostly because it is so much cheaper I can buy tons of boosters at low price and it is quite enjoyable. I can make any deck I want for less than 100$. And I can still play with TCG rules with my American friends (Neuron is great for searching and translating). Only issue is if I want to play in a tournament outside Japan in future... I feel sorry for everyone getting scamed by the TCG cards, they could just translate the cards with similar price to japanese ones, but they choose to change everything for different products with much more expensive prices, like rarity of Fuwalos... This is the biggest scam indeed. OCG and TCG should never have split in my opinion.
I remember that people hated Upper deck for avoiding reprinting structure deck with staples from back then like Mirror force or Crush Card, starting the rarity bumping and the prize cards. Everyone thought that things would get better when Konami took over the tcg….the idea of having the same treatment like the Ocg was like dream…But oh boy, how wrong we were
Yugioh's lack of rotation is the main reason I adore it. For the flaws it brings, the benefits far outweigh it. If nothing else, old cards might get power crept, but at least they're still legal to play if I want to. In games like Pokemon, I feel like I'm wasting my money if I don't play a lot because the cards will be worthless in a few years and completely unplayable. And that's to say nothing of how games like Pokemon change entire rulesets between sets sometimes, so if you do play a "legacy" format, it can get really, REALLY weird. Yugioh has had rule changes yes, but it's not really comparable (at least not in the current format - it would've been a major issue in the early link format)
I do know YGO players know that others rotate but how it sounds is they think it’s the game that does it, when it’s a single format (the other YGO problem playability outside of main format). This is something I been aware of when I looked in to YGO after 10 to 18 years that the company has major control over the game, just cus of the ocg and the tcg are disconnected and they take advantage of that. The issue of reprints is always going to be that, an issue, no matter what someone gets shafted. The function of a rotating format is for new players to enter, newest cards, easy to understand stuff. It also helps reduce power creep from being an arms race.
I personally agree, originally I believed Yugioh to be fun but also about building the best deck and back in the day it was like that, my Dark Magician deck was unstoppable and I could play with it against people who were competitive up to cyber dragons. We just need more support and it’s obvious, but I always stick with my deck. It just shouldn’t be like that, everybody should be able to stick with their deck and win
8:35 after hearing you explain this, it makes a lot more sense to me why someone like Nadir (Farfa, for the uninitiated) would end his partnership with Konami.
I'm so glad you're saying this. I have been playing this game since legends of blue eyes. After getting screwed over twice, I just wait it out and pick up the reprints. And I still do to this day I refuse to pay for the price. IK the game. 😂 I will go without the card. First, I'm 40 years old. I've learned my lesson. 😂
My issue with that is in other card games for e.g. one piece shanks in opo9 was 14 a card on release and then later dropped to 2 dollars and hasn't changed majorly lately if konami can't do something like that, I do not have faith in a company as such
Key Problem in TCGs. Reprints. how expensive is the secondary market as well as the reprints, and then how consistent are the reprints. the scam is when they reprint at exorbitant prices keeping the secondary market high creating fomo. a resolution to this is reprinting often at low MSRP, keeping both reprints and secondary market affordable... but they don't make money that way. well articulated video brother.
Konami has always done this scummy distribution in international set releases since even the early 2000s, people just never noticed enough to call it out until recently.
I think Yubel is a good example of sensible pricing, they reprinted everything decently quick, including the base Yubel monsters themselves. Tins and Battles of Legends are pretty responsive to getting reprints out there for players. Cards are only really expensive for the hyper competitive meta players. You can pick up Amazoness, Cubics, or any of the other 400+ archetypes for a few dollars. You can also just check Japanese deck lists to pick up cards months in advance for cheap. I know I got 3 QCR Spirit Dragons for next to nothing and now they're more than 6x the price.
In my opinion the #1 issue is that Konami doesn’t actually give good proper support to other decks and different strategies, while simultaneously making 1-3 new decks broken. Good luck even playing semi pro if your deck is not Tier 0.
Wait for the reprints, and keep on keep on. Unfortunately we can’t control our impulsive ways of wanting to build things but if you get to enjoy them do so. Competitive will always be, like any other sport. It eventually becomes corruptively relevant to everyone’s life whether it’s the income or having the cardboard. Money makes it.
What’s wild people go to YCS and regionals. The prizing is a joke. It’s harder to hit m1 in master duel than it is to top a regional. You get the same result either way: nothing! Also buy cyber wicked
I’ve been saying this forever. Standard Rotation would objectively be better for players, but the playerbase is too stubborn, and genuinely believes that the way Konami currently runs things is superior to “forced rotation,” because they’re given the illusion of choice and THEORETICALLY have the ability to play old decks in the current format, even though they definitely can’t. Now we’re seeing the consequences of a lack of rotation, the game has morphed into something entirely different from what it was ever originally intended to be. It’s a shame too, cause Yu-Gi-Oh has enough brand identity to be run the same way Pokémon TCG is, where you make full arts and alternate rarity cards way more valuable collectibles in order to balance sales of the product outside of what impacts the game, so the game itself can remain sustainable and balanced. But Konami has no clue how to properly manage a game. Yu-Gi-Oh’s brand potential is being complete squandered by blind short-term greed, and incompetence. Dark Magician, Blue-Eyes, etc… etc…. all have comparable marketability to the likes of Charizard, Mewtwo, Eevee, etc…
And to counter this rotation threw banning cards the entire reason some of these decks where tear zero was due to interactions not intended say block dragon with adamancipator for example
@ there was a 3 year difference between the original release of block dragon and adamancipator infact it was until a 3rd reprint that adamancipator got released
@gavrail9568 And Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Red-Eyes Black Dragon, and Exodia are getting new Decks for old cards *25* years after their first printings, your point?
@ blue eyes is getting I literal skill drain and otk machine on legs in the new structure deck the decks only problem is board breaking before the battle phase hell without the field spell unless maliss side from exactly heart cypher can’t defend agenst that
@gavrail9568 OK, and? I guess then Blue-Eyes will be a good Deck and worthy to stand next to Maliss as an equal by earning its place through victory in combat, nice to see it's playable instead of more anime toilet paper that makes little Timmy cry when he wanted to play anime cards and got stomped by game-original cards. 😂
I do have a gripe about card games in general. I dont feel the soul anymore. everythings been min/maxed to handful of options at a time. Mtg(modern) gave me a spark , lots of custom/fun decks. Till my zombie deck (and everyone else at the shop) got creamed by a guy with no monsters , just lots of card draws and a sun that wins the game if you draw it twice. For cheap wins and card packs.
It always sickens me to no end when Konami TCG feels the need to short print, rarity bump, and make chase cards out of the best cards in the set. These scummy practices gatekeeps a lot of potential players and by the time these cards become reprinted and more widely available, Konami has a tendency to hit them, thus repeating the cycle all over again. First world problems for sure, but the playerbase could always have it better than having to consistently endure these anti-consumer practices time & time again
This is why I only buy singles Pk’s need a monster that’s summons from deck when banished. Also would love a new Adamancipator non-tuner rock. Sky striker needs 1-2 modern spells.
(Kinda off topic) I think the reason we dont have to ocg card rariety is so that we can have way more reprint sets than the ocg. If we had their rariety system then the need for reprint sets goes massively down
I had been playing yugioh since it came to the US but I recently stopped buying physical products entirely. It was in part due to this tactic of making one vital card to your new deck insanely expensive but it was actually an entirely different thing that did it for me. I have always been a massive fan of building the main characters deck from the anime so I got super excited about getting rush duels added as new product to buy. It was going to reinvigorate yugioh as a whole for me. Instead Konami said “you’ve got speed duels and they are basically the same thing”. I don’t know about you but they are not even close to being the same. Speed duels are terrible in my opinion but rush duels look like a ton of fun. Reminds me of season one of the original anime series. Hopefully Konami learns to value there US players more. I have my fingers crossed that their FIFA acquisition will make them enough money that they loosen their financial grip in other areas (like yugioh TCG)
Before watching, if you're gunna call rarity collection a scam I disagree. While there are a bunch of trash cards in them, they reprinted almost every staple I've ever wanted in every rarity. Anything else I probably agree with being a scam. I will say tho, them banning the best cards from each rarity collection, right after making them affordable is an ABSOLUTE scam...
@nitro5247 yeah I totally agree. The only exception MAYBE being structure decks. But we don't get as many rarities in each as the OCG, and we barely get them at all sometimes... like the last ENTIRE year...
Regardless the needing certain older cards now being expensive there are cheeper versions of cards that do the same thing for example back when imperm was expensive you could run effect veiler as a alternative yes it’s a slightly worse card but it does almost the same thing
I've decided to never pre-order a tin case ever, after the sheer spit in the face the last set of tins were. I've just sold off meta relevant decks (had full Maliss and Ryze-FS) and I'm going to just chill with Melodious or Plants until something else grabs my interest with the same long term playability.
Yugioh would be better if they offered a rare copy alongside the secret rare like in Japan (or in our case,a super instead of a rare). I will never stop talking about this
I was going to write something about Yu-Gi-Oh and how silly its getting with product and playability, but its Yu-Gi-Oh, and there hasnt been anything good to say about it since 2019 Edit: I worked at an LGS for years in charge of pricing Yu-Gi-Oh singles for sale. I can confidently say that not a single seller, "professional" or otherwise, has any clue how much their cards are actually worth. They see the first price another seller has put online, and work from there. Often influenced by Konami's artificial scarcity tactic when it comes to printing cards.
Konamis practices have made the game very unenjoyable for me. All I really want from Yugioh now is to finish building the decks I started. After that, I'll probably play with friends but stop taking it seriously
The most ironic thing is that komoney does this to take our money for profits, but having cash prizes "goes against the creators wishes" So its ok for them to make money making the game, but not for the people who actually play the game... oh wait, its just TCG players they do this to basically lol.
I honestly think, as a Ex TCG player and now OCG player, Konami just pickup what ccommunity create. Look at Fuwalos, yes rare in ocg, secret in TCG but, who decide was worth 150 bucks each? Look at Engraver, 60 bucks per copies because it's Secret, cool. In OCG engraver is Ultra, the Maximum standard rarity you can get in a booster box, just like secret in TCG, but still worth a huge 6 bucks. Honestly tho, you can blame Konami until a certain point, coz like big dog said, it's a business, but blame the community, who uniliterally decide Fuwalos is worth 150 bucks and engraver 60. Konami don't make the price for single card, just make price for seales product.
4:15 Erratas exist. RIP chaos emperor. So Air Neos reprint when?! Power creep skyrockets over time. And thus rush duels was born! Selling pricy cardboard defo a SCAM !!! Love them positive vibes btw 🃏💳❤
They keep doing it because it works. If people want these practices to change, they need to make sure it isn't working anymore for Konami, be it to stop buying their products or boycott their events
I bought a box of SUDA and got literally nothing good. I don't need QCRs in every pack but there's so much filler it feels like I got scammed. At least with deckbuilding sets like CRBR I can get Maliss and Ryzeal cards that are worth something
With the fundamental complaints people seem to have about the game, I wonder why the community don’t just make custom rules to balance out the game themselves. Heard fighting game players really care about proper balancing in their games, so is this a case where Yu-Gi-Oh players aren’t pushing hard enough for change?
My honest hot take on this is that yes konami is a business and they have to make money but i fail to see how they can’t do that by making a good product like if you would just make a good set every once in a while as opposed to a bad set every second i would think you’d make more money
Been saying this for a while after I looked into the differences between OCG and TCG sets and it's abominable. I'd have loved to get into the game to play Snake Eyes and Ryzeal, but TCG Konami bumping their rarity and creating a scarcity of the product, which inflates the price. I can't in good conscience abide by these vile practices from TCG so I don't buy into TCG nor do I play MD, even if it's F2P, newer archetypes have become dominated by being SR and UR rarities, requiring more jems or dusting cards to obtain the resources for these newer decks. To boot, the gulf in power between meta and nonmeta is too wide for even good macro to make up for the difference, not to mention how quickly newer decks can simply dismantle other decks with floodgates or having excessive points of interaction. Call it a skill issue or whatever, I like to play more casual decks, and it's no fun to attempt some basic plays to be met with responses or OTK'd with little ability to meaningfully respond to it. As such, I play other games where even if you're casual or competitive, you still have an opportunity to make your best effort to play the game and get some meaningful feedback on how to approach your opponents in the future beyond just, "Buy the new meta deck or staples (which fetch a cost equivalent to entire competitive decks in other games)."
thats why we should play 1 sleeper deck , a deck which is timeless good or can atleast compete , back in the days it was burning abyss and true draco , now iam sleeping on dark world
Konami being a terrible scumbag company that screws and scams it's players is well known at this point. I'm more surprised at the players who keep tolerating it. I feel like if tcg players would boycott konami for an extended period of time and stop buying any of their product, they would lose enough money to the point that they would have to listen to player demands and not just in regards to the scamming but other issues that make modern yugioh bad as well such as the power creep and tournament prizing.
I left the game back in 2019 after I realized the way konami was manipulating the market by way of the banlist. Now I kinda wanna get back just for fun. Any recommendations on what deck I should play as a casual player?
Your case on the Mermails is hit/miss. People had PLENTY of time to get pike and gaios at super low prices. But where were they? Oh thats right...they were too busy chasing Fire/pyro Hype and running after Bonfire. Those same people are the ones that chase after whatever is considered meta and when they heard "mermail" they threw their snake eyes deck and chased Water...people like these deserve to pay more, they run around everywhere jacking up the price with their need to play Hype Deck. And then they wonder why they have no money and then they complain and blame the Market for prices being too high lol. The best time to pick up everything that was Water was when all that fire hype was going on.
The internet destroyed trading and ruined affordable prices, Back then you could trade for cards before everyone knew how much they cost. Gone are the days of trading what you want for what you want. Now its like stocks and bonds 💩
if you have playing this game like a decade or more, and you still going to keep playing in the future, you must know that you need tu buy some cards who used to be meta or staple in an especific strategy or deck, and have it previously skyrocket in price, i´m nearly play this game when it started and i have thousand of cards from the beginning to now, and when i need it, i have it previously, or i can sell it if i have more than a i need in this particular momment, but for a new players it have to be a problem afford cards from nearly 2 decade before...
I see more players quitting modern ygo more and more every day. Many are joining old formats. Ygo is gonna be dead in the next 5 years or so, at least modern will be.
@kevinlee5753 it has been dying tho in comparison to where it used to be. 😂 The fact that konami hasn't recovered the playerbase since 2015 is obvious. Less card shops running tournaments and less turn out. Also, you rarely see kids joining and playing anymore. No fresh players means you are left with an aging playerbase that eventually dies off or quits. If konami doesn't make drastic changes, then it will die. At least modern will.
@@PheonixT-ki8rx that's more locals dependent as my locals does get new players from time to time including kids while others do suffer but the competitive scene is growing since YCS numbers are record breaking but that's probably because of the aging player base being able to afford it so I do see things like the midcore player being lost as team aps did a video on but the casual scene still exists and is way bigger than the competitive scene but the problem is locals don't always show this because table top Yu-Gi-Oh players aren't really interested in local tournaments and so while locals may die Yu-Gi-Oh as a whole isn't going anywhere anytime soon
@@PheonixT-ki8rx you might wanna check your sources on those claims. Konami has been steadily increasing their profit year on year on year. So the playerbase is certainly not decreasing or hasnt recovered. We arent even talking about like small 2-3% profits, they have profit margins in the 20%+ range. This game is nowhere near dying.
I think Yugioh decks get killed too quickly. Other TCGs leave cards and decks legal in advanced play for at least 2 years. OCG makes decks more inconsistent, but it is better to have a strategy playable and less consistent than not playable at all.
The fact that we have rarity bumping, short printing, half printing, and no OCG rarity system proves that they have been scamming us since inception.
^^^^^
This is it
Becausr the OCG is the prized possession. The TCG is the moneymaker
Yep :(
It hasn't been since it's inception, I'd say the changes started around 2016 and around 2020 the set quality really took a downturn.
@@TwistedNightmar3Gaming that’s right. Konami treats the OCG as their primary version of the game. Like to them it is the definitive Yu-Gi-Oh! card game. And to be fair, it makes sense. Because it came out first and it was released in 1999 around the time the Yu-Gi-Oh! Mongo was gaining popularity and the anime didn’t come out until a year after so given the history of the game it makes perfect sense why they heavily favor the OCG over the TCG. Though there are some warranted reasons why they don’t like the TCG as much as the OCG. But yeah, they are using the TCG as an international money maker because they don’t care about foreign consumers. They only care about their native Japanese consumers, which is pretty self evident given how xenophobic that country really is these days.
No way!!!! Who could have know konami was scamming us all along omg
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Bonkers 😵💫🫨
The sarcasm is strong within this post
"I just found out that water is wet" ahh title fr.
Never buy sealed product unless it’s special cases like rarity collection. Buying singles has saved me so much money overall
These glue eaters don’t understand math or saving money. I keep telling people to buy singles especially if the set offers nothing for your deck. After all the azamina hype died down I finally got it for my branded deck for like 1/3 the price
@rockmandude173 u absolutely right!! I'm glad I switched to buying singles....sad though cause I am a collector as well but I ain't being they cash bag F that 😂 well....not anymore anyway 😂😂
I usually buy a box to support my locals. But this last set I pulled a $240 card, flipped it and got 2 more boxes. Still up $120 cuz I got another $250 card and bought a deck core.
That said, don't go buying sets expecting that type of luck. Buy them if you need a ton of cards from a set and wanna support your local shop.
I just order higher rarity singles from my locals, well the complete set anyways. Usually 800-1200 for a complete higher rarity, Rarity Collection set.
@@rockmandude173 bro you stole the words right out of my mouth. Singles save me tons of money as far as yugioh is concerned.
Broski they do this every single year, everyone tries to figure out best deck after December, But Ko-money tells you Deck a or Deck b, they're unreasonably broken then get banned then repeat.. That's a big issue with this game no creativity the best decks are chosen each year
The ban list just needs to go and let the new meta begin! That way you couldn't really prepare for anything.. and its basically the wild wild west at that point which is how it should be.. long as everything else is legal within play.
@@Zachary-jt5uzcompletely agree!!
@@Zachary-jt5uzI'm not dealing with ftks all the time but if it's just take off decks without ftks maybe? There would be tons of problems tho playing against just tear.
@greysunomain i mean they would have to come out with some new overall general rules to go along with it. Cause I know theirs plenty of busted strategies if it was freed up like that. Like no hand loops for one that can straight up be a rule like maybe having a hard limit on certain cards activations that are not once per turn maybe have a hard set to like max 3 period that turn. They could make it happen easily with rule revamps. And it would actually work.. but then konami wouldn't be pushing product off the shelves as much so this would probably never happen unless they have a alternative "official" format is the overall best solution for everyone. I jusr don't think we have enough support and players for that to be even worth it to kobami at this point unless they seriously revamp.their entire IP with a new anime and alpt of major changes. But again... don't think that's likely to happen until we see a serious drop.off of players and honeslty I think.their end game is just to ride the yugioh wave out till all us Millennials are to old to play or don't care anymore ever since they ended the anime I think that's their end game with yugioh sadly.
@greysunomain and just to add this.. these changes that konami needs to make happen way to far and between to make a difference when it needs too. Its been the same for years and its not gonna change.. no matter how many videos people make or what they say.. behavior and patterns tell you all you need to know.. ill just leave it at that.
Has no one ever watched MonkeyTCG's content on this matter or open sealed product? Lol
Its not a new revelation that Konami's anti consumer practices in the west are a scam. In fact, we just sort of just been either been in denial or just apathetically accepted the reality of it all as a community (no feasible way to change it. Can only buy Singles to compensate).
Sure the Rarity Collection sets are nice but the core idea of having low and high rarity of the same staple/chase cards remains absent in Core and Side sets.
We keep buying sealed product in large quantities as players and it makes money. We are litterally enabling the scam to continue.
I'd argue Rarity Collection and reprint sets have only enabled TCG Konami to continue with the trend as players fervently buy into core sets to buy the the secret rare staples and rarity bumped archetypes then the casual player base will buy into reprint sets in the hopes of catching up to the whales who've had these cards for months or years. At this point, Konami can somewhat comfortably start chipping away at the old meta that's been reprinted now that they double dipped the community.
The scummiest thing Konami does is probably releasing stuff in the OCG first.
Seeing which cards are good.
Then increasing the rarity of the good cards when they later release them into the TCG.
So we always pay 10x more for cards in the TCG.
That's just how Konami rolls.
I mean they release in OCG first mainly because they are based in Japan, an asian country. OCG is the Asian format TCG is western format
Not that hard to understand that they get product first being..... Well Asia
@@theunknownshadowish Re-read what I typed.
@@gubigubigubigubi I don't need to reread what you typed I was explaining the difference between OCG and TCG
@@theunknownshadowishyou don’t realize they format it that way on purpose in order to up the rarity. There is no logistical hurdle they would have to solve to just have one release and one format.
Make yugioh more affordable and more players can buy cards which means more money for konami. It isn't rocket science. Also more players playing means more people paying for admissions to big events.
@PheonixT-ki8rx or they can make the game fun, like it used to be. Then, more players wouldn't mind dishing out $$$ for a decent deck. It's such a one-way game these days. You either win, or you lose. Gone are the days you can lose, shake hands, and say "good game" because it was an *actual* good game. Back and forths, choosing between conventional or unconventional strategy, etc. Imagine spending $$$$ on a deck, and getting TKO'd 10x in the first two turns. You don't even get to *use* the deck.
@@xStrife1997x I had a amazing game against labyrinth vs my synchron adventure Kash. Sometimes its really fun. In person tho I can't not be nice. It's such a dumb mindset to me to not play for fun and learn.
@xStrife1997x honestly the game is fun when you have access to all the resources you need. The problem is accessibility. You buy a $300 deck just for it to become $40 the next week and another $300 deck to replace it. Also no resources to learn to play the game at any level, beginner to advanced...
@@xStrife1997x accurate. many problems in the game atm. This is why u see retro formats popping up more and more and growing. Im from Chicago, which used to be a stronghold for YGO and competitive players. We had several YCS/Shonen champs and many top 16 players at one point. Now the scene is dead comparatively from what it was many years ago. Even some of players who held on longer than most finally gave up in the last few years. Swapped over to other TCGs that offer more reward and cost less to play. But Tengu format/Edison tournaments are growing in place of modern.
@@Xx3SPAZxX Konami needs to stop with new mechanics bullshit. If you need to implement new mechanics every few years, then your game is flawed. This adds to the frustration of learning the game. Even old yugioh players struggle to catch up on new mechanics when attempting to try modern and thus give up. Imagine a completely new player trying to learn not only the cards but the mechanics. Assuming a new player sticks around long enough to learn all the summon mechanics etc and actually gets to a point where they can play competitively, a new mechanic is announced and its back to YGO class 101 to learn the new mechanic XD.
It's kinda sad that konami is doing these things I think kazuki takahashi (rest in peace) wouldn't like this
He was fully aware of this since inception. Heck, he probably allowed it.
@ oh damn that aint cool tho
Yeeea..... This was a thing long before Kazuki's death.
Wouldn't be surprised if somewhere down the line Kazuki saw what was happening and agreed with what was being done. Otherwise they wouldn't have been able to do it had he been against it.
@@theunknownshadowish man that’s actually bad!!
@@Stixz04 well think about it, I mean really if Kazuki was against it, he would have brought the franchise to a different company.
While alive when Konami made money off the product, HE made money off the product.
Now no one can really dispute what they do with the franchise cause the creator died, and if I am mistaken they currently hold full rights to it.
I honestly think mixing rarities or changing numbers of hits per box would help a lot to the playerbase, let's say 4 SCR, 8UR per box with a possibility for QCR or collector would make people more interested or buying boxes and it would make konami more money, we all would win
That's a smart idea.
The Komoney loop. Make expensive card staples/decks, reprint, ban because it's suddenly problematic now that it's budget friendly. This isn't to say the cards aren't/never were problematic, just that it's scummy how quick they get banned AFTER finally being less than $60.
Examples: Baronne, Borreload Savage, Appolousa, Prosperity (limited), the Snake Eyes engine (a few hits), very likely the Mulcharmies will follow suite, and the list goes on.
Honestly as a more casual player.. i've found that even if i want a certian card that's expensive.. i find a card that works until prices go down.. but my competitive mind doesn't always want to buy tins when i might only want 10 cards out of the entire tin
My day is always phenomenal when Cali drops a video or goes live. It's even better when Cali keeps Konami accountable and wakes up the player base
Calieffect, you are on the ball about Konami scamming us because when they introduced us to the rarity collection with some of the reprints, that was easy to obtain. However, when the banlist came, they put some of the cards to the forbidden section, such as baronne de fleur, borreload Savage dragon , and apollousa. This means that it was a trap, and Konami scammed us yugioh players of paying for the rarity collection. It was also an excuse to ban them.
Yeah, and this is a whole other topic of WTF Konami is even doing!
Spot on! Im thinking S:P might be next. It's too accessible while being very strong. Can't let people have that right?....
@ethio6308 True, however, her effect has a cost, and that cost is that your monsters can't attack directly, and as for the second effect, it can't activate during the damage step. I think the prometheon princess may actually be banned or accesscode talker due to being able to help maliss with banishing their link monsters in the grave.
Jokes on them…I haven’t purchased physical cards in over a year now
Cali you are the goat bro, I hope to see more success from you. Hopefully play you in a YCS or something in the future.
It is ironic that Konami painted Domino City as a classist dystopia in the 5Ds anime, but they are acting like the Domino city by making the game only accessible to some, and leaving casual players with “junk” cards and policing cheap strategies that can compete “like Tenpai dragon” which was never able to become a tier 0 deck despite being cheap and powerful, but it was strong enough to compete and they needed players to prefer to play ryzeal or Maliss instead if they wanted to be able to participate.
Now to play Tenpai you have to add the expensive stuff which is arguably more broken than the cheap stuff they banned.
I am sure Tenpai could still be played fully released now and it would not become a tier 0 deck. The same applies to many other strategies that were good enough to compete and were sanctioned just so people had no other choice but playing the new cards.
Bruh Konami didn't make the anime
The only reason to hang onto old cards is if you're praying for legacy support. For me, that's X-Sabers and Lair Of Darkness.
Odd-eyes fan here.
Can't Geargias get some love please 🙏🏾
@@casketbase7750 spellbook player here....I totally get that
@@casketbase7750 shaddoll and fluffal enjoyer here. I hope they get a giga broken support one day lol. Honestly fluffal don't need much but consistency and a good card to end on go first and/or a way to consistently put tiger on their turn. Tiger pop 3-4 is actually great if you count other things deck can do easily
Icejade player here
2023 was tear and Kash.
Went back to Pokemon TCG after a hiatus and haven’t looked back. I love me some YuGiOh but I refuse to play this game competitively as it’s just absurd what they’ve done to this game. I refuse to pay $60-80 a copy for Mulcharmys or Primite Lordy Lodes. You can build ENTIRE competitive decks in Pokemon for the cost of ONE OF THESE CARDS!!!
I preordered my 3 Blue Eyes White Destiny Structure Decks and that’s that. Not an another dime. I’m fine just playing casually.
@@marny129 just Play goat or edison kid
@@Ehrle6969 Agree. You can make top tier decks for $100-$120.
Problem is, these formats aren’t supported
@@Iceblade269 there r lot of tournements in locals about em so its np. Meta decks r 25-50 worth if u Play all on low raritys ez
@@Ehrle6969 Kid lol that’s funny. Trust me, I can easily afford them. However just because I can afford the cards doesn’t mean I’m supporting this nonsense. Blue eyes can easily be played pure.
@@marny129 meta is nonsense anyway, thats why goat or edison is the best way to play. Or just tier 2 decks or rogue with homeboys in the Kitchen. I Just ment meta decks in those formats r cheap asf digga.
I'm pretty sure everyone is at least aware, just in massive denial because they've invested too much money and time into the game to let go.
Massive respect for calling out trash cards as they are. Konami does so many questionable things that would never work if they were a new card game or trying to sell a product to a real business client.
Someone needed to say these things, a lot of players dont find them out until they are already invested.
BTW, Thanks for being nice to me and taking a picture with me at nationals austin.
An example of the goofy reprint policy is that when Konami announced Maxx C being in a Speed Duel set that some people started theorizing they might be planning to unban it.
Lol this was the funniest rumor. Like why would they ever unban the superior draw hand trap when they are trying to sell watered down versions of it
@@joeb6750 Look at Japan, people play all of them.
So totally agree. I've been personally down on life luck for the past two years trying to find a meaningful job that doesn't make me eat a bullet. This game and the friends I've made keep me going some days. However, the constant printing of sets and manipulation of the secondary market that Konami does prices me out completely. I'm still playing Floowandereeze not just because I enjoy it, it's because I can do things with it people don't expect and it's really all I can afford. I played tenpai bc it was insanely cheap (borrowed the Trident) and then it got hit so now the only way to play the game and win is to combine Fiendsmith with EVERYTHING. And when the whole engine is my mortgage payment, that's just bullcrap.
Thank God for simulators like edopro
Yeah! I think the most annoying part of all this is the time gap between OCG and TCG sets. It gives Konami time to see which cards become must-have meta picks. Sure, the ban lists are different, but at the end of the day, it’s still the same game, and things play out pretty similarly.
Then we get these prints where OCG rares - like all three Mulcharmies (spread across three sets), Deception of Sinful Spoils, etc. - end up as Secret Rares in TCG. And on top of that, they take OCG commons and bump them up to Super Rares, making you think that the "1 guaranteed foil per pack" is worth something when it’s really not.
We can all keep complaining and being mad, but as long as we keep playing by their rules, nothing will change.
Why?
Because, of course, Konami has to make money. But let’s be real - OCG does it in a way that actually feels fair. Meanwhile, in the West, it's all about greed first. And as long as that mindset stays the same and we keep playing, nothing will change.
And don’t even get me started on the quality control - miscuts, print color variations, booster boxes that look like they came from some sketchy underground factory, and cards fresh out of the pack looking like they’ve been through a shredder.
It’s actually embarrassing.
French living in Japan here, after learning enough Japanese I'm so glad I shifted from TCG to buying OCG cards: so much cheaper, get new cards earlier, more rarities including ultimate rare cards my favorites. But mostly because it is so much cheaper I can buy tons of boosters at low price and it is quite enjoyable. I can make any deck I want for less than 100$. And I can still play with TCG rules with my American friends (Neuron is great for searching and translating). Only issue is if I want to play in a tournament outside Japan in future... I feel sorry for everyone getting scamed by the TCG cards, they could just translate the cards with similar price to japanese ones, but they choose to change everything for different products with much more expensive prices, like rarity of Fuwalos... This is the biggest scam indeed. OCG and TCG should never have split in my opinion.
I remember that people hated Upper deck for avoiding reprinting structure deck with staples from back then like Mirror force or Crush Card, starting the rarity bumping and the prize cards. Everyone thought that things would get better when Konami took over the tcg….the idea of having the same treatment like the Ocg was like dream…But oh boy, how wrong we were
Yugioh's lack of rotation is the main reason I adore it. For the flaws it brings, the benefits far outweigh it. If nothing else, old cards might get power crept, but at least they're still legal to play if I want to. In games like Pokemon, I feel like I'm wasting my money if I don't play a lot because the cards will be worthless in a few years and completely unplayable. And that's to say nothing of how games like Pokemon change entire rulesets between sets sometimes, so if you do play a "legacy" format, it can get really, REALLY weird. Yugioh has had rule changes yes, but it's not really comparable (at least not in the current format - it would've been a major issue in the early link format)
I do know YGO players know that others rotate but how it sounds is they think it’s the game that does it, when it’s a single format (the other YGO problem playability outside of main format).
This is something I been aware of when I looked in to YGO after 10 to 18 years that the company has major control over the game, just cus of the ocg and the tcg are disconnected and they take advantage of that.
The issue of reprints is always going to be that, an issue, no matter what someone gets shafted.
The function of a rotating format is for new players to enter, newest cards, easy to understand stuff. It also helps reduce power creep from being an arms race.
I personally agree, originally I believed Yugioh to be fun but also about building the best deck and back in the day it was like that, my Dark Magician deck was unstoppable and I could play with it against people who were competitive up to cyber dragons. We just need more support and it’s obvious, but I always stick with my deck. It just shouldn’t be like that, everybody should be able to stick with their deck and win
8:35 after hearing you explain this, it makes a lot more sense to me why someone like Nadir (Farfa, for the uninitiated) would end his partnership with Konami.
I'm so glad you're saying this.
I have been playing this game since legends of blue eyes.
After getting screwed over twice, I just wait it out and pick up the reprints.
And I still do to this day I refuse to pay for the price.
IK the game. 😂
I will go without the card. First, I'm 40 years old.
I've learned my lesson. 😂
My issue with that is in other card games for e.g. one piece shanks in opo9 was 14 a card on release and then later dropped to 2 dollars and hasn't changed majorly lately if konami can't do something like that, I do not have faith in a company as such
Key Problem in TCGs. Reprints. how expensive is the secondary market as well as the reprints, and then how consistent are the reprints. the scam is when they reprint at exorbitant prices keeping the secondary market high creating fomo. a resolution to this is reprinting often at low MSRP, keeping both reprints and secondary market affordable... but they don't make money that way. well articulated video brother.
p.s. still not as bad as Hasbro selling fake cards in a $100 booster pack.
Konami has always done this scummy distribution in international set releases since even the early 2000s, people just never noticed enough to call it out until recently.
You are the best yugi tuber! Honest and great videos! ❤️
I think Yubel is a good example of sensible pricing, they reprinted everything decently quick, including the base Yubel monsters themselves. Tins and Battles of Legends are pretty responsive to getting reprints out there for players. Cards are only really expensive for the hyper competitive meta players. You can pick up Amazoness, Cubics, or any of the other 400+ archetypes for a few dollars. You can also just check Japanese deck lists to pick up cards months in advance for cheap. I know I got 3 QCR Spirit Dragons for next to nothing and now they're more than 6x the price.
And I'm sitting in the corner, getting results from obscure 1 dollar old cards...
In my opinion the #1 issue is that Konami doesn’t actually give good proper support to other decks and different strategies, while simultaneously making 1-3 new decks broken. Good luck even playing semi pro if your deck is not Tier 0.
Wait for the reprints, and keep on keep on. Unfortunately we can’t control our impulsive ways of wanting to build things but if you get to enjoy them do so. Competitive will always be, like any other sport. It eventually becomes corruptively relevant to everyone’s life whether it’s the income or having the cardboard. Money makes it.
And this is why I mess with this Cali keeping it real
What’s wild people go to YCS and regionals. The prizing is a joke. It’s harder to hit m1 in master duel than it is to top a regional. You get the same result either way: nothing!
Also buy cyber wicked
Prizing is a joke and everybody is playing the same 2 decks. F that.
I’ve been saying this forever. Standard Rotation would objectively be better for players, but the playerbase is too stubborn, and genuinely believes that the way Konami currently runs things is superior to “forced rotation,” because they’re given the illusion of choice and THEORETICALLY have the ability to play old decks in the current format, even though they definitely can’t. Now we’re seeing the consequences of a lack of rotation, the game has morphed into something entirely different from what it was ever originally intended to be. It’s a shame too, cause Yu-Gi-Oh has enough brand identity to be run the same way Pokémon TCG is, where you make full arts and alternate rarity cards way more valuable collectibles in order to balance sales of the product outside of what impacts the game, so the game itself can remain sustainable and balanced. But Konami has no clue how to properly manage a game. Yu-Gi-Oh’s brand potential is being complete squandered by blind short-term greed, and incompetence. Dark Magician, Blue-Eyes, etc… etc…. all have comparable marketability to the likes of Charizard, Mewtwo, Eevee, etc…
And to counter this rotation threw banning cards the entire reason some of these decks where tear zero was due to interactions not intended say block dragon with adamancipator for example
Block Dragon fit so perfectly that there's no way it was unintentional.
@ there was a 3 year difference between the original release of block dragon and adamancipator infact it was until a 3rd reprint that adamancipator got released
@gavrail9568 And Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Red-Eyes Black Dragon, and Exodia are getting new Decks for old cards *25* years after their first printings, your point?
@ blue eyes is getting I literal skill drain and otk machine on legs in the new structure deck the decks only problem is board breaking before the battle phase hell without the field spell unless maliss side from exactly heart cypher can’t defend agenst that
@gavrail9568 OK, and? I guess then Blue-Eyes will be a good Deck and worthy to stand next to Maliss as an equal by earning its place through victory in combat, nice to see it's playable instead of more anime toilet paper that makes little Timmy cry when he wanted to play anime cards and got stomped by game-original cards. 😂
I do have a gripe about card games in general.
I dont feel the soul anymore. everythings been min/maxed to handful of options at a time.
Mtg(modern) gave me a spark , lots of custom/fun decks.
Till my zombie deck (and everyone else at the shop) got creamed by a guy with no monsters , just lots of card draws and a sun that wins the game if you draw it twice.
For cheap wins and card packs.
Anyone else think of the dueling mirror tins immediately? That wasn’t even a thinly veiled scam
It always sickens me to no end when Konami TCG feels the need to short print, rarity bump, and make chase cards out of the best cards in the set.
These scummy practices gatekeeps a lot of potential players and by the time these cards become reprinted and more widely available, Konami has a tendency to hit them, thus repeating the cycle all over again.
First world problems for sure, but the playerbase could always have it better than having to consistently endure these anti-consumer practices time & time again
FINALLY!!! A video on how Konami is scamming us since the beginning of time….. thanks cali 💪
They've been scamming us since the UDE days. They literally had high-ranking reps in the forums looking for plays.
Release new cards, ban/limit older cards, repeat... Their only goal is to sell the product and not to balance the game
This is why I only buy singles
Pk’s need a monster that’s summons from deck when banished. Also would love a new Adamancipator non-tuner rock.
Sky striker needs 1-2 modern spells.
I'm done with this game ! Friends went for One Piece, and I went for Final Fantasy. It's much more affordable and the cards are beautiful.
i started with pokemon half year ago. I mean you get a full meta deck for around 50- 60 bucks and pokemon cards are much more beautiful.
(Kinda off topic) I think the reason we dont have to ocg card rariety is so that we can have way more reprint sets than the ocg. If we had their rariety system then the need for reprint sets goes massively down
Komoney stands undefeated in Scamming and fiscal irresponsibility.
I'll be honest, I do spend 15 bucks here and there on the 5 pack that gives a token, but only when ever I go to Walmart, and it's rare
When you dont realize you've played yugioh for 2 decades until someone else says it
ok solid title it tells the truth... i hope the video doesnt flip flop
I actually can't afford to play competitive tcg but the reprint sets these days have been good enough to get me close.
I had been playing yugioh since it came to the US but I recently stopped buying physical products entirely. It was in part due to this tactic of making one vital card to your new deck insanely expensive but it was actually an entirely different thing that did it for me.
I have always been a massive fan of building the main characters deck from the anime so I got super excited about getting rush duels added as new product to buy. It was going to reinvigorate yugioh as a whole for me. Instead Konami said “you’ve got speed duels and they are basically the same thing”. I don’t know about you but they are not even close to being the same. Speed duels are terrible in my opinion but rush duels look like a ton of fun. Reminds me of season one of the original anime series.
Hopefully Konami learns to value there US players more. I have my fingers crossed that their FIFA acquisition will make them enough money that they loosen their financial grip in other areas (like yugioh TCG)
this is why i only play master duel today
Before watching, if you're gunna call rarity collection a scam I disagree. While there are a bunch of trash cards in them, they reprinted almost every staple I've ever wanted in every rarity. Anything else I probably agree with being a scam. I will say tho, them banning the best cards from each rarity collection, right after making them affordable is an ABSOLUTE scam...
Okay nvm. I agree with pretty much everything you said.
The problem is that rarity collection is the only product that *isn’t* a scam
@nitro5247 yeah I totally agree. The only exception MAYBE being structure decks. But we don't get as many rarities in each as the OCG, and we barely get them at all sometimes... like the last ENTIRE year...
the only thing Ilike about the TCG are its secret rare (& variants) foiling. other than that, the thickness of OCG cards are nice
while there's me just vibing working on my pet deck. praying my madolche deck becomes meta
Regardless the needing certain older cards now being expensive there are cheeper versions of cards that do the same thing for example back when imperm was expensive you could run effect veiler as a alternative yes it’s a slightly worse card but it does almost the same thing
I've decided to never pre-order a tin case ever, after the sheer spit in the face the last set of tins were.
I've just sold off meta relevant decks (had full Maliss and Ryze-FS) and I'm going to just chill with Melodious or Plants until something else grabs my interest with the same long term playability.
Ryzeal and Maliss definitely long term decks more specifically maliss. Depending on when we get ocg stuff ryzeal could be around for another year
There has to be some legal case to be made against this
Amazing Video, this is exactly the reason why I decided to stopped playing and spending money on the game long time ago
Yugioh would be better if they offered a rare copy alongside the secret rare like in Japan (or in our case,a super instead of a rare). I will never stop talking about this
I was going to write something about Yu-Gi-Oh and how silly its getting with product and playability, but its Yu-Gi-Oh, and there hasnt been anything good to say about it since 2019
Edit: I worked at an LGS for years in charge of pricing Yu-Gi-Oh singles for sale. I can confidently say that not a single seller, "professional" or otherwise, has any clue how much their cards are actually worth. They see the first price another seller has put online, and work from there. Often influenced by Konami's artificial scarcity tactic when it comes to printing cards.
Bro your so right honestly I see this long time. And it's crazy
Konamis practices have made the game very unenjoyable for me. All I really want from Yugioh now is to finish building the decks I started. After that, I'll probably play with friends but stop taking it seriously
Is this legal to say? I mean, Japanese companies are notorious for coming after UA-camrs over technicalities.
The most ironic thing is that komoney does this to take our money for profits, but having cash prizes "goes against the creators wishes"
So its ok for them to make money making the game, but not for the people who actually play the game... oh wait, its just TCG players they do this to basically lol.
I honestly think, as a Ex TCG player and now OCG player, Konami just pickup what ccommunity create. Look at Fuwalos, yes rare in ocg, secret in TCG but, who decide was worth 150 bucks each? Look at Engraver, 60 bucks per copies because it's Secret, cool. In OCG engraver is Ultra, the Maximum standard rarity you can get in a booster box, just like secret in TCG, but still worth a huge 6 bucks. Honestly tho, you can blame Konami until a certain point, coz like big dog said, it's a business, but blame the community, who uniliterally decide Fuwalos is worth 150 bucks and engraver 60. Konami don't make the price for single card, just make price for seales product.
4:15 Erratas exist. RIP chaos emperor. So Air Neos reprint when?!
Power creep skyrockets over time. And thus rush duels was born!
Selling pricy cardboard defo a SCAM !!!
Love them positive vibes btw 🃏💳❤
They keep doing it because it works. If people want these practices to change, they need to make sure it isn't working anymore for Konami, be it to stop buying their products or boycott their events
I bought a box of SUDA and got literally nothing good. I don't need QCRs in every pack but there's so much filler it feels like I got scammed. At least with deckbuilding sets like CRBR I can get Maliss and Ryzeal cards that are worth something
With the fundamental complaints people seem to have about the game, I wonder why the community don’t just make custom rules to balance out the game themselves. Heard fighting game players really care about proper balancing in their games, so is this a case where Yu-Gi-Oh players aren’t pushing hard enough for change?
Just wait for Konami to think WotC's Secret Lairs is a good idea to copy.
My honest hot take on this is that yes konami is a business and they have to make money but i fail to see how they can’t do that by making a good product like if you would just make a good set every once in a while as opposed to a bad set every second i would think you’d make more money
Yeah that’s Konami lol only time I get something is if it’s for blue eyes or red dragon even lightsworn but it’s rare
Been saying this for a while after I looked into the differences between OCG and TCG sets and it's abominable. I'd have loved to get into the game to play Snake Eyes and Ryzeal, but TCG Konami bumping their rarity and creating a scarcity of the product, which inflates the price. I can't in good conscience abide by these vile practices from TCG so I don't buy into TCG nor do I play MD, even if it's F2P, newer archetypes have become dominated by being SR and UR rarities, requiring more jems or dusting cards to obtain the resources for these newer decks.
To boot, the gulf in power between meta and nonmeta is too wide for even good macro to make up for the difference, not to mention how quickly newer decks can simply dismantle other decks with floodgates or having excessive points of interaction. Call it a skill issue or whatever, I like to play more casual decks, and it's no fun to attempt some basic plays to be met with responses or OTK'd with little ability to meaningfully respond to it. As such, I play other games where even if you're casual or competitive, you still have an opportunity to make your best effort to play the game and get some meaningful feedback on how to approach your opponents in the future beyond just, "Buy the new meta deck or staples (which fetch a cost equivalent to entire competitive decks in other games)."
thats why we should play 1 sleeper deck , a deck which is timeless good or can atleast compete , back in the days it was burning abyss and true draco , now iam sleeping on dark world
Konami being a terrible scumbag company that screws and scams it's players is well known at this point. I'm more surprised at the players who keep tolerating it. I feel like if tcg players would boycott konami for an extended period of time and stop buying any of their product, they would lose enough money to the point that they would have to listen to player demands and not just in regards to the scamming but other issues that make modern yugioh bad as well such as the power creep and tournament prizing.
I hear you and agreed. Very reasonable view to have.
As a casual "for fun" player who was hyped when Dragon Master Magia was announced in the OCG... yea... fuck konami!
How do I buy 3x each of all the QCRs that been printed, for a good price??
I left the game back in 2019 after I realized the way konami was manipulating the market by way of the banlist. Now I kinda wanna get back just for fun. Any recommendations on what deck I should play as a casual player?
The new Blue Eyes White Destiny structure deck is the best structure deck ever released in the TCG.
Honestly what bothers me most is that OCG has it easy
Your case on the Mermails is hit/miss.
People had PLENTY of time to get pike and gaios at super low prices. But where were they? Oh thats right...they were too busy chasing Fire/pyro Hype and running after Bonfire. Those same people are the ones that chase after whatever is considered meta and when they heard "mermail" they threw their snake eyes deck and chased Water...people like these deserve to pay more, they run around everywhere jacking up the price with their need to play Hype Deck. And then they wonder why they have no money and then they complain and blame the Market for prices being too high lol. The best time to pick up everything that was Water was when all that fire hype was going on.
The internet destroyed trading and ruined affordable prices,
Back then you could trade for cards before everyone knew how much they cost. Gone are the days of trading what you want for what you want. Now its like stocks and bonds 💩
Nobody tell him about the price guide magazines that were in grocery stores
So you’re saying you miss the days you can scam people? 😂
if you have playing this game like a decade or more, and you still going to keep playing in the future, you must know that you need tu buy some cards who used to be meta or staple in an especific strategy or deck, and have it previously skyrocket in price, i´m nearly play this game when it started and i have thousand of cards from the beginning to now, and when i need it, i have it previously, or i can sell it if i have more than a i need in this particular momment, but for a new players it have to be a problem afford cards from nearly 2 decade before...
This is why some ygo players go to Walmart and other stores to steal ygo cards…. Smh
then don't buy yugioh product...
Great video!
Since the old meta isn’t up to par
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I see more players quitting modern ygo more and more every day. Many are joining old formats. Ygo is gonna be dead in the next 5 years or so, at least modern will be.
People have been saying Yu-Gi-Oh has been dying since 2008 and it's still here. Plus I doubt Konami let's it die since it's such a cash grab for them.
@kevinlee5753 it has been dying tho in comparison to where it used to be. 😂 The fact that konami hasn't recovered the playerbase since 2015 is obvious. Less card shops running tournaments and less turn out. Also, you rarely see kids joining and playing anymore. No fresh players means you are left with an aging playerbase that eventually dies off or quits. If konami doesn't make drastic changes, then it will die. At least modern will.
@@PheonixT-ki8rx that's more locals dependent as my locals does get new players from time to time including kids while others do suffer but the competitive scene is growing since YCS numbers are record breaking but that's probably because of the aging player base being able to afford it so I do see things like the midcore player being lost as team aps did a video on but the casual scene still exists and is way bigger than the competitive scene but the problem is locals don't always show this because table top Yu-Gi-Oh players aren't really interested in local tournaments and so while locals may die Yu-Gi-Oh as a whole isn't going anywhere anytime soon
@@PheonixT-ki8rx you might wanna check your sources on those claims. Konami has been steadily increasing their profit year on year on year.
So the playerbase is certainly not decreasing or hasnt recovered.
We arent even talking about like small 2-3% profits, they have profit margins in the 20%+ range.
This game is nowhere near dying.
The fact that prize support is better for retro formats is a travesty in it of itself.
Whaaaaa? No way.....who could've knew....
Hero players.
Supreme darkness.
Enough said.
I think Yugioh decks get killed too quickly. Other TCGs leave cards and decks legal in advanced play for at least 2 years. OCG makes decks more inconsistent, but it is better to have a strategy playable and less consistent than not playable at all.