Nah, the internet is a non-stop flood of critical takes. People who acknowledge the downsides of this in their content are rare and valuable. We don't need less of that, we need more.
Here’s how to fix the tins: 1) Drop the set size to around 200 to 250. 2) Bring back promo packs (alt art raigeki and token for example could go there). 3) go back to 2019 style of tin (drop some secrets to ultra, and bump up some ultras to secrets). 4) Do something like 2 supers, 2 ultras, 2 Secrets, and 1 QCR per pack. 5) Lower the price from $23 to $20 for a tin. 6) Cut out half the commons.
It's infuriating how we can't expect the bare minimum out of Konami of America, they are the biggest tumour of Yu-Gi-Oh as a whole. I no longer care if some employee is nice and wants the best for the game, even if they truly feel that way they clearly don't hold enough weight to change things for the better.
@@LT_I_AM If only Master Duel made it worth the time to play 🙄 The only way to earn rewards is to either play ranked or play in the events that are just full of an even higher density of control and stun decks. Even Magic Arena lets you play in the unranked queues and earn rewards. It’s a model I wish Master Duel would adopt. All the usual rewards you get from ranked - level up bonuses, post-duel point rewards, challenge progress, etc. - should be able to be earned from any game that isn’t a private duel. The incentive to play ranked should be *bonus* rewards. Rank-up bonuses are nice, but there should also be an end-of-season reward based on where you placed. Finish Bronze II? Here’s 500 gems and a Master Pack. End in Diamond III? 2000 gems, a 5x Master Pack pack, and an SR ticket.
@@LT_I_AM Already did, a couple years ago in fact. I sometimes think of returning to the TCG, but Konami of America very frequently reminds me why I dropped out.
@@LT_I_AM People still enjoy the social element of going to locals every week to play with their friends. Fan created formats like common charity, various retro formats and perfect circle / deck master etc were all good things to happen but it is a herculean task to get any of these started at your own local with a steady playerbase and none of those formats actually solve the problem we experience right now: that the game IS fun and just costs far too much. Now if someone gets a mass movement behind a proxy allowed advanced format that could be something that neatly solves all the issues.
"Play the game until you need a break, don't play the game until it breaks you." What a profound statement. Honestly, that resonated with me. I'm going to apply that moving forward. You guys are great.
I wish theyd take the approach other card games take and just make the cardboard box, it would save on costs and theyd probably sell more plus theyd be more recycleable
@@adsventuresome7511 they should at least change the dimensions of the tin, as is it doesn't actually fit cards exactly right any way you rotate them, it should be the same dimensions as 1 row in a regular cardboard storage thing (just shorter). and just make the thing out of cardboard no reason for it to be metal and inflate the price unnecessarily.
Damn such a L take. In MTG I so wished we got cool tins over rubbish carboard boxes that don't even stay together they pretend it's a storage or deck box when we all know it ain't.
That is oddly strange they can easily just stop watching the content just view an different video they actually like.🤦🏾♂️ I Wouldn't be surprised if they're r@cists or something.
Some people really dont like it when content creators are critical of the things they like cos theyre not looking for critical takes of their favourite games, they just want a circle jerk to tell them theyre making good financial decisions by spending their money on the card game.
If the TCG just treated us like the OCG this game would be in a WAYYY better position. I think 90% of people would be satisfied & youd only see minor complaints (reprints, legacy support etc) Of course there would be outliers but overall I think TCG players just want the same as OCG & theyd be happy.
If we got core sets & deckbuilder sets at the same exact rarity distributions as the OCG, and reasonably close to the price of those OCG boxes, instead of giving konami $0 every new release I'd be buying almost every new set.
Honestly, if this is the product that makes LGSes drop YGO, it’s well deserved, and it shouldn’t be on us to make this game thrive if Konami is releasing bad products. They have to cater to us, we don’t have to cater to them.
@@PyckledNyk THIS. We have to knowingly buy into trash out of pity because of Konami's incompetence? They are in charge of making their products appealing, they are supposed to make us WANT what they sell. This thing of players having to guilt each other into buying garbage is pathetic and needs to stop.
@@Mt.Berry-o7 fr I've seen so many comments from people begrudgingly buying "a couple of tins" to support their LGS because they are unfortunately forced to stock even garbage sets. Buy some sleeves from your LGS instead or something. I know it sucks to potentially have another LGS drop yugioh but until that happens in masse theres no incentive for this stuff to ever change, my LGS doesn't even carry hardly any yugioh product anymore except new structure decks as they come out and 1 single box of new sets but as long as they host locals every weekend thats fine, nobody wants to buy the sealed products anyway.
Structures do still sell though, its a shame the haven't released a new one ALL YEAR despite them always being a hit with the players across the whole spectrum of casual to competitive.
The lack of structure decks is such a crime in my opinion - it's the easiest way to look appealing for casuals while also being cool for those who play the game. The fact one "batch" of MTG decks has more decks than Yu-Gi-Oh releases in an year is absurd. @@frig7014
What's this about LGS forced to buy all the products? Brick & mortar store here.. we aren't forced to buy any product, we just pre order and pay for the ones we research and select
Stores not making money from products and having it rot on store shelves IS NOT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PLAYERS. Its Konami's job to make a product people will buy. Only when stores say we are not stocking your product anymore that they will do something.
Let those tins rot I say, konami needs to learn. If we keep buying whatever they shove down our throats they'll feel motivated to keep this up and become worse with each passing year.
I wanna say, I'm actually getting tired of you guys being so apologetic over criticizing and getting annoyed at the shitty things your favorite game does. Toxic positive ppl will always complain when you criticize anything about their corporate overlords, speak your mind and stop apologizing
Can we please get this intro? Y'all did it a while back and I thought that it was the standard opening it was so catchy. 💬“Welcome back to the POD of Greed!” 💬“Indeed” 💬We have an exciting episode……….
There hasn't been a good product for Yugioh for a while. If it's not sustainable for the small stores, then it's totally justified as much as I hate it. I'd rather the stores can stay open than see Konami literally run the LGSes out of business.
That is a bad logic thread, it send konami the message that they can do whatever and you'll still buy, the stores would still se marginal profit o losses so will keep stoking and risking, where is you stop buying, they will just lose enough that they'll stop stoking, at wich point, they no longer are at risk and konami il the sole loser.
LGS here. I can only imagine how rarity collection 2 absolutely bankrupt many LGS on stocking yugioh. That product was such a rug pull by Konami to LGS, steal the profit up front then have it collapse $30 per box under water
This stinks of corporate as always. It's the same thing in video games too, individual developer's might be the most die-hard fan of what they're working on, but when corporate sets out a mandate or sales goals, and enforces those things with layoffs and firings, how can we expect things to improve?
Smart. Less than half of the secrets and only about 8 QCRs are worth picking up, MAYBE 3 ultras. Everything else in the set is pretty much hot stinking garbage, they should space the reprints out of the secret slots.
@@nharvialaseriously crazy. I see their point about buying one to support my shop which I might. I just dont understand how its a bad business decision to put cards people want in the tin lol
Also I want to say commons are an AMAZING thing. Like S:P little knight needed to be a common, thrust needed to be a common. They need to start putting good cards in affordable rarities so people can play their game. There will always be people that don't want the commons and are happy to pay 70 dollars for a secret or 500 for a QCR even if a common exists.
I'm surprised some low rent grift off the success of Pokemon lasted this long. Don't cry because it's over, smile because it's over or whatever the phrase is.
I completely disagree with the argument to remove commons. Previous Tins were opportunities to obtain really cheap cores of rogue decks. Think about Floowandereeze, Libromancers, Suship, Magikey, Beetrooper, that were reprinted in the common/rare slots that made these for-fun decks really easy to build. We can remove garbage like digit jamming, or couple of aces to slide in core components for decks like Nouvelle, Ninjas, Memento, Ashened, or reprint engines to make them more accessible to players, such as Impcantations / Patchwork / etc. The issue is that Konami didn't put any of the previously expensive cards in the common slot. Imagine if instead of reprinting Li-La Rap, we actually got the Live-Twins that currently cost 2-5 dollars a piece as commons. Take every rogue deck that has a Versus Theme / Face-off theme and make them the commons. This was the perfect opportunity to place the entire Vanquish Soul Lineup in the common slots (Dueling Mirrors) so that if you bought a case, you'd be pretty much guaranteed at least one playable deck.
Definitely commons have a place in tins, just feel this years tin commons were some of the worst picks possible. All of the archetypal cards present in that slot were already available at super cheap prices from *very recent* reprints, they could have just chosen to pick a few other decks to put into these low rarity slots. Memento got 1 single card in the tin (that was already cheap) when bone party is still a mandatory 3 of in the deck that is almost $30 a pop, for a rogue deck. Drytron just got new support, why not reprint all the old ultras with 1 printing that were still making the deck expensive? Ritual beast just got new support why not put in the missing pieces of the core that weren't in BLTR. Performage Plush fire just came off the banlist with an errata and would have been an amazing inclusion in the common slot. Many many more, I'm sure I could easily come up with 100 necessary commons to put in this slot before ever resorting to recycled pack filler from DUNE.
Starting out by saying I've ordered a case of these tins (And am prepared to regret it) I just feel really sorry for the stores that are going to be stuck with these tins since singles will without a doubt be the way to go since the set is mostly Bulk pack filler and very low chances to get anything you want. 1: You guys said the tins haven't included promos in a while. Last years tin had promos. All the cards on the outside of the tin were included as promos and not included in the actual set. This year the cards on the sides which are all mostly random and disappointing take up actual slots in the set now. 2: The argument that Konami is trying to release new max rarities is redundant when QCRs feel like cheap dime a dozen ripoffs of starlights. I'd still much rather spend the extra on the older high rarity so the card actually looks good. 3: While prismatic is different from a regular secret (and you guys agreed with this) It's completely pointless for a reprint set to release cards in the "same" rarity. And even more so when you realize the chances of pulling them in this new overly packed set are even worse then the original. 4: You guys compare the tins to the 4 pack collection boxes. While they might possibly be a better buy price wise I also do not like those sets either because they are also over priced and there is nothing that guarantee you won't just pull Supers where as the tins do at least guarantee you get certain rarities 5: Just about every opening I've seen on the tins has had clumping issues. Watching someone open one pack and then 3 packs later they open the same exact pack and then repeat a few packs later is absurd. Maybe if those clumped packs were good cards it would be alright but that isn't the case. You're getting repeat packs of garbage. 5: Places are definitely dropping Yu-gi-oh and as someone who enjoys it and wants to continue playing and supporting it, it absolutely sucks. Within the last month I've been to multiple big cons in my area where people were playing card games and tabletop games I was severely sad to see the biggest one of those cons I had gone to it seemed to me as if Yu-Gi-Oh was specifically left out. They had the other major TCGs (Magic, Pokemon, Lorcona, Dragonball, and One Piece) and newer smaller ones and I felt left out as a Yu-gi-oh player which is just awful. (I should mention I say specifically because the billboards and posters around and advertising the con had all the other TCGs on them EXCEPT Yu-gi-oh and I even have a few pictures where it's just Pokemon and magic that I took to show my friends since I went hoping to enjoy Yu-gi-oh but it just wasn't at the con and I apparently brought my deck for nothing.) 6: The just giving up and playing the game is very relatable. Whenever I think about and want the game to do better the worse I feel about the game and want to quit it. But at the same time we want a better game to enjoy. I hope it doesn't come to the point that we might lose the TCG but if that's what has to happen for things to get better so be it. I didn't intend to make such a long post but the more I watched the more I wanted to express my feelings since I care about this game and day by day I get more disappointed and fear for the games life even more.
Update. Didn't pull an S:P but got two blue eyes and 1 bonfire, and 1 thrust so at least got something on the higher price end. No chaos angel, no diabellstars, no imsety, no wanted, no typhon, no quems.
I remember reading somewhere that konami decided to compose the QCSE card list with iconic cards from the anime. Nothing to do with "when was it reprinted for the last time", it's just pure anime hommage (or nostalgia bait, you decide). That's why the list, from a release and competitive perspective, looks so strange.
For the QCRs, it is for the theme of this tin, being mostly iconic or rarely printed cards that Duelists used in the anime or manga. All the QCRs were played by a duelist in the anime or manga, with a few obscure cards like Ido the Supreme Being was used by Professor Frank against Luna but also this is Ido's second printing after it's original in Raging Battle like 10+ years ago so nice reprint I guess. But every other card is recognizable from Joey Wheeler with Scapegoat and Giltia Fusion, Torrential Tribute with Mako Tsunami, Toon Kingdom/Anima with Maximillion Pegasus, Seal of Orc being all the filler villains main field spell in original anime Yugioh, Ruby Carbuncle with Jesse Anderson, LADD from Chazz in the manga, all the Zexal cards are played by their respective main heroes and villains along with the Vrains heroes and villain cards, and DMG obviously for Atem. This is why the QCRs are mainly unusable cards in terms of the meta, but is mainly a collector's or fan of the series to collect rather than to be played for the most part. There is a few good ones like Stardust Accel Synchro Dragon, Cosmic Blazar Dragon, Yubel, and Link Spider. However, most are just to fit the tin theme and not really the selling point for most duelists, but rather collectors or fans of the anime/manga.
This! I'm not gonna say this was the best idea ever for the tins as a product, but the intention was pretty clear to me since the beginning. There are smart choices (I would say Pankratops, for example, is a better choice than some random useless Gouki/Dinowrestler, as well as some of the old cards that see play in Time Wizard), but some reeeeeally questionable ones, like Link Spider, Seal of Orichalcos, Giantrainer, Parallel eXceed...
And a fun note, I like how the Arc V picks fit well with the tin theme. You have Yuya's cards last tin, and now Yuzu, Ute, Hugo, Joeri and slots for fusion, synchro and xyz dimensions in Chaos Ancient Gear Giant, Tyrant RDA and Galaxy-eyes Cipher Dragon. The other animes also had that, but some "character" choices were a little weird.
@@isaacpontes Like the card choices for the QCR could have been much worse considering what the theme Konami decided to do for the tin. A lot of people just saw the list for QCR and were disappointed without understanding what the tin was about. At least Konami went for cards that never got QCR treatment and a few of these cards were rarely reprinted at all. It wasn't like Konami just chose a bunch of random cards without a reason to do so.
I do like the nostalgia cards, but I definitely agree that promos must return. That would thin the pulling pool by a lot and make these tins way more valuable by having 3 actual pulls instead of bloating them with what should be promo material.
Hey Paul I hope you see this. I don’t always agree with you and Alex’s takes but you’re the first person in the social yugi scene I’ve seen talk about how bad these commons are but I don’t think it’s getting highlighted enough JUST how bad it is. I went thought the trouble of counting every card from the set list that got reprinted as common again from its original printing when they first premiered and I counted 85-86….like the pool of cards for the QCSRs these truly could have just been left out…majority of them were from dueling nexus and age of overlord. Funnily enough “Double Dust Tornado Twins” and “Digit Jamming” got a common reprint in the 2023 tins and they also were printed as commons originally. Not doing supers or rares for this 2024 tin has to be one of the worst decisions I’ve ever seen konami make and truly makes me feel like this IS the worst set they’ve put out because it’s just so BLOATED.
"If you like the game, play the game." The products suck! How am I supposed to play? That's why I've actually bought Shadowverse cards and I'm looking into MTG. I'm tired of Konami's nonsense. And I actually have friends that want to olay MTG with me and are pushing me to switch. Yu-Gi-Oh is frankly losing my attention. I haven't bought anything all year
It's not just the products that suck. Yugioh's gameplay for the last 6 years has sucked because it's expensive solitaire and it only keeps getting worse.
I bought some things, but it feels super lazy. I don't really buy in anymore. Except Master Duel for some reason. I feel I get a better experience there
Ooh boy if you don't like YGO you're gonna HATE mtg lmao even more sacky no skill trash gameplay lol try One Piece instead it's actually fun gameplay and doesn't cost your whole paycheck to build 1 deck
I ended up pre-ordering a couple of tins months ago. Ended up with a monkeys paw situation. Managed to pull Diabellstar, but also out of six packs, two of my QC Secret Rares were Red Gadget! Not even Red and another colour... Both Red!
They really should’ve had a promo pack for these tins that contains things like Exodia pieces, Tokens, and other legacy QCR cards and remove them from the main pool of cards.
To me it feels like konami want to ruin the current format of yugioh with slop like this or the prevalent toxic format to get rid from it while they have a chance to replace with Rush Duel one day. Fun fact there was a Farfa video 2 years ago him speaking with the game designer at konami. How konami planned their products a year advance in their current schedule.
No reprint should be the same or higher rarity as the last reprint, it defeats the whole purpose of it. Konami is a garbage greedy company and do not deserve any support whatsoever. Want to support your local game store? Try other hobbies that actually care about the product that they put out.
Every year the yugioh community has crapped on the reprint set about something different. I don’t think we as players will have be satisfied by Konami product. I think we should let that notion go and accept. Complaining does not change anything so why bothering doing it, just don’t purchase the product.
Love this podcast and the whole squad! Yugioh boomer here ! Left the game in 06 before synchros was a thing ! Just came back to yugioh last year and your channel and others have helped me a lot to catch up to speed of the current game state! About to be diamond on master duel with eldlich deck and weather painters deck ! Keep up the great content
My tin foil hat theory is that they wanted to appeal to Eddison players. Eddison has gathered a lot of popularity, and since it plays with old cards they don’t buy the new sets. I think this was a way to have more of the player base but the tins.
Rarity Collection was the final nail in the coffin. It does everything the MegaPacks have been doing, but better, and I see no reason to continue supporting an inferior product. Smaller, focused sets on meta relevant cards, printed in every rarity, which even drives the price of singles down, but buying boxes still feels like you are getting a fun, valuable product to open. Even RC2 was better than the tins. Unless they have another gimmick like the stone tablet, I am done.
Commenting before hearing what the Pod had to say - The tins starting failing to me after they started moving away from the MP19 & MP20 style of printing that was so successful. I think MP19 was the most successful product until RA01. The rarity spread, pull ratios, and quality of the product was amazing. It printed the higher rarity cards in lower accessible rarities. They printed the low rarity cards into luxury rarities that benefitted everyone. I don’t usually buy the tins bc I like buying cards immediately and don’t typically need anything BUT these products are to serve the masses. What’s better for the consumer CAN be better for the business as well.
don't say sorry, konami doesn't apologize when the banlists are based around business, false advertisement (shortprinting), printing the best cards in the highest rarity or the terrible quality of our cards compared to ocg/asia-english we give them our hard-earned money and they spit on us screw that
I went to a gaming convention in Edmonton a couple months ago and the only vendors I saw were like 2 shops with old speed duel product they were trying to move. Pokémon tcg was everywhere and magic was pretty common
So, in terms of the tins, I'm kind of a casual player, so I really like them. I'm sad to hear that there are a bunch of quality issues. Now, as a counter point to the tins' value, I think that even though it is over run by secret rares, you are getting a guarantee of 3 secrets per tin ($22) vs 2 secrets per box ($90 ish). IMO, I just would feel as bad if I spent 22 bucks and pulled 2 bad secrets and a good one vs if I spent 90 bucks and pulled 1 and 1. Just a thought. Another point, I think the 25th anniversary thing is going to be finished in 2026. The reason being that the original anime started in 98 in Japan so the celebration started in 23, and it went worldwide in 01. So, I think it's coordinating with that. But that's just a theory.
Promos! Those 50 or so cards definitely should've been promos, not 50 more excuses to not pull S:P Little Knight! Although 50 cards is a bit much for a Promo pool. Also, LMAO at "Exodia's Left Nut Sack." 😂
I have 3 card shops in my local area, and another few if I am willing to travel for 30 minutes. The 3 that are local are literally on the same street, within a 5 minute walk of each other. None stocked yugioh. No sealed product, they don't even bother with singles. I know there has to be some interest because there a group playing when I went with my nephew at like 4 pm on a thursday.
Here’s my issue with the quarter century rares, they’re just too common now. I think when it first started it felt like they would choose specific chase cards, up to cards like magia to be pricy but desired. I couldn’t believe it when I saw so many QCRs for so cheap now, it feels like a gimmick rather than a celebration of truly iconic or powerful cards. I think if they’d made it more exclusive in their picks and harder to get for some of them, then more people might have been wanting to shell out for the chance to get a rare time limited version of a card
The latest product I bought was a "Illusion of the Dark Magician" Structure Deck and I am over the moon with it. I got an original artwork monster reborn, the japanese version of the Dark Magician Girl in English as well. But I love to get these products, because you know what you get. Problem with a lot of stuff is that you pay for random stuff that you dont need necessarily.
I find my RDA deck to be very resilient to hand traps. of course its possible to draw the only play of normal soul. but it should not happen that much when you have access to bone archfiend, stone sweeper, resonator call, crimson gaia.
I am going to be buying two of the tins specifically because I know my local card shop has talked about how difficult it is to move Yu-Gi-Oh products and I don't want them to get rid of everything. If it wasn't for that, I would just buy all singles off of tcgplayer.
I dont think walmart and target carries yugioh cards like card shops. My walmart barely had a section specifically for the 2024 tins and had 2022 tins on shelf as well as the last 2024 tins. All the older tins marked down $5 to $6. I dont think they are selling what they have much causing them to slash prices to try to get rid of them which is causing them to buy less of future product.
I literally just got back into yugioh a few weeks ago after not opening a pack in almost 18 years, been buying display boxes, got a couple of these tins and I really liked em so I got a case, pulled a blue eyes, a sp little knight, a dark magician girl, couple exodia pieces, relinquished anima, personally I was extremely happy with my purchase 😢 until I seen multiple videos of how much everybody hates these tins lol
My biggest complaint from the tin. Where the hell are the mementos monsters? There was a single mementos card, the field, when the deck is only expensive because of two secret rare cards that have single printing. I was praying this tin would rerelease them so i could afford the deck better. But i guess i just gotta live with a field.
I'm a returning player after 19 years and preparing for the crossover breakers format, many secret and qcrs in the tins with be the copies that i can get may be the only versions i can get. i refuse to pay some third party stupid amount of money for a few singles.
I have a question for the people that think you should always remain focused while dueling and find it incredibly rude when the opponent stops paying attention during your combo. Do you just immediately go to the next game or surrender the match when you open poorly against a deck that has a 30+ step combo to locking you out of the game or can make a board you know you can’t break? Several people I know are fine with the opponent not paying attention as long as they get to do their entire TH-cam combo at least once that day.
I was expecting to get a Supreme King upgrade from AGOV in this mega tin, but they just cut out everything from the archetype except putting Lightvrum and Pendulum Evolution in the set (and as common rarity, as it was in the main collection!). Everything is wrong about rhis mega tin, omg
Feels like this is gacha for LGS more than it is for the players. Players aren't going to buy this and who will open this for singles? Vendors who have to gamble to get singles to sell. And they are the same people who will determine if the game dies if the value proposition isn't worth it. They tried it with the set with Dragon Master Magia and think they can get away with hard to pull ratio. People have to just vote with their wallets and that's not just players but vendors too
1:30:04 what?? no they don't. it's not a ps4 vs ps5 thing, it could be an xbox 1 vs xbox 360 situation. if they made it so every game for switch 2 could run on switch 1, it would be an astounding flop.
I was kinda sad when I pulled the left arm of Exodia, knowing full well that I'll never get the other 4 parts in that format. Well I guess there's always TCG
The thing is, even for edison/G.O.A.T format players, it's not that great of a set. Furthermore I thought reprinting old cards was more of a "speed duel thing". reprints of maxx "c" was way more significant than pretty much any other card in that tin. In G.O.A.T. we only need an affordable reprint of delinquent duo, trap dustshoot and dimension fusion. Even metamorphosis isn't that expensive nowadays (-+20$ for a playset) and I don't see them reprinting banned cards outside of set anniversaries.
I just realized something funny: The Gem Knight cards from POTE were reprinted in both the 2023 and 2024 megatins. Except they forgot about Brilliant Rose this time, apparently.
These tins really aren't for anyone that is current with modern yugioh. Tin foil hat: They are made to convert normies to Yu-Gi-Oh players. Normie buys a tin at Wal Mart because they saw Yugi and Kaiba plus a Blue-Eyes on the side(DMG also). Now, they have a few good cards from random archetypes but didn'tget the bait they wanted. Most norms will eventually hit a wall with the franchise. Some will choose not to waste their money, and others will get hooked. The hooked ones will eventually realize that their card collections aren't worth much because they were only scratching the surface of TCG's. They will either quit buying cards or choose to learn to play in order to justify their collection. That's the true casual base that Konami is catering to.
I recently got back into YGO but only casually, I stick to my 40 card very bad against meta rogue deck because the competitive scene has always been pay to win, instead of a healthy balance of both the game and card distribution; only credit cards win until the following year where it repeats the cycle of banning what is currently meta and releasing more broken cards to replace them. The game has devolved into solitaire because of power creep and spending large sums of money for a mere sliver of a chance to pull anything useable in the game is laughable. Komoney has its nickname for a reason. I love this game and I will always play it, but I refuse to spend money and encourage all of you to do the same until they give the fans what they ask for, especially when it comes to robbing their loyal customers blind for low resources to their game.
Every reason you are saying it the reason my wife and I did not buy a case this year. Last year when we bought our case, we got a few of the cards we were looking for. This year mathematically, the odds are not in a favor to pull stuff we want.
All the commons were already commons, all the ultras were lower rarity cards, all the QCRs are worthless garbage, there are like 7 good prismatic reprints...out of 100. This is genuinely one of the worst products Konami has made, ever.
Honestly thank you guys for reading my question. I know it was a little longer question than most but genuinely hearing both of you're guy's thoughts and advice to a mental point we go through sometimes we all go through but hearing your take on it put new light on it. Hope to try and submit more questions in the future and maybe not too long next time 😅
When I play yugioh, I gotta lock in. I can’t eat or watch other things while playing. When I duel my friend, he likes to play an anime in the background and I tune it out because there are so many things going on in Yugioh that I can’t multitask.
why is hu-li getting upgraded, while mayowashidori remains the same commmon rarity? mayowashidori often HARD carries half the combos in mikanko, why does it get worse treatment than cards like reflection rondo?
The locals close to me still has cases of last years tins plus some from 2022. A Wal-Mart i go to barely sold all their tins from last year because they cut the price to $15. My locals will continue to suffer and lose out on sales because they refuse to cut prices on bad products. Locals are shooting themselves on the foot konami just providing the bullets.
Been binge watching videos from APS. Great content. Thanks fellas. ..this coming from a guy who collected cards as a kid and has never played Yu-gi-oh lol always loved the anime and art work on the cards
I'm not a huge ygo player, but I've been playing warhammer for a while now and it's a similar problem there. I think these companies are just lead by people that don't know the game or care too much about it. All this outlandish nonsense, tins, promo events whatever it is probably comes back to the CEOs and Managers.
People who say this is the worst product should ask stores how they feel about soulburning volcano and duels from the deep lmfao. If those are hard 0s, the tins are like a 5 or 6 imo. They couldve cut stuff and added promos and this would be a banger.
Specs to any piece of technology are important. I disagree with the take that the switch 2 specs dont matter. they 100% do. If they didnt matter, nintendo could sell you 30 year old hardware for $500 and it just "wouldnt matter."
Main cards I’m after is blue eyes , dark magician girl , scape goat, torrential tribute and kuriboh . So I’m kinda happy but I do feel like it’s still a high price for the tin .
Ngl this tin looks like it's for me. I don't care about getting Meta reprints and that I just want Century Rares of old cards and one asked why the forbidden pieces? Again for me. I totally want all pieces in that rarity, I've been an Exodia player forever.
*Happy Thursday! We accidentally forgot to set this video as a premiere! Sorry for everyone who usually tunes in! Won't let it happen next week!* 🙏🏾
Don't be sorry
Stop saying sorry, damn it, guys! Being critical is helping people not waste money on faulty products...
@@Blizz3112 yes, totally agree with you!
they have ptsd from past abuse
Not Faulty.
This *ALL* by KOMONEY’S design.
*It’s a Scam!* Pure & Simple.
Nah, the internet is a non-stop flood of critical takes.
People who acknowledge the downsides of this in their content are rare and valuable. We don't need less of that, we need more.
I wouldn't say the product is faulty. The tin comes with packs as intended, its whats inside the packs that sucks
DONT APOLOGIZE FOR LEGITIMATE ISSUES
Here’s how to fix the tins:
1) Drop the set size to around 200 to 250.
2) Bring back promo packs (alt art raigeki and token for example could go there).
3) go back to 2019 style of tin (drop some secrets to ultra, and bump up some ultras to secrets).
4) Do something like 2 supers, 2 ultras, 2 Secrets, and 1 QCR per pack.
5) Lower the price from $23 to $20 for a tin.
6) Cut out half the commons.
It's infuriating how we can't expect the bare minimum out of Konami of America, they are the biggest tumour of Yu-Gi-Oh as a whole. I no longer care if some employee is nice and wants the best for the game, even if they truly feel that way they clearly don't hold enough weight to change things for the better.
Get out of TCG and embrace master duel or online simulators. TCG is simply not worth it bud.
@@LT_I_AM If only Master Duel made it worth the time to play 🙄
The only way to earn rewards is to either play ranked or play in the events that are just full of an even higher density of control and stun decks. Even Magic Arena lets you play in the unranked queues and earn rewards. It’s a model I wish Master Duel would adopt. All the usual rewards you get from ranked - level up bonuses, post-duel point rewards, challenge progress, etc. - should be able to be earned from any game that isn’t a private duel. The incentive to play ranked should be *bonus* rewards. Rank-up bonuses are nice, but there should also be an end-of-season reward based on where you placed. Finish Bronze II? Here’s 500 gems and a Master Pack. End in Diamond III? 2000 gems, a 5x Master Pack pack, and an SR ticket.
@@LT_I_AM Master Duel is worse cause Maxx C is legal
@@LT_I_AM Already did, a couple years ago in fact. I sometimes think of returning to the TCG, but Konami of America very frequently reminds me why I dropped out.
@@LT_I_AM People still enjoy the social element of going to locals every week to play with their friends. Fan created formats like common charity, various retro formats and perfect circle / deck master etc were all good things to happen but it is a herculean task to get any of these started at your own local with a steady playerbase and none of those formats actually solve the problem we experience right now: that the game IS fun and just costs far too much. Now if someone gets a mass movement behind a proxy allowed advanced format that could be something that neatly solves all the issues.
"Play the game until you need a break, don't play the game until it breaks you."
What a profound statement. Honestly, that resonated with me. I'm going to apply that moving forward.
You guys are great.
A fairly big metal box for THREE booster packs feels gross with how wasteful it is.
I hate the packaging inside the tins WAY more. I don't mind the tins as far as storage goes.
I wish theyd take the approach other card games take and just make the cardboard box, it would save on costs and theyd probably sell more plus theyd be more recycleable
@@adsventuresome7511 they should at least change the dimensions of the tin, as is it doesn't actually fit cards exactly right any way you rotate them, it should be the same dimensions as 1 row in a regular cardboard storage thing (just shorter). and just make the thing out of cardboard no reason for it to be metal and inflate the price unnecessarily.
The tin is right, it fits as a deck and bulkbox 😂
Damn such a L take. In MTG I so wished we got cool tins over rubbish carboard boxes that don't even stay together they pretend it's a storage or deck box when we all know it ain't.
Wait, there's people that dont like you guys ranting about Yugioh? 😂
Hell, I dont even play yugioh and I love their rants :D
Yeah this is why I come here
They hate that Yugioh isn’t prevalent but also hate when people such these gentlemen talk about it
That is oddly strange they can easily just stop watching the content just view an different video they actually like.🤦🏾♂️ I Wouldn't be surprised if they're r@cists or something.
Some people really dont like it when content creators are critical of the things they like cos theyre not looking for critical takes of their favourite games, they just want a circle jerk to tell them theyre making good financial decisions by spending their money on the card game.
If the TCG just treated us like the OCG this game would be in a WAYYY better position. I think 90% of people would be satisfied & youd only see minor complaints (reprints, legacy support etc)
Of course there would be outliers but overall I think TCG players just want the same as OCG & theyd be happy.
It's the best solution to everything imo. I'd buy more packs (rather than 0) if we had the OCG rarity system.
If we got core sets & deckbuilder sets at the same exact rarity distributions as the OCG, and reasonably close to the price of those OCG boxes, instead of giving konami $0 every new release I'd be buying almost every new set.
@@frig7014 facts
I don't. Getting a YCS once a year, would be terrible for the game.
And for the record, we already had that in 2006 circa and the game almost died
Honestly, if this is the product that makes LGSes drop YGO, it’s well deserved, and it shouldn’t be on us to make this game thrive if Konami is releasing bad products. They have to cater to us, we don’t have to cater to them.
@@PyckledNyk THIS. We have to knowingly buy into trash out of pity because of Konami's incompetence? They are in charge of making their products appealing, they are supposed to make us WANT what they sell. This thing of players having to guilt each other into buying garbage is pathetic and needs to stop.
@@Mt.Berry-o7 fr I've seen so many comments from people begrudgingly buying "a couple of tins" to support their LGS because they are unfortunately forced to stock even garbage sets. Buy some sleeves from your LGS instead or something. I know it sucks to potentially have another LGS drop yugioh but until that happens in masse theres no incentive for this stuff to ever change, my LGS doesn't even carry hardly any yugioh product anymore except new structure decks as they come out and 1 single box of new sets but as long as they host locals every weekend thats fine, nobody wants to buy the sealed products anyway.
Structures do still sell though, its a shame the haven't released a new one ALL YEAR despite them always being a hit with the players across the whole spectrum of casual to competitive.
The lack of structure decks is such a crime in my opinion - it's the easiest way to look appealing for casuals while also being cool for those who play the game. The fact one "batch" of MTG decks has more decks than Yu-Gi-Oh releases in an year is absurd. @@frig7014
What's this about LGS forced to buy all the products? Brick & mortar store here.. we aren't forced to buy any product, we just pre order and pay for the ones we research and select
If you keep buying the products regardless then Konami has no incentive to change anything.
Exactly. As long as they’re making money, why change anything?
Stores not making money from products and having it rot on store shelves IS NOT THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE PLAYERS. Its Konami's job to make a product people will buy. Only when stores say we are not stocking your product anymore that they will do something.
It feels cursed to not hear "Welcome back to the pod of greed. Welcome back indeed"
It's fitting that the main topic on Pod of Greed is about Greed 😂
Paul stop saying sorry . All we can do is express our opinions and hopefully Konami hear us. Change that title !!!
Let those tins rot I say, konami needs to learn. If we keep buying whatever they shove down our throats they'll feel motivated to keep this up and become worse with each passing year.
I wanna say, I'm actually getting tired of you guys being so apologetic over criticizing and getting annoyed at the shitty things your favorite game does. Toxic positive ppl will always complain when you criticize anything about their corporate overlords, speak your mind and stop apologizing
Tokens as Secrets, and no promo
Ygo has fallen off..
Can we please get this intro? Y'all did it a while back and I thought that it was the standard opening it was so catchy.
💬“Welcome back to the POD of Greed!”
💬“Indeed”
💬We have an exciting episode……….
Dont think about locals. These are the kind of products that make lgs want to quit yugioh.
There hasn't been a good product for Yugioh for a while. If it's not sustainable for the small stores, then it's totally justified as much as I hate it. I'd rather the stores can stay open than see Konami literally run the LGSes out of business.
That is a bad logic thread, it send konami the message that they can do whatever and you'll still buy, the stores would still se marginal profit o losses so will keep stoking and risking, where is you stop buying, they will just lose enough that they'll stop stoking, at wich point, they no longer are at risk and konami il the sole loser.
LGS here. I can only imagine how rarity collection 2 absolutely bankrupt many LGS on stocking yugioh. That product was such a rug pull by Konami to LGS, steal the profit up front then have it collapse $30 per box under water
This stinks of corporate as always. It's the same thing in video games too, individual developer's might be the most die-hard fan of what they're working on, but when corporate sets out a mandate or sales goals, and enforces those things with layoffs and firings, how can we expect things to improve?
Im just taking the money I was gonna use on tins and buy singles. This is modern yugioh
Smart. Less than half of the secrets and only about 8 QCRs are worth picking up, MAYBE 3 ultras. Everything else in the set is pretty much hot stinking garbage, they should space the reprints out of the secret slots.
@@nharvialaseriously crazy. I see their point about buying one to support my shop which I might. I just dont understand how its a bad business decision to put cards people want in the tin lol
Buying singles is always the correct answer.
Best thing about the tin is the tin itself and usually you can buy it empty for pennies at card shops or online lmao
Also I want to say commons are an AMAZING thing.
Like S:P little knight needed to be a common, thrust needed to be a common.
They need to start putting good cards in affordable rarities so people can play their game.
There will always be people that don't want the commons and are happy to pay 70 dollars for a secret or 500 for a QCR even if a common exists.
Yup, or maybe super rares at least... but instead, 97/100 commons in this set were already commons AND filler in their original printings.
I'd say instead of common Rare or Super it's affordable yet more unique to a commons.
Most local stores near me completely stopped carrying YuGiOh... It's pretty sad what is happening to this game
I'm surprised some low rent grift off the success of Pokemon lasted this long. Don't cry because it's over, smile because it's over or whatever the phrase is.
Maybe the secret to winning yugioh was to never play to begin with 😔
Yeah…
Nailed it.
I am submitting my application for resident Joe Blow product buyer 😂
The man the myth the legend himself!!!
They didnt want to drop that ban list untill after these tins sold but players pressured them
I don't see the purpose of buying this product regardless. It's just independently lazy and low effort on their part.
I completely disagree with the argument to remove commons. Previous Tins were opportunities to obtain really cheap cores of rogue decks. Think about Floowandereeze, Libromancers, Suship, Magikey, Beetrooper, that were reprinted in the common/rare slots that made these for-fun decks really easy to build.
We can remove garbage like digit jamming, or couple of aces to slide in core components for decks like Nouvelle, Ninjas, Memento, Ashened, or reprint engines to make them more accessible to players, such as Impcantations / Patchwork / etc. The issue is that Konami didn't put any of the previously expensive cards in the common slot. Imagine if instead of reprinting Li-La Rap, we actually got the Live-Twins that currently cost 2-5 dollars a piece as commons.
Take every rogue deck that has a Versus Theme / Face-off theme and make them the commons. This was the perfect opportunity to place the entire Vanquish Soul Lineup in the common slots (Dueling Mirrors) so that if you bought a case, you'd be pretty much guaranteed at least one playable deck.
Definitely commons have a place in tins, just feel this years tin commons were some of the worst picks possible. All of the archetypal cards present in that slot were already available at super cheap prices from *very recent* reprints, they could have just chosen to pick a few other decks to put into these low rarity slots. Memento got 1 single card in the tin (that was already cheap) when bone party is still a mandatory 3 of in the deck that is almost $30 a pop, for a rogue deck. Drytron just got new support, why not reprint all the old ultras with 1 printing that were still making the deck expensive? Ritual beast just got new support why not put in the missing pieces of the core that weren't in BLTR. Performage Plush fire just came off the banlist with an errata and would have been an amazing inclusion in the common slot. Many many more, I'm sure I could easily come up with 100 necessary commons to put in this slot before ever resorting to recycled pack filler from DUNE.
I like it when y'all are real about your opinions.
It’s why I like Alec, he’s not scared to say it like it is
Starting out by saying I've ordered a case of these tins (And am prepared to regret it) I just feel really sorry for the stores that are going to be stuck with these tins since singles will without a doubt be the way to go since the set is mostly Bulk pack filler and very low chances to get anything you want.
1: You guys said the tins haven't included promos in a while. Last years tin had promos. All the cards on the outside of the tin were included as promos and not included in the actual set. This year the cards on the sides which are all mostly random and disappointing take up actual slots in the set now.
2: The argument that Konami is trying to release new max rarities is redundant when QCRs feel like cheap dime a dozen ripoffs of starlights. I'd still much rather spend the extra on the older high rarity so the card actually looks good.
3: While prismatic is different from a regular secret (and you guys agreed with this) It's completely pointless for a reprint set to release cards in the "same" rarity. And even more so when you realize the chances of pulling them in this new overly packed set are even worse then the original.
4: You guys compare the tins to the 4 pack collection boxes. While they might possibly be a better buy price wise I also do not like those sets either because they are also over priced and there is nothing that guarantee you won't just pull Supers where as the tins do at least guarantee you get certain rarities
5: Just about every opening I've seen on the tins has had clumping issues. Watching someone open one pack and then 3 packs later they open the same exact pack and then repeat a few packs later is absurd. Maybe if those clumped packs were good cards it would be alright but that isn't the case. You're getting repeat packs of garbage.
5: Places are definitely dropping Yu-gi-oh and as someone who enjoys it and wants to continue playing and supporting it, it absolutely sucks. Within the last month I've been to multiple big cons in my area where people were playing card games and tabletop games I was severely sad to see the biggest one of those cons I had gone to it seemed to me as if Yu-Gi-Oh was specifically left out. They had the other major TCGs (Magic, Pokemon, Lorcona, Dragonball, and One Piece) and newer smaller ones and I felt left out as a Yu-gi-oh player which is just awful. (I should mention I say specifically because the billboards and posters around and advertising the con had all the other TCGs on them EXCEPT Yu-gi-oh and I even have a few pictures where it's just Pokemon and magic that I took to show my friends since I went hoping to enjoy Yu-gi-oh but it just wasn't at the con and I apparently brought my deck for nothing.)
6: The just giving up and playing the game is very relatable. Whenever I think about and want the game to do better the worse I feel about the game and want to quit it. But at the same time we want a better game to enjoy. I hope it doesn't come to the point that we might lose the TCG but if that's what has to happen for things to get better so be it.
I didn't intend to make such a long post but the more I watched the more I wanted to express my feelings since I care about this game and day by day I get more disappointed and fear for the games life even more.
Update. Didn't pull an S:P but got two blue eyes and 1 bonfire, and 1 thrust so at least got something on the higher price end. No chaos angel, no diabellstars, no imsety, no wanted, no typhon, no quems.
I remember reading somewhere that konami decided to compose the QCSE card list with iconic cards from the anime. Nothing to do with "when was it reprinted for the last time", it's just pure anime hommage (or nostalgia bait, you decide). That's why the list, from a release and competitive perspective, looks so strange.
Well, reprinting the damn Tri-colour Gadgets in QCR is pretty obvious that’s the case.
For the QCRs, it is for the theme of this tin, being mostly iconic or rarely printed cards that Duelists used in the anime or manga. All the QCRs were played by a duelist in the anime or manga, with a few obscure cards like Ido the Supreme Being was used by Professor Frank against Luna but also this is Ido's second printing after it's original in Raging Battle like 10+ years ago so nice reprint I guess.
But every other card is recognizable from Joey Wheeler with Scapegoat and Giltia Fusion, Torrential Tribute with Mako Tsunami, Toon Kingdom/Anima with Maximillion Pegasus, Seal of Orc being all the filler villains main field spell in original anime Yugioh, Ruby Carbuncle with Jesse Anderson, LADD from Chazz in the manga, all the Zexal cards are played by their respective main heroes and villains along with the Vrains heroes and villain cards, and DMG obviously for Atem.
This is why the QCRs are mainly unusable cards in terms of the meta, but is mainly a collector's or fan of the series to collect rather than to be played for the most part. There is a few good ones like Stardust Accel Synchro Dragon, Cosmic Blazar Dragon, Yubel, and Link Spider. However, most are just to fit the tin theme and not really the selling point for most duelists, but rather collectors or fans of the anime/manga.
This! I'm not gonna say this was the best idea ever for the tins as a product, but the intention was pretty clear to me since the beginning.
There are smart choices (I would say Pankratops, for example, is a better choice than some random useless Gouki/Dinowrestler, as well as some of the old cards that see play in Time Wizard), but some reeeeeally questionable ones, like Link Spider, Seal of Orichalcos, Giantrainer, Parallel eXceed...
And a fun note, I like how the Arc V picks fit well with the tin theme. You have Yuya's cards last tin, and now Yuzu, Ute, Hugo, Joeri and slots for fusion, synchro and xyz dimensions in Chaos Ancient Gear Giant, Tyrant RDA and Galaxy-eyes Cipher Dragon.
The other animes also had that, but some "character" choices were a little weird.
@@isaacpontes Like the card choices for the QCR could have been much worse considering what the theme Konami decided to do for the tin. A lot of people just saw the list for QCR and were disappointed without understanding what the tin was about.
At least Konami went for cards that never got QCR treatment and a few of these cards were rarely reprinted at all.
It wasn't like Konami just chose a bunch of random cards without a reason to do so.
I do like the nostalgia cards, but I definitely agree that promos must return. That would thin the pulling pool by a lot and make these tins way more valuable by having 3 actual pulls instead of bloating them with what should be promo material.
Hey Paul I hope you see this. I don’t always agree with you and Alex’s takes but you’re the first person in the social yugi scene I’ve seen talk about how bad these commons are but I don’t think it’s getting highlighted enough JUST how bad it is. I went thought the trouble of counting every card from the set list that got reprinted as common again from its original printing when they first premiered and I counted 85-86….like the pool of cards for the QCSRs these truly could have just been left out…majority of them were from dueling nexus and age of overlord. Funnily enough “Double Dust Tornado Twins” and “Digit Jamming” got a common reprint in the 2023 tins and they also were printed as commons originally.
Not doing supers or rares for this 2024 tin has to be one of the worst decisions I’ve ever seen konami make and truly makes me feel like this IS the worst set they’ve put out because it’s just so BLOATED.
"If you like the game, play the game."
The products suck! How am I supposed to play?
That's why I've actually bought Shadowverse cards and I'm looking into MTG. I'm tired of Konami's nonsense.
And I actually have friends that want to olay MTG with me and are pushing me to switch. Yu-Gi-Oh is frankly losing my attention. I haven't bought anything all year
It's not just the products that suck. Yugioh's gameplay for the last 6 years has sucked because it's expensive solitaire and it only keeps getting worse.
I bought some things, but it feels super lazy. I don't really buy in anymore. Except Master Duel for some reason. I feel I get a better experience there
Ooh boy if you don't like YGO you're gonna HATE mtg lmao even more sacky no skill trash gameplay lol try One Piece instead it's actually fun gameplay and doesn't cost your whole paycheck to build 1 deck
I ended up pre-ordering a couple of tins months ago. Ended up with a monkeys paw situation. Managed to pull Diabellstar, but also out of six packs, two of my QC Secret Rares were Red Gadget! Not even Red and another colour... Both Red!
They really should’ve had a promo pack for these tins that contains things like Exodia pieces, Tokens, and other legacy QCR cards and remove them from the main pool of cards.
Pressing 1 for the premier even tho it’s the full 2 hour pod 😂 love what you guys do, keep it up!
To me it feels like konami want to ruin the current format of yugioh with slop like this or the prevalent toxic format to get rid from it while they have a chance to replace with Rush Duel one day.
Fun fact there was a Farfa video 2 years ago him speaking with the game designer at konami. How konami planned their products a year advance in their current schedule.
No reprint should be the same or higher rarity as the last reprint, it defeats the whole purpose of it. Konami is a garbage greedy company and do not deserve any support whatsoever.
Want to support your local game store? Try other hobbies that actually care about the product that they put out.
Every year the yugioh community has crapped on the reprint set about something different. I don’t think we as players will have be satisfied by Konami product. I think we should let that notion go and accept. Complaining does not change anything so why bothering doing it, just don’t purchase the product.
Love this podcast and the whole squad! Yugioh boomer here ! Left the game in 06 before synchros was a thing ! Just came back to yugioh last year and your channel and others have helped me a lot to catch up to speed of the current game state! About to be diamond on master duel with eldlich deck and weather painters deck ! Keep up the great content
Komoney adding random reprints in their new tins, is not going to help them sell...it's going to cause the complete opposite.
My tin foil hat theory is that they wanted to appeal to Eddison players.
Eddison has gathered a lot of popularity, and since it plays with old cards they don’t buy the new sets. I think this was a way to have more of the player base but the tins.
People wouldn't be going to that trash format if komoney would actually make real decks more available.
@@TheGreatPewpyOnelegacy formats are going to be appealing for anyone who played and enjoyed those eras of history.
Rarity Collection was the final nail in the coffin. It does everything the MegaPacks have been doing, but better, and I see no reason to continue supporting an inferior product. Smaller, focused sets on meta relevant cards, printed in every rarity, which even drives the price of singles down, but buying boxes still feels like you are getting a fun, valuable product to open. Even RC2 was better than the tins. Unless they have another gimmick like the stone tablet, I am done.
Commenting before hearing what the Pod had to say -
The tins starting failing to me after they started moving away from the MP19 & MP20 style of printing that was so successful. I think MP19 was the most successful product until RA01. The rarity spread, pull ratios, and quality of the product was amazing. It printed the higher rarity cards in lower accessible rarities. They printed the low rarity cards into luxury rarities that benefitted everyone. I don’t usually buy the tins bc I like buying cards immediately and don’t typically need anything BUT these products are to serve the masses.
What’s better for the consumer CAN be better for the business as well.
don't say sorry, konami doesn't apologize when the banlists are based around business, false advertisement (shortprinting), printing the best cards in the highest rarity or the terrible quality of our cards compared to ocg/asia-english
we give them our hard-earned money and they spit on us
screw that
Im happy for the qcr exodia pieces, but they should be in a different set.
At least put them all in the same one. Why was the head in last year's tin and the other pieces are here?
No more apologies! Enough is enough! Say it with your chest so that the Komoney supporters in the back can hear you too!
You should make a community contest for a Pod of Greed theme!
Not opposed to this!
Twitter: "Elestrals is an industry plant."
Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it does.
I went to a gaming convention in Edmonton a couple months ago and the only vendors I saw were like 2 shops with old speed duel product they were trying to move. Pokémon tcg was everywhere and magic was pretty common
So, in terms of the tins, I'm kind of a casual player, so I really like them. I'm sad to hear that there are a bunch of quality issues. Now, as a counter point to the tins' value, I think that even though it is over run by secret rares, you are getting a guarantee of 3 secrets per tin ($22) vs 2 secrets per box ($90 ish). IMO, I just would feel as bad if I spent 22 bucks and pulled 2 bad secrets and a good one vs if I spent 90 bucks and pulled 1 and 1. Just a thought.
Another point, I think the 25th anniversary thing is going to be finished in 2026. The reason being that the original anime started in 98 in Japan so the celebration started in 23, and it went worldwide in 01. So, I think it's coordinating with that. But that's just a theory.
The amount of yugitubers that haven't just shown whats in it and given some real honest insight is insane. This is why I keep supporting you guys.
Yo thanks for dropping the whole episode nd not premiering it lol. 🙏
Would you generally prefer it this way?
@@apsamplifierI would only because I am not really interested in live chats.
Promos! Those 50 or so cards definitely should've been promos, not 50 more excuses to not pull S:P Little Knight! Although 50 cards is a bit much for a Promo pool.
Also, LMAO at "Exodia's Left Nut Sack." 😂
I have 3 card shops in my local area, and another few if I am willing to travel for 30 minutes. The 3 that are local are literally on the same street, within a 5 minute walk of each other. None stocked yugioh. No sealed product, they don't even bother with singles. I know there has to be some interest because there a group playing when I went with my nephew at like 4 pm on a thursday.
Paul holler at me, i’ll make you a intro jingle. (Free of charge)
Email me at officialteamaps@gmail.com
Here’s my issue with the quarter century rares, they’re just too common now. I think when it first started it felt like they would choose specific chase cards, up to cards like magia to be pricy but desired. I couldn’t believe it when I saw so many QCRs for so cheap now, it feels like a gimmick rather than a celebration of truly iconic or powerful cards. I think if they’d made it more exclusive in their picks and harder to get for some of them, then more people might have been wanting to shell out for the chance to get a rare time limited version of a card
Paul you didn’t say the thing at the beginning of the podcast 😢
The latest product I bought was a "Illusion of the Dark Magician" Structure Deck and I am over the moon with it. I got an original artwork monster reborn, the japanese version of the Dark Magician Girl in English as well. But I love to get these products, because you know what you get. Problem with a lot of stuff is that you pay for random stuff that you dont need necessarily.
I find my RDA deck to be very resilient to hand traps. of course its possible to draw the only play of normal soul. but it should not happen that much when you have access to bone archfiend, stone sweeper, resonator call, crimson gaia.
1:34 as a cyberdark player, you have no clue
I am going to be buying two of the tins specifically because I know my local card shop has talked about how difficult it is to move Yu-Gi-Oh products and I don't want them to get rid of everything. If it wasn't for that, I would just buy all singles off of tcgplayer.
I dont think walmart and target carries yugioh cards like card shops. My walmart barely had a section specifically for the 2024 tins and had 2022 tins on shelf as well as the last 2024 tins. All the older tins marked down $5 to $6. I dont think they are selling what they have much causing them to slash prices to try to get rid of them which is causing them to buy less of future product.
Whenever Paul doesn’t say welcome back indeed it don’t feel right haha. Also pulling a token out a of a mega tin pack is a slap in the face
I literally just got back into yugioh a few weeks ago after not opening a pack in almost 18 years, been buying display boxes, got a couple of these tins and I really liked em so I got a case, pulled a blue eyes, a sp little knight, a dark magician girl, couple exodia pieces, relinquished anima, personally I was extremely happy with my purchase 😢 until I seen multiple videos of how much everybody hates these tins lol
And what sucks is Konami won’t change. As soon as they take a dip in revenue, they’ll cut Yugioh.
A new company should reboot the entire game from the beginning and call it Duel Monsters.
My biggest complaint from the tin. Where the hell are the mementos monsters? There was a single mementos card, the field, when the deck is only expensive because of two secret rare cards that have single printing. I was praying this tin would rerelease them so i could afford the deck better. But i guess i just gotta live with a field.
Paul forgot the indeed 😂
I'm a returning player after 19 years and preparing for the crossover breakers format, many secret and qcrs in the tins with be the copies that i can get may be the only versions i can get. i refuse to pay some third party stupid amount of money for a few singles.
Holy shit this is an early upload!!!!! Massive W!
I have a question for the people that think you should always remain focused while dueling and find it incredibly rude when the opponent stops paying attention during your combo. Do you just immediately go to the next game or surrender the match when you open poorly against a deck that has a 30+ step combo to locking you out of the game or can make a board you know you can’t break? Several people I know are fine with the opponent not paying attention as long as they get to do their entire TH-cam combo at least once that day.
I was expecting to get a Supreme King upgrade from AGOV in this mega tin, but they just cut out everything from the archetype except putting Lightvrum and Pendulum Evolution in the set (and as common rarity, as it was in the main collection!). Everything is wrong about rhis mega tin, omg
Feels like this is gacha for LGS more than it is for the players. Players aren't going to buy this and who will open this for singles? Vendors who have to gamble to get singles to sell. And they are the same people who will determine if the game dies if the value proposition isn't worth it. They tried it with the set with Dragon Master Magia and think they can get away with hard to pull ratio.
People have to just vote with their wallets and that's not just players but vendors too
1:30:04 what?? no they don't. it's not a ps4 vs ps5 thing, it could be an xbox 1 vs xbox 360 situation. if they made it so every game for switch 2 could run on switch 1, it would be an astounding flop.
I was kinda sad when I pulled the left arm of Exodia, knowing full well that I'll never get the other 4 parts in that format. Well I guess there's always TCG
The thing is, even for edison/G.O.A.T format players, it's not that great of a set. Furthermore I thought reprinting old cards was more of a "speed duel thing". reprints of maxx "c" was way more significant than pretty much any other card in that tin. In G.O.A.T. we only need an affordable reprint of delinquent duo, trap dustshoot and dimension fusion. Even metamorphosis isn't that expensive nowadays (-+20$ for a playset) and I don't see them reprinting banned cards outside of set anniversaries.
I just realized something funny: The Gem Knight cards from POTE were reprinted in both the 2023 and 2024 megatins. Except they forgot about Brilliant Rose this time, apparently.
Funny thing is my LCS already lowered the price to 15$ a box. Bought a couple to support and pulled a Thrust!
Alec's snark in this one was comedy gold.
These tins really aren't for anyone that is current with modern yugioh.
Tin foil hat:
They are made to convert normies to Yu-Gi-Oh players. Normie buys a tin at Wal Mart because they saw Yugi and Kaiba plus a Blue-Eyes on the side(DMG also). Now, they have a few good cards from random archetypes but didn'tget the bait they wanted.
Most norms will eventually hit a wall with the franchise. Some will choose not to waste their money, and others will get hooked. The hooked ones will eventually realize that their card collections aren't worth much because they were only scratching the surface of TCG's. They will either quit buying cards or choose to learn to play in order to justify their collection. That's the true casual base that Konami is catering to.
Imagine using the word "normie" unironically lmao that's the most NPC shit you can possibly say
@@TheGreatPewpyOne "NPC" is a much greater sign of internet brainrot. What kind of opinion is this HAHAHAHAHAHA
Setlist is bloated af, half of the cards could've been cut
I recently got back into YGO but only casually, I stick to my 40 card very bad against meta rogue deck because the competitive scene has always been pay to win, instead of a healthy balance of both the game and card distribution; only credit cards win until the following year where it repeats the cycle of banning what is currently meta and releasing more broken cards to replace them. The game has devolved into solitaire because of power creep and spending large sums of money for a mere sliver of a chance to pull anything useable in the game is laughable. Komoney has its nickname for a reason. I love this game and I will always play it, but I refuse to spend money and encourage all of you to do the same until they give the fans what they ask for, especially when it comes to robbing their loyal customers blind for low resources to their game.
Every reason you are saying it the reason my wife and I did not buy a case this year. Last year when we bought our case, we got a few of the cards we were looking for. This year mathematically, the odds are not in a favor to pull stuff we want.
All the commons were already commons, all the ultras were lower rarity cards, all the QCRs are worthless garbage, there are like 7 good prismatic reprints...out of 100. This is genuinely one of the worst products Konami has made, ever.
Honestly thank you guys for reading my question. I know it was a little longer question than most but genuinely hearing both of you're guy's thoughts and advice to a mental point we go through sometimes we all go through but hearing your take on it put new light on it. Hope to try and submit more questions in the future and maybe not too long next time 😅
Yu-gi-oh products in general are abysmal. I've always bought singles. It amazes me how much whales carry the game.
I love YGO Rant more than YGO 😂
When I play yugioh, I gotta lock in. I can’t eat or watch other things while playing. When I duel my friend, he likes to play an anime in the background and I tune it out because there are so many things going on in Yugioh that I can’t multitask.
Skill issue
why is hu-li getting upgraded, while mayowashidori remains the same commmon rarity? mayowashidori often HARD carries half the combos in mikanko, why does it get worse treatment than cards like reflection rondo?
The locals close to me still has cases of last years tins plus some from 2022. A Wal-Mart i go to barely sold all their tins from last year because they cut the price to $15. My locals will continue to suffer and lose out on sales because they refuse to cut prices on bad products. Locals are shooting themselves on the foot konami just providing the bullets.
Your locals is not shooting themselves in the foot. Konami has a knife on their throat if they want to remain a sanctioned locals
Been binge watching videos from APS. Great content. Thanks fellas. ..this coming from a guy who collected cards as a kid and has never played Yu-gi-oh lol always loved the anime and art work on the cards
I'm not a huge ygo player, but I've been playing warhammer for a while now and it's a similar problem there.
I think these companies are just lead by people that don't know the game or care too much about it.
All this outlandish nonsense, tins, promo events whatever it is probably comes back to the CEOs and Managers.
I play Exosisters, Crystal Beasts, and Salads....
Nothing in this tin interests me, at all.... out of 3 decks...
That's sad... 😢
People who say this is the worst product should ask stores how they feel about soulburning volcano and duels from the deep lmfao. If those are hard 0s, the tins are like a 5 or 6 imo. They couldve cut stuff and added promos and this would be a banger.
Specs to any piece of technology are important. I disagree with the take that the switch 2 specs dont matter. they 100% do. If they didnt matter, nintendo could sell you 30 year old hardware for $500 and it just "wouldnt matter."
Main cards I’m after is blue eyes , dark magician girl , scape goat, torrential tribute and kuriboh . So I’m kinda happy but I do feel like it’s still a high price for the tin .
Ngl this tin looks like it's for me. I don't care about getting Meta reprints and that I just want Century Rares of old cards and one asked why the forbidden pieces? Again for me. I totally want all pieces in that rarity, I've been an Exodia player forever.
i got the 25th anniversary dark magician girl in the only tin i bought.