As animanga and light novel enjoyer, I really want Konami to write the lore and card's story consistently, and better than in Solo Mode in Master Duel. As Japanese, they should understand the power of these media to build an emotional relationship between them and their costumer. I think this will give more value too to more modern cards because we usually always "trapped" with nostalgia cards. Because maybe the nostalgia cards are the only cards with good stories behind them. . Personally I'm not really interested to Anime Cards from Yugioh and I'm bored with that "milking". But, lore from the artypes in Yugioh are really interesting to me. When someone love a manga or novel, they usually collect the merchandise too. So I think if they can make a good story, I think some people will interested to collect the cards as merchandise.
To be frank, Yugioh is in desperate need of a revamp on a deep level. Some type of media re-launch (whether it be a new series or alternate arcs with familiar characters), exciting modern sets for collectors and some sort of mass appeal to collectors aside from insane chase and/or copy and pasting old cards/sets (ie alternate artworks of popular monsters) Pokémon has been marketed much better than Yugioh overall.
A reprint of old products like EX Starter Box 1999 or Vol. 1-7 box is something that I am hoping for. TCG konami has a great success with the reprint of 25th aniv. LOB in the west. Idk why Konami Japan can't do something like that.
@@BilingualJP Actually...this can work. I would also add to this the ability for duel winners to possibly get cards of their design added, and going out of their way to get input from players, both old and new. I have some ideas percolating in my head to add useful tech that can be splashed into decks, like good pendulum support and odds and ends for happenstance things I found a want for, and to add some clever counterstrats for some decks I find kinda toxic.
Agree with most of the points you made here. The Kaiba Case and the re-release of the Exodia Pieces in the different sets are the standouts for me. I do appreciate the effort they've put in with all of the store and brand collaborations, but besides that, everything else seems very "lazy" or not that well thought out compared to the things happening on the Pokemon side.
Ich würde sagen, das in der jetzigen Zeit bei Pokemon immer noch das ganze Herzblut von den Anfangszeiten drinnen steckt, wohingegen die Mühe seitens Konami, den Fans schöne Produkte/ Events zu bieten, bei Yugioh immer mehr abgenommen hat, weil es vordergründig ums reine Geld verdienen ging.
Interesting. I think I just got started into the hobby due to recent the Quarter Century Chronicles Unity box. But I feel the same frustration that the really cool cards are really hard to pull (and i didnt want to break the bank for this). But hey at least all the cards are foiled i guess? It wasnt so bad for me as a newcomer but i cant imagine how the older collectors would feel.
It feels like they valued quantity over quality. Also the rereleases of the original sets being with the modern card layout (at least on the english side, no clue what OCG did) really ruined the fun for me. I did buy the boxes but I just have them sealed right now because opening the packs and having the cards look like that doesn't really feel the same. It's cool to have the boxes though, I never got to own a whole box as a kid.
The Kaiba briefcase was the highlight of everything Konami did in so long, I adore it. I have in my bookshelf 1 acrylic display with the 3 blue eyes, and one where I took them out and set them off to grade on day and switched them for the God Cards in 25th century rare. They are like 10 bucks each but maaaaaaaan they look good! Other than that I mainly agree with what you said, OCG did not do much at all for collectors and the DMG being so rare is just too much. Hope we'll get her in a promo in english, I mainly collect pokemon and I don't have much money left for yugioh so I love buying cards for cheap when they look that good and as such I'm having a lot of fun on the TCG side getting a playset of all the promos xP
1.- The WPP pack was indeed very lack luster but nothing to do with the anniversary. DMG feels out of place but technically they celebrate with the exodia piece old style. 2.- QCRs gold lettering is fine. I feel they only had choice between blue and gold (red, yellow, blue pattern). Maybe blue for 30th? 3.- Magicians of bonds and unity is actually very cool BUT only needed 1 color variation. There should have been different cards after that. 4.- OCG prices do seem very high considering the TCG version of magicians of bonds and unity is cheaper in the TCG. 5.- Brand collabs are fine. I don't mind they are not QCRs or anything more 25th ish. 6.- The TCG reprint boxes suck. Should have been a different set number and included QCRs. 7.- Rarity collection is nice. TCG player finally get something. 8.- Briefcase is good but should have been more widely available through TCG stores and not Konami directly like they did in Japan selling through the Satellite shops. 9.- World championship did have a side event but it was also lottery which is the same problem. They should have done local tournaments with the WCS ban list and special prizes. Overall some things I like (QCRs every 3 boxes or so) and some things I dont like (super expensive products like the Kaiba case or the Silver cards). Technically the real celebration product will be the new QUARTER CENTURY DUELIST BOX. I hope they do a good job with it.
the main difference is that Pokemon has the same Pokemon with different card effects every time. Yugioh limited themselves a lot in creating the game by having the same cards have the same effects every time. If they had the ability to just print a Dark Magician Girl with new stats / effects, they would do it for sure and then it would feel more like Pokemon. I can promise you that some Pokemon are getting printed WAY too much and will have a new artwork in every other set which can get extremely boring as well. They maybe shoud've printed DM & DMG on the same card for the "Bonds of Unity" instead of new monsters. I personally don't mind them just changing the background. I feel like having all of them in a binder at the end will look amazing. The TCG Reprint boxes are great but I think they should've 100% added 25th rarity cards into them.
Well, I just open 24 Boxes of this anniversary and dont get BMG. I quite agree with you. I'm a collector and dont play Yugioh card at all. It's fun while opening those box but at the end I feel these card are useless. I dont enjoy modern card.
Make a new show with atem and the old cast with a new villian. Show the people why yugioh was so popular in its earlier years and can market new fan favorite cards from the show. That’s how blue eyes, dark magician, etc got so popular in the first place. Now it’s just new cards with no background, granted some cards get backstory but no anime to showcase real excitement of that monster.
Yugioh for the anime needs to go back to the 1 gen yugi moto post atem, feel like this would definitely get past players hyped about the game again. For the game, i think the tcg and ocg having the same banlist would really go a long way improving alot of decks just with maxx alone The way the ocg handles rarities is dope btw
Bro I need three ground xenos for my dino deck, in Wild Survivors they upgrade the rarity of OCG from super to Ultra and they printed one every 60 boosters. I bought two 24 boosters pack and didn't get a single ground xeno. I hate TCG keeps doing this every time a meta relevant cards comes into the game. And they did the same with the 25th Dark Magician in Battle of Chaos the last year
This anniversary is really dissapointing compared to the 20th and others before that. It all feels...lazy.
As animanga and light novel enjoyer,
I really want Konami to write the lore and card's story consistently, and better than in Solo Mode in Master Duel. As Japanese, they should understand the power of these media to build an emotional relationship between them and their costumer. I think this will give more value too to more modern cards because we usually always "trapped" with nostalgia cards. Because maybe the nostalgia cards are the only cards with good stories behind them.
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Personally I'm not really interested to Anime Cards from Yugioh and I'm bored with that "milking". But, lore from the artypes in Yugioh are really interesting to me. When someone love a manga or novel, they usually collect the merchandise too. So I think if they can make a good story, I think some people will interested to collect the cards as merchandise.
The 25th anniversary Collection set in November with high and low rarity staples is something all Yu-Gi-Oh players are looking forward to.
To be frank, Yugioh is in desperate need of a revamp on a deep level. Some type of media re-launch (whether it be a new series or alternate arcs with familiar characters), exciting modern sets for collectors and some sort of mass appeal to collectors aside from insane chase and/or copy and pasting old cards/sets (ie alternate artworks of popular monsters) Pokémon has been marketed much better than Yugioh overall.
Are you serious rn Pokemon is like 10 times the franchise YGO is lol they literally print money by slapping their name on anything
@@Momosexual by incentivizing demand across many consumer bases aside from just players over the course of many years in ways I noted above.
I feel you... looking to the side and seeing Pokémon doing so well with the 151 set... and Konami doing so little.
A reprint of old products like EX Starter Box 1999 or Vol. 1-7 box is something that I am hoping for. TCG konami has a great success with the reprint of 25th aniv. LOB in the west. Idk why Konami Japan can't do something like that.
They are paranoid of the future. It sucks that they are so.
They should start taking community votes👍
@@BilingualJP Actually...this can work. I would also add to this the ability for duel winners to possibly get cards of their design added, and going out of their way to get input from players, both old and new. I have some ideas percolating in my head to add useful tech that can be splashed into decks, like good pendulum support and odds and ends for happenstance things I found a want for, and to add some clever counterstrats for some decks I find kinda toxic.
Dude this is konami are you really that surprised.
I am :(
Not great new products, new serie or movie, a tin yes beautiful but without any handtrap, good pot and with many meta decks missing ...
Dark magician with boobies, sh... up, and take my money 😂❤
Agree with most of the points you made here. The Kaiba Case and the re-release of the Exodia Pieces in the different sets are the standouts for me. I do appreciate the effort they've put in with all of the store and brand collaborations, but besides that, everything else seems very "lazy" or not that well thought out compared to the things happening on the Pokemon side.
What does ultimate rare relief mean? Were there reprints for old ultimates?
I’ve been looking everywhere, but info on Japanese sets is not widely available.
Relief is the indentation of the ultimate rare
No wonder prices are like $500+
Ich würde sagen, das in der jetzigen Zeit bei Pokemon immer noch das ganze Herzblut von den Anfangszeiten drinnen steckt, wohingegen die Mühe seitens Konami, den Fans schöne Produkte/ Events zu bieten, bei Yugioh immer mehr abgenommen hat, weil es vordergründig ums reine Geld verdienen ging.
Interesting. I think I just got started into the hobby due to recent the Quarter Century Chronicles Unity box. But I feel the same frustration that the really cool cards are really hard to pull (and i didnt want to break the bank for this). But hey at least all the cards are foiled i guess? It wasnt so bad for me as a newcomer but i cant imagine how the older collectors would feel.
It feels like they valued quantity over quality. Also the rereleases of the original sets being with the modern card layout (at least on the english side, no clue what OCG did) really ruined the fun for me. I did buy the boxes but I just have them sealed right now because opening the packs and having the cards look like that doesn't really feel the same. It's cool to have the boxes though, I never got to own a whole box as a kid.
There is no movie also
My bf bought 1 box of World Premiere Pack 2023 in Japan and we open it back at our hotel. He got Quarter Century Dark Magician girl😳
The Kaiba briefcase was the highlight of everything Konami did in so long, I adore it. I have in my bookshelf 1 acrylic display with the 3 blue eyes, and one where I took them out and set them off to grade on day and switched them for the God Cards in 25th century rare. They are like 10 bucks each but maaaaaaaan they look good!
Other than that I mainly agree with what you said, OCG did not do much at all for collectors and the DMG being so rare is just too much. Hope we'll get her in a promo in english, I mainly collect pokemon and I don't have much money left for yugioh so I love buying cards for cheap when they look that good and as such I'm having a lot of fun on the TCG side getting a playset of all the promos xP
I think the pot collection is super cool for the collectors of new and old
1.- The WPP pack was indeed very lack luster but nothing to do with the anniversary. DMG feels out of place but technically they celebrate with the exodia piece old style.
2.- QCRs gold lettering is fine. I feel they only had choice between blue and gold (red, yellow, blue pattern). Maybe blue for 30th?
3.- Magicians of bonds and unity is actually very cool BUT only needed 1 color variation. There should have been different cards after that.
4.- OCG prices do seem very high considering the TCG version of magicians of bonds and unity is cheaper in the TCG.
5.- Brand collabs are fine. I don't mind they are not QCRs or anything more 25th ish.
6.- The TCG reprint boxes suck. Should have been a different set number and included QCRs.
7.- Rarity collection is nice. TCG player finally get something.
8.- Briefcase is good but should have been more widely available through TCG stores and not Konami directly like they did in Japan selling through the Satellite shops.
9.- World championship did have a side event but it was also lottery which is the same problem. They should have done local tournaments with the WCS ban list and special prizes.
Overall some things I like (QCRs every 3 boxes or so) and some things I dont like (super expensive products like the Kaiba case or the Silver cards).
Technically the real celebration product will be the new QUARTER CENTURY DUELIST BOX. I hope they do a good job with it.
I love Yugioh and I play it often but there is no way in he'll I'm gonna spend money in buying card boxes.
the main difference is that Pokemon has the same Pokemon with different card effects every time. Yugioh limited themselves a lot in creating the game by having the same cards have the same effects every time. If they had the ability to just print a Dark Magician Girl with new stats / effects, they would do it for sure and then it would feel more like Pokemon. I can promise you that some Pokemon are getting printed WAY too much and will have a new artwork in every other set which can get extremely boring as well.
They maybe shoud've printed DM & DMG on the same card for the "Bonds of Unity" instead of new monsters. I personally don't mind them just changing the background. I feel like having all of them in a binder at the end will look amazing.
The TCG Reprint boxes are great but I think they should've 100% added 25th rarity cards into them.
Well, I just open 24 Boxes of this anniversary and dont get BMG. I quite agree with you. I'm a collector and dont play Yugioh card at all. It's fun while opening those box but at the end I feel these card are useless. I dont enjoy modern card.
Make a new show with atem and the old cast with a new villian. Show the people why yugioh was so popular in its earlier years and can market new fan favorite cards from the show. That’s how blue eyes, dark magician, etc got so popular in the first place.
Now it’s just new cards with no background, granted some cards get backstory but no anime to showcase real excitement of that monster.
Omg that's the pitch konami needs asap
ill just stick to the old stuff that i know and wait till they do something that wows me
I would say still to early for a judgement.
True, maybe something big is coming. But so far it's a big failure for me.
Yugioh for the anime needs to go back to the 1 gen yugi moto post atem, feel like this would definitely get past players hyped about the game again.
For the game, i think the tcg and ocg having the same banlist would really go a long way improving alot of decks just with maxx alone
The way the ocg handles rarities is dope btw
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I can tell with that starlight DMG of the OCG "Welcome to the TCG"
Bro I need three ground xenos for my dino deck, in Wild Survivors they upgrade the rarity of OCG from super to Ultra and they printed one every 60 boosters. I bought two 24 boosters pack and didn't get a single ground xeno. I hate TCG keeps doing this every time a meta relevant cards comes into the game. And they did the same with the 25th Dark Magician in Battle of Chaos the last year
I think this video is a bit to negative, you could have at least brought up more examples on what they should have done better.
Good video 👍🏻
Ocg has still better sets, cards, rarites and pull rates compared to the tcg
i want a remake of vol 1 to 7 . i dont care about blue eyes and metal raiders. 😔
LOB and MRD were just reprints of those sets anyway
wow and yikes
Erster😂