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I love Alec but sometimes he speaks like an AI generated review or something. He uses a lot of buzzwords that don’t sound natural 😂 I love the pod though. Just funny
I have a question I would love to hear you guys discuss on the podcast because i need some help. I’m opening a trading card and retro video game shop in a small little town in west virginia and i’m trying to figure out how to engage with the people. I ran a yugioh club at the elementary school my mom worked at and I had about 15 kids coming every week so i know there’s interest. I’m thinking about doing a daily after school club as well as tournaments and such but what do you guys think i could do to entice people?
I blame the downfall of " gaming" as a game concept and not a cinematic I.P. on 2 things Andy Serkis and his unmatched mocap acting abilities and Heavenly Sword which set new standard for how your game any game could make you feel like you are in the action right there... Yes a portion of these comments are sarcasm 😄
Gamestop feels like that uncle or cousin who is finding the next thing that will make them rich. Also $40 game for $15??? I remember getting $2 store credit per game!
pretty fun to listen to but i noticed on the last 2 minutes of the video the voice got like desynced from the footage still you guys are doing great with the podcast ^^
Paul always: not to get political but... capitalism is not the way it sucks the life out of everything, anti woke grifters are cringe and also makes a Jordan Peterson impression talking about "cultural marxism" lmao i love him
As someone that is max rarity in Digimon for a few of my decks. I think the main thing is having fun with the deck at locals and the social interactions with it. I started digimon last November and I have had 2 decks that I have been on an adventure with which was D-Brigade and Gracenovamon and those decks have led me to talking to alot of people in the store. I decided to max rarity them because I take pride in using them no matter the circumstances.
as a casual player who mostly plays with his gf, I enjoy that some cards are loosing value. Some are getting cheaper and more accessible(?). My gf and I just want to play the card game we're playing on a budget. Yugioh is a expensive hobby and for us it's just a neat game we like to play sometimes and for this reason we're looking forward to it 😊
It’s a really bittersweet feeling to see so much hate in Rartiy 2 because I run DM and Blue Eyes decks for fun on top of my competitive Branded deck. So the reprints for blue eyes like Bingo and Souls is peak for me. I do need more Drolls, I do need some Twin Twisters, I know most people don’t like the set because of this reason but this set is exactly what I need..sure, maybe some branded cards would be fine but the reprints in the tins already happened. Granguignol would have been a solid reprint but I’m going to buy rarity because my DM and BEYD need those reprints. Alternative and Bingo Machine have been $20 for a minute. I need more copies and I spend too much on my branded decks to fork over the extra money for my secondary decks.
For decks at the moment especially as someone whos getting back into it after ehhh 11 years lol and only playing time wizard stuff, gotta go with the "mutt" approach, would prefer a mix of base to max rarity for decks but thats expensive lol.
Salamangreat SD is releasing tomorrow and will have good reprints, I'm grabbing it for the triple tactics thrust foil. We never had it above Rare here in OCG.
Yeaaahhhh id stay away from the kinda political convos unless your willing to get into it into it ( which could be a good thing or bad thing depending on how people take it lol).
Not through the whole video yet, but I think Gamestop's statements don't really follow only taking graded cards. They're saying people might pick up cards to finish decks, but ask any tcg player, when do you ever buy graded cards to finish a deck? I definitely don't, the premium is way too high. I also don't see how graded cards are good for kids. Again, the market here is just too niche in my opinion. I could be wrong, I've never graded a card for a game I've played, but that system seems disconnected to me. On the point of corporate LGSes though, Japan has a few brands (Hareruya, Dragonstar, Batoloco to name a few) with multiple locations and it seems to work out fine for them, so I could see it happening for gamestop. Most gamestops I've been too aren't big enough for a real playspace though.
Straight up, been out of the game for a while but it seems the biggest issue are those hour long turns, popping of 16+ different card effects, all of which are several paragraphs and very few of which get any interaction from the oponent. Those endless chains are likely the main reason most games can be over in 1-2 turns. I do wonder at this point if the game would benefit from a hard limit on how many cards you can play in a single turn/how many card effects you can activate in a single turn. Say 8. Now you have to strategize around which 8 effects will actually benefit you most, rather than playing half your deck in a single turn and either getting an OTK board state or conceding.
I used half Noble knight, half Infernoble knight with 1 gearfreed and now that it's banned I can't get the deck to work anymore.... So many cards lock you into Noble knights so they're due a new link monster or an erata on Isolde, or they'll vanish into obscurity. It feels like my Britishness is under attack here ¬_¬... thankfully theres an OCG for now.
About the lost arts, from what I've read, since they are given away as a bonus for buying sealed product, they are not technically selling you the card, which is the caveat for having lost art. Konami aren't allowed to sell cards uncensored because the art is not approved for its age rating. I don't know how true that is, but it makes the most sense to me.
I want them to advertise the structure decks with animated shorts of an original character playing the deck, showing off the main strats and a couple of combos leading to win! That along with anime archetypes and decks would be AWESOME! I would love to see sets of 2 decks that you could play off, watching your videos of the structure decks going against each other having legit back and forth was so fun!
I'm waiting for the money to run out, and all these Marvel projects to stop. It's cringey watching a series that ended along time ago, instead of bowing out gracefully, it's instead dragging its corpse around. The Simpson's of comic books needs to go. So tired of super hero movies/shows.
I think with the updated structure decks coming out we have a recipe for success, the right advertising, some animated shorts where the decks are played by a duelist that can show off the strategy and boss monsters, and an actually well written game bible, we could really have strong ways of getting people into the TCG. While it sounds fun for once every few months type events, I do think supporting official GOAT/EDDISON/TIMEWIZARD formats as mainstay staples ,and not just fun once in a while events, will hurt more than help. It relies too much on nostalgia and runs into the same problems that speed duels have, not enough support because it's basically an entirely different card game. Not only that but while more "simple" than todays YGO, the old game's relative skill ceiling is way to low IMO, which could drive away potential players. I don't play speed duels for that reason. I still think there is place for things like that, but I don't think it's the recipe for success in growing the audience. As for casual vs competitive, I could rehash every single argument in this comment section, but it doesn't change the fact that Konami purposefully inflates the prices of cards by abusing the west's lack of anti-gambling laws for video and trading card games, that Konami advertises like crap, and that ultimately from the outside perspective the competitive scene drives away players not because of the game itself, but because the players are seen as gross and rude people who smell (in some cases very true). The amount of damage that one video did of that girl leaving a YCS event because everyone there smelled like BO and didn't shower does a lot of harm to modern YGO. We have to change that perception.
