Is Yu-Gi-Oh Really Dead?! 

Yugioh will die with age, there’s basically 0 new players under 18 currently entering the space. I haven’t seen a child come into my locals in at least 5 years.

Rarity collection 2 , Dragon Master Magia, the infamous "ask your friend," incident, and now a new overpriced must play engine for the fifth time over $300 really shows how much Konami hates us. Especially us old players who use the game as an escape to better times, now a lot of us have bills to pay, mouths to feed, not to mention a game that doesn't even provide proper prizing( doesn't have to be money,but quality prize support you see in Locorna is a prime example.)Either they need to get in touch with their player base or find new management that cares about the player base, rather than scalping us for our nostalgia

Per video reminder that if your card game isn't attracting children, then it's dying. Yugioh is presently crapping itself in the old folks home.

I don’t know if it’s “dying” but it’s definitely on oxygen in the TCG.

TCG refused to give us the tactical try decks even when they know that game is in a rough spot and instead we get the worst products in the history of the game like the 2 player set

Not dead but its 100% the playerbase and the yugitubers keeping this game alive. Konami isnt trying AT ALL. Between the awful packs stores are foced to buy stock of no one wants, the banlist ether not doing enough or giving of touch outdated hits, and of couse the worst prize support of any game ive ever seen. Bruh come on the side events have better prizes theres no incentive to play in real events 😭. Also the power creep since pote has been so huge.

3:46 Funny story because in 2018 Yugioh event attendance was breaking records across the board despite all the FTKs floating around. Might have to do with the only expensive deck during that year was sky striker and anything you decided to rarity bump.

Yugioh is a game where you just have to have the mindset of it is what it is. That's not a good thing, but im willing to put up with it to play the game i love.

Life support. Not dead

It's not fun for a average joe Mostly fun for just ycs/meta players, That's it The 20 summons or more in a turn thing aint attractive to a new player.

For me Yu-Gi-Oh "died" 3 times, first was when links were released, that made most of my close friends stop playing and made it hard to enjoy it in a social way. Second, was when covid happened, there were no more locals, regionals etc, so it made it hard to play competitive ( I did not wish to play remote duels) and lastly, tearlaments format killed it for me, I did not want to be part of Yu-Gi-Oh if It meant dealing with all that nonsense. I have tried out master duel( although dealing with Maxx c has made it tough to enjoy as well) and I do continue to watch yugitubers a lot . Maybe I'll return one day soon.

there's no way pepe was expensive, i played it and i was in school and worked part time at a frozen yogurt shop

no game balance only new cards always meta

Funny, looking back on it now, early links were like the game was trying to follow suit with the manna play style that Pokémon and Magic had. I guess they didn’t like it too much, and/or the player base didn’t either

Also konami getting rid of tickets for nats and ycs will kill the more casual players that go to make money. Konami big L

Yes it's jover time to pack it up boys.

I feel like the tweet about MD is massively underplaying the issues master duel has/had and I don't think any of them have been meaningfully addresses. We had people like Ludwig streaming the game on release and still failed to convert almost anyone to paper play.

Watching cimo history of the ocg idk how yugioh even got to the west let alone survived the early ocg years is beyond awful

They need to add alternate formats or alternate banlists because good lord.

Bruh what if we add a turn counter to the game? Turn 1 u can only activate/set 1 spell trap, activate/summon 1 monster, attack/deal damage 1 time

Meanwhile Topolgic Gumblar Dragon aint ever coming off of the banlist or getting errata'd

Only cash prizes can save Yu-Gi-Oh now (sarcasm)

Sure Inzektor and Wind-Up were new but you coould have prevented a lot of pain if you banned Hunter and Limited Dragonfly (only a rare so Konami aint missing out too hard) going into this format

2018 is the Gasleak year of Yugioh

Modern YGO will never be the same.

The current tcg format is definitely going to die soon if a good banlist doesn't happen

I miss hat format

Edison is peak yugioh tcg format is cooked

And when we finally get cheap reprints ( rarity collection 1) baroone and savage get banned, the player base celebrates it, further discouraging newer people who patiently waited for reprints

It’s tcg that about to be dead not ocg or Md.

It certainly feels dead in my area; the only store locally that sells it has not become an OTS despite trying for years, has had no announcements for their Yugioh free play dates or tournaments in months, hasn't had anyone come in to play for weeks (one time we went in to do so, we were told they were closing the store early because of lack of customers and players coming in), and the last set - Terminal Revenge - they didn't even have in stock after it was released, when we went there, with no real indication that they actually got any in. Even Walmart doesn't have that set in stock, at all, and their Yugioh section is so pitiful, having taken over by Lorcana. Really makes me consider just packing up and selling my decks and cards, and calling it done and dusted.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Bandai/Namco took over the game (wishful thinking I know) if Konami just went out of business /defunct or if the TCG died and the OCG just kept going. For as lifeless as a game Pokémon TCG is, Nintendo of America and Japan puts hella effort into their events and more

Nevers.

At this point, its time for people to make the switch to another game. Might I suggest Elestrals?

The reason superheavy wasn’t okay while snake eyes is, is because it was cheap.

If yugioh dies, one piece will creep into the big 3 of card games where it belongs.

I been playing for 20+ and I'm getting sick of ygo. It's so toxic and many other reasons. 😂

People claiming the game was dying during Windup/Dino/Zektor/ChaosDragon is revisionist history. The game was doing just fine and people were no where NEAR as upset with the format as people try to claim now-a-days.

Paper yugioh is dying, and the TCG community are not making things any better. Duel Links is fine and on the rise and MD is fine and also on the rise. There's a trend of playing digital yugioh now because no one wants to buy the cards, and card shops are not selling yugioh because konami wants to do their nonsense, so no one is happy. Its not the current decks that is killing Yugioh but you have to admit the average player and people outside the community did NOT like Tear or Kash, those decks were the most unyugioh deck from an outsider perspective and even game development perspective. The players and those who pilot the deck saw nothing wrong with what they were doing, but it's because they're already in the scene. There are people that are coming in to play yugioh and that anime announcement did help out, multi media is the way to go like it was before. Make new animes, new games, new manga, they could have an entire yugioh division to make yugioh themed stuff far greater than ever before with 25 years of material from the manga and even the archtypes themselves! That's what people want with yugioh, and that's why its dying because there isn't enough yugioh to enjoy! Yes theres the card game and the games and what not, but is there a Six Samurai video game? A Evil Twin visual novel? A Dark Magician RPG? No, that's what people want. Dawg a Diabellestar game in the same vein as bayonetta would go so hard. People are gonna miss Yugi and they do, but they miss seeing their favorite monsters more. Hell, an anime with the Elemental Heroes set like Justice League Unlimited? That's the key for Yugioh's growth and why people love Yugioh so fondly over other card games.

I LOVED Superheavy Sam. When they hit it. I quit

Game is dying. Sell your cards and play a better ran card game, or quit tcg's altogether and pick up a different hobby. Konami is in full on power creep the game to death mode. Seen it happen too many times in card games. I feel like theyre killing the physical game to focus on master duel.

It's dead in my area and the only people who play it refuse to play it for anything other then money. Casual yugioh is completely dead

If yugioh were dead, top meta cards would be dirt cheap.

Yes. Its dead. Yugioh is walking corpse. Please move on to other children's card games. Thanks! --Konami, Maybe (2024) #notreallybutamilying?

Yu-Gi-Oh is actually popping right now are you kidding me lol