METAZOO SHUTS DOWN - DESTROYS ENTIRE MARKET 

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Holy shit LMAO

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🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂

artist ... lol

What a very active imagination

Metazoo loyalists are so cringe too.

they don't know when they got scammed and are in denial.

damn, right again... and someone got pissy at me for calling some of these suddenly popular TCGs whaletraps

Hmmm Was Rudy not shilling Metazoo hard when it dropped though?

@@1gpman yeah, he was. But to be fair to him, he was trying to keep the market stable for everyone's benefit. It's a big smear on his reputation as well. But even he couldn't keep it propped up. Mike really screwed everyone over that cared about this TCG.

Should be #1 comment.

No Argos will keep pumping it.

Stay the course metazoo😅

All cardboard goes to zero eventually.

Kind of. It will be a relic.

He didn't

@@mfdoom1898 exactly!

@@mfdoom1898 Honestly I don't pay enough attention to care, I just check in with some card channels from time to time out of curiosity. But if people have actual evidence that Rudy told people to invest i'd love to see it. I have a feeling it'll be like the last 40 times people have accused Rudy of scamming though; and no evidence exists or will be presented besides "trust me bro".

Please he was the biggest promoter of it period! Metazoo never would have seen a play mat had he not promoted it @@mfdoom1898

Oh 😉. He totally did not...nothing shady here officer.

Rudy shilled it hard. I love Rudy but everyone needs to think for themselves. MZ was never for me but I'm so in on Sorcery, I don't even care if it goes under, I love collecting the set, look of the cards and playing it. Reminds me of the d&d TCG from the 90s, I wanted to like that so much (and still collect cards to this day) but playing it terrible.

@@ShishkebarbarianThat is a good product. Investment worthy? Perhaps. Perhaps not. The actual product is good, though. MetaZoo was ass from the start.

@@JeremyB8419 good... XDDDDDDDDDDDD

Sorcery has legit art and artist big difference@@Shishkebarbarian

That's because they were bad. The only reason anyone convinced themselves otherwise is because they saw dollar signs.

Hey, hey, hey! …. Crayons is expensive

I dunno, ask MTG in recent years

@@parkourguyyy Tbf MTG is definately gonna have a down swing for a couple years sooner than later. Only difference is they have a legacy and can live through horrible decisions

But they were nice to Rudy, no way was it just because he sold and shilled their game. And no way was he duped.

Magic didn't die though, it's Metazoo.

*Time to ask Mike what his favorite flavor of Crayola is*

Anyone with two eyes and a brain knew it would fail eventually, it was just a clone of Early Pokémon TCG art without the video games or actual organic interest to sustain past the pandemic TCG bubble.

It's one of those sad situations where no one believed in him and he proved them right.. even Rudy the only one who believed in him from the start is ashamed of him

LOL

No the guy made his money from all the timmies. All the timmies are still left holding worthless cardboard.

This guy gets it.

It was a physical crypto rug pull

Well said

Sorcery 😅

Yep, I have a hard time seeing how such a limited concept with bad art and no players was anything but a get rich quick scam

This won't be the first or last for him

its not a big L he probably lost 50k-100k in terms of current inventory worth nothing. he said in the video he has 200 boxes left of every release. He was able to run a sale to his patrons and make money on the game, so the real losers are everyone else that bought, collected and were holding it.

Great Post 👍🙌👏

lol what's the point of this post? Rudy is just a guy trying to sell cardboard.

he's playing dumb to avoid all responsibility for his pump and dump.

This is why I'm happy to see it fail. By all accounts everyone in management up to Mike himself was a dick.

You'd think if they wanted to cash grab they would be nice to people they are trying to scam, no?

I'm happy when companies fail because they failed to survive in the free market

@@TheMr02drop No need, you have morons like Rudy and PayMoneyWubby shilling for it and people will buy anyway.

When you say the people working the booth? Do you mean the staff or judges or whatever?

They gonna end up in jail for tax evasion 😂

Probably an Airbnb and a lease 😅

Delusion of grandeur

Thank God. Lame, boring cards for wannabe hype beasts. Rest In Piss

Did you do anything to try to get people to play? Metazoo had a decent (yugioh sized) amount of players when it started here, but their organized play was pretty shitty.

Why not bother to sell your leftover first set stock online? This is sus

​​@@DanielStewart-fc5kiI saw people play at my LGS once (granted I'm only there once a week), and then a few years of everyone talking about how miserable the experience is

@@ShishkebarbarianWho’s to say they didn’t? All OP said was they stocked it and it didn’t sell retail. They never said anything about whether they ultimately kept it or offloaded it

😂😂

I remember seeing what the fuss was about and looking up the cards to find very mediocre art with ugly red borders.

@@manmadeaidsugh!! The red border was always an eye sore! I never cared for this TCG from the get go, never cared when the Kickstarter came out. It always seemed way too niche, designed for children, but then was never marketed to that demographic.

Lol anything but old magic is shit

Thumbs downs do nothing, it's an interesting conceptual world you exist in.

@@GamingBear_Q_E_D You say this, but metazoo is cancelled. Checkmate.

@@TimHaloun it's will be in bankruptcy, my original comment stands :)

*legaly distinct* "peeckachoo" face

Shocked Sparkit Face

I love buying failed tcg for dirt cheap Sealed booster boxes went down to 20 bucks a piece lmao

​@@tg4463can it go to 5 USD shipped?

This is the crazy talk that blows my mind. He covered a product he obviously had a deal with created hype to sell it? No 💩. He wasn’t speaking in a vacuum. If someone is selling you something, you do have the responsibility to be skeptical of the sales pitch. He said numerous times to only buy in if you enjoyed it.

@@chim007azo he also would mock anyone who expressed doubt and criticism about the card game. with the size of rudy’s audience, he can’t just wash his hands clean from accountability when he kept putting videos hyping up the game and teasing people for being skeptical. rudy has influence whether he wants to admit it or not and there’s always gonna be a faction of morons who will listen to anything with a remote possibility of making money. anyone with a functioning frontal lobe could have predicted the downfall of metazoo. the game catered towards sweaty investors from the start. only 60 players showed up to the biggest tournament the game ever held. players were an after thought as evidenced by the lack of info for them. can you tell me a single strategy you could use in a game? most likely not but im sure you could tell me exotic financial data about a 1st edition booster box. in the end metamike burned everyone super hard. rudy absolutely believed in the product and he was the hype machine for it. that’s the only part where rudy takes the L. rudy didnt tank the company, mike zoo and the metatards at the top of the food chain did

@@potatoid-0158 I don’t know what videos you were watching. I saw a salesman selling a product. In the beginning was very upfront about it not being “FaB 2.0” and only something you should get if you’re into it. I don’t think he believed in the product as a long term hold, but I do think he knows it could have been run way better and made the company and himself a lot more money. I’d be kinda pissed too if I put that much effort into a regular revenue stream and someone else f’d it up for me.

Lol, no. This was the scam from day zero. All the signs were there

It had a ton of potential with the theme of the game..Once you get into into IP licensing that's a crazy move. Weiss only does it cuz they're japanese and pull that off. MTG only does it can Hasbro/Wotc has IPs and the giant slush fund to actually license w/o going into debt.

The top players were not the ones driving the business. That was not at all the "tipping point". That was the tipping point for you.

@@CGoody564 stfu LMAO, if a company can't keep their word on anything that's a tipping point. Any business that can't keep their word about bragging their ass off on something they're going to do is an auto red flag of a soon to be exit scam

That would be epic.

I'd kickstart it

Savage. But true.

cheeky bastard

Lmfao best comment award 🥇🤣

Now that I would buy

Would def collect that

with the chase cards: coil foil timmy, numbered misprints, lotery chicken dinners and super limited rare 1 of 1s phone numbers of the 3% beautiful laddies

​@@xlmao send Rudy the elevator pitch PLEASE

Metacoo

Congrats bro, you threw a ball at a bunch of cups and managed to get the right one.

Rather be him than someone who follows Rudy unironically. lol@@blastingoff

​@@blastingoffcute metaphor, but it didn't take an intelligent person to see MetaZoo was a flop early on. I say that to say, even the unintelligent are smarter than MetaZoo fan boys. 😂

​@StoicDivinity such a dumb comment... they would have been fine had the Mike and Andy not fucked everything up with too many collaborations and supply chain issues

I think this is hysterical

I never gave a fig about it but if Rudy owned MetaZoo then I would definitely consider buying into it

Tbh it just felt too much like a pump and dump for most TCG players. Maybe it wasn’t or wasn’t supposed to but too many people trying to push it sounded like that.

Sounds just like Sorcery...

FaB will be first

*Echoing this* Rudy turned his back on his patrons long ago.

He won’t, he’s not the sucker here the viewers are.

What IP?

Never. He only buys and sells when others are disadvantaged. Doing Wall Street proud.

any dummy with a brain; would do what you just said. might be pennies; still gotta cough up like 5 or 10 million LOL. come on bro.

@@ChickenMcThiccken The IP for Metazoo is not worth anywhere close to that it's a game that failed within 4 years during a huge boom period for TCG's. Anyone can make a similar game all you are buying is name which is well known in the TCG world but mostly not in a good way you also have to ask how many buyers are interested now we are going into down market. Maybe a few hundred thousand but unlikely worth it even at that price.

It’s a decent IP and the game is fun to play. There’s already enough product floating around out there, with no new products on the way, I could see tournaments and such still being a thing.

Speaking of Rudy's family name, it's interesting how no one knows it even though he's involved in so many businesses. The guy might as well be a ghost.

The cards reminded me of bootleg pokemon cards that i used to see at the flea market, when I was a kid. Everything about metazoo just looked cheap to me.

They looked like a highschool project

I agree I took one look and was like why are these a thing they look cheap @@Mirthful_Midori

@@Mirthful_Midori…. No one would ever try and bootleg that lol. I’ve been retarded. I’ve been a kid. Those cards were from a retarded kid lol

@@definitelynotnick2454damn wtf high school did you go to lmao

Just for the sake of looking knowledgeable on the subject you should list YGO after Magic and Pokemon, if you list Magic and pokemon sequentially and then some other game before Yugioh you end up looking like you don't know what the big 3 is

He's only disappointed because he thought this scam could have gone on longer and made him substantially more money.

@@scotthelgert6473not necessarily much longer but it was a failure of a way to go out. Sanrio is popular to not be crashed like it was. A premium set like the next one should have been was the perfect last money grab.

dude got on the 420 blaze bus and never got off, sheeeshhh

A weed selling tcg would sell better.

I still want a Rudy card, just to have. Willing to pay $5 but that's all

THIS 100%

He does this all the time...like A DEMON.

you're talking about pieces of paper.

Whaaaaaaaaaat? Who meeeee?! Nahhhhhhh! 😂

Nice that would be good, whens Rudys coming out? And did you ever make a Airsoft Fatty card?

@@ChrisBCards Yep! Airsoft fatty was in our Volume 1 packs and is making another appearance soon in our single-release promo cards.

@@ChrisBCards on the Rudy card, I wanna talk to him first.

yes or you are lying!

This is the best time to post it. Now or never

Post it now

Pepperidge Farm remembers

i NeVeR sAiD tO iNvEsT iN mEtAzOo -Rudy

Well yeah he can't do that every 6 months now.

I doubt it, this was always a scam, management did what they intended

also no actual longstanding appeal. Could've lasted longer sure but still didn't have legs

Cope.

@@StoicDivinity aww poor baby can't handle that different people like different things. It's okay buddy, you'll survive. Me personally, I spent about $50 total, getting 3 booster boxes of metazoo like a year ago. Enjoyed them. Moved on. I have no coping needed.

@@blastingoff "aww poor baby" is you pointing at yourself in the mirror moment imagining you're "owning" someone. 😂 Your OP is wishful thinking, "I still think they could sell the brand to a group" aww you poor thing, hims still wants his cardboard huh? Poor baby 😭😂 that wishful thinking is literally a coping mechanism.

​@@StoicDivinity " "aww poor baby" is you pointing at yourself in the mirror moment imagining you're "owning" someone. " Nice "I know you are, you said you are" tier response bud. "Your OP is wishful thinking, "I still think they could sell the brand to a group" aww you poor thing, hims still wants his cardboard huh? Poor baby " Sick work rewording what I said and trying to pass it off as some witty response. But yes, I totally still want the cardboard that I have already stated I bought once a year ago and never since then. Great logic you've got there.

@@blastingoff keep coping 😂

They never cared about the player bese. That's why people were banned and comments deleted. The collectors/investors couldn't be let hear negative from people who know what they were talking about. This game was never goa last when people are shut down for trying to address problems

Flesh & Blood will be dead inside of 1-2 years, keep touting your "thriving player base" that doesn't exist.

FaB bla bla bla. It will end like Metazoo, the only question is when.

​@virginraydevito they have increased the number of large tournaments by 50%, from 50 to 75. Each tournament prize pool is at least 30k USD. It's larger than MTG pro tournament scene

What was the great concept?

I'll be pretty floored if Yu-Gi-Oh dies

@@ProdigyWrightyeah yugiohs game is too big and Konami only cares about that. It ain’t going anywhere

Magic players try to cope with the fact that Yugioh is in the big 3: impossible edition

@@ExtraVictory No I just forget because I have never played, but I agree it is in the “big 3” .

@@RealTommyWiseau it's not even a subjective thing that can be agreed to or not, Magic, Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh make the most money, have the biggest brands, and the most cultural impact, that's why they are called the big 3, Its not like a bunch of people got together and subjectively agreed that they shared the same opinion, about what is big 3 lol. Its based on measurable characteristics. Not something people can disagree over. In fact, Yu-Gi-Oh is way ahead of Magic in many ways, measurable ways, again lol. For example, Yu-Gi-Oh has released 5 feature films compared to zero for MTG, YGO has 30 years of ongoing television, zero for MTG. Yu-Gi-Oh has sold 100 million copies of its books, MTG isn't even remotely close to that lol. Yu-Gi-Oh has released over 50 major studio video games, plus the major digital clients Duel Links and Master duel, so it would be like, if MTG had 50+ major video games in addition to arena and MTGO lol. That's just scratching the surface, too. MTG does also do certain things Better than YGO, like in terms of the card game alone, MTG makes a bit more money. MTG had a billion dollar year recently, Yu-Gi-Oh Around 800 million. But just keep all that in mind next time, otherwise you will look uninformed when you talk about this stuff lol. Forgetting one of the big 3 doesn't help your case to sound knowledgeable but I understand if you just never grew up with it or played it, since I did grow up with it and am primarily a YGO player that sounds crazy to me but hey lol

I remember. I just can’t stop laughing.

Which I mean, how did we know it was going to fail? I feel like both opinions at the time were equally valid, we just now know who was right.

@@prop1010 Its the cynicism of card games. its far better to air on failure than success because when it fails you can hype the "fuck you I was right" train. If the game succeeded then you can go humbly "huh I guess I was wrong" .

To be fair, every day people say Magic is destined to fail. Internet commenters have predicted 20 of the last 1 CCG failures.

​@grygaming5519 the art sucks. That was your first sign it would fail.

Make 2 accounts and do both.

Maybe some sort of caffeinated lizard could look into it.

Like, THE Aoki? Damn. Really hope he wasn’t involved in this. Could’ve fooled me though, he could be two-faced and no one would know.

The Aoki curse strikes again.

Shock the bloke who steals charity money with another big card collector, were involved in a massive scam 😂

@@Reformed322 Just watch "King Pokemon and Steve Aoki are Committing Charity Fraud & Tax Evasion" by PokemonOverflow

Probably the least of their problems. It was trash from a collectability standpoint too

Akora deserves so much better!

They still make Akora?

@@chim007azoYes! They are currently on their 6th set, just released a new tournament kit, and have holiday promo card drops every few months! I highly recommend it. It’s small for sure, but we are welcoming the Metazoo refugees.

But who will buy your toilet paper.😊

Were these cards printed before or after the Hello Kitty set? Are they the very last MetaZoo cards ever printed?

You sound like a terrible salesman, I hope you don’t still work there so someone who can actually move product can help them stay in business

​@chim007azo I mean there's two lines of logic here. One being that you are being bad for the store's bottom line immediately by trying to get customers to buy anything and everything. Though if you sell them failing card games and continue to do so then you can erode the trust of your customer base. The second line is that you're vaginally letting people know the issues of a product ahead of time. Which might hurt short term sales but gain the trust of your gaming community. I can say I've seen the 1st too often and those stores usually don't last. The 2nd are the stores that I've seen have very strong playerbases

@@ShiningSneasel your job is not to down talk product, it's to sell it. Not recommending something is one thing. Actively trying to not sell something is not your job. If the boss/owner didn't want to sell it they would not sell it or discount it. It's not really your call to make as an employee. You have no idea what people will enjoy or why they are buying it. If someone asks you if it's something good to hold on to or be worth something later, it's fair to be honest. If this was being said "hundreds of times" I doubt people were asking that question that often

@@ShiningSneasel 'you're vaginally letting people know' - what is this youngpeopleism and what does it mean?

I'm surprised it lasted this long.

Yep. I was there.

“Great idea?” What the fuck are you smoking dude lmao

Yep was a good idea​@@dartheria7914

@@dartheria7914 I thought the theming of Cryptids was a great idea.

@@lukedavis3953 "cool art" 3rd grader level art

He can transfer over to 'Deadazoo' jokes maybe.