A Collector's Opinion on Whether Yu-Gi-Oh is Dying

[@Watomarmelon]

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[@austinschwartz5897]

Too many people think collecting = investing. Buy and collect what you enjoy, simple as that. Great video man

[@Kenketsu1]

Im started collecting printed card cause i don't want to lose money and i got aloot of card

[@jm5600]

They habe over 13k cards and they reprinted nearly every of my starlight rares as quarter 👍

[@densai89]

There are so many other cards they could have given the quarter century treatment but Konami decides to waste the slots on reprinting starlights. I dislike how a card came ultra and then reprinted as an ultra. Bump or drop the rarity to make it a little bit more different at least.

[@brianlauria]

maybe because vendors had too much control over the market? Created a bubble basically. High end should reward long term investment...... not just safe quick investments to make hundreds on at a time.

[@Watomarmelon]

Yup -- I tried pointing it out with the Iris Swordsoul example. The card was accessible and no one was asking for a high rarity reprint. It ends up as pack filler for players and discourages collectors/investors while making Konami little to no money. One of many bizarre choices Konami has made.

[@grafzeppelin4069]

Ok, so? If you're a collector, that's irrelevant to you.

[@grafzeppelin4069]

@@densai89 Why are you whining about them reprinting expensive cards?

[@Kenketsu1]

now im collecting my own printed card cause i don't want to lose money

[@_______6398]

Serious collectors primarily collect vintage 1st editions and vintage promos. No serious collector deems any of the modern cards even a consideration for serious collectors

[@connermorgan9223]

That’s sort of the point though, modern yugioh has 0 collectibility as Konami has eroded trust by killing the Starlight and ironically the COLLECTOR rare 😕

[@Kenketsu1]

​@@connermorgan9223we need to do it start collecting own printed card

[@timetravel6913]

As a casual collector vintage promos doesn’t make sense to me since a lot of vintage promos are getting re release as todays promos. Making the market who collect vintage promos even smaller.

[@Yugiohsachse]

I love your opinion. Im a german Yugioh Collector too and I dont like this many reprints. You never know, which card will reprinting next

[@hildumpthecow5319]

Not reprinting - in a game without a rotation? You like MTG Legacy prices? Because that's how you get MTG Legacy prices.

[@Watomarmelon]

Hey, thanks for the support. I don't mind reprints at all, so long as the reprint is in a different rarity (and I do prefer if there is a clear "high rarity" for a card). Players need reprints and it also helps budget collectors to reprint in rarities that are secret or lower.

[@joanglo3394]

the secondary market for card games is silly. All cards should be cheap so everyone can enjoy them.

[@Watomarmelon]

If every card is cheap, then card shops can't make a profit and will stop ordering Yu-Gi-Oh!. If card shops stop holding Yu-Gi-Oh!, then the game will die because players won't have a space to play.

[@joanglo3394]

@@Watomarmelon we dont need card shops to play, people can just meet up at some rented office for a day like they do with smash melee tournaments. would konami officially support those types? Probably not, but who cares, then we could do actual cash prizes or something else better than only game mats and card packs.

[@uthmanibn-jafar1159]

@@joanglo3394 I always shake my head when I hear people say things like this. Yugioh is a business. Konami needs to have cards that are rare/expensive in order to sell a sufficient quantity of sealed product at a price high enough to be profitable. If all the cards were cheap and Konami kept sealed product at the same price, very few people would buy it. In order to get people to buy it, they would need to sell it at a price so low that it wouldn't even be profitable for them. The end result would be the same either way. Yugioh would no longer be profitable for Konami, and the TCG would cease to exist.

[@brianlauria]

Starlights were always over-hyped and people who bought them as an investment were stupid. Collectors rares were also overhyped. Random crappy ones fetching over $50 each. Back in the day, cards would appreciated naturally overtime. Same with OTS ultis.... they used to be like $30-40 but before rarity collection; everyone that would come out would start at $100+ which is just silly. Don't buy things at inflated prices. I am glad investors have been stung because they thought they had super safe investments taking no risk and buying up everything they can find.

[@walkingcorpse1224]

I enjoy blinging out my deck to a certain degree, as the format changes, cards get banned which lowers value, it also stops me from using it until' further notice, but eh once in a while it's okay. I like Starlight rares but ur right, they are wayyyyyyy too over valued, I still think Ultimate Rares are the best rares. Ghost rares are okay, one card that I feel should get a ghost rare is Necroworld Banshee which will never happen. I'm also that guy who waits for his favorite archtype to go down in price before getting it and then when I play it, it sucks ass but I'm fine with that. I pay $100 to play pretty much. And despite the deck being meh it's still good enough to hold it's own and make the game fun. 😂

[@SaintStrength0]

How would you feel about ocg print styles in the tcg?

[@Watomarmelon]

I think an OCG rarity spread in core sets would be fine. I think the OCG practice of reprinting cards in identical rarities (what I am mainly complaining about) is a mistake. I am friends with a native Japanese collector who complains about how the OCG has no collectibility due to reprinting in identical rarities all the time.

[@Lucifer_isthereal_god]

As a casual player/collector I dont think YGO is dieing but I do think the mystique is waning. Edit: Prismatic Ultimates are freaking gorgeous.

[@CasualYugiStuff]

Why will this Channel be terminated by KZbin bro!?😮

[@Watomarmelon]

Long story short, this channel is linked to a channel that was terminated due to copyright violation. The deleted channel was made like a decade ago and I honestly forgot about it until randomly a Pokemon Go channel of mine also linked to the same channel was deleted. KZbin support basically told me that I am effectively banned from making content due to a previous channel termination, so eventually all the channels linked to this account will be terminated. So I made a new channel on a new account.

[@KevinO-h7m]

I love the card man.

[@ElPsyKongroo]

What u do to get taken down

[@shadowmarez7457]

Konami printing everything into oblivion . And you're 100% Starlight and QuarterCentuary are basically the same thing. and people I are getting burned from all the reprints.

[@hildumpthecow5319]

No, Yugioh is NOT dying. The get-rich-quick types; especially Americans, got spoiled by the Pandemic Era gains - and are still getting spoiled by Pokemon (and One Piece) even now. OCG has had Rarity Collection for a very long time, and it was never considered a problem there.

[@lxc1292]

yugioh is dying because people needs to spent a lot of money on building/update decks.

[@Kenketsu1]

we need make comunity that use print card and not buy real card

[@pflaume95]

In my opinion Yugioh is not as interesting as it used to be because everything is shiny, everything is special. It annoys me if everything looks special, even though it isn't. I think it would be better if you had some chase chards in sexy foiling because you would be actually excited to get these. Back in the day secret rares were the shit and now it is just feels like a super rare.

[@Kenketsu1]

I print my own card collection

[@samusbionicle]

Wish every yugioh card was a holographic haha They look so cool as collector rare’s 😂

[@ericlol99]

Thoughts on the new QCR only Dragon Master Maiga ( and being short printed)? Is that the step in the right direction to help out collector?

[@guacamolipepperoni3119]

just a question, is raye and yubel qcr also a short print?

[@SaintStrength0]

​@@guacamolipepperoni3119 They shouldn't be. 😉

[@Be4rstr1ker]

The problem with dragon master magia is that the card is playable. So blue eyes people or other decks that would like to use the card only have the option to pay the huge pricetag, which is dumb

[@Watomarmelon]

My understanding is that it is not short-printed (but is only available in QCR). I'm not a huge fan -- the card is somewhat playable and so it should therefore be accessible to the masses in some lower rarity as well. Printing cards in high rarity doesn't solve the problem; the problem lies with Konami reprinting cards in nearly identical rarities.

[@Pantagana9000]

Don’t jump on the cards you don’t think you will keep,because a real collector could’ve got that card instead !

[@cutefacejay6703]

YGO isn't for the collectors as much as people like to think. If you want to collect something that maintains value and grows over years you'll be better off with Pokemon.

[@rudy5053]

Shut up nerd, you don't decide what's for and what not for collectors.

[@rarebreedcitizen]

@@rudy5053😂chill

[@Watomarmelon]

I’m not an investor- cardboard will not outperform stocks long term IMO and American tax code basically makes investment in cardboard rather than stocks a mistake. Yugioh is absolutely a player’s game, but collectors play an important role in the ecosystem. Konami’s decisions are myopic and will push collectors out from an ecosystem that benefits from their existence.

[@CarbonTaxLOL]

Time wizard 300 dollars boys!!!

[@RayQ101]

@@WatomarmelonYeah but everyone gets over their collection at some point and trying to unload 1000+ Yugioh cards vs Pokemon is a mountain of difference. You’ll probably end up bulk selling the entire collection at 40% value.

[@loadedguitarsz8056]

They shouldn’t reprint any card that’ll give Yugioh life again

[@Pantagana9000]

That’s greedy bro ! Now hand over some QCRs :)