Are Sponsored Yugioh Boxes Rigged?

[@spicymemes7458]

I would say paid influencers are nothing new, but this is yugioh. You have to actually get paid to qualify.

[@jhonnydiamond]

It's not just paid influencers, It's misleading advertising and it's illegal. In particular if the buyer is a minor

[@DavidCrenshaw-wp2cu]

@jhonnydiamond W pfp

[@ChosenOne-il4bm]

True I use to take six samurai seriously He topped with dm But it was rigged

[@jo-ri-oh8950]

I find it funny how Oil is rarer card than other. Strangely accurate

[@grafzeppelin4069]

I suspect they figured, "Well, it might be good in TCG Snake Eyes, so let's short-print it just in case." They do this very regularly, when it comes to bumping possible-staple cards from Common/Rare/Super to Secret, like Crackdown, Witch's Strike, the Double Book of Moon card, etc.

[@israeldelarosa5461]

@@grafzeppelin4069They did it to that Hat Rabbit Link too. It was supposed to be a common but nope. Upshift to Secret.

[@grafzeppelin4069]

@@israeldelarosa5461 And Animadorned Archosaur.

[@bocodamondo]

@@israeldelarosa5461 disgusting

[@e31174]

That’s blatantly not true and you have the internet to verify that. Rabbit was a Super Rare, and Secret Rare in the OCG, the TCG doesn’t do multi rarity like the OCG does so they picked the higher rarity. This isn’t a new phenomenon it’s been happening just like this for literally a decade and a half.

[@ferelpuma]

Konami: "now that the MonkeyFight TCG study has been released absolving us, time to cook with the content creator boxes"

[@professortrickroom3777]

Even if your study didn't achieve your initial goal, I think it did a great job in exposing the TCG's pull rates to deniers and those not in the know.

[@humanyoutubeuser]

that's how hypotheses in scientific methods work. good video and good evidence

[@theangrycolossal]

From my knowledge of hearing from LGS owners and people with insight into how the manufacturing process of TCGs/CCGs work: Sets are basically printed onto sheets, those sheets are cut into individual cards, and then those are sorted into packs by computerized equipment. If you wanted to send out 'rigged' packs or boxes, you'd basically have to do a production run specifically for those, which would also require investing in making new arrangements of set sheets or new configurations for the sorting equipment. This would cost money and leave obvious signs of tampering during the manufacturing process. In spite of the low trust in Konami right now, it just makes more sense to believe that they're not putting out rigged boxes rather than they're spending all the effort and money to do so and nobody said anything or left physical evidence of doing this

[@RavenCloak13]

TLDR: "Konami is too lazy to make rigged boxes".

[@theangrycolossal]

That's basically it, yeah

[@ShadowFox10587O]

Yeah they're printed on really big sheets sometimes you can actually find the uncut sheets floating around for sale. Apparently tv manufactured do the same thing the glass is made in huge sheets then cut to a bunch of different sizes for different tv sizes. It's probably just cheaper that way

[@polocatfan]

yeah this. this video just reeks of trying to start drama for no reason. fuck that, our community is very drama light for a good reason. fuck this guy for trying to bring drama into it.

[@fkjfkrmrk]

False. The sheets are pre-determined on the computer before being sent to the printers you could just look at the sheets on the computer and see which one has the best pulls then set aside and collect that particular box with that sheet from the printer once printed and boxed.... not to mention you could create a sheet on the computer with insane pulls then make that the last sheet then tell the printer manufacturer to set aside the last box(es) its not that hard. Your entire argument is exaggerating the logistics of how rigged boxes would be done, it's very easy and zero cost (and obvious signs of tampering during the manufacturing process? wtf? lmao)

[@kennydarmawan13]

Tbh, while I'm glad sponsored boxes aren't being rigged (afaik), it's clear that, because of Konami being an awful company, they REALLY need to improve themselves to avoid this kind of stuff. In a way, this rumor was also Konami's fault for being so disrespectful. If they're not, then we could just call nonsense on the rumor starters and call it a day.

[@Mimikium778]

God this channel is so good, I never played yugioh and never really wanted to get into it, I just liked trying to make sense of how this card game that inspired the anime I watched in the early 2000s had changed, and now I reach the depths of hell of false advertising and short prints here and I’m just like “wow, this is a train wreck, but I’m not surprised because everyone knows Konami is awful”

[@remixtheidiot5771]

the anime inspired the card game, not the other way around (nerd emoji here)

[@Ragnarok540]

@@remixtheidiot5771 and the manga inspired the anime, and Kazuki Takahashi was inspired by earlier card games like MTG.

[@bdarecords_]

@@remixtheidiot5771 Isn't that both wrong technically? The og anime did but the classic anime everyone knows was produced to advertise the card game. The only reason that the yugioh anime was produced was to jumpstart the game. While season 1 episode 1 launched, the cards were already being designed.

[@remixtheidiot5771]

@@bdarecords_ it was a typo lol. i meant to write manga, not anime but both are still synonyms to my non weeb brain still.

[@bdarecords_]

@@remixtheidiot5771 Ironic because your channel looks very much "weeb" like.

[@monkfishy6348]

It's commendable that you came to the conclusion you did, despite going into this somewhat looking for, and expecting to find a certain answer. It's all too easy to find evidence that reinforces your own preconcieved notions, and to disregard, miss or weigh less heavily, any evidence that doesn't. Impartality is so important when conducting this kind of study.

[@yu-gi-ohheathen]

1:00 yugioh audience definitely isn't children

[@larv23]

Not without the Anime, but the base that has been built *has* been marketed to kids. It's just now those kids have grown up into the teens and adults that can actually buy product themseleves. Dragon Duels are still a thing for a good reason.

[@siarom-w6u]

@@larv23 Yugioh has never been marketed to kids, that was just part of 4kids and their bad decisions. Yugioh since its creation has been for teenagers and teenagers moving into adulthood

[@flameknightdragon]

@@siarom-w6u yugioh was a jump a kid's manga magazine, and aired in timeslots for children's shows.

[@Some._.Random._.Person]

Solid hypothesis, methodological explanation and results

[@blueshanks209]

As an actual statistician I have to disagree, but this still is an interesting exploratory data analysis. To actually show anything, there needed to be the power of the statistical test. In particular, if the sample is to small, then the statistical test will not be significant despite there being a difference. I might look more in depth into this if I find the time this weekend.

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

@blueshanks209 please do. I was definitely limited by what sample size I could reasonably gather. Thanks for being okay with what I did manage to get here

[@Practicalinvestments]

Yes I was fully expecting influencers to have gotten rigged boxes but Don’t feel bad or like the study was a waste of time, I think just the contrary I think this is great data towards looking at how the pull rates actually work/short printing etc. if anything I would LOVE to see another video with even more data later in the year with more sets and more comprehensive pull rate data.

[@pluecher220]

I waited for this video, thank you for your research.

[@JM-qz4ik]

This was sooooo good. A true technical analysis and showing the evidence. Also, not letting your opinion cloud your conclusion. Keep up the amazing job!!!!

[@lorexiii5142]

Honestly we can expect this and more by konami. remember, they're the company that mistreated kojima and erased his name from all the mgs games, and only apologized to him recently.

[@vollied4865]

I watch Rev and i cant think of a video hes sponsored where he hasnt pulled a QCR or SLR or every single money card in some form of a set its basically a meme. Konamis only money makers are Pachinko and Yugioh, all their other avenues are long dead and on life support, and its been awhile since i checked but their stock wasnt doing well either

[@zojirushi1]

Definitely odd how he always pulls the highest rarity cards.

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

​@@zojirushi1his penchant for luck definitely helps in Yu-Gi-Oh from scratch series the true magic is where he gets his supply

[@Koalogy]

He said, as Konami stock rockets past its 52 week high

[@SloopYGO]

2:48 oh, i pulled oil and was so confused why it was worth almost 3 euro at the time i went to sell it insane how they can just get away with marketing cards as 1 rarity when theres 3 different ones

[@synthetichydra]

I love everytime a new monkeyfight video pops up!

[@redoctober67]

Fun fact: main sets DO have short prints by way of them inflating the pool of Ultra Secret from 10/8 to 14/10 without any increase to the number of those given rarities that you receive from what we typically agree to be a standard box. These means they can inflate the pool of cards and reduce the proportion of what you get to ensure the “chase” cards maintain a level of scarcity while also in legal compliance with the directive to not short print. If this WASN’T the case, we would have gone up to 5 or 6 ultra AND 3 or 4 secret per box, not the expected 4 ultra / 2 secret we can reasonably say is the expected ratio across tens of thousands of boxes opened since this change to the number of cards available.

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

you're right lmao, but this more like rarity pool bloating than short print.

[@redoctober67]

@@MonkeyFightTCG While you're not wrong, I prefer to call it what it really is since it's Komoney's blatant move to get around being told they legally cannot short print in core sets. The end result is the same. It also briefs better than saying "Y'all are a bunch of scumbags," which is accurate nonetheless 🤣

[@ye3623]

Wouldn't have been surprised. But at least it's good to know things aren't rigged

[@origin2992]

Good video. We'll get em on the next one

[@ChaosSwissroIl]

Even if the boxes themselves probably aren't rigged, the videos themselves definitely are. The difference in cost to Konami between sending one box and sending an entire case is negligible, but the increase in sales from creators only showing the best box in the case on video is far from negligible.

[@justice8718]

Rigging cards is way harder than you think.

[@ChaosSwissroIl]

@@justice8718 Let's say you flip a coin 100 times. It's pretty easy to show 8 heads out of 10 flips because you can choose the best 10 consecutive flips. The odds are still the same, but the presentation is not.

[@Uguguabbabaa]

Good point; didn't think of that. Even if the individual boxes are largely abysmal dogshit, the highlights from the whole case might look good to soyface at.

[@Armament0fJustice]

Konami of America is terrible. I can't justify spending anything more than internet data interacting with yugioh anymore... at least they're consistent with how bad they are.

[@fentimablader]

you're the hero we need

[@nopenope3678]

I thought this been happen since who ever got the first sponsored boxes

[@PalkiaDialgaGiratina]

Could you comment on the choice for the Chi-Squared Test here?

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

Non-normal data, looked like the best test to apply

[@PescadorGama]

Amazing video. I know I'm not the luckiest person, but I've been buying boxes as much as I could over 4 years. I never get the kind of pulls content creators have. Like not even close. Also there is the factor that every company will use any underhanded method they can unless regulated and sometimes they even bribe that so... yeah, occam razor is against Konami.

[@melvinbrookins6313]

ive seen good boxes and bad boxes from the openings of new sets. dont even see a lot of qcr pulls.

[@Nephalem2002]

Short Printing never ended when they “said it did”, if anything they got worse. How do we know this? Card prices in general have skyrocketed for this game, primarily for newer cards but some reprints typically go up fast over time.

[@RunicSigils]

It was only said to have stopped in main sets. The rest absolutely have them even though they shouldn't because that's blatant false advertising. If they want something to be rarer, it should be a different rarity. You should, statistically, be able to get a playset of every secret rare in a set like Battles of Legend with 2 boxes, but you can't because they have different odds for some. And this even applies to sets that are all Ultra. The only good one of which is MAMA. Still should've been different rarities but at least in this case they made sure there were different slots for what people cared about. One slot was any new card, one slot was any reprint card, and then there were 3 slots for different sets of cards that were related to the new cards. For example, you could pull the Witchcrafter fusion and its fusion card from the new slot, but there was a slot which specifically gave you a card related to them as well, such as Magistus Rilliona and the various other Spellcaster support reprints in the set. All of the latter of which could also appear in the reprint slot as well. And yes, unless otherwise limited ALL packs can have multiple of the same cards as the slots permit so you could actually pull two of the same card from those slots in the same pack since nothing stopped, say, Rilliona from appearing in both the Witchcrafter related reprint slot and the all reprint slot at the same time (and if you've opened enough product you've likely seen double and triple of one common in a single pack from time to time).

[@michaelbevan1081]

For me this is why I have always order singles; I’m slowly selling or donating cards now. Though I really see myself as a casual player? This and playing more master duels - I know different rules, I find myself thinking about clearing out physical cards and having less. Especially with unpredictable price changes and banlists

[@CaptainMarvel4Ever]

Bro you made me think a Farfa vid entered my feed. Not cool bro, even if it was a prank. Now data and statistics? That is cool.

[@myeternalsin]

Talk about the lack of communication that Konami has vs other tag’s I’m genuinely curious how every game handles their lists, products, social media and communication.

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

Mtg give set times for ban lists and writes up full articles explaining bans and why they designed cards like they did. One piece has started to give notices several months before. But they don't actively plan on banning cards. Yugioh is just the worst

[@myeternalsin]

@@MonkeyFightTCG yay lucky us….lol

[@Masterblader158]

There is also beyond the statistical evidence that actually setting up a rigged box has enough specialised work put into it that it would purely cost them money (noticeably in short term enough to make even companies that ignore long term profits, killing the game with bad decisions type stuff, to avoid doing it) to put the work in without any true benefit to Konami or any TCG company compared to purely company based YT ads. And the chance of those pushed up rarity prints going out into general audience, either from the print going on for more than just a box, the employees who are essentially there to be scalpers hearing of it (and using really only one print in a factory is the normal way to avoid that issue alongside trying to keep physical employees at the stages they can't actually see cards) being set up and taking the risk to steal a rent payment worth card or such, would put Konami off it even if it was somehow a good financial decision. The way physical TCGs are set up does make doing that kind of thing not really possible and doing it more than once for content creators would be way too obvious mathematically and get them in legal trouble by how easy it is to notice, unlike say those bad one off ads for a Gacha game where they just use a dev banner and rely on audence only seeing them pull once to hide the real odds. You'd basically need a factory/production line that only produces those lucky boxes to ensure they don't get into the wild but that would still be WAY too noticeable and big legal risk. And then fittingly enough there is also a meta reason they wouldn't do that, why of all people would they give the category of their fanbase that most talks about their issues and asks for us to be treated better better luck? Those creators already have a good chance to go "Oh look I got lucky and pulled the short printed (actually or essentially in bloating a rarity pool) card now I don't need to spend so much to get it" why make it more likely for them to say that while also giving evidence they have the ability to give better quality product? Just better for them to rely on the simple power of clickbait and hype to push the pulls that did better up. Pretty sure even if they gave Farfa a super lucky box of new BA support he'd still call them out since we are such a jaded fanbase its hard to bribe us too.

[@voldosmith]

I’m guessing you aren’t going to get sponsorship from a TCG anymore XD, thanks man, great video

[@necatron73]

Poor old Ruxing buying his own products has still yet to find Magia, Shield and a few other recents

[@blueshanks209]

Overall great analysis and from the data set there seem to be no big difference in the rates at first glance. I think there are channels / sources that report pull rates for larger data sets (150 cases+), which would form a better baseline for the non-sponsored boxes compared to your dataset. Short Notes on the statistics: Problem 1: You can only show correlation and not causation, in this case this would mean that either Konami or the creators are behind potentially different pull rates. Technically you could also aim for a non-superiorty approach, there you would flip the null hypothesis and assume that sponsored boxes are superior and show that they are indeed not superior, this analysis only demonstrates that you did not find evidence, that sponsored boxes are rigged. Problem 2: Your objectives themselves are correlated, chase pulls are obviously more valuable hence if you pull them, the box will have a higher value. Problem 3: For a proper hypothesis and statistical test, the difference needs to be quantified, for example content creators have a 50 % higher chance of pulling chase cards.Then you can validate whether the dataset has enough data points (5 % significance level, 80 % power). Problem 4: The hypothesis should be defined before collecting the dataset, pulling one Dragon Master Magia would be a significant result for the hypothesis that content creators pull more of this specific card as it is highly unlikely to pull this specific QCR in the number of boxes. But this is from after the fact and can be just a coincidence. Problem 5: I do not think that the chi-square test is the suitable test in this, but the part of the video is really short and the correct analysis for the value (anova) is in the title of the slide. The chi-sqare test probably has to few expected frequencies for the pulls with the content creators, as the pulls are rather small and there are only a few boxes. Did you look at the value of the boxes or chance of pulling a chase card? As the value is a proxy of the good chase (see problem 2), I would assume that the chase cards are the preferred option. To suggest something better I would need to look into the rarities, chase cards and what would be expected, define a hypothesis and analysis before testing this on the data (see problem 4). For a small sample size Bayesian statistics might help. But this is only from the top of my head.

[@nico-wj1mh]

this was a great idea

[@RavenCloak13]

No, because I saw multiple of these fuckers pull worse then me pulling one box and complaining they weren't pulling Fiendsmith. Meanwhile I pulled 2 in my first two boxes.

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

then i think you'll like the video lmao

[@thatoneguy9309]

5:23 Goddamn, thats worse payback rates than a slot machine (most slot machines give back about 80-90% iirc)

[@juan.mazzeo]

Great work, thanks!

[@maxs_420_grow]

They have tons of money in the secondary market too. Why do you think grass was moving like crazy before its unban??

[@eggfinallap]

I had kinda assumed influencer packs are rigged for every tcg. It sounds scummy on the surface, but given that it's a randomized product, it would be arguably borderline psychotic of them to let the effectiveness of their product reveals be left completely up to chance.

[@josephbevan1036]

damn i bought 2 terminal revenge and one of them was oil, you're telling me it was the same rarity as something a lot more valuable?

[@josepharmstrong6852]

Great video love me some spreadsheets ❤

[@nzt29]

don’t forget to take into account that some people may only post the videos where they pull super nice cards

[@TheHige42]

It’s funny that 1 thing you do right doesn’t excuse you from the constant bs that is pulled. Thank you kononey

[@the199dirtrider]

I honestly wouldn't put it past konami to actually rig the pull rates but also distribute cards to make it look like variance.

[@sackedygo]

Infernoid harm a what?!

[@iVirtuall]

0:50 really???

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

yep, that's who the anime is targeted towards and that's who product is targeted towards at big retailers like Walmart and Target

[@CRIPPLINGSODIUMADDICT]

Yeah i call cap for the past decade

[@NeostormXLMAX]

@@MonkeyFightTCGis konami scummy enough to sell 1000$ proxies for their anniversay and never reprint staples to plase investors until the prices goes up to thousands? 😂😂😂

[@ChosenOne-il4bm]

@@MonkeyFightTCGI left yugioh years ago because I grew out of the anime Basic themes of friendship Meh But the tcg is a mess

[@dimitardimov9290]

Great video!

[@Danielss250]

This is surprising tbh, but as data analist myself, the numbers don't lie. I still hate konami though.

[@acesw6124]

2:47 I pulled all 3 cards shown in 1-2 boxes

[@jrpgnation6375]

Do you realize the red outline makes the video look like it has been watched before?

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

Lmao

[@Yomi2012]

I swear I gave up On the tcg. I only use ocg cards due to how cheaper they are. I only going one day open up my own venue where I will host tournaments and they will be a cash pool prize and tcg and ocg cards will be allowed. To save our beloved game we have to be rebels and break rules

[@kaijukaiju13]

Have you ever seen a sponsored box without a chase card ?

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

Yes several. It's covered in the video and linked in the data

[@km-nl6pu]

I've thought the thought of juiced boxes was a thing for a while, after seeing the likes of MST/Revz open some boxes.

[@sploshsqwash]

Can you do Box Values for OPTCG and YuGiOh? A comparison video, how much do you get vs how much you pay? Seems like a really good video idea, and you do love stats. Product value

[@Car_D_Board]

Don't give a hoot about Yu-Gi-Oh but as always you make it engaging! Looking forward to the next wano cope video 😂

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

OH BOY, ARE YOU READY FOR WANO MINK TURBO

[@kyokusanagi8208]

Awesome content

[@jeffp1629]

Interesting idea for a video!

[@rangeless]

While I don't agree Konami are sending better boxes to content creators due to the small sample size over a small number of sets, every other piece of info is solid. Still boggles my mind short prints and rarity upgrades are still a thing in TCG.

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

Thanks for liking the info. Just curious what makes you think they're still rigging boxes?

[@zeneck7387]

They're definitly not rigged. However sponsored video definitly are, there's no way a content creator is showing a sponsored box opening where he opens the worst cards of the set.

[@zojirushi1]

How were so many dragon master magias pulled in the sponsored videos then?

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

There was one pulled

[@jhonnydiamond]

Misleading advertising it's illegal, just saying

[@HapsterHap]

While sponsored pullings aren’t rigged, their reactions sure are. Watching Pharaohmone pull the literal worst QCR in the ROTA opening and smile through it was honestly cringe worthy

[@winter2888]

Wait until the Americans find out about oil.

[@Vicmagician]

Love the video

[@damascar3639]

I still think yu gi oh's biggest problem is it's lack of a "higher rarity" version of normal cards to really boost the set value. I've been playing the pokemon tcg for a while now after snake eye format made me quit yugi, and there the vast majority of decks can be bought for relatively cheap as the price cards usually go for 5/10 € each, so at most is 40€ + the rest of common , uncommon and rare cards for 10 € AT MOST, totaling 50 € for a full , meta tier 1 competitive deck sometimes including shipping and everything. And that's because the actually good card for competitive *aren't* the chase cards. Pokemon has wayyy to many full art, gold rare and secret art cards to be completely honest, and having all cards from a set is really difficult unless you pay a lot of money. But that also allow for way cheaper options for actually good cards to be pulled in each pack. There is the fact that they're pokemon, they sell just for the characters vs yu gi oh having almost no name value unless you make new DM/GX and a few 5Ds cards. But still i would love for them to experiment with higher end rarities in boxes in a significant way to see if it changes things or not. There are some stuff rn sure , with the prismatic rares, 25th century rare, and the ultimate/ghost rares for certain products. But this needs to be a way higher operation than that. Turn the current Secret Rare slots in every box a premium rarity slot, make 20 or how many special rarities you want, work some way to create full art cards, and products might sell well without just having to rely on competitive cards selling sets. As with all the competitive players slowly dropping from the game, less and less ppl will care about it and set sales will only go down.

[@1xfgd]

Statistical analysis for yugioh? You sir are awesome!

[@YisusCraist-io5ho]

Yes. Next question.

[@frosticle6409]

I got cards from all three pools in 6 packs lol.

[@haruhisuzumiya6650]

Yep

[@WongRei]

Is that a sh2 song I hear at the beginning of the video?😮

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

Yep, Sh2 and sh4 were used for the background music this video.

[@the5thdoctor]

Are Sponsored Yugioh Boxes Rigged? Konami is the grass green?

[@AmineL-es3dk]

Dont support corpos. Make proxies

[@Last_Resort991]

Don't play this awful game at all. There are manx better TCGs out there.

[@Rayquaza894]

No.

[@gabrielsauceda9109]

Of course they are.

[@hihin7845]

i work at an ots store, we opened 15 cases of BLTR we got 46 yubels and 1 magia and 40 qcrs we had a bad luck with the qcr''s atleast we got magia :p

[@PrototypePlatform]

i see your hard work, i acknowledge your points, views and conclusion. but despite being faced with the hard truth. i disagree out of sheer spite. they're rigged.

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

respectable

[@Tadick994]

Idk man lotta sponsored dudes pulling that magia,like every other lol

[@cantcommute]

nah no way

[@Scifiwriting41]

This would not be classified as fraud or false advertising regardless of the pull ratios because they make no attempt to advertise pull ratios. I’m sure the boxes they send out aren’t the only good boxes out there, so they can simply argue luck factor. In addition, none of the cards pulled in the paid unboxing are unavailable in regular boxes, therefore they’re not fake advertising. False advertising would be if the sponsored boxes had cards in them that aren’t available in regular boxes.

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

I mean, it's a natural violation of the assumed pull rates. even if they don't say it directly due to what's publicly presented about the set you'd have to assume even odds. plus they're advertising them as the same rarity of cards. they say 1 secret rare per pack as if that's the pull rates they're advertising. It's a misrepresentation of what the consumer can expect from a product and therefore is false advertising. Quite a few raffles and mystery box type deals have gotten in legal trouble for such advertisement before

[@Simply_Taido]

@@MonkeyFightTCG "Secret Rare" (and every other rarity) refers to the holographic foil effect that various cards are printed with, not the actual definition of "rarity". That is what Konami advertises when they say that a certain number of cards for a specific set are printed in a specific rarity. They may be printed differently, but at the end of the day, you're getting one of those cards, regardless of the odds. That isn't false advertising.

[@slof69]

yes and poor areas and countries will have lower rates too

[@rokmare]

Packs are still weightable that is something konami still havent fix 😓

[@dnatal09]

Man, how I loved Yu-Gi-Oh since a teenager, but it went going the rogue way and pretty confusing to play with different effects and summons

[@Jimbo139]

Counterpoint: an angel came to me in a dream and told me they were rigged.

[@u.a.perfectace7786]

I still got a gut fiĺling something is off about sponsored pack openings. Not rigged but something below that. Kickbacks or some kind of benefit that none of them are talking about. Worst case being being curated boxes that while having RNG, seems like to have better pulls vs me or you. Love the analysis though. Solid.

[@7itemstone]

YES.

[@peekay120]

Tldr: konami isn't guilty of this, but they are still guilty of every other scummy practice

[@joelbarraclough6689]

So you got nothing against the Yugitubers for this but of how Konami is trying to make the boxes look great for exposure

[@doomerman965]

Can you talk about how poorly designed hand traps are? They are sacky and not fun to play against same with floodgates.

[@Uguguabbabaa]

Like you mentioned, it's such an easy, safe thing for konami to do that directly benefits those sponsered so it really is surprising to see it suggested via evidence this doesn't occur. Makes me wonder how it looks across more sets; I wouldn't be surprised if this was something they bust out on certain occasions as manipulation.

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

I looked at a few more not really covered in the scope of the official video when look at what sets to cover, and it really seems like they don't do it at all. It surprises me too. There's not even a correlation between the size of the content creator and the level of pulls.

[@Uguguabbabaa]

@@MonkeyFightTCG Huh. That is interesting. Well, at least that's one plus in konami's favor. Though I could see some supported tubers being actually pretty annoyed at this, lol, it really has no con for them whatsoever beyond general fan anger at the brand.

[@polocatfan]

claiming yugitubers are rigging their pulls with no evidence is really shitty.

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

yeah, that's why i made the video. to end the rumor one way or the other

[@RunicSigils]

I've never seen anyone claim the people making the videos rigged it, the claim was Konami was sending them stuff they knew was good. Which is normally a completely reasonable claim. Companies do much worse with odds based advertising. Basically every time you've seen someone playing mobiletrash and opening lootbox after lootbox or literally gambling, they've been comped or have had their account odds modified.

[@Sminder01]

SO TRUE

[@kuyagoldlink7563]

I always thought they sent creators better boxes, until I realized konami doesn't care about anyone other than themselves.

[@monmeta89]

Yugioh is garbage lol

[@Sickness4daThickness]

So basically the product is designed so bad that even a slight bump in value while opening makes things seem astonishing

[@MonkeyFightTCG]

yeah, it's not great a time