YUGIOH IS DYING. (Again.)

The eternal dual nature of YuGiOh: It's both the greatest cardgame ever by a mile and also just so completely broken that it barely even qualifies as a functioning game.

"Yu Gi Oh is dying" "Thank god" - YGO players

YGO (and every TCG) will die the moment scientist discover that the secret for perpetual energy is cardboard or something.

Just a hunch, but I think the dead zone Yu-Gi-Oh had in the mainstream where a lot of casual fans thought it was discontinued for a period comes from the death of Saturday morning cartoon blocks. Most of us outside of Japan were introduced to Yu-Gi-Oh through Kids WB and the like. Once those blocks died out, there wasn't really a major platform to keep Yu-Gi-Oh in the public eye.

I remember the timeline of Link/MR4 reveal. We initially thought "oh this is a really pathetic and forced attempt to slow the game down, yugioh's dead" then it moved to "wait this just makes the decks that can already swarm the board (good decks) even better and decks that can't (bad decks) worse what the hell" and finally within 30 minutes of Firewall being revealed "oh they just printed dewloren 2, this is fucking stupid yugioh's dead" The Link formats were so miserable people were honestly right.

Babe wake up Yugioh is dying again

Can Pokemon or Magic players confirm if there were periods in those game's histories when they thought their game was dying? Assuming it's not just a Yugioh thing (at least I hope not) and am curious about other card games I don't play.

Honestly, I quit a while ago - proportionately recently considering how long I've been playing, but still, a while. And it's because combos are kind of Yugioh's identity and I'm just tired of sitting through long, complicated combo strings, where everything seems to float into something else, and if you don't draw any interruption, you can just end up sitting there watching your opponent searching and special summoning for around 15 minutes or so to end on a board state that's 110% screwed if you don't have specific outs to them. Most decks just pack so much interruption, playing your own turn when your opponent is already set up feels like a slog, and most of all I'm tired of mandatory staple cards being purposely withheld for way longer than necessary. It's gotten to the point where I just have better things to do than play Master Duel anymore; and that's saying something because cost is barely a factor on Master Duel. I could have the latest and greatest easily, because I'm sitting on a mountain of currency. Or, I could just make a new account for free and get the latest deck of the format with the generous new player offerings. But I don't because the game is starting to feel like a chore, and I'm hopelessly behind on what the latest thing is. It's a game where I'm going to have a ton of homework if I want to go back. And that makes it really discouraging. It's why, if I ever start playing again, it's probably going to be with specific format tournaments like Edison. I think a lot of old players leaving, like me, might be giving the impression that the game is "dying." But I never really believe the game is truly "dying" until the numbers bear that out. Sales, tournament attendance, whatever metrics are far better indicators than doomsayers on Twitter.

I think the real truth is that it's not Yu-Gi-Oh that is dying, it's the players' enjoyment of Yu-Gi-Oh that is being consistently buried. Every time there's a particularly powerful deck that makes playing anything else seem like an auto-loss, it's not fun anymore and enough people agree so the game is dying. Yet, isn't this at least the 10th time in this game's history that playing Yu-Gi-Oh seemed like that? Most of those people are still involved, so they haven't completely reached their limit. Besides, with how Yu-Gi-Oh is these days, even if it were "dead," the GY is effectively a second hand, isn't it?

Been playing since 2001. No other time did i see more players leave this game than the stretch from 2018 to 2021. Two years or misery and dogshit formats leading into a complete shutdown of the game during the pandemic was devastating. The game was in a really bad state and the loss of in-person play just was the nail in the coffin for a lot of folks.

2 times in 1 week? Call us a phoenix at this point, because we just won't die

the introduction of master rule 4 made quite literally my entire friend group, myself included, quit yugioh because it made a lot of our favorite decks unplayable, it wasn't until a History of Yugioh video showed up in my recommended that I would get nostalgic and start looking for a way to play it again (offline isn't really an option for me), fortunately Master Duel would release less than a week later and I'm still hooked even after going through the various stages of yugi boomer grief

Anyone who says that yata lock was the first tier 0, has never played during that era. The yata lock's issue wasnt that it was over powered, it was that it would start legit fights at tournaments because if u surrendered, you surrendered the entire match not just the game. And Konami being Konami. Decided that just banning those cards with the introduction of the first ban list was the better fix than changing the rules of the tournaments. The actual overpowered decks were the one that were running 3 pots, delinquent duos, and magical scientist ftk. The first real tier 0 was teleDaD because there legit were no other decks that had the same power level.

I'm from the future, so excited for when the Skull Servant FTK fails to kill Yugioh in the year 2037.

Astronaut 1: "Yu-Gi-Oh! is dying again?" Astronaut 2 from behind: "Always has been." [Gun Click] I will admit though that March 2012 was definitely the closest I've seen the game to damn near losing it's spot in the big 3. Of the people I played with at that time, only 2 others are still playing.

I think it feels like its dying because at all the big events its just 80% snake-eyes and 20% deck that barely competes against snake-eyes, but like at the local level, people just play whatever - like raidraptor, centurion, dinos, etc. As soon as people are like "I dont care about winning or playing the best deck" its actually pretty nice. Its still annoyingly expensive (even with rarity collection reprints) but i think both the tier 0 format and expensive cardboard are both solvable problems

It says a lot about this game that I have been playing MD pretty regularly since release. Rhongo VFD were legal (the latter was very common), Drytron was playable, Halq was at his prime, Block Dragon was a better Dragon Ruler and was at three, Imperial Order and Vanities Emptiness were legal, the other floodgates were at three, Numeron was very common in the ladder... Then again I have never paid for gems and they will have to ban Maxx "C" before I even consider the possibility.

ever since the beginning of the game the only thing to ever come close to really kill the game for me was links, what do you mean that I'm literally force to include those new cards to play my pet jank deck and I never touch the game until MR5

"How many times do we have to TEACH YOU THIS LESSON OLD MAN?!!!..." Yu-Gi-Oh will NEVER DIE. +_+ Spongegar shaking

Mr. Douglas Zeef has a 6 year old video titled "Top 10 times yugioh died"