Just Quit

[taznkid]

All these anti-meta rants are really getting to me. If you don't like it: go.

Go play Legacy of the Duelist with your mediocre deck against CPU that only know how to normal summon and set and feel good about yourself.

Why isn't there a "casual" matchmaking? Because do you know what the majority of people will use in those matches? The same thing they are using in Ranked. It will literally make 0 difference.

Thank you for playing Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel. Now get out of here with your complaints, don't come back, and bug Konami to make me a new Tag Force game.

[Aldain]

Nah.

It's fun watching people scream at each other online.

[Voidwarrior]

Elden Salt

[Maya-Neko]

Would be fun to see legacy modes, just to have tons of people being surprised, that there still was a meta back in the "good old days", which also just dominated the game back then.

[Wicked]

People ask for "fun casual modes".

The Xyz event was supposed to be fun, it was super fun in the first 1-2 days. Once they upped the medals, all I see in plat 1 is basically numerons and zodiac zeus passing whenever they go first so you play into their bs.

But sadly, it is meta and the most efficient way to farm the medals. And it won't be any different in any mode konami could ever release.

The Legacy event will likely be a meta ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ as well. Can't wait to see the threads lol.

[Omnipotencia]

you do realise that in duel links evolution the decks are all set so you can build balanced decks that will go back and forth for more than 4 turns and that AI is more than capable of comboing and otk the issue isnt the meta decks the issue is deck strength vs deck strength i have many counters in my deck for the "meta" decks doesnt do much if you dont draw the 4 counters turn 1, draw your counters just to play 1 card cant do anything and loss,

again the cards are balanced for the anime only when they aren't being combined with multiple other negates and the control of the battle is already decided

people want fun not 1 to 4 turn one sided stomps

[Papa Shekels]

Originally posted by AetheriaPrism:

people want fun not 1 to 4 turn one sided stomps

It's only a stomp if one person's deck is significantly worse than the other's. That can very easily be a problem even back in metal raider days

[Roleplayer]

Telling the community players to quit is not the move dude. That's how you kill a game. If there are rants that just want to brutally kill decks, they're the bad ones but there are many that probably just want a healthy meta where its balanced enough and that there is a large variety of decks that are viable. Of course you can't have a game without a meta, but they just want a healthy meta without floodgates.

[Grand Captain Speedy Dash]

They need to keep the player count high enough to keep both the whales and shareholders happy, if the player count drops off then the shareholders will worry that the game will be out quickly and the whales will leave so they will demand Konami to do something to prevent that and keep the money flowing.

[Caveman]

What a toxic post OP

[Papa Shekels]

Originally posted by Shadow:

Telling the community players to quit is not the move dude. That's how you kill a game.

You kill a game even faster by catering to the wrong playerbase though. OP has a point, to an extent. Konami would be throwing money into a sinking ship by trying to please people who are opposed to the core of the game, i.e a competitive modern format card game. People asked for a simplified generational event, we got a simplified generational event, people just griefed it with suicide decks for rewards until konami threw out an emergency band-aid solution for it. More failures like that are yet to come if konami tries catering to the vocal minority

[IonizedAtom]

You're the one complaining. You get out.

[taznkid]

Originally posted by Shadow:

Telling the community players to quit is not the move dude. That's how you kill a game. If there are rants that just want to brutally kill decks, they're the bad ones but there are many that probably just want a healthy meta where its balanced enough and that there is a large variety of decks that are viable. Of course you can't have a game without a meta, but they just want a healthy meta without floodgates.

It's exactly what is needed. If the current state of the game REALLY IS bad, then the best way to show it is to just not play. I'm not joking about it. If enough people do so, then Konami is forced to do something; however, if it is not, then they wont. That simple.

TLDR: Rather than posting all over forums, just show your disapproval with your actions and don't play.

Originally posted by MikeAboose:

You're the one complaining. You get out.

Great reply. I'm just so embarrassed and overcome with shame. Sarcasm, just in case you did not realize. I'm not sure, since you clearly don't have the intelligence to articulate and put up a decent rebuttal.

[Otto]

Originally posted by Papa Shekels:

Originally posted by Shadow:

Telling the community players to quit is not the move dude. That's how you kill a game.

You kill a game even faster by catering to the wrong playerbase though. OP has a point, to an extent. Konami would be throwing money into a sinking ship by trying to please people who are opposed to the core of the game, i.e a competitive modern format card game. People asked for a simplified generational event, we got a simplified generational event, people just griefed it with suicide decks for rewards until konami threw out an emergency band-aid solution for it. More failures like that are yet to come if konami tries catering to the vocal minority

To a certain extent, yes, you need to keep your core player base happy. But there are dangers in blindly following one corner of the game's potential audience, while neglecting any possible complaints from other corners of your playerbase. There's a lot of people that play this game and for a lot of different reasons. There's a balance that needs to be struck to keep the game solvent. I, for one would love to see ranked get better rewards than just packs to keep people playing ladder, then add a quick play queue to just grind packs or warm up before jumping into ladder. Get's those of us asking for unranked to shut up and makes ranked a lucrative space for people who want to move on to it. People will likely still complain, but at that point you're past the bear minimum and can classify it as whining.

As for the Xyz event... if they actually emphasized Xyz summoning (i.e. X medals per Xyz summon in a game) the problems with it as funny as they were might have been avoided. That said, poor execution in one event doesn't strike me as indicative of an unranked queue as a whole.

[TheHelmetHead]

You mentality will kill your game. I had never played the card game and enjoyed the anime. Saw this free to play and thought I would give it a go. The solo content was fun, and I thought I was starting to understand. Then I proceed to multiplayer and get my ♥♥♥♥ kicked in multiple times by sweaty nerds who are "rookies" that have clearly been playing for awhile. A large part of this games community seems to be "get gud," how does one get good? Spend money to get packs and build a meta deck. Then I see posts like this and I ask "why would I want to join a toxic community that is unwelcoming?" and the simple answer is I don't. I am going now, have fun with your game. Make sure to keep gate-keeping and isolating possible new players.

[Bluestar]

Sigh.

I really wish the Yugioh community would grow up and be more open minded. There are absolutely irrational and unreasonable people complaining about the game, but subjective grievances to the current state of the game or some desire for retro formats or casual queues aren't really worth the mudslinging.

Twenty years is a long time for the game to have people hop on and off at different points and experience different states of the game. Not every format was healthy. I'm sure some of you are going to point to the absolute highest competitive levels of 2002-2004 Yugioh with Magical Scientist FTKs and CED-Yatalocks for the umpteenth time, but there could very reasonably be retro formats from different eras or even adjusted banlists to accommodate otherwise unhealthy formats.

There are always metas, tiers, and format villains, but I'm pretty sure a lot of people just want a little more wiggle room for games having longer turn counts, simpler combos, and more potential back-and-fourth. Whether that be for the current format or more realistically another format, I'm sure more people would be satisfied losing just as much in such an environment. (Though, yeah, others will still be upset they aren't winning, too. All types of folks.)

As an aside: Yes, casual formats do work. They are in competing card game digital clients and work fine. People absolutely do bring meta decks to them, but there also is no consequence for insta-scooping and requeueing as opposed to losing rank. More people consider goofing off with jank decks, too. Some clients like MTG Arena even take it a step further by assigning a weight to dominating cards/decks and attempting to match similarly weighted decks to each other.