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And don't worry, plenty of people want some sort of long term Time Magician style format.
You legit need to learn what fiction is before you start lecturing, maybe take your own advice and get a girlfriend?
People experiment regularly, so much so that we have combo guides and deck lists to help people learn within hours of new cards being revealed that continue to be optimized for months or even years afterwards. In fact, this happens so quickly through the hands of so many people that a "standard" version of the deck already gets figured out by the time the cards are printed. The difference is that all of this is public knowledge and shared as a community, rather than only circulating around the playground and gaming magazines. Unless you're familiar enough with what the significance of all those optimizations are, you may not even see any differences, hence why you think it's all the same. If you look up into the night sky, you can't tell the difference between two stars, they're just glowing objects far away that look vaguely similar, you'd need a telescope to tell them apart properly.
The girl part is just weird, you seem to have the internalized assumption that people would only play the deck because they are sexually attracted to the characters on it. So are cyber dragon players also sexually attracted to giant hunks of metal? Are dark magician players lusting after the famed wizard's rod? Or is this just a weird way of self-reporting yourself?
Classic modes are probably the most commonly requested thing, aside from maybe draft formats. Still, there are plenty of ways to play that with people already on unofficial simulators or even in duel rooms in-game. Just requires a little bit of effort to do it yourself. But the vast majority of the time, people complaining about the modern game and asking for a classic one are really complaining about the modern optimizations of a game compared to the playground iteration where nobody knew what they were doing and ended up on equal footing as a result, whereas even in modern versions of the classic game the format will still be optimized from all the people who have already figured it out years ago.
Don't expect this to get read or taken seriously, but if you do, good on you. The frustration of new/returning players feeling alienated from the modern game is not an uncommon one, but it's been discussed to death and back already dozens of times. There really is nothing new to add to the conversation other than explaining why all of this looks the way it does
Game is too solved and min-max'd that everyone plays the same cards. And, I don't have the patience to wait for my turn. I'm now a stun player. The characters and creatures depicted on the cards are real and have feelings, identities and, rights. Playing those cards means you have an emotional attachment/attraction to them. "Old" yugioh was better and if you like the current game. You're the problem. I only play with friends.
In today's gaming scene, there are so many games, both live service and offline that demands your time. There are so many people with responsibilities that don't have the time, money or resources to go through trial and error, especially in a game that's based off an already existing product where people HAVE ALREADY DONE THE EXPERIMENTING. I have played a handful of games where they had foreign counterparts that were ahead of ours in content so it's no one's fault if we knew what to expect and already know how it works and how to optimize it by the time it releases.
Serious question, if you aren't having fun, why bother? This is a video game. This is not a job nor is this a responsibility. Why does everyone else have to change the way they play in order to make YOU happy? What makes your happiness more valid than theirs? There are things you can do to play with people in formats and ways to make yourself happy but relying on a company known for sticking it's head into the sand to do that for you is just asking to be disappointed. Take some initiative to enjoy the game how you want to enjoy it. There are communities and completely free with everything unlocked third party simulators that's trusted and has been left alone by Konami for decades at this point. Don't just settle for the shiny option.
Let people enjoy things. There's nothing explicit (you could make a case of traptrix being in that territory i'll admit but that's kind of the point of the archetype) and Konami has, at least in my fair opinion done a good job matching up art and playstyle to create a story with how a deck plays. What aesthetics you may enjoy and what other aesthetics other people enjoy is on them. If you have a problem with it, these cards already go through customary censorship checks so if they were a problem they would've been dealt with.
You're right but somehow decide to once again be disrespectful for no reason other than to vent your frustration. I am one of the usual people that CONSTANTLY talks about introducing various formats and ways to play the game like the other Online TCGs provide and for this game to not have it is unacceptable. But do not conflate what you find fun and boring to the rest of everybody else. You may not know this but Konami just this year apparently has gotten two world records for it's tournament scene https://www.yugioh-card.com/eu/konami-sets-two-new-guinness-world-records-titles-at-yu-gi-oh-championship-series-japan-tokyo-2024/. If people truly did not enjoy this game, it would've died off like so many other tcgs before it but still remains a high grossing franchise both in general and as a card game specifically, go figure. Normal people spend their time enjoying their hobbies, normal people mind their business and normal people certainly don't go out of their way making everyone else the root of their problems while continuing to engage with something they certainly don't have to do.
Don't just settle for the shiny corpo option when the community at large cares more about what you want then any business. Until then, maybe playing with friends is for the better for you.
Please take your own advice, just because you disagree with the modern game, you do you instead of shaming other people for disagreeing.
While not personally attacked, I do take offense to senseless shaming of individuals who are trying to have harmless fun. You are free to criticize the modern format but don't belittle the players for not playing in a way you want them to play.
Once again, I agree with this sentiment (while 'former glory' is completely subjective but hey whatever floats your boat). This game needs more options besides the events. This whole thread could've just been this instead of all that extra unnecessary fluff to vent your frustration.
I don't find classic YGO that much more fun either. Lots of iconic cards like DM/BE and the Egyptian Gods are even less playable there plus it still ends up looking the same when people gets the same blowout staples and stuff like Sangan/Witch of Black forest. Hell, from what I remember from the boomer event with Horus, there is even the same negate cancer.
What I would want instead would be just a 30 second turns option. Everyone still can play w/e they want (aside of some niche examples) but the gap between decks becomes massively reduced while skill and experience become major factors instead of it just being a deck > hand > coin toss check it is now. The impact of unfair cards gets reduced massively too - even if you resolve your 1 card starter, it won't give you a nearly unbeatable board - and it won't take ages of solitaire either to have a duel.
Do I wish I could win more games more than once in a blue moon? Yes.
Will I play META decks just to win? No. Because playing my favorite cards is what makes the game fun to me.
I do wish this game had alternate modes more often for players like me, but I understand it is how it is.
Insulting the playerbase in any capacity is uncalled for however. At the end of the day, I know we are all here to have fun. We just all have different ways of achieving that fun.
I do hope you have fun with your friends though, OP. I sincerely hope things go better for you.
So Yubel
It's always projection, always. They're incapable of seeing themselves as a problem, it's always other people.
What are you talking about? We get PLENTY of just 'monsters', just because you see an anime girl that's like 1 or 2 out of an archetype or the occasional archetype centered around a or multiple women doesn't mean the game is completely filled with them. Yugioh after a certain point the focus wasn't about random creepy crawly abominations like the first sets were, just look at Toon World, neko gal, gemini elf, the harpie ladies, I could go on. But each archetype tells a story and shows a separate world/universe/reality and how each card interacts with each other in visual storytelling not only from the art but how the deck plays in most cases. Sure, it may not be your cup of tea but not everything is or is going to be. And the sooner you and OP can understand that, I'm sure you guys'll be better off.
Would you rather have set rotation to where the power creep is contained but you have less options in what and how you play the game overall?
This was excellently written, don't worry about that. And it's fine to agree with OP, but when people start acting passive aggressive towards the player base who did nothing to them, they shouldn't be surprised when people start acting passive aggressive back. OP is valid in his current frustrations and want for more classic mode but everything else was just, in their own words, a "rant". Just a means to vent their frustrations and making it our problem instead of making it a review if they didn't want feedback.