Konami Representatives, here is an in depth analysis on what needs to happen for this game to become big in Esports!

[u/Procircuitscrub]

[u/lego_wan_kenobi]

I agree with the box changes. Increasing the cards per pack wouldn't make it as bad to constantly pull nothing but N's and R's of which you already have 50 of to get that 1 UR you're looking for.

Another point you might want to add to PvP is that win-streaks are extremely degrading. It severely crushes any incentive to keep going when I get beaten by random decks or decks who perfect draw to go down to Legend 1 / 2 and win 5 more games in a row to get back to where I was. Bricking is an inevitability in any card based game. Don't make it worse by having a PvP system based on win-streaks.

[u/lego_wan_kenobi → u/[deleted]]

Or have the patience for. I'm not saying it' a bad system it's just a system everyone doesn't want to be a part of. I've been going around in Legends 1-3 because of all the bullshit I have to put up with. Win streaks destroy creativity because once a deck loses once or twice you can't risk another for fear of a rank down so you switch to a meta deck. Ranking down out of Legend to Plat literally means nothing as when trying to reach the top the loss streaks get more strict so you get stuck against a wall of not being able to go down but you can't get higher because of the bullshit.

[u/lego_wan_kenobi → u/[deleted]]

I mean yeah, that and mill or any of the other cancerous decks. The only way to get to KoG is by having good RNG for the 6 game rank up. Most of the people posting recently have said that they fight Legend 1 people a lot in Legend 3 and they tend to use random decks sometimes. I hate that it's RNG based. It takes almost all the skill out of a card game that's supposed to have skill involved.

Like with the WCS itself the final match had a toon player brick insanely hard twice. That has absolutely nothing to do with the skill of a player.

When you beat Kaiba as Yugi in game he says "I lost against you? Heh, I guess luck plays a bigger part in this game than I thought" which couldn't be more true. Why go through the trouble of building a treeborn frog deck which will cost a ton of money when you can plow through people with a completely F2P deck like Red Eyes or Toons?

[u/lego_wan_kenobi → u/[deleted]]

That's exactly the deck I love to run lately. Unfortunately I don't have the exact cards for it but I have fun with what I have. Plus it's unfortunate that most people say that once you reach KoG the game gets a lot more fun as far as PvP goes. But really it's just a time sink at those levels. Cause right now it's only worth it for the youtubers to get there to show off decks because they cant really show off fun decks on the ladder.

[u/BirthBySorrow → u/[deleted]]

I've said this before: the rise of these inconsistent decks is a direct response to RE, its speed and its consistency. Decks such as Naturia, Ice Barrier, Toons, and even Phoenix would simply not be taken seriously irl because of how often they brick. But people feel compelled to keep up with RE because they feel it's too fast.

Insight single handedly created what should be a lone Tier 1 deck if this were irl, while Knight Control would be your common anti-meta. Except the limited access to it has created unnatural parity, as well as the large casual player base being dead set on diversity (I don't hate it, it just creates the Rock-Paper-Scissor meta we have atm if the decks just aren't as good).

The solution is not to hit Insight but to make other decks just as consistent. I had a huge issue with how early decks would brick so often because of the lack of toolbox cards. As such I actually like Insight, very much so. But I think playing favoritism in this setting, where the casual fan outnumbers the competitive, is a terrible idea. No one will give up their need to be diverse so the only other option is to stop forcing these inconsistent OTK decks, as well as decks tailored to stop just one deck that lose to everything else, by giving others the toolboxes they need.

[u/strider_77712 → u/[deleted]]

Hold this upvote brodies