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Yu-Gi-Oh! Organized Play Canceled in North America

Seriously all this argueing about which game is better is getting annoying. Since each side says there is proof but nobody shows any. Yu-gi-oh is not dead. There is finally a good ban list (I would have prefered Judgment at 1 and Charge at 2 to keep the deck balanced and cheaper but oh well). Konomi has already released new packs with CP08 and Crms Chaos comming shortly. Speaking of that the Crms Chaos sneaks were this weekend and from what I heard great events. Konomi will be releasing there OP program in a few weeks. The yu-gi-oh secondary market is holding study even without OP currently.

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GS2 will hit the U.S. in July but over seas in April? Which in turn will hit ebay in Apirl (which yes we can use). Nobody really denies that Gold Sarc. was put at 2 to help sell GS2. While the card is good I don't consider broke since there is a 2 turn delay.
 
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i <3 this new ban list. It forces more control gyzrus rather then just DERPERP BLOWUP.
And you are right Judgement at 2 with charge at 3 still allows the LS to be potentially dominant.

Stop flaming yugioh for YOUR reasons. Seems unethical to all of you saying SotG. I mean really?
 
http://www.gamingreport.com/article.php?sid=26271&mode=thread&order=0
Wizards of the Coast today announced that invitations to the Magic: The Gathering Nationals tournament will be extended to qualified Yu-Gi-Oh! trading card game players in response to the recent announcement that their National Championships are canceled.
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are you serious? in the effort to 'reach out' to UD's ex customers, you're going to alienate your OWN loyal customers who didn't get invites to their nats? ORLY?

'mom
 
i'm talking about the players who MISSED the cut for their nats: how do they feel being on the 'bubble' and missing out and then seeing players from *another game* who may never have played this one getting auto invites?

compare it to OP handing out invites to worlds (since that's our only invite-only tourney) to YGO players. how would you feel as #26 in north america seeing additional seats going to another game's players?

'mom

 
I believe this is called the "empty invite" as I doubt that any of the Yugi-oh players are also Magic players.

You are more likely to have Pokemon/Magic the Gathering players than people who cross between these 2 games.
 
Think about this. For those YGO players to play competitively at MTG Nationals, they will have to buy a lot of MTG product quickly. I feel this was a money-making move.
 
Well back in December of '08 KDE (Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc.) had released this:
http://www.konami.com/card/
Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. to Take Control of the
Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME™
Company Will Support All Aspects of Distribution, Gameplay,
Customer Service and Marketing

El Segundo, CA – (Dec. 11, 2008) – Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. (KDE) today announced that the company is taking over all operational and business aspects of the worldwide phenomenon, Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME™, effective immediately. KDE will take over distribution and customer support for the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME™ from Upper Deck Entertainment, KDE’s former exclusive distributor of the trading card game. The Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME first took the Asian market by storm in 1996 and became a global sensation in 2002 as it reached the shores of North America, quickly followed by Europe and other territories. Today, the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME continues to reach new milestones as the game evolves.

“Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. is very pleased that the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME continues to be the number one TCG in the world. We are fully committed to maintaining a very high level of game support, from sales to organized play, and to providing a seamless transition during this process,” commented Kazumi Kitaue, Chairman and CEO of Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. “We look forward to having distribution of the Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME within our corporate umbrella as it allows us to take advantage of the synergies from our existing gaming platforms to ensure continued great products for the Duelists and for our retail and distribution partners.”

For distributors and retailers wanting to set up accounts with KDE, please contact customer support at 310-220-8630 or [email protected].

About The Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG
The Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME is the #1 trading card game in the world with over 18 billion cards sold. It is a game of strategy, where players create individual decks of cards collected from Structure Decks and Booster Packs. Two players engage in a duel while using cards that represent powerful Monsters, magical Spells and surprising Traps. Duelists with well-constructed decks, dominating monsters, solid strategy and good fortune are the victors in the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG. Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. is the exclusive licensee and rights holder to the Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG in North America and various countries in South and Central America and Europe.

About Konami
Konami is a leading developer, publisher and manufacturer of electronic entertainment properties and traditional trading card games. Konami’s software titles include the popular franchises Metal Gear Solid®, Silent Hill®, Dance Dance Revolution® and Castlevania®, among other top sellers. Konami is also the manufacturer of the wildly popular Yu-Gi-Oh! TRADING CARD GAME, which has sold more than 18 billion cards worldwide. The latest information about Konami can be found on the Web at www.konami.com. Konami Corporation is a publicly traded company based in Tokyo, Japan with subsidiaries Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. in Tokyo, Japan, Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. in the United States and Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH in Frankfurt, Germany. Konami Corporation is traded in the United States on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol KNM. Details of the products published by Konami can be found at www.konami.com.
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So technically Upper Deck at the time of it's announcement did have any control over the game. It had no distribution of the cards nor did it have anything to do with the card game.
 
Lol, #1 my butt. YGO was never #1 I think...

But still, iirc, UDE still had a contract through at least 09 to distribute YGO, so really, Konami is giving them more of a reason for breach of contract or something I think. Like I keep saying, Konami is definitely going about retaking its product badly...

Also, lol @ MTG inviting YGO Nats players. I agree, if I were a MTG, I'd be ticked they're offering YGO players to compete at Nats.
 
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i'm talking about the players who MISSED the cut for their nats: how do they feel being on the 'bubble' and missing out and then seeing players from *another game* who may never have played this one getting auto invites?

compare it to OP handing out invites to worlds (since that's our only invite-only tourney) to YGO players. how would you feel as #26 in north america seeing additional seats going to another game's players?

'mom
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I would be angry, but I don't see as much of a problem between this and the Pokemon example. Magic and Yugioh don't hate each other as much as Pokemon and Yugioh do. :tongue:
 
that is the same thing i've heard.

konami had no choice other than to take their game back, no matter how 'messy' the transition for the players: how could they continue to leave the game in UD's hands after stating in legal documents that UD has been counterfeiting their product and therefore cheating them of revenue?

jmho.
'mom
 
So far alot of yu-gi-oh players are becoming more hopeful of Konomi. The sneak peeks were met with so-so results (reguarding number of locations and availablity) However the set was a huge success, with the raritys not being ridiculous. Konomi also announced CP08 with Super Lumina and Rare Necro Gardna's and common Royal Oppressions which was met with alot of support of players. They also released info on Gold Series 2 including common PWWB and Solmn Judgment. They also released a survey on there sight trying to find out what the yu-gi-oh community is looking for pertaining to Sets, OP, and Rareitys. Hopefully they will release there OP plan soon. Besides not hearing about an OP plan yet they have made alot of smart business moves and mood of players is optimistic.
 
no yugioh player would play in the MTG nationals.
or if they did they would get disqualified/ and or get totally ran over. xD
The two games are so different and the judging style in both game are so different.

There's been many cheating instances in YGO it's sad, I would like to see a YGO player TRY to cheat in MTG XDDD
 
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that is the same thing i've heard.

konami had no choice other than to take their game back, no matter how 'messy' the transition for the players: how could they continue to leave the game in UD's hands after stating in legal documents that UD has been counterfeiting their product and therefore cheating them of revenue?

jmho.
'mom
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And thank God they did.

As soon as Konami took control, we started getting old cards from the OCG that we had never before received. We finally got Multiply, for Leroy Jenkins' sake, a card we should have had a long time ago that makes the otherwise-nearly-useless Kuriboh worth playing again.
 
ArmoredMewtwo said:
And thank God they did.

As soon as Konami took control, we started getting old cards from the OCG that we had never before received. We finally got Multiply, for Leroy Jenkins' sake, a card we should have had a long time ago that makes the otherwise-nearly-useless Kuriboh worth playing again.
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lol, do I detect a WoW player also?
 
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