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YGOmaster's Zone
Hey everyone, I'm
sorry I haven't returned your emails or posted any
articles or Card of the Days lately, I've been kind of
busy with everything. First though, I would like to
congratulate the Create a Card Contest winners and
other contestants. Now, I'm pretty sure almost every
Featured Writer on this site has had a useless rant, so,
before I get too far behind, I decided to start mine. I
may be a bit offensive, so be prepared. This is gonna
be long and hopefully good.
The game is dying.
Now, that line and the article have been written and
said like a gatrillionbillion times (Note:
Gatrillionbillion is an extremely large number and yes,
I may use words that aren't found in the dictionary),
but, I think that you guys need to pay attention to all
of them. Because, frankly, a lot of you are killing the
game, and choosing not to do anything about it. Some of
you may try to help, but I'm pretty sure a lot of you
out there don't. Really, the reason you guys should
listen to rants, is because they are coming from those
people that care and hope to help the future of the
game, why else do you think they write them? Just
because they feel like it? No, although some of them do
write them because they are mad about losing to a deck,
and want you guys to feel their hate. This one will not
be because of me losing. But mostly, believe it or not
there is a ton of thought put into them. Usually, that
first line "The game is dying" will probably make people
put their hand on their mouse, move the pointer up to
the top left corner, and click that little arrow that
says BACK. Then, they move on with their lives and
forget about ever reading this. Well, here's to the
people that decide to keep reading.
I want to tackle all
the problems, so I'll start here. Upperdeck and Konami
don't realize it, that the game is crumbling and falling
to pieces. Because, according to their little charts
and statistics, they have nothing to worry about. Make
new crappy sets, pull in some more money. More crappy
sets, more money, that's how some of them look at it.
Unfortunately for them, they're little constant flow of
cash coming in is getting thinner and thinner. I
haven't bought a back in months, because, really, what's
the point of getting these new sets? So I can build a
super-de-duper-aweomse-fantastic-fudgey Elemental Hero
Deck? No thanks. I don't really have that much against
the Heroes, because built right they can be pretty
decent. But they're overdoing it on the amount of
support, we don't need all that new nasty Neo-Spacian,
or the other 59 cards in the packs that are aimed
towards GX fans.
We need cards out
there to help our themes now. Sure, a new random theme
here and there wouldn't be too bad, but what about what
we already have? These new packs are probably hurting
the game the most.
After being
practically destroyed at Shonen Jump Orlando, I realized
something. People are taking this game the wrong way.
Brain Long and a ton of other peoples' decks were
stolen. Some of those people probably went home that
night, depressed and angry, and grabbed the rest of
their cards and a camera. Suddenly, Ebay has more cards
being auctioned, and that player who used to love the
game and play for all the right reasons, shut and locked
that door, and never opened it to play his once loved
game again. If I was the person that stole his cards, I
would feel like a living piece of walking crap. Too
many people are having their decks and cards stolen, and
that's what the creators of the game had playing in
their minds.
Originality is
probably the most discussed topic, along with netdeckers
or people who copy other duelists' personal decks
because of how successful they've been. That's the
basic way the CC is born, because of all the people who
choose to copy decklists, instead of making their own.
This falls under the same topic of originality, which is
just pretty much a deck or a bunch of cards that make
something different from everything else. People need
to start creating their own decks, and not build a card
for card clone of another build. Like I say, everything
is original, but then the netdeckers come along. If you
do build something original, but it doesn't work, don't
go to the netdecker side, just learn from your
mistakes. If you realize that big beaters are an issue,
and more Monster Destruction like Smashing Ground,
Fissure, or whatever else you find.
My last topic, the
game isn't about winning, losing, prizes (even though I
would like a shiny new laptop), or money. The game was
created for fun and enjoyment, two words that some
duelists have never heard of. We don't play so we can
jack other players' cards, win some money, some prizes,
and then start trying to win it all over again. We
aren't in Yu-Gi-Oh Vegas here. I personally don't give
a damn about the rankings. I know it's fun keeping
track of them and everything, but so what if you are #1
in your state or the US? Does that mean you can't be
beaten by anyone in your area? Of course not. Saying
that, I would like to say that I have never dropped from
any event, instead, I choose to play on and play for the
reason that this game was created; to have fun.
That pretty much
concludes my article, and I've got my list of responses
for when some Flame email comes to find my computer.
Seriously though, YOU CAN HELP this game is you truly
care about how it's going. Complain about the sets,
build new and unique decks, try to get people who
haven't locked that door back into this game, and most
importantly, have FUN. Now, I know you guys always
think that these things won't do anything, but
seriously. I am trying really hard to get my point
across, that unless you want to watch this game die and
us with it, you need to help, and trust me, don't think
you can't. If you and 200 other people send complaints
and requests for new and better cards, then it will
help. Some choices have already been made to help this
game, and you can make sure more people get into this
game, and it'll be fun and no-worryish just like it used
to be. Don't copy decks, build your own. Please help,
because if everyone of you tried just a little tiny bit,
I'm sure something would get done. Don't be lazy. As
always, you can send any comments/suggestions/deck
ideas/deck help to
zbarvian@comcast.net. Thanks for reading, and
please try to help. I'm sorry if I offended anyone or
anything in this article, I didn't mean to, and please
don't send me emails saying something stupid, because
they will go straight to my interactive Trash. I am
trying to help, because I want to play this game for a
few more years. CYA.
YGOMaster, has signed
off
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