Yugioh pro has been around since 2011 you know? and this game still make tons of money. Reason being it's more of a game with elements of one. Unlike master duel lol, ygopro, edopro, duelling book or other silmulator.
No way it could ever be beating duel link in profit. Making greedy practice like duel links for more profit and it would instantly flopped as most F2P peeps would just move out to free simulator instead.
So stop compare MD to DL, I have played Master duel and while it's easier to make your first playable deck with the frontload gem. Farming for the next deck is just as long if not longer. And when the side deck come? Oh my that's fck tons more gem to spend on. MD has better free triel period, that's all about it.
You can get core of 3 decks in 1 same pack defend on the pack you pull. But to me, complete a deck mean you have all staple, all various specific tech for all variants that deck, not just a core alone.
The starter barely fill that with many lacking aside from the core. People keep saying MD deck are easy to make sure but in reality you don't get much gem after all the preload gem mission areover.
Realistically, the gem annual a low in MD, similar to duel links you only get some hundreds gem per pvp session or ~1500 if you use the derank trick. That's it for a month. Nothing more but maybe log reward, event are rare there although it reward lots of gem.
MD has a lot of competition unlike duel links. If duel links is dying it would be a huge loss for Konami. They aren't not dump enough to abaddon their money tree or make a competition to out of themselves to beat themselves, unlike some stupid people on this website or reddit keep claiming.
The want master duel to be successbut cutting on a successful game for that is just losing money.
MD is a godsend. Duel links facked me a tons of money but MD I can re-roll a new account every week, and I play ALL decks full power. SOOO GOOD. 0 euro spent. ZERO. 10+ accounts, and still going on. I dont give a sheet. Konami fu