Exactly, they’re taking us out even before I can get my hand together within the first (2-5) turns. Anything after the first (5) turns, you might just have a good duel. The game is WAY too short starting w/4000LP. Especially with the cards everyone’s pushing now...
I've been playing since DLinks since the beginning and i agree that 20 cards is the main reason for the balance issues, think about draw power, 20 card causes to many one turn duels, which essentially is not a duel, but solitare! Metaphys,Cardian,Spellbooks, and any deck engine that causes you to draw your entire deck makes the game boring, Konami realizes this, remember those bamboo sword equip c
30 cards would stop letting it be so guaranteed that you draw or thin your deck exactly how you want every single time, and for dude talking about speed duels, that supposed speed can be manipulated, I'd rather have a draw at 50 turns, than 20 minute 10 turn game, i need to start creating content
You're so wrong its funny, have you played the TCG? You can make a proper deck with 50! I run 30 deck Dlinks often and win! A proper deck is what your brain can create, if you copy and paste decks that depend on one or two strategies, your just dumb
Don't blame players but the unbalanced game instead. It's true yugioh have thousands of cards but i'm pretty sure on below 5 persent of those cards are competitive. Having fun is one thing but it's really hard to find fun while loosing.
To be fair, Konami uses many of the cards as junk filler in packs/events/etc. Sure, people can use them if they want but many of said cards aren't very useful in ranked.
But yeah, this game needs some creativity. Unfortunately, metas often take that away.
Because you can't really blame players. Look at competitive games like overwatched, CS Go, LOL, Mario Smash Bros, etc. Even in World Championships, players will play Tier 0/1 units/skins just to win. Is it their fault? No. if you want to win especially in competitive grounds, you play meta that's a fact. The game should be balanced that's the dev's Job.
Konami totally in blame because they are failed to do that one job: keeping the game balance, even at to competitive level.
But players do have some fair share to blame. We do not know how to have fun anymore. We play meta on anything. Even in Duelist Kingdom which is not meant to be a competition, people spam their meta decks. I mean, why do you even feel the need to use ThunDra in the event??
So, as a developer the only job you have is to balance the game? Don't create new events? Don't implement new features? Don't add new content at all? Just balancing?
Balanced cards don't sell bro that's why the game will always be an abuse/powercreep fest. If they balance and make all decks the same the game dies by the next week.
Even if konami could balance and not make the game boring they wouldn't do it because BROKEN CARD = EASY MONEY