State of duel links 2020

I'm not sure about stronger cards and archetypes either, I think that because of the lack of main phase 2 the duels are usually an all or nothing gamble because if you miss your swing for game you can set yourself up with a defensive strategy after, its what allowed wall of D to cause such problems when it released, giving staples like mirror force would only create a large issue of people OTK'ing each other
Also if Konami kept releasing new archetypes we'll just see the same power creeping being used.
Maybe Konami should start making new cards, new duel links exclusive archetypes that balance the game as intended. the problem with them however is who in their right mind is going to play a deck that balances the duel over a deck that ensures you dominate it.
We might have to face the reality that the game has transformed into a coin toss app where winning and losing is determined at the beginning of the match and the rest is just killing time until you can try again

They should rather give us some free staples like MST, Mirror Force and Bottomless TH.

Honestly, the best thing that Konami could do would be to give us more powerful cards that don't focus on a big chonker strategy, Konami is so afraid of giving us cards with good effects, that they forget about the stat lines. the best thing that they could do would to give us control archetypes like altergiest.

Unfortunately konami lost its chance. Duel links started as a nice nostalgic game with legenday anime characters, nice animations of their boss cards and a fairly balanced card pool without broken cards. Unfortunately, konami wanted to take advantage of the success of duel links and push players tlback to its tcg game. For this reason we often see some of newest tcg cards (e.x. brave neos) coming in duel links. However this is really stupid imo. In the long run konami will face the same problem. The majority of the decks will become OTK and people will just start to leave this game and the community will shrink, just like what happened in TCG. I remember before some years we were saying "this card is very powerful for duel links". Today, this is not the case. In addition, we see stupid kids asking for more broken cards to be released, and after they get released they start crying for the "imbalanced meta". The problem will get even worse in the future, when the coin toss will simply determine if you either gonna win or loose due to the OTK nature of yugioh we are saddly facing.

The game became so desgusting, there is no funny in pursuit king of games, because you probabily know that you will face shiranui, dark magicians, invoked and etc, i think yugioh is funny when you face different decks (more than top 6 in tier list), konami jump the gun, lots os archetype like evil heros and others arent in the game yet, but the relesed archetypes like invoked that are actually used in best tcg decks, duel links isnt prepared for this newest archetypes in speed duel.

Put every Top 100 card (based on usage in KC Cup and Legend / KoG duels) in an additional "Limited 10" category. I wonder how this would change the meta.

I agree with above, about maybe hitting some of the meta. Red Eyes Slash, Azure Eyes, and the Fruit Magicians show up so annoyingly often, and it always ends with more beat sticks than I can put together.
Maybe making more things way more limited?

Am I the only one here who enjoy fast duels? I prefer fast duels to slow stall and burn decks. At least this time, I don't need to waste my time dueling a boring deck.

too true, I guess that's why they've held off on
Xyz summoning the power creep that came out of synchros and fusions have really changed the games dynamics and adding that would only steepin the power creeping

Sure, increasing LP is not the best solution but it would be a very easy solution. The better solution would be to stop the power creeping but it's already too late for that. They'd have to hit every single meta deck. And they'd have to hit them hard. And that would cause a big @@@storm from people who invested time and maybe even money into those decks.