The game went from trying to outplay your opponent to preventing your opponent from playing. It's toxic.

I agree, it's only getting worse

I hate that the community is so hostile to people with these very reasonable sentiments. I've seen many people complaining about OTKs and 3-turn games, only to get blasted with people unironically saying "Sounds like you want the whole game to be normal monsters" or "just play better cards" (i.e. the same two tier zero decks everybody else is using) and a shocking amount of "just win the coin toss bro" like seriously? This isn't ever going to get better, or even accessible to people that don't want to sit for a half hour as their opponent special summons half their deck on the first turn. So hard to wrap my head around how people could enjoy something so ridiculous and flat out anti-game. Even more insane there seems to be no plans on even a rules toggle for matchmaking in Master Duel to remedy people's concerns despite the popularity it had before the average former player saw what the game has become and dipped out. Seriously, it would just be a checkbox for certain monster types, and everybody would be happy. Very likely takes little development strain, as most multiplayer games have had something like this since "No Oddjob"

Because they keep digging their grave with power creep for quick bucks, instead of fixing the game for true success.

Duels end in 2-3 turns nowadays, i wonder what kind of nonsense comes next lol

The amount of time wasting with special summoning is so toxic

I'm that guy who took a break for 10 years, dealt with a couple 10 minute first round games and I was done.

The meta being focused on winning in one turn and preventing your opponent from doing anything is so annoying. Cards that prevent you from using any of your zones? Who tf thought this was okay?

The power creep is crazy. I play a lot of duel links and this is brought up constantly by new and returning players.

Modernity sucks.

Only reason why I thinks Modern Yugioh sucks is when I found Fiendsmith, SnakeEye, Horus in every single Deck Recipe whenever I search for my favorite theme deck.

Hot Take, I like duels that are a constant back and forth. Not a "Set up an entire board and prevent the opponent from playing the game" type of duel.

I definitely agree that Konami should have put a hard cap on power levels. HAT format is honestly the power level I think was best for Yugioh, personally. My main issues with the game are that Konami keep making cards dodge answers so that they'll sell more cards.

I thought i was going crazy i try to play yu gi oh im literally sitting there for 20 mins the other person just putting down a bunch of cards on the first turn they had 5 cards plus magic and trap cards down im like yeah i quit this is ass

Meta sucks not modern yugi yoh lol but yeah i hate players now a days on master duel because im going dark magician type spellcaster 3 combo at most so yeah games trash now

Or it’s even worse, someone spends 5-10 minutes summoning monsters/activating spells then they swing for ALL YOUR LIFE POINTS ON TURN ONE! Even I play modern YGO but even admit that out of hand…

Could be an issue with instant gratification. Kids play Fortnite and the like and everything is so fast paced. Look at shows for kids now vs back in the 90’s everything is so much faster these days. Attention spans are diminishing and things need to be quicker to hold engagement.

The reason i got into Yu-Gi-Oh was because of Pendulum, because of the Arc-V anime, but the reason i enjoy and stay in the game is simple... i don't just want to win, nah i want to crush and dominate my opponents and i also expect them to do the same. Power is the name of the game...

I stopped playing this shit game since people start normal summoning 5 monsters with +3000000000000 atk in the same turn

I am one of these guys who played last time around 2008/9 i saw Master Duel and wanted to see how its going. I recreated my deck and also recreated Yugis latest deck from battle city and thhe two movies.