When I was 6, I saw my first anime show; yugioh, and I was hooked. I forced my parents to buy my set upon set of yugioh cards to play. And I still do play occasionally, but this is probably the end.
Yugioh was fun because it combined aspects of intellectual card games and trading card games. It is an extremely complicated rule set to learn, and playing requires high amounts of strategy. If you look up chaining, for example, one will find hundreds of pages of documentation on how to properly use the chain. The cool aspect about the game was that you had the ability to remove luck by creating combos no matter what you draw. And, you have no idea of what cards your opponents have.
Now, this is was all during the peak of the game, which was around 2002. Since then, its been on the downfall. The reason is that Konami, the creator of the game, is making the game cheaper and cheaper. Here's why. Back in 2002, there were normal cards and these cards called fusion cards, which had a slight advantage over normal cards. Everyone purchased a lot of fusion cards, but after one point, everyone was content and sales went down. To increase sales, Konami created a new genre of cards called Synchro cards, which were much stronger than fusion cards. Now, all the people who were content with their fusion cards had to buy Synchros to keep up with the new game. Konami did this again in 2010 with xyz monsters, and now they are trying to do it AGAIN with these new monsters called pendulum monsters, which completely ruin the strategy of the game because once one draws these monsters, its game over for the opponent, no matter whatever combos they have.
By bringing money into yugioh, Konami has messed up the best aspects of the game. Nowadays, when people play, they say, you must not have any pendulums or xyzs or synchros. This is unfortunate because it hurt the fans, and Konami as many have run away from the game due to this. Konami has made a big mistake.
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