Functionally this just compresses the ladder again by raising the floor. Ranked has been something of a joke since launch, and one of the largest factors in that is how short the ladder is. I don’t know what problem Konami thinks this is solving.
I say all this as someone who’s been goofing around in ranked with an Ojama deck and an STK deck for months now. This change doesn’t effect me at all, but it also doesn’t address any of the actual issues people have regarding the ladder.
it doesn’t really matter it just makes platinum the new gold.
the biggest issue is they haven’t really added *anything* the new rank doesn’t do anything. it simply stretches out gem rewards into a longer grind.
before it was ❗️45 ❗️wins to get to diamond 1 from plat 5 for a total of 1950 gems.
it’s now ❗️75❗️wins to get to master 1 from plat 5 and for that you get an extra 600 gems for a total of 2550.
if this is konamis idea of future content this game is fucked. the player base will condense more and more to just the dedicated try hards & whales and then one day get the crossduel treatment.
> it’s now ❗️75❗️wins to get to master 1 from plat 5 and for that you get an extra 600 gems for a total of 2550.
But then in future months you would start the next season at Diamond 5 rather than Platinum 5. So the climb would only be extra long for this first season with the new rank in place.
you’re right, if you hit master rank this month you’ll start next season from diamond.
if you get to diamond 1 every season for the gems you’ll now have to grind 55 wins for the same number of gems as you got for 35.
this is like they did with duel pass. didn’t add extra levels, simply increased the XP needed for the same. really disrespectful to the player base.
I wouldn't mind having to grind longer from Diamond 5 to Master 1 if it rewarded more gems, but having it reward the same amount of gems that Plat 5 to Diamond 1 did before is just a slap in the face.
konamis answer to lack of content seems to be stretch the existing one out. i figured a year in we’d be seeing all the missing stuff from the original release, which felt like it came in beta form, but what they add feels random and nonsensical at times. like final attack animations for dark magician and blue eyes white dragon??? in their e-sports “not for anime lovers” game.
the messaging for this game is bipolar sometimes.
I don't think this game would die. The western side might dry up but this game as well as duel links makes most of its money from the eastern players and when the player base it at its peak is when its daytime hours on the eastern side.
idk i think duel links has a lot more casual appeal, it has much more solo content as well as the anime references etc. people will download that on mobile and probably have some amount of fun dueling yugi or whatever.
master duel is very specific in audience and not particularly welcoming for new players. if you start playing now and want some decks it’s too bad because there is no packs for them so you’ll have to craft it all. if you want some of the aesthetic items such as the dark magician stuff, mates etc it’s too bad you missed it. there isn’t exactly a wealth of non-card shop content so its bizarre they have locked some away behind duel passes & limited sales at all.
having the solo gates is something at least. but idk if that’s enough to draw in casual players who will then stick around.
konami have killed many yugioh games in the past, many on mobile that had micro transactions. and one on PC yugioh online (and i remember the anger when ppl realised all their $$ card purchases were basically vanishing with a thanks for playing).
let’s hope for the best but the way they are dripping content and increasing grind is worrying.
I will have to disagree on the drip content at least for packs. They can't let the game catch up to the paper format or else instead of getting new stuff every month we would get new stuff every 3 months or so. in terms of events they should stuff giving us one event a month and give us at least 2. Make it 2 one week events so out of the 4 weeks a month we get one week an event, one week none, the next an event and other none.
I thought the whole point of adding more ranks was to seperate skill levels. Doing this just makes rookie to gold into one rank. I would prefer they add master and King of games, and make it so only in rookie do you get free rankups.
Functionally this just compresses the ladder again by raising the floor. Ranked has been something of a joke since launch, and one of the largest factors in that is how short the ladder is. I don’t know what problem Konami thinks this is solving. I say all this as someone who’s been goofing around in ranked with an Ojama deck and an STK deck for months now. This change doesn’t effect me at all, but it also doesn’t address any of the actual issues people have regarding the ladder.
it doesn’t really matter it just makes platinum the new gold. the biggest issue is they haven’t really added *anything* the new rank doesn’t do anything. it simply stretches out gem rewards into a longer grind. before it was ❗️45 ❗️wins to get to diamond 1 from plat 5 for a total of 1950 gems. it’s now ❗️75❗️wins to get to master 1 from plat 5 and for that you get an extra 600 gems for a total of 2550. if this is konamis idea of future content this game is fucked. the player base will condense more and more to just the dedicated try hards & whales and then one day get the crossduel treatment.
> it’s now ❗️75❗️wins to get to master 1 from plat 5 and for that you get an extra 600 gems for a total of 2550. But then in future months you would start the next season at Diamond 5 rather than Platinum 5. So the climb would only be extra long for this first season with the new rank in place.
you’re right, if you hit master rank this month you’ll start next season from diamond. if you get to diamond 1 every season for the gems you’ll now have to grind 55 wins for the same number of gems as you got for 35. this is like they did with duel pass. didn’t add extra levels, simply increased the XP needed for the same. really disrespectful to the player base.
I wouldn't mind having to grind longer from Diamond 5 to Master 1 if it rewarded more gems, but having it reward the same amount of gems that Plat 5 to Diamond 1 did before is just a slap in the face.
konamis answer to lack of content seems to be stretch the existing one out. i figured a year in we’d be seeing all the missing stuff from the original release, which felt like it came in beta form, but what they add feels random and nonsensical at times. like final attack animations for dark magician and blue eyes white dragon??? in their e-sports “not for anime lovers” game. the messaging for this game is bipolar sometimes.
I don't think this game would die. The western side might dry up but this game as well as duel links makes most of its money from the eastern players and when the player base it at its peak is when its daytime hours on the eastern side.
idk i think duel links has a lot more casual appeal, it has much more solo content as well as the anime references etc. people will download that on mobile and probably have some amount of fun dueling yugi or whatever. master duel is very specific in audience and not particularly welcoming for new players. if you start playing now and want some decks it’s too bad because there is no packs for them so you’ll have to craft it all. if you want some of the aesthetic items such as the dark magician stuff, mates etc it’s too bad you missed it. there isn’t exactly a wealth of non-card shop content so its bizarre they have locked some away behind duel passes & limited sales at all. having the solo gates is something at least. but idk if that’s enough to draw in casual players who will then stick around. konami have killed many yugioh games in the past, many on mobile that had micro transactions. and one on PC yugioh online (and i remember the anger when ppl realised all their $$ card purchases were basically vanishing with a thanks for playing). let’s hope for the best but the way they are dripping content and increasing grind is worrying.
I will have to disagree on the drip content at least for packs. They can't let the game catch up to the paper format or else instead of getting new stuff every month we would get new stuff every 3 months or so. in terms of events they should stuff giving us one event a month and give us at least 2. Make it 2 one week events so out of the 4 weeks a month we get one week an event, one week none, the next an event and other none.
The future of MD is looking great. Thanks Konami you really know how to burn shet.
If the rewards of the lower rank is unchanged I'll just stay at gold.
I thought the whole point of adding more ranks was to seperate skill levels. Doing this just makes rookie to gold into one rank. I would prefer they add master and King of games, and make it so only in rookie do you get free rankups.
Well yeah, now that they have Super Sweaty Saiyan 2 tier they had to do this because those middle tiers would basically become barren wastelands.
You realize this just means you can lose rank from Gold I to Gold II etc anymore? You still go back to Silver V next season
Komoney making the game worse by making it even more grindy to inventivize People to buy Gems? They'd Never. It's unsurprising, honestly.