Surprise! Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel Is Now Available On The Switch eShop

Just downloaded! See y’all online!
(And get a free win because I stink at this game :,))

Nice! Yugioh is the one money waster Ive never regretted, its just so much fun! Hopefully konami will support this game for years instead of dropping it like all the other yugioh games

.....Eh.

goes back to doing other stuff

""Its time to P-P-P-P-P-P-P-P-PAY TO WIN!"

I’m guessing that in order to win online duels, you need to be as rich as Seto Kaiba

Konami are literally Bandit Keith.

Ya it says free, but just like the real thing you gonna have to spend spend, spend to get the right card (AKA, the only ones that matter) unless your Yugi!

@Snatcher to be honest...that’s all card games in real life.😅

Yugioh 10 years ago - Ok I'm going first so I'll set this and summon this 900/1200 monster. Your turn.

Yugioh today - Ok I'm going to set this and play this that allows me to search my deck and special summon this this guy which I activate to special summon this guy and now both them them are a synchro summon and that lets me draw a Polymerization and that thing I set before can be used as any fusion material so I fusion summon this guy who allows me to special summon this guy and I'll use it and the synchro to normal summon this guy.

Ok so I have two 3000/3000 monsters each with a special ability and ... yeah that's it. Your turn.

@Greatluigi Yeah, people seem to forget that normally you pay to buy cards. And you can actually compare card packs to lootboxes. With the only difference being that cards are physical analog things that always keep their value.

Game says it’s undergoing maintenance, bummer

@HeadPirate Ten years ago was a long time, but xyz summoning was already a thing. These days it's more like "I go first, attempt to search, answer/play through your hand trap, and create an infinite negate board"

@Moonlessky Nintendolife got me hyped for nothing

I love yugioh video games generally but I will not play this format

It's supposed to be Konami's equivalent of the Pokémon TCG Online, so I'm wondering how many people are gonna download, play, 'n cry pay to win for one but not PTCGO...

@HeadPirate Don't forget about the 1 hand-trap and 10 negates per turn: that's an absolute must!

@shoeses I don't think there's much room to cry about a trading card game being P2W considering the entire nature of building your deck is to buy blind booster packs, and trade cards you don't want.

Unless things have changed since I last remembered, and you can buy buffs and the like in these games...

I’ll just stick with Duel Links.

Not a fan of the TCG card game of taking forever for a single turn with dumb hand traps/multiple layers of omni negates/and annoying floodgates that the meta has become.

Since its pay to win we might as well just show our bank statement to each other ...

@Angelic_Lapras_King Like literally every single other TCG game out there.

I played Magic for years, but gave up after a while when it became an endless money pit.

Don't get me wrong. I had a great time during my student years. Even won some tournaments back in the day, winning entire booster boxes and such.

@DTFaux The problem with the digital trading card games is that almost every one of them doesn't support trading.
The old Magic PC client years ago is one of the only ones I remember supporting trading back in the day. You could also load your physical bought cards into the client digitally with codes that came with the booster packs.

At least with real world card games, like Magic, Pokemon, etc you can trade cards with others and part of the whole social experience.
It's still a big money pit though, as people mostly want to trade rare/uncommon cards.

@Saf01 It is in the dutch/EU eshop.

Well, I was already into MtG when YGO arrived, but as it's free I may try it out. Card games are my jam.

@Jeronan My bad about the late comment, but I appreciate the clarification!

@DTFaux No worries.

It's one of the main reasons why I won't touch digital TCG games.
Without option for trading cards, it just becomes gambling and the ones who spend the most money to get the best cards will win. Aka Pay 2 Win sentiment with these type of games.

And that is the big differentiator between these digital games and the actual physical games. The physical games are still money pits (but which hobby isn't), but at least you can trade cards with others to offset costs.

I'd like to dispell some rumors and comments about master duel.

Yes there is a microtransaction component in master duel namely spending money to buy gems (the in game currency) to buy card packs, structure decks, card sleeves, play mats, arenas, and little spirit buddies who do things during the duel in reaction to what is going on in game. Not interfering in duel, just like one spirit when you damage your opponent life points will kinda do a little twerking like dance for a few seconds, among other actions.

It is true that the player can choose to spend real money on gems to build the strong deck they use to win duels and yes that can give a competitive edge to them at this time in master duels life.

However it is possible to build a competitive deck and not spend a single dollar. To start after you open the game you are given the option to participate in a three part tutorial explaining the bare bone basics of the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG format (think of the Yu-Gi-Oh anime, but without the cheesey characters, plot hole heavy storylines, and the constant dues ex machina out of nowhere wins by the hero in the series.) After completing the tutorial you are given 2000 gems and you can choose one of three structure decks of a summoning type (blue eyes white dragon, synchro summon, and link summoning.) After that you are taken to the main menu where you can duel with that structure deck online, play a solo mode, go to in game store to buy cards and other customization options, and edit your deck. Also you can buy the Yu-Gi-Oh season pass for 600 gems which gives you rewards for playing the game and winning or losing a duel. After completing the season pass fully you are awarded 600 gems which presumably you would be able to get the new season pass for free. Also for a limited time you are given there like ultra rare cards.

The only gripe I have about Yu-Gi-Oh master duel is that at least for the time being, you as a novice Yu-Gi-Oh player will be matched up against experienced Yu-Gi-Oh TCG players who know every in and out ig the game and will probably school you easily. But after a little time passes those players will quickly advance to higher tier groups and the novice player will be more likely to be matched against a similar skill level player making the game far more enjoyable for the lesser skilled players.

The most common misconception I see being said is that master duel is pay to win just like its cousin Yu-Gi-Oh duel links is.

In duel links things and events are time gated, to get around those time gates the player can spend real money to advance farther than a free to player would be able to far faster leading to the person who spends real money will always have a clear advantage over a player who can't or doesn't spend money. The unlocks given to free to play players are nowhere near the unlocks a pay to play person would get.

In master duel even if you don't spend real money you will eventually be able to build a competitive deck by grinding the game and working a little harder to get those cards you need.

Another way a free to play player can be competitive is, you can turn the cards you don't want, use, or have multiple copies of into points that you can use to buy very rare, powerful, or cards you want buy using the points gained by recycling old cards.

Master duel has a lot of potential to be a great Yu-Gi-Oh game, just be patient and play to have fun, the rewards and gains from being a free to play player will come in time.

LotD Link Evolution was much better to be honest.

I do appreciate the aesthetics and the vast number of cards available at launch, BUT... ehmmm PAY 2 WIN -_-