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Trust me, when I went to gaming days at a store named Shadow Walkers, the place was dominated by Pokemon tourneys. And those tourneys? Aside from me and three other white and hispanic guys, the room was over a dozen asian TEENS! Yes, guys 15 and up! Maybe one or two kids would show up, but the asian teens just ruled that game. And for good reason, the game had things like $100 foil Charizards, which you could get from in-print core sets! 
It was insane, but only because of the kids.
Spoiled little pieces of s*** would come in (same is for yugioh) and demand their parents buy when Card X and a box of Set X. The parents would, no matter the cost, because their kids were friggen spoiled. Its a social problem nowadays that kids get away with too much because of lax or overly-rewarding parents. Because of this, crappy cards got huge prices.
I honestly think Scyther was a much better card in metagame than CHarizard (yeah, I played in a few tournaments, and lost, but found out enough about strategy---just never could afford the winning decks and never felt like wasting money on more cards than my own Water/Psychic deck). However, since the stupid little spoiled pieces of s*** had driven up the prices on Charizard, it was worth way more than it needed to be. Hell, Hitmonlee and Hitmochan were much better cards than Charizard. These three cards showed up consistently in winning decks...yet the stupid crappy dragon kept going up in value because stupid people with limited mentalities go crazy for dragons, even if they look like crap in their artwork.
/rant
Sorry about that. Just trying to say the game really wasn't designed for kids. It did have a lot of strategic content, and it was dumbed down, but only mechanically. The game was really made for collectors and speculators, adults who could shell out money to invest in garbage to sell to idiot parents when their spoiled brats cried. This is proved by the horrendous rarities and promos, and almost no semblance of game balance. It is a collector's item first, not a game.
I tend to think the same is true for Yugioh. The one game I played was enough to prove to me it was far worse than Pokemon as far as balance went, and it seems the collector rabies over it are far crazier.
Sad....this is the portal to the ccg world, a ruthless collector market where the brat with the worst parent wins.
It was insane, but only because of the kids.Spoiled little pieces of s*** would come in (same is for yugioh) and demand their parents buy when Card X and a box of Set X. The parents would, no matter the cost, because their kids were friggen spoiled. Its a social problem nowadays that kids get away with too much because of lax or overly-rewarding parents. Because of this, crappy cards got huge prices.
I honestly think Scyther was a much better card in metagame than CHarizard (yeah, I played in a few tournaments, and lost, but found out enough about strategy---just never could afford the winning decks and never felt like wasting money on more cards than my own Water/Psychic deck). However, since the stupid little spoiled pieces of s*** had driven up the prices on Charizard, it was worth way more than it needed to be. Hell, Hitmonlee and Hitmochan were much better cards than Charizard. These three cards showed up consistently in winning decks...yet the stupid crappy dragon kept going up in value because stupid people with limited mentalities go crazy for dragons, even if they look like crap in their artwork.
/rant
Sorry about that. Just trying to say the game really wasn't designed for kids. It did have a lot of strategic content, and it was dumbed down, but only mechanically. The game was really made for collectors and speculators, adults who could shell out money to invest in garbage to sell to idiot parents when their spoiled brats cried. This is proved by the horrendous rarities and promos, and almost no semblance of game balance. It is a collector's item first, not a game.
I tend to think the same is true for Yugioh. The one game I played was enough to prove to me it was far worse than Pokemon as far as balance went, and it seems the collector rabies over it are far crazier.
Sad....this is the portal to the ccg world, a ruthless collector market where the brat with the worst parent wins.
