>>28209529they have a pretty good audience still. Some things that Konami is doing wrong, which kills yugioh is:
>new gimmick each seriesthis eventually turns out good like xyz's and synchros, but it drives a lot of people away and makes decks worth 100's of dollars almost useless.
>not going digitalPokemon has a great online game for their TCG, where yugioh players have used third party sites, like DN, devpro, etc. which is currently getting purged because Konami wants less competition for their upcoming game. Which never comes out. People just want to casually play without going to their locals or buying shitton of cards.
>generally toxic communitya lot of cheaters, people who steal, flammers, unsporting stuff(Hobban), etc. that makes people quit.
lots of other stuff. Thing is people loved old Yugioh, with Yugi and the gang, which is why literally every yugioh movie has Yugi and Atem in it.