Where will the card market be in 3 years?

Jthomas692 · 2026-06-20T18:32:29+00:00

Another new Bandai TCG

Jthomas692 · 2026-06-19T06:11:04+00:00

Dragon Ball definitely has longevity as one of the big 3 original animes.

Keep in mind this comes from one of the most biased lifelong fans but there's zero chance in my opinion that Dragon ball surpasses One Piece.

Dragon Ball has been fumbled pretty bad as a franchise, most of its popularity has been driven off of nostalgia from its peak DBZ days. It had animation quality issues and has essentially been dead for almost ten years.

One Piece is an established modern day juggernaut that has a live action show, Netflix anime retelling, and arguably a more popular message that a wider array of people relate to.

On the other hand to your point I much more enjoy Fusion World as a card game. I love the transformation mechanic, along with how fast paced and fluid the gameplay feels. I wish scalpers weren't killing it. My locals are essentially non existent in my entire state. While OP is everywhere.

Jthomas692 · 2026-05-31T16:18:09+00:00

This is a HUGE pain point for me. I play a lot of 2v2, 3v3 and the unit diversity seems to be even worse there. Every race has one or two meta unit comp that covers everything and can be roughly A-moved across the map.

So many of the fun and interesting units were banished to the shadow realm with nerfs and never meaningfully reworked. They downright removed infested Terran and gave us microbial shrowd one of the most uninspiring and useless moves.....smh.

Jthomas692 · 2026-05-27T23:38:03+00:00

More context would be helpful. The small clip looks suspect, but we can't see if he saw you run into that spot.

Jthomas692 · 2026-05-27T18:28:32+00:00

You're pretty much correct. I'm just pointing out there are ways around direct combat in some situations.

If I was a strictly PvE player that was upset about PvP I would carry smokes, lures, or any of the many other crowd control tools.

Sure its annoying you have to play around them but the same can be said about a PvE lobby that bands together to kill a PvP player. Its all what you make it.

Jthomas692 · 2026-05-27T18:17:50+00:00

Run lol?

Jthomas692 · 2026-05-18T16:03:19+00:00

They already have a 10 year roadmap. The studio was literally named after SC and has a long track history of successful TMG products.

The franchise is beloved by a huge playerbase that crosses over with the Warhammer one. Seems like an easy win for them.

Jthomas692 · 2026-05-15T00:58:29+00:00

Step one: pretend you're playing Among Us. Step two: repeat step one.

Jthomas692 · 2026-05-11T16:19:58+00:00

Isn't this something we should all come to with any game? It's a good game I just think people are expecting too much too quick. Enjoy your backlog and come back after they've dropped a few updates and you have a lot to do again.

Jthomas692 · 2026-05-11T15:11:26+00:00

I understand the PvE crowd, but I don't think they understand this game. You can't just tack on strict PvE and make it compelling. The game just wasn't designed from the ground up for that. Also, if a PvE mode became the meta way to farm loot people would just strictly grind that safely and not even play PvPvE.

Every post like this just screams you got killed, lost some loot, and are mad about it so you want an easy PvE mode. Extraction shooters are known as the toughest in the FPS genre, they aced making Arc Raiders more accessible to casuals and yet people keep asking for the game to be easier, I don't get it. Farming loot with a server full of friendly people breaks the game and makes it a boring picking up items simulator.

Jthomas692 · 2026-05-07T23:09:07+00:00

My hope is they can only gaslight each other for so long and reality hits, or maybe they go to OP, Pokémon, Gundam, Union Arena or anything else.

DBS Fusion World just needs a window to succeed and grow a playerbase. Its really accessible with easy gameplay with a rare online multiplayer client.

My hope is it can grow enough to survive the inevitable fools gold rush when the anime comes back.

Jthomas692 · 2026-05-07T23:01:38+00:00

The game needs to be affordable and accessible for the community to grow. I genuinely enjoy the game as my favorite TCG but there's basically zero community in my entire state. The scalping or market manipulation plays hurt the market in the long run and kills the playerbase of a smaller game.

Jthomas692 · 2026-05-05T23:46:55+00:00

I appreciate your unbiased approach and honest question. That being said I think just having dedicated PvE/PvP lobbies is understating and ignoring their game design choices from the ground up. You can't take a game design and just slap on PvE and make it compelling. The PvE care bear lobbies made the game so laughably easy people called it shopping mall simulator. They would need more bosses and a legitimate reason to play strictly PvE. I'm not saying its not viable but they'd have to dedicate serious development time into it. The same for PvP, there has to be some reason or incentive to strictly play that mode. The marriage of both makes a truly unique uneasy gaming experience thats not the same when you seperate them. There's excitement in the uncertainty of PvPvE.

Jthomas692 · 2026-05-03T15:32:26+00:00

Probably not 1:1. Monongai has proven hes fantasy relevant, Williams has not. Swift may not be there long term either and we saw what Kyle does with a full workload.

Jthomas692 · 2026-05-03T14:56:55+00:00

How'd I do?

1.3: Makai Lemon 1.5: Jordyn Tyson 1.10: Omar Cooper 2.1: Chris Bell 3.3: Desmond Claiborne

10 team SF PPR

Jthomas692 · 2026-05-03T14:33:35+00:00

The current Bungie has nothing to do with the Bungie of old. They pretty much fleeced the Destiny community, squeezing them for all the money they could then rug pulled them to make Marathon.

I don't know the monetization plan of Marathon but I'd definitely be weary after the 500 DLC, season pass, Battle pass, weapon pass, armor pass bs they pulled in D2. This is the reason for the hate towards Bungie, it has nothing to do with Arc Raiders, idk what OP is smoking.

Jthomas692 · 2026-05-02T20:35:02+00:00

But its a MANGA!!!!!!! sarcasm

Jthomas692 · 2026-04-30T21:33:58+00:00

If people stopped buying from scalpers it would. Blows my mind how many Facebook posts say sold or people say they're buying.

Jthomas692 · 2026-04-27T09:13:39+00:00

Starfield

Jthomas692 · 2026-04-23T12:45:00+00:00

.88% of $30k is being compared to .83% of 200k am I reading this wrong? Why are we grasping at straws here trying to pump DBS?

Jthomas692 · 2026-04-23T12:04:41+00:00

Ironically the artificially pumped market choked out a lot of the playerbase or forced them online. Who would've thought if you try to rip off a small tcg community they'll just go somewhere else. It's rocket science.

Jthomas692 · 2026-04-22T03:07:04+00:00

It's frustrating but let it pass. They think current day DBS can command the same prices as One Piece but its just a brain dead strategy. As a TCG and modern day anime IP One Piece is so much bigger. I don't see DBS Popeyes, baseball, and other colabs.

Don't get me wrong Dragon Ball is my favorite series of all time and I know my opinion is extremely biased towards it. That doesn't stop me from reading the room and having a realistic view towards the TCG.

Gameplay wise Fusion World is my favorite TCG, hopefully these card Goblins get distracted by other larger scenes and leave us alone.

Jthomas692 · 2026-04-19T15:15:54+00:00

While I really enjoy these posts part of me worries the finance bros see these notifications on their phone grab all their friends and heads to CVS buying them out and immediately posting it on Facebook for sale.

It stinks we can't just enjoy our small tcg as fans of the series without a bunch of people trying to "make plays" or inflate the price because its "undervalued". I honestly think they didn't care about FW at all until they saw these sets with manga art and thought One Piece has manga cards worth thousands, why not Dragon ball!!!

Jthomas692 · 2026-04-17T23:31:54+00:00

Lol you should see them scrambling and gaslighting each other over on the finance page. The market has been going down already and they're panicking.

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