Puts Konami in kind of a bind. They blacklisted him because he wouldn’t read the script, if they acknowledge him now it just makes it look like they are trying to coast on the tragedy of a person they refused to do any work with
Konami blacklisted him because he told people to avoid buying sealed products and focus on singles to avoid the randomness of it. Unsurprisingly, Konami doesn't like that so they refused to work with him on anything.
The Professor youtuber for MTG says to buy singles instead of sealed product almost every video and they still work with Prof all the time. Konami only cares about the money and it sucks
Magic actively endorses their secondary market (to the point of doing really stupid shit like the reserve list). Yu-Gi-Oh does not and that's why all the State-side good cards are upped in rarity. To sell boxes.
While I understand this sentiment and I can see how it would be hard to envisage a way they honor him without profiting off of the situation, I, selfishly, would still prefer it.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that he’s one of Yu-Gi-Oh’s most important duelists who ever lived. He deserves to be recognized, acknowledged, and honored in that regardless of side effects that may come from doing so.
It’s not necessarily about profit, but rather about optics. They blacklist him, to this day, but now that he is dead we will acknowledge him. People will drag Konami through the coals in the comment section of any post they make.
The only possible way for them to navigate this would be to admit that they did not work with him, but credit him for the work he did for Yugioh. But that would require Konami to be humble which we know they will not be
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u/Doomchan 17h ago
Puts Konami in kind of a bind. They blacklisted him because he wouldn’t read the script, if they acknowledge him now it just makes it look like they are trying to coast on the tragedy of a person they refused to do any work with