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Are the Cards Still Popular?

Controller Freak

.:Trainer Card Collector:.
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    It has been a long time since kids were trading cards at school. Now, since I'm out of the loop in High School, are the cards still popular? Or are they slipping?
     
    Pokemon Cards are not as popular as they use to be, but they are still highly popular amoung teens and such. I remember when I was in 6th, 7th, and the 8th grade when Pokemon Cards were the "in" thing. Now Yu-Gi-Oh cards have pulled ahead. But there is no way that the Pokemon TCG will die. It's still to popular to die.
     
    The Pokemon TCG is still popular. Yu-gi-oh may have overthrown it, but it is still orignal and better to play. It requires more stragety than most games.
     
    Controller Freak said:
    are the cards still popular?
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    No

    And they stopped being popular a year ago...
     
    They're not moneymakers unless there is a niche, like the discontinued first editions. But given the discontinued cards, Nintendo's distance from the Wizards cards and their game edicts, it's not as popular as it should be now the game has entered niche level.

    So yeah, and the situation is not helping with age. Heh.
     
    *sigh* I love tha TCG so much... *sigh* tch, but it's ta my sadness ta say that it's been completly dead here for years now, with no cards ta be seen anywhere except for my own stack of cards near tha TV. >.=.>
     
    They haven't been popular since the time that the Card-E Reader came out, back when kids started realizing how gimmicky it was becoming and gave it up for more up-and-coming TCGs, generally there is less shame in being a Yu-Gi-Oh fan in high school than there is being a Pokemon fan, for some reason the former never developed an ignorant stigma. Kids took the path of least resistance, which was wild because you don't want to be the last person you know playing a TCG, then the game element goes out of it and you have more cardstock than you know what to do with.

    The thing is, they're still produced because Nintendo is profiting off the fact that so many stores are behind the times. Managers of small businesses and even presidents of companies tend to be the people who still call it "pokeyman" and such, and are the ones who have no knowledge of (or outdated knowledge of) the current state of the TCG's popularity and assume that children are still cleaning the shelves of the cards, and because of this, even if Nintendo knows the game is completely dead, they can still turn a handsome profit because no retailers realize it.
     
    The evolution of fads.
    Me.
    Grade 1 - Digimon card Slapping. - We got cards from a deck and slapped them against each other. Whichever one landed face up wins and gets a point., if they were the same then it would add/subtract a point depending which face it lands. THe face down person has negative points. We start with 5 points each.
    Grade 2 - The introduction of Pok?mon Cards - Some people still slapped, but I was considered a serious player with a very good offensive deck with half of the cards being energy. I easily finished other people's decks before they got a chance to evolve.
    Grade 3 - Yo-yos - We started to play yoyos and we were quite serious, we did 100 loop the loops. Crazy eh.
    Grade 4 - Beyblade - Someone would bring a beystadium and we would just launch all our beyblades in.
    Grade 5 - Magic the Gathering - Started to get a bit more smart, and we started to understand more. We played Magic the Gathering, but I never used a deck, I use my friends.
    Grade 6 - The return of Beyblades - With the new Metal System beyblades and the 2nd Beyblade, Beyblade returns. I remember being the first in school to get a Driger MS. My most memorable beyblade fight was when my Driger MS beat a Dragoon MSUV with ATTACK. Or maybe I was at an advantage because I was stronger than the grade 3.
    Grade 7 - Magic the Gathering Returns - With new stuff, Magic the Gathering becomes a more serious game in school.
    Grade 8 - The Gathering continues - Indeed.

    But I still see Pok?mon cards being the most popular card game for those in grade school as it doesn't relie on much strategy.
     
    Trading cards themselves aren't even that popular right now...
     
    actualy, the rules state you aren't allowed to post in threads over a month old. This one wasn't a month old yet, so Crate Linguist didn't actualy brake any rules.

    On topic: Dunno what's it like where you live, but in Finland they lost their popularity years ago.
     
    They aren't popular here anymore either. I never hear anyone that still plays with the cards, or owns cards. Neither do I actually, I sold them all a couple of years ago.
     
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