Update News: It was brought to my attention that the stream communicated something very different than what is seen from the graphic. Source for the graphic was here: kzitem.info/news/bejne/mX1n0Id5cZ9yo2U It was miscommunicated on the graphic that the global release would be January 2025. The speaker, Kohei Murata is the Digimon Card Game Development Producer mentions that it is the goal to get everyone at the same set by March or April of 2025. This gives an additional 2-3 months of time to spread out sets and give about 2 months between core sets and 1 month between core and side sets. That being said, it is still a lot of sets but if it's spaced in this manner, it could work. I'll upload a graphic later on the channel as follow up!
@QBnoYouko
7 ай бұрын
Google translation for that part: "We would like to unify the environment by March 2025 and prepare the card environment in one year so that the Digimon card game can be played in the same environment worldwide from April 2025." I take this as every region will be caught up by March 2025, which means the first product released worldwide will be the following month, April 2025.
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
@@QBnoYouko That is what I anticipate as well. This is an optimistic plan though. I do also vaguely remember that there were some international shipments that could not make it to their designated regions for a bit due to worker shortage which also attributed to us being further behind.
@ClubbingSealCub
7 ай бұрын
honestly the game should've never been several expansions behind.
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
Surprisingly, the whole point of Special Booster 1.0 and 1.5 was to catch us up.
@ClubbingSealCub
7 ай бұрын
@@DIGI-PANDA well they clearly should've put more effort into it!
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
@@ClubbingSealCub Tis true. Ha ha.
@QBnoYouko
7 ай бұрын
@@ClubbingSealCub There were a lot of factors that likely didn't help. For one, the card game came out in 2020 when there was a pandemic and businesses had to delay their plans. Continuing into 2021, there were a lot of delays with shipping products overseas as well. I think it's easy to see why it's taken so long to recover. Also they changed plans for RB1 which delayed that release a bit too. Hopefully we'll see this plan come into fruition. March-April 2025 sounds doable. If not then, it'll happen eventually.
@sephyrias883
7 ай бұрын
The biggest concern is singles prices. One of Digimon's main selling points is that the meta decks are so much cheaper than in other TCGs. So bad pull rates + accelerated power creep sounds like a recipe for disaster.
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
Honestly, the singles should be relatively cheap regardless in comparison to other TCGs. It's just a matter of will it be too fast. In my opinion? Yes.
@Max-lp4bx
7 ай бұрын
Honestly, you comment about actually pulling what you needed from 1.0 & 1.5 is absolutely true. Personally I would like combined sets, but I would want them to increase the number of supers/alts in a box. The issue in BT11 wasn't that people didn't like the shiny versions of commons/uncommons but rather that the loss of the second rare made it difficult to get your playsets. I feel like Bandai keeps getting decent ideas and then executes them poorly.
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
That's also an excellent comparison. Because I opened a case of BT11, I did notice the disparity in my rare piles like I normally do. For someone opening 2-4 boxes I can absolutely see the frustration with not getting a playset of rares. Personally, I would've just cut one each of the common and uncommon and give 2 foil variants per a pack.
@JustSpag
7 ай бұрын
you touch on some important stuff here. Digica has been a game that moves VERY fast. for every deck that sticks around for a few formats, there are two or three that are complete one format wonders which complettely disappear afterwards(belphemon appears to be one such deck). This has a strong chance of burning out the audience as wellll. Honestly, I think that things willl do just fine ,but would be open to combining sets to squeeze things in. I don't like the cycle of discourse we have where we undergo spoiler season and tthen evveryone has the decks solved in that interim "Waiting room" period where discourse just gets dry. I want to have side-by-side english and JP format conversations instead of thhis weird futurevision, llike I'm back in a forum for a korean MMO talking to someone who plays the game in both regions.
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
I'll need to update the graphic later tonight because I went through the stream and while the graphic does show up to January 2025 for BT20, the words that were used by the development producer talk of an optimistic global release as a whole in March or April of that year instead.
@JustSpag
7 ай бұрын
@@DIGI-PANDA yeah, I just read that. that's actually a little less jarring than the pace they've gone with lately(two months of back to back sets, then one set, then 3-4 months of emptiness). I'd really like if they just gave us a new set every 1-2 months.
@SatoriKenshou
7 ай бұрын
The best time for them to catch the English version up with Japan was the first year when they already attempted to catch us up with combined sets. It feels like they very much squandered that opportunity instead of going with it. Good on them for realizing it should have been global if they insisted on a shared banned list, but product fatigue is going to hit the English version like a truck in the latter half of this year. With how fast the meta will be shifting between sets, it also means it's not really worth investing into any particular deck until things down.
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
The investment is going to be the biggest problem for some players.
@LPM12
7 ай бұрын
I'm a collector and a player, and I have pigeon-holed myself into the following criteria: A binder with one copy of each card from a base set (regular and alt - chase rares aside, as I have yet to pull one of them, and had to make cuts financially somewhere) But I ALSO collect playlets of each card ADDITIONALLY! So for a Secret Rare, with an alt...I ideally need 6 total copies, 5 at minimum rarity and 1 alt. The thought process is "what if one day I want to play such and such card, at least I'll have it, even going back to set 1.0. (Not to mention, as Alts come out as prizing in local and national events, I also need those added to the binder too - every 6 months I tend to do a "binder shift" day, as I have all cards numerically sorted in side loading 12 slot binders) I dont know how or where to source a case as just a casual, but very, regular buyer (happy to get insight btw!) , so I usually rely on pre-release event box pricing to purchase, and hope I can find "value" in each box (ideally a box at $70, a prerelease pack, tournament prizing etc). Luckily as someone who doesnt play anything max rarity, any duplicate alts immediately go in selling posts. Same for PR stamps too. I think my system is pretty flawed, and I always debate on buying boxes vs singles, but in my mind, for what I want, boxes tend to be the way to go. Please someone, Correct me if im wrong! But here I am, and my binders are base set complete through BT14. (im even starting to pick up some of the more "affordable" chase rares from sets too, so never say never to full completion!)
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
After having commentated several events, I definitely enjoyed commentating more than playing competitively at this point. I play fairly casually now with friends and family, but I am also a hardcore collector. I understand where you're coming from when it comes to collecting, I myself have a binder for the base rarity cards, and then another binder that sequentially follows all alternate arts and chase cards, and separate binders for pre-release and separate binders for regionals and ultimate cup. My criteria though? 4 copies of everything. The only exclusion criteria I have is that if the card is a 1st place card, or 2nd place card it's only a one of. Other exclusion criteria is National/Worlds level cards that are next to impossible to obtain. In my experience, there are certain sets that have better value than others. But typically if you can wait, I'd argue that several sets later after a players have dropped the set, it's more cost effective to just buy singles. Every time. Because if you consider how many boxes you open, unless you're able to sell some of those cards it's just not feasible to upkeep all the extra bulk you have.
@Sigmund589
7 ай бұрын
I feel like the only good way to do this would be to slightly slow JP releases and slightly speed up releases in other countries. As they have released a schedule that's not going to happen. After what bandai has done with ex05 and bt 15 pushing this is going to be puting a lot of financial strain on shops and players who are already feel put off instead of having Japan share some the responsibility by slowing releases till the rest of the world catches up.
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
Keep in mind Nationals is also this weekend. So in combination with travel, hotel, and food for just this weekend on top of 2 set releases in the span of 6 weeks. Is going to be rough for certain players.
@relatosdeladimensiondifere9841
7 ай бұрын
As a yugioh player i know how hurtful fast relases can be to stores, so i hope bandai can make it work, maybe put bt and ex togheter in some relases, two bt is just a lot, but lets prepare for a faster relase year
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
I know Yu-Gi-Oh and Magic the Gathering have been doing a lot more drops on product and it is a common complaint that I see among their base. Again, it might be a temporary thing for Digimon but that would also be a breaking point for some players.
@christopherbennett5858
7 ай бұрын
Combining extra sets with main sets could work. But I do feel like this is a hasty decision. With the speed product is being turned out especially. Would’ve been better to do this over two years than one. Especially if you want to avoid issues like the Ex3 translation fiasco.
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
I'm hoping (fingers crossed) that the we never see a repeat of EX3 again.
@christopherbennett5858
7 ай бұрын
@@DIGI-PANDA Same. Especially since I really liked most of the Ex3 decks.
@McChookter
7 ай бұрын
They couldve done this much sooner, at the start of the game people thought the release schedules were indicating a unified format
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
I believe that was the original intention of doing Special Booster 1.0 and 1.5. Unfortunately production delays for certain sets kept putting us farther and farther behind.
@McChookter
7 ай бұрын
@@DIGI-PANDA that's true actually, the delays probably screwed us. Sad because like you say it would be really cool!
@johnnystephens259
7 ай бұрын
If I brought home $3500 every month, I’d buy a case of every set. 😂😭
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
This was a google search for the average annual salary in America. Is it believable? Ehhhhhhhhhhhhh. But metrics are metrics. I wanted something that could be comparative ya know?
@a.block.of.tofu.
7 ай бұрын
I think for me I'd rather have a set a month, because in my area the locals is super healthy and I think we could weather it. I personally think having combined sets with terrible rates would do more to kill moral than having to be more choosey with sets or decks. The only way I could get behind combining sets is if they made it so you are getting double the SRs and SEC/Alt arts or more.
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
If they doubled the number of hits to accomodate for this, I'm all for it. But with previous combined sets this was not the case.
@RenjiPls
7 ай бұрын
it makes me kinda nervous, but combining an EX set with a main set could help spread out our schedule & meta slightly - since they're smaller it doesn't make a combined set's total cards absolutely BUT mainly since an EX set rarely completely undoes our main set meta, may even enhance it! Think it would impact us the least? Global release is exciting but still nervous hahaha
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
Agreed! I'm in the excited but nervous boat as well. I also don't know how many players have considered visually speaking how many sets will be released in that time span based on what is confirmed already this year.
@walkersikorski
7 ай бұрын
I’ve heard that BT-20 being the goal was a mistranslation and the actual plan is just to be unified by next April
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
Oh interesting. This mildly helps the release when looking at it visually but I'd like to know where this was mentioned.
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
I found it! The card designer made the comment here: kzitem.info/news/bejne/mX1n0Id5cZ9yo2U This helps the card release schedule marginally. However, we might find ourselves potentially just a month behind in regards to BT20.
@DigiTism
7 ай бұрын
I’m still mad I didn’t get to use GeoGreymon in my Yellow Vaccine deck because it was hit before BT14 even came out. 😭 I’m all for the unification of regions.
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
You and me both. I wish they had hit a Rizegreymon instead.
@raikaria3090
7 ай бұрын
Last I heard the three sets are being merged into 2; basically BT 17 half of 18; then BT 19 with the other half.
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
Correct! I've updated the news several times at this point on my community posts. We are confirmed getting Special Booster 18.0 and 18.5 with merged sets of BT18, BT19 and BT20.
@sil8ncer
7 ай бұрын
korean are getting new boosters every month. We had st9/10 released last month, bt8 is comming next week and ex2 is next month. Since the meta is changing every 1~2 months and we know how jp and NA meta went throuh, some cards are really hard to get.
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
Crazy! Does it feel super rushed?
@sil8ncer
7 ай бұрын
@@DIGI-PANDA i saw some people leaving dtcg because they couldnt follow the meta due to fast release. But there are some advantages too, you just have to wait for few months if the meta is toxic 😂 but having same sets released global wide will be fun in my opinion
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
@@sil8ncer I think advantageously it will get formats out of toxic formats faster. Believe me, we have several formats in NA that felt like they dragged on and on. I think the card collecting aspect is the worst part.
@BjornEinarr
7 ай бұрын
They could make a mix of both speeding up western releases and slowing down eastern releases to eventually catch up, but rushing it in a single year seems less than optimal unless you're a limited collector/player (i, for example, care not for non-yellow cards, so i can manage spending on a few sets straight away)
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
That's where for the players who are playing predominantly one color or deck it's easy. I'm curious what percentage of players build multiple decks.
@ShiningCrimzon
7 ай бұрын
Apocalymon was so bad that they actually had enough with regions being behind sets
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
I'll agree that Apocalymon as a card was poorly designed and not properly tested. To that end, the continuous hits to purple felt absolutely unnecessary and at this point I wish they'd refund a few items back.
@ShiningCrimzon
7 ай бұрын
@@DIGI-PANDA yeah they can free the gabus and scatter mode already
@MrBlastpanda
7 ай бұрын
I think this is just an L we as a community have to hold if we want better quality in the long run i think bandai knows they'll lose alot of money in the transition but it would be overall better for the health of the game if we did this now rather than later
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
The L goes either to the store or the community. At that point it's going to more than likely trickle down to the community if you want to maintain events and what not at a LGS.
@AhmadJackson
7 ай бұрын
alot of local scenes are dyign as it is due to the way the game keeps altering situations and putting bad tastes in folks mouths ......its gonna be a complicated situation but hopefully it helps push things move forward
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
I know a lot of players felt targeted for their favorite color being hit. Not to mention, the prizing support was abysmal for a large portion of last year. That being said, they received lots of feedback and are trying to make better changes.
@KingofSolomon
7 ай бұрын
Considering that China and South Korea got combined sets, I think that's a strategy that Bandai really likes and will very likely pursue to get EN caught up without overloading their playerbase with product releases month after month. Either way, though, this is going to be a very weird and interesting year for the card game.
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
100% agree. I don't know whether it'll be one set at a time or if it'll be combined sets. I've laid out what I know and what I've experienced at this point, now we wait.
@KingofSolomon
7 ай бұрын
@@DIGI-PANDA Yeah absolutely, I appreciated the insight you shared in the video. I'm just saying which assumption you laid out I think is more likely and why.
@Saiess-Arches
7 ай бұрын
This is both good and bad for the reasons you mentioned. I'm already a budget player and rarely do I buy tons of boxes for reasons. But, this is a scary route to push on to us. And will they make the boxes cheaper for the people or boost prices? The single market is also going to change dramatically
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
For sure! I've gone ahead went through the stream personally instead of what was making news through discord and chat groups and have confirmed from the development producer that the actual global release they're gunning for is in March or April of 2025. This gives an extra 3 months of breathing room which I'll update with a graphic later tonight.
@Saiess-Arches
7 ай бұрын
@@DIGI-PANDA 2015?
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
@@Saiess-Arches Fat fingered that 2. XD It's been corrected.
@Saiess-Arches
7 ай бұрын
@DIGI-PANDA Oh. That makes better since XD But what is Japan going to do? Are they just going to halt production on the newer sets for us to catch up? Even if we combined sets, it doesn't seem like they would. This is kind of risky on Bandai of Japan's part. If there is more development, please let us know.
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
@@Saiess-Arches Dragging out several of their formats I believe.
@eddielcarrete1089
7 ай бұрын
Im ok with the trade off we only need to suffer for half a year
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
On one hand, we do have to suffer a year but then being at the same place as JPN is going to make purchasing cards much easier since people won't feel like there's a hype train constantly going.
@yomaru
7 ай бұрын
I absolutely do NOT want another combined set. It took me almost a year to be able to start collecting cause prices were insane because of it. I personally don't mind multiple sets released in close proximity though, I might just have to wait until a next paycheck to pick up the 2 boxes per set I tend to like getting. Also this to me just feels like a big important message reminder that you should definitely order from your LGS first even if online retailers are ~$10 cheaper at preorder.
@andrewb5123
7 ай бұрын
For EN, the major reason 1.0 and 1.5 was so expensive was because there wasn’t enough printed for the demand. And that was on top of all the people who were scalping the card games at that time. If they did a combined set again, I would be surprised if they were just as expensive as 1.0 or 1.5 at release, (depending on the ratios of SEC and SR per box).
@Thomazbr
7 ай бұрын
I think this whole catching up thing is an effort to announce a official digital sim in 2025.
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
One can hope ha ha. The Soon has been trademarked by numerous games.
@IsaiahShadow
7 ай бұрын
Feel like they might combine 18 and 19 together like they did to set 1-3 for eng
@yusheitslv100
7 ай бұрын
Nah. Combine ex7 with bt18 and b19 with ex8.
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
@@yusheitslv100 Honestly, this makes more sense. The EX sets typically consist of about 70-80 cards. While main sets have been dropping to about 100. Meaning you're closer to our main old core sets than combining cores or side sets together.
@yusheitslv100
7 ай бұрын
@DIGI-PANDA my thought process was "better to combine a side set with a core set than merge core sets" lol. Didn't think about card amount. (Alternatively (no pun intended), simultaneous release instead of combined sets so pull rates stay the same?)
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
@@yusheitslv100 You'll still have extra hits, and side sets are notorious for their extra alt arts and a lot of them.
@pokemonruler54
7 ай бұрын
I was having this exact discussion with my friends at locals the other night. Now knowing that they plan to have it start on January 2025, i feel like itll kill the en version of the game. People already feel rushed with ex sets coming out only 4 weeks apart from a main set, if they release a products a month than players will be extremely product fatigued. If it was a little later into 2025 than i could see that but at this point January 2025 is way too early to combine metas with how the current releases are scheduled. On a side note, there's only one main set this time between ex sets? Im genuinely curious why they changed it up, especially if they want to combine metas.
@DIGI-PANDA
7 ай бұрын
With what has been going on with the Chinese and Korean release, we very well could get multiple sets combined into one. It's still doable - I just hope that the ratios are improved in some way.
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