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7/8/2025, 2:46:18 AM
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I don't know why people treat "catching up" to Japan like it's some daunting task as if it hasn't been proven multiple times that it can be done just fine. The TCG was 3 years behind the OCG when it released. Non
English versions took up to 2 years longer. To this day, the TCG is still missing cards from the OCG that were printed in 1999. I don't think anyone is going to particularly mind if a western Rush release is missing some random vanillas any more than they are with TCG not having Tatsunootoshigo.
Even as recently as 2018, we had cards that existed in other languages of the TCG like Ojama Red getting their first Portuguese printing by adding extra cards into the OTS Packs.
Simplified Chinese and Asian-English were whole decades behind. They have a product model that focuses on getting as close to current with the Japanese/Korean OCG while gradually backfilling any notable cards they're missing, like deck cores belonging to whatever is getting legacy support in a new set. The Mega/Creation Pack model isn't even a foreign concept to the west, since we had massive reprint sets like the Dark Beginnings series or Legendary Collections.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not exactly anticipating or hopeful for a western release of the physical game either, but "the gap is too large" is definitely not a reasonable concern as to why.
I don't know why people treat "catching up" to Japan like it's some daunting task as if it hasn't been proven multiple times that it can be done just fine. The TCG was 3 years behind the OCG when it released. Non
English versions took up to 2 years longer. To this day, the TCG is still missing cards from the OCG that were printed in 1999. I don't think anyone is going to particularly mind if a western Rush release is missing some random vanillas any more than they are with TCG not having Tatsunootoshigo.
Even as recently as 2018, we had cards that existed in other languages of the TCG like Ojama Red getting their first Portuguese printing by adding extra cards into the OTS Packs.
Simplified Chinese and Asian-English were whole decades behind. They have a product model that focuses on getting as close to current with the Japanese/Korean OCG while gradually backfilling any notable cards they're missing, like deck cores belonging to whatever is getting legacy support in a new set. The Mega/Creation Pack model isn't even a foreign concept to the west, since we had massive reprint sets like the Dark Beginnings series or Legendary Collections.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not exactly anticipating or hopeful for a western release of the physical game either, but "the gap is too large" is definitely not a reasonable concern as to why.
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