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Sometimes [[Executive Meddling|the higher-ups]] stack the deck against a game:

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* In an example of ''distributor'' meddling, Upper Deck Entertainment has pressured Konami into letting them rearrange the rarities, severely alter the construction of the Structure Decks brought over, and create their own cards for the newest ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' collectible card game sets. Why would they make such a drastic move? Simple: the head of the ''YGO'' branch of UDE thought he could make the game better than Konami could, and demanded the chance to prove it, thus separating a game that had just begun to be unified.

* In an example of ''distributor'' meddling, Upper Deck Entertainment has pressured Konami into letting them rearrange the rarities, severely alter the construction of the Structure Decks brought over, and create their own cards for the newest ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' collectible card game sets. Why would they make such a drastic move? Simple: the head of the ''YGO'' branch of UDE thought he could make the game better than Konami could, and demanded the chance to prove it, thus separating a game that had just begun to be unified.

** Honestly, Konami is just as bad. Chaos, the new "Psychic" monsters, introducing new concepts with weak backup, neglecting the Thunder, Fish, and Plant types although they are getting better at supporting those. That doesn't go into the rulings of the cards themselves, targeting and non-targeting, and a whole bunch of complicated rules. A popular phrase to describe a justification of a ruling that makes no sense? BKSS, because Konami said so.

*** Unfortunately, this has recently exploded into a legal shitstorm between the two, with Konami attempting to take back the distribution rights of the TCG and Upper Deck suing them for breech of contract. The battle is still ongoing, and already the distribution schedule for North America has become the first casualty.