Surprise! It was Upper Deck, the very same company that once distributed the classic Japanese card game in the U.S. As you can imagine, Konami was none too happy about that and sued Upper Deck. According to ICv2, a settlement was reached this week that bars Upper Deck from ever again printing or selling Yu-Gi-Oh! cards. Upper Deck also now owes Konami a bunch of money, which is no surprise.Unanswered in all this is why Upper Deck would seek to undercut its own profits. The only explanation I can fathom is the company wanted to milk the franchise for all it was worth, including selling counterfeit cards on the cheap to stores that couldn't afford to stock the real thing. What do you think?
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ROFLOL!! No way? Really! I'd wondered where they came from, but never guessed it was UD. The cards, which were in NO WAY tournament legal, were typically rare and promo's not available in the US as Konami declared they would never license those particular cards, or were new sets not yet out domestically. UD wasn't really cutting it's own throat with those. Other sets of counterfeits that were remakes of sets they did have licensed though were almost certainly for the purpose of wringing a little more profit out of the rubes. That's just brilliant! Wow.
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