What Game Has the WORST Customers and Fans in YOUR Hobby Store 2025!

There are terrible people everywhere. Unfortunately, our hobbies seem to attract a lot of them.

The story that's relayed at around the 30 minute mark (not sure when the actual start is) is complete bullshit. No way it actually happened

Does the hobby attract nightmares or does the hobby create nightmares?

I used to like Metal music but metal fans are so obnoxious. I only listen to industrial metal because it isn't gate keepy at all. Industrial metal is so open minded that it has hip hop from time to time.

I have one, what's the game that got the worst evolution. I played 40k, d&d and magic the gathering since the 90s, and personally think that magic aged like milk, in its art, lore, players and game mechanics.
I'm curious about other game systems like yu gi oh, pokemon cards and games like vampire the masquerade

Whta would you give a monkey's left bollock for though, difficult question, they are precious commidities especially in UK.

I can’t speak from personal experience but for Yu Gi Oh I understand there was a card called “Yu-Jo Friendship”. It would require your opponent to accept a handshake if you had another particular card in hand. People would purposefully make their hand as gross as possible before forcing a handshake to try and get the referee to penalize the other person. They had to change the rule to accepting ‘the concept of a handshake’ instead. Idk how else to say this but if a significant number of people tried that in a tournament setting, you might have a bit of a toxic culture problem.

I reckon tabletop board gamers (Catan, Wingspan, Scythe, Cthulhu Wars, etc) are probably the best customers.
Why?
Because not one single hobby nightmare, ever, mentioned board gamers!

Easily 40k. The larger the punch bowl, the more turds you're going to find.

Thankfully the TCG guys are in the store above us though.

I stopped at a random card shop last Christmas season to pick up some Pokémon boosters for my best friend's kids and there just so happened to be a Yu-Gi-Oh tournament going on. Yikes. Can confirm, they do infact smell.

This game would be great if it wasn't for the customers.
Which ones?
All of them.
-Randall & Dante, probably

Just joined the 40K community and I almost shed a tear at how nice they were to me. I was just a visitor but never felt more welcomed into a place. They even asked me if I would be back soon and my heart broke when I couldn’t give an exact answer. I’ll be visiting them again in a couple weeks with my completed 2K army. The mtg players definitely funked up the place tho lol

My prayers 🙏 to the road rage victims in Liverpool, hopes for a speedy recovery.

Love how fired up you and your commenters get over the thought of furries in hobby 😂

In what universe are people calling Black Templar players racist? That's so absurd that I doubt it's real. Sounds a bit fake to me.

Finished the video. Please sir, may I have some more.

I'd say its store dependant, but most likely the tcg players who dont enter events or buy product often are the most obnoxous

A real shame to hear Kill Team being represented badly. My Kill Team community are super wholesome people who love teaching new people and enjoy narrative even in official tournaments.

Shop owner in Virginia. Used to run the Spikey bits channel/website.
I helped him move once. "Support local business" and all that.
The reward was a dinner at some local tgi-fridays or whatever. I didn't go to the dinner. Had other commitments.

Came into the shop the next week, and he high fived and hugged me, thanked me for the assistance. Asked if I could have a couple sodas on the house for not spending his money at the restaurant. Dude said "no", and that I forfeited any remuneration by not going to the dinner that night.

Dude's ungrateful scum; never went to his store ever again, and I'll talk smack on him even to this day.

If I had to rank them subjectively? Least annoying to scum of the earth?

Malifeaux(sp idc)
Card gamers (idc which)
Trench Crusade
40k
AoS
Kill team
D&D

I also just bought a Mike Brooks book by mistake... I think he tops the list.

You’ve sold it, I’m heading there this weekend! 😂

DND is dying? What's he on about it's the biggest now it's ever been

The most toxic people/autists in my community are the Warhammer 40khaters that go to either Kill Team or OPR lmao

Worst in my LGS is unfortunately Yu-gi-oh players, they order tones of take-away and make the whole place smell like someone setup a kebab shop in a locker room. Played 40k for years but just got into MTG, my local MTG players are great, most also play 40k. Believe its got to be down to the environment, if your playing in a dirty LGS in a basement its going to attract a certain kind of player. If your in a smart, clean LGS or a Boardgame Cafe your going to get less problems. 'Be the change you want to see' applies here.

I finished the video and want more!

Mtg, not even a sliver of competition there.
Watched 'till the end, would definitely be game for another one of these.

I think it depends. Neckbeards and idiots seem to .. migrate? I suppose is the word? Magic and YGO both have terrible players and some have moved to Pokemon but mostly the scalper variety.

I think its because these hobbies have blown up. A new sweep of new blood pushes in new players which also brings in horrific people in the deluge. So terrible people that maynot have been there before are there now.

I think the pandemic may have had something to do with that. It pushed people into hobbies they may not have had before.

I raise you scale modelling rivet counters!

I missed my chance to write in so if you do a second video I'd happily contribute.

Not a game per say, but if a group of paint snobs takes up shop in a game store its miserable. Painting is one of the most time consuming aspects of any models based game and a lot of people have no art bone in their bodies. Its terrible to see some gamer tell a new player that they should, or worse, need to have their new little army they spent a day assembling all painted to a set 3 color standard before they can play with it.

Give us More North!!🎉🎉🎉

Yu-Gi-Oh are genuinely horrible people. There is a lot of child abuse from adults.

i play the nazis, but im extremly left wing lol

I finished the video! luv ya LONG time eh

Daemonhunters is such a good game. Watching these videos makes me want to play through it again

Why is dude such a stan for the Office of Professional Responsibility ? Also don't play games with the abc boys they all have swat teams for some reason.

After many years of seeing them, I legit feel like a huge proportion of the people who play TCGs aren't cut out for it.

As in, these are nerds that find the card art cool but in reality they can't cope with a 1v1 competitive game that has cutthroat mechanics, gotchas and lots of direct attacks and stepping on an opponent's toes. The atmosphere in these rooms is always so wound up, pissed off and on edge.

40k is our worst tabletop community in Australia, but never as bad as Yugioh players.

Pokemon is certainly getting up there, most of the population seems to be people looking for a money card or scalping products. Pokemon is a dying card game, needs a serious reboot and increase of card production to crack the market.

Slightly late but you asked for a comment. I played Yu-Gi-Oh and had it as my primary nerdy thing into the first year of Uni, I was never at a super high level, but a level where I went to regionals and one UK nationals between 2003-2007.

In that time I saw:

- Anger over the game boiling over to the point of lads throwing a fist, more than once.
- The casual homophobia (the F-word, the one that's slang for a cigarette over here, was the go-to description of a deck that someone thought was overpowered), sexism, racism, and edgy humour making light of really horrible things was ridiculous. It was like everyone was trying to one up each other in being an obnoxious edgelord who would throw out "shocking jokes".
- Lots of cases of theft and cards being stolen. In one of the regionals I went to, the organisers told everyone, as an announcement with a mic, to never leave anything unattended and to keep their deck in their pocket or on them constantly. People would loop the straps of their bags around their chairs when sat at a table and you had to carry a backpack around you at all times, leaving anything up against a wall was a complete no no. There was an understanding that anything that wasn't nailed down was fair game and your cards being lifted was always on the back of your mind. People even put minimal rarity versions of cards in their decks rather than the shiny versions to make their deck more disposable and low-value, because of card theft being so normalised.
- Ageism. In Yu-Gi-Oh the older teenagers like I was, 15-19, rule the roost. As I was in this group I heard the scathing opinions that this bracket had of anyone younger or older. If someone is a kid and playing the game then this core age group sneers at them and considers them as an easy win, and if anyone is 20 and above these lads sneer at them for being too old to play the game. I remember seeing a comment once on one of your videos saying that there are no veterans in Yu-Gi-Oh and it's so true, once you're deep into your twenties the perception from outside and inside the community is that you're a creepy old dude who shouldn't be playing this any more. This means that there are no hobby dads or older chad equivalents, and the edgy teenage neckbeards, who unironically think Seto Kaiba is an aspirational figure, ruled the roost.
- The game being banned from more than one venue, and an entire shopping centre, due to player behaviour.
- The noise and smell of these places really is outrageous.

I don't regret playing the game, it is fun when you're a teenager if you go in with the right attitude, but you will see the worst of nerdiness and if you're in your twenties and up and you're considering being nostalgic and getting back on board, for the love of God don't do it.

"inner city America problem" You say that like the UK isnt in a cultural crisis at this very moment.

People hate OPR because they dont want to play a dumbed down simple game.

I knew Yugioh would feature prominently before the video even started.

My experience is that sadly D&D has the nastiest cliqueist vile people who made up the majority of that local community.
Warhammer & MTG stood in stark contrast to them, for all their own flaws.

For some positive vibes, Ill say the best at my local store: Hands down the Infinity players. (Im exclusively a 40k player).

Horus Heresy. A handful of ACTUAL neo-nazis (not republicans, actual SS loving supremacists). Also just stinky weirdos. Not a single normal chill dude in sight. They complain CONSTANTLY about Primaris, even though it's been over 10 years.

In my experience every yugi-oh player I’ve met has been on some sort of illicit drug. Not always bad, mostly just potheads, but that’s just crazy

Yeah, nah, yea, not playing against some freak with a furry army. Sorry but the visual presentation of the hobby on the table is one of its most important aspect. Not playing some degen doing battle with his furaffinity profile.

Mic's sounding a little bit fuzzy buddey

I use to play YGO i dont find the game fun anymore in my experience ive never really had any problems besides the local neckbeard BO problem every now and then no thieft.
40k the new game im getting into isnt bad ether ive only seen 3 annoying af people other than that everyone is pretty chill & alright they also are really helpful.
Most of the problems ive seen is with MtG players most of them are annoying, has bad BO, complain about everything & act so damn arrogant.
Adventure League its the same leftist & Soy BS so i just avoid them.
I also come from Anchorage and the stories from the same place really sounds like the store ive had problems with rather than the one i always go to.