No worries...

Leeroy Jenkins + Obama = Yes we can!

We might even get VS back!

How much of an R&D staff did Yu-Gi-Oh! have? It seems like its just largely translation issues...However, that said, I do hope people keep their jobs.

Well... there was more R&D later as UDE started to develop their own cards.

There is also the rules team that not only handles how something is localized, but what that means in the rules.

And also OP and logistics. YGO was quite a pervasive product at UDE and I know a few people who were let go prior to the KonamiScorch.

Yeah, that sounds about right. Tough break.

Konami is taking over OP
which is good because that means that any hobby store that orders yugi can run prereleases
and they're going to change a lot of the OP to the way things are run in Japan, not to mention the packs are going to change. No more of that secret rare crap, just ultra and super rares so maybe we won't have $300 cards after this (DaD i'm looking at you)
So this is probably for the better in terms of Yugi OP, but I do feel bad for all the employees at UDE