Yea it will change the game for sure. I saw first reactions of people were pretty much as when Synchro came out. Many people are skeptic about new black cards but we still don't know much about plans of Konami. One thing is sure, the game advanced from its beginning till now so I think Konami would not make a new type of cards with no intentions to advance the gameplay.

Exceed summon will offer much more options to play style and yea its easy summon condition will make it faster than Synchro. I think game will be much interesting with this. Also things like Extra deck will have their reorder since we will have to find space for the black cards too.

What cards we can expect, well probably those monsters will be balanced in means of their effects because of their advantage in summon conditions. One way to do it is to use those material monsters as something like fuel or ammo. When its gone it affects Exceed monster in some way to keep it balanced with other cards. That is one way to do it.

For our KCVDS, it is still early to say but we will probably use RFG for those material monsters since KCVDS will not be updated for Exceed use.

People will always be hesitant about the changes affecting in their gameplay experience. Although they weren't so dubitative when Konami announced the Synchro Monsters release, probably because the game needed some sort of change after many years. I'm quite uncertain, exactly as I said, maybe is it too early to introduce a new category of monsters and summon type ? Just expected a new improvement for Rituals, seriously don't you think that Herald rules ?

Now, I cannot understand the people who say that Gadgets are going to be undoubtfully Tier 1. The materials are not Level 4 always but sure a new kind of OTK is going to hit the metagame like one year ago with the infernity release. The are also going to be hit by Konami of course xD. Starter Deck 2011, Exceed Startup from DT12 and Generation Force will bring us these miracles.

Perhaps the combo everyone is thinking of, and mostly interested in compared to other Exceeds, involves the Gadget swarm with Ultimate Offering. Just stack three couples of Gadgets until you end up with 3 "No. 39 Aspiring Emperor Hope" capable of inflicting 7500 points of damage. If that's not enough to end the game you can summon another Gadget and if your opponent has a good beatstick defending the field just lose some extra LP to grab it with Vylon Disigma which requires 3 Exceed materials.

yea i was sort of skeptical about synchros hitting field but mostly excited cuz we've been playing with same old glads and LS i think the game needed something like that.. but these are different they're much easier than synhros and the rank thing could lead up to complicated situations.

also its a bit scary when a control type like gadgets turn to an otk type

What ever Konaim added to this game , what ever Konami removed from this game .. They know that ALLOT of people won't disband this game. Instead they will learn how to play with the new monsters/cards/rules.