Posted on: November 14, 2018
Prince-Of-Uranus
Verified ownerGames: 13 Reviews: 2
The ship is sinking
Once Crawfish, Swan and Pike Set out to pull a loaded cart, And all together settled in the traces; They pulled with all their might, but still the cart refused to budge! The load it seemed was not too much for them: Yet Crawfish scrambled backwards, Swan strained up skywards, Pike pulled toward the sea. Who's guilty here and who is right is not for us to say- But anyway the cart's still there today. I.A.Krylov Honestly. This game doesn't go anywhere. Discard 2 years of beta testing? Why not. Publish a roadmap late only to fail every single deadline and do completely different stuff? Of course. Announce X, Develop Y, Claim that it's Z? Sure. That's what the Gwent team is about. Despite it all, the game doesn't look that bad. But every iteration of Gwent, starting from Closed Beta, was different. It seemed that the dev team just changed overnight and voila, we go that way now. Don't get me wrong. I'd put a year of my life into beta Gwent and enjoyed it thoroughly. You may enjoy this, "current iteration" (Is it Homecoming or anything past that) to the absolute. CDPR aren't noobs in game design that's for sure. However, there is no guarantee that there won't be another change after that. And another. And another. This is not how you handle game development at all. Maybe in single player projects it is. But not when you actually need to tell stuff to the community and show the expansions months before they come out. Not days or weeks. Months. Look at Paradox Interactive and how they handle community management. CDPR forums doesn't stand a chance against that. Weekly dev diaries, regular AMAs, live discussions with devs from ALL DEPARTMENTS. Sorry, Burza, but you had a really big burden on you all that time and you, most likely, failed. What happens with Gwent now is due to lack of communication between the ACTUAL DEVS and the community. It's been a thing, like, forever. Learn your lessons, ffs.
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