GWENT: The Witcher Card Game

This is a very interesting card game. It maintains the feel of a Witcher game with its tone and music, but it's much more sophisticated and balanced than Gwent from The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, which is a good thing. I believe the choice to remove a row was to make the cards appear bigger on screen and I don't think it's a bad thing since it did not mean that much, yet I cannot say it's a good thing either, I'm neutral to this change. I also like the microtransaction options in this game. For example the Starter Pack gives you a fair boost if you're a newcomer and it's not expensive at all, I think it's totally worth it. I think it's a good idea that many microtransactions are based on meteorite powder. With it you can make your cards animated or buy new boards, skins and avatars. It's pretty cool for those who want them but it's fair that they don't give any gameplay advantages, so you can pay for cosmetics instead of paying for winning which is great for either type of player. I don't have any big complains. One thing I would like it would be to have cards of more characters (Detlaff for instance was an interesting one and also very tough to beat, and characters from Blood and Wine in general). Last, I think a recruitment resources cap of 175 instead of 165 would be more suitable since considering you have a deck of 25 cards, the average recruitment cost would be 7 instead of 6.6 and it wouldn't be a big cap difference so you would still need to choose your cards carefully instead of just choosing the most powerful ones. That being said, I give this game a 5 star rating because all the small things I would add or change are entirely subjective.

Even my internet connection works with good ping, can play Full HD videos like a charm, listen to HQ music, GWENT constantly getting into Connection lost and games ends with Defeat because of it. I have no issues to play other online games like other card games or different type of online games but Gwent didn't work, every few second in game I am going to wait couple of seconds on Connection lost screen...

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I have played Gwent since closed beta and have enjoyed every single version of the game prior to homecoming and have spent hundreds of dollars on the game. I have the full premium version of the homecoming cards (all from CB rewards), nearly level 100 from the old game and have even finished top 1000 before so I believe I can comment on how the game was and how the game currently is. I have enjoyed the pre-homecoming Gwent thoroughly, 6/5 stars. There were some problems back then such as duplicating spies, scoia'tael spam, consume spam but the META was ok. People tend to overcome these problems and move on to a new META. People were playing multiple different decks and card tutors were helpful in deck thinning - IMHO. Old Gwent was FUN! There was life and variance in the old game. This new version of Gwent (homecoming) is terrible in a sense that, they have removed silver cards, triplet bronze cards as well as tutors. Silver cards always had a place in the game, it was good with a sense of variance. Why were tutors and triplets removed, now we have a bunch of random bronzes we never want to pull. Where is the thinning? There is a certain enjoyment when you know where your cards are in the deck. It's all RNG now - a guessing game instead of a card game. The old game had the right balance between consistency and RNG. The power structure current is also extremely boring - I am pinging a 4 strength card with 1 damage, what is the excitement of that? I know there is power creep, but old Gwent was much more satisfying. Why was any of this not implemented in beta, you guys had two(2) years to sort this out. Only reason why we stayed was because you guys are CDPR, you guys have changed the core structure of Gwent so much, I would like to think that this is a case of bait and switch. Please guys, no one hated the old game that much, why wipe it completely off homecoming? Surely, there is a middle ground both sides can agree on. - An extremely disappointed CDPR fan.

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