Gwent ist not... it's completely about winning as it's primary means of having fun - if you want to play non-competitve forget about playing this game unless you have no problem playing 2/3s of the time vs. a single faction - Noobgaard. Not that this faction is guaranteed to win all time but noobs think it is. Apart from that: Poorly balanced and every patch brings more new bugs than features.
The game is far worse than XCOM/XCOM2. There are some nice ideas but in the end it feels more like Star Citizen - failing at it's own high unfulfilled intents. Actually I was lucky to get a refund when they fully went EPIC - in it's current state I would not pay more than 10 bucks for the game - all DLCs included.
The scale might be legendary but also are the encountered bugs and currently it seems to me the devs use customers as playtesters. The release of so called hotfixes might look like they care for the game but instead each patch they release might fix a handful of problems but adds others, too. Quality assurance is most likely not the strength of this studio and because of this i would advise against buying the game until they got their stuff together and the game is fixed from start to the end - especially the mid- to endgame experience is rather a pain right now: broken quests, broken npcs, etc. etc. Buy now if you don't care to end up having to start over again, playing at a low pace or taking a break when encountering a bug that prevents you from moving on. I will probably throw the game in a corner and wait for them to release a real patch that fixes the broken bullshit we have right now (1.0.9). It would end in me hating this game if I keep playing it in the current broken state - something I really don't want to happen because I like the setting, the rules behind the game and the story is writen well.
