Should the Community continue to trust CDPR?
Should the community continue to trust CDPR?
One of the fundamental factors for a company’s long term success over the internet is a community’s underlying trust of that company.
CDPR is currently trying to establish Gwent as a legitimate esport, with significant cash prizes, which requires a lot of grinding and a significant number of underlying kegs for a participant to be a successful qualifier. Their recent update has completely undermined the legitimacy of their competition.
If instead of Gwent we were talking about football and if 3 quarters of the way into the game the rules were changed… both players and fans would be outraged… Well that is exactly what CDPR has done with Gwent, as their MidWinter update is literally a rule changer, which has been introduced just prior to season end.
CDPR through assigning a card’s attributes effectively establishes the rules of how a game of Gwent is played. CDPR has significantly changed the rules… after their competition started, but prior to the season finishing. CDPR has combined this by offering a significant advantage (whilst their competition is still running) to any competitor who purchases a holiday keg pack.
Often we take for granted that the laws and values of the country in which we live in, automatically applies over the internet, sadly they don’t. As a reminder to everyone in this community… CDPR operates out of Poland, a country which currently is at odds with the EU for their ruling party’s undermining of their judicial system by bringing their courts under political control.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/poland-...-under-political-control-20171220-h08a94.html
As a generalization one can often gain insights into the underlying society and values of a country through those they have elected to represent them. CDPR’s behavior indicates that like their country's political leaders, the rules can, and will be changed to suit and benefit themselves.
Myself I live in Australia, the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation (VCGLR) confirmed loot boxes (kegs) — where players use real money or currency earned in the game to purchase packs of random in-game rewards — were considered gambling under current legislation, but were hard to regulate.
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/ga...-gambling-regulator-says-20171122-gzr3ek.html
When it comes to competition Gwent, CDPR is effectively the financial beneficiary of all loot boxes (Keg purchases)… and CDPR through its actions has demonstrated that they will change the competition rules before it is completed.
Hmm, which Gwent character says… “Uh, oh here comes trouble”?
Any regular Gwent player would recognize that prior to the update, keg contents were increasingly awarding spares… effectively giving very little incentive for someone to spend actual money to purchase kegs.
Only a naïve fanboi would defend CDPR’s timing of their Midwinter update and dismiss CDPR’s efforts as a blatant cash grab focused on gaining extra sales over the Christmas period.
What has compounded this problem is prior to the update lots of hype was generated about the new cards, but there was no information at all given about the impending changes to existing cards, of which there were many significant changes. Post update many of these changes weren’t properly documented and many, many players found that their existing decks had become useless.
Due to the timing of this being just before season end, and combined with a special offer… to myself this seems as though this was intentional, to try to force the players who take the competition seriously… who day after day for the past 6 weeks have been devoting significant periods of time in their daily matches… to buy a holiday keg pack, if they want to still remain viable contenders in the competition. This I consider to be a blatant abuse of all players trust.
CDPR has used a Troll… Shupe… to present this offer to us. The irony hasn’t been lost on myself… a game played over the internet…whereby on the actual internet, trolls to be successful, try to win the trust of their victims by baiting them.
If anyone from CDPR is reading this what is done, is done… I am not asking you to defend your company’s behavior… however, I invite you to respond to these questions
Should the community continue to trust CDPR?
One of the fundamental factors for a company’s long term success over the internet is a community’s underlying trust of that company.
CDPR is currently trying to establish Gwent as a legitimate esport, with significant cash prizes, which requires a lot of grinding and a significant number of underlying kegs for a participant to be a successful qualifier. Their recent update has completely undermined the legitimacy of their competition.
If instead of Gwent we were talking about football and if 3 quarters of the way into the game the rules were changed… both players and fans would be outraged… Well that is exactly what CDPR has done with Gwent, as their MidWinter update is literally a rule changer, which has been introduced just prior to season end.
CDPR through assigning a card’s attributes effectively establishes the rules of how a game of Gwent is played. CDPR has significantly changed the rules… after their competition started, but prior to the season finishing. CDPR has combined this by offering a significant advantage (whilst their competition is still running) to any competitor who purchases a holiday keg pack.
Often we take for granted that the laws and values of the country in which we live in, automatically applies over the internet, sadly they don’t. As a reminder to everyone in this community… CDPR operates out of Poland, a country which currently is at odds with the EU for their ruling party’s undermining of their judicial system by bringing their courts under political control.
http://www.smh.com.au/world/poland-...-under-political-control-20171220-h08a94.html
As a generalization one can often gain insights into the underlying society and values of a country through those they have elected to represent them. CDPR’s behavior indicates that like their country's political leaders, the rules can, and will be changed to suit and benefit themselves.
Myself I live in Australia, the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation (VCGLR) confirmed loot boxes (kegs) — where players use real money or currency earned in the game to purchase packs of random in-game rewards — were considered gambling under current legislation, but were hard to regulate.
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/ga...-gambling-regulator-says-20171122-gzr3ek.html
When it comes to competition Gwent, CDPR is effectively the financial beneficiary of all loot boxes (Keg purchases)… and CDPR through its actions has demonstrated that they will change the competition rules before it is completed.
Hmm, which Gwent character says… “Uh, oh here comes trouble”?
Any regular Gwent player would recognize that prior to the update, keg contents were increasingly awarding spares… effectively giving very little incentive for someone to spend actual money to purchase kegs.
Only a naïve fanboi would defend CDPR’s timing of their Midwinter update and dismiss CDPR’s efforts as a blatant cash grab focused on gaining extra sales over the Christmas period.
What has compounded this problem is prior to the update lots of hype was generated about the new cards, but there was no information at all given about the impending changes to existing cards, of which there were many significant changes. Post update many of these changes weren’t properly documented and many, many players found that their existing decks had become useless.
Due to the timing of this being just before season end, and combined with a special offer… to myself this seems as though this was intentional, to try to force the players who take the competition seriously… who day after day for the past 6 weeks have been devoting significant periods of time in their daily matches… to buy a holiday keg pack, if they want to still remain viable contenders in the competition. This I consider to be a blatant abuse of all players trust.
CDPR has used a Troll… Shupe… to present this offer to us. The irony hasn’t been lost on myself… a game played over the internet…whereby on the actual internet, trolls to be successful, try to win the trust of their victims by baiting them.
If anyone from CDPR is reading this what is done, is done… I am not asking you to defend your company’s behavior… however, I invite you to respond to these questions
- These concerns which I have raised with regards to changing the rules during a current competition, how they will be handled in the future?
- As CDPR operates out of Poland and your government has been undermining the rule of law to suit itself, CDPR’s recent changes could be perceived by your international customers as following the same path of your government, through your company’s recent behavior, why should we continue to trust you?
- How has the timing of this game changing update… after the competition started, but before season ended… affected your trust of CDPR?
- If you decide not to buy a holiday keg pack will the game changes affect your place in the competition?
- Do you consider CDPR’s behavior to be ethical?