Brenex;n9137560 said:
Ok, so this must be a hypothetical discussion then because:
1. The question in the thread title has already been answered (check my initial post and what other people posted);
2. You only offered alternatives, no actual reasons for why it shouldn't be like this or why it should be changed;
3. Changing something in a game requires development work, which costs money, and I don't really think it is a priority to change something that isn't problematic in any way.
I didn't say it's a requirement for all games, I gave that example because your question made it sound like it's a weird feature, not something common. If they chose to put it there, what's the problem really?
1. The question hasn't really been answered. I have read all the other posts and the most common answer seems to be level rewards. Rewards don't need levels. Matches played, matches won, whatever.
2. I'm not saying it's wrong or shouldn't be like this. I'm saying it serves no purpose so I'm curious what the point is supposed to be. Generally a player level denotes skill level, experience level or whatever and is used to match equally skilled opponents. It doesn't do that here. Level has pretty much nothing to do with matchmaking (or anything else) in gwent. Matchmaking uses rank in ranked, and some unknown magical unicorn dust for matchmaking in casual.
3. Somehow I doubt removing levels or making it relevant would send the company to the poorhouse.
So once again, we have rank to give an indication of your skill level. we have borders and titles to indicate your general success level. Rewards could easily be based on pretty much anything else. (games played, won, lost, whatever.) Say I just started playing. I've plugged away, made it to level 8, looking forward to hitting 10 so I can try ranked. And then I'm matched with a lvl 18. based on pretty much every other multiplayer game out there, I'm severely outmatched. Which might not actually be the case in gwent.
My point is that player levels don't actually serve a purpose. And if it doesn't serve a purpose, why have it?