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These games live because they cater to a different, larger audience. For me the paradox is: the best cardgame on the market will reduce its activity, while other products, which are more expensive and have a terrible meta, will continue their journey.

As soon as the 2024 plan was announced during the livestream, I thought they were quite bold. They could have avoided the topic for 365 days. I see your point, but most of the cardgames (e.g. Heartstone, Magic Arena,...) are even worse as far as toxic metagame goes. Even in the current state...

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Vivaldi Bank doesn't break initiative? I always assumed it would. Cool deck. It's able to put points on the board, but has tall punish and ways of interacting with the opponent board.

The immunity tag is very strong. Boosting self by 1 whenever you play a SC unit means that you can play her on blue or red coin for tons of points. For this reason it got meta again!

I do agree that the playerbase of Gwent has changed over the course of the years. Back in the days there were more streamers, tournaments and esport teams. Gwent used to attract competitive players. The selling point of the game was ability and not luck is the decide the outcome of the game...

There is the "Training mode", which is supposed to offer a casual environment. It's the fourth game mode in the UI, after "Standard", "Seasonal", "Draft". In the "Training mode" there is no rank involved. However, players might anyway bring their meta decks to the table. In "training mode" you...

Maybe I'm too strict with Shupe. In the end, also mulliganing aggressively, entails some randomness. I like cards with a clear effect like CIri, 8 point resilience, or Igni, destroy highest power units. There is no 60% of getting that option. As long as you match the condition and you draw...

That's indeed a great addition to the cardpool. Decks with Troll Porter are viable at Rank 4-6 (my current rank) and I suspect might perform well enough even a bit higher. I wish singleton decks would not rely on Shupe. I know that with RuneMage you control the "Create" aspect of Shupe, but...

This is one of those decks that you have to equip with the Unicorn coin, if you have unlocked it with the Journey. :ok: I know the deck is not meant to be competitive, but based on the sample of 6 games, I got 4 win, 1 draw and 1 loss. I went from Rank 5 to Rank 4. After the first two games I...

This sounds interesting. I'm always looking for new card games. It's getting increasingly hard to find the time to play RTS, not to mention the grand strategy games of Paradox. I will give it a try.

If we follow that line of thinking, we should expect Geralt eating a pizza. Or has the recipe of good Italian food gone lost in the conjunction of the spheres? We shouldn't expect a Temerian castle, but pagodas. Skellige's warrior should paddle in canoes and so on. :shrug: Let's face it: the...

The old progression system was better. You could progress and gather resources even by losing 2-1. Now there is too much emphasis on winning. As for the quest system, I have a radical point of view: they should not exist. Players should play whatever they feel like without getting "punished" by...

Those events were like puzzles. An awesome single-player challenge with different set of rules and decks. In my opinion we should compare the current event with past events, not with journeys. Journeys are separete content. Most of the journey content lies behind a (small) paywall and does not...

I'll be one of the few critical voices, as I don't like holiday-themed events. What I do like as events are: - game cosmetic that will expire at the end of the event (e.g. party-hats during the Starcraft 2 Anniversary. I have an uncle that starts with the Christmas wishes in August. If he were...

I don't think there is a writer. I suspect they are testing an advanced Machine Learning algorithm. They fed the program with a couple of witcher books, a .png file of Shupe and 2 TB of Teenage drama and this is the result. Don't blame the IA. Technology is not there yet. :facepalm:

True, but what if I told you that Ge'els himself is in charge of adapting the source material? Gwent-jokes aside, I think that adapting the books by Sapkowski should have been easier compared to adapting the Asimov's trilogy.

If the illustrious Julian Alfred Pankratz got some critics, that guy Shakespeare can get his share of "Boo!" and tomatoes. :smart: Regarding the Witcher Season 2 I doubt the show will be praised in 400 years for the writing. I liked the episode with Nivellen, but other than that I don't have...

The bad reputation of NR Patience deck has more to do with the snowball effect than to the power-level. Losing a game by over 100 points can make anyone pretty salty. The other top decks were able to win more consistently, but not by such a huge margin. Anyway, SC 2nd best faction confirmed!

Not feeling too good about my Tailbot prediction. :oops: