I think that this will come out just as a rant but it is more like a "reveal".
I've been an NG and SK ( liked the whole Norse theme ) player for a long time; I started playing gwent with MO, then switched to SY because i liked the whole "crimes and thieves". Today a new week a started, had many scraps and I decided to try a new playstyle so I switched to ST and oh boy was it like a rude awakening.
I've never played oppressive and toxic SK decks and I hated Ball as a card so I always tried to climb the ladder with funny and functional stuff but being on the other side for the first time was a shock.
Played casual - SK netdecks everywhere with a bunch of SY cache and congregation - tried ranked then and the situation was the same. I know understand better why people think some SK cards can be very oppressive and why the entire faction can basically play with any leader without any problems crushing you. I didn't play meme decks either, off meta of course, but not meme. I don't know, I feel like you can't really play anything except netdecks without even standing a chance unless you are really good at deckbuilding ( and I don't consider myself good at it for certain ) and that is making me feel kinda sad especially because i'm not a F2P player and invested lot of money on the game and I don't even have a full collection because I was always very unlucky with kegs and with work, family and uni I don't often feel like playing for hours just to be able to craft a couple of kegs per week.
I won't abruptly quit gwent because i've almost reached level 132 in journey so I guess I will at least try to reach 160 ( not sure of trying for 175 atm because the burnout and the dissatisfaction with the game is starting to boil ) but will almost certainly do after the end of journey.
So that's it, I guess I really had to vent it out, sorry if the post came out longer than I expected.
I've been an NG and SK ( liked the whole Norse theme ) player for a long time; I started playing gwent with MO, then switched to SY because i liked the whole "crimes and thieves". Today a new week a started, had many scraps and I decided to try a new playstyle so I switched to ST and oh boy was it like a rude awakening.
I've never played oppressive and toxic SK decks and I hated Ball as a card so I always tried to climb the ladder with funny and functional stuff but being on the other side for the first time was a shock.
Played casual - SK netdecks everywhere with a bunch of SY cache and congregation - tried ranked then and the situation was the same. I know understand better why people think some SK cards can be very oppressive and why the entire faction can basically play with any leader without any problems crushing you. I didn't play meme decks either, off meta of course, but not meme. I don't know, I feel like you can't really play anything except netdecks without even standing a chance unless you are really good at deckbuilding ( and I don't consider myself good at it for certain ) and that is making me feel kinda sad especially because i'm not a F2P player and invested lot of money on the game and I don't even have a full collection because I was always very unlucky with kegs and with work, family and uni I don't often feel like playing for hours just to be able to craft a couple of kegs per week.
I won't abruptly quit gwent because i've almost reached level 132 in journey so I guess I will at least try to reach 160 ( not sure of trying for 175 atm because the burnout and the dissatisfaction with the game is starting to boil ) but will almost certainly do after the end of journey.
So that's it, I guess I really had to vent it out, sorry if the post came out longer than I expected.