I feel your pain. But maybe it's a problem with your deck? I don't think that I often get cards which I don't want to play in the first round. And having cards which can bring out your best cards can be handy. If that happened, then the worst luck would be someone playing a Nil deck, both their Viper Witchers banishing your two best cards and then having cards which also screw you. That's happened to me.
How long have you playing GWENT for? If you're new, you might have a different idea of what "sub-par cards" means but I've also noticed newies maybe making pro rank without having gained many new cards at all, which makes you wonder. It's good in one way.
Maybe someone good at maths can do the stats here. You play a maximum of 16 cards in ordinary circumstances over three rounds. That's almost a 2 in 3 chance of picking up any card in your deck. I'm also sure that in any gambling game, e.g. two-up, you could runs like you've experienced, e.g. two heads or two tails in 10 consecutive losses.
I do agree that CDPR do use gambling industry methods in order to try and get you addicted. I've posted on that here in the past but that's more to do with their rewards system. I do wonder though if they have a bad matchup system. I've complained about that in the past here too.
If I was to write a blurb for GWENT, it would be "At least it's not as bad as MTG". Be grateful for small mercies. That gets discussed in this thread:
Question on leaderboard stats
How and when do your faction stats reset? I've mentioned elsewhere on this forum that my stats are near identical to top ranked non-pro players in places like North America yet my position is nowhere near them on the boards. How do you reset your stats and maybe do better next time? Like I've...
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I'll just add in my post below, where I linked to someone else's post which I think illustrates well the gambling industry techniques to get people to keep playing a game.
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Gambling: Loot Boxes & Gwent
Gambling: Loot Boxes & Gwent This topic isn't specifically about Gwent, but rather about all Online Collectible Card Games (CCG). The GWENT card game is modelled on gambling. As for your comment that "the Dutch approach, stating that if it doesn't generate economic value to their users...
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Well i was thinking to make a topic like this.
Usually i prefer to play in Blue coin, and i am having some strange RNG wich gives me always The Red coin.
For example, a few days ago i made a draft run and got in all The 7 games The Red coin. It was a syndicate deck and i needed The Tiger eye to things works better.
2 days ago i counted 10 games in a row getting The Red coin.
I dunno, but I think If i "toss a coin (to your witcher)" 10 times its almost impossible to have The same face.
Reading this topic about The "pairs". Yesterday i ve played 3 games wich The first 10 cards give me The 2 thinning pairs of my deck.
For my luck i was playing Tactical Decision and was abre to put them off.
Usually i prefer to play in Blue coin, and i am having some strange RNG wich gives me always The Red coin.
For example, a few days ago i made a draft run and got in all The 7 games The Red coin. It was a syndicate deck and i needed The Tiger eye to things works better.
2 days ago i counted 10 games in a row getting The Red coin.
I dunno, but I think If i "toss a coin (to your witcher)" 10 times its almost impossible to have The same face.
Reading this topic about The "pairs". Yesterday i ve played 3 games wich The first 10 cards give me The 2 thinning pairs of my deck.
For my luck i was playing Tactical Decision and was abre to put them off.
After the 10 games in a row with almost the worst possible draws, the magic fairies gave me 13 games IN A ROW where I got the absolute best possible draws. Not only that, I could tell the opponent was drawing crap.
Went from from rank 3 to Pro. Same deck.
Now the games back to stacking up Portal, Sage, Land of 1000 AND Marching Orders as the last 4 of 5 cards of my deck. ANY ONE of those cards would let me play Portal. It's now happened twice in 4 games...
Went from from rank 3 to Pro. Same deck.
Now the games back to stacking up Portal, Sage, Land of 1000 AND Marching Orders as the last 4 of 5 cards of my deck. ANY ONE of those cards would let me play Portal. It's now happened twice in 4 games...
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I'm trying to remember the deal with MTG, maybe in single player mode, where there was a coin toss and it could perhaps spawn some units or something. The AI always got a good toss and I NEVER had the effect. Seemed rigged.