Good afternoon, ladies and gents.
I return to this topic, but this time is not to talk about streamers - i will change the title of the thread to broaden the scope of the thread - but about other gwent content creators, more specifically,
Gwent teams.
Disclaimer: i am not a fan of these teams of players, and i've been very critical of them in the past, specifically for their meta reports and how they influence the meta and reinforce netdecking behaviour. Despite my opinion, i will try my best to be unbiased, and any criticisms dished out will have a basis to back them out.
I want to bring attention to other problems, ones i've been slowly noticing over the past few months, and today they reached a breaking point.
I will be very negative (that is my specialty after all
), but i encourage others to bring light to the positives of these team's actions, or even refute my arguments with their own. I might even do a post on the positives i find, later on.
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I believe the two biggest Gwent teams are
Team Aretuza and
Team Leviathan Gaming. I know more recently, other teams have popped up, like Bandit gang and Elder Blood, but i dont know enough about them yet to make any claims.
Looking at the roster of TLG and Aretuza, its easy to see they are "powerhouses", they have in their members +70% of the big names in gwent, whether they are streamers (SpecimenGwent, Misterhabbla, Spyro_ZA), official casters (Shinmiri, Jaggerous, Lionhart), or even pro players (gravesh, Kams, and even Pajabol, the only Gwent Masters winner).
So, if they have so many of these talented players and creators, i expect quality content of their websites, no? But that is not what i found, far from it:
On TLG, i enter the site and i see a meta report on May 6th. That is the day of the 8.5 patch, i found it weird and checked it out, were they that quick? No, that was a meta report for the previous season! Like, what the F'? Are they so out of touch with the game that they dont know when a new patch with significant changes is coming out? And release a meta report so late its outdated on launch
So, i checked Team Aretuza's website, to see if the situation is better - the last meta report was for season of the bear, that was in March, i believe. So no, not a better situation at all...
Have these teams lost relevance? Or they're more focused on other CCGs, like Runeterra? Are the new teams, that i mentioned earlier, have overtaken these 2 colossi in popularity? Because i know for sure netdecking is still huge in Gwent, but perhaps players are getting their metadecks from other sources?
The REAL reason i checked these websites was not to look at meta reports, but to check other articles they may have. On TLG, they have so many people but only wusubi writes articles, and only like 1 every 2 months.
On Aretuza's there's also no articles except some interviews and meta reports (not even for every season).
This is very frustrating for me. I love writing for gwent, whether its meme deck guides or other misc. stuff, and perhaps this is bravado but i think i alone would do a better job in the written department than these entire teams. But this is not motivating me to prove it, i think maybe its just showing written articles and guides, even meta reports, have too few of an audience, and videos and streams is where the success it's at. What do you guys think?