It seems the forums are dead these days. I second this. If nothing else it is likely to prove free money for CDPR since it should bring people people to the game and result in an uptick of cards and whatnot sold, and this new Homecoming revision has already reached the end of its lifespan anyway. Most of us liked the old game and would appreciate a return to it.
There is absolutely no chance of this happening, especially with the balance council having replaced active development.
Frankly, I do not see the harm in asking for a re-release of beta Gwent, and there are a number of us who do indeed have the interest to play that game again, a game which we no longer have as of the Homecoming patch (although the Midwinter patch also had significant negative effects for Gwent as people knew it - Homecoming was just an attempt to fix the mistakes of Midwinter patch - hence the name Homecoming - with the same thinking that was used to create it, and thus decided the issue was that they didn't double down on their new design direction enough). It is also telling that while there have been efforts to revive beta Gwent, there has been no effort to create any form of custom server for the current game. At the end of the day, there is a demand for beta Gwent, even if most of us have moved on to other games by this point, as it is likely that an official relaunch of beta Gwent will garner interest that this new game we have been left with does not share.
And may I ask, by what basis do you present that strongly-worded claim of there being "absolutely no chance"?
From what I can tell, it is precisely because the current Homecoming-patch based game is largely discontinued that there shouldn't be any trouble re-releasing beta Gwent. It is by no means difficult to make the client available for download again, set up the old Gwent server software, and let people play the original. All of that software is still fully functional and would not require any active development. At most there would have to be some looking into how scraps and whatnot will be handled for existing Gwent accounts, but that is quite manageable. You make a simple determination on how you intend to transfer scraps and run a DB script to populate accounts with the appropriate amount of scraps and whatnot. I honestly see no reason whatsoever why the existence of "balance council" somehow precludes any of this.
And may I ask, by what basis do you present that strongly-worded claim of there being "absolutely no chance"?
From what I can tell, it is precisely because the current Homecoming-patch based game is largely discontinued that there shouldn't be any trouble re-releasing beta Gwent. It is by no means difficult to make the client available for download again, set up the old Gwent server software, and let people play the original. All of that software is still fully functional and would not require any active development. At most there would have to be some looking into how scraps and whatnot will be handled for existing Gwent accounts, but that is quite manageable. You make a simple determination on how you intend to transfer scraps and run a DB script to populate accounts with the appropriate amount of scraps and whatnot. I honestly see no reason whatsoever why the existence of "balance council" somehow precludes any of this.
It would require maintaining (running servers for) two versions of the game, which wouldn't make any sense (this was the case even while the game was still being worked on).
CDPR have stated the game "has been sunset", which makes it impossible for there to be huge changes like what is being suggested in this thread.
You don't need separate servers. You can run both games on the same server. That's what Guild Wars does with GW1's hosting software running on the GW2 servers. At most you'd use different ports to keep everything separate.
And reinstalling an old copy of the game does not require any huge changes. You're not changing either game, at all. You're just running beta Gwent separately, and all of that software still works.
And reinstalling an old copy of the game does not require any huge changes. You're not changing either game, at all. You're just running beta Gwent separately, and all of that software still works.
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I wasn't actually thinking about somehow ,,expanding the game". More about let us play it Peer to Peer where players create servers and play with each other just for fun. I dont know exactly how it works and what it needs from cdpr to have that game working but there is a lot of old games that works like this.... So this is just what I was excepting, would be great if back in 2018 they would create another game type with old cards, spies etc. so people could choose this type to play (something like in MTG Arena...) But im sure so many ppl would peak this over their homecoming... Oh and worth to notice there is not many people looking at this forum after so many years but i still meet ppl who will play it. So Draconifors maybe you could ask them about possibility of that peer to peer cilent of the beta game 
Actually I belive that P2P thing is probably very simple to do and can be done without big costs or time spent there
Actually I belive that P2P thing is probably very simple to do and can be done without big costs or time spent there
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Even if I had any more influence over the game's development (or lack thereof) than you do, which I don't, the answer would be no.
CDPR have explicitly stated that there will be no more content patches (which implementing this suggestion certainly would be) created by the developers. Here are a few quotes, and it is doubtless possible to find more elsewhere:
December 2022:
October 2023:
January 2024:
There are some things some players have been asking for or complaining about for literal years, yet the things have never changed or been added/removed. This is one of them.
I have zero experience in gamedev and next to none in coding, but logic says implementing a whole new system cannot possibly be a simple matter.
Which further underlines the question of why should the developers return to a project they have already sunset just so players who more than likely are a minority get their way.
Nothing stops anyone from hoping that something will happen to make this reality, it just is not advisable due to the lack of likelihood.
This post is the last I will say on the topic, because there is nothing more for me to say about it.
You don't need Peer2Peer hosting to be able to host your own games. It would be easier for them to implement dedicated hosting, but for the most part if they are going to wash their hands off of Gwent and release it into the open, they may as well just open source the thing for even less effort. I suppose it's an actual option at that, as there is already a community out there who are making a Gwent imitation who would love the opportunity to work with the original Gwent game and the Gwent source code has already been released into the internet iirc back when hackers broke into CDPR's networks.
But the other simple solution would remain to just reinstall old Gwent and let people play it.
But the other simple solution would remain to just reinstall old Gwent and let people play it.
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