People will believe anything... (a netdecking story)
So yesterday on Facebook I saw an official post from the Gwent page with a link to a new deck by Swim. I looked at it, and looked at it, and...looked at it. And I thought to myself, this deck is complicated, and probably not for the general public. But I shrugged it off and went about my day as I always do.
Fast forward to last night, and I'm playing a few hands before I pass out, and at 4200 MMR in ranked play, TWO people; TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE came up against me with this "Millege" deck. The first guy, who seemed to have an understanding of it, just couldn't make it work. And he lost handily in 2 rounds. In fact, my NG deck drew him out in the first round, and Swim's deck doesn't feature a Ciri Dash. The second guy, forfeited on the 4th card.
Moral of the story. If the development team of this game wants to promote Netdecking, that's fine. If people want to Netdeck, that's fine too. But just because Swim puts "44K MMR" in the deck description, doesn't make it a 44K MMR deck. Even if Swim is at 44K, which I don't have any reason to disbelieve, he sure as hell didn't get there with this. And it's pretty sad that people assume they can just copy the next link in Swim's Decklist and compete with people who worked their ass off to get near the top. In fact, it makes me wonder how people got as high as they did, if they were willing to hand me free rank points by trying this garbage in Ranked Play.
So yesterday on Facebook I saw an official post from the Gwent page with a link to a new deck by Swim. I looked at it, and looked at it, and...looked at it. And I thought to myself, this deck is complicated, and probably not for the general public. But I shrugged it off and went about my day as I always do.
Fast forward to last night, and I'm playing a few hands before I pass out, and at 4200 MMR in ranked play, TWO people; TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE came up against me with this "Millege" deck. The first guy, who seemed to have an understanding of it, just couldn't make it work. And he lost handily in 2 rounds. In fact, my NG deck drew him out in the first round, and Swim's deck doesn't feature a Ciri Dash. The second guy, forfeited on the 4th card.
Moral of the story. If the development team of this game wants to promote Netdecking, that's fine. If people want to Netdeck, that's fine too. But just because Swim puts "44K MMR" in the deck description, doesn't make it a 44K MMR deck. Even if Swim is at 44K, which I don't have any reason to disbelieve, he sure as hell didn't get there with this. And it's pretty sad that people assume they can just copy the next link in Swim's Decklist and compete with people who worked their ass off to get near the top. In fact, it makes me wonder how people got as high as they did, if they were willing to hand me free rank points by trying this garbage in Ranked Play.