Jigzter;n9727321 said:
You seem to have misunderstood my statement. I never said anything about the devs banning a 3rd party utility/application. I said the devs "don't ban players who use it," which they should obviously be able to do if they wanted to. Also, they can simply announce that they are officially against the software and its features for any number of reasons. But do they?
You misunderstood my statement.
They can't ban it. They can't
detect it. Therefore, they can't ban players that use it. Announcements mean absolutely jack squat if there's zero enforcement, which is impossible to do.
There is no way to stop it, other than taking a heavy handed approach against the maker - but that would only inevitably see a rise of another maker that wouldn't cooperate or be entirely underground.
The only solution is to embrace what Gwent Tracker provides and provide it to everyone equally.
A useful thing with Gwent Tracker? Being able to see into graveyards without the opponent knowing you're looking. When you view a graveyard inside Gwent natively, the cursor hovers over the graveyard. If you're playing say... Monsters and viewing the opponent's graveyard, you're just screaming "I HAVE CARETAKER IN MY HAND".
It's little advantages like that summing into a much larger advantage. People that use Gwent Tracker have the upper hand, and there's no denying it.
Esmer;n9728061 said:
I think it's very simple: really good players will do the same w/o a tracker, and average players will do slightly worse.
So banning trackers will not change the top of the leaderboards, but will make the game harder for your average Joe. Since we all (both CDPR and the community) want the game to grow, it looks like not banning trackers is a good idea.
Besides, trackers won't show you any info the game client doesn't already know, so I doubt you can call it cheating.
Part of it is the information itself, and part of it is the speed at which the information is gathered. Really good players will not do the same without tracker, because outside of people with eidetic memory, it's not possible. Just wait until a tracker starts showing real statistics, like the % chance of drawing X card. Sometimes games are won and lost by thinning and % chance of drawing a clutch card.
There's a reason why they don't allow computers at the world series of poker. Sure, you can't see other people's cards, but you can calculate odds. And in fact, if you watch on TV, it shows those odds to the audience. Very few people can calculate those odds in their head.