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CD Projekt Red will stop supporting Gwent on consoles
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From what I've seen, the game never really took off on consoles. So that might have factored into the decision as well.
It totally is. Why would they spend resources on something that doesn't generate them profit?
No offense, but are there still people playing Gwent? I loved the early days, and then they changed everything... it was just a different game, not at all attractive.
But Gwent is one of those games that, why not just play it on your phone. Switch and the stationary home consoles really don´t bring anything to the table.
They leave greed to others?
The correct move would be to offer a choice between the refund and the progress transfer. In this case, it still sucks if you are a console Gwent player, but at the very least you can get your money back.
This article should be the sister one:
This is the quarter with the launch of iOS, so obviously a little more skewed towards more revenue from the new platform. Still, consoles rack peanuts in the already low popularity game.
An incredibly shit thing of them to do, I'm pretty mad about it. I still play gwent on my PS4 from time to time so getting told to shove off is very frustrating. They didn't even bother to make a macOS compatible version so my only option to play Gwent now is my iPhone, no thanks.
Just be glad that you have an iPhone, most of the Europe does not :D
The game is only supported on PC and iOS as of now. (iOS port being like 5 weeks old) Android version sometime next year...
It will never cease to amaze me that people have this kind of reaction to news like this.
They need to make money and this currently isn't making them money. They are offering ways of transferring you game to one of the other platforms to make sure you don't lose anything.
This game was always going to be better on mobile platforms and it's a good business decision from them
Bollocks, games like these are meant to be cross save/cross progression, always.
That this isn't already account based with playing the same progress on all platforms is the real surprise here.
It's a shame that Gwent never really took off. Thronebreaker in particular was a pretty well made game with a lot of neat ideas
Huh, I spitballed the 5% number in my previous post, but it seems I was off by very little. It truly does make no sense for CDPR to pour development money into such a small slice of the userbase pie.
What do you want them to do?
If no one plays Gwent on consoles why keep spending resources and time when other platforms are more profitable?
They should be offering ways to merge accounts. I played on both PC and PS4, but now am stuck choosing between either continuing from where i am on PC or copying my progress on PS4 to a new GoG account and going from there. It sucks as I am attached to both accounts for different reasons.
Justifies everything but illegal activity.
Game is broken.
Game just banned me.
Game just added $500 instant-win card.
Game is holding an ending behind a $200 microtransaction.
Game is only playable for 5 minutes every day.
If you are only viewing this move through the lens of law/rights, then there is no point in discussing because their ToS usually allow them to modify the game and pull the plug as they wish.
If I recall correctly in the past CDPR has said their hands were tied by the console platform owners not allowing it (Sony in particular). iOS version launched with shared progression with PC and Android will have it as well.
But no, players weren't able to use their console/PC accounts on the other platform, you had to create a new account to play on either one.
Obviously not ideal news. Very cool that they seem to be doing everything they can to help players transfer over to another platform, though! Hopefully most console Gwent players have an option between iOS, Anrdroid & PC. I feel like playing on an iPad would feel great and have plenty of screen size for that juicy Gwent artwork.
The console version of card games have always had abysmal player numbers. So I'm not surprised by this.
Cool, the less time they waste on a fucking Gwent game the better. Focus your efforts on bigger and better things
Shutting down an online multi game after 2 YEARS is always gonna be shit. You can't be serious -_-
Why do you as a consumer care about the profit motives of a company unless you're a shareholder.
It's great that they're letting people transfer to mobile, but this sort of thing highlights how much the "games as service" model and microtransactions exploit consumers. If the consumer isn't being adequately exploited then the company moves on and you can't do anything about it, you've already given them your money.
The fail rate of games as service also clearly dispels this largely parroted defense of this industry practice that games as service always are a net benefit to the consumer, rather than paying up front for a product and then being able to own it.
I don't really have a stake in this, as I didn't own the game. But it gets really exhausting watching gamers defend the profit motive of developers/publishers when by-and-large gamers are not seeing any benefit from this alternative development model (despite the propaganda that this model is better for consumers).
It definitely sucks if you dropped money in it. The platform transfer is a good thing though.
I played some Gwent during the beta and quite a bit last year and had some fun, but it became more and more complex to the point where the time investment wouldn't be worth it for me in the long run. I enjoyed the simplicity of the game as is it in The Witcher 3.
And it just felt weird to play a card game on console. I actually mostly played through PS4 remote play on my PC at work.
One thing I'm thankful for though is the gorgeous Wticher art that I got to ogle at every time I played. I bought the Gwent artbook and an art print of the card with Geralt and Roach. The artists at CDPR are crazy talented.
I played some Gwent during the beta and quite a bit last year and had some fun, but it became more and more complex to the point where the time investment wouldn't be worth it for me in the long run. I enjoyed the simplicity of the game as is it in The Witcher 3.
And it just felt weird to play a card game on console. I actually mostly played through PS4 remote play on my PC at work.
One thing I'm thankful for though is the gorgeous Wticher art that I got to ogle at every time I played. I bought the Gwent artbook and an art print of the card with Geralt and Roach. The artists at CDPR are crazy talented.
