Drugie wideo z prezentacją Homecoming! Mamy datę premiery! Tym razem pokazano Scoia’tael! [Szczegóły]

CDPR to nie fundacja charytatywna i oczywistym jest, że muszą zarabiać. Dopóki gra nie stanie się Pay2Win, nie widzę żadnego problemu. Grafika to dla wielu jeden z najważniejszych elementów gry, nie ma się co oszukiwać. Nowy wygląd na pewno przyciągnie wielu nowych graczy. Gra jest zrobiona na silniku Unity, Burza mówił już, że jest znacznie lepiej zoptymalizowana i jeśli wymagania sprzętowe miałyby podskoczyć, to nieznacznie.

O widzę, że skasowano moje posty. To tylko chciałbym przypomnieć, że używanie słów typu kretyn w jakimkolwiek kontekście wobec innych piszących na forum powinno spotkać się ze zdecydowaną reakcją ze strony administracji tegoż forum. Fanboystwo czy praca dla twórcy gry w żaden sposób nie może tu być usprawiedliwieniem wszelakich chamstwa. Chamstwu w życiu należy się przeciwstawiać siłą i godnością osobistą, jak mawiał klasyk.

To poczytaj se wiosna też co niepolaczki sądzą o waszej produkcji hc, gwent forum, autor Shabman, dzisiaj:
„Good God, what have you done to Eithne?
Now for some reason, I can’t log in with my regular GOG account
(Shabeel), so I made another one just to express how shocked I am at
what I’m seeing in regard to Homecoming.
I am a dedicated CDPR fan, who has supported $$ pretty much everything
Witcher-related that came out, who has spent thousands of hours immersed
in the Witcher universe (Witcher games, books, etc.), and who – so far –
was quite happy shutting up and letting the pros do what they lovingly
do. But I am afraid I must say something now.
I am a casual Gwent player, who likes to experiment with all kinds of
decks and to see how they fare against some of the more established
archetypes. I loved Witcher 3 Gwent to bits, and decided last winter to
give online Gwent a try hoping to relive the same thrill with the added
promise of more cards and beautiful artwork. So far, so good. I have to
say, I’ve been having a pretty good time.
What you must understand, dear devs, is that Gwent is not Hearthstone or
any of those other card games you’re trying to compete with. It didn’t
just spring out of the blue (I mean no offense to those games, of
course), it is ROOTED in something, it has an emotional context, and
that is its strength, that is its originality. Naturally, some things
will feel familiar, some will feel unfamiliar, exciting, repulsive,
etc.. There is a vast spectrum of emotional reactions players will have
whenever you change anything. And you must know that these emotional
factors are extremely powerful when it comes to choosing what to invest
your time in, and whether to purchase. They are much more profound and
important than having bigger artwork, or cool effects, or a
„battlefield”.
Which brings me to a brief summary of my problems with Homecoming:
1) The cartoonization of this game’s art style:
Eithne is a fair example of this. Gone is the dignified, serenely
beautiful, rather cruel, fascinating character which the current artwork
portrays (I dare you to look at it and not see the depth of her, not to
mention – as someone else said – the context which the artwork
provides), we now have a Papuan charicature (no offense, again, to
Papuan culture which absolutely fascinates me), not unlike the Arena
Eithne, dressed in some underwear made of flowers and shooting arrows.
This is symptomatic of everything that is happening with the current art
direction. I personally find the leaders and „battlefields” (as if
Gwent was ever meant to be played on the ground) completely garish, but
maybe you could say that’s just my personal taste.
What I find truly, truly worrisome is this constant misreading of your
fanbase. Yes, there were many fans who wanted the gaming interface to be
more exciting, but I don’t think anyone had „Gwent meets HOMM” in mind,
with little 3D heroes looking like those figurines you get with Premium
Editions of whichever game. There were many elegant solutions and ways
to spruce up the interface without resorting to drawing lines on the
ground in some generic graveyard or fantasy forest and having the
players play their cards in the dirt. (note: honest question – if I play
SC and my opponent Monsters, will we be playing in the graveyard or the
fantasy forest? Or will I see myself in the forest, and they in the
cemetery?)
Mark my words CDPR, if you want to seriously compete on the market with
other card games, PLAY YOUR STRENGTHS, do not try to be more like them,
because you will not succeed in attracting their fans thus. And when I
say play your strenghts, and when you say „we want to make the game
darker”, it should be obvious that „darker” does not mean reducing the
brightness on your artwork or putting a filter over your cards. Dark is
all about emotions, and bright colours can be darker and more
frightening than black-grey tones. It’s all about how you set it up –
and that’s where the major work should have been done.
2) Not being straightforward about extremely divisive changes, such as two-rows:
Let me begin by saying NO ONE WANTED TWO ROWS. I am not shouting, I am
merely emphasizing a most important point. The vast majority of people
by any measure (forum, internet at large, you probably had your own
polls – I hope (?)) were against this change, for a very simple reason.
Gwent in its most familiar state in which many encountered it – whether
Witcher 3 or today’s Gwent – had 3 rows and that is what is familiar and
comfortable for people. Imagine cutting out the pawns’ row in chess,
because hey! it’s boring, they can only move one square at a time, and
they get in the way of the really cool pieces that can move across the
board with ease. People would justifiably hate it! The only fans who
were willing to accept a row being cut were those who saw it as a
tradeoff – or sacrifice – in which we would let go of a row, but the
remaining two would somehow be infused with new meaning.
It is now becoming clear that this was a false hope. Rows had loads of
meaning in Witcher 3, when you were forced to play most cards on
specific rows – opening up many possibilities for dealing with your
opponent, especially weather effects which were quite powerful back
then. Rows have less meaning now – since you are free to play cards
wherever you want – but that doesn’t mean they are completely
meaningless. For instance, I have a beautiful little movement deck (with
Eithne, my favorite leader by far), in which I enjoy setting up two pit
traps (one from deck, one repeat with Eithne), forcing my oponent to
crowd his remaining cards into the free row – I then play Nivellen and
cruelly enjoy seeing all the cards land on pit traps while my bowmen are
shooting at them. Not so fun with 2 rows. Same for my endless spawning
of Crow’s Eye, hitting three cards each time – and all kinds of fun
effects and mechanics which just feel good in threes. My post is getting
quite long already so I will not carry on with my 3 row nostalgia.
Suffice to say, for me – and many people – 3 rows have meaning, because
that is what they know and that is the game they came to love.
You are free to make whatever game you want, but please don’t play on
people’s feelings and call it „Homecoming” when it is anything but.
Please stop saying the new 2 rows have meaning, when it is simply
choosing between 2 abilities. That’s almost dishonest. Please
acknowledge the fans that you alienated with this divisive move, and
admit that 2 rows had nothing to do with „meaning” and everything to do
with 3 rows not fitting with your new „art style”, which seems to be the
main focus of what you’re doing.
Personally, I will play the new game and pretty much anything CDPR will
put out because that is the degree of my love for you and what you do,
but I ask you to please, respectfully stop referring to this new game as
„Homecoming”, and to be more transparent in your communications about
why you made certain decisions, and – if I dare – to apologize to the
fans you have upset with some of the changes in this upcoming version of
Gwent. You may not believe me, or you may call me a doomsayer, but a
vast, humongous number of players are disappointed with where this game
is going, and apologizing to them might just make the difference between
keeping them and losing them for good.
Hope I have not dampened your spirits, and I wish you continue to make beautiful things.
Thank you CDPR! „