Uhm, if the cards can be earned allthough slow by grinding is it really locked behind DRM?
Thats not drm last time i checked.
Loooks more like pay to win or getting an advantage by buying cards instead of grinding them.

Yeah, unfortunately they are very good with reading but not so good with actually replying. Otherwise this whole discussion would be much shorter.

Apparently caring about such things is, like, totally lame.

AIs are the best opponents. They are always available and only wait for you to play. They are patient. They are able to beat even the best humans in the most complex games. And when you prefer it, they also can be as weak as you want. So many advantages compared to human opponents.. :P

The point is that if CDPR actually had principles, it would design/sell games that are consistent with them; what we are seeing, however, are more and more games that put CDPR at odds with it's stated policy, to the point that said policy is nothing more than window dressing.

Zepsuli teraz tego gwinta

Bad move GoG, bad move...

So I've played the single-player that's available so far (online, I did try to play it offline just to make sure and you can't even start the game), these are "challenges" (fairly easy ones) for you to earn some cards. It was alright, fun even. But I am aware that as I get more and more into this game, the bigger the chance I'll be inclined to buy stuff with real-world money - I mean, at least if they balanced it "right" for it to make them lots of money.

Saying a f2p game's microtransactions are optional is missing the point. The fact of the matter is that these games are designed to tempt you to spend money, they are designed in a way that makes it seem worthy to invest money into the game. In GWENT, every keg (booster pack) comes with a rare or legendary card guaranteed. So if you buy a few dozens of those you'll get good cards easy. Maybe not the ones you want, but good cards (you can always just buy more).

As fun as this game is, I play it aware that it's free-to-play trash. The incoming single-player campaign will most probably also rely on this microtransaction-enabled economy and that's a shame. I wouldn't hold my breath for a full-fledged offline single-player game, although that would be awesome. Playing a card game against AI is more engaging than I thought.

Anyway... It's a pity GOG/CDPR decided to stain their hands and franchise in f2p trash, but since they did, I really wish it was banished to be steam-only. It's a wild west over there already (and this game would probably be well-received).

As a side note, it gives me hope to have people still adamantly standing for the DRM-free principles. I feel like a blind consumer in comparison. I honestly have been learning and considering new things, like the whole thing about multiplayer being locked to a central server without lan options nowadays, never gave much of a thought about that; it's an option so frequently taken away/not considered nowadays that I just learned not to expect it, but didn't think about how devs just don't bother and give shitty excuses for not implementing DRM-free multiplayer options.

Is it CDPR? Can't remember how the companies are structured. CDPR are the main company that produces the games. GOG is the smaller sister company, and its them that have the stated policy on DRM free. Is that not the case. Not disagreeing with your post at, just wether we talk about GOG or CDPR as the company in question.

As I see it, GOG isn't independent and doesn't do anything that CDPR doesn't want it to. The Galaxy thing wouldn't work too well if they weren't on the very same page, and I seriously doubt that GOG is the cart, and CDPR the horse. ;p

Sorry for this. CDPR destroyed de original game, the identity, the key features of this game. The Open Beta didnt change cards or balance, but change the whole mechanics of how key concepts works, they changes the key concepts, so this is a new Gwent game, is not more the Gwent I liked, or the original Gwent of Witcher 3, which all us loved. The BIG MISTAKE CDPR did is make all this changes to the original game, it was so hard just give to the players the same gwent game of withcer 3, but improved to pc? They had the work done, and they have wasted.

Regards

Just being curious: is really GOG the smaller company in facturation? (even if it was the spin off) Is there any place where we can find such data from the two companies?

I suspect you're a poorly written Google AI experiment based on behavioral patterns of marmosets.

Makes just about as much sense.

I have 1127 games and 10 movies here, less on Humble and none on Fireflower.
The reasons why I primarily bought here are dwindling.
Most of my purchases come from a time when there was neither any DRM nor region locks nor regional pricing on GOG.

How many have you, who are you really and why are you hiding behind a supposedly secondary account all the time? I have more reason to suspect various things.
https://support.gog.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001814049-Forum-Code-of-Conduct