Support for Gwent: The Witcher Card Game is coming to an end

Support for CD Projekt Red Gwent: The Witcher Card Game it will scale back and conclude by the end of 2023, the studio announced Sunday.

Starting in 2024, a small team from CDPR will support the game at the maintenance level, while the gwen the community will receive tools to continue balancing and playing the game. The 72 cards coming in three expansions in 2023 will be the last new cards added to the game.

“We’re planning to wrap up the card pool with every idea we wanted to add, every mechanic we want to see, just about everything we’d like to see in gwengame director Vladimir Tortsov told fans in a 2023 roadmap video posted on Sunday.

That means the end of the rotation of cards in and out of use in the game. “With this fixed number of cards available within gwenwe will do our best to make sure it is in good shape,” added Tortsov.

The community tools that will help manage the game starting in 2024 are called the “Gwentfinity Project”. That involves a seasonal progression system, as well as rebalancing changes made by community vote. (CD Projekt Red said there will be restrictions and other security measures to prevent game-breaking gameplay distortions.) gwen.)

“We have a very unconventional solution here, but at the same time I strongly believe that this is the right way forward,” Tortsov said. “We want to give you the gwen community, the right tools and opportunities to drive game balance changes, in the future.”

The tools will be used and managed in-game (as opposed to in another application or through a website). “When it comes strictly to the balance tools, the main balance tools, that’s something we think is doable,” Tortsov said, “and it will ensure that players will be able to interact with the game, not just playing the game, but also deciding on what direction”. it should go as far as balance, what are the problematic cards that need to be nerfed, what cards need to be buffed and stuff like that.”

gwen launched in an open beta in May 2017, and an official release for Windows PC followed in October 2018. The free-to-play card-collecting game launched on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One the following December, although support for those versions was closed in 2019.

A spin-off of the world card game playable in 2015 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, gwen spawned another independent title, Thronebreaker: The Witcher Taleswhich is indeed gwenThe single player campaign of . The game also saw a roguelike deckbuilding expansion, called rebel Wizard, back in july.