I profoundly miss the good days of gwent beta. The top tier content creators, and joy that community fostered. You were a pillar of that and I am glad to still get my nostalgia feels through your snap videos. It’s not the same, but it is a comforting alternative.

Gwent is the one and only card game that i ever played, other game just seems overwhelming and unnecessarily complicated. The reason i play Gwent is because of my love for the Witcher. And wow! Its simple and really fun, the art is just stunning and the best part, its F2P friendly. Its sad to see it gone Its not gonna stop me though, I'll keep playing

OG Gwent is the best card game I've ever played. Bar none. Long live Gwent

Long live GWENT

I will say this without a shadow of doubt, but Gwent at it's peak was, and still is, best card game I ever played. I am enjoying Snap but some of these new foul monetization practices are making me wanna quit. Gwent was never like that. If you needed certain card, with a bit of grind you could get it. But,,sadly, card games are very competitve market and HS (for reasons beyond my comprehension) is still on top. I mourn Gwent's passing I really do.

The profound artwork and the playstyle of gwent will mark itself as one of the most unique cardgame in the history.

Gwent was awesome. I loved longer games, completely different approach to resource management, stunning art. Fingers crossed for community keeping it alive.

Sad times, Gwent definitely earned a place in card game history and influenced other games so it's heritage will live on. Thanks for that recap Freddy!

Pre homecoming Gwent was my favourite and it makes me sad I can never go back to it .

Gwent was beautiful. I love the community as much as the game itself. I sunk soo many hours into it and I can happily say I’ll never regret one second off it (even the Kolgrim games)

Cheers Freddy thank you the many years of high level gameplay. Good luck to you in everything you do sir.

I know its supposed to die pretty soon, but the last year has been my favorite Gwent meta. There are a lot of competitive ways to play righy now

Love you freddie ❤ thx for your gwent videos. :) Gwent is really fun to play right know. Coming back from time to time play a while get to pro rank leave it and come back again after a bit is really nice 😊

I wish they could release the beta as a free expansion or mode, I recently came back to gwent and yeah, I'm having a hard time adjusting but now hearing that it's actually going to get dropped is very saddening. I'm still gonna play but it sure is an end of a special era.

Thanks Freddy. I've played more Gwent than any game I've ever played and got better at it than I could ever dream I could be at a game. Sadly, like so many others, homecoming sapped all the fun away from me. I held out for maybe 6 months, but it didn't get good again quick enough and I left. Never to return. Really appreciate this summary. I still won't be re-joining the community as (like you) I don't feel the fun will be worth the time investment, but I'm somehow pleased to see it returned to a good place before it died for good. I do and will continue to miss your videos, as I'm more of a casual gamer, so investing the time to know every move in another card game just isn't for me (even if that game has significantly shorter win/lose times). Gwent just enthralled me like nothing else.

Yesterday I opened Shinmiri stream on Twitch and asked how the games is doing and he said, it's actually good, the community is still great. It was nice to hear that.

Community is gonna take good care, this game is still super fun

I'm currently playing and will continue to do so till I've to wait too much for a match up. I do really like the current balance in the game.

I don't think I'll ever like any other card game more than Gwent To the point that after the announcement I got disheartened, stop playing and haven't looked back Lol

I have a unitless scoia madoc deck I made like a year or two ago I still go back and play from time to time. still a pretty strong decks surprisingly.

I loved Gwent in beta, but dropped off when homecoming released. I'm sure I'm not alone.

I am still playing and will play even after the sunset. Only the shutdown of servers will stop me. 😅

I miss 3 rows and silver cards

Gwent was great during Beta until they've changed the entire game and all the big streamers left the game. I miss playing it but CDPR didn't know how to monetize it properly.

Now I remember why you aren’t invited to marvel snap twitch rivals 😂 Gwent was an amazing game deep strategy and skill. I just took a break from it at some point (was my main game) and never went back

Loving the beard Freddie. Glad to see you are keeping well. Wishing you the best for the future.

I really wish i could play pre homecoming gwent again…probably the only game which i invested over 500hrs in.

I absolutely loved Gwent on the Witcher 3. But I couldn’t get into Thronebreaker: the Witcher tales, I loved the OG Gwent too much that when they changed it I couldn’t jive with it. I actually never tried out this Gwent game. It looks cool though

Good old days ❤ way to soon cdpr. Pls dont do this. Make a break but dont leave forever 😢

Makes me so sad. Game length is just too tough for me, but the theme and art was absolutely too tier.

This game is really hard nowadays, i really never win right now, im currently in rank 12 and never climb even one level

game is great and that's it, blue coin defeated gwent finally

Also Freddy, you planning to try out Lorcana? Been really enjoying the game

Hopefully when they make the new witcher game this game will come back again or a new gwent game

Just say it Freddy, this is the best card game and you want to play it :D

If anyones interested in playing the older version of the game before homecoming theres videos on my channel showing gameplay and directing you how to play! :) ( if this isn't okay freddy you can delete my comment.)

I Hope gwent will rise again with new witcher game

End of an era. New cards suck the fun out though

As someone that played and enjoyed beta version, believe Homecoming definitely needed to happen, but as you said, it needed to be much closer to what Gwent was after the first 2-3 expansions. I definitely think they were way too generous for too long, especially in regards to Premiums, which are still hands down the best looking cards in any online CCG. Even without those mistakes, I'm still not certain Gwent would have avoided it's current fate, for a number of reasons that you mentioned, ie complexity and long matches. Biggest one to me is, the card game market is just not that big, and there's a ton of competition, so finding a niche is tough. Even though I don't care for Snap, their design around quick games was super smart. I think LoR is in exactly the same spot Gwent was, Riot has already reduced staff on it, though they are willing to keep it going for the time being. Anyways, good video, I have some good memories playing Gwent, definitely the most fun I've had playing a card game.

Undeath gwent🧟‍♂

FoB is the only card game that can come close to gwent art (imo bypasses it, but that's subjective)

Nope, completely deserved. Bad management decisions, lack of relevant communication (there was A LOT of communication but most of it didn't have any consequences whatsoever) and inability to set priorities in development (most notably the switch to 2 lanes which afaik was influenced by the Thronebreaker development and that game didn't even sell well) are among the most impactful breaches that ultimately sunk that galley. Good riddance, Gwent, I played you almost since the very beginning and most of the time and money spent I consider now wasted.

For me was the best ever.

It wouldnt die if it wasnt deserved

Gwent definitely ruined its niche with homecoming. It was the one card game that was fast, do to only having one active input per turn and no potential additional abilities slogging down the game. Manual ending of turns alone probably doubled the average game length. Another good example are the leader animations, that nobody cares about but take a good moment to fire for no reason. I think a good shake-up of the structure and meta of the game with a homecing-esque update would've been good, but it should never have sacrificed its speed. I stil think it's okay, but it destroyed what gave it appeal with that update.

Bro, how many times are you gonna kill Gwent? haha O do think that Gwent is an unique game and who really likes it will keep playing for years.

Hey C.A.R.P.E.A.D.O, rematch me. You emote spamming elf control deck, cheap as plays. More control than an abusive ex partner.

What an awful title for the video. If you don't play doesn't mean it is dead. Just to justify something for your video. Game will go on and peoole will play it simple as that

Seriously WTF did I miss??!! This game, the one game that made F2P viable, the one game that did shit right, is dying??!! While other trash games of the same are thriving!!!!???? Smh WOW.

Even though its a shadow of itself, I still hop in every other month or so for a few games and have a decent time. I dont care about playing "Meta" decks I just find those that I have fun with. I still like reading the card descriptions. What I hate most about it is they added way too many weird tags to cards that are almost useless, I still dont understand really how the fucking Nilfagard cultists work

for the majority of the time gwent was at its most popular the game was just way to unbalanced you almost had to follow the meta to climb in ladder. that burnt me out personally

i have 2000 hours of game time why did they do This i play poc in legends of runeterra now but versus it cant top gwent😢