‘Gwenfinity’ to see players take control of meta
CD Projekt RED has announced that it plans to start sunsettingGwent— the spin-off card game from mega-popular RPG franchiseThe Witcher— in 2023. As of 2024, no further cards will be produced for the digital tabletop title, with a total of three expansions planned before the deck closes for good.
“We are not planning to release new cards starting from 2024, so the cards which will release in 2023 basically will be the last brand-new ones that we will be adding to the game,”revealedGwentdirector Vladimir Tortsov in a developer video. “It’s a pretty significant change, there’s no way around it.
“With the cards that we are planning to add to the game next year, we are basically planning to close the card pool with every idea that we wanted to add, every mechanic that we wanted to see, pretty much everything that we would like to see inGwent, we will try to fit it within the year.”
This does not, however, mean thatGwentwill become a dead, non-playable entity. In a motion known to the studio as “Gwenfinity”, a skeleton crew will be assigned to routinely keep one eye on the game’s infrastructure, while the players themselves will be offered the opportunity to decide upon rule changes and balance tweaks as the Gwent meta continues, post-support.
With this new system, CDPR hopes that theGwentcommunity will be able to continue enjoying, and even evolving, the fantasy tabletop title. And so, while support will officially end in 2024, there will hopefully still be many, many years of coin-tossing over tavern tables still to come.
