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A 40-Hour Ad for “Gwent.”
Nelson Schneider - wrote on 01/12/2023
In 2015, with the release of “The Witcher 3,” it seemed like CD Projekt was ready to wrap-up their signature franchise adapting the works of Polish novelist, Andrzej Sapkowski. Of course, even videogame companies that make a Big Deal about how pro-gamer or pro-consumer they are remain corporations in the end. Thus two years later, in 2017, CD Projekt released a stand-alone PvP version of “Gwent: The Witcher Card Game,” complete with microtransactions and all of the nonsense the core gamers who love to sing CD Projekt’s praises actively hate.
A year after the release of “Gwent,” CD Projekt made noises about throwing the gaming audience a bone with a brand-new single-player Role-Playing title set in Sapkowski’s universe. That game was “Thronebreaker: The Witcher …
