Support for Witcher game ending with an "unconventional solution"

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Even supernatural monster-slayers need a day off. The Witcher 3 sees Geralt and Roach spending a lot of time slashing their way through the Continent, but no matter where their adventures take them, there always seems to be a warm and welcoming place to hang up your boots, receive some stony glares from the locals, and get stuck into a game of Gwent.

Building your deck and collecting new cards is such a popular in-game activity in one of the best RPGs ever that CD Projekt RED created a dedicated spin-off in Gwent: The Witcher Card Game. 

“The cards that will be released in 2023 will be the last brand new ones to be added to the card pool," game director Vlad Tortsov said in a 2023 roadmap video(opens in new tab). “It’s a pretty significant change.”

But this isn’t the end of the game.

“We are not planning to release new cards, starting from 2024,” Tortsov said. “We are basically planning to close the card pool [in 2023] with every idea that we wanted to add, and every mechanic that we want to see.” This would also include an end to the dev’s input when it comes to continued balance changes that have been a part of their structured updates.

“We believe that this existing card pool can be improved in terms of viability of the meta, [so] there is no need to introduce rotation anymore. With this fixed number of cards within Gwent, we will do our best to make sure it’s in a good state meta-wise.”

When asked if this meant that Gwent, as a game, would be put in the freezer, Tortsovimmediately dispelled this notion. 

The team’s “unconventional solution” to maintaining the game after they step back is to put the future of the meta in the knowledgeable hands of its players.

“We want to give the Gwent community the right tools and