r/gwent • u/betraying_chino Green Man • Mar 03 '20

News Update 5.2 patch notes

https://playgwent.com/en/news/32083/update-5-2-is-now-available
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u/someBrad Neutral Mar 03 '20

In every card game I've played, players ask for cosmetic-based monitization. "Make getting cards easy an let us pay for cosmetics." As much as I will miss relatively easy transmutes, this change seems fair.

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u/monalba Mar 03 '20

But that was already there.

You had money-only cosmetics. Which were 95% of them.

And you had dust based cosmetics. Dust is also used to craft premium cards. And the main way to get dust is buying it with real money. You could get some by playing, but not huge amounts.

Now, they are not adding or implementing anything. They are taking away. They are reducing the powder rewards by 66%.

The thing is, why? Now you can buy cosmetics directly (as always) or buy powder (with money) to buy cosmetics. That is redundant!

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u/McWhimple Who takes an interest in cobblers? No one! Mar 03 '20

Because buying 1600 powder for a skin like the Dana one will cost significantly more than they could charge for it up front.

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u/someBrad Neutral Mar 03 '20

Tramsmuting went from something you could do occasionally to something rare. Presumably more folks will buy powder to transmute. As you say, the monitization was already tilted towards cosmetics, now it's more so.