"You fled from my dream at dawn, with the aroma of cloves and currants."
"I followed the Wolf Seal deep into the storm, just to find your scalding heart."
"Through sorrow and anger, embrace you in the snow and wind."
The song that Pushila gently strokes the rut is the story of Geralt and Yennepha, and perhaps the story of the Quint Card of the Wizard.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="199" > contest</h1>
Just a few days ago, the "2021 China Quint Masters" co-sponsored by community players (crowdfunding) and CDPR officials with a total prize money of 15,000 yuan came to an end. In the final final, Lao Pi ball defeated Curry 3-1 and climbed to the "top of China's Quint".
Of course, compared to hearthstone or Magic matches, the game of the Wizard's Quint is not only very tight in terms of the amount of money but also the scale of the game, and even the live effect of the game has become unsatisfactory due to the delayed viewing system released by CDPR - but this may not be a problem for everyone in the Quint community.
In spontaneous matches, seeing familiar players play wonderful games, seeing quint's biggest anchor who has to broadcast other content most of the time due to life replaying quint, and seeing people playing cards together have a fierce discussion about the card table of the game, in contrast, the game "fire is not hot" has long been the biggest concern of people.
In fact, after a journey of 5 years, Quint became a niche part even in the card game. Although it originated from the basic mechanism of "three rounds and two win ratio size" that is easy to use, the update of multiple versions and the addition of mechanics have caused new players to incur a large learning cost. Even so, as the Android version goes live, the Chinese community is doing what it can to promote it.
Some time ago, when the B-station account fans of the well-known Quint content author "Benshan Dada" were about to break through 10,000, the author team of "Quint Daily" posted in the Brigade Master Camp, hoping that everyone would click to pay attention, because the contribution of more than 10,000 fans of the account would increase the weight of the push. In conjunction with Benshan Wanfan, the community also produced a series of videos to guide newcomers into the pit.
From a passerby's point of view, all this may seem particularly miserable, but this may be the warmth and harmony displayed by a niche but united gaming community. Whenever a new card is released, anchors and experts gather in the live broadcast room of anyone to rate the new card; in the "Quint Daily", which is updated almost every other day, it is all a sharing card group for everyone's contribution; on the B station, many Quint content creators tirelessly publish technical decks and entertainment clips. There's no competition for traffic and revenue, and there's very little cadence to pull and compare, and people just want The Wizard's Quint to get better and better.
The just mentioned "Quint's biggest anchor who has to broadcast other content most of the time due to life" Curry signed a live content with the platform some time ago for "Harry Potter: Magical Awakening", and completely left Quint for a long time. On that day, he wrote on Weibo: "Quint will always be my home. ”
Although the source of this meme is not very friendly, the audience and players are particularly friendly. People never blame Curry for abandoning Quint, always saying that Quint doesn't deserve Curry. Every time he reopened the "door", everyone was always happy and "welcomed in line" – I think this is what I think the player community is the best.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="198" > journey</h1>
But in the beginning, whether it was the community or the game, it was far from the case.
As a pit player in the Grass Trials version, I, like so many Quint players, have gone through all the bumps with this game.
I think almost every Quint player's initiation is the White Orchard of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt— where you'll meet several card-hungry card savages, mixed with the mirror master who has fun and gives you your first taste of failure. Looking back on playing The Witcher 3 in my college dorm, I don't seem to have forgotten about saving my daughter in the clouds, but instead went over the mountains to find someone to play cards. On the day the deck was all collected, I was excited for a while.
The Beijing nuclear fusion in May 2017 may be the first opportunity for The Witcher's Quint to enter the eyes of Chinese players as a game independent of The Witcher 3. At that show, the Quint exhibit area occupied a long area in the center of the venue, and from morning to afternoon, the queue for playing cards was full of people. I vividly remember that when my friends came back from playing a circle in the stadium and stamping 4 chapters, I had not yet stepped onto the stage of that challenge. In the end, I regrettably lost the two-hour-long match, but I got up and shook hands with my opponent happily.
In terms of body sensation, perhaps the popularity of "The Wizard's Quint Card" reached its peak in the winter of 2017. On the one hand, after a series of positive balance adjustments, a blossoming environment slowly takes shape on the ladder; on the other hand, due to the delay of Blizzard due to the rule of the Hearthstone ladder by Qingyude, some Hearthstone players abandoned the pit and poured into Quint.
The heavy use of Rng (randomness) elements that had previously been vigorously avoided has caused strong dissatisfaction among the player community. Since "creation" with strong randomness is introduced, the big spy who can intuitively create card differences becomes the best object of "creation". In the end, most of the matches became a game of big spies and counter big spies, and quint cards in this period were also ridiculed by players as "healthy quints"; and this phenomenon was not solved for a long time.
In the summer of 2018, G Fat announced the birth of Artifact in Seattle. In the time since, a significant portion of players — including famous player Lifecoach and the well-known deck builder Shy — have opted for the "hopeful" new game, which is a hit for the Quint community.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="197" > kingship</h1>
In October 2018, "The Fall of the King's Power" was released. Apparently, this much-talked-about RPG based on the Wizard's Quint card consumed a lot of CDPR production effort. They also carried out a lot of publicity on various channels – a very impressive impression on kimiko, a former employee of Gaia Interactive Entertainment's advertising department. He said bluntly that as a mobile game company with only one end game of "The Wizard's Quint Card", in the past time, the focus of publicity work has never been so inclined to the Quint card.
The Fall of Kings itself is truly of exceptional quality, with innovative gameplay and a great story that reminds players of the days of riding horses and playing cards in The Witcher 3. The player manipulates Queen Mivey to recover the territory invaded by the Empire through one card game after another, making countless tangled choices that harm the two powers.
However, the version of quint's body, Back to the Original Heart, which came with The Fall of the Throne, is clearly a half-finished product. CDPR is almost a new game that completely breaks the boundaries with the old Quint, and the most notable difference is that the three rows of the table have become two rows, and this change has completely angered players who like the old version. In addition, the ensuing "Artifact" system has unprecedented pre-existing damage, difficult to counter problems, and the artifact deck that ravaged the ladder in the early stage of the version quickly destroyed the game experience of all players - the frightening "Dwarf Rune Sword" is still one of the most poisonous single cards in the history of Quint in the minds of many players.
Lucky or unlucky, after that — after a huge loss of players — CDPR seems to have found some way to do Quint. Developers livestreamed, community exchanges, and a roadmap that was at least a bit useful, they slowly refined the game itself after the devastation.
The suspension of the Open tournament during that time did not prevent quint-loving players from researching and creating an environment to identify problems. After the big patch in mid-January 2019, due to the introduction of leader resource points, the return of small game scheduling, and the design direction of going to Rng, the problem of the advantage of the first hand that has been difficult to balance since the birth of the game has been solved to some extent, and the game has a stronger positive feedback on the player's operation under the premise of building diversification.
It can be said that it is the persistence of the players and the energy of the community that keep the fire of the Wizard's Quint; and the continuous communication is the firewood that protects the fire from being extinguished. In the dark winter when life is on the brink, this tenacious game and great community huddled together to warm up, and finally waited for a dawn that seemed like spring.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="176" > white orchard</h1>
Yes, communication, feedback and updates are the most important parts of a game, especially a card game.
I once interviewed the "good men of Liangshan" in Artifact, which is not heard from. After a whole year of despair and persistence, they waited for the V Society's "death notice" — and perhaps you can imagine the intense disappointment that this huge gap between the efforts of the player community and the inaction of the game makers.
Fortunately, the strong communication community model of The Wizard's Quint has continued to this day. With the induction of former pro Molegion into CDPR, the perspective of card design has become somewhat broadened (even though he is always in a cycle of being accused of "not understanding the game at all" and "touching the chicken sorry").
While there have been many unhealthy ladder environments in countless versions of the past; while there are often roadmaps that don't materialize and plan cuts and updates that may be due to Cyberpunk 2077 Waterloo, vendor communication and community activities never stop.
Pawel Burza, Quinte Community Manager, once said that CDPR had made enough money on The Witcher's Quint. I don't know how much of a joke this sentence has, but in general, the game is generous to new and old players. You can have a few complete decks in a month if you're willing to spend a few rounds a day, and veteran players who play cards for a long time never need to spend resources outside the game on the addition of new cards — with the exception of the Journey system, which has introduced in recent seasons, which brings many well-made cosmetic items to the game, as well as more key points.
Plus, for the most part, the art of the Wizard's Quint card is satisfactory — almost every flashcard is a beautiful work of art. The most impressive of the recent versions are the archipelago's "Fumar", "Bride of the Sea", and "Sea Sacrifice", these three cards vividly tell the scene of the cult sacrifice bar maiden dedicated to the evil god, magnificent and vivid.
But in fact, Quint's popularity seems to be difficult to return to the winter of 2017, when the sky is full of "come and take the Quint card"; just like the demon hunter who has traveled far away will not return to the white orchard where the journey began.
Perhaps the last two times it has entered the public eye may be the physical Quint card that helps men block the gangster's knife, and the harmonious technique of the national costume Quint art that has gone viral on Weibo. Learning a card game from scratch is not an easy task for today's gamers, but I'm still delighted to find that there are still a lot of people who have entered the game, entered the community, and embarked on new experiences and adventures.
Maybe "The Wizard's Quint Card" comes along the way, like the unruly white-haired demon hunter Geralt, who makes a gorgeous appearance when you expect him, suddenly disappears after you get used to him, and then on the day you are about to forget him, whistling and riding a radish, carrying a cherished steel and silver sword, slowly appearing on the horizon of the sunset sinking - like the "wanderer under the sunset" who slowly moves from the left side of the hand to the right, and finally jumps out suddenly.
Let me fill the sound of the piano with another glass of Mahakan ale, and pay tribute to the wanderer on horseback, and to these Quint who have never left.
The left side of the hand slowly moves to the right, and finally the "Wanderer under the Sunset" suddenly jumps out.