10 Video Game Patches That Actually Broke Games
2. The Midwinter Update Introduced RNG & Simplified Gameplay - Gwent: The Witcher Card Game
In December 2017, while Gwent was still in beta and almost a year away from its full-fat release, CD Projekt Red released their much-anticipated Midwinter Update, which added more than 100 cards to the game alongside requested bug-fixes and quality-of-life features.
Fans were quickly left up in arms, though, when they realised that the update had also nerfed and "dumbed down" many of the community's favourite cards as well as removing flavour-text and changing the game's UI.
But by far the most complained-about aspect of the patch, and the one which caused many players to quit the game entirely, was the inclusion of RNG cards.
To many, the lack of RNG in Gwent was precisely its appeal, but in amping up the RNG aspect, CD Projekt Red were making the game skew to the more lucrative casual - some might say "unskilled" - crowd while ditching the highly-skilled "hardcore" players who it was initially marketed towards.
While nobody would dare call Gwent dead today, for those whom the game was initially designed to appeal to, it might as well be.