I think I've heard that the game is set sometime before Wild Hunt (not sure if we're talking "a little bit before" or "several years before"), so you should be safe there.
Can't answer the rest, sorry. But you should have known this thread would not be for people who are playing the game, but for ideology-based complaints and rants. ;]

Actually curious about the game. I've never played any of the card game stuff so I'm not really sure what to expect. Is it sort of like a set-piece turn-based tactical deal, but without a battlefield so movement in combat isn't really a thing?

Really? It's out?

I had no idea.

Same. +1

From what I could gather from the videos (here on gog). You have two rows where you can place unit cards and at least some cards benefit from a specific row. Also there is (at least) light infantry (if I recall right) that can change rows. But I might be wrong and in fact every unit might be able to change row.
I haven't played the game yet. This is just what I believe the videos were explaining/showing. I might have gotten something wrong, so I don't give garanties on what I just wrote.

I also don´t understand all the whining, as if other companies would not done it, or as if it would be completely unique.

What I AM surprised about, though, is the homecoming revamp of a Gwent - they completely changed it! :O
This is entirely new game - just to rows on each players side and entirely different gameplay.

Also, UI wise it seems connected with Thronebreaker, where Thronebreaker is like singleplayer Gwent, and Gwent itself is multiplayer only.

I expect more singleplayer addons later down the road, and more multiplayer stuff to come as well.

Since I am not interested to play it online, Thronebreaker is the only of the two games which interests me.

Please GOG do NOT automatically add Gwent Online to our libraries because i don't want clutter up my library with games i will never try, thx.

I'm intrigued by this game otherwise but Gwent Online added is a dealbreaker when it's easy enough to add myself if would want it.

Just hide it and move on.

Meh, didn't know that GoDG have rebranded to Thronebreaker :)

Guys, you really need to tone down on the promotion of this title, I get it you are releasing a game, but a whole page ad when coming to gog.com that is a bit too much, really if I was interested in this title I would have bought it most likely a long time ago because you know... it has been plastered in my face everywhere for a long time now.!!

Thank you for killing off your own RSS feed in favor of aggressively marketing it. This was really NOT needed to replace your feed with an advertisment in five languages.

First off love you guys, love that you have a new game, but please don't cover my gog with a fullscreen ad that is super imposed over the site.

> I've never played any of the card game stuff
As a kind of recommendation, not related to T:TWT:
Seek the best single-player (roguelike) tactical card game, "Slay the Spire", elsewhere.

Hmm, I hoped to have the possibility to make it run on my Mac using Wineskin but no, it needs DirectX 11. Wineskin for Mac doesn't support DirectX 11 for now. For Linux users it may work.

Are there also native versions comming for Mac and Linux?

That's a little different, though. You're paying for the channel, that way, just like most websites you pay for them via the ads. The difference, here, is that I came to check the news feed, which takes some time to load, 'cause i wanted to see if there were any good released today before i went to bed. I support the website with my purchases, but here's an ad that has gotten more invasive and in the way of me seeing that news feed. I'm expecting the next add to play a video that has to be watched until the end before i can get back to looking for new games. Worse yet, maybe i wanted to download one of my purchased games, and that ad would've been in the way. Sure, it was 1 click and an extra 5 seconds to load, not much, but at the rate it's progressing one can only expect it to become worse.

tl;dr: we treat passive and invasive ads much, much differently from each other, and the ads for this game have become very invasive.

It's not that they're tooting their own horn, it's just that every time they make a new toot it becomes more invasive. I heard about this game a while ago, and decided i wasn't interested. Apparently, gog doesn't feel that's OK, so they're making really invasive ads.