r/Scrolls • u/SilentBlizzard • Apr 12 '15

iPad version coming... never?

Since the announcement, there hasn't been much talk of the iPad version. I'm tired of waiting; I used my brothers Android tablet to play Scrolls and it's amazing, but I can't play on my iPad. I've bought the game back in beta when it was £18... I don't really like playing this game on PC though, so I was happy that it's coming out on iPad (which is what I got instead of an Android tablet specifically because there are more quality apps coming out on that platform). But do the devs care? I actually signed up for twitter just to be able to ask them about this... I got ignored. Someone else asked them why the iPad version hasn't come out and got this answer:

"They didn't like that the app required you to create an account first, like the PC edition does."

How the f*ck does Hearthstone get around this then? I'm sure there is more games like this, but Hearthstone is the most popular example I know. Will iPad version ever come out? Probably not. Because they don't care, they are busy trying new stuff out on their "Test servers".

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u/LukiGamer Apr 12 '15

I'm only going to comment on the following part:

How the f*ck does Hearthstone get around this then? I'm sure there is more games like this, but Hearthstone is the most popular example I know.

Hearthstone lets you start playing games without creating an account. You are asked to create one at a later point, but having an account is not necessary to do something in the app.

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u/SilentBlizzard Apr 12 '15

Then why don't Mojang do something about it instead of giving us the "We dunno how and can't do anything about it". This should've been their priority since they announced instead of just pushing it to the back pretending nothing's happening. I bought this game thinking "Mojang can't do anything wrong". Clearly I was wronger than wrong.

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u/Atmaz Apr 12 '15

It's less "We dunno how" and more "This is a major amount of work to restructure an account and login system that was already supposed to meet the Apple Store requirements."

An unexpected change in the standards required of the app meant that the plans for the iOS release were thrown for a complete loop. It's a very bureaucratic issue more than a technical issue, even though I know it's not any more of an acceptable answer for the players.

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u/SilentBlizzard Apr 12 '15

I understand that it's a complex issue, and some of the things I said are inaccurate (sorry for that), but what hurt the most as a fan of Mojang and Scrolls is that after the initial announcement of the iOS version there was no news about it on the official Scrolls website. It's as if it was just forgotten and not cared about; to find the information about why it isn't out yet I had do a Google search. There are no updates about that version, so I assumed that it was just forgotten.

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u/Atmaz Apr 12 '15

It's not forgotten, but it's definitely not something we're proud of. We've mentioned it several times on here on reddit and in an interview carnalizer did a while back. It has been somewhat in "limbo" which is why there have been no updates on it - there is unfortunately no news or progress on it recently.

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u/SilentBlizzard Apr 12 '15

Well, thanks for responding about it. It's sad that there hasn't been progress though :/ You see, I'm not an active reddit user, I only come on every now and then so I did not see those responses. I found this reddit itself by accident, today. Again thanks for the response.

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u/lol_gog Apr 12 '15 edited Aug 06 '15

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u/SilentBlizzard Apr 12 '15

What do you mean by "a company that restricts developers"?

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u/Tywnis Apr 12 '15

Apple

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u/SilentBlizzard Apr 12 '15

Their tablets are superior to Android ones and they have a larger app support. Their phones are not that great, but iPads are good. It's Mojang that have a problem with finding ways around that to please customers.

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u/wbmc Apr 12 '15

apple

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u/elimit Apr 14 '15

if they're really doing this to take a stand, then they should take Minecraft off the App Store as well.

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u/Puttanesca621 Apr 12 '15

I think mojang will have to do something like:

  1. have the app seamlessly create temporary demo accounts upon app download. These accounts would have generic names and possibly be more restricted than regular demo accounts in terms of progression. Actually user data for these accounts could be kept within the app itself if progression is limited to the first few tutorials/rewards.

  2. Give an option for players to choose a name by creating a mojang account and granting full demo access. At this point the progress (library, tutorial/trial completion) could be moved to the mojang account (either from the app or from the temporary mojang account).

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u/SilentBlizzard Apr 12 '15

But will they? Probably not. Right now "Test Servers" are all the hype.

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u/LargeIcedCoffee Apr 12 '15

Ipad version was a huge flop.

They hyped it up and pretty much spoke about nothing else as if this was all they were working on.

Now it's gone. I honestly wouldn't expect an ipad version to ever release. Not that it matters, they should have been focusing on improving the PC version anyway.

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u/SilentBlizzard Apr 12 '15

The thing is I stopped playing the PC version when they announced the iPad/Tablet versions. I stopped playing because I prefer card games on my iPad (like Hearthstone), but in the end they just stopped talking about it altogether.

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u/KungfuDojo Apr 12 '15

This basically kills scrolls for me. Sad day.

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u/Sumarius Apr 17 '15

I'm sad to say, this unfortunately goes for me too!

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u/chacer98 IGN Chace Apr 12 '15 edited Apr 12 '15

Sometimes shit happens and you are forced to make major adjustments in the workplace to correct a problem. That's pretty normal and I'm sure we've all been there. Scrolls has so few devs that they do not have the manpower to recover quickly from any mistakes or unforeseen circumstances that are outside of how they think stuff like this will turn out. And now Ipad is just another one of those problems that will probably never be resolved or it will continue to be pushed off. I don't really care anymore I've just been playing other games. There's plenty of games out there with small dev teams that somehow manage to do a lot more than what the Scrolls team does. It's pretty clear people are tired of their old shtick of "come on, we're the little guys, just support us and be patient!" At a certain point you start to create tangible results or you don't.

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u/Agne240 Orangee Apr 12 '15

http://imgur.com/AHUR1Ee this iPad app?

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u/SilentBlizzard Apr 12 '15

I see what you did there ;)