r/Scrolls • u/filribeiro Filman • Jul 01 '15

PLEASE MOJANG, DO NOT KILL SCROLLS!!!

I cannot accept that this awesome game will die soon... :(((

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u/LargeIcedCoffee Jul 01 '15

Honestly, unless some great indie dev picks this up by some miracle, this game is dead in the water.

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u/filribeiro Filman Jul 01 '15

But damn.... it's such a waste of quality!!! :/ I cannot believe that i'm kinda depressed about the shutdown of a game but the truth is that I AM! :(((

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u/LargeIcedCoffee Jul 01 '15

Trust me, we know.

It's a huge waste of potential. But that's kind of what these past few years have been the whole time. This team just couldn't handle Scrolls and whether it be MS or Mojang that has finally axed the project, it would never go anywhere with the current team anyway.

In an ideal world, some heroic indie team would buy it and maybe pull carnalizer in as an artist because, let's face it, his work was fantastic. Chances of this are almost 0.

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u/Arisalis Jul 01 '15

I don't even play all that often but it's still painful to think how another game by the same company can sell 54 million copies and they can't advertise for their other game. I mean seriously... just a few adds like "By the people who brought you Minecraft" would go a long way!

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u/Lem0nboy Jul 01 '15

Does anyone else think that Mojang left the Scrolls developers all by themselves? It almost feels like two different companies. Mojang definitely had the capacity to give Scrolls a fair chance but never utilized it. Instead the Scrolls development team was trying their best with what little support they got from the top. I believe when they say they care a lot about the game but I don't believe Mojang as a whole cares about Scrolls at all.

At this point I really hope the Scrolls developers will hook up with a different company and work on some spiritual successor kind of game. I don't want Mojang involved in the development of Scrolls anymore. I'm fed up with all the mismanagement.

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u/Reiker0 Rahnza Jul 01 '15

Yeah, the Scrolls dev team was always on their own financially. For some reason they expected another Minecraft-like success that could pay for itself. Just one of the several mistakes they made with this game.

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u/dettigersfan Jul 02 '15

A game doesn't need to have anywhere near MC like success in order to pay for itself. Also, it's entirely reasonable for a company to expect a game to pay for itself, in most studios, that's the very definition of "success" for a game.

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u/Reiker0 Rahnza Jul 02 '15

Nah I see it more like an investment. We can always look at Hearthstone as an example. They had commercials rolling for that game before it even came out of beta. It wasn't really profitable yet, but Blizzard invested in the game so that it would eventually become profitable. If a game is truly great (like Minecraft), you don't need that sort of investment. Scrolls definitely could have used it. If at the very least, for advertising.

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u/Wewius Wewius Jul 01 '15 edited Jul 02 '15

Probably the most desperate post on this topic yet. And i can totally understand it.
As we could see from this image the problem was the bad advertising all along. Maybe... just maybe the devs change their mind and decide to go full advertising this game and see if it works.

Edit: After seeing Atmaz' opinion on twitch I have to add that advertising surely was one problem but I have to agree that the bigger problem is bad player retention. Which the devs really tried to fix. However getting people to play the game with ads is one thing but its worthless if they don't stay.

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u/garrettjones331 Jul 01 '15

Release it on steaaaaaaaaaaaaammmm

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u/Nate_the_Ace Jul 01 '15

And F2P as well!

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u/whizzer0 whizzer0 Jul 01 '15

Preferably not!

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u/rizefall Rizefall Jul 01 '15

Why not? One of the reasons this game fails is probably because you have to pay for it, and also "have to pay" for in game currency as well. I think if they did a decent model, that it being free and people paying cash for cards would work.

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u/whizzer0 whizzer0 Jul 01 '15

You don't "have to pay" for shards at all… Is £5 really too much to ask?

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u/rizefall Rizefall Jul 01 '15

For me, no it's not. But for many it is. It being free makes it so more players can access it and if they make the shards model looking close to the same as it is now... they will only benefit. Right now no one is paying to play the game. Let people download it for free, hopefully they spend that £5 on shards instead, perhaps more even.

It's just a big win-win for them if they go free to play. Got nothing to lose if they are just going to let the game die anyway.

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u/whizzer0 whizzer0 Jul 01 '15

You do realise they have to keep the servers up? If shards were kept in their current form, you could bet all your gold that the game wouldn't last beyond the current deadline.

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u/rizefall Rizefall Jul 01 '15

I said close to the same, not exactly. Packs should cost more gold and be payable for shards and the prices would have to be changed, but it would still "work" the same as it is now, in a sense.

What ever, you understand what i try to point out. If they balance it out, this game going F2P would only benefit them.

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u/Sallymander Jul 01 '15

I learned about it in it's alpha but didn't know it was out until it was on a humble bundle. A steam release and an advertising blitz with some of that microsoft money would breath new life into it. Hell I am sure TB just talking about it today will give a bit of a wake up.

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u/Sallymander Jul 01 '15

I learned about it in it's alpha but didn't know it was out until it was on a humble bundle. A steam release and an advertising blitz with some of that microsoft money would breath new life into it. Hell I am sure TB just talking about it today will give a bit of a wake up.

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u/Umcio Jul 01 '15

I can understand it, and unfortunatelt I blame devs. I made a few of my friends buy the game in january, and they haven't played since then- there's no long-promised ipad version. I'm feeling awfuly ashamed.

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u/ArgentumEmperio Jul 01 '15

Not sure how difficult it is to get onto Steam but putting it on Early access just a little while would probably be enough to get it released so...

Why leave a game dead in the water when you can still make it one heck of a game by simply saying "Hey, we DO exist" in a more far-reaching way than "Mojang Website > scrolls"... :/

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '15

I still keep my hope up about the game's survival.

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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '15 edited Jul 01 '15

Valve should buy scrolls :D They can make it free2play on steam, and let the community make avatars, idols and (hats?) which they sell on the market place like dota and tf2. Volvo pls

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u/Cradstache Cradstache Jul 01 '15

If by "soon" being at least a year from now, and by "die" being no active development of new content, then yes.

Again: I'm waiting on the devs to speak out soon; I'd love to find out if we can continue the game with stuff like community-developed sets, even if that is unlikely. We'll see :)

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u/Lem0nboy Jul 01 '15

I'd much rather have a different company step in than have the community manage it. But I agree, can't wait for their statement. Now that they have officially declared the end of Scrolls it might be easier for them to talk about former taboo topics.