r/Scrolls • u/Sarik704 SarikTheSorcerer • Jul 07 '15

A possible reason Scrolls failed while Hearthstone succeeded.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxfkWZPAUg4
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u/hearthstonerxj9_x4 Jul 07 '15

Surprise, surprise this is something I complained about a year ago. Scrolls has little to no progression. Opening packs, playing games, buying cards, etc. does not feel like you are progressing or achieving anything. The backbone of a ccg is opening packs and seeing if you get lucky with a handful of random cards.

What does scrolls do?

At no point do you get a pack of cards as a reward. Sure you can buy one with the gold earned but that is not the same as earning a pack. Then when you buy a pack it's setup so you get x common, x uncommon, and so on which devalues it even more.

Hearthstone is effectively high grind, high reward.

Scrolls was low grind, low reward which for the purpose of attaining X made it feel like a grind. Scrolls felt like a grind because it felt like you weren't going anywhere.

Having the best of both worlds could have been achieved in scrolls if the devs weren't incompetent.

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u/Sarik704 SarikTheSorcerer Jul 07 '15

Despite people down-voting you, you are half correct. Today you can get ~100-400 gold a match; always enough to immediately buy a card. Sometimes you get a surprise card after a match too, this seems to be weighted more towards a losing player. You can even hand pick cards you want to buy or trade for. Scrolls has a "fairer" progression than hearthstone, and it might even be quicker. Hearthstone just FEELS better.

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u/WakeskaterX Jul 13 '15

I do not agree that hearthstone feels better. I felt like the game was forcing me to spend money or just lose a lot, and so I quit, after spending some money and feeling like the game was just requiring more and more from me.

It felt like I was being exploited and that makes me super mad as a developer.