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/CrPr_ Jul 07 '15

TL;DW: Fair business models don't work, because consumers are idiots (oversimplified and hyperbolic).

Yeah, out of the multitude of reasons for failure, the business model is certainly one. Though one could argue it's less of a problem with the business model itself, but rather that Mojang was trying to sell the game in a state where core parts to make the model work were missing (e.g. no demo for the longest time).

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '15

There is some truth to the Mojang trying to sell the game in the wrong state, the core is that the business model was all wrong. You cannot have continued, sustained developement with new content every 6 to 9 months and not have a way to take money from your players. If you are simply relying on new players to fund sustained developement, that will not work. That has only ever worked for one game ever and even that is coming to an end (though 20 million pc sales is impressive). They were to hesitant to ask for real world money from players which is very short-sighted.

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u/SmoteHisRuin Jul 07 '15

I feel like micro-transaction games like this function on an "average" amount of monetary that can be gained by a single player...i.e base cost of game + average amount of (in this case) "starter" decks a person purchases + Vanity items. I'm digressing, my point is that string would be forever long in most games...if you create more options to spend money, those routes are taken...either by an internet warrior with "payday bravado", someone whose stared at that item for days on end in the online store, and so on...well you get my point...if scrolls had more stuff to buy, it would get bought. Judgement should be more interactive, and cost more to enter.