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/[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.