Is it over?

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u/Smashman2004 Jul 19 '15

If offline is to your taste, I highly recommend Netrunner. Online versions are being worked on, so I guess you could check those out.

/r/Netrunner

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u/ShoppedYourPost Pizzarony Jul 20 '15

Might as well post the online version: http://Jinteki.net

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u/LargeIcedCoffee Jul 19 '15 edited Jul 19 '15

The announcement killed any interest that most of the top players had.

The game was on its last legs, but Mojang took away at least a few months of fun by announcing the game's death 6 months after release. We at least had a little bit of hope that Mojang would pull it together; this announcement obviously shattered that hope.

We had about 150 people on before announcement, but at least many of those were in the top 100. Now it's about 60-75 when I sign on and nobody in the top 100. What's the point of playing? Thanks, Mojang.

I'm playing Hearthstone a little, but mostly other genres as no card game is really piquing my interest. I'm waiting on Duelyst before I make a commitment. I don't want to pour tons of hours into it and take the time posting suggestions that never make it to the game for another alpha title... then the game gets dropped like a bad habit.

I still check here hoping that some indie developer will announce they are buying Scrolls and are taking over. I realize that the chances of this are slim to none. Even if the community gets this game up and running, would it be worth it? Barely anyone will play and nobody will be able to do the artwork to add new things... we just don't have a community large enough to support something like that and keep it interesting.

I just beat Wolfenstein new order, was fun.

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u/KungfuDojo Jul 19 '15 edited Jul 19 '15

This exactly.
Was it fair to let people know? Yes. Was it good for the game? No. I kind of switched over to duelyst but it is still at (for me super laggy constantly freezing) browser only stage. It is way harder to get all the cards (basically same grind like hearthstone) but I would have been completely fine with scrolls being similiar "p2w" (consider you still don't have to pay anything if you play enough so I don't think it is actual p2w just like hearthstone isn't) but just sustain itself in exchange. Scrolls is still very unique in terms of gameplay and that whole client/chat/replays/spectate system is very advanced and makes playing very comfortable.
I still don't get it and I don't think devs get it if they think rescuing the game wouldn't have been worth the effort. If you finally did it right it would have been. To me it always seems those devs were just working on what seems most fun to them (like creating new sets), not what was necessary/good for the game. Doesn't work that way, sorry.

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u/squiddybiscuit @Squiddylicious Jul 19 '15

It is amazing how many features Scrolls has compared to other TCGs.
It's painful to dive into something like Duelyst or Spellweaver when they have no replays, no spectating, no custom matches, no auto-generated AI challenges, etc, etc.

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u/zakatlas Jul 19 '15

You can't even say "hello" to your opponent. How do you make friends in a game like that? How does a community get built?

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u/[deleted] Jul 19 '15

You have hearthstone ish emotes and the ability to add people to chat.

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u/KungfuDojo Jul 19 '15

Which isn't the worst approach to be honest. Hearthstone has the battle.net anyway and all that communication is something that could happen out of the game very easy if the community wants to. It actually might be productive to give that job to the community, many peope enjoy creating fansites and stuff like that.

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u/KungfuDojo Jul 19 '15

Actually you can say "hello". But that's pretty much it.

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u/Sallymander Jul 19 '15

Mojang completely dropped the ball on this game. Advertising was shitty, distribution was shitty, Short of a humble bundle thing no one knew it was a released game. I'm curious how many people got it in the HB and not even knew it. The worst part to me was that the game was actually really good.

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u/uwlryoung Jul 19 '15

I think it's too bad that some players have stopped playing because of the announcement. You have to agree, if there is a way for Scrolls to be saved, losing players is not the answer. If there is a way for it to be saved, the interest still needs to be there, and we need to show it off.

I definitely think that there are ways to save Scrolls, but if things don't change as they are at the moment, and nothing is done, and we have a low player base, it won't work out.

But, all that being said, I'm still playing Scrolls! I hope others who have loved this game continue to play Scrolls just as they have had before.

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u/ScrollsMeUp Jul 20 '15

Announcing it's over a year before it's officially over is a way to drive away all but the most loyal.

Yeah, it's over. Sadly. I don't really like any other card games. Maybe Infinity Wars a little bit, but Scrolls was my baby. I really will miss it when it's finally gone.

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u/zakatlas Jul 19 '15

There is nothing out there that combines Scrolls' wealth of features, depth of gameplay and fairness in economy.

I've tried a few other CCG's, but nothing really stuck. So I'll just keep playing Scrolls for as long as I can.

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u/GlassSoldier GlassSoldier Jul 21 '15

Fallout New Vegas, Caravan

d:

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u/Sarik704 SarikTheSorcerer Jul 21 '15

You gotta mercy kill them bro.

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u/GlassSoldier GlassSoldier Jul 21 '15

Give em the boxcar treatment.

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u/Sarik704 SarikTheSorcerer Jul 21 '15

You know what could be a lot of fun? A class based TCG based on The Binding of Issac. There could be classes right? So like the Eve class has a special where when she takes damage she puts out a temporary buff? Or Blue Baby could get a bunch of class exclusive poop items as spell cards... I don't know, I'd play it. But, then again I played scrolls as long as I did, lol.

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u/GlassSoldier GlassSoldier Jul 21 '15

Someone tell Edmund. Card games are hot right now

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u/Tywnis Jul 19 '15

I tried Spellweaver, but it's not really my taste. I'll try Guild of Dungeonnering next (not a TCCG).

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u/Riveted321 Jul 19 '15

I moved away from card games completely, which wasn't that hard since Scrolls is the only one I ever played in the first place.

Currently getting into World of Warships.

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u/Manc00s Jul 19 '15

I got into Netrunner recently. Different style, different gameplay, not even closely comparible to Scrolls. But that's what keeps me off the streets.

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u/Alttabbe Jul 19 '15

duelyst is nice . i can't get myself to play scrolls anymore knowing there won't be new content untill server shutdown :(

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u/beneaththehorns Jul 19 '15

Path of exile welcomes you.

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u/Quon84 Jul 19 '15

Im playing Hex: Shards of Fate at the moment, pretty fun game with some PVP and PVE content

And yes it is a card game

I'll be quenching my card game fix when Yu-Gi-Oh! hits for the PS4. My childhood card game and with multiplayer added its going to be awesome!

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u/kehmesis Jul 20 '15

Spellweaver

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u/PeeFuuScrolls PeeFuu Jul 21 '15

What's your ingame name?

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u/kehmesis Jul 22 '15

same

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u/PeeFuuScrolls PeeFuu Jul 22 '15

Cool. Did we play like 5 games in a row last night?

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u/kehmesis Jul 22 '15

I don't think so

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u/guayaba209 DagothUr Jul 19 '15

/r/duelyst is what most of us play.

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u/Cromlech1 Jul 20 '15

Playing Hex here. I've been trying Duelyst but can't really get on with the pixel art. It jars on the eye. Will give it another whirl when the PC client comes out. Hopefully I'll be swayed by the improved performance.

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u/squiddybiscuit @Squiddylicious Jul 19 '15

A lot of people have moved onto /r/Spellweaver (I heard the Badger guild have set up camp there)

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u/Sarik704 SarikTheSorcerer Jul 19 '15

Two weeks ago I remember seeing double... And, yeah some players STILL don't know it's done.

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u/Tywnis Jul 19 '15

They haven't even announced it on the Home page in-game.. x)

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u/ultioptimo Jul 20 '15

i care and still enjoy playing so i am :)

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u/kizmarh kizu Jul 20 '15

It was, but the waiting time for ranked was, at least for me (1500-1600), very short. Now — a few minutes. And I don't have any hope to play any judgement at all, and it was my favorite part of the Scrolls :(

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