Scrolls Next Week

This video is the official launch trailer for Scrolls, Mojang's upcoming virtual card-based strategy game, offering gameplay showing off various features and concluding saying the open beta begins on June 3rd. There's more on the Scrolls website, including pricing details that go along with tweets indicating that they are calling this an open beta, but it's actually a soft launch which requires a purchase:
We also have a confirmed release date. Scrolls will hit Open Beta on June 3rd, one week from today. You’ll be able to buy Scrolls for £13/€15/$20, depending on where you live.

For more information on how Scrolls plays, take a gander at our mini-guide. We’ll have more posts going up this week which will explain exactly what you get from the Beta.
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May 27, 2013, 19:21
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The market for digital collectible card games is already saturated, and they should have seen that before they started working on one (regardless of what promises he made a friend). And trying to fight bethesda for the name is also just silly. Even if they can't register scrolls, that also means he probably can't either, so anyone can probably take the name. They should have picked a more memorable name, one they could register.

Also, I'm not interested in what is likely to be a pay 2 win game.
JohnBirshire wrote on May 27, 2013, 14:00:
After the breakthrough worldwide sensation that took the gaming world by storm, Minecraft, the visionary independent developer's next grand phenomenon...a card game. *crickets* Well, maybe not so visionary after all.

He wasn't trying to be on this one. Check its history.

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Sir Graves wrote on May 27, 2013, 17:02:
20 bucks?? Nope.

I agree. $15, *maybe*, $10 and this shit will fly off the shelves... err, off the interwebs. Of course the majority of sales will obviously be from the current Minecraft/Mojang/Notch followers, even though the game is total "Meh".
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20 bucks?? Nope.
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jdreyer wrote on May 27, 2013, 14:25:
Microsoft’s senior vice president of Interactive Entertainment Business Yusuf Mehdi has stated that given the broad multimedia focus of Scrolls, there’s no reason why it can’t shift between 400 million and 1 billion sales in its lifetime.

Lulz!
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fawker wrote on May 27, 2013, 12:48:
Looks like everyone is trying to jump in on the card trading game these days.

It's like gambling except you can only lose money.

What I find funny about this is that the "old school" guys love the whole card gaming (and collectibles) setup, as well as the old model/board gaming and what have you. Best example of "guys" would be Penny Arcade. I recall them stating in the past that they couldn't understand the long-term costs of things like WoW (or D3's RMAH), then I remembered how much I (easily) spent on MTG and miniatures, etc., back in the day and I really facepalmed at their attitude.

I guess what I'm saying is, the line between passion and addiction/obsession is a thin one. The association of "pay to win" with a lot of games these days further amuses me because it's really no different with MTG and similar games...yet you get armchair old school board-type gamers (again, PA) who pretend the latter is a purer form. Then you get something like Scrolls which blurs the lines a bit, and things ironically become a lot more clear.
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Microsoft’s senior vice president of Interactive Entertainment Business Yusuf Mehdi has stated that given the broad multimedia focus of Scrolls, there’s no reason why it can’t shift between 400 million and 1 billion sales in its lifetime.
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May 27, 2013, 14:08
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Remember, this is mojang, not notch. Notch is tinkering around with his space game which makes even less sense
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Yawn...
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After the breakthrough worldwide sensation that took the gaming world by storm, Minecraft, the visionary independent developer's next grand phenomenon...a card game. *crickets* Well, maybe not so visionary after all.

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I do. The ability to play something like a draft on MTGO at all hours of the night against random people in Germany or Japan is pretty awesome and speaks to the value of a digital platform.

As for Scrolls...meh....I'm actually more excited about Hex... they've really embraced the digital part of their game, incorporating features that would never work in a physical version, and not pulling too many punches to make it "accessible" (like that embarrassment that is Hearthstone).
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You know, I did not buy a computer to play card games. I would like to know, with all the great games out there, who plays with cards on a computer?????
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Call me cheap bastard, but $20 bucks for what looks like an IOS card game? Meh..

And wait..we pay him to test it? Well fuck me, aren't we lucky!
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Looks like everyone is trying to jump in on the card trading game these days.

It's like gambling except you can only lose money.
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I'm wondering if this one will be on Steam.
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Looks like fun timez. I am guessing it has micro-transactions in the form of that other currency besides gold/coins/whatever it was.
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