Scrolls is the second big game to come out of Mojang, the studio founded by Markus "Notch" Persson that spawned Minecraft and was eventually purchased by Microsoft for a staggering amount of money. It's been in development for years, going through a long, extended beta period. However now the game's production is set to halt, with Mojang admitting that scrolls never became the success that it hoped for.
"The launch of the Scrolls beta was a great success. Tens of thousands of players battled daily, and many of them remain active today," Mojang staff said in a statement.
However, they admitted, the game was no longer bringing in enough to fund continued development. To that end, Scrolls servers will be kept online for another year, with all money generated from the game now going into keeping them open longer. This does mean though, that Echoes will be the last content patch and that from then on, nothing new will be released for the card based strategy game.
"We’ve had a great time working on Scrolls, and appreciate every last player who’s downloaded our game. Extra big thanks to the most dedicated members of our community; some of you have logged in almost every day since release and dedicated a large portion of your time to dominating the leaderboards and taking care of new players. We salute you, honourable scrolldiers," staff said.
Echoes added 60 new cards to the game, as well as custom matches, game replays and a new judgement mode among other updates.