Why the Secret Spell Scroll system would have never worked.

Then they'd get duped, rendering it worse off than before. At least right now cubes/hammers/wards (lol, protection scrolls) can't be traded/duped. Having them as untradeable & store bought/quest obtained would be a slightly better approach, but that isn't going to happen.

Yeah, I forgot to mention making them untradeable. We can agree on some level that this would work if they tried it. Who knows, maybe more players would be drawn to GMS if not everything required players to gamble real money. If I recall correctly KMS has in-game cubes don't they?