Mining for a while now with my laptop and never finding a block. Since difficulty will supposedly only raise in future, and people will be less and less likely to find blocks and to earn coins as time goes by, why should they actually want to mine? If on the first day it is already so difficult to actually mine any coins, how on earth can this project even think to be scalable to mass adoption?
There were some scalability issues with the connections, so many people mined in fork. The devs already have a solution for that and work towards solving. Furthermore pools will be available in short time after main net launch so that more and more will have the chance to mine and receive reward more often.