If Scrabulous goes from Facebook, will you miss it?
Filed under: News | By: Daniel
Posted on: July 27, 2008 | 27 Comments
Most people that use Facebook are doing so to keep in contact with friends and family from all around the world. But some also go to the social networking site to play games regularly.
Scrabulous is a game that is used by millions of Facebook users and this Scrabble knockoff has attracted the attention of Hasbro who own the Scrabble game.
If Scrabulous is removed from Facebook, how would that affect your time on the social network?
It’s a shame Hasbro could not find a middle ground with Scrabulous. The Facebook game has around 513,000 people playing it everyday. Maybe Facebook should share some of the revenue with Hasbro for the advertisements viewed while people play the game.
Hasbro have filed an intellectual property lawsuit against the Scrabulous creators. Facebook have forwarded a takedown notice to Scrabulous and expect the appropriate response from them.
It now looks like Scrabulous will be taken down and no petition groups will stop that.
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Miss what?
Allow me to re-phrase your question:
“If Facebook goes, will you miss it?”
(Answer: A resounding no!!! This is one of several threads:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/20/studivz-wont-comment-on-facebook-lawsuit-but-will-talk-smack-in-general/#comment-2414018)
Miss scrabulous, MORON!
Playing Scrabulous has become a daily ritual. I’ve had as many as 11 games going at one time! In the short time that I’ve been playing, it’s not only increased my vocabulary and but also stimulated the synapses that are involved with verbal skills. I’m positive it’s helping to keep me young! I wish Hasbro would come to some kind of compromise with the makers of Scrabulous.
Ummmm… Facebook? What is Facebook and why should I care? Let alone this game. How about getting a life people and actually interacting with other humans face to face?
Hasbro is making a mistake in not given some license for the game. I strongly suspect they sell more Scrabble games as a direct result of Scrabulous. I actually own both the Scrabble board game and the PC Scrabble Program, but I rarely play and don’t use Scrabulous. However those that play the game are all new candidates for Scrabble, since a PC is only a great platform for playing with others online or playing against a computer if it is working and not being used by someone else in the family. It doesn’t make it easy to play visiting family or friends unless you have multiple computers at home with their own monitors.
Removal will not affect me personally primarily because I refuse to sign up for Face Book because I feel they ask too much information that might facilitate credit fraud if not kept private. I never, for example, given my actual, honest birthday, although I am willing to give either an age range or a birth year. Young people just haven’t learned the value of personal information security.
Yep it will be missed - So then I hope it goes to another platform…
All I think is Hasbro wants a piece of the pie the Scrabulous app has…
I won’t play Scrabble rendition, as it’s crap plus way to fluffy with all the animations..
I also own an original Scrabble board for over 30yrs now. I never play anyone on it.
Scrabulous has given the word game a new lease of life.
Why can’t there be many clones available? Available & the best of them win the audience favour, than resorting to litigation.
Stuff Scrabble carry on with your childish bully boy tactics of, “I own this game & no one else can copy or make a similar game to mine!”
Hasbro could not have dreamed up a better way to promote Scrabble if they tried.
Scrabulous is the No1 game on Facebook, so Facebook are in no hurry to see it go down.
Equally I’m sure Hasbro would like to see this run for a while longer to gain maximum exposure.
It’s funny.
I’m a board game publisher ( http://www.gifttrap.com/ ) and I know lots of independent board game publishers who, like me, would jump at the chance of getting 500k users per day playing and talking about your game even if you didn’t own the site that’s collecting $25k/month in ad revenue.
Hasbro and Mattel have both benefited from sales increases due to the born again popularity of their cash-cow game.
I have total respect for the Scrabulous guys. We created a Facebook app in the vein of Free Gifts to help promote our game but getting your social app moving is no mean feat. Translating a board game to an online game is far from obvious.
The Free Gifts apps get 100k daily active users on Facebook, which is pretty cool. Our game precedes Free Gifts, but you can’t fight the viral nature and you’ve got to be first on the right platform.
Check out our app here; http://apps.new.facebook.com/gifttrap/
Unlike the Free Gifts app your friend gets to choose their own gift, the question is will you match. We have turned virtual gifts into a game.
The GiftTRAP board game is on sale in Barnes and Noble right now which is pretty cool (no doubt next to Scrabble). I’m just a few million copies behind them but gaining fast, but then we do have some pretty cool awards to our name
I hope the Scrabulous stays on Facebook, but who knows.
Scrabulous is amazing, and I love to play with people that live far away from me. As for Fred telling people to “get a life and interacting with humans face to face” I find it interesting that he chose to post his feelings on a website and not to a human face to face. Maybe someone else needs to get a life.
Fred said “How about getting a life people and actually interacting with other humans face to face?”
That’s a cliché thing to say that doesn’t bear much weight in the world we live in today. Besides, there are many people who have busy lives outside of their homes but can still find uses for what Facebook has to offer. When my best friend was overseas for a year, we kept in touch a little through the site and played many Scrabulous games.
If you regularly use e-mail, text messages, or instant messaging (msn, yahoo etc) then it’s not much different.