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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When your siblings are on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, it is nice to have an way to play board games with them. I would probably miss it because I like Scrabble, but there’s always another game out there to play with my siblings… until a different company and Facebook decide to duke it out in court because neither can communicate reasonably or think outside the corporate box.
Even if banned from Facebook you will be able to play Scrabulous though its website at http://www.scrabulous. com.
P.S. I see someone has set up a competing site at http://www.scrabbulous.com. Watch your typing.
P.S.S. For serious Scrabble players I recommend the Internet Scrabble Club.
I don’t have facebook, I don’t play Scrabulus and i don’t advocate using copyrighted games (nor cloning of one). Like I don’t advocate listening to copyrighted music or TV programs. If you see something Copyrighted simply don’t use . Stay away from it use something made by people. If we all would do that we would have to only pay for phone and Internet connection. No copyright issues would arise and we would be free people. That way they Copyright the product and use themselves. The products will be for internal use only.
While everyone else uses Open Source, Public Domain etc. Hopefully same rule will apply to linux. To free ourselves of copyrighted operating systems. By having a working “different” alternative.
Would you rather pay a fine or be a free person? Enjoy the benefits of using something with no strings attached!
While I agree that Hasbro has a good legal point here, the “official” scrabble game they’ve posted on Facebook is AWFUL. Slow, with useless animation and etc. Scrabulous just works. It’s quick and easy to play. It would be much better if the scrabulous folks were forced to give a portion/all of their company to Hasbro.
I think tis copyright bullshit is ridiculous. The onventor of the game should be concerned, not some idiotic company that owns the copyright just because it had the money to buy it. The makers of the game are not even trying to make money out of it. Hasbro should be banned.
Well, I’ve played Scraulous but never have used Facebook.
So no, I won’t miss it from facebook. As long as it still exists I don’t care whether facebook has it or not.
Scrabulous is fabulous! I will go into a deep depression without my daily fix. I have about 15 games going at any given time. It’s my latest addiction and i LOVE it.
Shame on Hasbro, as if they don’t have enough revenue. I think i will have to boycott Hasbro is Scrabulous is taken from me. Anyone else like that idea? I buy their wares quite often for my preschoolers. Maybe no more.
I play Scrabulous weekly, if not daily. I was always a fan of the board game, but everything I do these days is online. I shop online, I play online, I work online. That’s just a fact of life in 2008.
Having said that, I think Hasbro has every right to sue Scrabulous as we all know it’s Scrabble with the slightly changed name. Now do I care if Scrabulous.com goes away? Not really. I would just want a platform as good as Scrabulous (let’s not talk about the lagging, quitting and cheating problems) to play on if Scrabulous was gone.
The problem Hasbro is having is that the platform they released is absolutely pitiful. See: http://www.hasbro.com/games/adult-games/scrabble/home.cfm?page=Entertainment/justforfun for links to play on Fbook and Pogo. Just a horrible example of how not to build a gaming platform. It’s hard to believe with Scrabulous so popular they didn’t learn something.
In any event, with the absence of Scrabulous, users will not be flocking to Hasbro unless they can offer a similar platform that’s as user-friendly as Scrabulous. I’d say 99% of the Scrabulous users would agree. So they’re not going to capture any market share here. The best thing for them to do would be to work something out with revenue-sharing that I’m sure the boys at Scrabulous would be happy to do to avoid shutting down.
Like any big company they have decided to bully a couple of young guys who basically made the otherwise boring board game interesting.
http://tinyurl.com/5mdvzh
I like many others here, always have a few games going with relatives and friends who do not live near me. Scrabulous is easy to play on Facebook with little lag. I do not like Scrabble’s version of the game and will not use it.