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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YES! I play scrabulous everyday and have met many friends through the game as well as reconnected with other friends by playing this game. I think that Hasboro has sold more games as a result of this internet game and should drop this suit or work together with the makers…
Fred on July 27th, 2008 1:55 pm
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?
Says the guy anonymously on a website.
If you don’t know what the article is about, and don’t care to learn, then don’t bother wasting everyone’s time by putting up inflammatory posts.
All Scrabulous has to do is tweak things to keep the feel of the game without violating any intellectual rights. There are plenty of Scrabble clones out there. Sadly though, Facebook might just remove it to save itself the trouble of having to deal with it.
Now inaccessible through Facebook for US and Canadian users.
(Imagine rant about DMCA and copyright laws here.)
I absolutely love Scrabulous.
I usally have between 10 and 20 games going at once. All with my friends and relatives. Every morning and every second of the day when I have a minute I play my games.
I really will miss it terribly. I have tried Scrabble by Hasbro on Facebook and it is absolutely terrible. Not worth playing at all.
Please do your best to settle this disagreement as I and many of my friends are alreadly missing it.
PS My daughter only goes on Facebook for Scrabulous and it took us so long to get her on!!!
Yours truly
Wendy MacNeil
oh it was great fun playing scrabble on line, i felt ever so mentally alive and experienced different players of various age groups from different walks of life and their modes of playing, it was real fun and i miss playing it and my heart skipped a beat when all my 10-12 active games were suddenly just dropped !
a part of me just dropped !!!
Yes I will miss scrabulous, and for that reason I am boycotting Hasbro and I am encouraging everyone else who enjoyed the game to boycott also. Let Hasbro know that you will not purchase any more games or products from them. It them where it hurts, the pocket book. This works alot better than you might think.
Scrabulous is now Lexulous - at http://www.Lexulous.com
Same great Scrabulous game as before w/ a new name. Perhaps this will keep Hasbro off their back for a while more.
For those of you boycotting and not purchasing any more Hasbro games, you’re all ridiculous. Hasbro was protecting their intellectual property rights. You’d do the same thing if someone took your idea and reproduced it exactly and profited from it without your knowledge. The law is there to protect us, not screw us.