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Scrabulous quits Facebook
Scrabble clone Scrabulous, one of the most popular applications on Facebook, shut down service in North America. Now the official version of Scrabble is the only way to match vocabularies with your friends on Facebook.
This appears to be the final move in the long-stranding legal legal battle that involved Hasbro (owners of the North American Scrabble rights), Mattel (owners of the international Scrabble rights) and Electronic Arts (developers of the officially sanctioned version on Facebook) against the two brothers in India who created Scrabulous.
You had a nice run, guys. But sometimes Goliath wins. Especially when he's three Goliaths. And especially when you've directly copied his intellectual property. Now get out there and stick it to The Man by making us a version of Monopoly called Monopulous.
By Dullspork at 7:51 AM ON 07/31/08
Tom, the Scrabulous guys have been developing a Scrabulous clone for months called "Wordscraper" that is essentially a game that you can use to build and play your own Scrabble-like game. Otherwise, players of Scrabulous will feel right at home with Wordscraper.
By Troy Goodfellow at 11:00 AM ON 07/31/08
Since the defeat of Scrabulous was pretty much certain here, the real story for me is that the official Scrabble application isn't very good. It's too busy and cluttered, slow and prone to breaking down. This is par for the course for Facebook apps, of course, but these weren't basement programmers.
Not sure what I think about Wordscraper yet.
Troy Goodfellow:
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