So I posted a short while ago about the downfall of Scrabulous on Facebook. I’m sad to see it go, but hey, something is replacing it so no lasting harm done. Except there is. I got to thinking about the fact that Scrabble rights are owned by Hasbro in North America and Matel company worldwide. This has resulted in two separate ‘official’ Scrabble applications on Facebook — one for North America and one for the rest of the world. The rub? I can no longer play scrabble with my International friends.
Thanks Scrabble. You suck.
Really?
I haven’t been playing for a while so I hadn’t noticed. I only have one game going now, with an aussie.
That’s sad. I didn’t even realise that the new Scrabble had started, let alone that it was restricting players.
Shame, Hasbro… Shaaaaaaaame.
let’s be a little less greedy. scrabulous was creating a new generation of scrabble lovers that, if they want the real thing, can ONLY come to your company. Why wasn’t that enough??
That’s the big to-do about all of this. All the media folks say that Hasbro/Matel should have just bought Scrabulous thus supporting a great product and inheriting an established user base. But no, they go and create TWO weaker products (neither is anywhere as good as Scrbulous was) and upset a whole bunch of people. If anything Scrabulous was only helping the original Scrabble game, since everyone playing it was never going to pay-to-play online in the first place, and now might buy a physical board game from the store.
what, you have to pay now? want to play sometime kyle? i can teach you lesson or two.
No, the online versions are still free. I was suggesting that people who were playing online for free might be enticed to go to a store and buy the physical board game.
Hasbro offered up money for Scarbulous, I think a million dollars, but the Indian team behind the game refused.