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Give me Scrabulous or give me death

Started by Shawn Farner · 11 months ago

Are you a fan of Scrabulous?  If so, you’ve probably noticed that the popular Scrabble-clone has vanished from Facebook.  I’ll let you go for a few minutes while you blow off some steam.

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Feeling better?  No?  Don’t worry - about half a million other Scrabulous players are feeling the same way.  Several blog posts ... Continue reading »

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  • Jenn

    11 months ago

    As I said in my post, I'm not quite sure where I stand. I suppose I'm confused because essentially it's the same game. I don't see why it matters if you're playing on a white board or a red board.

    I agree that a working replacement should be offered and it's a really bad start for Hasbro. A part of me wants to side with Scrabulous creators, but what did they expect? They copied a game and changed its name. It was bound to catch up with them eventually.

    Hasbro, on the other hand, could be less of a jerk about it.

    (Thanks for the link love!)
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  • Justin K.

    11 months ago

    To play Devil's advocate... Doesn't Hasboro have a right, actually, don't they have a responsibility to protect their brand and their copyright? The argument that I hear most is that Hasboro should have just bought Scrabulous, but they really didn't need to seeing as how the people that created it had absolutely no claim to the game or brand they piggybacked on. It's much more cost effective for them to simply shut down the copy-cat and build their own.

    Granted, you've found a few comments about people saying they purchased scrabble boards because they played Scrabulous, but I feel that's the exception and not the rule. In reality, Hasboro owns arguably the second most recognizable board game brand in the country (after Monopoly, which obviously has been ripped off every which way) and I can't blame them for wanting to protect it.
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  • sudhir

    11 months ago

    saying Hi to all ..well I am from the same city Kolkata where the Scrabulous’ owners live…well actually here in India we are really not very knowledge abt copyrights issues as much as in silicon valley !! as VC options & startups are coming up from here we think we do need to think on other areas like this apart from the coding or the business model..

    But not being partial but I still feel it wud have been better for Hasbro to take over Scrabulous and retain the users for some $$ as in India 1$ still = 40 ruppes so they did not have to lose too much!!
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