Too bad for Facebook. I tripled my time there because of Scrabulous.
I had just bingoed. ADAgIOS, triple word bonus, 80 points. My opponent never saw it.
Grr. Kerri Harrop just got me hooked and now I'm jonesing. So typical. "We will protect our brand by killing it". Scrabulous was the best thing that ever happened to Scrabble, or at least since "Word Freak" came out. Now they go back to the top shelf in the closet. Good work, geniuses.
You joined facebook so you could keep in touch with your friends when you went to Chi-town, annie.
Scrabulous came later.
Besides, I'm busy collecting Karma badges and managing my virtual garden ...
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You know that non-profitable program that's competing with our non-profitable program, which is increasing brand awareness and boosting sales of our tangible, profitable model? Can we please end that by any means necessary?
Corporate jagoffs.
no, i'm working today.
legal stuff aside, why didn't Facebook either make announcements that it would be shutting off in hours/days and/or save user stats, etc.? Did they just completely erase of trace of it from Facebook?
(and by "from Facebook" I meant "from north american Facebook users." - But I guess they simply "disabled" it?)
All Scrabble games must begin with Petula Clark.
pogo.com has Scrabble for free. 2, 3, or 4 players. once you get the app set up, it's quick and easy and fun!
More info on the silly Scrabble mess:
http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-glaser-on-scrabulous-silly-split-rights-for-scrabble-led-to-this/
Scramble still works, and it's pretty fun.
Yeah sure "increasing brand awareness and boosting sales of our tangible", did you go out and buy a scrabble board or are you just talking out of your ass?
I mean I know a lot of web developers hang out on message boards but still... writing a facebook app is a greater accomplishment than inventing scrabble?
This ruined my Tuesday (not that Tuesdays don't already suck). I was in the middle of a game with my arch nemesis (you know who you are) and was up by at least 100 points. Couldn't they have at least sent out a warning first-- like "we're shutting down tomorrow because of the evil man"?
Sigh. And now I've managed to start two games on scrabulous.com where I'm playing against myself because apparently I can't read directions. This day could only get worse if time started going backwards.
Hasbro didn't invent jack, daniel. They bought the rights. It was invented by Alfred Butts in 1938, and if intellectual property was managed properly with the rights of the public involved, those rights would have expired the day Butts died in 1993.
Ah, American copyright laws... always managing to enrich corporations.
Look I'm not in favor of indefinite intellectual property rights nor corporate megaliths but neither am I going to dismiss the notion of "bought the rights". Alfred Butts got his money, the next guy may not.
Anyway you think if Scrabble was 20 years old Scrabulous would have said: "oh no we'll obey *this* law because it's just"?
If Scrabble was 20 years old it wouldn't be Scrabble. And Butts got bupkuss; it's a corporate brand now, disassociated from anything. Hasbro (or its successor) will own those rights in 2108 as well. Fuck them. They're IP sharks; they couldn't invent a way to wipe their ass.
scrabulous.com works, so how was it banned?
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