You may have noticed that Facebook is a little sadder of a place these days. Scrabulous, beloved game for procrastinators of all stripes, is no more. After months of asking nicely, Hasbro (which owns rights to the Scrabble in the US and Canada) filed suit against Scrabulous on July 24th, and Facebook finally agreed to remove access to the application for US and Canadian users. There’s a Scrabble-approved replacement game, but apparently it’s not the same, and angry Scrabulous devotees have already attacked and disabled it. Sad, for sure. But there’s an upside, too: as one fan put it, “The country is probably 10% more productive today.” (H/T: Today’s Papers.)
Scrabulous, RIP
July 30, 2008 by Sai Jahann
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I DID notice that Scrabulous had been removed!! I wasn’t sure if it was a permanent thing or not. Well, shoot. Doesn’t that just suck… and I was WINNING, TOO!!
(This is Jill from http://killjill.wordpress.com, by the way.)
I logged onto Scrabulous yesterday in order to see if my brother had played yet. We were on the last tile, and we live across the country from each other so this is how we spend time ‘together’. I think our game had been going on for at least four months. This is a sad day.
(found you via student bloggers)