Scrabble Suffers Hacks And Software Bugs On Facebook
Scrabble, which replaced the popular Scrabulous application that was pulled from Facebook yesterday, has been attacked by a hacker and pulled from the site, newsfactor.com reports. *Electronic Arts*, which distributes Scrabble in a partnership with Hasbro, released a statement that read:
I can't tell you how upset some of my friends are that Scrabulous is gone. That EA and Hasbro didn't seem to realize how rock solid and well done Scrabble for Facebook would need to be to win people over is amazing to me. Hasbro should have purchased Scrabulous and hired the creators not shoved them off Facebook and tried to replace it with their own inferior version.
Well, tipical american way of taking care of the opositions. What I really find funy is that hasbro didnt give a crap for Facebook till they found out Scrabulous was making such an hit on the users. Then, like any other Big american corp, they shove a law suite down the Scrabulous creators throat and push them off. Well guess what? Scrabulous is hell alot bettern then your game you just rushed out with numerous bugs, and on top of that ppl are already loyal to Scrabulous and by pushing them off Facebook the way you did wont make ppl like your game better.
Typical big american corporation behaviour that users and people in general are sick off.
This is such a travesty. I am in deep withdrawl and am so annoyed at Hasbro.
I refuse to play Scrabble on Facebook. I agree with Jaime in that Hasbro could have played this much better than they did. They look ridiculous with their actions.
I love Scrabulous. I played it often. But I played Scrabble long before I played Scrabulous and because Scrabulous was the only way to play it online, played Scrabulous. While I don't like losing access to such a well designed and easily playable online version of Scrabble, Hasbro has every right to insist that Scrabulous get lost– and replace that game with an official version of Scrabble of their own. It's Hasbro's game– they own it. This is about ownership. You can't steal someone else's idea for a game and just do whatever you want with it. I do think Hasbro would be wise to give the guys who ripped them off so brilliantly a slap on the wrist, then hire them to work for Hasbro. If they can do this with Scrabble– why couldn't they do the same for some of Hasbro's other games? Win-win.