Scrabulous is M-I-S-S-I-N-G
Published by Rodney Rumford July 29th, 2008 in Facebook.
It would appear that Scrabulous is missing from facebook this morning. Facebook users in the United States & Canada can no longer access Scrabulous. The wildly successful Scrabble knockoff game that quickly became one of the most popular applications on facebook is missing.
Here is what you see when you go to the application page. “Scrabulous is disabled for US and Canadian users until further notice. If you would like to stay informed about developments in this matter, please click here.”
According to the scrabulous developers: “In response to a legal request from Hasbro, the copyright and trademark holder for Scrabble in the U.S. and Canada, the developers of Scrabulous have suspended their application in the U.S. and Canada until further notice,”. It sounds to me like the lawsuit has either taken a turn for the worse or they have decided to concede to Hasbro.
This whole legal battle has been dragging on for the past 6 months. We wrote more detailed information and thoughts here. So for now it looks like the millions of users of scrabulous in facebook from the U.S. And Canada will have to use MISSING as the last play… until further developments become public.
I think it would have made way for sense for Hasbro to just purchase the facebook app. Bummer for all the people that are left in the middle of games. I would guess that there are over 2 million unfinished games. It makes me feel kind of like when your kid sister comes in and kicks the board out and the game is trashed. 
It’s so obvious that Hasbro should have booked the first flight to India and given those brothers the credit they deserved. Instead, they tried to out Flash and out disco them, the results being an appalling application that everyone abandoned after the first move. Here’s my Bingo to the folks at Srabble: B-O-Y-C-O-T-T. They’re stuck, and I won’t let any of my future expenditures try to delude them otherwise.
Ellen,
Well said. Why they did not embrace them is representative of old school thinking. It might take a while for businesses to realize when they have have gold in the palm of their hand.