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Game Over: Suit Spells the End For Facebook's Scrabulous App
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Scrabulous fans didn't deny that the game was a knockoff of the venerable board game. Still, many were hoping Scrabble's owners would reach a deal with the Scrabulous creators.
"I'm surprised [Hasbro] let it stick around as long as they did," said Eric Litman, a Washington area tech entrepreneur who counts himself as a Scrabulous fan. "But I think they should've found a way to partner with these guys."
In a statement yesterday, Scrabulous co-creator Jayant Agarwalla said taking down the application in the United States and Canada was "an unfortunate event and not something that we are very pleased about."
EA introduced the test version of its Scrabble game for Facebook earlier this month; the final version is scheduled for an August release. In a statement yesterday, Hasbro tried to steer Scrabulous fans to the new application.
"In deference to the fans, we waited in pursuing legal action until Electronic Arts had a legitimate alternative available," the statement read. "We invite Scrabble fans in the U.S. and Canada to log onto Facebook and try out the authentic Scrabble application."
But the new Scrabble application generated many unfavorable comments yesterday at its Facebook page. EA said the application was the target of a malicious attack that disabled it for several hours yesterday. Users, meanwhile, complained that they couldn't get it to work.
"If you're going to shut down an application because of copyright infringement, make sure your own application works," complained one frustrated user.
"What the [heck] am I supposed to do at work now?" asked another.
