Is it game over for scrabulous on facebook?
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An official version of Scrabble on Facebook could spell the end for its popular but unsanctioned alternative. Office workers may soon be deprived of a favoured means of whiling away the tedious hours between 9 and 5 – playing Scrabulous on Facebook.
The makers of Scrabble have said they plan to launch an official version game on the social networking site later this month, paving the way for the demise of the enormously popular but unsanctioned alternative be shut down. Earlier this year, Hasbro and Mattel, the toymakers that jointly own the rights to Scrabble, provoked protests from Scrabulous fans by demanding that Facebook take down the application. About 450,000 people play Scrabulous on Facebook every day.
Hasbro and Electronic Arts (EA), the video game company which is making the official version, have not said what action they will take in relation to Scrabulous, which was produced for Facebook by two brothers based in India. It is understood that the companies did not press a legal case against Scrabulous because of the potentially angry reaction from fans who would be left without a version of the game on Facebook. Scrabble fans in the US and Canada can get a taste of the official version at Pogo.com, a games website which launched the game yesterday. The Facebook version will be available later this month, Hasbro and EA said in a statement. The companies did not say when the game will be launched outside the US.
Asked what Hasbro planned to do about Scrabulous once an official version of Scrabble was launched, a Hasbro spokesman said: "Hasbro has been consistent in stating that Scrabulous infringes on our intellectual property and we are keeping our legal options open." In January, Mattel, which owns the rights to Scrabble outside the US, wrote to Facebook asking it to take down the Scrabulous application, saying that it valued its intellectual property and "actively protected" its brands and trademarks. But within hours of the news breaking, thousands of players joined a "Save Scrabulous" group on Facebook, with many of them claiming that Scrabulous had contributed to a renewed popularity of the board game. "Scrabulous has massively raised the profile of Scrabble, rendering it actually quite cool (where it was once seen as rather geeky)," one Facebook user in London wrote.
An official version of Scrabble on Facebook could spell the end for its popular but unsanctioned alternative. Office workers may soon be deprived of a favoured means of whiling away the tedious hours between 9 and 5 – playing Scrabulous on Facebook.
The makers of Scrabble have said they plan to launch an official version game on the social networking site later this month, paving the way for the demise of the enormously popular but unsanctioned alternative be shut down. Earlier this year, Hasbro and Mattel, the toymakers that jointly own the rights to Scrabble, provoked protests from Scrabulous fans by demanding that Facebook take down the application. About 450,000 people play Scrabulous on Facebook every day.
Hasbro and Electronic Arts (EA), the video game company which is making the official version, have not said what action they will take in relation to Scrabulous, which was produced for Facebook by two brothers based in India. It is understood that the companies did not press a legal case against Scrabulous because of the potentially angry reaction from fans who would be left without a version of the game on Facebook. Scrabble fans in the US and Canada can get a taste of the official version at Pogo.com, a games website which launched the game yesterday. The Facebook version will be available later this month, Hasbro and EA said in a statement. The companies did not say when the game will be launched outside the US.
Asked what Hasbro planned to do about Scrabulous once an official version of Scrabble was launched, a Hasbro spokesman said: "Hasbro has been consistent in stating that Scrabulous infringes on our intellectual property and we are keeping our legal options open." In January, Mattel, which owns the rights to Scrabble outside the US, wrote to Facebook asking it to take down the Scrabulous application, saying that it valued its intellectual property and "actively protected" its brands and trademarks. But within hours of the news breaking, thousands of players joined a "Save Scrabulous" group on Facebook, with many of them claiming that Scrabulous had contributed to a renewed popularity of the board game. "Scrabulous has massively raised the profile of Scrabble, rendering it actually quite cool (where it was once seen as rather geeky)," one Facebook user in London wrote.
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