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Wait, No Scrabulous?
Oli:
Vive la révolution!
KvP:
--- Quote from: jhocking on 26 Aug 2008, 15:17 ---Why they didn't just buy out Scrabulous is beyond me.
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I imagine it's a lot like this. A Mattel game can't be simply functional, like Scrabulous is. It has to have polish, and it has to represent the parent company.
nobo:
--- Quote from: jhocking on 26 Aug 2008, 15:17 ---Why they didn't just buy out Scrabulous is beyond me.
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why pay for something you already own?
ZJGent:
It is not about the nature of Scrabble, nobo. It's a given thing that Mattel own that, woop-de-do, done and dusted. What he was referring to is, why not take the existing model of the internet game which people are happy with and enjoy and which is generally an acceptedly good thing, and tool it up to be under the mattel logo?
Why go to the trouble of completely starting over with a system people are uncomfortable with? Sure, Mattel know how to make Scrabble. But Digital Scrabble? Online Social Networking Scrabble? They were on shaky ground, and it would have been a wiser move to have merely borrowed some of the innovation that the Scrabulous boys had displayed.
nobo:
--- Quote from: ZJGent on 26 Aug 2008, 18:03 ---
Why go to the trouble of completely starting over with a system people are uncomfortable with?
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I assume its because Scrabulous was probably making advertising money off of a product that Mattel has trademarked. Mattel can get 100% of whatever money Scrabulous made by claiming trademark infringement.
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