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Wait, No Scrabulous?
est:
It looks like what Mattel did with their version of the Scrabble Facebook app was to take their PC game version and port it over to the Facebook platform or whatever the fuck is necessary to do that. As a result instead of the relatively simple, crisp clean interface people are used to be have heavily-branded multicoloured bullshit that runs like a busted mule. To me it is a much better idea to create a custom Wordscraper board that functions exactly like a Scrabble board and play on that instead.
jhocking:
--- Quote from: nobo on 26 Aug 2008, 17:58 ---why pay for something you already own?
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Okay, you miss the point of my statement, even after zjgent clarified. I wasn't talking about the technicalities of who owns what, I was talking about their decision to close down Scrabulous and develop a new Scrabble app. Why not simply acquire and rebrand Scrabulous (whatever business/legal machinations are required to make that happen) rather than go to all the effort to develop a new and untested app?
nobo:
because acquiring scrabulous means paying the owners of scrabulous. they have legal right to sue scrabulous for copyright infringement and collect whatever ad revenue scrabulous got, or at least stop scrabulous from making money off of mattel's product.
jhocking:
No, "acquire" doesn't necessarily mean paying them. My vague reference to "legal machinations" was to address the possibility of them seizing the code from the Scrabulous guys. Personally I think this would be a horrendous thing for them to do both from a business and an ethics point of view, but that is irrelevant to my point.
yeesh, I guess you are the answer to my question.
yelley:
--- Quote from: Ptommydski on 26 Aug 2008, 08:45 ---I stopped playing when I realised that people could cheat by using generators and such forth.
I don't like losing in general, I hate the idea that I might be losing to a machine.
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that made me so angry... there were a couple of qc people that i would play scrabble with that i was positive were cheating and using generators. not really something i can call someone on, though... it is the internet, after all.
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