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Johnny C:

--- Quote from: nobo on 26 Aug 2008, 20:08 ---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.

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Alternatively they can go, "Hm, look what these guys did with the source material" and hire them.

This is dumb from a business standpoint for Mattel. Really, really dumb.

nobo:
Johnny, looks like thats exactly what happened. Looks like Hasbro/Mattel made a more than reasonable offer for scrabulous and they were turned down.


--- Quote ---Rumors suggest that in January 2008, Hasbro made an attempt to acquire Scrabulous for an undisclosed sum in the $10 million range.[10] The game had been generating advertising revenue of over $25,000 per month for the Agrawalla brothers.[11] The Agrawallas refused to sell their application to Hasbro, instead requesting a "multiple" of $10 million. It was reported that the Agrawallas had also been looking for other potential suitors who would be willing to pay higher premiums.
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source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabulous


--- Quote ---According to this New York Times article, Jayant Agarwalla said that he and his brother did not create Scrabulous to make money - they just wanted to play Scrabble on their computers. So why didn't they accept the big check then? The brothers decided to turn down the check, rumored to be around the $10 million mark; apparently, they were holding out for more money. How much more? A multiple of several times $10 million by some accounts. Even though the game, by all fair estimates, was probably only worth around $3-6 million, the brothers felt they deserved more.
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source:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/07/29/so-long-scrabulous-hasbro_n_115685.html

jhocking:
See now why didn't you say that in the first place? Hopefully because you simply didn't know about that before.

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