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Fun Stuff => CLIKC => Topic started by: est on 29 Jul 2008, 17:21

Title: Scrabulous ist kaput?
Post by: est on 29 Jul 2008, 17:21

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7191264.stm and http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-9852054-36.html and http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/headcandy/2008/07/an-elegy-for-sc.html

I am pretty torn on this.  I mean, on the one hand what the Scrabulous people have done is definitely theft, but on the other hand they saw a need quicker than Hasbro and filled it in a far superior way to Hasbro's abysmal offering.  I mean, have you tried to play it?  It's like a clown threw up on the screen.  So garish and slow.

I also read in one news article that Hasbro apparently did try to buy them out before suing them, but were declined. If that is the case then I am pretty disappointed. This would have been a very good thing for players, because Scrabulous would have become legitimate.

Title: Re: Scrabulous ist kaput?
Post by: KvP on 29 Jul 2008, 17:31

Well shit, how is Eed going to shame me now.

Title: Re: Scrabulous ist kaput?
Post by: Inlander on 29 Jul 2008, 18:07

Guess we're all going to have to start playing chess now instead.

Hey, anyone know what the best chess app. for Facebook is? I had a look and there appear to be a lot to choose from.

Title: Re: Scrabulous ist kaput?
Post by: est on 30 Jul 2008, 17:23

Humorous addendum! http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/38655/108/

Title: Re: Scrabulous ist kaput?
Post by: Lines on 30 Jul 2008, 18:30

Maaaaaaan, that sucks. But that last article is a funny kick in the pants for Hasbro, tee hee.

Title: Re: Scrabulous ist kaput?
Post by: KvP on 05 Jan 2009, 17:37

SCRABULOUS

RISE FROM YOUR GRAVE AND RESCUE MY DAUGHTER


(check it out, Scrabulous is back... as Lexulous!)

Title: Re: Scrabulous ist kaput?
Post by: RedLion on 06 Jan 2009, 01:56

Holy shit, really?

Title: Re: Scrabulous ist kaput?
Post by: Inlander on 06 Jan 2009, 03:06

Preliminary investigations reveal that they've cleverly tweaked it to avoid lawsuits by not only renaming it but also changing the board so that the double word scores, etcetera, are in slightly different places and arrangements on the board.

Also because it's a remake of the original program, all your old games and stats are preserved so you don't need to start again. (Which is kind of a shame for me, seeing as how I lost all of my games of Scrabulous by neglecting to ever get around to actually making a move in any of them.)

Title: Re: Scrabulous ist kaput?
Post by: mishy on 06 Jan 2009, 09:20

woot!
now if only i was willing to go to facebook often enough to play the only app i will have installed... (other than the Anal Prolapse one.)


Edit: Lexulous loads a blank page in facebook.... balls.