Popular Facebook Scrabulous Game App Pulled

There are a lot of annoying Facebook apps and there are a few Facebook apps that are enjoyable and/or add value. One of the Facebook applications that was actually fun was Scrabulous. Unfortunately, it has now been pulled by the developers considering of a lawsuit from Hasbro, the owner of the board game Scrabble.

Some are quick to call Hasbro stupid by its Scrabulous decision. The problem is Scrabulous was an unapproved version of Hasbro’s Scrabble board game and Hasbro already had a licensing deal with Electronic Arts. Hasbro may not have had much room to negotiate with the developers of Scrabulous

whether they had already licensed the rights to an electronic version of the game to Electronic Arts.

Facebook certainly wanted the game to remain but in the end they don’t really have any say in the matter. Hasbro and Electronic Arts are going to try and get humans to use their Scrabble version which is now on Facebook (via TechCrunch). Some public may not try the new Scrabble app it whether they are angry about Scrabulous. society can still play the Scrabulous version online at Scrabulous.com.

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