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Scrabulous Is Dead, Hasbro's Version Brain-Dead
eldavojohn writes "Sometime this morning, Facebook shut down Scrabulous to American and Canadian users. Scrabulous, we hardly knew ye." This is sadly unsurprising, now that Hasbro's finally taken legal action against the developers, after quite a few months of letting it go unmolested. Seems like they waited until there was an official Scrabble client available (also on Facebook), while the snappy and fuller-featured Scrabulous kept people interested in a 60-year-old board game. The official client, which is at least labeled a beta, is a disappointment. This is not a Google-style beta release, note: it's slow to load, confusing, and doesn't even offer the SOWPODS word list as an option, only the Tournament Word List and a list based on the Merriam-Webster dictionary. (Too bad that SOWPODS is the word list used in most of the world's English-speaking countries.) It also took several minutes to open a game, rather than the few seconds (at most) that Scrabulous took — it's pretty impressive, but not in a good way, that the programmers could extract that sort of performance from the combination of Facebook's servers and my dual-core, 2GHz+ laptop. The new Scrabble client has doodads like 3D flipping-tile animations, too, but no clear way to actually initiate the sample game that jamie and I have attempted to start. I hope that once we get past that obvious hurdle, we'll find there's a chat interface and game notebook as in Scrabulous, but my hopes are low.
i've never been so surpised by any other slashdot story in my life, who would have thought hasbro would gay out and ruin everything...
/sarcasm
i have a roll of electrical tape.
Most people on the Internet are on one (or both) of those. I see why this article justifies front-page status.
That would be a very difficult number to back up. I'd call you on not providing a citation for that statement, but likely there simply is no way to say that "most people on the internet" use any particular function.
Or how about I bitch about all the articles about C and Ruby and a whole load of other programming languages I don't know?
Programming would be "news for nerds", which is also part of the name of the website. I haven't seen slashdot.org load as "Slashdot: social networking site reviews for nerds", which is what this article would be better classified as.
Damn_registrars has no butt-hole. Damn_registrars has no use for a butt-hole.
America, the rest of the world is leaving you behind - in economy, social responsibility, environmental responsibility, technology, space flight, and now games.
The rest of the world is playing Scrabulous while the American plebs bow and scrape before their corporate overlords hoping they don't go to jail.
Good riddance America. Hopefully the foul stench of your influence will disappear from the civilized parts of the world as quickly as possible.
Don't like this? Get off your ass, out of your house, and do something about it!
Oh, yeah, really ethical. India had money to spend on developing nuclear weapons, but had nothing to spare to even partially, symbolically, compensate the discoverers of lifesaving medicine.
Why don't you grow a FUCKING brain cell. You are a fucking moron for taking something as serious as HIV and turning into the latest joke on slashdot. There are people who are FUCKING DYING because of HIV and I'm sure that none of them find you funny. I'm also sure you would stop laughing if you had an HIV test come back positive.
Yes, I'm sure some retarded slashdot user knows better how to handle their property rights. Of course the fact that the thieving Indians stole everything like they always do isn't an issue. Maybe if India could do something besides steal other peoples ideas maybe they wouldn't have this issue. Oh yeah, I forget, India has cornered the market on killing lower caste citizens because they aren't good enough.