Mon 7 Jul 2008
Scrabulous To Get Authorized Competition
Posted by Jason T. under Facebook, Social Networks
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Online Scrabble knock-off Scrabulous, which serves up Scrabble games on its website, over email, and on the popular social networking site Facebook, will now be getting some competition from Electronic Arts. EA will start offering an authorized Scrabble game on Facebook.
Scrabulous has been one of the top apps used by Facebook users when Facebook opened its platform to outside developers. EA and Hasbro, Inc. hope to take a bite out of unlicensed versions of the game.
However, the “official game” will only be licensed in the US and Canada, meaning you won’t be able to play the game in the States with your friends overseas. Restrictions like this to me mean the official app will have a hard time dethroning Scrabulous with its 450K daily users.