Facebook Shuts Down Scrabulous
In related news, my productivity at work has just increased by 73%.
I’m pretty grumpy about it since I was about to finish a game with a friend with the score 308-305 and 5 tiles left. Now we’ll never know who would’ve won.
shrug
I go in through scrabulous.com, and it’s working fine. Just came from there, in fact.
I went on Facebook this morning to get my daily Scrabble fix and tis gone for now.
:mad: 
Anyone else going through withdrawal?
Didn’t they get sued by Hasbro for copyright infringment?
Yeah but that’s not the point. Scrabulous on Facebook was a way to feel like you were “hanging out” with folks you haven’t talked to since high school and “do something” with them like play a game of Scrabble over a 2-week period.
I thought it was a cool way to connect with my buddies. Heck, it helped me connect more with my own brother!
And don’t suggest that we tell everyone to go over to Scrabulous.com to play, because playing wasn’t the point. Facebook is like meeting at the mall every day with your pals and visiting random shops on a whim. Telling everyone to go to Scrabulous.com is like requesting everyone go to the standalone Orange Julius across town.
So sad 
Endgame: Scrabulous Gets Wiped Off Facebook: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/29/AR2008072901067.html
Play for fun? shudder
I play for blood.
You can go in via scrabulous.com, if you’re there to play scrabble and not socialize. I am told (in the concurrent MPSIMS thread on the same subject) that that playing scrabble isn’t actually the point.
Yes. I used Facebook mostly to play Scrabulous.
I’ve been playing the real Scrabble for the last couple of weeks, but my friends don’t seem to like it as much. Too much animation is the main complaint I get. It’s just generally slower than Scrabulous was. But I think I can get used to it.
Come over to the dark side, eleanor…
Combined the Game Room and MPSIMS threads about this.
Thanks for the invite. I feel I must sulk about this for a while, though. Also, that site is down today. :rolleyes:
<stomps foot> I want what I want! <stomps foot>
Go in through scrabulous.com – it’s up and active.
Well, when you change your mind, I’ll be happy to be your [del]doormat[/del] competitor if you’d like. I’m not that good, but I enjoy it!
And a note from Scrabble:
I’d be happy to. 
I doubt very much the doormat stuff, though–I’m only rated about 1200+.
Do I understand that Scrabble will be on Facebook? Not Scrabulous, but Scrabble?
IF so, I’m one happy camper!
Me too. If playing scrabble isn’t the point, why don’t you do something else on facebook?
Anyway, the downside is that today the scrabulous site is incredibly slow. Played someone today who was there for the first time because of the shut down of facebook…terrible, terrible lag.
It’s been there…I’ve been playing for a couple of weeks already. It’s still “beta” technically.