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So, Scrabulous has been taken off Facebook, at the bequest of Hasbro, the makers of the original Scrabble. The internet is having a little wobbly about it but how about you? Is it the Beginning of the End? The End of the End? The Middle Bit In Between the Beginning and the End? Tell us your brains.
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No one should play EA Scrabble, we should demand Scrabulous back: http://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/hasbro-compromise-dont-patronize
Does this remind anyone of the RIAA vs Napster, ca 2001? Napster was proof of concept for music downloading, and established the model that the industry is still using. But when they crushed Napster, the idiot record companies had nothing decent to offer in its place. So all the people who had been using it, presented with no legal alternative, began downloading illegaly. Legal downloading has never caught up, and may never catch up.
Hasbro should be thanking Scrabulous for making an antiquated board game wildly popular in an age when games like Scrabble seem, ahem...quaint. Instead, they have just alientated their own online user base.
To quote Homer Simpson: "Doh!!!"