So over lunch I decided to give the Hasbro branded Scrabble the benefit of the doubt and loaded it up into Facebook.
Say what you might about the copyright wranglings of the clone Scrabulous - it had one distinct version over this now officially sanctioned one from EA:
It worked.
Loading the flash app was a long wait in the first place, and it took a reload before it seemed to acknowledge my IP address at all. Finally it did and I was pretty much just staring at a blank splash screen with little notion as to how to actually being a game. So I finally clicked the small text link above the huge flash animation to invite a friend and was greeted with this:
Wow. Every word really is a winner.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Official Scrabble For Facebook does, in fact, suck
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Not to EA: injunction should come AFTER the beta. Dumbasses...
Yeah, I'm really irritated by the whole situation.
It's made doubly painful by the lack of similar games on FB.
Corvus is just mad that he's losing.
But it is a terrible app. Slow, always breaking down and way too busy for what is really a simple game.
Oh, snap!
I'm not losing by enough that should be getting cocky just yet, my friend!
But it's true. The only games I'm not losing right now are the ones where my opponents haven't been able to take their first turn yet... on account of ALL THE CRASHING.
Scrabulous was elegant in it's simplicity. If Hasbro or EA had been smart, they'd have bought it from the guys who developed it rather than suing them and called it their own.
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