Scrabble Officially On Facebook
July 8th, 2008 Posted in Appspace, Facebook, Games, Social Media, apps
Electronic Arts has teamed up with Hasbro to bring SCRABBLE to Facebook and Pogo.
Launching later in July, SCRABBLE will be the first EA Hasbro-licensed property to go live on a social networking site. EA has plans to release a number of other Hasbro properties later in the year.
The SCRABBLE Facebook app will allow head-to-head challenges and players can choose between a real-time turn-based game or pause and pick up the play later. Scores and stats wil be tracked and players can be ranked. In addition, players will have access to built-in chat, dynamic animations and be able to access world lists.
July 8th, 2008 at 1:09 am
And the chances this will knock Scrabulous off its perch at Facebook? Strikes me buying Scrabulous might have been a way cheaper way of going about this
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July 8th, 2008 at 1:16 am
It may well have been, John. However from a corporate point of view that would have set a dangerous precedent for Hasbro.
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John Allsopp reply on July 12th, 2008 2:36 am:
Right,
but what price scrabulous after this move turns out to be a disaster? Will they sue then? Or buy?
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July 12th, 2008 at 12:03 pm
A ridiculous move, it just wont help anything adding that app to facebook.
Who’s going to bother moving from one place to another when all their friends are on Scrabulous?
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