How to Adapt Quickly: Scrabulous Founders Launch New Word Puzzle Game

Posted by dawie on Thursday July 31, 2008 @12:55PM
from the washingtonpost.com dept.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/31/AR2008073101159.html

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Re:How to Adapt Quickly: Scrabulous Founders Launch New Word... by aston on Thursday July 31, 2008 @02:41PM (#263302)

I dunno how quickly they adapted here. Better would've been to release the alternative before being sued...

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Re:How to Adapt Quickly: Scrabulous Founders Launch New Word... by dangoldin on Thursday July 31, 2008 @02:41PM (#263303)

How soon do you all think they started working on this version?

Would it have been possible to crank this out in the few days between the time Scrabulous was pulled and this came out?

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Re:How to Adapt Quickly: Scrabulous Founders Launch New Word... by dawie on Thursday July 31, 2008 @03:32PM (#263353)

That's what I assumed they did and that's why I am so impressed. I guess they might have been working on it before.

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Re:How to Adapt Quickly: Scrabulous Founders Launch New Word... by swirlee on Thursday July 31, 2008 @04:11PM (#263393)

Hasbro has been breathing down their necks and their getting shut down has been a very real possibility for months. I suspect they've been working on this for quite awhile.

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Re:How to Adapt Quickly: Scrabulous Founders Launch New Word... by gscott on Thursday July 31, 2008 @07:29PM (#263565)

The fact that they had a program to come back with so quickly will very likely work against them in court. HB will want ongoing revenue from this new product because it used the HB materials to build up it's user base. A sort of bait-and-switch HB will argue.

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Re:How to Adapt Quickly: Scrabulous Founders Launch New Word... by jonknee on Thursday July 31, 2008 @02:59PM (#263330)

They had been in limbo since January, it's not exactly a quick adaptation.

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