If you want to play Scrabulous on Facebook, you better book a flight to India because the social network has now officially pulled the plug on one of the most popular applications to grace its pages.

According to a report in the San Jose Mercury News, Facebook has extended its ban of Scrabulous out from North America to include the rest of the globe, save India, where a legal dispute is still pending.

Last month, Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla of Calcutta, the two brothers who designed the Scrabble-like game, were forced to take down the application in North America after Hasbro, which owns the U.S. and Canadian rights to the board game, secured a favorable ruling in a New York federal court. 

That ruling led to a bifurcated gaming landscape, with users outside North America still able to play Scrabulous and those inside the designated territories allowed to play Wordscraper, a similar game developed by the Agarwalla brothers. However, that ban has now been extended beyond North America, meaning that only India-based Facebook users will be able to enjoy Scrabulous.

While Facebook does not give specific data on its applications, the news isn't good for the social network, which has seen most of its recent growth come from outside the U.S. The news is also particularly unsettling because Facebook is in the midst of beefing up its advertising program, which is designed to integrate brands into the regular activities of its users. While those activities will doubtless continue, Scrabulous, one of the more popular unifying forces on the site, will now be rather insignificant.