English Hotel Merger

[Art]

Important and exciting news for all Habbos.
We are excited to announce that in May, all our English language Habbo Hotels will be united under one roof in a brand new Habbo.com! This fantastic new site will be the home of all our English speaking Habbos from our sites in Australia, Canada, Singapore, the United States, Ireland and the United Kingdom.
The new, international Habbo.com will give you the opportunity to meet thousands more friends from all over the world, with more competitions, more events and even more shenanigans than ever before! That's not all though, as the "flagship" site, Habbo.com will get all the new features before anyone else, just like we have been enjoying here at Habbo UK.
All your Habbo accounts, as well as your Furni, Pets, Habbo Club membership, rooms, group pages, friends list, will be copied over into the new site, so you just have to be there, at Habbo.com and enjoy the new international atmosphere!
We know you will have plenty of questions about this, but please rest assured that we are planning very carefully. We're looking forward to giving you more news on this exciting development on the week of April 12th, so remember to check back.
In the meantime please take the opportunity to post your comments/ questions in our POTR forum and we'll try to answer them in the coming weeks.
Habbo StaffSorry if its already been posted! What do you guys think?? I don't really mind tbh.

EDIT: lol at throne value on uk btw.

Thread temporarily stuck by Garion (Forum Manager): While this remains the talk of Habbo, I feel it is only apt the thread remains stuck.

Thread unstuck by Cosmic (Forum Moderator) with permission of Oli (Forum Manager). As the merge is now long gone, I don't feel that this thread is necessary any more.

[hah]

**** skam skam skam skam skam skam what about the names
loads of people on USA will lose there names because UK is around longer

ill only agree if they unperm gapu and all my accounts

and rare values are gunna be ****** up major and does that mean habbox will be offical for all hotels lol

i hope this is a joke

[Hecktix]

Oh my, I see the potential but I also see the complications!

[Verrou]

That is such a stupid idea. Have fun driving this once fun game into the ground Sulake.

[dogboy123]

This is horrible news, it's going to be crazy with so many people! Also whats gonna happen to fansites??

[Cosmic]

Can't say we didn't see this coming. Shame really, it's going to cause soooooo many problems!

[xxMATTGxx]

Hold on a minute. So they are all merging and what about the names of the accounts? :/

[dogboy123]

I think thats where habbo ID comes in

[hah]

it said they will be copied over

[MrGazet]

WOW.i can imagine

[Ajthedragon]

I never understood why they made different hotels for english speaking countires anyway, luckily, my supers have not been released on any other English speaking hotels, I stand to make a gain.

[lPinoy]

worst... idea... ever...

[xxMATTGxx]

I think thats where habbo ID comes in

So we all log in via our emails? Yes. But surely on the habbo side it would show "dogboy123" then what happens when someone else has that name on the USA hotel and they log in. Theres going to be 2x dogboy123 walking around? Loool.

[dogboy123]

It must have something to do with Habbo ID, not sure how it'll work though.

[Pyroka]

Sounds cool. Thank god I registered Pyroka on all the hotels in like 2005 lol awesome.

I am interested on how itll work out though unless they'll have like (UK) next to the name

[Martin]

:O! This really would be a huge change, although perhaps having them all in one place will make it easier to run for them and therefore the quality of service will go up? :D

I guess it will be fun in some ways, but I think it's going to change a lot, with rare values changing all over the place.

[Verrou]

So many staff cuts. Also I think this is a financial move by Sulake as the popularity of Habbo has decreased over time, so there is no longer a need for several English speaking hotels.

[Pyroka]

Yeah probs true that Verrou. If they put it under the universal name of .com, they'll probs redirect the .com.au/.co.uk urls so they can still be used. I can see it like yknow, UK rooms, US rooms, CA rooms ya dig? Oh and Singapore will be there too wont it ;o

[immense]

who posted this yesterday? who doubted me? YES YOU TECHNO "will never happen..." haha.

[hah]

i will wet myself if the unperm all accounts lol
(posted in wrong thread before this)

[Art]

:O! This really would be a huge change, although perhaps having them all in one place will make it easier to run for them and therefore the quality of service will go up? :D


I was thinking that too.

[Pyroka]

I was thinking that too.

there would be more events due to different timezones i guess.

[Hecktix]

Gonna be a ***** for rare values lol

[Pyroka]

Gonna be a ***** for rare values lol

Yknow I think the marketplace may help alot.

[gangstaagent1]

If they unperm all accounts that would be amazing... but the rare values are gonna be so messed !!! Like in the USA and CA hotels, the HC's are going at like 13C and here on UK at 5C ? wow wonder whats gonna happen with that..

[Art]

who posted this yesterday? who doubted me? YES YOU TECHNO "will never happen..." haha.

I said "I think you're making far to many assumptions :\" ..........

[Hecktix]

Yknow I think the marketplace may help alot.

True, could be the end of rare values.

[immense]

don't forget throne value on CA/US lmao!! uk know how valuable the throne is to them because there is a rule they're never allowed to release it

[Pyroka]

don't forget throne value on CA/US lmao!! uk know how valuable the throne is to them because there is a rule they're never allowed to release it

that will be hilarious, i can see all the UK traders being like TRADE THRONES PLZ

HC plasto will be the new throne

[immense]

*****, it's gna be absolute jokes, i'm happy tbh

[hah]

looks like habbox will have to many a few redundancies the rare value department

[immense]

if habbox was clever they'd adjust now to become the biggest global site but seeing as the new panel took them 3 years i'm not so sure they're up to that

[Nuxty]

Oh my God Lord.. this is awful... Well we now have no idea who is going to be running the hotel. It wouldn't shock me if they got a whole new team. I'm just thinking about the lag.. imagine the lag!

[Pyroka]

*****, it's gna be absolute jokes, i'm happy tbh

LOL im gonna join back up on habbo when this happens just 4 this oh **** i may be on hols NOOOOOOOOOOOO


looks like habbox will have to many a few redundancies the rare value department

faboosh will be raging and skaterchu will be like oh what we just started doin rare values lolz


if habbox was clever they'd adjust now to become the biggest global site but seeing as the new panel took them 3 years i'm not so sure they're up to that

dont be silly

[Charlottay!]

i think the move in general will be good for us all. like there isnt a strong presence of fansites in any other hotel. the us have habbcrazy which hxl tops 100% with radio. the events team will push alot more events over all the time zones.

rare values set be the only department to lose out on i think cause they r gonna have a mammoth task of redoing everything.

[immense]

LMAO sorry i forgot changes are OUT OF THE QUESTION.

[hah]

Some USA Values

Throne - 400HC
Red Bird Bath - 1100HC
Grey BirdBath - 700HC (under 50 on uk)
Blue BirdBath - 1300HC
Small Gold Cup - 600HC
Bronze and Silver - "priceless"
Red Marquee - "priceless"
Gold Pillow - 650HC (like 4hc on uk)
Gothic Fountain - 300hc (1-5 on uk)
Romantic Clock - 800HC (like 1 on uk lol)

http://www.bobbavalues.com/?go=rares

[Pyroka]

LMAO sorry i forgot changes are OUT OF THE QUESTION.

ye you gotta put it through forum management then general management then ******* UN council jesus christ itll be forever


Some USA Values

Throne - 400HC
Red Bird Bath - 1100HC
Grey BirdBath - 700HC (under 50 on uk)
Blue BirdBath - 1300HC
Small Gold Cup - 600HC
Bronze and Silver - "priceless"
Red Marquee - "priceless"
Gold Pillow - 650HC (like 4hc on uk)
Gothic Fountain - 300hc (1-5 on uk)
Romantic Clock - 800HC (like 1 on uk lol)

http://www.bobbavalues.com/?go=rares

LOL SO CANT WAIT FOR HOW THIS IS GONNA PLAY OUT

[CHA!NGANG]

Lol, worst idea ever. Anyway, Rare values are out the window. Good thing I don't play Habbo much and gave up on trading otherwise i'd be pissed.

EDIT:

Gold Pillow - 650HC (like 4hc on uk)
Gothic Fountain - 300hc (1-5 on uk)
Romantic Clock - 800HC (like 1 on uk lol)

I have all these.

Intresting, might just have to take advantage of this merge.

[Nuxty]

I'm sorry but they most be their state of finance must be poor otherwise why would they be doing this? They're basically going back to how it orgionally was - everything under one hotel. It wouldn't surprise me if we saw alot of the international different language hotels close.

[j0rd]

So we all log in via our emails? Yes. But surely on the habbo side it would show "dogboy123" then what happens when someone else has that name on the USA hotel and they log in. Theres going to be 2x dogboy123 walking around? Loool.

I think he will be 'dogboy123-UK' and 'dogboy123-USA' or something

[immense]

There will only be one staff team heading up the hotel with maybe like 2 HM and 2 AHM and more PS staff, still a hell of a lot of redundancies.

[Pyroka]

There will only be one staff team heading up the hotel with maybe like 2 HM and 2 AHM and more PS staff, still a hell of a lot of redundancies.

i wonder if theyll do like a total wipeout-style obstacle course to see who keeps their jobs

[MJJ]

Wow, I only rejoined Habbo like a week ago.. wasn't expecting this. >_<

Does anyone know any fansites which do rare values for the other hotels?

I have no idea how much thrones are going to fall by.

[Arron]

THIS IS GONNA BE IMMENSE.
im gonna start playing a lot more!

[FlyingJesus]

Seems like it could be a good thing for Habbox if our community areas really push for publicity - fairly sure the other English-speaking hotels have two or three users each who might join up

[Art]

Some USA Values

Throne - 400HC
Red Bird Bath - 1100HC
Grey BirdBath - 700HC (under 50 on uk)
Blue BirdBath - 1300HC
Small Gold Cup - 600HC
Bronze and Silver - "priceless"
Red Marquee - "priceless"
Gold Pillow - 650HC (like 4hc on uk)
Gothic Fountain - 300hc (1-5 on uk)
Romantic Clock - 800HC (like 1 on uk lol)

http://www.bobbavalues.com/?go=rares

ROFL.

AU Values;
Throne - 12hc
Those little cups - like 2c each.
Red Marquee - 2-3hc

[sammy]

Habbo: Don't do it :|.

It's just pointless - all the hotels are doing fine on their own.

[Kipp]

I kinda like this idea but its gonna be more work for the Rare Values Department. So many things will need changing. oh well

[roboy13]

Interesting, we are going to have to get lucky with how prices turn out, there is not really an easy way to forsee what will happen with them.
I mean T's might be much more expensive on US then UK, but they are worth nothing at all on AU as I read above here.

Set your clocks and make sure you are on early to get the best deals when this has happened :P

[Arron]

MAY: The Month of Madness.
I think this is a great idea!

[JACKTARD]

This is going to cause massive problems for rare values.

[HotelUser]

I'm absolutely thrilled to hear the hotels are merging. Hopefully Habbo will now be a lot like it used to be. Maybe I'll meet some more Canadians!

[JoeyJo]

They've certainly made the game a whole lot more interesting. I'm excited, can't wait to see what happens with the rare values.

[Mathew]

Love it how hardly anyone likes this change.
I really don't mind the change providing they make it work. No doubt they will mess something up - accounts going missing, furniture going missing, credit numbers, etc. I just don't have faith in Habbo like I used to :P

[Mickword]

I have now official quit.

[Will-]

besides people with the same names on other hotels, what about the name of furni, and example: Habbo UK = Green Bird Bath. Habbo US - Jade Fountain. What will happen to the names of these? im gonna guess everything will have the habbo uk name....

[syko2006]

What about usernames? Does that mean we'll have multiple *insertusernamehere*'s running around? :S
The rare values system is going to crash and burn by the looks of things! R.I.P Habbo UK! :(

[Mr-Trainor]

So..
1. furniture values are going to go down alot
2. will our usernames be like 'Mr-Trainor [UK]' (I dunno what happened with the .com/.ca merge) and does furniture also get tags then ;l
3. alot more people and possibly more lag?

Overall, I think this is a very bad idea and will probably end up leaving :P

Edit: and yea, values fansites probably wont work

[wiktoria]

What a stupid idea :rolleyes::rolleyes:

[Gummyish]

This will cause massive problems for Sulake, I think this is were the whole tag idea comes in (Gummyish-UK) etc... And the furni prices, this will be funny :) Sulake haven't thought this through at all? Its like merging the Labour party and the Conservatives, UK and USA are totally opposite, the will be Riots and Protests, Foolish Idea!

[littlened]

This is a stupid idea!

Seriously, Rare Values will crash although some may go up, it will take about a year to get any stability again.
My only worry is that Demand of some rares will go up very quickly increasing prices massively, whereas others the supply will be too great and make them crash. Habbo will have to control the market somehow, atleast for a bit anyway.

[Hitman]

This is going to be very bad. I don't play, but if Sulake do this they will lose a lot of users. The complications are immense, I mean, how will they do the names? Bob [UK], Bob [US], BOB [AU], etc. Pffft. Rare values will be ******.

Sux2be sulake.

[Sameer!]

Forget about the names, what about the fansites!

[Casio]

NO TO THE MERGE (http://www.habbo.co.uk/groups/notomerge)

[Judas]

this is going to be crazy. account names, rare values, time differences for events etc. i hope they've thought this through well otherwise it could go horribly wrong

[Nuxty]

Im wondering will we lose our Hotel Staff? They cant have 5 office teams, it would be totally pointless.

[JoeyJo]

Thrones at 700c now in market now, with 22+ available what with people panic selling. I think if I had V guitar or Skull guitar I'd be selling asap looks like they worthless on US along with a lot of other rares. Like littlened said I guess it's going to take a while until there's some stability in the rare values again.

[Grippz]

How long until they sell Habbo to a different company and just make ££££££££££££££££££££££££

[Molly.22]

Well, there are bad and good points. Its gonna be bad for names, values etc. It can be good for Habbox, with more people joining Habbox. It can mean more people tuning into the radio, going to events, even making donations to Habbox.

[Mr-Trainor]

I think if I had V guitar or Skull guitar I'd be selling asap looks like they worthless on US along with a lot of other rares.
I happen to have 2 skull guitars :P:(

[Rixion]

the credit crunch must have hit them hard!

[Seagy]

LOL AT SULAKE!!!
Playing habbo since 2002, but this is the worst idea ever.
Values will crash, goodfight Throne etc.

[iBlueBox]

what would happen with groups?

[Nuxty]

Groups would probs be fine, they'd just copy them all over and change the id of the group if they clashed or something :)

[Yupt]

I reckon it could work, but once it first happens - god there will be trouble!
But after it settles it will be good :)
Tho I do want to know what is going to happen to user names? People have been saying that what they might do is for example; there's going to be more than one, lets say Habbo user called Sam, so that people have been speculating is that the usernames will turn into Sam-UK, Sam-US, Sam-AU etc. Which means mine would be Yupt-UK.
Rare Values will bounce around everywhere, you have to feel for the Rare Values team, they're going to be working hard!

[brandon]

Cost cutting measures.

I predict that Habbo will be closed within the next 5 years. This is the beginning of the end.

edit - Damn Jake already used the term beginning of the end. I feel very silly now.

[hah]

since usa values are above uk and au are under uk maybe UK could be like the main ones :P

and alot of USA people whp paid like 30$ per super are gunna be pissed lol

[Hitman]

Cost cutting measures.

I predict that Habbo will be closed within the next 5 years. This is the beginning of the end.
Indeed.

Sulake continued to change Habbo, thinking it was an improvement, but in fact it got over complicated and messy (I prefer the good ol' days of v9) thus users left. There used to be like 15,000 people on maximum back in the old days, there are currently 8,000 online now. Less users means less profit so they're merging to save money. I reckon this will lose them more users, seeing as most people are against it.

[Markeh]

I own Marky21 on UK, SG and US (and also owned it on CA)

I don't own it on AU, but that account was made in 2004, BUT that hasn;'t been used in 64 months

Would I keep my username?

[dogboy123]

Also, what they gonna do with celebrity visits. ie people that are big in aussie we might not have heard about..

[Markeh]

Also, what they gonna do with celebrity visits. ie people that are big in aussie we might not have heard about..

Celebrities? Australia? LOL

Anyway, back on topic, you are right, Ben, but this is a slightly good thing. we can only now get international stars LOL

[dogboy123]

Also, where will the main offices be?

[Art]

Celebrities? Australia? LOL

er?? :S

Also, I was thinking perhaps they could make a system where you could trade in your UK rares for... certain points that could be spent on the new merged hotel?? The value of the rare on the UK hotel would determine how many points you got to spend on furniture in the new hotel?? idk. XD

[Sameer!]

Probably the Sulake HQ in Helsinki

[Hitman]

Regarding rare values Habbo will do nothing.

Regarding offices I'd imagine they'd close a couple and keep a couple. They will still have the same amount of emails to address. Probably an office in the US and the UK would suffice, for the time zones. Maybe an AU office.

[PurpleCrayon]

Just because it will all be merged, maybe they will keep the biggest/main offices. As for rare values - Can't wait to see how THAT pans out! It's going to be very confusing.
And can you imagine how many people will online at the same time? Crazy!!

[AgnesIO]

don't forget throne value on CA/US lmao!! uk know how valuable the throne is to them because there is a rule they're never allowed to release it

There is no rule saying they can't. It was removed from the FAQ ages ago. Unlucky.


I have now official quit.

Lol ********.

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Will be laugh - for people who like money the value of t's is probs gonna drop (value in $$) before the move - ;)

[-:Undertaker:-]

The history of every hotel ends here then.

[Mr-Trainor]

Oh and anyone who wants international value sites, I've found the biggest ones for all the hotels merging:
UK - www.habbox.com (http://www.habbox.com)
US - http://www.bobbavalues.com/?go=rares
AU - http://habbozone.com/values/
SG - http://great.la/values.php?act=values

Biggest UK supers:
Sky Dragon Lamp (2520CS) - cheapest on SG at 1CS
Purple Dragon Lamp (2225CS) - cheapest on AU at 8CS
Pluto Smoke Machine (1650CS) - cheapest on SG at 250CS (not on AU or US value sites)
Earth Smoke Machine (1485CS) - cheapest on UK actually - on US its 'priceless' and it's not on AU/SG
Infobus Poster (1359CS) - cheapest on SG at 120CS (not on AU or US value sites)


Also, I wonder if furniture will get tags to say which hotel it was from - all furniture has different names in different hotels too.

[brodeo]

It seems like not so long ago when Habbohotel.com splintered off into UK, US and Canadian sites. Now they're remerging, I guess they're trying to save costs, or trying to make the brand more 'global'.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Even if they do tag the rares, it'll make little difference. I mean if you can get a Red Amber Lamp (UK) at 2.0 CS, why would you pay 200.0 CS for a Red Amber Lamp (CA)? - i've been screenshotting the sites anyway, hopefully we can find some rares which will be the best to hold onto.

[Mr-Trainor]

hopefully we can find some rares which will be the best to hold onto.

But with supers you also have to remember that the quantity of them will also rise.

[simplymagic]

I was laughing when USA & CA said they were goign to merge, now it happens to us lol.

Terrible idea. I like the staff community at uk =[, i hope they're not fired.

[brodeo]

One thing is always the same value - credits. Will we see a huge increase in demand as people look for a stable currency?

[-:Undertaker:-]

One thing is always the same value - credits. Will we see a huge increase in demand as people look for a stable currency?

We most likely will do, even with Club sofas maybe as a secondary currency but that depends on the mood in other hotels. At the end of the day, we are all going to be affected and will most likely all be in the same position as eachother.

[JetBridge]

We still have the advantage at UK because .com's supers are all more expensive than ours. No matter what, our supers should rise to meet their dropping prices midway.

[lol]

It makes sense to me, seeing as how SG and AU and CA all have a peak of about 1,000 users online. So if it's logical that they want to merge all the English speaking hotels considering that, and the fact that a SG/AU/CA hotel would just be goofy.

Right now it's almost 2 PM in the states, so about 7 PM (19h00) in the UK, 4 AM in Sydney.

Habbo CA has 248 on.
Habbo US has 3,662 on.
Habbo AU has 164 on.
Habbo SG has 149 on.
Habbo UK has 9,228 on.

So only 13,451 would be on right now, at a relative peak time in the UK. I'd imagine the peak in general would be around 15,000 at...
7 PM in London / 2 PM in New York / 4 AM in Sydney
12 PM in London / 7 PM in New York / 9 AM in Sydney
And then on weekends it would probably push up to about 20,000 at those times.
On ES they consistently have 35,000+ users on at once, so it's actually quite small compared to them.


The only bad thing I see right now as an American is the names. I understand the US/CA idea where you just get rid of the user who hasn't been as active. But for five different hotels that would be hard...

[Mr-Trainor]

We still have the advantage at UK because .com's supers are all more expensive than ours. No matter what, our supers should rise to meet their dropping prices midway.
But you have to remember, it's also AU and SG too, not just US :(

[dbgtz]

I was laughing when USA & CA said they were goign to merge, now it happens to us lol.

Terrible idea. I like the staff community at uk =[, i hope they're not fired.

On your own. I imagine some stay in order to deal with the time zone issues but it means they can merge their customer services so lets say each hotel has 10 staff, they could probably have just 10 staff now not 50. PLUS I imagine some MODs can go. I say they should merge the EU, well parts of it rather then countries which are miles apart.

[AgnesIO]

On your own. I imagine some stay in order to deal with the time zone issues but it means they can merge their customer services so lets say each hotel has 10 staff, they could probably have just 10 staff now not 50. PLUS I imagine some MODs can go. I say they should merge the EU, well parts of it rather then countries which are miles apart.

What great idea!

Then not only could we have Spanish people with Spanish people (like myself) but we could have the french, germans, romanians, russians all trying to talk to each other! Just no.

[Kalk]

My thoughts on the staffing issue:
1 x Team of Moderators (15 maximum) - We have them around the clock in the UK now, so why would we need them from all around the world to deal with time zones?
1 x Team of Player Support (5 Maximum) - Again, we don't have them around the clock, and they are all usually dealt with around 48 hours after the Habbo Help Tool.
5 x Hotel Manager - Of course, this is where the time zones come into effect. We wouldn't want just one who would be on in UK hours but leaving AU in the cold.. would we?
1 x Team of Community Staff (10 Maximum) - Again, from different time zones, so everybody is kinda used to who they're with.
1 x Team of Advertising and Marketing (4 Maximum) - Habbo UK had loads doing that job, I'm unsure why they needed that many people.

I can see the negatives from this, but there are LOADS of positives. The quests that we do will be better prepared and actually will take some doing instead of looking at how USA hotel has done it and copying their answers. Campaigns for films and stuff will be phenomenal cause they will reach such a vast cross-section of the world.

Lets see how this pans out :)

[Blinger1]

This is great news for the AU hotel. It is the ONLY way they can improve it!

[Lost_Addict]

Anyone know WHENthis si happening?

[Jordy]

My thoughts on the staffing issue:
1 x Team of Moderators (15 maximum) - We have them around the clock in the UK now, so why would we need them from all around the world to deal with time zones?
1 x Team of Player Support (5 Maximum) - Again, we don't have them around the clock, and they are all usually dealt with around 48 hours after the Habbo Help Tool.
5 x Hotel Manager - Of course, this is where the time zones come into effect. We wouldn't want just one who would be on in UK hours but leaving AU in the cold.. would we?
1 x Team of Community Staff (10 Maximum) - Again, from different time zones, so everybody is kinda used to who they're with.
1 x Team of Advertising and Marketing (4 Maximum) - Habbo UK had loads doing that job, I'm unsure why they needed that many people.

I can see the negatives from this, but there are LOADS of positives. The quests that we do will be better prepared and actually will take some doing instead of looking at how USA hotel has done it and copying their answers. Campaigns for films and stuff will be phenomenal cause they will reach such a vast cross-section of the world.

Lets see how this pans out :)I think you're just picking numbers out the sky to be honest.

There won't be an easy way to transfer all the habbo names over and the rare values will be a shambles. They may well think this'll attract more people to habbo but believe me, they'll lose most their current visitors. I have more than enough trouble with Habbo ID as it is.

They've been far too vague as well, why don't they shut up until they have firm details and facts to tell us all.

[Tintinnabulate]

This will cause massive problems for Sulake, I think this is were the whole tag idea comes in (Gummyish-UK) etc... And the furni prices, this will be funny :) Sulake haven't thought this through at all? Its like merging the Labour party and the Conservatives, UK and USA are totally opposite, the will be Riots and Protests, Foolish Idea!

The stupidest comment I have seen in this thread. " Sulake haven't thought this through at all? Its like merging the Labour party and the Conservatives, UK and USA are totally opposite, the will be Riots and Protests, Foolish Idea!"
That comment clearly shows either:

a) You have no idea who or what the Labour / Conservative parties are
b) You like to make yourself look silly on purpose
c) Worst example ever and you have no clue what the hell you are on about

They have thought this through. Its not a decision in which the CEO comes in and goes HEY LETS MERGE ALL THE HOTELS :D. This would have taken months of planning, if not a whole year.


Anyone know WHENthis si happening?

May I believe.

There's two ways to look at this merge:

Yes it will cause problems with names and rare values for sure. It will annoy the hell out of a lot of rare traders and rare collectors.

However, in a few months (maximum 6), people will get used to it. Everything would have been sorted out. There will be no more confusion.

It is great in a way that everyone will be in the same hotel. More events, more competitions, more games, more rooms, more people to make friends with.

I think Habbo have brought their downfall themselves.

v7 was perfect. There was little wrong with it. It was easy to use. They kept trying to improve it when all they did was over complicate it and make it awful. Worst move was switching to BETA and finally off BETA without Battleball and Snowstorm. It was one of the best ways to keep users in, but they didn't fix it in time.

In all honestly, they are to blame for this downfall. Get too greedy and you fail.

[Jam]

It'd be better if they just wiped all the names and everyone got to choose new ones, especially as everyone called Jameseh is inactive.

[Arron]

people are saying Sulake haven't thought this through. they clearly have, this is why they are bringing the change into action. these are professional business people and they think this turn of event will make an even more positive impact towards their company. it's smart business. you can leave, you can complain, protest, Habbo probably doesn't care because their decision is now finalized and I am very excited for the future of Habbo. it will eventually become more popular and the people saying they'll leave most likely won't.

[Blinger1]

I wonder if buying credits will get cheaper at all... It could be possible!

[Ajthedragon]

On their half, its simple, not enough money is being made to pay their staff, consequently they are making redundancies. From a business view I think its a good change, although as a Habbo, I think they'll lose many users, and maybe not make so much from advertisement campaigns given the smaller number of users. I also think maybe they should award people will certain rares depending on what the marketplace values them at, making it fairer for all users. Maybe a "Convert my Rare into Credits" scheme right before the merge.

I guess theres 2 sides to every argument. Tbh why did they make separate ones to begin?

[LoveToStack]

It's no surprise that they've gone through with this since the only real problem highlighted in this thread is the rare values which are completely independent (and thus beyond the care) of the company itself. Personally I just think this is another nail in the coffin for Habbo, users have been declining since like v9. Only thing which annoys me is how they'll deal with groups. Heaven forbid anything should happen to my precious stacking group.

[Yupt]

I reckon it'll be fineeeee, chill (:

[Arron]

it's going to be interesting to see other trade rooms from other hotels once the merge has taken place. which will progress the best? will any rooms go down hill?

[-:Undertaker:-]

I think its the credits which have caused all this, they have caused chaos both in the trading markets and now it seems they have caused Sulake financial issues, we can assume anyway. I have been on Habbo United Kingdom since 2005 and had a great time, and although its only a game i'll really miss it all; Callie, ione, the rares - every hotel was unique, and ours was rather fun at times. :P

[Nightcrawler]

From what ive read and also heard, the merge is going to be done gradually, Names will be first to change either to be format what ever account was made first will get to keep that or habbo will place flags/country codes next to the user eg Lowerest (UK) if my account was made on the UK habbo and Lowerest (US) if i was made on .com before the merger etc, Eventually when people make new accounts and the older players start to die out accounts will just go into one format and be back to normal.

As for the furni im pretty sure Habbo wouldn't just let people trade from hotel to hotel there not as stupid as they seem to some, it will be gradually in the format below.

Norms will be tradable throught all players from any hotel due to them doing the same price in the cat throught all habbo (conversion from $ to GBP wont work out but habbo will have to cover the lose)
As for rares/supers they will be tagged (UK) or (CA) or (COM) etc and will only be tradable with people from the hotel they came for, so basically the hotel will be split into communities however they will all be on the same hotel, so instead of having a .ca and a co.uk client open you will only need one to chat to all the same people.

Eventually common rares such as HC will be made tradable througout the hotel, same with credits. Once the HC sofa/HC rares stablise at a normal price then habbo will make catologue rares that have been released in all the hotels e.g petals/bird baths etc tradable and let them settle and stablise at a normal price and so on intil all furni is at a normal price.

I know some people will say why buy a UK throne at 200hc when you can have a AUS throne at 6hc, well its the main reason Habbo says dont buy furni from people for paypal,ebay putting a price on stuff is what habbo tried to aviod and wanted the game to grow at its own strength instead of people putting real life prices on things, so your lose if you bought a rare for 30$ as it does say in the T&C furni has no real life cash value.

As for the mass account unbanning i've heard theres not going to be one and all perm'd accounts will be left at the format Name[Hotel] intil the perm expires

[Blob]

What to happen to Habbox's rare values then?

New UI? Hmm ;)

[Blinger1]

What to happen to Habbox's rare values then?

New UI? Hmm ;)
i bet you guys are already planning something ;)

[Sharon]

I hear you'll only be able to trade within your country. There's racism involved someones bound to make a room called "Quiz (ENGLISH PEOPLE ONLY)." that's going to go down well ;l

[hah]

From what ive read and also heard, the merge is going to be done gradually, Names will be first to change either to be format what ever account was made first will get to keep that or habbo will place flags/country codes next to the user eg Lowerest (UK) if my account was made on the UK habbo and Lowerest (US) if i was made on .com before the merger etc, Eventually when people make new accounts and the older players start to die out accounts will just go into one format and be back to normal.

As for the furni im pretty sure Habbo wouldn't just let people trade from hotel to hotel there not as stupid as they seem to some, it will be gradually in the format below.

Norms will be tradable throught all players from any hotel due to them doing the same price in the cat throught all habbo (conversion from $ to GBP wont work out but habbo will have to cover the lose)
As for rares/supers they will be tagged (UK) or (CA) or (COM) etc and will only be tradable with people from the hotel they came for, so basically the hotel will be split into communities however they will all be on the same hotel, so instead of having a .ca and a co.uk client open you will only need one to chat to all the same people.

Eventually common rares such as HC will be made tradable througout the hotel, same with credits. Once the HC sofa/HC rares stablise at a normal price then habbo will make catologue rares that have been released in all the hotels e.g petals/bird baths etc tradable and let them settle and stablise at a normal price and so on intil all furni is at a normal price.

I know some people will say why buy a UK throne at 200hc when you can have a AUS throne at 6hc, well its the main reason Habbo says dont buy furni from people for paypal,ebay putting a price on stuff is what habbo tried to aviod and wanted the game to grow at its own strength instead of people putting real life prices on things, so your lose if you bought a rare for 30$ as it does say in the T&C furni has no real life cash value.

As for the mass account unbanning i've heard theres not going to be one and all perm'd accounts will be left at the format Name[Hotel] intil the perm expires

where did you hear that lol? on the site that use to be *****.... i forgot name lol?

[Nightcrawler]

I'm one that wrote it on stond aka *****.

[Gibs960]

Not true, too many names will be the same. And too many members, they popular rooms will be packed to the extent where people can't get in rooms to talk to the thousands of new habbos.

[Verrou]

This clearly shows the link between Sulake and it's customers/players. If they had have had a survey or something, I'm sure that this would never happen.

[hah]

oh lol then were you hear it from.?

[Jordy]

What I'd to see is account merging. I'm sure many of us hold accounts on various English speaking hotels, when this Habbo-En forms (I think Habbo-En is quite a good name, lets see if it catches on xD). I've got some decent badges and rares on US, Canada and UK hotels, if they were all on one account it'd be great and possibly free up usernames.

Not to mention, everyone started out on Habbo UK, then international users moved to Habbo US and then even more went to their local hotels. So old-school Singaporeans and Australians have had three hotels up to now, it only makes sense they should be allowed to merge their progress from multiple hotels.

[BeanEgg]

What's going to happen to the Sulake Staff in all the local offices?

It's going to be like 30k users + at a time!

Imagine all the rooms!!!

[Art]

What I'd to see is account merging.

Was thinking that too. I wouldn't mind merging all my accounts on one hotel even, just because I couldn't be bothered sorting everything out lol.

I also agree with Blinger that this is great for the AU hotel. Our staff are useless.

[Jordy]

What's going to happen to the Sulake Staff in all the local offices?

It's going to be like 30k users + at a time!

Imagine all the rooms!!!Unknown but lots will be laid off without doubt, it's also confusing knowing which offices will stay open. I think it'd be sensible having officers open in London, New York and Australia like they currently do. They can easily get away with closing Canada and Singapore due to there being similar timezones. It'll probably be headed from London while there's player support and advertising in NY and Aussie. I am just guessing of course but I've no doubt that many jobs will go and presumably some offices too.

[Art]

AU hotel manager says there will be more information + a poll released tomorrow.

[Mathew]

There is a help page on the CA / USA merge which was announced a couple of weeks ago. I'm guessing most of the stuff answered there will answer questions regarding the big merge.. http://www.habbo.ca/help/104


› Will I be able to keep my Habbo name?
Most likely yes, however, if there are username clashes in the new community, you might need to pick a new one. This will affect only a small group of Habbos, as we're working hard to ensure that the people who are currently active players are impacted as little as possible.

The guy on Habbo US called Mathew was a past Habbo X and logged on 6 days ago. I really hope they do something about usernames, prefixes for the countries for example. There is a LOT of people on these hotels with a LOT of clashes. I like the idea of a flag next to your name!

[Kalk]

Norms will be tradable throught all players from any hotel due to them doing the same price in the cat throught all habbo (conversion from $ to GBP wont work out but habbo will have to cover the lose)
As for rares/supers they will be tagged (UK) or (CA) or (COM) etc and will only be tradable with people from the hotel they came from, so basically the hotel will be split into communities however they will all be on the same hotel, so instead of having a .ca and a co.uk (http://co.uk) client open you will only need one to chat to all the same people.

Never thought about that, quite clever actually :)

[Ajthedragon]

I hear you'll only be able to trade within your country. There's racism involved someones bound to make a room called "Quiz (ENGLISH PEOPLE ONLY)." that's going to go down well ;l

Nope, we can all trade as we wish.

Still, I'm poor thanks to this.

[Sameer!]

On your own. I imagine some stay in order to deal with the time zone issues but it means they can merge their customer services so lets say each hotel has 10 staff, they could probably have just 10 staff now not 50. PLUS I imagine some MODs can go. I say they should merge the EU, well parts of it rather then countries which are miles apart.

Some MODs go? I'd imagine they need more mods since there are way more players.

[hah]

you dont know that aj

[AgnesIO]

What's going to happen to the Sulake Staff in all the local offices?

It's going to be like 30k users + at a time!

Imagine all the rooms!!!

You wish. All the english hotels combined wouldn't make 30k nowadays. Only habbo.es hits those figures.


Some MODs go? I'd imagine they need more mods since there are way more players.
There won't be more players.

[.:TRUTHSTAR]

and we will need to buy all our creds again thats just BAD/RONG

[Frisky]

This may well be due to their finance, but surely, this is going to make the situation WORSE. All our rares will be worthless and people will be sick of playing because we will all be going back to the start of what we've worked for.

[Markeh]

There is a help page on the CA / USA merge which was announced a couple of weeks ago. I'm guessing most of the stuff answered there will answer questions regarding the big merge.. http://www.habbo.ca/help/104


The guy on Habbo US called Mathew was a past Habbo X and logged on 6 days ago. I really hope they do something about usernames, prefixes for the countries for example. There is a LOT of people on these hotels with a LOT of clashes. I like the idea of a flag next to your name!

Luckily for me, the US Marky21 is me, and I can just decide not to log onto it, the SG Marky21 is me, and hasn't been used in months, and the AU Marky21 isn't me, but hasn't been used since December 2004.

[Art]

What do you guys think they will do with competitions?? Do you think they will have more winners??

[hah]

on the ca site
sounds good to me


We're also checking if we can allow you to merge Habbos when the sites unite. What this would mean is, if you personally have a Habbo in both hotels (possibly with the same name), you could combine these so you'll only have one Habbo that has all the inventory and the combined friends lists of the two merged Habbos. The achievements of the resulting Habbo would be picked based on the highest level you've acquired on either one of the Habbos.

[Charlottay!]

i think they have stopped you making an account on another hotel with the same name.

i tried it with several names that i no dont exist on the US hotel but do on the UK hotel and you cant create the name on the US hotel no more.

looks like they r currently trying to solve the problem with names :)

[Ajthedragon]

you dont know that aj

Sadly we do, it states it in the FAQ's.


Additional bit of good news for traders / collectors is that after the merge, the size of the trading community will be bigger than now, so any rare items will be rarer than before (less items / trader).

[AgnesIO]

Unlucky to Purple Dragon owners is all I can say.

Dunno about other hotels but they are worth 2225hc on our hotel and just 32 on habbo.com

[Jordy]

i think they have stopped you making an account on another hotel with the same name.

i tried it with several names that i no dont exist on the US hotel but do on the UK hotel and you cant create the name on the US hotel no more.

looks like they r currently trying to solve the problem with names :)Yeah I just tried this and your right, well spotted +rep

I tried a few UK names on the Singaporean hotel and no luck.

[Cosmic]

i think they have stopped you making an account on another hotel with the same name.

i tried it with several names that i no dont exist on the US hotel but do on the UK hotel and you cant create the name on the US hotel no more.

looks like they r currently trying to solve the problem with names :)

Well spotted charl! +rep

It'll certainly be interesting to see how they deal with username clashes though, and whether they will actually allow us to merge accounts.

[hah]

Sadly we do, it states it in the FAQ's.

it also says items will be tagged and they are looking for ways to fix the values

[Markeh]

Well spotted charl! +rep

It'll certainly be interesting to see how they deal with username clashes though, and whether they will actually allow us to merge accounts.

It doesn't bother me if I can't. My US only owns 2 rugs, and although they DO look awesome, I could manage without them.

[Grippz]

i think they have stopped you making an account on another hotel with the same name.

i tried it with several names that i no dont exist on the US hotel but do on the UK hotel and you cant create the name on the US hotel no more.

looks like they r currently trying to solve the problem with names :)

+REP :-)

[Sameer!]

Wow, nice find!

[Art]

AU has a survey up.

http://www.habbo.com.au/articles/1837-give-us-your-input

EDIT:

I voted for most active deserves the name. No tags.

Also lol at "Owner of the clashing character name willing to pay the most gets to keep their name". Don't see that happening.

Also voted no to tags on furniture. It'll just make it a mess I think :\ keep it simple.

[Richie]

My predicaments are:

Hffm & Clubhabbo will be no longer noticed

Habboxlive radio will increase by 100 odd listeners or so and the hxf will get loadsa new members

oh and habbo are gonna lose 100s of users

[Sameer!]

Habbo lose 100s? More like thousands..

[tm]

i think they have stopped you making an account on another hotel with the same name.

i tried it with several names that i no dont exist on the US hotel but do on the UK hotel and you cant create the name on the US hotel no more.

looks like they r currently trying to solve the problem with names :)

cracking spot! +rep

Also, how is this going to effect the US sponsors? They have more promotions there than anyone else and surely a lot of these won't apply to users from 3 different continents and visa versa. It's going to be an odd place and they might have to limit themselves to transnational sponsors only which isn't a great way to do business.

[Calvin]

i think they have stopped you making an account on another hotel with the same name.

i tried it with several names that i no dont exist on the US hotel but do on the UK hotel and you cant create the name on the US hotel no more.

looks like they r currently trying to solve the problem with names :)Yeah, some girl was trying to make her name on the US so she won't have to change her name and she was saying it won't let her. Nice spot Charl, +rep. :) Dunno if it's been posted but, most info is here (http://habbo.ca/help/104).

[valentineark]

Nice idea.

[Tintinnabulate]

cracking spot! +rep

Also, how is this going to effect the US sponsors? They have more promotions there than anyone else and surely a lot of these won't apply to users from 3 different continents and visa versa. It's going to be an odd place and they might have to limit themselves to transnational sponsors only which isn't a great way to do business.

IP based adverts. :)

[Hitman]

Has habbo said anything else about this or are they leaving everybody with questions?

@Dander, thats what I was going to say but he's on about sponsors, for the info bus and stuff. That would be pretty awkward I'd imagine 'cos they'd have to code each location in, then check their IP in client...

[Jordy]

Possibly but if they did public rooms, news articles and catalogue sections only aimed at certain countries I think it could be efficiently done.

[Nightcrawler]

Habbo already have global adverts in place to an extent you visit .com from the UK and it will ask if you wanna play your local habbo and give you a link to the UK hotel and the same when you visit .com from australia it will ask if you wanna play locally and give you a link to .AU, As for the names the most recent active one isnt going to work people who get banned for 30 days before the merger are going to lose there username to someone on another hotel who isnt banned and logged in say 12 days ago whilst the other person has been banned for 13 days which isnt very fair.

The flags next to the name would be the best option then as they've done already dont allow same names as other people on hotels then eventually as players leave/ get banned the names with flags next to them will slowly disappear and die out.

[scott]

This is from the FAQs http://www.habbo.co.uk/help/102


Will I have a 'UK'/'AU'/''US' etc placed after my name? I don't want it as it defeats the purpose of me choosing a unique name that I want.
No, we're not permanently labeling people based on where they're from, exactly due to the reason you're stating in the question.

[DannLea]

So we all log in via our emails? Yes. But surely on the habbo side it would show "dogboy123" then what happens when someone else has that name on the USA hotel and they log in. Theres going to be 2x dogboy123 walking around? Loool.

Not quite.

What they're doing, from my understanding, is this:

My username on habbo.co.uk is InWonder. If someone on the other hotels has the name 'InWonder', then the most active player keeps the username.

The other users will be forced to change their username.

I think this whole merger thing stinks a bit, but I'm assuming they did it to increase their profit margin. I'm still in awe that they haven't even merged .ca and .com yet, and they're already planning for another merge. Oh well.

[luce]

I think it will really enhance habbo it will take some getting used to but i think it will be an awesome multi cultural place and i think they should give every one on each hotel a country badge when the merger happens just so we remember the hotels and we know where we are from :) only idiots would discriminate against people on a virtual world such as habbo.

[Calvin]

This is from the FAQs http://www.habbo.co.uk/help/102That page basically sums most of it up except the rare values, +rep Scotty. :)

I'm quite looking forward to the merge now. :)

[scott]

That page basically sums most of it up except the rare values, +rep Scotty. :)

I'm quite looking forward to the merge now. :)

Me too after reading through they FAQs doesn't look as bad as i first thought :)

[Richie]

i luv how str8 forward they are

http://RBGuides.com/screenshots/00946ffa.png

[Sameer!]

Yeah lol, getting better as it goes along

[BeanEgg]

What do you think about the badges? Will they be transferred aswell?

[scott]

What do you think about the badges? Will they be transferred aswell?

from the FAQ:

› How about my badges and achievements?
Your badges and achievements will stay as is. If the same badge has been issued in Hotels with the different description, the description of your badge will stay as it's now.

Close FAQ

[Blob]

http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=637657&p=6401091#post6401091

[hah]

Will new players will have an even more limited choice of names when they register?
Yes they will, but we have a little ace up in our sleeves. Stay tuned for more details.


i smell a name clear out

[Blinger1]

Will new players will have an even more limited choice of names when they register?
Yes they will, but we have a little ace up in our sleeves. Stay tuned for more details.


i smell a name clear out

Damn. Log onto the old names now :p

[Richie]

Will new players will have an even more limited choice of names when they register?
Yes they will, but we have a little ace up in our sleeves. Stay tuned for more details.


i smell a name clear out

I doubt it day nvr included in their terms and conditions during registry that they can delete your account at nytime for being inactive

[Art]

I doubt it day nvr included in their terms and conditions during registry that they can delete your account at nytime for being inactive

12.2 We may terminate these Terms and Conditions or suspend your account at any time with or without notice to you if: (a) you breach these Terms and Conditions or Habboway, (b) you have not accessed your account for 6 months; or (c) if the Website is going to be shut down or merged with other service. You are not entitled to a refund of fees in these circumstances.

[lol]

Will new players will have an even more limited choice of names when they register?
Yes they will, but we have a little ace up in our sleeves. Stay tuned for more details.


i smell a name clear out

i thought that meant they would be allowing more characters in the name. like underscores again

[CrazyColaist]

HABBO HOTEL RECCESION!!!!!!!!!


on the faq


Will my account be unbanned after the merge?

No.

[Matthew]

[Taken from a new article on habbo.co.uk]
In specific, look at the RARES section.


We've been busy checking all your queries about the recent news and have put together some FAQs.
We are currently planning to combine all English speaking Habbo Hotels into one giant Hotel- Habbo.com, with thousands of new people for you to meet from all over the world, more competitions, more fun, and more friends!
What does this mean? Well, not much will change, meaning all your rooms, friends, furni, pets, Habbo Club subscriptions, etc. will of course stay intact. The big change will be that you'll have a lot more people to meet and have fun with!
Check the FAQs regularly to get the latest info and please take the opportunity to fill in our poll that is about the Habbo.com Relaunch (http://www.habboxforum.com/articles/1094-habbocom-relaunch-poll).
However, some questions seem more pressing than others, and so we want to highlight them right here:
RARES
We see three different outcomes for Rare values after the relaunch of the new site:
1) Some items will become rarer than they are now (when comparing the originating Hotels to the new, big Hotel), so the value of these items should go up when there are more Habbos in the market. We'll post a list of Rares we think will raise in value closer to the relaunch.
2) The value of the most common items shouldn't change significantly, as there are so many of them in circulation already.
3) Some items will become more common than they are now (when comparing the originating Hotels to the new, big Hotel), which means that their value will go down. To help fix this, we're creating a new set of Rares (including a couple of new supers), which we'll be donating to the owners of Rares that will lose their value dramatically (they will be able to keep their existing Rare as well). In other words: if an item is super rare in one country, but not in another, the owners in the country where the item is super rare, will be getting a new Rare to compensate their loss.
We'll be posting pictures of the new items as well as details on what Rares get compensated as soon as we can. So if you have a Rare and think its value will drop, don't trade it yet, you might be compensated!
TIME ZONES
Some of you have been worried that the hotel will be full up all the time and you won't be able to get on. No need to worry! The new Hotel will be open to Habbos living in several timezones, so your enjoyment won't likely be affected, as every single Habbo will never be online at once (even Habbos have to sleep!) However, we will be increasing the server capacity for the new Hotel, just in case!
NAME CHANGES
The amount of Habbos that will need to change their names, is actually surprisingly small. However, when two names crash, the more active of the Habbos will get to keep the name (we count overall hours spent in the Hotel). The Habbos that have to change their names, will all be told to do so at the same time, prior to the relaunch. If you have to change your name, you can choose your new name freely, and the new name will be automatically updated to your friend's Friend Lists. Changing your name will also give you a name change badge!
More detailed name change information will come April 12th.



So it seems that people with rares that will drop, are going to get compensation.



Merged by iAdam (Forum Super Moderator); Similar topics.

[AgnesIO]

I think it will really enhance habbo it will take some getting used to but i think it will be an awesome multi cultural place and i think they should give every one on each hotel a country badge when the merger happens just so we remember the hotels and we know where we are from :) only idiots would discriminate against people on a virtual world such as habbo.

The problem is most of habbo are idiots.

----

I am looking forward to this, and might start playing again if they implement this. Also a name clearout would be great - would love a decent username that doesn't have a scam clone likr mine does..

[amarj]

I thought merging hotels would be a downfall and interesting at the same time..lol

But looking at how they are dealing with things now, I think habbo might actually improve, since he merge will help them save money, at the same time people don't lose out of their furniture. Hcs are discountinued and others which I can't think of.

Lets just hope the compensation works for everyone

[Verrou]

http://images.andrehamon.com/s/2010-04-10_010844.png
I think they should do this.

[Mathew]

I think it's stupid how the survey is giving the option to vote for local things. Saying that you'll only be able to visit specific areas, talk to certain people and trade certain things..

They just said the point of the merge was to bring everyone together, then they offer this!

[JoeyJo]

I think it's stupid how the survey is giving the option to vote for local things. Saying that you'll only be able to visit specific areas, talk to certain people and trade certain things..

They just said the point of the merge was to bring everyone together, then they offer this!

I agree. I was disappointed to see those options too. I'd just like everything to be the same for everyone. No tags on people or furni, seperate rooms, comps etc. At most I'd just like a badge to say where I came from and even then I wouldn't wear it.

[DJ-Ains.T]

i pretty much like this idea. :} but think about the lag?

[Will-]

i pretty much like this idea. :} but think about the lag?

I don't think it will effect the lag, habbo.es has over 30,000+ people online at once, after the merge im guessing we'll hit 15,000ish.

[Xoim]

Compensation for rares sounds like a good Idea :]

[JACKTARD]

I reckon it could work, but once it first happens - god there will be trouble!
But after it settles it will be good :)
Tho I do want to know what is going to happen to user names? People have been saying that what they might do is for example; there's going to be more than one, lets say Habbo user called Sam, so that people have been speculating is that the usernames will turn into Sam-UK, Sam-US, Sam-AU etc. Which means mine would be Yupt-UK.
Rare Values will bounce around everywhere, you have to feel for the Rare Values team, they're going to be working hard!

If usernames clash, the person with the most online time keeps their username and the one(s) with less have to change their names

[Richie]

12.2 We may terminate these Terms and Conditions or suspend your account at any time with or without notice to you if: (a) you breach these Terms and Conditions or Habboway, (b) you have not accessed your account for 6 months; or (c) if the Website is going to be shut down or merged with other service. You are not entitled to a refund of fees in these circumstances.

the obv just recently added that, when I registered my first account, i looked at the T&C carefully and that wasn't there lol. That was years ago tho but still if it wasnt in the T&C at the time they can't do that cos i never accepted them T&C's

[hah]

thats always been there for god knows how long. it also says they can change the t&c's any time they want

[Will-]

Oh this compensation thing could be a really good idea! :)

Ok lets say i had a purple dragon (i wish :P)

.UK Value - 11,125c (2225x5)
.COM Value - 192c (32x6)
.SG Value - 78c (19.5x4)
.AU Value - 104c (8x13)
.CA Value - 9,750c (750x13)

I have multiplyed the Club Sofa value of the purple dragon, by the credit value of the Club Sofa on each hotel to get the Credit value of the purple dragon on each hotel. Ok so by looking at that, if i have a purple dragon on habbo.co.uk, im screwed. 4,350c is the average value of the rare on each hotel, but being realistic i think the purple dragon will drop anywhere between 50 and 500 credits. Lets say after the merge the purple dragon is worth 500c, i've just lost out 10,625 credits, this is where the compensation rare comes in, if i get a compensation super rare because of my loss on the purple dragon, it would make sence for this compensation rare to be worth 10,625 credits? Sounds good to me :P

[amarj]

does the compensation applies to rares? not just super?

[Shox]

What's the whole point of this merger if they're going to keep everybody separated?

That will definitely prove it's just a financial move.

[JACKTARD]

Just because it will all be merged, maybe they will keep the biggest/main offices. As for rare values - Can't wait to see how THAT pans out! It's going to be very confusing.
And can you imagine how many people will online at the same time? Crazy!!


we've got our work cut out.

[Shox]

we've got our work cut out.

Yeah, i'm sure you guys will be busy.

[amarj]

habbox will have alot of competitions with rare values, assuming the other website will continue to value rares after the merge

[CrazyColaist]

surely we had only 1 english speaking hotel few years back?

[Kevin]

the obv just recently added that, when I registered my first account, i looked at the T&C carefully and that wasn't there lol. That was years ago tho but still if it wasnt in the T&C at the time they can't do that cos i never accepted them T&C's




15 CHANGES TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
15.1 We may change these Terms and Conditions, including by increasing the price of the Enhanced Services, at any time in our sole discretion. Your use of the Website following such change will constitute your agreement to be bound by the modified Terms and Conditions.

15.2 If we reasonably think that a change to these Terms and Conditions under section 15.1 will benefit you or have neutral impact on you, we may make the change without telling you.

15.3 If we reasonably think that a change to these Terms and Conditions under section 15.1 will have a material detrimental impact on you, we will give you adequate notice by email and you can exercise your right under section 12.1 to terminate these Terms and Conditions.

15.4 We recommend that you regularly review the most up to date version of these Terms and Conditions at http://www.habbo.co.uk/papers/termsAndConditions.


they are allowed to change there t&c as they wish

[e5]

The FAQs and poll they just announced, has basically covered most questions, and given us the choice too :)

[dbgtz]

I hope they fix the broken badges :l

[Kevin]

What's the whole point of this merger if they're going to keep everybody separated?

That will definitely prove it's just a financial move.


Nobody doubted that this is not a financial move, it clearly is.

Habbo arn't merging and causing all this hastle for the players, clearly they wern't generating enough revenue to keep all hotels open, and the simple soloution is just to merge them all together.

[Sharon]

How aren't they making enough there's always 10,000 people online around the clock

[AgnesIO]

How aren't they making enough there's always 10,000 people online around the clock

But they have to pay all the staff, there is nothing like 10,000 online around the clock - some hotels only get a few hundred during peak time.. - unless you mean overall?

The Grand Exchange, in terms of revenue, was Sulakes worst idea they have ever produced. There is no need to bu credits anymore - they ruined it for themselves.

[qaxzsw]

Not all hotels have thousands on round the clock! If you go on Habbo SG/MY/PH sometimes there is only around 15? I'm not lying - thats how it was yesterday when I went on in the evening. Also, in the day there, there is around 1000 - 2000, which isn't alot if you ask me.

[Lost_Addict]

One major problem i see with this, is certain words are going to be bobba'd or not bobba'd when may be offencive to other nations

For instance my dads half of the family are australian, we all went out to dinner and my great aunt shouted out (excuse this) **** in the middle of TGI fridays, wheras most of my family was gobsmacked, my dads half were totally normall with this. Because its meaning is diffrent here in the UK, than to the AU. So ya thats my only problem.

[Stryderman]

Best thing they have ever done for .uk, Worst thing they ever done for .ca

.Ca had the best community out of all the hotels. Now its gonna be ruined by all the other hotels.

This will bring alot more people to the community and the prices will finally be sorted once and for all instead of being mashed up on one hotel an cheap as on the next.

[gta3chatterbox]

surely we had only 1 english speaking hotel few years back?

Yes, back in the day it was just habbo.com then they changed all the hotels to their separate counter parts.

[MrNintendo64]

Sorry if this has been mentioned but what about all of the gangs on habbo

It would be carnaige because you would get the UK Gangs and the US gangs and the AU and Singapore gangs fighting eachother...there would need to be more moderators because of the amount of trouble....

Bad idea...very bad

[AgnesIO]

Sorry if this has been mentioned but what about all of the gangs on habbo

It would be carnaige because you would get the UK Gangs and the US gangs and the AU and Singapore gangs fighting eachother...there would need to be more moderators because of the amount of trouble....

Bad idea...very bad

For some reason I dont think the MOD's give a flying crap about people running around saying -shots you in head- -you die- lol

[alv4]

The problem for me is the names...
I Have The same in 3 Hotels( Ca, AU, SG) and other 2 with the same (US y UK) :(

[AgnesIO]

The problem for me is the names...
I Have The same in 3 Hotels( Ca, AU, SG) and other 2 with the same (US y UK) :(

That's good - it means you can change some of them.

So you can have a better name, with an old account ;)

[Inscribe]

What about the hotel view, each hotel has there own so wonder what there going to do with that..

[tm]

What about the hotel view, each hotel has there own so wonder what there going to do with that..

All the hotel views are the same now.

[Cosmic]

Every hotel has a generic hotel views now, in terms of the building being the same. What's behind the magnifying glass is sometimes different :)

[Inscribe]

Every hotel has a generic hotel views now, in terms of the building being the same. What's behind the magnifying glass is sometimes different :)

Ohh right, last time i was on habbo each country had their own hotel view.

[Cosmic]

Yeah that was removed with the whole beta thing. Oddly enough though, the old hotel views are still on the homepages.

[Soy]

they are allowed to change there t&c as they wish



yep ludus changed them to ban me about saying something like "our legalisation bla bla allows us to monitor our fansites and take actions accordinlgy" or something


yep i got permed for saying something against habbo way on habboxforum.. ******ed

[roboy13]

Any real date set yet for this or just "somewhere in may"?

[,Lexiilu]

Any real date set yet for this or just "somewhere in may"?
I believe it is still "somewhere in may"
the next update (according to Habbo SG) is May 3rd.

[gangstaagent1]

really bad idea, it's stupid and I hate it :P XD

[Verrou]

I can't wait, sounds like fun :) As long as they don't ban casinos etc. :/

[Ardemax]

Well this thread has progressed a fair bit from when I last saw it..

But yeah, all in all it sounds interesting and I might actually visit it to see the result.

[OhLiam]

Isn't casinos banned on habbo singapore? so what happens when we merge :s

[littlened]

Isn't casinos banned on habbo singapore? so what happens when we merge :s

We don't know for sure, but I reckon nothing will change. Majority rule, if .SG have too much of a problem with it than habbo can block casinos to there country.

[OhLiam]

:s
It's not just a hotel rule lol gambling is illegal in singapore that's why it's banned so its not a majority decides thing they will have to do something to prevent .sg people from using casinos.

[littlened]

:s
It's not just a hotel rule lol gambling is illegal in singapore that's why it's banned so its not a majority decides thing they will have to do something to prevent .sg people from using casinos.

Yer they probably will. I doubt though as I stated they won't stop the UK, USA, AU or CA from using casinos as it's a way for many of getting rich. There are three ways this could go... Firstly Sulake put a block on casinos for .SG, Secondly they ban casinos all together or three they do nothing and the site gets blocked by Singapore government (or they get taken to court). Now they won't block casinos for all uses, like as not its big business for some. However, they won't want to have the Singapore government on there back, as that would be bad for business. So there only realistic way is to just block .SG uses from Casinos which won't be too hard.

[Tintinnabulate]

It will be a global English hotel so I guess Singapore will say much. Before they could as it was based in Singapore, now it isnt. Its one main one.
And it will be difficult for them to block certain rooms for .SG users.

[Greed]

It's rather funny because of the split that happened 5-6 years ago was to make each habbo much more unique. I thought the point of splitting was for regional and for community based reasons.

Now they're diverting back by merging all the hotels into one... lol.

We all lived under one roof before.

[dbgtz]

personally i think they should merge the europian union countries (minus us) considering thats what it's meant to do, merge europe. But I guess that would be kinda dodgy.

[Kyle]

personally i think they should merge the europian union countries (minus us) considering thats what it's meant to do, merge europe. But I guess that would be kinda dodgy.

It's more sensible to merge ENGLISH speaking hotels rather than a bunch of foreigners, silly billy.

[pg.security]

The rare values are going to be hurt badly

[Storking]

Really looking forward to it, things can only get better .. hopefully :)
Plenty of new people to mingle with anyway!

[votelabour]

Its taking absolutely ages, I just cannot wait until the arguements :P

[AgnesIO]

Its taking absolutely ages, I just cannot wait until the arguements :P

Its only been na few weeks?

[Arron]

how long to go!?

[Phil]

I think it's on May 10th, prsonally I can't wait for the merge!

[JACKTARD]

I think it's on May 10th, prsonally I can't wait for the merge!

any reason to think that or are you just guessing a random date?

[Arron]

probably because its monday and not bank holiday. sounds like a reasonable time.

[alexxxxx]

i've got a fairly rare name (why?). never been rich on habbo (only about 20CS) but i like my name. hope i don't lose it even though i rarely go on aha.

[Phil]

any reason to think that or are you just guessing a random date?

No I think I saw it on the habbox site a good while ago but it might of been for something else :L

[Sarah]

I think with the Casino issue and Singapore, If the new hotel is based in America it operates in their laws. Im not to sure. I think this is a good idea on terms of meeting new people and the whole idea we are one global population. However, how will events turn out? Will there still be local staff aswell as international? Becuase I cant see a UK staff member staying up to host an event for people in Australia..? Mhmm.

[Kieran]

I can't wait :D

I hope it is soon. It's going to be interesting :P

[Cosmic]

I think with the Casino issue and Singapore, If the new hotel is based in America it operates in their laws. Im not to sure. I think this is a good idea on terms of meeting new people and the whole idea we are one global population. However, how will events turn out? Will there still be local staff aswell as international? Becuase I cant see a UK staff member staying up to host an event for people in Australia..? Mhmm.

That's in interesting point. However I think Canada have kept one of their hotel managers, Puffin. Maybe we might keep a few of our staff members too.

[Swastika]

Apparently US and CA hotel have merged now.

[Tintinnabulate]

Apparently US and CA hotel have merged now.

That is correct. .ca redirects to .com

[Narnat,]

Tbh, i dont get it .. Does it mean that we wont be on habbo.co.uk ?_?

[scott]

Tbh, i dont get it .. Does it mean that we wont be on habbo.co.uk ?_?

Yup, we will all log in using .com

[Narnat,]

Yup, we will all log in using .com

Well that is just rude ! I dont want to use .com :)

[AgnesIO]

Apparently US and CA hotel have merged now.

Talking about pointless?

They merged weeks ago didn't they..?

[-Charityy]

Talking about pointless?

They merged weeks ago didn't they..?

No, actually they just merged yesterday. :)

[AgnesIO]

No, actually they just merged yesterday. :)

Really?! I assumed they merged ages ago - all their merge news happened ages ago :P And the rare values lol.

Sorry Jayme - my mistake :)

[-Charityy]

Really?! I assumed they merged ages ago - all their merge news happened ages ago :P And the rare values lol.

Sorry Jayme - my mistake :)

Yeah they kept delaying it for a few weeks, but finally got it done yesterday.

[dogboy123]

Tbh, i dont get it .. Does it mean that we wont be on habbo.co.uk ?_?

I think you are still able to login via the other domains. Not completely sure though :P

[Latour]

I think you are still able to login via the other domains. Not completely sure though :P

Yeah, you can.
And to get the little window to merge your account over to the USA hotel you need to use your original domain afaik.