The community killed Habbo.

[IWishIWasCool]

Debate all you want but you have to come to terms with my side of the story.

Back in let's say 07' I could go around the hotel and meet people and have casual chats about things we both both agree on, or disagree and have a friendly discussion about it, now all I see is idiot 13 year olds ruining the once golden community with hurtful comments towards others and just plain racisim against each other, you all use rape as a joke, you all think it's funny to bully kids on the internet, It's unacceptable. when somebody wants to actually make a change or bring up a decent talking point you get you lot trying to troll them out of no other reason, not because you disagree or agree with their stance on something, you just do it because you think your internet friends will find it funny, the community slowly died over the years and now it's on its last breath, oh and also if your account was made in 2011+ and you're complaining about wanting old accounts deleted so you can horde the names to look cool or sell, you're pathetic.

Sulake didn't kill Habbo, You did.

('you' means community)

[Kardan]

Cool.

And where would Habbo be today without the community?

Closed.

[2bonic]

Debate all you want but you have to come to terms with my side of the story.

Back in let's say 07' I could go around the hotel and meet people and have casual chats about things we both both agree on, or disagree and have a friendly discussion about it, now all I see is idiot 13 year olds ruining the once golden community with hurtful comments towards others and just plain racisim against each other, you all use rape as a joke, you all think it's funny to bully kids on the internet, It's unacceptable. when somebody wants to actually make a change or bring up a decent talking point you get you lot trying to troll them out of no other reason, not because you disagree or agree with their stance on something, you just do it because you think your internet friends will find it funny, the community slowly died over the years and now it's on its last breath, oh and also if your account was made in 2011+ and you're complaining about wanting old accounts deleted so you can horde the names to look cool or sell, you're pathetic.

Sulake didn't kill Habbo, You did.

('you' means community)


I completely agree with you, the old habbo players like over 20+ now were the best players on habbo. there seems to be more trolling kids than there used to be or teens should i say. Adults obviously haven't tried parenting them properly. It's a real shame :(

[jorsian]

I think we need to be conscious of the fact that many people who used to play Habbo have grown up and now regard the people who recently joined Habbo as immature, when really they are exactly like we used to be.

However, I do agree that the amount of trolls has also gone up. There are many people who like to be offensive and stir up controversy just for the "fun of it". I tend to avoid these types as they don't run in my circle of friends, however it's become increasingly hard to avoid them. They are taking over the hotel for sure.

[FlyingJesus]

All the bad stuff has always been around, bullying is not something new

[Attached]

I think its very much a case of a little from column A, a little from column B. It is a combination of things, rather specifically one.

Sulake and Habbo just don't do as much with the community anymore, so the community has become pretty segregated, and the Habbo users themselves are (for the most part) a bunch of moaners who just sit around 18+ rooms all day, not doing anything to make Habbo a better place.

Moaning isn't a new thing. I've been researching Old Habbo a lot recently, trying to piece together information about the Public Rooms and bots. Whilst researching archived Habbox Forum posts, I've found a lot of threads from 2005 - 2007, called the "golden years" by some, where threads are titled "Habbo has got boring now", "they're ruining Habbo with these updates", etc.

The main difference is when you check the Habbo homepage, via the wayback machine, from 2003/ 2004, just check HabboHood Happenings or the latest news letters, and soooooooooo much used to be going on.

[Kuybii]

I think the biggest difference is primarily because you're older. You found it fun being someone's Joey in a mafia, discovering the gains of furni, creating rooms for the first time, having people in your room for the first time, discovering new games, becoming rich/e-popular. Now we have done it all now so trying to find these new things you crave just won't be there anymore. The realisation of growing older with a game which was designed for younger teens. Personally I don't think habbo ever saw or planned appropriately that adults would genuinely play habbo daily as much as they did when they were teens. I don't have any ideas on how to rejuvenate the adult community for habbo but that's my diagnosis though.

[Daltron]

Who the hell cares it's 2014 not 2001 go build a ******* time machine or something. Everyone needs to chill, accept what habbo is today and move on with their lives.


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[IWishIWasCool]

Who the hell cares it's 2014 not 2001 go build a ******* time machine or something. Everyone needs to chill, accept what habbo is today and move on with their lives.


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You obviously don't comprehend what the actual conversation is about.

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To the people who joined 2011+ I don't want your opinion in this because you can't compare one side and the other without knowing the full facts.

The abridged version:

Community has become a scene of immature, pathetic, useless trolls who think they are popular on an internet game for kids.

Back in the day we also had these problems but they were not as bad as today.

[Drewar]

I must say that I do somewhat agree with the OP (although not entirely). I understand what the OP is saying. The community is fundamentally different. It seems a bit "darker" than it used to be.

Back in the old days, there were programs in place for Habbos to strive to be a part of. These were the Hobba and Habbo X programs.

Regardless of your personal opinion of these programs, these programs provided an incentive for Habbos to be kind, respectful, and promote personal and Habbo/internet safety and fun. If you were kind enough, helpful enough, and persistent enough, you had a (small) chance of being selected as "one of the chosen" ones to set an example for other Habbos. The MODs were also visible in the rooms, they were MOD-Moosemaster or MOD-Calamity. No matter their name, they had a presence that was very real in the community, often visiting and promoting help desks, fan site events, etc.

Now, with the absence of these programs, there is no real incentive to be polite or helpful. The Habbos that start arguments and bully (the ones that were once defended against by Hobbas and somewhat Habbo Xs) are now free to do so without consequence, and the "cool" thing to do is to join in. The ones that were once banned or muted for being rude are now praised as being "funny". Some are probably doing it out of fear ("If I help the bullies make fun of others, maybe they will think I'm cool and not bully me") and some are probably unaware that the words that they say are offensive or hurtful.

Bring back the Hobbas!

[Kyle]

Ever since I joined habbo (2003 not 2011 lol) it's had different versions of the same groups we see today, I just wasn't as conscious of them then as you might be now. There's always been moaners, there's always been bullies and racists, it's just that the internet has evolved and become so much more accessible that children are falling into those classes quicker and more easily. The community hasn't ruined habbo, it's just the internet age moving forward in general and habbo becoming less and less desirable because of its want to keep its older users happy but simultaneously draw in newer and younger ones. so long as there are a range of different ways to participate there will always be a community and a habbo hotel. I'm fed up of people banging on about a "golden age" as they rock in their chairs and sip their ovaltine. Perhaps it's just time to... you know... move on?

[GrandpaJoe63]

Each generation is different and generations come and go. OP just needs to move on.

[IWishIWasCool]

For a product like Habbo to evolve it also has to move with the current social and mental revisions that a today's society would deem applicable but the thing is, Habbo has evolved as a product in the somewhat general direction it should be going in but the community have hauled and decided to go backwards, so you'll have a spiral of discontinuation between the community and Habbo
and the saddest thing is, I don't think the community can change for the better.

[Kyle]

For a product like Habbo to evolve it also has to move with the current social and mental revisions that a today's society would deem applicable but the thing is, Habbo has evolved as a product in the somewhat general direction it should be going in but the community have hauled and decided to go backwards, so you'll have a spiral of discontinuation between the community and Habbo
and the saddest thing is, I don't think the community can change for the better.
In what ways has habbo moved forward so much that the community isn't quite keeping up or swimming against the tide? It's an interesting point but it isn't quite expanded. Any community is capable of change, it's the fact that the main portion of the current community is getting older and wanting more that habbo can't quite offer.

[e5]

I completely agree with you, the old habbo players like over 20+ now were the best players on habbo. there seems to be more trolling kids than there used to be or teens should i say. Adults obviously haven't tried parenting them properly. It's a real shame :(

That's just how life has developed.. Nothing could be done to stop the inevitable. People grow up and new people join, the immaturity was bound to happen.

[LewisCyrus]

If it wasnt for the 13year olds who buy credits on habbo now. Habbo would of went bankrupt

[akeel$]

since the mute habbo has died and lost an INCREDIBLE amount of members. we had about over 9 million on a day before the mute and in 2011 that was a good year we got about 11 million on everyday and that was so epic. you could always interact with people when you went to games such as big brother you wouldn't be stuck with the same cast nowardays there's so less people on habbo like 2000 not even joking and ur stuck with the same cast in the same games and it's just not fun. it's either your friends being your allies and your "OLD" enemies being your enemies but more to the point sulake has lost a lot of money that's why they're bringing out overpriced rares and ****** up prices of credit exchange i think personally habbo is one load of ******** at the moment but at the same time me and everyone else loves playing it irregardless of all the changes being made to it.

[Kuybii]

Habbo was never even close to having over 9million active users everyday hahahha. It might have been the accounts made but a good day back on the old days was like 12-16000. Now were lucky if we see 5000 and that's with the merge.

[akeel$]

Habbo was never even close to having over 9million active users everyday hahahha. It might have been the accounts made but a good day back on the old days was like 12-16000. Now were lucky if we see 5000 and that's with the merge.

i agree there's many people around which are from the merge if there wasn't i think there'd only be about 1000 on a day - at this rate sulake will eventually have to shut and yeah i definitely remember the 16000 days god loved them.

[thms]

oh and also if your account was made in 2011+ and you're complaining about wanting old accounts deleted so you can horde the names to look cool or sell, you're pathetic.

i don't understand why you've made this out to be derogative, oh no!! hording a name, arrest them at once

chill

if you really dislike how habbo is and the type of people that play why don't you leave instead of writing a thread about it, it isn't like a thread about it will change anything

[myles]

i agree akeel the days when we used to get like 9 million people online were the best habbo days i ever experienced x

[.:TaylorSwift:]

I would like to say habbo , sulake hasn't really done any marketing to attract new players. I remember why I joined habbo because of a Tv ad at 12 am and the YouTube ads. . Now since they lost there habbo card seller I haven't been able to buy coins which is also a reason people quit. The community is just needed to market habbo around or find ways to get players. I would supposed habbo contacting youtubers or popular twitter account to advertise habbo. I joined in 2010 when it was really cool seeing the public rooms, the role playing rooms, and all these cool rooms in general. The community I think just needs more players so it can improve it's attitude.


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[IWishIWasCool]

Maybe I was a little hard on the people from 2011 but I have to say I need to stick by the statement,

I'm not trying to say ''BECAUSE YOU ALL BUY CREDITS AND BUILD ROOMS HABBO SUCKS LOL BYE''

I'm saying ''Look, it was very different community-wise a long time ago that worked perfectly with everyone, yes there was bullying, yes there were trolls but it wasn't on the galactic scale it is now, and I'm not talking about features removed, maybe they lost a chuck of the user-base but in the long run it wasn't significant, at least on this forum it looks like the honest and true people from the community came, because If i posted this on the Habbo Forums then I'd just be laughed out and had 12 year old kids tell me I'm wrong because they are right with no explanation.''

My question to you all is, have you noticed the change?

[akeel$]

yeah there definitely has been a lot of change.
i totally agreed as i put in my last post.

[Kuybii]

I'm not sure, they've made it more user friendly but i just think the first experiences of everything which habbo had to offer were magical. I couldn't wait to get into play it because of something i was working on or, i dont know experiencing new nooby stuff like being this douches bodyguard which i remember.

Now we've experienced it all there is nothing new for the older generation thats the biggest difference for me. If anything new does come along we're all too experienced to give a ****.

"oh they're changing that now are they?" - "Oh some new furni lines are out, yeah they're pretty cool, might buy one of them" and so on. The magic of joining a mafia or creating your own business to the world of habbo isnt there anymore because you've been there and definitely worn hundreds of t-shirts.

[The Don]

The players have changed but the game remains the same - TexanWireWheelsTV Commercial

It's not that there's more of it, it's just that you're noticing it more now that you're older.

[akeel$]

i wouldn't even say anything about the players because on the 6th of this month just celebrate an anniversary for knowing this girl for 3 yrs now. (june 6th 2011 originally!)
it was good to have known her for so long but.. in a way her personality had changed SO much last year it felt like we had met more recently but nope it is her :D surprising how people change overtime.

[!x!dude!x!2]

The good old days were the best. It was so easy to make friends and everyone is nice. now they insult and troll