What are your views on retro hotels?

[BreakfastBacon]

I disagree with them earning money off other peoples work apart from a few adjustments but I do think they are a good way to test out features like HC before buying them. How about you?

[lawrawrrr]

Technically admitting you use a retro could get you banned from Habbo as they're against the Habbo way!!!

Personally I've never really used them at all, with clothes you could always just test on the editor and since the introduction of Builders' Club and allowing you to have a free trial, there's no need to go elsewhere to build cool rooms or anything.

Retros definitely shouldn't be profiting from it though as like you said, they don't own the copyright or anything which is why they're banned!

[Mrs_Plant]

never used a retro, I just don't see the point in them, especially when you run the risk of being perm banned. Just another waste of a site tbh.

[Empired]

Totally pointless now anyone can use trial BC (so you don't even have to spend money) to build rooms. Surprised they're even still going - did the introduction of BC impact their user levels at all, I wonder?

[FlyingJesus]

Wasn't aware they were still a thing, not seen or heard of one since like 2008

[Nick]

used to play them all the time back in 2009 - 2010, bought ranks and everything

[Empired]

used to play them all the time back in 2009 - 2010, bought ranks and everything
Really? I used to use them for room building because it was so expensive on habbo but I would never use them socially because i thought everyone on there seemed really self entitled (like, more so than on habbo itself) and mean.

[.:TaylorSwift:]

The only time I used them was back in the Great Habbo Mute. But I would like to tell you from the owners perspective they are stingy and want money. I would never use them or trust them ever.

[David]

they were good for room building for graphics before Habbo brought out BC, but don't see any other reasons now.
i played one for like a year because i had friends there but we all just phased it out i guess after the owner became an ass hole

was an admin on one after that as well but because of the name we used some skids kept hacking us and it cost money to fix it again so that never worked out.

[dbgtz]

Not really fussed about them in general, but they should really not be profiting. Though, I did find it annoying when they stole mine and others graphics (without credit) to use as custom furniture.

[-:Undertaker:-]

Never used cos i think it kinda ruins the game if you can get anything specifically rares.

[Prosiary]

Used to play them lots and buy vip on them for like 10 pounds or whatever it used to be, they were fun with friends but we just got bored of them.

[Nick]

Really? I used to use them for room building because it was so expensive on habbo but I would never use them socially because i thought everyone on there seemed really self entitled (like, more so than on habbo itself) and mean.

yeah thought i told you ;l



they were good for room building for graphics before Habbo brought out BC, but don't see any other reasons now.
i played one for like a year because i had friends there but we all just phased it out i guess after the owner became an ass hole

was an admin on one after that as well but because of the name we used some skids kept hacking us and it cost money to fix it again so that never worked out.

i was admin on one and this dude kept having to pay money to fix it then he got sued LMFAO

[welshcake]

I'm not a fan of them at all
I don't really get the point of them now

[MONEYMAGIC]

I admit I used to play them but it was way back in 2005-2006, I just liked to be admin haha! And having the whole Catalogue to see all the ranges and Rares that weren't out back then. As others have said since Builders Club it just seem pointless now.

[Neptupid]

I used to play them ages ago! I only did it for some of the casinos and building. But now I think about it they really are pointless and kind of dull compared to Habbo.

[Matt]

Habbo did a good job of making them sound like something incredibly terrible that would eat your soul if you went on them so I decided to listen to them and not go on any.

[iGingerWaltonSt]

I disagree with them earning money off other peoples work apart from a few adjustments but I do think they are a good way to test out features like HC before buying them. How about you?

Unlike most, I fully support Retros. Not in the fact of charging people to get commands and coins, to me that is the definition of pathetic. I personally own a Retro, I'm not scared of admitting it, yes saying you play on a retro can lead to bans but in my case, I use it for personal, educational use. I am in College currently for Game Development. I am learning different ways of coding and at the same time I am advancing in my self taught gfx design.

So yes, I support educational Retros that are locally hosted and not public. Public ones don't hurt anybody bu if you charge, you deserve to get shut down.

Plus if I'm correct on this, charging on a Retro is fraud isn't it? Well fraud, copyright infringement, scamming, etc. Basically you're looking at bankruptcy for life and a few years in jail if Sulake takes it to court.

[FlyingJesus]

It's illegal even if you're not charging for anything

[iGingerWaltonSt]

It's illegal even if you're not charging for anything

I know but they're not in as much heat as ones that do charge. I have no problem with free retros but I do still think that retros should be for personal use. If you ONLY play retros, then it's a shame. Going off topic but as people said previously cost was an issue... Back in 04 when I started, there was no Habbo GB exchange sites like there's been the past few years. $3/GB? I remember paying $15 for a habbo card at 7/11 lol.

Long story short, if you don't want to spend money on habbo, then you shouldn't be playing it. ;) You also culd of been a room designer and worked on other peoples rooms :)

[Minion?!]

Honestly, I think they should all be closed down.

If everybody who played on the retro's and played on the actual hotel then Habbo would be a much better and much more popular
place to be.

Completely disagree with them making a profit from the members also.

[Attached]

I've literally never seen the point in Habbo retros. I've never even been on one. Habbo is Habbo.

[Nick]

I've literally never seen the point in Habbo retros. I've never even been on one. Habbo is Habbo.

free credits bro

[Zak]

I don't see the problem with them as long as it's for personal use only and you're not making financial gain. I'm not sure Habbo would agree.

[xxMATTGxx]

There is retros still around for sure - You can often find them using official fansite graphics which is always a laugh. I've never played on them or needed to. I guess I can see why some people create them and do play on them. I remember private WoW servers and they were pretty cool.

[Expling]

I remember when I was like 11 my friend was like !!!! u should play <retro>
so i played it and i loved it cos i used to make like schools and invite peeps and it was just really fun
so then i just moved around the retros and got staff, got some good friends but then i realised habbo was there (i legit thought these retros were the only things) but realised you had to pay so it put me off a lot
but then i came on habbo once as expling and liked it so left the retros and stayed at habbo, not bad as all my friends from there still chat to me on skype nd that

but yeah they're not as bad as what people make out and sulake really hate them, i remember the retro getting emails telling them to remove stuff and that haha
they do get a financial gain yeah but it's like habbox, they get the money to keep the server and protection up and whatever else - they don't really get much 'profit' (especially the small ones anyway with like 10 users)

wouldn't recommend them personally as they're literally just a place for mongs who like to destroy the internet (with kids moderating :/)

[Empired]

I remember when I was like 11 my friend was like !!!! u should play <retro>
so i played it and i loved it cos i used to make like schools and invite peeps and it was just really fun
so then i just moved around the retros and got staff, got some good friends but then i realised habbo was there (i legit thought these retros were the only things) but realised you had to pay so it put me off a lot
but then i came on habbo once as expling and liked it so left the retros and stayed at habbo, not bad as all my friends from there still chat to me on skype nd that

but yeah they're not as bad as what people make out and sulake really hate them, i remember the retro getting emails telling them to remove stuff and that haha
they do get a financial gain yeah but it's like habbox, they get the money to keep the server and protection up and whatever else - they don't really get much 'profit' (especially the small ones anyway with like 10 users)

wouldn't recommend them personally as they're literally just a place for mongs who like to destroy the internet (with kids moderating :/)

But isn't having everything furni-wise a bit boring? Half of the fun of owning furni on Habbo is earning it :(

[Expling]

But isn't having everything furni-wise a bit boring? Half of the fun of owning furni on Habbo is earning it :(

if im honest when i was there i didn't notice because it was just normal to enter rooms and have 100 thrones sitting there!
but now I'm at Habbo, I do often look back and realise how sily the economy was - everyone was rich because you got like 200 crdits every 15mins you were online
literally, if you playd you'd have like 7387 rares :')

so yeah, when I was there I didn't notice but now I'm just like wtf that's so boring

[Nick]

There is retros still around for sure - You can often find them using official fansite graphics which is always a laugh. I've never played on them or needed to. I guess I can see why some people create them and do play on them. I remember private WoW servers and they were pretty cool.

yeah and one retro used MY LOOK on a banner to advertise their retro. could have sued them for thousands of credits

[Empired]

yeah and one retro used MY LOOK on a banner to advertise their retro. could have sued them for thousands of credits
hahaha I remember seeing that

Can't believe nobodys ever wanted to steal my look though rip I look fabulous
get on it, retros

[Lewis]

Only good thing I can think about using retros would be to play Battle Ball, Snowstorm, Wobble Squabble, etc

Haven't done this myself though

[9buzz]

I overall think that the bad things outweigh the good things in term of retros.
They can be a blast from the past for those who have used Habbo for a long time.
Someone earlier mentioned for Battleball and Snowstorm and even Trax!

It also can be interesting to see what type of tools Habbo moderators have to their advantage.

[Yvw]

I gotta disagree with some, i feel retros are a way for the noobier people to actually express themselves, i know i wasn't the richest when i played habbo and that limited me when i built. But having all furni as an option allowed me to create good rooms, and I'm not bragging but I dont make like nooby rooms so this really helped. And also anytime you log onto habbo there is fighting going on i'm not positive if it's the same but it most likely is. But on retros fighting isn't that popular, people honestly could care less about people and I've actually made a lot of friends on retros because the people actually want to talk about life. So in general I truly do enjoy retros.

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But isn't having everything furni-wise a bit boring? Half of the fun of owning furni on Habbo is earning it :(

The thing is rares are still rares, there is still limited edition that's what adds to the retro, there's a market and betting still.

[lucaskf390]

I played some, for a short time, old habbo ones, as I joined after the beta I wanted to know how things was. If you not spending cash on habbo, retros are a good place to build and they have building comps that are far better than habbo's. Some retros have what people lack on habbo, a good management and staff team. Since the Global Mute I feel like every campaign and every staff is just stupid and boring. Mods Love Lock Marathon? Kill me.

[Plebings]

bunch of people have asked me if i go on retros because apparently someone impersonates me on one of them!! anyway never seen the appeal since habbo is about the community first. i fully support habbo shutting down any that take in revenue, even if it is non-profit as you're essentially stealing an organisation's customers.

i'm more than fine with using them as sandbox hotels to act as an expanded builders club though, just long as you use them to enjoy the real hotel rather than replace.

[Attached]

since the Global Mute I feel like every campaign and every staff is just stupid and boring. Mods Love Lock Marathon? Kill me.

I know what you mean, but you've also got to consider the context. Campaigns are aimed at Habbo's target audience, the young teens, not over 18s like us.

I can guarantee that 25 year old Attached wouldn't have any interest in the events and campaigns that 11 - 20 year old Attached might've enjoyed from 2002 - 2010. Haha saying that... I didn't find out about the Love Lock Marathon until the last day, which annoyed me as I would've really liked to have collected the full set. Typical!

[Shorty]

Community is the word I will use, below is my explanation of that.

There are many pros and cons towards playing official and playing retros, those who prefer one or the other are most likely to choose their selection because of the community within. If you've been playing official for x amount of years and you know loads of people, why are you going to login to retros and know nobody/start from fresh? The same being for retros to official, it's especially hard because of the large amount of people within the official hotel.

The major disadvantages are for younger people, that's because retros don't have professional paid moderation. Filters, automated alert tools and other moderation tools are used by a group of paid people, vs in retros a group of 'cool kids' who have earned the right to moderate.

I'm not against retros and would consider myself to be known within that community however I will admit retros have somewhat lost their original value, many of them creating income while others are simply covering their server costs.

[Alozi]

I see an retro as copied.

[Cody]

Personally saying I didn't like them would definitely make myself a hypocrite, because I did however play one just because a friend of mine did.

[EricaAmanda]

Better safe then sorry, just be gone with em forever plz

[Woutou]

From what I've heard from people who play retros is.. since the mod's are player's they find it better because, Mod's can't
really ban you without evidence and a lot of the staff actually care about what the users want.. I mean I played a retro for awhile
just to play in arcades and such!

[Attached]

Never interested me.

[17M]

I think it's wrong to take somebody's idea, but i also agree with BreakfastBacon! But i feel Habbo should introduce a similar concept
for people to try out new things and experiment.

Builder's Club is OK.. but you're limited to what you can use, If you can use the "Retro" concept in a way where we can build rooms using
unlimited furni, Create some kind of blueprint for a room we have on our wishlist, or a room we are building right now.

But people waste their time playing Retros.. because anything they have built in a retro they do not really own. When you build a room in*
Habbo Hotel you have a scence of accomplishment because you have earned every piece of furni in that room.

[Sixtiess]

I do not agree with them in that i would never play a retro properly like i do habbo, however like Cody said i would be a hypocrite if i said i had never used one. Sometimes i just wana build a room without spending real monies on creds, just to get a feel for an idea and see if it would work. It would be good if habbo could offer something where you can design a room for free (locked room) just to try it out. I think that would make retro die away as i think most people use them for that reason .

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