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yup it's because the players are getting old and new players are not finding habbo that interesting
who are we kidding, just open the games section and it looks like a freakin trainwreck..top rooms are arcades and shops or some irrelevant rooms. Habbo has nothing interesting to offer
I remember the days that you could go and work for places, nowadays everything is automated and nothing to do. I thought the new CEO after taking over Paul LaFo would have made some drastic changes by now.
Everything seems to be slowing down, and has done for years. Hopefully it revives itself or it'll just slow down till it makes a stop (and that'll be the end :P)
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Originally Posted by Futz
i agree with this, when i was 12 in 2004 there wasn't much to do on the internet besides msn so this was what me and ALL my friends played, like literally all my friends played habbo. you ask a 12 year old if they played habbo now they more than likely wouldn't know what it is.
12 year olds these days are so preoccupied with facebook, twitter, instagram all these social websites that connect them with their own friends from school and where they live, they'd never think of going on a website to talk to random people they don't even know. if they really wanted to do that, they could do that on all their other social media websites they have accounts on already.
I still use Habbo because I have grown up with it, and it was always a source of entertainment. I disliked the merge and can't often find good conversation anymore. If I was a new user, I would have given up already.
There still seems to always be lots of people online though.
Like others have said, back when I was a kid in like 2003/2004/2005 - it was a much more different than it is now. These days you have a world overtaken by Social Media sites such as Facebook/Twitter/Instagram/ & so much more. Chat Rooms are an after-thought, like who uses them?
Back in my day it was MSN & Habbo Or Runescape. Our generation have gotten older, I am 20 years old and I visit Habbo once every like 4 months. The generation now and in the future will not need Habbo because they have Social media sites which is available to them. Habbo just has no place in our current day.
I am just happy I grew up in it's era :)
Bottom line, yes. It's on its moneymaking days now, because they know the product hasn't got an awful amount of time left. It's likely they'll milk it for all its worth, shut it down and then open up something different which doesn't have the whole pedo credibility about it. Channel 4 ruined them, the merge ruined them, the mute ruined them, it's a mixture of their own doing really.
I think habbo should have a retro week (as in old school!)
I was gone since Mid 2011, when I returned mid 2013 the number of players had dropped too much.
There's no carnis, tripping is impossible & trading doesn't look too active aswell.
Still casinos/fansite events which seem still fairly active, but honestly it seems to have been channel 4 which ruined Habbo.
I don't think that one report from Channel 4 'ruined' Habbo but I do agree it seems to have had a lot of changes which aren't for the better. I went on Habbo a couple of weeks ago to see how it had changed, and its changed lots, firstly being that there was only 1,000 people online during the peak time which would have been unheard of once upon a time, none of the old major rooms existed where you could have good conversation, theres none of the old RPs and it just seems so empty.
I do agree that Sulake are trying to make as much money as they can, but I doubt Habbo is making much money these days, they've got (or did have) offices and staff all around the world which can't be cheap, they don't seem to have as many marketing/ad campaigns as they used to which was what they were making their money on in addition to sales which seem to have dropped most people are 12 year old non-members when I was on :P
Its been going down for years now, and it can only get worse. I think it needs to return to its roots and become less corporate, more community-oriented where older members can take up positions within the organisation for example. Its a shame really, looking back I used to spend hours on the game when I was younger, but as people said social networking has really grown and Habbo's no longer a big thing unfortunately. But at least Habbox lives on and is its great old self.