Sulake cracking down on VIP

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Originally Posted by HHGS.Net

ROFL, we need a women not a male !

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:(:( i was looking forward to it now :(

Guess we could get buttons to do it :P

She'l do it for free tho :(

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Originally Posted by jrh2002

Maybe the KKK can show appretiation by repping the donators ;) be like the old days with each other lol

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Are you incinuating that we were little more than a ring of +reppers? :o how very rude. Ignore the fact that people suddenly got much higher rep powers when we started liking them, that was coincidence a'iiiight

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Originally Posted by Yoshimitsui

What i don't understand is how they have it in their intentiont that they can close unofficial sites aswell! Under what grounds can they do that?

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Copyright on the images. I'm fairly sure it's ok to get away with simply doing a disclaimer of credit to Sulake/Habbo, and as there's no Habbo imagery being used in VIP I think it'll be fine to keep going regardless of these threats, but if Sierk's getting legal advice it's best to wait for that

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Originally Posted by sierk

That is actually a great idea lol, but I doubt Habbo would allow us to show who donated by "publishing" their name on the forum in different colours.

I am very touched to see so many people complaining and supporting us :)

I think we first need to find out what the reason is behind this sudden change in policy, and wether it is Habbo UK or sulake headquarters behind it. Then we also know who we have to address about it.

Of course it is good to organise protests against it, but don't do anything illegal as they might blame Habbox for it.

I will get some legal advice to find out what exactly our position is in all this. But in any case if we can't work it out with Sulake in a friendly way we might lose our official status which would be a shame, considering how long it took us to get it lol.

Btw perhaps somebody can come up with a good way for us to make some (or a lot :P) of extra money, then it doesn't matter if we sell vip or give it for free.

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You could just do a donating system what would work as such:

A ''Special Thankyou Award'' in which when a user donates a certain amount of money from the vip price, to what ever more they wish to donate, and the special thankyou award, basically gives users what VIP had offered.

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Originally Posted by FlyingJesus

Are you incinuating that we were little more than a ring of +reppers? :o how very rude. Ignore the fact that people suddenly got much higher rep powers when we started liking them, that was coincidence a'iiiight

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Its gone on for years with lots of different people as you know (i have never pointless repped ;) lol) :) the only time i see rep as an issue is if people are using it to abuse or bully people.

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Originally Posted by Earthquake

You could just do a donating system what would work as such:

A ''Special Thankyou Award'' in which when a user donates a certain amount of money from the vip price, to what ever more they wish to donate, and the special thankyou award, basically gives users what VIP had offered.

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habbo has said offering rewards for any donations is not allowed so that wont get through the net im afraid.

OK IVE GOT IT
make a new site where people can pay for their name to go in a draw, with 100% win rate. they win a vip features on habboxfoum.

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Originally Posted by Wootzeh

OK IVE GOT IT
make a new site where people can pay for their name to go in a draw, with 100% win rate. they win a vip features on habboxfoum.

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Sounds good to me :)

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Originally Posted by Wootzeh

OK IVE GOT IT
make a new site where people can pay for their name to go in a draw, with 100% win rate. they win a vip features on habboxfoum.

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Originally Posted by FlyingJesus

"Donations" whereby each person will get extras does count as selling a service - this is the same anywhere you go. However, a competition with a cost to enter is not the same thing.

Here's a little story all about how my life got flipped, turned upside down: at a school fayre when I was young, I was told of the wonders of the beer tent. Of course, I couldn't go in, but it was pure genius that I learned that day. Being a children's event and not having an alcohol license, they could not legally sell beers, so a "raffle" was set up whereby anyone with a ticket ending in 5 or 0 would "win" a beer. Of course, every ticket ended in a 5 or 0, and because alcohol can indeed be given as a gift or prize to anyone over 18, it was entirely legal.

If worst comes to worst and we are forced to remove VIP, we can implement this in its stead without any legal worries. Sell competition tickets with a prize of VIP priviledges and make it so that each ticket wins. It's not illegal to set your own competition rules, and if people still want to see that as selling a service, a seperate domain for it could be set up (not directly affiliated with Hx of course) whereby THEY sell tickets to an online competition, the prize being HxF VIP.

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NOT THAT I ALREADY SUGGESTED IT OR ANYTHING :P

I dont know if this has been said but I cant rly be bothered to read through 25 pages lmao so anyway ill say it nyway...

Isnt Habbo rly breaking their own rules... We have to pay for their vip service (habbo club) however they are like a multi-millionaire company however a fansite cannot sell vip who blatently are no millionairs....
I know Habbo isnt rly a fansite for Habbo but still they are breaking their own rules
And tbh its our own choice whether or not we buy VIP... we r not forced to buy it therefore its our own choice...
I just think they should become unofficial and then continue vip as I would imagine it costs quite a bit of money to keep habbox running per month...

I would just love to see how many forums still continue to sell vip servvice

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Originally Posted by Chad.

I dont know if this has been said but I cant rly be bothered to read through 25 pages lmao so anyway ill say it nyway...

Isnt Habbo rly breaking their own rules... We have to pay for their vip service (habbo club) however they are like a multi-millionaire company however a fansite cannot sell vip who blatently are no millionairs....
I know Habbo isnt rly a fansite for Habbo but still they are breaking their own rules
And tbh its our own choice whether or not we buy VIP... we r not forced to buy it therefore its our own choice...
I just think they should become unofficial and then continue vip as I would imagine it costs quite a bit of money to keep habbox running per month...

I would just love to see how many forums still continue to sell vip servvice

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Habbo charge for their own services to keep their site running and use their own product (graphics etc) they dont like 3rd party sites making money from their product so it is different.