The Fansite Way

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Originally Posted by JackHb

Habbox should tell Habbo to go **** themselves if they want them to stop selling VIP. Habbo are the biggest money grabbing *****s going and then they expect other sites not to sell VIP...pfftt

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Agreed :eusa_clap


Habbo lost its community feel when they started putting stupid amounts of furni in the catalogue. Yes they are a business but they are not even close to the fine line of fun and profit making. Habbox has offered VIP for years and does not have to give to charity which it does so it shows they are pretty good. I think habbo/sulake have turned into an arrogant greedy dictatorship and hold a gun to site owners heads especially where their crappy official status is concerned. They should sort out their own customer service before making up random rules just to upset everybody.
If you are forced to remove VIP I would gladly donate each month for no benefits and hope you advertise other sites to push ppl away from habbo so in the long run they lose more money than habbox.
On the legal side I think just changing it to Habbox Donator would be fine if it was worded that you are not buying extra benefits and could also give so many Donator/VIP colours to random ppl just to show its not only given to cash donators.

As far as going to court goes I doubt Habbo would take it that far but if they did I would think Sierk would argue the case and have far more support than habbo. Donate to VIP to support habbox legal battle :p
Can habbox not just move to a server in a country outside of the laws habbo would try to enforce? then tell them to get ******.

I love the new layout btw :) about time the temporary.............. site got replaced ;)

Habbox.com is official and not HabboxForum.com so technically no.

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Originally Posted by GearsOfWar

Habbox.com is official and not HabboxForum.com so technically no.

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Habbo and everybody would group all hx sites as one and because they all have the same owner I dont think there is a way out of that but it also says official and un-official so they are saying ALL habbo sites.

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Originally Posted by GearsOfWar

Habbox.com is official and not HabboxForum.com so technically no.

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Any Habbo related site has this issue. HabboxForum IS a Habbo Fansite in it's own right, and they can argue that with the large amounts of Habbo catagories and forums, aswell as the name. Has there been any word from Habbo regarding this? Moving servers etc will cost Habbox a great deal of money over something like this, there would be no point really and Habbo may still have a point regardless to what country Habbox is apart of. Isn't there such thing as international copyright laws with these things?

I'm tempted to email Habbo and see what stupid reason they give.

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Originally Posted by GommeInc

I'm tempted to email Habbo and see what stupid reason they give.

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I think they ignore emails where they have to put their heads on the block incase their wrong. I emailed asking some questions a while back and no reply to any of my emails after the stupid auto reply and if you email directly i get told to use the stupid help tool. :eusa_wall

Good luck :)

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Originally Posted by GearsOfWar

Habbox.com is official and not HabboxForum.com so technically no.

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So technically if you rad it says official AND non-official.

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Originally Posted by JackHb

Habbox should tell Habbo to go **** themselves if they want them to stop selling VIP. Habbo are the biggest money grabbing *****s going and then they expect other sites not to sell VIP...pfftt

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Exactly right. 'Mummy sulake are setting a bad role model xD'

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Originally Posted by jrh2002

Agreed :eusa_clap


Habbo lost its community feel when they started putting stupid amounts of furni in the catalogue. Yes they are a business but they are not even close to the fine line of fun and profit making. Habbox has offered VIP for years and does not have to give to charity which it does so it shows they are pretty good. I think habbo/sulake have turned into an arrogant greedy dictatorship and hold a gun to site owners heads especially where their crappy official status is concerned. They should sort out their own customer service before making up random rules just to upset everybody.
If you are forced to remove VIP I would gladly donate each month for no benefits and hope you advertise other sites to push ppl away from habbo so in the long run they lose more money than habbox.
On the legal side I think just changing it to Habbox Donator would be fine if it was worded that you are not buying extra benefits and could also give so many Donator/VIP colours to random ppl just to show its not only given to cash donators.

As far as going to court goes I doubt Habbo would take it that far but if they did I would think Sierk would argue the case and have far more support than habbo. Donate to VIP to support habbox legal battle :p
Can habbox not just move to a server in a country outside of the laws habbo would try to enforce? then tell them to get ******.

I love the new layout btw :) about time the temporary.............. site got replaced ;)

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Temporary xD

I would pay to see habbo go to court to close a fansite down.

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Originally Posted by jrh2002

Agreed :eusa_clap


Habbo lost its community feel when they started putting stupid amounts of furni in the catalogue. Yes they are a business but they are not even close to the fine line of fun and profit making. Habbox has offered VIP for years and does not have to give to charity which it does so it shows they are pretty good. I think habbo/sulake have turned into an arrogant greedy dictatorship and hold a gun to site owners heads especially where their crappy official status is concerned. They should sort out their own customer service before making up random rules just to upset everybody.
If you are forced to remove VIP I would gladly donate each month for no benefits and hope you advertise other sites to push ppl away from habbo so in the long run they lose more money than habbox.
On the legal side I think just changing it to Habbox Donator would be fine if it was worded that you are not buying extra benefits and could also give so many Donator/VIP colours to random ppl just to show its not only given to cash donators.

As far as going to court goes I doubt Habbo would take it that far but if they did I would think Sierk would argue the case and have far more support than habbo. Donate to VIP to support habbox legal battle :p
Can habbox not just move to a server in a country outside of the laws habbo would try to enforce? then tell them to get ******.

I love the new layout btw :) about time the temporary.............. site got replaced ;)

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I totally agree with you - I left Habbo a while ago because of the amount of greediness that goes on in the game - People are resulting to scamming as a way of getting furniture because it costs to much or because they can't keep buying credits. I know Habbo is meant to make money but... Take GaiaOnline for example, they give you free "credits/coins" to start off with and you can either earn/buy more - If you want to get some good things you have to buy them - I think its a good way of earning profit. As for the VIP nothing will happen about it because Habbo would have done something by now - How do they expect prices to be paid? And for the photos - I agree with --ss-- I don't like the idea of having 12 year olds in their avatars trying to be cool.