Habbo Users

Do you reckon the amount if users that have dropped since 2010 is to do wi Habbo getting old with not much to do, the remove of .co.uk combining to .com, the bad press reported resulting in the mute or something else?

I would say a mixture of what you have said yes. Habbo is getting old and there's not alot of events within the community and alot of older users are leaving. The merged ruined Habbo so they lost alot of users left at that point and possibly about bad press and parents deciding that they don't want their children on the website anymore.

Habbo lost a lot of players when old habbo was replaced fully with the beta, then the merge and the new staff. I don't think the scandal caused much - and if it did - the players slowly returned.

I started habbo.com after merge, I can't affirm anything, but Global Mute was not good, lots and lots of people quit and now are slowly returning....

Back in 2006-2007 Habbo AU would hover around 4-5,000, before the merge that had dropped to between 1-2,000. I think the radical change in the way the community was managed lost a lot of users, they were removing well loved features and it just went down the pan really. I remember it basically falling apart as soon as the first version of the Homepage we see now came about.

The mute has been proven to lose Habbo members

I do wish it still was how it used to be, those were the days. Habbo need to give users more of a say really, make Habbo something to talk about, make people look forward to logging on, something to help get the users back up. I would love to see a full Hotel again.

I think it would be fair to say the entire time Paul was CEO the company was run completely into the ground and members dropped loads due to his lack of tact of any sort.

Quite a lot of my old friends left when the Shockwave client was finally removed, very few returned - none of them still play today...

i think it's because their player base is just getting old and I don't think theres much of an attraction for new kids to join because theres a lot more variety in what you can do online in terms of social/gaming compared to what there was in 2005

habbo's decisions also play a factor in it, they've made it cater to 12 year olds by making the filter mandatory, I cant even string a sentance together without bobba coming up

I can imagine a new teenager signing up, trying to say a filtered word then just closing it because of how ridiculous it is