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Does anyone know if Habbo Austria actually happened? I know they own the domain and it links to .de I believe it is. But I came across this image and wondering if anyone knows the history behind it:
http://mattgarner.net/upload/images/...7/15/oNcd0.gif
See, as I said somewhere else I believe it did exist. But then checking online apparently it linked straight to Habbo.ch and was never separate site?
I don't ever recall seeing a list of Austrian staff either. Fgs idk too confusing :(
Any site I've looked at seeing if anyone has any information on it, it doesn't like exist. So maybe someone made it just for the hell of it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Intersocial
Mhm probably. Or maybe there were plans to open a site dedicated purely to Austrian users but then the idea got withdrawn thus leading to an un-used hotel view? :P Wouldn't explain how it got out publically though.Quote:
Originally Posted by xxMATTGxx
Did another search and came across threads on HabboxForum where it mentions there was job openings for Austria:Quote:
Originally Posted by Intersocial
http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=11280
http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=8740&page=1
That certainly explains the .Pl mystery as well then. Looks like it was a project/new hotel(s) that just ended up being scrapped. I wonder why though, no real money issues arose until 2 years later when the Chinese hotel closed due to bankruptcy. Nevertheless, they are still quite interesting looking hotel views :PQuote:
Originally Posted by xxMATTGxx
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@xxMATTGxx;
There was another thread about Habbo Poland:
http://www.habboxforum.com/showthread.php?t=538273
This was the hotel view for it:
http://img397.imageshack.us/img397/4...opolandqj1.png
So I don't think the .pl one was faked at all XD. Will look for the .at one though
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Cant find a thread on it, but here:
http://habbogalore.co.uk/hotels/ (It's under "inactive"). From what I can gather, it was either always in .ch at the start, or open for a very short time then instantly merged into .ch.
Amazing how many domains they purchased though and didnt use
Found that on Habborator it's not that long ago (2 years) so it's pretty recent so that could hold a bit of your answer.Quote:
yvlu wrote, 01-03-2010, 12:43 :
Between 2004 and 2005 there was a Austrian hotel planned. But it has never been released. Later Swiss people shared its hotel with Austrian Habbos and in 2009 they moved into German hotel.
Planned hotel view for Austrian hotel: http://wiseowl.kunta.ch/hotelviews/view_austria_01.gif
This could be useful for your history and/or hotelview page perhaps?
Ah makes sense, thanks for posting :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Samanfa
They were originally going to open up a Hotel for each country but internally that proved unfeasible because of the high operating costs (they weren't always able to partner up with an existing sponsor in the chosen country) and the fact that it was more lucrative for them to merge certain countries that spoke the same language into one hotel in order to a) improve user online figures, b) advertising revenue, and c) credits revenue meaning clustered language hotels were more likely to become profitable, and at a faster rate, than they would've been if it had been one hotel per country.
Yahoo answers says there was this lot:
Australia habbo.com.au
Malaysia habbo.com.my
Austria habbo.at
Mexico habbo.com.mx
Belgium habbo.be
Netherlands habbo.nl
Brazil habbo.com.br
New Zealand habbo.co.nz
Chile habbo.cl
Portugal habbo.pt
Colombia habbo.com.co
Russia habbo.ru
Denmark habbo.dk
Singapore habbo.com.sg
Finland habbo.fi
Spain habbo.es
France habbo.fr
Sweden habbo.se
Germany habbo.de
Switzerland habbo.ch
Ireland (links to Habbo UK) habbo.ie
Italy habbo.it
Japan www.habbo.jp
Venezuela habbo.com.ve
All hotel views are shown here: http://www.habboloader.org/en_previa.php?s=fondos
It was never opened according to my brother (ex habbo addict). He says it was to do with some financial problems, don't know if he's right though (A)
That hotel view was used for Habbo.ruQuote:
Originally Posted by Intersocial
It got altered to suit .ru I believe (I already knew though, said it in a staff thread :P) ;Quote:
Originally Posted by Abdicators
http://www.habborator.org/hotels/view_ru_wide.png
small differences.
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unless you mean before the hotel views got updated marginally? :P