The 'New' Habbo.

[iBlueBox]

I've played Habbo since 2005. I'm not going to lie but I have enjoyed the Game for the majority of the time, meeting good friends, creating rooms and communities in habbo itself. It's been enjoyable.

You could say since 2011 habbo went a bit downhill on user experience. Such as a feeling of loss of a community among the hotel. A lot of staff you didn't have a clear idea of who was who such as before hand in the merge.

However, Some people may moan about staff 'sacking' lately since the start of 2012 and a lot less articles.

But I think habbo is now in a good and right direction.

- They're now listening a lot more to ideas of habbos and how to improve games.
- Contacting staff by twitter feels you have more of a connection and direct route to those who can make changes on the game.
- Fansites seem to be getting a lot attention then the last few years. There much more involved in the community.
- The mock ups of the new UI looks great. The very fact they're sharing this to users so we can see the path on how habbo will change.

I think now Habbo has a clear idea on how to modernise itself and knows what direction to take it.

Do you think habbos now going in the right directon?

[geo]

I much prefer the old Habbo, but at least they're listening to us now. At first they just did anything and it all seemed to be going wrong.

[Mathew]

I think Paul Lafontaine has probably had quite a bit to do with this. Management styles have changed dramatically over the past decade or so, and the whole "open door" style has probably taken effect in the Sulake offices. He really seems to know what he's doing (well duh, he came from Disney!!) and it seems like he's noted quite a few flaws with the company. With this information and past experience, he's able to find the solution and put it into effect quite quickly. After all, he only joined Sulake towards the end of last year so he's had a couple of months to observe, and now it's time to roll some new things out for feedback.

My natural concern is that it won't last long and it's all being put on for a show, but I do think the guy seems committed and we should trust what he's doing. At the end of the day, he's running a business.

[Red]

Well it was really bad since the merge but things have been getting better since Kitano but I still think things are bad. Moderation is worse than ever and now we have a bunch of idiots like Katharina and Erick in customer support to match. They have no idea what they are doing and people's account security is really at risk. Hate the idea of habbo cms. It will be abused and the same old people involved. I do not want habbos reading my chat logs or my call for helps. Thank you very much. They say the cms will be supervised by moderators to stop corruption. You are telling me that these mods who do not speak english properly, ban without reading logs etc are capable of this? Not a chance. I don't like they have stopped competitions either.

[xdinosaurdaniel]

I love the old habbo alot more, but what we have now isnt to to bad

[Jordan]

I agree with you here, before the merge they were heavily involved with the community, then after it went downhill with similar competitions being held and fansites slowly being ignored. But now after this new Paul dude has been hired things have actually taken a turn and the things he has put in place already seem to be going in the right direction. I really do look forward to the amount of changes that will happen to Habbo this year. I am also excited for this Habbo CM system, I don't see why people are disagreeing with this so much. Their explanation on it seems very detailed and they are saying that there will be a fairer system in which people are picked so it may not actually be the popular people that you expect.

[dbgtz]

It is still awful in my opinion.

[Ellz]

i prefer the old habbo becuase everything was much simpler, everything is complicated now! I think they are currently focusing too much on things like furniture and the appearance of the hotel when they really should be working on things like the poor moderation etc.

[Catchy]

Well it was really bad since the merge but things have been getting better since Kitano but I still think things are bad. Moderation is worse than ever and now we have a bunch of idiots like Katharina and Erick in customer support to match. They have no idea what they are doing and people's account security is really at risk. Hate the idea of habbo cms. It will be abused and the same old people involved. I do not want habbos reading my chat logs or my call for helps. Thank you very much. They say the cms will be supervised by moderators to stop corruption. You are telling me that these mods who do not speak english properly, ban without reading logs etc are capable of this? Not a chance. I don't like they have stopped competitions either.

I agree with pretty much everyone Kirst has just said. Customer support are so poor they need to sort it out, I have sent about 5 tickets regarding the same issue because my issue is NEVER resolved and nobody seems to even understand what I am trying to say what is incredibly annoying, they just end up closing my ticket and tell me to stop spamming which is really unhelpful.

The habbo cm thing sounds awful and it's going to fail, thing is wont they just be another security risk? Like Hobba's were? Everyone seems to be getting hacked and it's only a matter of time before a Habbo cm does, especially if they will have 'special powers'

[Red]

Same. My ticket which is now 26 days old, got a reply from Katharina saying she couldn't understand and to speak in clear English (the cheek omg) and since then my request has been moved to solved three times without no reply. Really starting to lose patience. One of the staff were like well you complain about inadequate mods and habbo cms will solve the issue. Na what would solve the issue is hiring english speaking people who properly trained staff.