Otaku closed down

[Michael]

I heard on Habbo today that there was protests on Habbo.fr something about Otaku getting taken to court and forced to close down by Sulake(?).

Anyway Otaku I believe sold emulators for Habbo retros and part of its forum went into the development of Habbo retros. If anyone knows anymore feel free to add, as I really don't know that much about them.

Could this mean Habbo is finally taking action on retros?







Heres an article I found on google:

Phoenix, the most popular Habbo Hotel emulator has finally closed their doors after founder and head developer Aaron ‘Sojobo’ Marshall was issued with a court order several days ago. The court order ceased company assets that linked to the developers car. With the closing of Otaku , community members have voiced their concerns and support via the RaGEZONE forums. We contacted Sojobo about the matter and he the following statement;

I’d like to thank everyone who helped and supported Otaku Studios over the years, it’s been a fun learning experience for me and it’s a real shame it had to end this way. I don’t want to say anything more specific at this point as the case is open and I’m not really sure what happens next as the documents I was served with aren’t even in English – it took me a few days just to work out that I had to turn off my websites and the papers themselves are.. lengthy.

What the future holds for the Habbo Hotel development scene remains a mystery but one thing is for certain, Sulake is out for blood.

[Psyduck]

They've been taking action on retros for a while...

[sexpot]

an article I read that was posted on TH said that they came to his house

[Michael]

an article I read that was posted on TH said that they came to his house

Yeah i've been reading his Twitter. https://twitter.com/SojoboOtaku

[xxMATTGxx]

Took Sulake quite a while then as I assume they must have got a number of notices about copyright beforehand? But this time it seems they have gone in with full force.

[Aiden]

WOW ACTION IS BEING MADE!

[xxMATTGxx]

"They came to my door, gave me some letters (none of them english -.-) and asked for the car. I refused. The police was called."

One of the tweets - Good luck to him I guess. As I assume they will be asking for quite a bit of money which he probably doesn't have by the looks of what he is saying on twitter.

[Michael]

One of the tweets

Makes me wonder what car it was, and how much he actually made from selling retro emulators.

[lemons]

ahhaha the song on their website

http://otaku.cm/

[xxMATTGxx]

Makes me wonder what car it was, and how much he actually made from selling retro emulators.

I think he had a Mini.