Sulake cracking down on VIP

[Tintinnabulate]

There is no need to change site name but habbo may force HxF to removed all images including alts in a habbo style and maybe even any reference to habbo :s


Perhaps the forum could be owned by another person........ (just change name and address on domain name etc to anything) habbox.com distance itself as much as is needed from hxf.

Personally I would tell them to get F***** and see just how far they are going to take it. I imagine they would ban sierk's habbo accounts and demand their images are removed :s

After selling something for over 4 years and then habbo deciding it is not allowed would most likely be laughed out of court in they were stupid enough to take it that far.

There is no way Habbox could keep running without its donations so i dont think there is much option but to ignore the morons at habbo and let them do their worst.

Habbox is the most popular fansite in habbos history and so many people use it imagine if the domain got into the wrong hands? If it was pushed so far habbox had no option to stop donations I would sell the domain name to a po.rn site or site that advertises po.rn sierk would make a packet from such a popular domain and imagine the damage such a move would do to habbo and sulake alot more damage than habbox getting a few donations each month.

I am sick to death of Habbo and their money grabbing tactics and now bullying ways towards sites that help promote them. Imagine if all the fansites closed there are so many habbos who only go on habbo due to their jobs on fansites because they enjoy their fansite work more than a game that has limited things to excite us and keep you going back
Sulake/Habbo you should remember that without such sites you would not be anywhere near as popular as yo are and this move is not only a pathetic money grabbing attempt but also a huge kick in the teeth to the habbos who have stuck with you over the years.

Look at file sharing and torrent sites all this sort of crap takes years to get to court and sorted out. As i said if habbo complained about this 4 years ago OK but as they didnt they are looking petty ******* ******s which infact they are.

I have alot of time for Habbox and especially HxF and although in my opinion it lost its way a little the last year or so I will do what I can to help defend it and keep it up and running.
I have saved no end of important things from habbo over my 7 years there and some of it is very negative towards sulake/habbo I dont want to say what just yet but will be trying to get my limited english working enough to write a good article that will be far more damaging to sulake than a few fansites that get donations to help keep running. I will see how it goes over this and then if they continue to bully I will be emailing every newspaper, magazine and anything else i can think of and im sure some would investigate and take up the story.

Habbo you have sunk to an all time low for you and believe me that is low.
I hope we can find out who exactly made this decision and the reasons be explained to us all.


I suggest Habbox emails all other official sites offering vip etc and make their own list of habbo related sites and all resign from habbo's crappy dictatorship (official list) as being official means jack **** since callie left people either loved her or hated her but she really did alot for the community including alot of fansite events etc.

@club habbo
You should fight them with the other sites instead of doing what they ask unless they have promised you all another badge for being good? :rolleyes:

Coming from an Ex-Hobba makes it even better loll.
You are right there. Habbox needs the money and pretty much every trader on habbo visits habbox.com. Habbox.com controls habbo trade so yeah it is kinda stupid.

[Yonder]

Brillaint Jr i loved the read, all the points were hit directly on the head we need to unite against this as users of Habbo and members of the community who provide the money to pay their wages and keep the game alive, in all fairness they should be helping us and providing fansites with all the help they can offer. I dont want to repeat everything you have just said but Amen

[JackHb]

Habbox should tell Habbo to go and **** themselves.

Sulake are the most theifing *******s around, how do they expect sites to run without VIP. And why all of a sudden have they decided after years and years of VIP that they want it to stop now? Some stupid fat **** working for them obviously gotten a bit too greedy.

I would tell them to stick there official status where the sun don't shine, if they are gonna be *******s to every fan site, then be *******s back - It don't take a lot to wind sulake up.

Like JRH2002 said, he has some bad stuff on Habbo over 7 years of being on there, and I know of a few more old Habbo's who could put stuff together which I am sure sulake would be in the **** for. They have not been the best with the data protection act over the years.

[AlexOC]

silly rule

i dont mind paying for vip

[Yonder]

Somebody write a proffessionally address letter for us to copy and email them, i know it isnt individually wrote by us but if enough send it in they have to listen because it means we all want what the email suggests. If enough people complain, potential thousands. They would listen as they would be scared of Habbo failing.

[Lilian]

They aren't just saying remove the images if you don't remove it, but they are also claiming they can force you to have a domain change due to your domain containing "Habbo".

What I love is, is the fact they say at the end "we want to work with fansites" yet they threaten you throughout the whole email with legal action.

[SkaterChu]

I've been against this rule from the start, which is why I still had my VIP service on sale up until i recived this email. I'm afraid no matter what work around you think of, if you are are reciving money and users are reciving something in return, Habbo will take legal action against you.

Below is a quote from the email I recived:

This rule is not a condition for being an official fansite, but a condition for all sites who wish to use the name 'Habbo' or 'Habbo Hotel' in domain names or make use of any graphics, code or written content created by Sulake. Failure to abide by that rule can result in Sulake withdrawing permission for that site to use those items which in non-legal terms means you would then have to change your domain name and take down all Habbo graphics, any homepage articles you'd copied and dispose of any code created by Sulake you may be using. This includes not linking to any site that does not follow the fansite way, whether this is a scam site or premium VIP site or porn site. If you do you are breaking the Fansite way and we will take action in the usual manner (although not run a cease and desist/ removal immediately), but the site charging a premium will be removed immediately.

It also applies to unofficial fansites, i've tried the whole "my forum isn't official" scenario with them, and they're having none of it.

[jrh2002]

habbo fansite owners should get discount offers etc for the great things they do in helping promote habbo. :@ i was having a bit of time off hxf but when i heard about this i had to log in because it has got me really angry.

Sites need to make a huge fuss and stick together maybe hold special protest events if an alternative to habbo site was used to hold events that day so alot less users went on dont buy credits protests etc
I am sure there are people on here with many ideas of how to annoy sulake and lose them money.

Maybe its worth considering servers run from the backstreets of some lawless dump of a country where habbo's only chance of getting anything removed is if they can get the isp's in the uk etc to ban habbox.com (i am sure gordon brown would sanction terrorist laws for sulake for a small donation)

Maybe habbox can post up a template petition letter and the list of habbos and sulakes staff emails and we can bombard them with them until they at least give a full explanation before things get taken further.

[jrh2002]

I've been against this rule from the start, which is why I still had my VIP service on sale up until i recived this email. I'm afraid no matter what work around you think of, if you are are reciving money and users are reciving something in return, Habbo will take legal action against you.

Below is a quote from the email I recived:



It also applies to unofficial fansites, i've tried the whole "my forum isn't official" scenario with them, and they're having none of it.

Just ignore them this is what could unite most fansites after all the petty squabbles between members over the years. All get together and fight and a dirty tricks campaign to try and ruin habbos reputation if it gets that far.

[Yonder]

I wish to start an uprising against this pm me, i suggest we do something big i have a few ideas.