Habbox International

[October]

How come it isn't an international fansite anymore?

[Alkaz]

At every attempt over the years, it basically failed on Habbox. Not sure why because alot of other sites manage it very well.

[October]

I remember Habbox.us and Habbo.ca and even HabboxWorld. I think it failed because it was divided. Habbox is still the most popular English-speaking fansite, I don't see why they don't make it international.

[jackass]

I was a Moderator on HabboxWorld! :8

[Immenseman]

Aha, I was Assistant Forum Manager on one of them and then International Manager when they both closed. It just wasn't working, even when we tried to have an international department on Habbox, it just wasn't practical. However, I have no doubt if Habbox wanted to become official on other hotels it could. It could tell their users to vote them official on .com or .com.au or whatever and it'd probably become official. Quite a good idea actually because it'd bring an influx of new users who would wonder what it was like and realise it's one of the biggest forums for any hotel.

[Hecktix]

Aha, I was Assistant Forum Manager on one of them and then International Manager when they both closed. It just wasn't working, even when we tried to have an international department on Habbox, it just wasn't practical. However, I have no doubt if Habbox wanted to become official on other hotels it could. It could tell their users to vote them official on .com or .com.au or whatever and it'd probably become official. Quite a good idea actually because it'd bring an influx of new users who would wonder what it was like and realise it's one of the biggest forums for any hotel.

I compeltely agree with you here Jake, getting ourselves official on other hotels would be beneficial for the forum.

But then we'd need to do events etc on those sites, which could be a pain.

I remember HxHD USA, that was quite popular at one point.

[Immenseman]

I don't think we'd really have to do much. Get our current users to vote. High chance of becoming official, do one give away a month. The forum is already well placed for it we have international news and trading on others hotels etc. Rather than hx.com being official, should try and get hxf.com because hx doesn't offer foreign users anything but hxf does because nationality isn't an issue, we already have people from a variety of different countries. Forum and General Management should think about it.

[,Jess,]

I think it would be great for Habbox to go international and was planning to at least get the international (probably USA) side of HabboxLive much stronger by hiring a few more DJs who use other hotels and hopefully get them doing events on say the .com hotel in order to pull up the radio's international side. We're getting a lot more interest from people who use other hotels which is great. I have been told not to focus on the international side though because hx needs to focus on the uk side of things but personally I don't see why both could happen.

I think it failed in the past because the whole international thing was completely seperate to the rest of Habbox but if like all the depts worked together on it I think Hx could easily start getting a lot of Habbo users from other hotels and that would gradually build up.

[Martin]

The News department is up for this. We continue to provide as many International articles as we can, and we aim to provide a good output of international articles. Yes, they don't get as many "hits" as UK articles, but even hidden away they do still get views. We are currently getting more reporters on board and would be happy to expand Internationally if we are asked to do so. I completely agree with Jess. If departments work together to offer a decent output of content, and suitable advertising is put in place- this could work in a positive way. We must ensure it does not distract from our UK offerings though.

[Yonder]

We need more international members that is what i think has failed us in the passed, when i started up habbox.us i played .co.uk hotel i did begin to play .com. But we need to hire international staff members so that the international users come to the site.

We have a very big team as it is for dedication to one hotel i think all english speaking hotels we would have one hell of a team maybe even too much to manage.

If it was to be given another attempt the best way would be just to make habbox.com international rather than create multiple websites.