Habbox is sponsored by...

[Nixt]

I haven't really dodged it. Advertisements have been on the forum and Habbox.com for a while and they will remain there, simply because this is an important source of revenue for Habbox. Kazopark are sponsoring Habbox in order to advertise their new 'virtual game', the same way the Google ads you used to see were trying to advertise their services, which were occasionally similar services for example IMVU or Gaia Online.

When a company attempts to advertise their service they do so by attempting to appeal to their target audience and thus Habbox and the forum is a perfect way for Kazopark to advertise their service. We are not part of Sulake and therefore Richie's analogy of "Facebook advertising Myspace" is, in fact, incorrect - that would be the case if Kazopark was advertised on the Habbo homepage but not the case with a fansite.

We are not in violation of the fansite way and have done nothing wrong. If you want to see Habbox remain open then you will have to accept the fact we need revenue and this was one way of getting it . Nevertheless if Sulake do have a problem, they do now how to contact us.

[Recursion]

I've seen this advert like 10 times in the past 10 minutes, not once have I wanted to view their website.

Do donators have to see this rubbish?

[myke]

We're just pointing out a different way of seeing it

[Nixt]

I've seen this advert like 10 times in the past 10 minutes, not once have I wanted to view their website.

Do donators have to see this rubbish?

The advert is fixed and does not change, to my knowledge.

We're just pointing out a different way of seeing it

Which is fair enough, but we are still a Habbo fansite forum and that will always be the case !

[ihatehash]

Habbox are starting to take sulakes footsteps by just wanting money money money.

What a dumb comment.
if the habbox owners were just wanting money don't you think they would be better off having a different sort of site that could actually make profit. from what i hear and see habbox is a very expensive site to run with the servers/shoutcast/licencing fees etc. i say good on them with finding a good way to earn a little bit of cash to improve the site.

[Jahova]

Been interested in the development of Kazopark for sometime, can't wait for the beta

[Moh]

Once Sulake staff find out, they will be requesting it to be removed. We tried to make money from sponsorship but because it wasn't a Sulake approved website they asked us to remove it or else they would revoke our official status.

Hopefully when they fire a load of staff after the merge, they wont care.

[Inseriousity.]

Personally, not having 'official fansite' status wouldn't bother me but I'm sure a newbie would look more favourably towards the official fansites.

As for Kazopark itself, when I first heard about it, I thought 'what's the point' and even asked Matt (I got a rude answer hehe) but I think it's just a finanical thing tbh, so I'm fine with it.

[Tintinnabulate]

Its really the same as Kazopark using the Google ads. Only difference is they get their own forum.

[hah]

sold your souls to kazopark lol
but i suppose jin doesnt really care about habbox... its more about the money he can get from it :L