Habbox is sponsored by...

[Dinosaurawrr]

I personally don't see what the big deal is. there is no rules in the fansite way that says you cannot do this.
and as for those saying Jin dont care... then more fool you because in all fairness he puts a hell of alot into habbox including money he gets nothing in return.. he gets no money in return. and he would not take anything even if he was allowed to. out of everyone here he has habbox at heart.
if he didnt think this was a good decision he wouldent of done it as to why im 100% sure its a good decision.

[Nixt]

Posting just so I can see above post. Server error.

[GommeInc]

I have now clarified what I am allowed to say . Having used the alpha client I will admit it is far from completion and there are still a lot of bugs that need addressing. What I am saying is, that in it's simplest form, Kazopark is looking good and appears to be on track to look even better .

You would say that though, if you didn't you'd be fired

[immense]

You would say that though, if you didn't you'd be fired

Pretty sure he wouldn't.

[Hecktix]

You would say that though, if you didn't you'd be fired

Hmmm.. they may be paying Habbox but they aren't paying us enough to be their puppets, or promotional staff

I have tried out the Kazopark alpha too and from what I have seen it is a project that is making tremendous progress - of course with any new release of something there will be various setbacks, I mean just look how long it took vBulletin to release this version of vB4 we were awaiting for so long, I have a lot of faith in the project and I think it'll grow into something quite big - although as Garion said that's not really the priority of Habbox - Habbox's priority is to keep running and to keep running we need to pay a lot of money, as Saurav highlighted our monthly running costs are a lot and this money needs to come from somewhere and Kazopark are offering us this for simply showing a few ads and putting "Sponsored by Kazopark". Whether they fail or are a huge success - whilst their ads are on our sites they are paying Habbox money and whilst they are paying Habbox money I don't think anybody should be moaning - as they are helping us to stay open.

[MrPinkPanther]

Habbo prevented fansites from generating revenue from VIP. They need to stay up somehow, advertising is the only logicial solution. If Habbo don't like it then it is their own fault. Why should the Administrators of this forum have to lose hundreds of pounds on it every month just to keep it running? Habbo forced them to take advertisers like this, blame Habbo, not Habbox.

[GommeInc]

Seems a bit rude to change the title of the forum when a small mention in the GoogleAd section would be fine :/

Also, £300 - £225 = £75. Where's the donator? Surely the owners should dip in with personal costs, which other fansites no doubt do?

Meh, if Habbo don't like it then tough, their fault Maybe it'll make them reconsider their premium services? Even though that rule appears to not exist anymore

[Nixt]

Donator does not bring in that much per month. Certainly not £75. The owners do dip into their own pockets, not only for monthly costs but when a new feature is implemented or we upgrade servers etc. The Kazo sponsorship will cover general running costs but there are plenty of other costs that occur sporadically across the year that comes out of the pockets of Jin and sierk. I see no reason why we should not be trying to increase revenue by other methods, yes, they are the owners but nevertheless that doesn't mean they should have to pour loads of money into something that isn't at all profitable. If they can find a way of increasing revenue, why the hell shouldn't they do it?

[flatface]

Nice to see that Catzsy and Nixt are moderators on this Kazopark

Anyway if it's doing good for Habbox then I don't really care

[Hecktix]

Seems a bit rude to change the title of the forum when a small mention in the GoogleAd section would be fine :/

Also, £300 - £225 = £75. Where's the donator? Surely the owners should dip in with personal costs, which other fansites no doubt do?

Meh, if Habbo don't like it then tough, their fault Maybe it'll make them reconsider their premium services? Even though that rule appears to not exist anymore

Habbox's running costs are a lot more than most fansites though due to our sheer size and how much data we hold - it's a lot for Jin and sierk to do. I mean sierk still puts money into Habbox and he doesn't use it - so we do have some pretty good owners.

However, if you are running a "company" (where money goes in and out) then if that "company" (I use the term loosely) then you will be expected to float that company yourself, however if someone comes along and offers to sponsor you and pay X amount of money - you'd be a fool to say no.