Habbox is sponsored by...

[Hecktix]

no offense or anything, but if the website was run properly... maybe staff wouldn't need to dip into their pockets. for some reason every manager has vip.... take that away and make them buy it if they want to have a different colour name.... they signed up for the job, not to receive vip. so what if its a reward for service. I could list loads more other things lol thats just one

but the thing up the top doesn't really bother me
http://ragezone.com/ use to be sponsored by a site every now and thats real popular

If Managers had to buy donator (which some actually do) then that'd be an extra £10(ish idk how many managers there are) to the monthly fund, which is peanuts in comparison to what kazopark pay us.

[FlyingJesus]

In my (expert) opinion, having a sponsor while other sites merely have Google ads like commoners makes us look like something worth investing in, rather than sellouts who've been "defaced".

[hah]

its still £10 less the owners dont have to rake from their own money :rolleyes:
an since you think its peanuts im sure you wouldn't mind giving it monthly to habbox when kazo end their sponsorship :rolleyes:

[Hecktix]

its still £10 less the owners dont have to rake from their own money :rolleyes:
an since you think its peanuts im sure you wouldn't mind giving it monthly to habbox when kazo end their sponsorship :rolleyes:

I already donate quite a bit to Habbox each month

[xxMATTGxx]

Regarding Managers. I know quite a lot of them buy donator for other users, so it isn't all that bad you may think it is.

[FlyingJesus]

Oh yeah how long is this sponsorship for I don't recall that having been said yet my bad if it has

[Black_Apalachi]

I don't understand why people are opposing this:

+ It's helping keep Habbox open
+ From what I gather for the first time in a long time sales from donor will actually be small profit (that can be spent on costs throughout the year)
+ It replaces the ads we had anyway - some of the ads caused issues anyway, won't be any with this.
+ Two fingers up at Habbo after the way they have treated their fansites.
+ Letting us try something new which we wouldn't have been aware of otherwise
+ It's helping someone who has aspirations for their game to succeed
+ It's only one forum, not going to kill us
+ Who cares if it says sponsored by Kazopark - how is this in any way detrimental? Admittedly, it isn't beneficial but at the same time it doesn't cause any negative effects.

Summed it up pretty well. I don't get the tacky argument either - surely having a sponsor who feel Habbox is worth investing in is far superior to being Google's ***** like all the other fansites?

Anyway is it even any of our business? I mean Habbox's management will only do what is best for Habbox so let them get on with it and you never know, it just might have positive effects in the future.

[Blinger$]

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.

... its his site, of course he should still pay money.

[Tintinnabulate]

Why the hell are people still flaming the fact that Habbox is being sponsored? If you bloody hate the title so much, use a different skin such as Non-Habbo Light for a while where the title hasn't been altered. People on this forum seem to moan way too much about any change.

Lets get this straight: Habbox as a whole needs a lot of money per month to run.

Kazopark are providing that money, thus helping Habbox. If I go on a forum and see that it says "BlahBlah is sponsored by..." I wouldn't give a crap as I know its just advertisement. What I care about on any forum is the content and quality of posts. If someone is truly bothered by the fact it says "Sponsored by Kazopark" in the title, then they have some serious issues.

Its not going to put off new users.

Habbox users should feel lucky that Jin even pays out of his own pocket when even he now rarely uses it. Yes he owns it, but for him and sierk, if they only care about money, they would have sold it a long time ago instead of constantly putting their own money onto something which they now rarely use.
Many people would close a site down if it was making a loss. I know I would. I let RapidLinks make a loss for the first few months when I started it, then it made me thousands of pounds per month so I continued it. I know if it had continued to make a loss, I wouldn't have kept it open. It had pop unders, yet the hits increased - shows majority of the people dont care about the ads, but about the content.

A lot of money for:
* Just a change in title for the main skin
* A banner
* A new forum

Why not?

And how the hell is this sponsor deal rude :S Wth...

[GommeInc]

And how the hell is this sponsor deal rude :S Wth...

Sponsors do not usually, if at all, request the sponsored website to change the name of the website, unless they are literally owning the website or have sponsored a lot of money. Last I looked it wasn't a lot, and it still makes no sense for Kazopark, but if they want to waste their money advertising a rival company then fair play Kick in the teeth for Habbo and Kazopark