Habbox is sponsored by...

[W00TZEH]

Hi, just so you know. Kids of today aren't interested in crappy little chat rooms, they're more interested in xbox live and PSN. Advertising on a forum with 200-400users, most of which no longer play Habbo, these will just try the game for a day and never go back to it. The only way to get users is to advertise on TV or in Magazine or even on Facebook. Seems like a waste of money and the project will fail because you're advertising in the wrong places.

[GommeInc]

They're already on Facebook Ideally, they should of gone to social websites with a wide audience and maybe paid agencies to advertise. I'm not entirely sure who got in contact with who either, it would be odd of Habbox to do it and Kazopark getting in a contact with a fansite of a rival MMORPG is so bizarre, but then again Habbox has always taken a unique way of looking at things :

It does seem like negotiation went out the window with common sense when this deal with Kazopark went through though, it'll be interesting to see if another ClubTropica comes out of this, but with an actual product that was close to, or is, completed.

[W00TZEH]

I wouldn't be surprised if part of their staff were from ClubTropica. and when you say they're on facebook do you mean ads on the right of the page? or a fan page?

[Eckuii]

Who is it that decides that changing the forum name is over stepping any mark? At the end of the day I don't come on HabboxForum and spend my day looking at the top of this webpage to see that "Habbox is sponsored by" whoever.

I see Habbox as a business. to run any business successfully, you need low costs which leads to high revenue. The cost to run this fansite is over £3000 a year, which sierk once discussed in confidence some years back. When sierk took over the running of this site, he put money in to the site as any business person does when they start up a new business. After a while, the business makes money and then operates at a profit, which at one point Habbox certainly did. This is evident as sierk used to pay the main managers for working for this fansite. Although this was only a small amount it was clear that Habbox was making a profit. VIP helped immensely towards this. When Habbo made the decision to get rid of VIP status's on fansites, it must have being expected that fansites would have to make their money elsewhere. I don't see any problem with Habbox going elsewhere, even to a rival site, to get money for the running of this site. Why should it come out of people's pockets at the expense of Habbo's decision which had no effect on them at all? If Habbo wants to shoot themselves in the foot, then let them crack on. They make enough money anyway judging by their statement about quarterly figures.

This new "rival" to habbo is just getting of the ground. Habbo, I am sure has had many websites try, and fail to compete with them. Im sure at this moment they are unconcerned about the prospect of where this site could go as it is only in the small stages. Something like this isn't a huge competition to Habbo, as of yet. Users of this forum will undoubtably be interesting in this new website, I already want to give it a visit from all this speculation. Its therefore profitable for Krazopark to advertise their business on a fansite which has the ideal target audience. Alternatively, if Krazopark become big, it will obviously still have to improve to be better than Habbo. If this site is still advertising Krazopark, members from their may decide to use Habbo.

This could be a step in a different direction for Habbox, like many people have said, Habbo has never done anything for Habbox. If Krazopark does become big, it may remember where it got help from to begin with and repay Habbox in a positive way, perhaps seeing Habbox changing to Krazox and leaving the Habbo community. Who actually knows what will happen? The thing I like is that Habbo has ultimately forced Habbox's hand in to making this decision and it could come round to them losing members from Habbo to another fansite. Habbo should remember what made Habbo UK good for its members, and that was a fansite.

[hah]

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...

oh how ironic

[xxMATTGxx]

Why Habbox:

They did research before even approaching any of the habbo fansites and seeing what comes up poplar when you google “Habbo”. After they found Habbox, they monitored it and checked the forum/site and see if it was the right thing for them and most importantly appropriate for their advertising/sponsorship scheme. They want to attract attention and possible members when they are ready for them, which a Habbo fansite is a perfect example. Either way it's good for both parties and everyone should realise that.

You may not like the title that says it is sponsored by Kazopark, but you will get used to it. It isn't the end of the world.

[Tintinnabulate]

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

All it is, is kazopark paying Habbox a amount to get a banner, title changed on main skin and forum. Sponsor is just a word they are using.

To sponsor something is to support an event, activity, person, or organization financially or through the provision of products or services. A sponsor is the individual or group that provides the support, similar to a benefactor.

Hi, just so you know. Kids of today aren't interested in crappy little chat rooms, they're more interested in xbox live and PSN. Advertising on a forum with 200-400users, most of which no longer play Habbo, these will just try the game for a day and never go back to it. The only way to get users is to advertise on TV or in Magazine or even on Facebook. Seems like a waste of money and the project will fail because you're advertising in the wrong places.

Actually majority of the forum users do still play Habbo. This is backed up by a poll done by HabboxForum a while ago.

[Martin]

I think it looks a lot better than the google adds, and as others have said, it's more professional in a way, having an official sponsor, and not a load of random adds invading the page anymore. These guys are creating a brand new game, which is quite unique and already seems quite popular with beta signups. This can only be a good thing for our site/forum, as they should drive traffic into each other I think. I think we should be happy they chose us for this sponsorship, and I really don't think it's a huge issue at all replacing the google adds banner with the kazopark one. It's something which will be interesting to follow, and It's also a great financial boost to Habbox.

[Tintinnabulate]

They're already on Facebook Ideally, they should of gone to social websites with a wide audience and maybe paid agencies to advertise. I'm not entirely sure who got in contact with who either, it would be odd of Habbox to do it and Kazopark getting in a contact with a fansite of a rival MMORPG is so bizarre, but then again Habbox has always taken a unique way of looking at things :

It does seem like negotiation went out the window with common sense when this deal with Kazopark went through though, it'll be interesting to see if another ClubTropica comes out of this, but with an actual product that was close to, or is, completed.

HabboxForum's members are kazopark is aimed at - so for them it was a good place to advertise - people who are interested (or were) in these types of games.

[hah]

All it is, is kazopark paying Habbox a amount to get a banner, title changed on main skin and forum. Sponsor is just a word they are using.

To sponsor something is to support an event, activity, person, or organization financially or through the provision of products or services. A sponsor is the individual or group that provides the support, similar to a benefactor.




Actually majority of the forum users do still play Habbo. This is backed up by a poll done by HabboxForum a while ago.

a while ago isnt when mad was gm lol