What a joke.

[Mr.L.Darragh]

That's the issue though, people with popular rooms enter with minimal requirements knowing they will win Top 10, Top 100, solely because of their rooms popularity. That's what people are annoyed about. I think people should be mad about the way the two room competitions were handled. Paul was made aware of the voting issue right after results were posted, as is shown by all of the tweets in which he responded about stopping the comps, yet no changes were made to the actual process. Instead, he was parading around for "chat relaunch" parties with his supposedly amazing bacon hair.

Yeah, I totally agree. Although, he is the CEO of a multi-national company, and therefore has a lot on his hands. Don't forget that there is other hotels to go around too. Nevertheless, he should be paying more at attention to people practically scamming badges, additionally with bans and unmuting a very large hotel. I think stopping the competitions would be better, instead of yes, parading around in 'his' Hotels become clubs, which he was trying to stop. He is becoming as bad as the people he is was trying to ban in the first place. Also, instead of getting happy when someone sticks some bacon hair on his head using paint, maybe he should be paying more attention to others on Twitter.

The daily visits to Habbo have dropped dramatically, as shown by wolfram alpha, and something needs to be done.

[karter]

Brilliant. Discarding a system because it's from 2001 apparently? Ok let's wave goodbye to moderators. We dont need them cause they're from 2001!!!! and lets just discard any form of staff event, thats from 2001 as well omg omg. The man is an idiot at times, saying that because a system is from 2001 it is flawed. It was never broke so there was no need to "fix" it. The only minor issue with staff judging competitions was that... I believe it was you karter pointed out that in 2 competitions, they had copied and pasted the first bunch of winners into the second bunch and then added 50 more.

I highly doubt he was on Habbo in 2001 so he really shouldn't comment like that.

yep it was me who pointed that out

and yeah! thats what i said to him, he said that the old competitions system was suitable for 2006-2008 and we have to change it now. after a month of pleading and telling him that old doesnt necessarily mean its bad and outdated, he blocked me, tagged me a griever and negative. and he did this with almost everyone who was not happy with the new unnecessary changes. the most annoying thing about him is that he expects only good response for new stuff, if he doesnt get good response, he just ignores everyone.

[Lewis]

Absolutely agree!

WOW, LMAO. Someone needs to get a grip. I got a minus rep saying 'you must be brain dead if you agree with that'

[FlyingJesus]

The daily visits to Habbo have dropped dramatically, as shown by wolfram alpha, and something needs to be done.

Isn't that because of the whole mute thing where god knows how many people just wouldn't bother to log on because there wasn't any point? Looks like traffic was actually on the rise before that exploded

[karter]

ahahahaha! did he really say that?? i'm sure his statistics team must be pretty challenged if they take on board suggestions like "u shud giv users 100c a month"

talking about statistics, i'd love to see the data on how fast this campaign furni is selling for, as much as i hate room building competitions, i can't see the stuff selling as fast without an incentive of badges. sure if they were in game or video competitions they waste staff's time, but i know loads of people who wouldn't have even touched the new range if there wasn't a competition.

would you have bought so much of this range if there wasn't a comp kirst?

yes he said it in response to this :



(my idea in the uservoice which wanted twitter news out and habbo articles back was 2nd most popular at that time. now it nearly has 4k votes.)

his reply :

[Abdicators]

Isn't that because of the whole mute thing where god knows how many people just wouldn't bother to log on because there wasn't any point? Looks like traffic was actually on the rise before that exploded

It's going back up, very slowly.

[MKR&*42]

yes he said it in response to this :



(my idea in the uservoice which wanted twitter news out and habbo articles back was 2nd most popular at that time. now it nearly has 4k votes.)

his reply :

Lol oh my goodness, that's pathetic. I'm pretty sure more users would like 10 free thrones than articles, but that doesn't mean you should necessarily follow that trend. They are getting incredibly lazy in regards to news articles/the news reel now. At the start they had all this;



Then they evolved into just not bothering with text:



And now they don't even bother using it to report about any major stuff at all. Like with this "Ancients" campaign they've made the hotel view and bloody Twitter the only source of promoting it, they haven't even bothered with the news reel. I fail to see how this....



Still needs to be there. It could easily be replaced with something else, preferably something with text. Because a new user is not going to have a clue what "fast food" is with just an image and a button... at least give them a brief explanation so they would be inclined to click the button.

Oh sorry for not quoting you earlier, probably got distracted with VM haha. The man is also a complete hypocrite, he is so utterly against anything remotely old (before BETA) yet he allowed Snow Storm to be brought back... he also brought back giving out free VIP/"HC" (was given out free in some comps) even though it's useless because it doesn't become a unique service if everyone has it for a week. I don't get his logic, introduces old features then complains they are completely pointless and out-dated.

There is no harm in being favour of an old system. Don't get me wrong, although before BETA looked brilliant I think some of the features we have on Habbo now which weren't in V29 or before are quite good haha (e.g. ability to sit, YES IK THAT WAS INTRODUCED UNDER PAUL BEFORE SOMEONE SAYS THAT), but it doesn't mean old systems are useless.

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It's going back up, very slowly.

That's a bit of relief for Sulake I suppose haha

[Abdicators]

He's never complained that old features were useless. He's said that how some of the things were managed (using Excel Spreadsheets) are not acceptable in this time.

[MKR&*42]

He's never complained that old features were useless. He's said that how some of the things were managed (using Excel Spreadsheets) are not acceptable in this time.

Well he seems to have a strong tendancy to dislike them and omg how do you spell tendancy ;l. Sure it was in this thread where he was CLEARLY in detest at a system dating back to "2001". If he doesn't like the organisation of them, edit it lol. Don't completely scrap a system purely because one feature of it needs to be improved.

Forgot what else I was going to say. Hmm.

[Abdicators]

Well he seems to have a strong tendancy to dislike them and omg how do you spell tendancy ;l. Sure it was in this thread where he was CLEARLY in detest at a system dating back to "2001". If he doesn't like the organisation of them, edit it lol. Don't completely scrap a system purely because one feature of it needs to be improved.

Forgot what else I was going to say. Hmm.

Yeah, he said he didn't like how some of the systems were manually organised in 2001. Nothing to do with functions within the hotel. You can't really argue with trying to find a better way to handle competitions for 300,000,000 users than having a staff manually document all their entries and points user an Excel Spreadsheet.