Sulake To Begin Talks To Reduce Workforce By Up To 2/3

[GommeInc]

Some of Sulakes decisions over the past few months have cost Sulake alot, some of the decisions have been incredibly drastic. How would you have handled Channel 4s report? Would you have let the behaviour continue? Would you have muted the hotel? Or would you have just hired more moderators and hoped for the best?

How would you deal with two investors pulling out? How would you quickly find the money in order to ensure your company stayed alive? Or would you just throw in the towel?

Actually pay attention to your business rather than let it fall into disrepute like an idiot would?

As for the rest, there seems to be a lot of brown nosing going on as I'm slightly concerned you do not know how businesses work. Habbo was a company growing economically not so long ago, then they let greed get in the way of customer satisfaction. Removing features was something no-one wanted to happen in the first place. You completely ignore this, assuming re-adding removed features will actually solve something. If they want real advice, don't remove popular features for no reason what so ever.

I would say R.I.P. Habbo, but it doesn't deserve it. It's like a person who drinks 1 litre of vodka every hour and gets through 100 McDonalds burgers a day. The risks are obvious, yet it will carry on destroying itself from the inside out.

[Abdicators]

I don't think some of are going to agree on our feelings towards Sulake, so i'll just ask constructive questions.

If there was to be a staff member or members, in a hotel that you could instruct and give tasks. What would they do? Host competitions? Disqualify rooms unfit for the current room competitions? Simply hang out in player rooms? What would you want those staff members to do.

[Odette]

Oh dear... I really have no sympathy for sulake/habbo in its current state. I haven't played habbo for a while now, mainly because the "community" started to diminish at an alarming rate, making it unrecognisable to me. I don't have a comment in regards to new features, but the removal of certain key features that made habbo enjoyable really baffles me. I don't like what I've seen from Paul, and as a CEO he has proved himself to be nothing more than a liability. His "grand idea" of incorporating habbo into the twitter age proves to be failing - it wasn't needed. From what I gather, Habbo was thriving in 2007/08, which is the time I remember it to be at its best. It seems, instead of enduring the company's slow (yet steady) progression, sulake management decided to take an unnecessary risk and led habbo onto a completely different path. Furthermore, as damaging as the C4 News report was, it did outline serious problems within habbo and unfortunately it was handled appallingly - I seem to remember Paul's ridiculous outbursts on twitter.

Anyway, I feel sorry for the founders, Sampo and Aapo, as I'm sure they're hugely disappointed with how everything has turned out. I just hope that they have plenty of savings tucked away for when habbo goes under.

[Shorty]

If only we could blame the private servers ('retros'), Sulake has slowly been killing itself by adding pointless features or adding features which require you to spend money which prove not to be popular. The fact is, most people live off credits these days which they get via trading up furniture or being gifted from friends. I haven't spent a penny on Habbo since at least 2008.

I won't even start a rant about how fantastic the creativity has been lately with events, furniture and badges. *sigh*