'Habbo Hopes For New Life As A Gaming Platform'

[auffant1]

Wow............

Well this is the end of Habbo, bringing random games into the the Hotel. Imo maybe if they listened to what we want they could bring back some of their users, but in reality they don't listen and probably never will.....hopeless.

[Abdicators]

Docs and API are no good to anyone without an account in the development center, so that you can create a game and have your api keys.

Additionally, that article is full of blown up garbage. The scandal was never anything to do with peadophiles, it was to do with poor moderation of a teen service. No peadophile was ever caught or charged over the period of the scandal.

[Explorator]

Welcome to habbo hotel, We will supply you with all of your unnecessary things, but when it comes to listening we suck!

[:Act]

Terribly frustrating! Habbo always was a social networking site. It was less about the games and more about the interaction, the friends, the community. So what do Habbo do in their hour of need? Turn it into a games site. Perfect logic.... idiots. Why would people go on Habbo to play their simple games (Speedway) when you have a plethora of sites dedicated to good games, with new ones being added daily! Habbo is NOT a gaming site, it is a social networking site!

Just when I thought staff were getting the right idea with recent updates, you suddenly see they go the complete other way with it.

Let's make this very clear to staff.. You want to save Habbo from the brink? Get rid of Facebook integration, get rid of news via Twitter, bring back the articles page, bring back the visible staff and moderator presence. Make it feel like we are a part of something. I go on Habbo and I feel completely alone! Half my friends are sat in boosting rooms AFK, the (very few) games around that you can play are all Wired so there is no host, and the players barely talk to each other. In effect, bring back the community! Isolating Habbos even further through non-communicative games is NOT going to help you! Look at Habbo circa 2005-2009 - Those years were amazing for community! That is the point of a social networking site: to create a mini society, another community, another social world!

Get it together Habbo! Seriously.. do it now. Before it's too late. Speak to your users and listen. We are your customers and take heed. We aren't as daft as you may think we are..

[Red]

Docs and API are no good to anyone without an account in the development center, so that you can create a game and have your api keys.

Additionally, that article is full of blown up garbage. The scandal was never anything to do with peadophiles, it was to do with poor moderation of a teen service. No peadophile was ever caught or charged over the period of the scandal.

Well I have heard before they they are extending 3rd party games and yes from the c4 news report, I distinctively remember the term 'paedophile haven' being thrown around.

[Abdicators]

Well I have heard before they they are extending 3rd party games and yes from the c4 news report, I distinctively remember the term 'paedophile haven' being thrown around.

As far I remember, the original report said nothing about paedophiles, infact I'm very sure of it

http://www.channel4.com/news/striptease-and-cyber-sex-my-stay-at-habbo-hotel

It was blown to by journalists and other media.

[xxMATTGxx]

As far I remember, the original report said nothing about paedophiles, infact I'm very sure of it

http://www.channel4.com/news/stripte...at-habbo-hotel

It was blown to by journalists and other media.

The term "paedophiles" was used by the media. It may not be the case of Habbo and yes no one was caught but the term was actually used.

[HOSKO02]

Let's make this very clear to staff.. You want to save Habbo from the brink? Get rid of Facebook integration, get rid of news via Twitter, bring back the articles page, bring back the visible staff and moderator presence. Make it feel like we are a part of something. I go on Habbo and I feel completely alone! Half my friends are sat in boosting rooms AFK, the (very few) games around that you can play are all Wired so there is no host, and the players barely talk to each other. In effect, bring back the community! Isolating Habbos even further through non-communicative games is NOT going to help you! Look at Habbo circa 2005-2009 - Those years were amazing for community! That is the point of a social networking site: to create a mini society, another community, another social world!

Agree with all these points made, would add that smaller hotel fosters better community. Post-merge and post-BETA, mad account deletion and the creation of a flagship website did nothing for the community. Going on a 2am GMT used to be where you'd find the most interesting of nightcrawlers in their scripted rooms with plenty to say about real topics, the ebb and flow of peak times etc added life to the hotel, now it's just all the New World players on in peak time.

The account deletion and removal of public rooms was a big guillotine to the very heart of the hotel, one of the sites strengths over sites like Facebook, Twitter, IMVU, Second Life etc was its history. The public rooms were the greatest familiarity to returning members, and it was already repping 5+ years before YouTube showed up. The website survived when titans like Sims Online and Coke Studios fell, paralleled by other popular sites of similar age (Runescape, Neopets). The rooms created in the early years held social memes, trends in pop culture, showed the stretches of design Habbos could apply to the then limited furni range, it was the historical iceberg beneath the surface, the maze of creation and past communities held in time, all gone. And all the photos? Well instead of pursuing the scripted ones, a small portion of what were the thousands of others, each one an in-game capture of life on the hotel, they wiped them all, again, ignoring users.

/rant. The point is here, for those outside of the hotel, it's a silly game they can't understand an affection for, but for those that got lost in it a few nights a week, built entire friendship bases, knew all there was to know and did their best to be involved and create, they were the lifeblood, loyal users retained community relations - not swathes of T driven newcomers, but it is this audience that has had all the attention and direction of the hotel since then and will, inevitably, continue to have as long as it is profitable.

[Red]

As far I remember, the original report said nothing about paedophiles, infact I'm very sure of it

http://www.channel4.com/news/stripte...at-habbo-hotel

It was blown to by journalists and other media.

Pretty sure they used that term and during the report talked about men who had been arrested for it?

[xxMATTGxx]

Pretty sure they used that term and during the report talked about men who had been arrested for it?

As far I remember, the original report said nothing about paedophiles, infact I'm very sure of it

http://www.channel4.com/news/stripte...at-habbo-hotel

It was blown to by journalists and other media.

Oh snap...



Also if you watch the video of the news report on that Channel 4 link you posted the man mentions the word in the first 16 seconds.