'Habbo Hopes For New Life As A Gaming Platform'

[Red]

Btw thought I would post this here.

Habbo Hotel's parent company Sulake is a master in reaching a teenage audience, and 10 million unique users currently visit the service each month. Sulake recently opened the online platform to 3rd party developers. CEO Paul LaFontaine talks about the critical lessons learned from moving the teen audience across different platforms and working with 3rd party developers.

Delivered at Casual Connect Seattle, July 2012.

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I think it will be the best interest for the games developers to make a game that we actually like, as they get money if we buy the perks for it.

They just seem so un habboey if that makes sense and that pix game or whatever it is called was just so poorly finished. It crashed my client ever single time I went on it.

[Michael]

Btw thought I would post this here.





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They just seem so un habboey if that makes sense and that pix game or whatever it is called was just so poorly finished. It crashed my client ever single time I went on it.

Ah yeah they do, I think sulake made that game though.

[Red]

Ah yeah they do, I think sulake made that game though.

oh gawney. It was baddd. A lot of people enjoy omgpop's draw my thing or isketch. They could of did so much more with that game and allowed you to choose friends to add and create a match. A choice of random dictionary words or habbo items to draw.

[GommeInc]

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Ah, the irony in that video... "Reaching today's teens..." Habbo has always been a master at that, they let adults reach under-aged teenagers for quite some time and did sweet sod all about it

Sulake killed Habbo after Version 6, or that's when I remember leaving.

[Michael]

Btw thought I would post this here.





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They just seem so un habboey if that makes sense and that pix game or whatever it is called was just so poorly finished. It crashed my client ever single time I went on it.

That video was interesting, haven't seen it before. He explained quite well!

[johnblack45]

Well done website I think, can not wait until they allow the rest of the world to develop games!

[Philly]

So, we're making all these complaints here, yea? What we need to do is set some of these issues into UserVoice - I feel like that's the best place to actually have them seen.

We have to tell them the Pix game errors, we gotta tell them we only want Habbo-themed games, put bug tickets on UV for the mis-titled furni and badges. we gotta tell them what features we want in the existing games. Then, we have to support each others' threads by voting it up. We've got to band together so they hear us. We *can* do it.

I'll make a damn in-game group if we gotta to get everyone on the same page.

I was part of Habbo back in 2005-2006… I miss the family feeling, and if we work together, we can get that back, but we've got to complain in the proper areas, in the right ways, so that something can be done.

[Red]

So, we're making all these complaints here, yea? What we need to do is set some of these issues into UserVoice - I feel like that's the best place to actually have them seen.

We have to tell them the Pix game errors, we gotta tell them we only want Habbo-themed games, put bug tickets on UV for the mis-titled furni and badges. we gotta tell them what features we want in the existing games. Then, we have to support each others' threads by voting it up. We've got to band together so they hear us. We *can* do it.

I'll make a damn in-game group if we gotta to get everyone on the same page.

I was part of Habbo back in 2005-2006… I miss the family feeling, and if we work together, we can get that back, but we've got to complain in the proper areas, in the right ways, so that something can be done.

Ahh your so positive. I don't have the same hopes. I remember when they dedicated uservoice to getting opinions on how to improve snow storm when it was released and it was an absolute waste of time because none of them were used and improvements are still waiting to be made.

[Philly]

It's worth a try though, isn't it, Red? I mean, we all still play.

[:Act]

Good to see that Paul and/or staff read fansite forums and are addressing issues raised there. I like that he seems to understand (ish) what we want to see back on Habbo.. ie. the Old Days. Problem is their way of going about it. "We're going to bring back Old Habbo by letting 3rd parties make 100 games for you!!" ... yeah..no. That wasn't really old habbo was it now.. Just bring back Snowstorm, Battleball and WobbleSquabble thats all you need to do!! LOL!

Habbo is about making friendships but I find these games don't do that. In the past snowstorm and battleball did, because you could choose teams and play with your friends. All those features seem to be missing in the newer versions. I find most games like fast food to be isolating :S I can guarantee that none of these 100 games will be to my taste.

Exactly the point I was going to make! FF is soooo isolating, and I can't play with friends in their games atm. It's all random! So it's harder to build friendships through games like SS because you may be both playing but in different matches lol. They say one thing is important, and then do everything in their power to make sure that doesn't happen! "I have a great idea, games are a good way to build friendships, so let's make sure you cannot guarantee you play with your friend! Random teams yeah!!"