Habbo Exchange, Change!

[ElliottThompson]

It is 1 habbo credit

2 habbo credit's taken away from a user every day lets presume

14 a week is lost from that user <-- £1.50 in real life? (haven't played in a while so I dont know the prices)

at least 40,000 players are online each week, lets say only 1/4 buy credits and thus 1/4 of them feel like they need to top up on credits as they are loosing 2 a day to this scheme: thats 10000 people x 1.50 = £15,000 a week extra

In a month thats £60,000
In a year thats £720,000

How many hotels are active atm? Over 10 I would say.... £7,200,000!!!

From changing the price by 1 credit sulake could make: £7,200,000

These are estimated figures and the amount sulake makes could be half of this... double or even 4 times the figure I have come up with... either way Sulake are being extortionate and it may not affect you much as a player but can you trust a company that is willing to make such back hand moves?

Edit: I just read that Habbo is used in over 30 countries - Think of the potential profit Sulake will make from this. Sulake is a company, just because their service involves a community (a child base at that) does not mean that they have any moral ties to the player base, they make decisions to boost profits, not for the happiness of the player base. Sulake will only take an intrest in its player base when they begin to think their profit may take a hit (people qutting the game, monthly login's decreasing.. not as many movie/dvd advertisement deals e.c.t). As long as their community is content enough to play the game Sulake will turn a blind eye. The only thing that will make Sulake listen is if the player base falls away and their monthly figures alert them.

[Seatherny]

It is 1 habbo credit

2 habbo credit's taken away from a user every day lets presume

14 a week is lost from that user <-- £1.50 in real life? (haven't played in a while so I dont know the prices)

at least 40,000 players are online each week, lets say only 1/4 buy credits and thus 1/4 of them feel like they need to top up on credits as they are loosing 2 a day to this scheme: thats 10000 people x 1.50 = £15,000 a week extra

In a month thats £60,000
In a year thats £720,000

How many hotels are active atm? Over 10 I would say.... £7,200,000!!!

From changing the price by 1 credit sulake could make: £7,200,000

These are estimated figures and the amount sulake makes could be half of this... double or even 4 times the figure I have come up with... either way Sulake are being extortionate and it may not affect you much as a player but can you trust a company that is willing to make such moves?

Not everyone buys credits and 40,000 is just never going to happen. £7.2 million is far off the real value.

Sulake, has reported a €2.8 million profit for the financial year 2008.

[Arron]

tbh i was going to say 2006.


dont bite my head off!

[ElliottThompson]

Not everyone buys credits and 40,000 is just never going to happen. £7.2 million is far off the real value.

Sulake, has reported a €2.8 million profit for the financial year 2008.

That figure you quoted me is entirely irrelevant
The profit a company makes is completely unrelated to the financial intake a company has.

A company could have a turnover of £50billiob pounds but only make £1 profit that same year because money you take in does not translate 1:1 with profit.

Sulake has hundreds employee's - each of them on nice salaries, thats a massive chunk taken out of the companies profit
Utility bills + Rent for various properties around the world + various online hosts + domains
Advertisements, bringing celeb guests in to meet habbo's

All these eat away at the yearly "kitty" that Sulake has, so their profit is a minuscule figure compared to how much money Sulake makes from virtual items + Advertisement deals with companies.

Also I did take into account that not everyone buys credits, and 40,000 could very well happen, the least amount of people habbo is going to have online each week is 20,000 individuals. After all the hotel has had up to 15,000 people logged in simultaneously at one time. Even if only 1 in 10 habbos buy credits regularly Sulake is going to make million's a year from this 1 credit increase, Sulake is based in 30 countries!

[Seatherny]

That figure you quoted me is entirely irrelevant
The profit a company makes is completely unrelated to the financial intake a company has.

A company could have a turnover of £50billiob pounds but only make £1 profit that same year because money you take in does not translate 1:1 with profit.

Sulake has hundreds employee's - each of them on nice salaries, thats a massive chunk taken out of the companies profit
Utility bills + Rent for various properties around the world + various online hosts + domains
Advertisements, bringing celeb guests in to meet habbo's

All these eat away at the yearly "kitty" that Sulake has, so their profit is a minuscule figure compared to how much money Sulake makes from virtual items + Advertisement deals with companies.

Also I did take into account that not everyone buys credits, and 40,000 could very well happen, the least amount of people habbo is going to have online each week is 20,000 individuals. After all the hotel has had up to 15,000 people logged in simultaneously at one time. Even if only 1 in 10 habbos buy credits regularly Sulake is going to make million's a year from this 1 credit increase, Sulake is based in 30 countries!

You have considered that 10,000 people buy credit each week on Habbo UK. Thats unrealistic. That therefore makes your whole calculation invalid.

I know what revenue and profit are ... :rolleyes:
http://www.habboxforum.com/showpost....4&postcount=44

Office staff aren't on nice salaries.

[ChickenFaces]

Taxes smell. =[

[ElliottThompson]

It is 1 habbo credit

2 habbo credit's taken away from a user every day lets presume

14 a week is lost from that user <-- £1.50 in real life? (haven't played in a while so I dont know the prices)

at least 40,000 players are online each week, lets say only 1/4 buy credits and thus 1/4 of them feel like they need to top up on credits as they are loosing 2 a day to this scheme: thats 10000 people x 1.50 = £15,000 a week extra

In a month thats £60,000
In a year thats £720,000

How many hotels are active atm? Over 10 I would say.... £7,200,000!!!

From changing the price by 1 credit sulake could make: £7,200,000

These are estimated figures and the amount sulake makes could be half of this... double or even 4 times the figure I have come up with... either way Sulake are being extortionate and it may not affect you much as a player but can you trust a company that is willing to make such back hand moves?

Edit: I just read that Habbo is used in over 30 countries - Think of the potential profit Sulake will make from this. Sulake is a company, just because their service involves a community (a child base at that) does not mean that they have any moral ties to the player base, they make decisions to boost profits, not for the happiness of the player base. Sulake will only take an intrest in its player base when they begin to think their profit may take a hit (people qutting the game, monthly login's decreasing.. not as many movie/dvd advertisement deals e.c.t). As long as their community is content enough to play the game Sulake will turn a blind eye. The only thing that will make Sulake listen is if the player base falls away and their monthly figures alert them.

You have considered that 10,000 people buy credit each week on Habbo UK. Thats unrealistic. That therefore makes your whole calculation invalid.

I know what revenue and profit are ... :rolleyes:
http://www.habboxforum.com/showpost....4&postcount=44

Office staff aren't on nice salaries.

an estimate is an estimate

Noone has the actual figures but one can assume and make an educated guess off of that

You say that many habbo's do not buy credits each week, I would beg to differ and say a fairly large amount of the habbo population do buy habbo credits. I estimated those figures to prove a point, that point being that a small change to individuals made by a large company like sulake can have a big overall impact, I think that came across quite clearly.

[Richie]

Ok we have established in the last year or two that habbo

-are money robbing *******s
-are unprofessional (looking at the images above)
-are most likely going to lose a large majority of there users in the near future
-Contradict themselves "Please don't give out personal details" "Connect with us on facebook" all you need is your real life details
-Obviously don't want fansites to be run by habbo players themselves, hence why ludus has opened a fansite
-Don't want fansites to have any income whats so ever (Removing V.I.P features from forums)


I'm sure there's way more that could be added but lets be honest habbo is failing big time. As much as you want credits don't buy them. Let them see the large decrease in there profits.

[Hazza]

I'm so glad I've quit Habbo, all thery want now is money money money - its no longer about fun.

Watch out, you're gonna have to pay for doors + making of rooms sooon... Good luck :|

[Richie]

I'm so glad I've quit Habbo, all thery want now is money money money - its no longer about fun.

Watch out, you're gonna have to pay for doors + making of rooms sooon... Good luck :|

Yep they will definitely bring more idiotic things like this in. Sure once their making money their happy. Those buying credits are idiots, if yous honestly want to see change in the hotel don't buy credits. That way they'll make less money meaning their pay cheques will be reduced. I know thats not going to happen though considering theres so many 13 year old addicts that play.