Sulake cracking down on VIP

[FlyingJesus]

Selling rep is still offering a service for money. I for one will still be donating to keep Habbox going even if we can't get VIP back, but obviously won't be getting anything other than the enjoyment of the forum for it

Maybe Sulake just got tired of having to trundle through hundreds of fansite applications and decided that forcing them closed through finance was a good way of making their jobs easier lol

[Jordy]

I think this is stupid too.

But rules are rules.

I have been told if the Fansite does not remove the VIP prem the site can be shut down due to..
1. Having Habbo in the domain
2. Using Habbo images on the site

I heard about this email that was going to be send out about a month ago.

All the fansites should charge for vip, then habbo would have to remove the rule from the fansite way. They put it there because they realised that Habbo's were spending money to fansites based on Habbo it self and because Sulake can't get a cut of it, they just ban it full stop (stupid).

The fansites are one of the main advertisement for Habbo with out the fansites I don't think Habbo would be where it is now.

I had made a group about a month ago about it...

They haven't made that much of a difference to Habbo, they've kept a few more people at Habbo and made them a few K but it's nonsense that we got them where they are today.

Sorry but I'm not willing to go down the charity root, I think it's far too complicated and if I wanted to donate to Charity I'd do it directly. I'd rather just give directly to Habbox as a donation and get nothing in return. It's inevitable the amount of people buying this charity service will be a lot less than ever bought VIP.

Perhaps you should consider getting rid of a service such as HabboxLive which would save you lots of bandwidth and Shoutcast hosting but tbh, most websites survive off advertising fine.

[prophet muhammad]

They will think that they're losing money. Every 1 pound spent on Habbo forums, is 1 less pound spent on Habbo. It isn't really the case on this forum though, is it? Half the VIPs don't use Habbo. Habbox dosen't need Habbo to run as they have proved for about two years lol (2004-2007).

Can you not do what Habbo Forum used to do? Just put on the VIP page that users are donating £1.50 and will get a VIP colour of their choice to show that they've donated.

That's the bit that makes me laugh, what are they going to do to an unoffical fansite providing a perfectly legitimate service? Sulake can't govern the internet I don't know who they think they are but I think we'd be pretty safe if we were unofficial and carried on selling VIP.

What's Sulake's motivation for this btw? I haven't seen any sort of justification for it

[leah]

The whole thing is pathetic.
Sulake are acting like spoilt brats.

[PaulMacC]

I dont mind if I didnt get anything in return I'd still donate £1.50 a month to habbox which I would use on vip.
As jordy said a few pages back, sell the forum, make a new domain HxForum.com and your loaded

[ebay]

Can Sierk not just move the website to a dedicated server hosted in Hong-Kong, Sweden or Amsterdam?

We may loose our official status but Sulake can't do jack as we will be hosted offshore.

[AgnesIO]

The whole thing is pathetic.
Sulake are acting like spoilt brats.

Leah, they arn't acting like spoilt brats. They ARE spoilt brats.

Can Sierk not just move the website to a dedicated server hosted in Hong-Kong, Sweden or Amsterdam?

We may loose our official status but Sulake can't do jack as we will be hosted offshore.

Doesnt that matter?

[Homosexual]

I think it's the credit crunch that has done it.

Sulake are losing money < Habbox are getting money
Sulake wants money < Habbox have more money

It's a credit < VIP situation.

[AgnesIO]

I think it's the credit crunch that has done it.

Sulake are losing money < Habbox are getting money
Sulake wants money < Habbox have more money

It's a credit < VIP situation.

Lol I doubt the credit crunch is affecting it.

If an 11 year old kid, wants credits they get 'em.

[Nick.]

This makes me so angry, I can't believe all the money Sulake rake in and now they're kicking the little guys in the teeth. Habbox has been promoting Sulakes virtual world service, Habbo, for years now and I don't see why they should be so pathetic.

We seriously should write to everyone we can, yes we may seem 'small' in relation to Sulake and media giants, but I'm sure with enough up-roar we can get something done. I know this isn't Watchdog's thing, but I do know that Watchdog only require something like 200 complaints in order to consider a slot on their show. This forum easily get's over 500 users online at different times during the day, so if 1 in 3 users did something, we have a chance of humiliating Sulake to hell and back.

We, as Habbos, pay money for credits and provide Sulake with profit. I think that until they stop being so god damn pig greedy and pull their act together, the users of HabboxForum should rebel and not buy credits... even start a riot in Hallway 1 or something.

I don't play Habbo, so as a forum user I will not be told how and how I cannot spend my money. It's my money which I have earned and Sulake have no right telling people how and how they cannot spend their money, they can get ******. It's my ******* money and I'll do whatever I like.

Once you realise that Sulake is, in a way, telling you how to spend your money you'll want to compaign to stop this, why should we let a corporate giant kick a load of teens in the teeth. It's my money and they can bugger off, they have no right telling me how to spend it.

I will fight with anyone and everyone who wants to, because we need to. We can't just let them do this, we need to teach them a lesson. Everyone who doesn't play Habbo doesn't have to abide by Sulakes silly rules.

I'm going to be emailing Habbo, Sulake and a few newspapers this evening and try and get as much coverage as possible. Sulake need to learn they can't just control the internet, and sorry, but whoever said Habbo would be where it was today without fansites is wrong. If it wasn't for a fansite, I would have never discovered Habbo.

I'm going to compile a list of places we can all email/ring.