'Its just a game'. The Truth.

[GommeInc]

And technically it isn't that expensive, it's not too cheap and its not expensive, just right really. Even if it is for a Virtual CHat.

[Bef]

Hm. I no where your coming from but personally i think its sad that people have got so addicted. alot of my friends are very addicted and have spent loads on furni. Myself, i realised a long time ago that pixels aint worth it.

[Andy!]

Credits arn't loades of money no, but I think its wrong because habbo are taking advantage of kids.

Kids are under 16 in my opinion, theres people younger than 11 on this game and they can buy credits.

Kids under 11 dont understand premium rates, kids under 11 dont understand much at all, they dont understand what there spending..

Kids are able to run up an extorchunial bill of hundreds of pounds fairly easily, and that to me is taking advantage of kids.

If most kids ask there parents for credits and there parents say no, its not really if kids listen and parents end up with big bills.

I know habbo clearly states that credits cost money, but its like giving a kid keys to a car, there gonna check it out and they gonna do it even if you say no because thats what kids are like. I'm old enough to realise when I was a kid on this game I run up pretty big bills myself and it waesnt fair and I know how kids feel and how they want to be rich..

I think its absolutely awful to give kids the options to do this sorta stuff..They've only just introduced the SMS credit method to over 16s only.

My mum rung up BT a few weeks ago and put a ban on the credit line when she found the number in my mobile phonebook, and BT said to her they get so many calls wanting to ban that credit number.

[GommeInc]

It's quite a good Money Making Scheme really, aimed at Teenagers when younger Teenagers don't even know much about the consequences of spending loads of money using those types of payment.

The vouchers you can get in shops is quite a good idea though.

[howdy]

Well don't spend money on Habbo.
It clearly states on the homepage buying
credits is for the extras such as furni' and HC
which seems pointless to me anyway.

[Christopher.]

I think its one of the best businesses in the world:

Getting people to pay for soemthing virtual (worth nothing).

[Andy!]

Is for sulake, not for the players.

[Chimed]

Think about it.

£2.50 a hc sofa - 19 hcs a throne. Times £2.50 by 19 (around that) and you have £47.50 - so thats roughly £50 a throne.

Of course because a hc ON HABBO is worth around 60 creds, thats £6 x 19 = £114

So a throne to HABBO is worth £114, and to you it's worth £50.

£50 for 1 - then get more and get super rares.

Alot of money in the end.

[adidas™]

very good article =]


and summat else kinda related,
lots of people say its only furni thats not what habbo is all about but when/ if they get haxed they quit habbo, so if its not about the furni why as soon as they have nothing do they leeve?

[HolyWar]

Interesting Article, people who think it is Habbos Fault and that they scam us for money are idiots. They do not force us to buy credits now do they? No, they don't we buy them out of our own free will.

In certain cases it is their fault. In other cases it's the fault of the user for not taking safety precautions. But when a moderator who is paid with users money types in his password into a fake habbo hotel or logs onto a site that records his / her keystrokes, I hardly find that to be the responsibility of the users who are hacked as a result of the moderators lack of protection.

Kids steal parents credit cards after using up all of their available sources of income on this game.

Underage and uncontrolled gambling in one of the hundreds of luxurious casinos on habbo anyone?