Merge...

Jordy · 10-06-2010, 04:55 PM

Originally Posted by MattGarner

None of us think that members will turn up to Habbox just like that. Most of us have been busy in real life or only just been home for so many minutes, myself and other members of General Management are in an msn chat discussing everything. There was always things planned before the merge regarding advertising/events etc etc.

I can't just get onto habbo straight away and do some magic business because activation takes too long. I know that events are already happening!

I still don't think any of you see the enormity of what's happening on Habbo and how this could be make or break for Habbox. Habbox is reliant on it's rare values and if people no longer rely on them, I've no doubt they'll be a lot less new visitors. You could of typed up announcements etc beforehand.

I think this merge will come as a much needed wake up call for Habbox.

From what I hear there's been demands for much more rare value reporters in this upcoming hotel seeing as it'll be a lot larger and the rare values system will be all over the place originally, yet you won't make an exception for them to go over their limit.

Originally Posted by immense

Yeah, is pretty crap lmao. All moderators are from SG and don't know about fansites. They only kept the SG mods on for cheaper labour, no joke. Sickening!!!!

I've always wondered what's stopped them from getting moderators in India/China if I'm honest, would be much cheaper I imagine?

Hecktix · 10-06-2010, 04:58 PM

Newly Registered User notification (which isn't perfect but my laptop auto logs me out in 3 minutes for revision

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Will edit this more when I am next on.

Mathew · 10-06-2010, 04:58 PM

Nice to see some things being rolled out. There are events running almost every hour up until 9pm to get the Habbox name out there and I'm guessing HxL have some things up their sleeves too.

I do think there should have been previous advertising by possibly contacting other official fansites on other hotels but as it's been said, it was rather difficult to actually predict when it would finally happen.

**AgnesIO** · 10-06-2010, 04:58 PM

Originally Posted by immense

Right the merge happened at 1PM. I think Habbox needs to acknowledge this on the Forum ASAP, like a little message at the top or something "Are you from US, CA, SG or AU then jump into our international competition HERE" or something. So many people have asked me on the new hotel why I have the fansite badge and rather than saying HabboForum (which is why I have it) I've been advertising Habbox. A lot of people keep saying the forum is down (before it came back up).

Anyway, I think it would be good if you quickly did something for the international users which might give them more inclination to use this forum rather than any others (UK has by far the strongest habbo forums).

Omg have the noobs at habboforum not got that removed yet?

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Anyway good idea. Are there events planned for today etc?

(I know it is short notice with the merge and all, but normally there are still events!)

Mathew · 10-06-2010, 05:02 PM

Originally Posted by Android

Anyway good idea. Are there events planned for today etc?

(I know it is short notice with the merge and all, but normally there are still events!)

Can you add - Kelly-Mate - 4pm
Team Bingo - Roxy916 - 5pm
Name the singer - NentusBan - 6pm
Don't Get a Carrot - Dilusionate - 8pm

xxMATTGxx · 10-06-2010, 05:03 PM

Originally Posted by Jordy

I still don't think any of you see the enormity of what's happening on Habbo and how this could be make or break for Habbox. Habbox is reliant on it's rare values and if people no longer rely on them, I've no doubt they'll be a lot less new visitors. You could of typed up announcements etc beforehand.

I think this merge will come as a much needed wake up call for Habbox.

From what I hear there's been demands for much more rare value reporters in this upcoming hotel seeing as it'll be a lot larger and the rare values system will be all over the place originally, yet you won't make an exception for them to go over their limit.

I've always wondered what's stopped them from getting moderators in India/China if I'm honest, would be much cheaper I imagine?

They have not even reached their limit. If any department reaches their limit then they can simply contact me with their reasoning and I will either agree or disagree.

Nixt · 10-06-2010, 05:07 PM

Originally Posted by Jordy

To be fair this should of all been planned a while ago, it's been known for weeks the hotel is going to merge. Fair enough you were at college but you could of had banners and things written beforehand so then it's just case of releasing it. It's pretty much the biggest fansite going and you have no preparations, do you honestly just expect all the US/CA/AU/SG users to wander over to Habbox? This is the biggest opportunity you'll ever get for more for users and frankly you should be plastering Habbox all over this merged hotel ASAP but I don't really see anything happening, bare in mind you risk losing a lot of visitors if another fansite has a better radio or rare values.

It has been planned for a long time, I am just saying things hadn't happened at the time this thread was posted because there was no one here to set the wheels in motion. The notices have been implemented, I have posted an article on Habbox.com which you can now see by heading there. The notices have been sorted. We have events running all evening, over the coming days we will be holding massive giveaways at a variety of different times so as to appeal to international users. I, for example, plan to hold events and a giveaway in the early hours of the morning (at US and AU peak times) so as to attract members from international communities.

All departments have been working hard to get people from an international background, or at least members who are able to stay on late into the night, including HxHD and events. International events applications are open. Prior to the merge Roxy had her international members of staff or members of staff on the US hotel running events and a lot of people already knew about Habbox and those that didn't were directed here.

Roxy has also arranged it so the biggest and safest casinos and trade rooms on Habbo have "Habbox.com for rare values" in their room descriptions, in return for a place on a page on Habbox.com. We intend to roll this out to the biggest trade rooms and casinos that were originally based on the AU, US and SG hotels.

Rest assured we have planned and discussed this for a long time, but given that we were not told a date for the merge, when it happened we were caught off guard. The wheels, however, are now in motion.