Sulake CEO against links on Habbo

[Hecktix]

Whilst I accept this is pretty ridiculous and that the guy is a moron, Habbox and other fansites did just fine before you could link in client, in fact Habbox was masses more popular than it is now

So to suggest fansites will die if they can't link in client is a bit silly, given how popular Habbox was prior to being able to link in client, and in fairness from what I remember promotion back then was a lot more subtle than the spamming of links often seen now.

[Samantha.]

Well this is stupid, since people are getting banned for advertising a habbo fansite!

[Zak]

Surely they could take away the feature and only allow links for official sites.

so only allow

www.habbox.com

and others

but not www.habboskem.tk ;/

I'm sure restricting certain things is easy in programming languages

[xxMATTGxx]

Surely they could take away the feature and only allow links for official sites.

so only allow

www.habbox.com

and others

but not www.habboskem.tk ;/

I'm sure restricting certain things is easy in programming languages

They actually sent an email out with new rules saying fansites couldn't have .tk domains but then changed their minds after people complained. Bit off-topic but somewhat related.

[Inseriousity.]

That was before Habbo decided to take away every feature that made fansites unique (marketplace in place of rare values for example). The first fansite I joined was one that was linked on the client even though I did have to type it in rather than click it.

Paul is clearly out of touch with the struggles that fansites now face and Habbo seem to know both the value of fansites (a student recently did his research here after being told by Sulake to try the fansites) and yet place so many obstacles in their path at the same time.

[SackRace]

This is ridiculous! Does he even know what hes talking about?

[Josh]

ha hah ha hah hah ah hah ahhaahha hahahaa

This is absolutely ridiculous. No wonder Habbo is getting worse.

[Pigperson]

So basically he hates the feature Habbo have where users are able to click links and that fansites shouldn't do it at all... well that's nice of him for sure. Give us more promotion and then we don't have to link people?

Ikr. If he doesn't like links why are they still permitted :S

Will

[Zak]

They actually sent an email out with new rules saying fansites couldn't have .tk domains but then changed their minds after people complained. Bit off-topic but somewhat related.

Used .tk, as an example but why can't they restrict like .tk, .co.cc etc!

At least then the scam sites would have to pay for domain and hosting.

Surely it isn't hard to split a String up into individual characters then reject it if it ends in '.' 't' 'k'. Though I'm looking at this from a Java perspective I have no idea how Shockwave is coded.

[GoldenMerc]

Habbo isn't coded in shockwave anymore is it? All flash i think

Used .tk, as an example but why can't they restrict like .tk, .co.cc etc!

At least then the scam sites would have to pay for domain and hosting.

Surely it isn't hard to split a String up into individual characters then reject it if it ends in '.' 't' 'k'. Though I'm looking at this from a Java perspective I have no idea how Shockwave is coded.