'Habbo Hopes For New Life As A Gaming Platform'

[Abdicators]

Oh snap...



Also if you watch the video of the news report on that Channel 4 link you posted the man mentions the word in the first 16 seconds.

Simply examples of other journalists blowing up the report. Neither of those people wrote the original, and in response to Red, I think the fact that its known that Sulake has assisted in comprehending paedophiles can't be anything but positive. Many services have paedophiles, including and god forbid, Facebook!

[xxMATTGxx]

Simply examples of other journalists blowing up the report. Neither of those people wrote the original, and in response to Red, I think the fact that its known that Sulake has assisted in comprehending paedophiles can't be anything but positive. Many services have paedophiles, including and god forbid, Facebook!

What report are we talking here? Sulake aren't going to start talking about paedophiles. The whole report which caused the mutes contained the word paedophiles many many times across many websites. My image was taken from the link you posted - The Channel 4 News site.

The scandal was never anything to do with peadophiles, it was to do with poor moderation of a teen service. No peadophile was ever caught or charged over the period of the scandal.

It was about people saying sexual stuff to other uses and Channel 4 then said Habbo Hotel has peadophiles. Which is probably a high chance as most services have people like that. Then they talked about poor moderation because it all links together. It was said in the report by Channel 4 which kicked the whole thing off. Sulake then decided to mute the hotel - This then lost them a lot of users if you haven't noticed - Again, this is linked.

[Red]

Yes, I am fully aware there are paedophiles on many sites and I didn't agree with the c4 report but they still spoke about it! That image isn't examples of other journalists blowing it up :S. It's a screenshot of the c4 report. You can see Jon Snow's head. lmao

[GommeInc]

Self-inflicted, no sympathy. Someone put it outs of its misery and just shoot Paul/Habbo/Sulake. I would but I'm allergic to stupidtiococcus ignoramaschlamydimbecilio.

[Lee]

I don't think habbo will retain the old users.

[karter]

9 million users is not a joke. the way they are changing habbo and living in a delusion that habbos are satisfied now, I don't think there will be an increase in the users

Also, I doubt the new users will like anything in habbo at the moment

[Andii]

For god sake, does anybody even want games? I couldn't care less about the crappy games that they keep introducing. Habbo isn't what it used to be and it seems they're really drifting away from what it used to be about, a community!

Agreed completely even tho I play Habbo raceway a bit lolol but it still shouldn't change the way it is :/ it should be focusing on more clothes more things to get people together like group comps or even better like introduce group games where randomers meet other randomers

[LoveToStack]

The people making decisions are so out of touch it's painful. Putting such a huge emphasis on games screams desperation, especially when you consider that they axed SnowStorm, BattleBall and Wobble Squabble without batting an eyelid not so long ago. Why is it that no one working for the company can recognise that while those games were popular, it was because they were free, fun, multiplayer games which always had a plethora of people dying to play them.

Compare them with that food parachute game designed to disguise the mute, a game where the only interaction is clicking a static button, and you can see the disconnect.

There are hundreds of sites which do flash games better than Habbo, not to mention the Gaming and Race Rooms section of the popular list which offers dozens of user-designed games which are each more creative and interactive that any garbage Habbo **** out.

People have been saying it for a long time but this whole last year has got me genuinely believing that the site won't be around too much longer. People who suffered through terrible update after terrible update over the years have had enough. The mute, the non-existent moderation and community and the fact that the hotel is a ghost-town (even at peak times) are the straws which broke the camel's back.

[:Act]

Agree with all these points made, would add that smaller hotel fosters better community. Post-merge and post-BETA, mad account deletion and the creation of a flagship website did nothing for the community. Going on a 2am GMT used to be where you'd find the most interesting of nightcrawlers in their scripted rooms with plenty to say about real topics, the ebb and flow of peak times etc added life to the hotel, now it's just all the New World players on in peak time.

The account deletion and removal of public rooms was a big guillotine to the very heart of the hotel, one of the sites strengths over sites like Facebook, Twitter, IMVU, Second Life etc was its history. The public rooms were the greatest familiarity to returning members, and it was already repping 5+ years before YouTube showed up. The website survived when titans like Sims Online and Coke Studios fell, paralleled by other popular sites of similar age (Runescape, Neopets). The rooms created in the early years held social memes, trends in pop culture, showed the stretches of design Habbos could apply to the then limited furni range, it was the historical iceberg beneath the surface, the maze of creation and past communities held in time, all gone. And all the photos? Well instead of pursuing the scripted ones, a small portion of what were the thousands of others, each one an in-game capture of life on the hotel, they wiped them all, again, ignoring users.

/rant. The point is here, for those outside of the hotel, it's a silly game they can't understand an affection for, but for those that got lost in it a few nights a week, built entire friendship bases, knew all there was to know and did their best to be involved and create, they were the lifeblood, loyal users retained community relations - not swathes of T driven newcomers, but it is this audience that has had all the attention and direction of the hotel since then and will, inevitably, continue to have as long as it is profitable.

Perhaps one of the most significant posts that has been written about this entire topic over the last 12 months. Hit the nail on the head! Maybe then, Habbo has already dug the hole for its grave and is slowly lowering itself in, unable to stop it? Eking out the last of its lifeforce (and profits) before it ultimately closes down? It's very possible.. the complete destruction of its history was a thought I had not really thought all the way through, and I agree that it was a significant loss that I hadn't truly appreciated. I also agree the merge was terrible, but with dwindling numbers they had no choice. Shame they decided to merge and wish the problem away instead of actually doing some work with real significance..

[HOSKO02]

Habbo has already dug the hole for its grave and is slowly lowering itself in

Exactly, but then the question becomes, will they put so much into this new venture and really discontinue the hotels? Surely they can't be that blind to the user base, which is now even more international,. but given their past, I wouldn't put it past them