Habbo Users

[GoldenMerc]

The mute ruined habbo

[jorsian]

I mark the decline of Habbo as starting as early as 07 when the new clothing was implemented in November of that year. After this date, the updates only seemed to clutter the hotel and staff listened less to what the users had to say. The Beta and merge were both major setbacks for Habbo as users strongly protested the implementation of both, yet Sulake continued to move forward.

Paul Lafontaine, the CEO of Habbo in 2011 and 2012, was the final nail in the coffin. He continued to update the hotel with fixes and add-ons that were neither necessary nor requested. Finally, the mute destroyed much of the population as concerned parents were led to believe that their children's safety was being jeopardized. I believe the decision to mute the hotel only worsened the issue as many Habbos looked for alternative games or sites to satisfy their interests.

As a result, a lot of the 'big players' decided to leave the hotel. This had a chain effect on the rest of the population, as many of the famous Habbos were responsible for sustaining user enthusiasm by hosting events or maintaining fansites. Today, Habbo is a cesspool of trolls and 'dating room' noobs who wreak havoc across the hotel. There are few users left who have any faith in restoring Habbo, we've mostly just given up.

Overall, people have just moved on. The original Habbo generation are now in their early to late twenties and want to start careers or families. People just don't have time for the game anymore. To be honest, I've been losing interest for quite awhile now and pretty soon I'll feel like moving on too.

[-Moniquee.]

Personally, I think the merge has had a massive impact. I remember always coming onto habbo to 4,000+ people and that was just habbo Australia. The scandal would of lost a few of the younger players but I think they will return.

[karter]

Habbo lost a lot of players when old habbo was replaced fully with the beta, then the merge and the new staff. I don't think the scandal caused much - and if it did - the players slowly returned.

lmao definitely not this

if you go to alexa and look at the stats you can see that the user traffic has only gone downhill, the players ain't returning buddy

[-:Undertaker:-]

The hotel does seem much more empty these days I have to say, sad really.

[Lewis]

lmao definitely not this

if you go to alexa and look at the stats you can see that the user traffic has only gone downhill, the players ain't returning buddy

In my opinion, from the big mute thing, the players did return. If the user traffic did go down, it's another reason.

It's unlikely teenagers will stop playing over something like that, unless of course their parents made them to...

[karter]

In my opinion, from the big mute thing, the players did return. If the user traffic did go down, it's another reason.

It's unlikely teenagers will stop playing over something like that, unless of course their parents made them to...

The mute was a month long period of inactivity. When the hotel was unmuted, of course users came back but the mute had a long term effect. Users are leaving because they're getting bored and growing out, and new users are not finding the game interesting. This is causing the traffic to go down

[goofyjadico]

I joined in early 2011 so I can't really say anything about the merge, but the mute definitely made habbo lose some of its users.

[Lanyon]

Habbo needs to be advertised more, it's very quiet and hard to find for other people. People don't know about it. It needs to be advertised on TV to teenagers and it needs to be advertised online too such as Facebook. Habbo should build a good social media & marketing team for this. It's not as easy as that but it would be lovely to hit 10,000 one day.

[Yupt]

I've never understood why habbo got a reputation for being so bad that people actively hid it from their friends, if they could find a way for it to be considered cool then they would be on to a winner.

For me it was the merge which killed habbo, I don't know why, but too much changed too quickly for lots of people and they all left!