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    I actually don't blame Habbox. As Grig said, theres nothing in the fansite way about it and after all the years Habbox supported Sulake/Habbo, they just threw it back in their face with the no VIP rule, so this is the new way to make money to keep the Habbox up I guess.

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    Are we allowed to discuss what knowledge the original 10 (or so) know about Kazopark or is our knowledge still off limits?
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    Quote Originally Posted by samsta View Post
    I think General Management need to remember Habbo banned us from having a ClubTropica section and threatened Habbox with all sorts. That was when ---MAD--- was GM so you've all probably forgotten. Personally, I don't care. If the revenue is helping the forum, which it must be else I'm sure Jin (who has Habbox at heart) wouldn't have agreed such a deal.
    Club Tropica was never banned:
    http://www.habboxforum.com/showthrea...hlight=tropica
    There was a specific section I think but then it was moved to online games as ---MAD--- said it would have to prove itself popular and the Beta was taking ages.
    http://www.habboxforum.com/showthrea...t=club+tropica
    I also don't remember any talk of Habbo threatening Habbox with anything. You would probably have more insight into this as you were an AGM at the time but my guess is that if that was true then there may have been a copyright issue as Callie was one of the main people behind it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Catzsy View Post
    Club Tropica was never banned:
    http://www.habboxforum.com/showthrea...hlight=tropica
    There was a specific section I think but then it was moved to online games as ---MAD--- said it would have to prove itself popular and the Beta was taking ages.
    http://www.habboxforum.com/showthrea...t=club+tropica
    I also don't remember any talk of Habbo threatening Habbox with anything. You would probably have more insight into this as you were an AGM at the time but my guess is that if that was true then there may have been a copyright issue as Callie was one of the main people behind it.
    Jin will probably remember. They wanted it removed and spoke to ---MAD--- directly. I probably still have the email somewhere. It was the UK Advertising Manager, UKChaserAl rather than the fansite representative for the UK Hotel. They saw it as a threat and they didn't want us to advertise it. We only advertised it as a favour to Just-One who specifically asked for a forum to be created and therefore we didn't remove it.

    and has anyone been on CT lately lol? i just signed in
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    It costs a lot of money to run this site - and extra money is what we need.

    Sulake may have an issue with it, but I am sure they can take that up with Jin
    "You live more riding bikes like these for 5 minutes than most people do in their entire lives"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Richie View Post
    ... Is habbox trying to get their users to hop ships? I'm just really confused thats like facebook advertising myspace it just makes no sense, other than the money involved.
    It's not like that at all. Sulake doesn't own Habbox.

    Quote Originally Posted by Richie View Post
    ... Habbox are starting to take sulakes footsteps by just wanting money money money.
    Do you think running a website, a forum and a radio is free or something? :S I know for a fact that Jin along with one or two others maybe, pretty much fund most of Habbox's costs by themselves. A small portion is generated from adverts and the sale of Donator but a lot still needs to be contributed by the people at the top (I believe Sierk even throws a few pennies in now and again). Would be nice if people got their facts right before spouting nonsense.

    If anyone is interested in being a sponsor of Habbox, then Habbox has no reason to decline their offer. As long as it's nothing that breaks the Habbo Way (sexually explicit etc) then it is quite frankly none of Sulake's business.

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    Quote Originally Posted by FlyingJesus View Post
    How far does £500 get you in terms of running this site? Obviously I can't predict what Sulake might say about the sponsorship when it gets to them but if they did actually revoke official status I can see that as being pretty damaging in the long run, especially with the merge. Would be good to know an estimate of what it costs to keep Hx going before coming to any decision as to whether we agree with the sponsorship or not. On a completely non-commercial level, I think the game itself looks quite good.
    Server costs will be something around $250-300 per month. Add on top of that software/licensing costs it could be $350+ per month.

    Just estimates of course, I don't know what kind d of deals they got hold of.
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    Quote Originally Posted by samsta View Post
    Jin will probably remember. They wanted it removed and spoke to ---MAD--- directly. I probably still have the email somewhere. It was the UK Advertising Manager, UKChaserAl rather than the fansite representative for the UK Hotel. They saw it as a threat and they didn't want us to advertise it. We only advertised it as a favour to Just-One who specifically asked for a forum to be created and therefore we didn't remove it.

    and has anyone been on CT lately lol? i just signed in
    Interesting so it was the advert they banned - not sure if they would have the same influence now. I thought CT nevr got off the ground?

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    Wasn't CT just down to bitterness with ex-staff or something anyway?

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    Easy, Habbox have to pay servers... This help this, I don't see any problem with this.


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