Sulake cracking down on VIP

[GommeInc]

I disagree, its a ludicrous move to cut the source of income for their fansites. It may (and if there's any justice in the world, should) actually cause them to lose users and therefore money; I know my stay on habbo was prolonged by a long time thanks to Hx (&HxF) and the interest it gave me in the game. I think most people can deduce the thinking behind the move (to bring more money towards sulake instead of being given to fansites) but it doesn't appear to have been thought out past there.

Imo, to wreck a community with no obvious gain is more than enough grounds to hate a company

Exactly, and adding to that:

There is absolutely no problem with fansites making profit so that they can sustain themselves. It's fair anyway, fansites:

Naturally puts in good words for Habbo.
Keep the target audience interested.
Host events on Habbo.
Offer trading values for furniture.
Offer furni/credit tips and tricks.
Offer news to keep the audience interested and updated.
Are advertised on Google in Google Search. People click the links (Habbo players or otherwise) and they will eventually be linked to Habbo with enough exploration.

So Habbo actually benefit from fansites and the fansites benefit from Habbo. They both need each other, Habbo will be an awful place when the money wells fansites have are dried up forcing them to close.

It's like popstars having fans, but no-where for the fans to discuss the popstars. A huge target group of audience doesn't exist.

I think fansites deserve having a piece of the ever fattening pie Habbo are diving into

[Hated]

Can't we just pretend we're a runescape fansite lol

[AgnesIO]

Can't we just pretend we're a runescape fansite lol

Yeh why not, 'we just feel like saying habbo in our name, but really we're runxforum' that'll work.

[Hated]

great then we're sorted
i have saved the day

[Habtopia]

im gonna open habtopia.co.uk on my own hosting and sell premium service
and ill see them in court.

Might even pretend to sell habbo mug coasters and stuff.

[Jord]

This is silly,


Habbox sells VIP To pay for the fee for the site to stay open, If this take down the VIP sulake will have no fan sites left what so ever.

[Black_Apalachi]

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Offer news to keep the audience interested and updated.
...

Yeah not to mention fansites actually have decent guides to keep the audience updated unlike the ****** group pages Habbo now use to tell you about Battleball and SnowStorm (that actually have false information on them) :rolleyes:.

[Wig44.]

If you made an image which resembles 'habbo graphics' from scratch they can't touch you. If you made an exact copy of one of their models, even from scratch then they can tell you to remove it.

You can't own a type of graphic.

[Wig44.]

I think it's stupid, yeah. However, they're a company and the one goal all companies share is to make money and as much as they can. I think it's relatively ludicrous they're trying to implement such plans but do I blame them? Certainly not. To say you hate them is such a huge generalisation the wage they pay their staff members feed families, lol.

Oh and just to put what you said straight. This is sulake shooting themselves in the foot. This will NOT make them any decent money. They think what we spend on VIP will be spent on credits which is a massively STUPID (for want of a better word) idea. People won't magically replace VIP with credits, it does not work like that. And when the fansites die from financial problems, not only will people blame habbo and leave, but people who don't blame them will have less incentives to stay and would be players will not be attracted to habbo as often with no fansites around to promote the game. There a parade of reasons which I have not expressed but I simply can't be bothered. If habbo do this it's like thinking, I'll stick single glazing in my windows not double to save money!! When it is common knowledge you then use way more electricity to keep the house warm with the heat escaping much more easily. A shot in the foot.

[AgnesIO]

Oh and just to put what you said straight. This is sulake shooting themselves in the foot. This will NOT make them any decent money. They think what we spend on VIP will be spent on credits which is a massively STUPID (for want of a better word) idea. People won't magically replace VIP with credits, it does not work like that. And when the fansites die from financial problems, not only will people blame habbo and leave, but people who don't blame them will have less incentives to stay and would be players will not be attracted to habbo as often with no fansites around to promote the game. There a parade of reasons which I have not expressed but I simply can't be bothered. If habbo do this it's like thinking, I'll stick single glazing in my windows not double to save money!! When it is common knowledge you then use way more electricity to keep the house warm with the heat escaping much more easily. A shot in the foot.

You should know sulake ARE stupid. They are lucky to be where thy are now. IMO.