Frequently Asked Questions

[Nick]

We have been getting a lot of questions through Facebook and Twitter since yesterday. Hopefully this article will answer most of them!
As many of you know by now, some Staff changes were made in some of the Habbo Hotels yesterday, and a few people were speculating about Hotels merging and maybe even closing. This is absolutely not the case.
No Hotels are merging, no Hotels are closing.
In the wake of what happened, some concerns were brought up through various channels, such as Facebook, Twitter and forums both here on Habbo and on our Fansites. Below you'll find answers to the most frequently asked questions.
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FAQs
* Will some Hotels be closing down?
No. No Hotels are closing.
* Will we merge with other Hotels?
No. Hotels will stay as they are and will not be merging with any other Hotel.
* What will happen to my Habbo / my Stuff?
Nothing at all. You will still have your Habbo(s) and your stuff isn't going anywhere!
* What happens to Staff?
Some Staff will stay, some are gone, and those that stay will likely be changing roles in some way. Part of this change is for us to take a step back and to put the focus on YOU guys, not on us. We know that some of you will miss the Staff characters dearly, but it's important that you know that there have always been, and still are many talented folks working behind the scenes to create everything you see in Habbo, people that you normally don't hear about because they don't necessarily have a known Staff character. However, whether you know us or not, we are all here, and we are all passionate about Habbo!
* Will there still be campaigns and competitions?
We want to turn the tables around, giving you the power to do more in Habbo. This means refocusing our resources to make sure that you guys have the tools you need to run better events, games and competitions, developing features that make it easier to interact and find friends in the Hotel, creating new and better games, and also, ways for you to get fame for the things you do in a way that is fair and fun!
Plus, we will obviously continue to develop and improve on our existing Games, Quests and Achievements, ensuring you immediate rewards and recognition for your skills.
* What will happen to the Habbo articles and forums?
Although Habbo Hotel will stay as it is, some changes will come to the website. Simply because we want to be focusing on creating everything you need inside the Hotel. This is not an exact science, and we will be needing your input on this. Our researchers have already been putting their heads together and we will start asking for your opinions next week already.
* Will we be getting the Habbo.SE website?
You will be getting an improved version of the Swedish Habbo website. We have been testing it for some time now, while gathering comments and ideas from Habbos. The site will be improved and developed based on this feedback, and once we're at a point where we feel that the majority of you are happy with it, we will be making the change to other Hotel sites, as well.
* Why did you do this?
We have been continuously looking at what it is that you like to do in Habbo, by measuring traffic, asking you questions, looking at number of submissions for competitions, finding out how much time you spend playing games, chatting etc. What we found is that we don't have nearly enough resources allocated to develop and improve on the things you like to do the most. We have been spending a lot of unecessary time and resources on stuff that most of you didn't really bother with. So a decision was made to refocus and put more people into developing Habbo in a way that's more fun for you!
* Will you do more to support the Fansites?
The topic of Fansites has been an item on our agenda for a while, and we are really eager to get a good dialogue going with our many fantastic Fansites. The process is ongoing, and we still need to discuss it further, but if you have some good ideas, we'd love to hear them! You can leave a comment in our Research Lab Forum ››
* Some Hotels close at night, will that happen to our Hotel?
The opening and closing hours of our Hotels will not change at all. For .COM, this means that we will continue to stay open 24 hours as always.

* Will more sites be in English now, other than .COM?
No. Every site will keep to the language it's currently in. We would like to preface that when we test something new, you might find that English words sneak in here and there, but we are aiming to keep every site in its local language!

Interesting.

[Aaron]

Yeah saw this earlier, at-least they've cleared this up for us.

Hopefully they introduce some nice stuff as they said something relating to that in the article.

[e5]

Big changes to come. Homepage going to be demolished?

[Nick]

Big changes to come. Homepage going to be demolished?

I hope not

I hope they do something with fansites also

[Michael]

What I find funny then is how they put a google translate widget at the bottom of that article.

[jasey]

Habbo France will be safe from what I can tell from this. No nightly closings, no merging with Italy (which some people speculated on the French Hotel) and the preservation of our beloved language. I am relieved!

[karter]

I fear Homepages, community pages and old groups will be removed. Also staff run competitions oh my god...

[xxMATTGxx]

What I find funny then is how they put a google translate widget at the bottom of that article.

It's quite a good idea considering what sort of rumours was going around. So everyone was asking people on .com because people from other hotels were worried that they were being closed down.

[geo]

I hope they don't get rid of Homepages and Group forums, would just be pointless! Anyway, I'm glad they've done this as it has made some things a lot clearer.

[Ajthedragon]

I guess this is good?

I'm struggling to see how we are going to get 'the power to do more'.