Paul Lafontaine

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Can’t stand him. He is so unbelievably arrogant and stuck in his ways. His comments get worse by the day!
Behold some of his latest words of wisdom.


The man clearly doesn’t have a clue and while habbo is under his control, things are only going to get worse.

This habboween, there has literally been no campaign at all. Last year, Kitano had come on board and the hotel was looking on the up. I think everyone really enjoyed the big staff team comp. There were articles to read and different comps to enter. This year we have had one video comp…. :S (And a miracle we even got that!)

Their latest ploy for money is that you can’t purchase any new furniture/effects without buying credits. When you already have a lot of credits in game, I don’t see why we should have to pay more. Fair enough if this was a one off, but you can guarantee we can see this replicated for all future furni ranges like Christmas. Paul thinks it’s ‘mixing things up’ but yet we have had clouds, nuts, diamonds, and now pumpkins. Yea I’m getting bored of the repetitive themed currencies.

I am absolutely sick to death of him blaming current dissatisfaction and people wanting things to return to how they were as everyone being ‘nostalgic’. According to Paul, In 2006, habbos used to complain that they wanted the game to be like how it was in 2003? Um no Paul, a lot of us were users in 2006 and that simply was NOT the case.


Any complaints about current moderation is shrugged off with comments like this.



When is this absolute moronic idiot going to relaise numbers are dropping, because people don’t like that there is no staff interaction, poor moderation, no articles or properly ran competitions. (If a news scandal, which had investors pull out can’t persuade him to stop outsourcing his moderation and customer support, I don’t know what will!)

Everything that is brought back, they end up ruining it. It’s always done in a poor half attempt. Paul complained that we wanted homepages, and then never used them when they returned. Well it might actually help if we had stickies and guestbooks, as that was their main use. They brought back room competitions but can’t even be bothered to judge them? And to top it all off, take away useful features such as events and decide to milk it, by making us pay for them.

They don’t give two tosses about fansites. I doubt that we will even have a replacement for Jason. Not that he did much anyway. They should be trying to support us by publishing summary of fansites upcoming events. Informing their moderation of what is a fansite, instead of false banning users. The odd hotel alert wouldn’t go a miss either.

My biggest concern is how lax they are with security, and the fact the help tool has been hacked (three?) times now. During the habbo council in April, members of the council were also forwarded on people’s application, along with the users email. When confronting him about it, he was his reply.



Charming! He wouldn’t admit to anything. Any private information you give habbo is unsafe, which has been proven time and time again.


Ok, well I think that completes my rant. I will leave you with these statistics, which @Richie; sent me x

[Zawwa]

Couldn't agree more with this.

[the.games]

Oh my gosh this is priceless. In my opinion the failure of Habbo and Sulake is down to Paulaflo. He wants more and more money and does not seem to realise that you both cannot speak to people like that and that if community management and moderation were better, they would make more money.

If they were a British company trading standards would be on them in no time. This reminds me of a case I saw on watchdog the other week where someone had 3 different identities and told one old lady that they were not getting their money back and he hopes they have a slow and painful death.

To summarize, he isn't a good CEO and I believe that he must be held accountable for his mistakes and either resign or be removed by the board (if Sulake even has one).

[dbgtz]

Actually the idea of the furni using some special currency is quite a good one as it does promote the purchase of credits, but I will say that it goes too far by extending it to large furni ranges and should only really be used on the odd piece of furni. Apart from that, all of his ideas have been stupid and he is destroying it to be honest.

[Zak]

I need to get into this raging at Paul over twitter, someone tell me how to sign up and rage I've never used twitter before

[Catchy]

Actually the idea of the furni using some special currency is quite a good one as it does promote the purchase of credits, but I will say that it goes too far by extending it to large furni ranges and should only really be used on the odd piece of furni. Apart from that, all of his ideas have been stupid and he is destroying it to be honest.

Not fair on the people who already have in game credits though like Kirst said...

[dbgtz]

Not fair on the people who already have in game credits though like Kirst said...

Yes but using it on one or two furni in a range doesn't make credits obsolete and can be seen to reward those who actually purchase them, rather than trade or whatever else.

[Richie]

Apparently you were spamming up his twitter with snarky comments, which I can't see in any of the tweets.




https://twitter.com/PaulwallaTweets/...63066357092353

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Yes but using it on one or two furni in a range doesn't make credits obsolete and can be seen to reward those who actually purchase them, rather than trade or whatever else.

Yea the problem is though that you can guarantee he is going to keep doing it for christmas and other furni ranges. Might make some profit in the short term, but will ultimately fail because people will get dissatisfied.

[dbgtz]

Yea the problem is though that you can guarantee he is going to keep doing it for christmas and other furni ranges. Might make some profit in the short term, but will ultimately fail because people will get dissatisfied.

I know and since they were introduced I knew it would get to that stage of which it is a massive mistake.