UltimateRetro 11:41 PM 3 Weeks Ago
Simple Question, How long do you think Habbo has left before it dies?
I Believe Habbo will shut down in 3 years. Hopefully 2.
What do you think?
MentaL 12:04 AM 3 Weeks Ago
i think you need to stop smoking crack.
Makarov 12:09 AM 3 Weeks Ago
Originally Posted by MentaL:
i think you need to stop smoking crack.
You first.. xD
zJordan 12:11 AM 3 Weeks Ago
I
would say about 10 years. Can you honestly say the main source of
income for a company like Sulake will die any time soon? It will pick up
once their new CEO or whoever does a good job.
UltimateRetro 12:17 AM 3 Weeks Ago
Originally Posted by MentaL:
i think you need to stop smoking crack.
You sound like a little 10 year old. So you stop smoking crack.
And for some reason your an Administration? Pha! I've offended your love
for Habbo and you basically post hated comments on the thread? WTH!
Originally Posted by zJordan:
I
would say about 10 years. Can you honestly say the main source of
income for a company like Sulake will die any time soon? It will pick up
once their new CEO or whoever does a good job.
Really? There income is nothing to how it used to be years ago.
Users have droped to 4k MAX on peak times, Years ago Peak time would be 18 - 20K
Edit: Also you have to think about the cost's for everything. Its not
like spending little amounts of money on a crappy VPS host. You've got
to think about staff cost's ect.
And 4k User's isn't really enough to what they have to pay, If they
somehow nudge up there users to 10k then they would be around for much
longer.
Also Private development has taken over.
James 01:17 AM 3 Weeks Ago
Originally Posted by UltimateRetro:
You sound like a little 10 year old. So you stop smoking crack.
And for some reason your an Administration? Pha! I've offended your love
for Habbo and you basically post hated comments on the thread? WTH!
You do realize dan owns RaGEZONE, right?
Friis 08:50 AM 3 Weeks Ago
Originally Posted by MentaL:
i think you need to stop smoking crack.
It's on you. Nah, just kidding :).
- Well, to be honest, yet we can't determine whether it's going to
close soon, or in many many years. Who knows, when we're 50, they might
still be up?
HabMoon 09:46 AM 3 Weeks Ago
Depends
on whether or not Habbo/Sulake stays acting the way they do now, if
they do it will be over soon (2/3 years max?). If the new CEO knows what
he's doing and Timo works on his HITCH design so it turns out something
nice, they could be having 8-10 years left (wondering if I will be around that time, got no life at all).
The user drop is partly Sulake's fault, but also because of users
growing up, start having a job, college etc, it's more fun to be in (and
pay for) Habbo "the habbo as you experienced it all those years which
you enjoyed playing" than being there now with almost everything
changed. Also another reason is that in all those years alot of
(smaller, but sometimes fun) games have come on the web (even if it are
those annoying Facebook-games) and there are lots of games (like) Habbo
too (most people banned on Habbo which have spend alot of money on furni
went to second life game.)
So nobody is really able to tell how long Habbo has left, it depends on the choices the Sulake employees make everyday.
warrenv 09:53 AM 3 Weeks Ago
It is not a stupid question, it is a completely valid one considering Sulake keep running it into the ground.
A few people I've known reckon only about a year or two before it
closes, but I suspect it'll be at least 5 years before it finally does
go. Their revenue has got poorer and poorer each year and their userbase
keeps getting smaller (if you look at hotels like .dk .se and .no, you
wonder why Sulake have even bothered keeping them open considering they
rarely reach over 1000 online now). I imagine the issue involving the
sex scandal ruined the company's reputation, therefore less people are
willing to try and co-operate with Sulake (e.g. Tesco, Game and 'the
other place' that stopped selling their game cards) = even less revenue.
If Sulake buck up their ideas and focus on the community a bit more, it
could last potentially 10 years+. But the fact they remain so ignorant,
unethical and downright idiotic is just causing the death to come sooner
and sooner.
PRIZM 11:52 AM 3 Weeks Ago
Habbo closes when we have all their users :)
Wreckless 10:50 PM 3 Weeks Ago
Originally Posted by Prizm:
Habbo closes when we have all their users :)
We close with them. Trust me. Some of you guys look at it as a good
thing that Habbo will close, but when it does. It's only a matter of
time before the retro world loses all it's users because the users grow
out of it or just quit. Then what will our source of users be? That is
the real question. Stop being so hateful of Habbo. You should start
thinking of ways to save it.
Who cares? When they close, they close? The company could go bankrupt tomorrow and it can close just then.
Veery 12:07 AM 3 Weeks Ago
Originally Posted by Wreckless:
We
close with them. Trust me. Some of you guys look at it as a good thing
that Habbo will close, but when it does. It's only a matter of time
before the retro world loses all it's users because the users grow out
of it or just quit.
Think of this;
1. Retro users don't play Habbo so they could give 2 shits if Habbo closes.
2. What would the reason be for retro users to quit retros, unless they suddenly get a life?
3. If Habbo closes they will probably try to close every retro with them.
4. Habbo won't close.
Wreckless 01:07 AM 3 Weeks Ago
Originally Posted by UltimateRetro:
You sound like a little 10 year old. So you stop smoking crack.
And for some reason your an Administration? Pha! I've offended your love
for Habbo and you basically post hated comments on the thread? WTH!
Really? There income is nothing to how it used to be years ago.
Users have droped to 4k MAX on peak times, Years ago Peak time would be 18 - 20K
Edit: Also you have to think about the cost's for everything. Its not
like spending little amounts of money on a crappy VPS host. You've got
to think about staff cost's ect.
And 4k User's isn't really enough to what they have to pay, If they
somehow nudge up there users to 10k then they would be around for much
longer.
Also Private development has taken over.
What do you mean by years ago? Years ago they had separate hotels for
countries, and their peaks were a bit above 1,000. Years ago was when
Habbo was good.
zJordan 01:59 AM 3 Weeks Ago
Originally Posted by Wreckless:
What
do you mean by years ago? Years ago they had separate hotels for
countries, and their peaks were a bit above 1,000. Years ago was when
Habbo was good.
Habbo UK had about 5k... in comparison Habbo USA had about 18k.
Basically you would expect every English speaking hotel to be at 30k...
This is from what I remember. Probably wrong.
Joseph 06:21 PM 3 Weeks Ago
Originally Posted by Veery:
Think of this;
1. Retro users don't play Habbo so they could give 2 shits if Habbo closes.
2. What would the reason be for retro users to quit retros, unless they suddenly get a life?
3. If Habbo closes they will probably try to close every retro with them.
4. Habbo won't close.
Sorry but some of the things you say here are invalid.
1. I know tons of retro players who still play Habbo.
2. With the recent happenings with Phoenix, I know a shit load of people
who decided to "quit" retros for the time being just to be on the safe
side.
3. I agree with you here, they might try. But I don't think they'll
succeed, they should have taken action years ago when Habbo Retros were
in the early stages of development.
4. Strongly disagree with this, Habbo has lost a lot of revenue and
keeps losing revenue. If someone doesn't take action, Habbo will infact
close.