Habbo US introduces Builder's Club

[brandonsuxx]

Hey Habbos! Today we’re excited to announce a brand new feature that’ll bring the joy of room building to the masses...

...and at the same time give experienced builders the freedom to create bigger, better and more elaborate room designs!

You’ll notice a brand new ‘Builders Club Warehouse’ in the game navigation – It stocks a huge selection of furni which you can use to create anything you like. There’s a free trial available that’ll give you 150 furni for free, and if you enjoy building and want to unlock your rooms for people to visit and walk around, you’ll need a Builders Club subscription. There’ll be an awesome boost to your furni limit (to 1.000 items!) when you join!

We’ve had a great response from beta testers so far, and although we’re excited to bring this to everyone for the first time, we’re also aware of some concerns from Habbo’s regarding the impact a subscription service could have to aftermarket furni values. Trading remains a huge priority for us and for that reason we’ve taken many steps to minimize the impact to our traders...

Important things to note;

• Builders Club Furni is not tradable, and no additional furni is being added to the trading market.
• There is a limit to how mauch Builders Club Furni can be used at one time in rooms.
• Opening Builders Club rooms to visitors requires an active subscription.
• Builders Club Furni will have a distinct "context menu" to distinguish from other furni.
• The warehouse will contain a selection (but not all items) of furni from the current catalogue.
• Campaign furni will only be available to Builders Club members during campaign times.
• Pets, Rares and some super complex items won’t be available as part of the subscription.
• Old furni lines will only become available if they are placed in the normal catalogue. We’ll avoid adding items that became "rare" even though they weren't initially sold as rares.
• We will be updating the Furni-Matic prizes more frequently in the future to ensure that items in low demand can be swapped for more exclusive items.

We’re confident that the impact on furni trading will be minimal, long term it may even have a positive effect! During campaigns many items are purchased and sold shortly after the festivities; the Club Warehouse will replace some of this ‘temporary’ furni use for many Habbo’s and there’ll be a less tradeable aftermarket supply once a furni line has left the catalogue. This’ll allow for furni values to increase sooner rather than having to wait to adjust to an excess supply.

Builders Club should be a positive change for the entire Habbo community! More and more Habbo’s will have the opportunity to join in the fun of creating awesome rooms; and even those players who already have a large inventory could use the Warehouse to expand in the number of spaces they create! We don’t expect Habbo’s to choose between buying furni or subscribing to Builders Club; there are benefits to either choice and many of you will choose both! We hope this will lead to more people creating anything they can think of and trading more items, making Habbo a more livelier place.

Happy Building!
- Habbo Staff

http://www.habbo.com/articles/3036-builders-club-opens

It's obvious that they're trying to combat retros, and I think that it's a horrible idea. It's a recurring subscription of $10.99 and you can't buy with credits or keep the furniture that you use.

What do you think?

[MentaL]

[vLife]

Only thing to do here is laugh. Sulake oh how you make me giggle so.

[The General]

I personally dont like the idea. It should be really cheap (like $1 a month). Now its quite expensive.

Why choose Builders Club?

• [strike]Build freely with 1,000+ furnis[/strike]
• We need money.
• [strike]Combine with furni from your inventory[/strike]
• We want to make you buy more credits.

[TheOleg]

Technical realization could be better, but I like the idea.

[NoBrain]

Not a very extensive list of reasons to spend 11 dollars for bullshit. Disgraceful.

[Hejula]

The amount they're asking for is outrageous! Considering the furniture is basically useless unless you're building rooms it's a huge rip off.

[Vaulient]

It's just some other skank sulake is pulling off to make profit. They've been doing nothing but to just come up with whatever they can to make money ever since habbo has been in lost of users

[brandonsuxx]

Edited the OP to include an article they made with more information about Builder's Club.

[EvilKiller]

I like the idea of it, you can try out new room ideas without having to buy all furni. However, the price is just way off, $11 per month is just a huge rip off and you can't even use credits to buy it.

[Lepos]

I went on to Habbo today (this I rarely do) and I went into my room and it said 'warehouse' in the place of My Stuff (My Stuff was directly under but I didn't notice), I was like what is this gibberish and I went in and was really confused because I didn't have any of the furniture it was showing me; then when I commenced placing lots of furniture into my room and I reached the limit (again didn't know there was a limit) and I was like "Oh?" and clicked subscribe and when I saw the price for the shitty furni they're giving I was really disappointed.

I thought Habbo were really taking a step forward but the price moves 2 steps back.

[Vaulient]

I went on to Habbo today (this I rarely do) and I went into my room and it said 'warehouse' in the place of My Stuff (My Stuff was directly under but I didn't notice), I was like what is this gibberish and I went in and was really confused because I didn't have any of the furniture it was showing me; then when I commenced placing lots of furniture into my room and I reached the limit (again didn't know there was a limit) and I was like "Oh?" and clicked subscribe and when I saw the price for the shitty furni they're giving I was really disappointed.

I thought Habbo were really taking a step forward but the price moves 2 steps back.

And purchasing C is outrageous as well.

[Wreckless]

The only problem I have with this is the fact that this will only make the economy worse. Even though items are non-tradeable, that only destroys the complete ethic of supply and demand. Supply will be rendered useless while demand does not exist. The only things people will want or need are supers.