Habbo Sweden offline for days Official

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I think that would be good actually, one great big hotel. One Habbo, loads of languages, it would be better than splitting users up based on language anyway. I know it's not everyones cup of tea but it would be great.

I agree on that, it would be so much more fun and it would drag attention to it and maybe they would be bigger and bigger as one hotell.

this thread is pointless habbo.es is OPEN fools LOL epic fail on this thread pointless to be honest, so im not sure what ur on about

The guy on crack!

 

[Exonize]

I agree on that, it would be so much more fun and it would drag attention to it and maybe they would be bigger and bigger as one hotell.



The guy on crack!

inb4 google translate.

 

[DominicGunn]

Habbo China(as well as Russian) was closed because of the price supporting client. They had to recompile every new dcr/cct for supporting fonts + encoding problems.
Sweden hotel works fine with just a couple of managers, it won't be clever to close it.

There was also the problem that the developers who were on the Habbo China project were totally incompetent and unpatched all the major scripts (anything through packet smuggling - before China with signing items, on China with missions and names) by not filtering chr(1) pretty much everywhere. It can't have helped that almost no Chinese took it up and we were all on there scaring them half to death with alerts, bans, errors, people as pets etc!

Both are big issues in regards to Habbo China, but the main reason was the Chinese Government. Skip to 08:10 in this video in order to see Osma Ahvenlampi (Who was CTO at the time) talk about some of the issues with Habbo and where they lost alot of money. They discuss Habbo China and alot of other areas that cost them millions of dollars.

China starts at 13:00

 

[AluxH]

Very interesting Dom... I had heard some issues about censorship back in the day but nothing like this.

Have Sulake done any more talks that are on YouTube?

 

[DominicGunn]

Very interesting Dom... I had heard some issues about censorship back in the day but nothing like this.

Have Sulake done any more talks that are on YouTube?

There's a few others, none as interesting though.

 

[office.boy]

Wow, I had some great fun on the China client back in the day. Nostalgia!

 

[Wreckless]

I believe that the long downtime of the Swedish server is another sign of Sulake starting to "give up" some of the servers. They might have forgotten to pay the server bills, or maybe they didn't have money for paying the bills? When the server only has around a hundred online per day, it becomes less cost efficient to run the server. Imagine all the work on maintaining their big-ass database which is probably many hundreds of gigabytes large. There was a time where people where talking about Sulake considering merging together all the servers to one big-ass server. I think this is something we will see in the near future due to their low user count. Sulake may be suffering from other problems as well (economic crisis in Europe, etc), but I don't want to make any suggestions on whether retros got anything to do with it or not.

- Martin

You're probably right about the merging it all into one server. It's cost-efficient as far as they're concerned, but in all reality it does NOTHING except piss users off and give them even more of a reason to quit.

It does sound like that's been their ultimate goal for the past few years. They merged Habbo UK, Habbo US, Habbo CA, Habbo AU, and Habbo SG (United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, and Singapore) a few years ago, so they're definitely cutting costs. However, I believe the only thing holding them back from merging it all into one is the fact that there is no universal language, but how long will it take until they've lost so much money that they don't care about that.

 

[AluxH]

Wow, I had some great fun on the China client back in the day. Nostalgia!

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Doesn't feel like TFHA5 was in 06...

edit: I lied! I have a few.

 

[Exonize]

Imagine how much "dead" data they got in their databases (data nobody will never use), all those users someone created the day they released Habbo just to see how the game where and nobody will never access those users ever again. It is kind of funny to think of as the servers we see are turning into digital graveyards.

Just got this email from Habbo Denmark.

English translation:

Hi Habbo,

We've noticed that you have not been logged in to Habbo in the past 6 months.

We clears currently in our user database and removes user accounts that are not in use.

We hope to see you again, but if you have not been logged into habbo.dk before 31/07/2013, then your user account will be deleted. After that your username and password will no longer be used.

Sincerely,
Habbo Staff

Not sure why they don't started the email with my username because it seems like my username is "Habbo".

 

[Sean]

Just got this email from Habbo Denmark.

English translation:

Even though this has nothing to do with Habbo Sweden going down I'll still comment on it; read their ToS. It was recently updated that if you don't log in within I believe 90 days(?), they'll delete your account. But yeah, it sucks. Even though they've been doing this since 2011. Only updated their ToS recently though..