How Habbo Succeeded 57
The other keynote on Thursday at GDC Austin homed in on the growing collusion between Web 2.0 site and online gaming, with an examination of the wildly successful Habbo Hotel by world creator Sulka Haro. Habbo is more of an online hang-out space than a game, thought it does have many game elements. The service grew from humble origins to now offer a home to almost 7.5 Million unique users per month. From Gamasutra's coverage: "Globally, the game attracts around 51% boys and 49% girls. '13-16 seems to be the predominant age group we're getting.' But in different territories the story may be different. For example, in Japan there are a lot of younger kids playing, but there's also a hardcore cadre of housewives who play in their own cliques. When it comes to the U.S., Haro posited, 'I guess in the States the tipping point is when you get your driver's license and you can actually go somewhere to meet people.' A big concern of Habbo players is to create a private space where their parents don't know what's going on -- and this extends to when they get in trouble."
nothing to see here... (Score:5, Funny)
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Fond memories (Score:2)
Habbo Hotel has a fuzzy place in my heart. Even I sunk about $20 into it a few years back. I furnished a whole room, then stepped back and realized how pointless my life was and did more worthwhile things. :P
-:sigma.SB
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That's easy. (Score:5, Funny)
This is how ... (Score:5, Funny)
1. Post an article on Slashdot entitled "How Habbo Succeeded"
2. Have 99% of visitors wonder WTF is Habbo?
3. 1% of viewers click on said article, read it, decide they want to try it
4. Realize 1% of Slashdot users is a sizeable number.
5. PROFIT!
I can't wait to makeup something called Yuiroppo, get a front page Slashdot article entitled "How Yuiroppo Succeeded", and sit back and rake in the dough.
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Since you hate slashdot I urge y
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ROFL, and here I thought I was totally out of it. Despite having tried many free and obscure online games, I never heard of Habbo. Though, I didn't bother to click the link and I won't bother given how your post confirms my thoughts.
cheers,
Fozzy
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Noooooo!
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This is a great plan until a month later when you get the bill for the bandwidth used by the 99% who didn't sign up. :D
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but considering the subject matter i guess being a good tech site doesn't really count for all that much either. i wouldn't be surprised if slashdot went heavy into a second life clique. that's about the speed of slashdot today.
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