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Presenting: a New Habbo Blog & a Nutty Easter
I'm happy to announce that at the end of last week, we launched another blog specifically for Habbos – bringing our new transparent approach to a whole new level!
The aim of the blog is to take Habbos behind the scenes and into the heart of Sulake, giving them a peek into the minds of those who work here. We'll be sharing news about what’s going on and what’s coming up, along with Q&As, interviews and anecdotes.
This week, we saw the blog get off to a flying start, already surpassing 33K unique hits on Wednesday alone – no doubt, helped by the "nutty" Easter campaign that just launched in all Hotels!
And Easter in Habbo is truly nuts this year – with crazy Credit promotions, a whole new approach to the concept of Rares, a fluffy new Pet, re-made versions of old classic Furni lines, and the VIP offer of a lifetime! Am I forgetting something? Probably, but don't worry, you can read all about it on the Habbo blog ;)
Easter has really been all about mixing things up, adding some surprise elements in with new approaches – all backed up by our see-through appearance towards the Habbos.
The blog will surely have plenty of stuff to keep you coming back, as I'm very certain that with all the new features on the horizon, we won't be running out of topics anytime soon.
Happy Easter, everyone!
The Jumping Race is On!
We're proud to officially announce the release of several new features and activities for Habbo Hotel!
First of all, we have a brand new Hotel view! It's still in its initial stage and our teams will be refining and developing it more as the weeks go by. This new view is part of an ongoing project to feature more content within the site rather than on the website.
Wednesday also marked the launch of the new horse jumping Furni in .com and .fi, which will soon be available in all the countries! There's a selection of six obstacle Furni, for horses to jump, as well as some new items to help Habbos build a horse racing course to rival the Grand National. We also have a special Stable Hopper, which works a bit like the Room Hoppers we released for Valentine's, only they run on their own separate "network" and will only link to populated rooms that contain a Stable Hopper as well.
To make horse jumping even more fun, we have launched a series of Horse Quests that enable Habbos to earn Horseshoes that can be spent in the Shop on a range of items for Horses.
Finally, with the release of the horse jumping Furni, we are excited to tell you about our all new Community Challenge, which the entire Habbo community will have to work together to complete. As well as being able to unlock some awesome Pegasus Wings for their horse, we’ll also be making donation to a Horse charity depending on how many jumps our Habbos make- the more Habbos jumping, the higher the donation. In .com the community is not far from reaching 3 million jumps - not bad!
Paul’s Interview for Habbo Fansites
We’ve recently taken a much more transparent and active approach in communicating with our fansites & the Habbo users in general. The various fansites have been requesting for an interview with our CEO Paul LaFontaine during the past weeks, and this week we conducted a podcast with Paul to answer most of the questions that have been coming our way lately.
Some of the main topics covered in the interview include:
• Habbo is modernizing and getting up to date.
• We are learning from what works in social media and adapting it for Habbo.
• If we (Habbo) are a social media we should use social media. Discuss and listen to our users on what we are building. Users can guide us and give us expert advice. If we listen to our users and build what they want – we will end up with a ridiculously fun service
• A good fansite is any fansite that’s interesting without broken links and provides trusted content about Habbo (those on our mailing list are considered official).
Here you can access the podcast.
We hope you enjoy the interview :)
New Tweeters and a Fansite Update
We have a new group of staff who are available to chat by Twitter now. We've brought some artists and technology people on board to discuss the ways we make the site and what they do. Come by Twitter and meet them. We are sometimes asked if Twitter is our only way of communicating and it isn't! Today, we're going to send a personal message to the fansites with a new program of how they will get exclusive information. For details, check out your favorite fansite.