Habbo Hotel is ThrivingĪt its peak in 2011, Habbo attracted more than 10 million users to its pixelated, pop-culture-filled world. There are lots of places where it’s easy to get them. Lastly, cheap Habbo accounts are available for everyone. It’s also a way to get one with rare and limited furniture that is no longer obtainable in the game. A way to get those things would be to get a Habbo account. That, however, is a story for another day.Want to have the best-looking room in Habbo but don't have enough cash to get all the cool furniture? It’s easy to miss out on a rare item in Habbo and no longer find it. Oh, also did you know that Habbo Hotel only exists ‘cause The Beatles wanted a virtual space to launch their a greatest hits album in 2000? Oh and they hiked the tax waaaaay up on the game’s more luxury items.Īnd so the Habbo bubble (the habbubble) burst and usership deflated down to pre-pandemic levels.īut we like to think that there’s still small-time scammers out there, playing musical chairs and stealing furni.

Just like every virtual currency though, Habbo’s newfound success was ruined by the very thing that created it - capitalism.Ĭreators Sulake announced plans to centralise official marketplace trading - essentially turning Habbo’s colourful user-led marketplace into a sterile, overly controlled supermarket where you can only buy home brand. The user boom caused Habbo’s stagnant economy to boom, with longtime users cashing in (with real money, not coins). While interest in the virtual hotel has waned since its heyday of the late 2000s, Habbo saw a boom of returned interest at the beginning of the pandemic with platform population increasing 213 percent between February and March 2020. “They would sit on computers in the same room and play musical chairs, one random player would come in and they’d be like ‘oh let's all play’ and she’d say “I’m putting the chair here in 3-2-1” and of course the random player would never win and they’d get scammed so bad.” “Needless to say, next time I logged in everything was gone, I was homeless!”īut where there’s the scammed there must also be the scammers - like Alishea from Wollongong who ran a sophisticated ring with her step-mum and brother.

“We got paid in furni, then one of my co-workers at the time said ‘oh give me your password, I’ll give you all my stuff’ and I had decked out my room, I had spent all of my pocket money,” Naomi said. Respectable Habbo childcare worker, Naomi called up to tell her tale of misfortune. However, once we got past the fine, upstanding members of Habbo society, the shady scams started to come out of the woodwork. Listeners rushed to tell Bryce and Ebony that they clocked in as nurses, teachers, Maccas employees and more to appease their Habbo overlords*.

While most kids would have been trading Pokemon cards and breathing fresh air, an 11-year-old Bryce Mills was putting in the hard yards as an Army recruiter on the beloved virtual community Habbo Hotel.įor those who were more into the Neopets (yo.) there’s a few ways to make coin on Habbo, work a job/do tasks for summa that gold OR trade real life currency to make those purse strings strain.Īs it turns out, Bryce wasn’t the only one putting in the hours to earn the coin needed to deck out his room with ‘furni’ (furniture, for those uninitiated).

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