Death of a Game: Habbo Hotel
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Pools closed
Fuck, you beat me to the punch
That’s all I know Habbo hotel for 😂
They actually had mods at the pool for the new habbo classic banning pools closing enthusiasts lmao
@@amogusenjoyer the pool shall be eternally closed
Because of aids
Pool's closed, please form into the traditional shuriken formation.
Ah, you mean the symbol that marks temples on japanese maps, right?
Windmill of friendship
HAKENKREUZ moment
this game taught me what is; scam, stranger danger, pyramid schemes, cults
gangs, sex, gambling, memes, lol
100%. It was the game that teached me how unfair the world is
@@nerdSlayerstudiossthe list of words remind me of that trump speech where he lists types of people lmao. What a cesspool of bad actors it was, and how many important lessons it taught!
Pools Closed is the largest cultural impact Habbo Hotel ever made, but to someone who actually played the game, it's a 12 second mention in a half hour long video, wow
Most of us were bored of it after the first week. You have to think, public spaces were limited so naturally we would get annoyed lul. Hence why the trolling worked so well.
It got pretty tired on 4chan after the first week too. Pool's Closed became big because of the real world reaction, but at the time every free browser game was getting an Anonymous raid, most of which actually led to long-lasting communities remaining after the initial surge of players.
My favourite was eRepublic because that game was perfect for an otherwise unremarkable country to suddenly pop into relevance as hordes of inexperienced channers suddenly tried their hand at geopolitics and running a country.
There are also 100 Videos about pools closed and we all know the story 😁
Of course the Habbo lover would ignore Pools Closed lol
@@nerdSlayerstudioss hey thanks for at least mentioning it, lol. It could have been a buried talking point. It makes sense that is such a small experience for your time with Habbo. Interesting to hear from someone that actually used Habbo extensively.
Strange Channel 4 attacked Habbo Hotel like that, considering they aired an adult animated comedy series heavily based on it a few years before, Empire Sq.
Aint that just bobba crazy?
prob knew the story was a free farm, and they were right. if that was what I wanted to do, I would have targeted them and Club P too
Hi, Brit here. Channel 4 and Channel 4 News are associated but different. Channel 4 News is produced by a company called ITN, not by Channel 4.
Also, Channel 4 has a remit to air “challenging programmes”, which back in the 2010s, they kept to.
C4 News are renowned for their investigations like this; they’ve managed to destroy political parties with it.
Man, the memories i had with Habbo is unreal. The virtual sex was wild.
Edit: also the no swearing policy they had where every bad word was replaced with "Bobba"
bobba you
I'm gonna bobba your bobba
I remember when i finally managed to trade myself into having a very nice house and a lot of furniture, from 0$ spent in game after a very nice dude gave me a few throwaway furniture he didn't want. Only to lose it all after giving my pw to a friend (we were in elementary school) who then proceeded to steal everything. I still think about it to this day, yassin.
"pretending to be older to hang out with adults" which were just also kids pretending to be adults 😂😂
not all of them, I met many people so I would know lol
As a finnish person, l find it funny that english speaking persons pronounce finnish names like they would be far eastern-type names. Sulake -> Suleik, Sampo->Sempo
While I appreciate the second correction, the first is silly because nobody pronounces Adidas correctly either by that logic.
@@nerdSlayerstudioss su-la-ke
As a finn-american I was having trouble understanding the names lol odd pronunciation
@@allTkindaTstuff ad i das
@@nerdSlayerstudioss Who is "nobody"? Finnish people pronounce Adidas in the intended way at least.
Sulake isn't up to interpretation either as it is just the Finnish word for electric fuse, so you just pronounce it incorrectly.
Pool's closed due to AIDS, stingrays, and Remilia Nephys.
Real?
@@nyssiii Real as fuck, little doremu. Real as fuck.
Scamming people out of Furni using other people's unlocked "casino" rooms made me the man I am today.
a robber?
Pool's closed.
Theyve just restarted the 2005 version of the game and it seems to be doing decently well. Theyre approaching it similar to Jagex, letting players vote for time-appropriate updates
Its crazy just what Habbo Hotel turned people into.. One of the most bizarre blotches in my history is playing this game and ending up banned. I don't ever get banned in games normally. I'm that guy who plays by the rules and is a total stick in the mud..
Brings back memories... me and my previous girlfriend would play the hell out of this, and this is back so far she wasn’t even on steam yet.... we made so many memories in that game
We were in our real early 20s shes 38 and I’m nearing 40.
# Nostalgia Is Real
I remeber this as a kid. I wanted to join the mafia, and this honestly makes me blush with embarrassment remembering this.
It's over? Well, bobba
I did my part closing the pool. For what it's worth, it's a super fun memory and that's what matters most in gaming is the memories we take with us.
POOLS CLOSED
Because of Aids
POOL'S CLOSED
I have fond memories of seeing ads for this game as a kid. I got all excited, thinking it was a sim type game.
You can imagine my reaction when I tried it. My disappointment was immeasurable, and my day was ruined.
[guy who only saw IMVU in banner ads] im getting big IMVU vibes from hotel hideaway
I was thinking more Facebook's weird metaverse experiment from a few years ago
Ah Habbo. A game I played pre-2010 (I was born in 2000) solely because it was one of the few games my cheap laptop could run. Doing so many things on Habbo I really shouldn’t have doing at my age lol.
I just remember all the Gangster LARPers. Like if someone was dressed in Red and another dressed in blue, Green, purple, or yellow it was on sight with them.
Or how about the hospital rooms a lot of hospital worlds. Man such good times. Or when I found a website which had bootleg versions of Habbo that would give the free currency the biggest being named ‘BlahHotel.’ It was a bit sad since it was out of the blue and frankly I had plenty of friends on there I never met again. After the shut down of Blah that’s when I just kind of quit playing.
This is probably the only game where I easily had thousands of hours into it and yet don’t have a single friend from that era to this day. But I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t enjoy going back in Time and reliving one of those old Blah Hotel days.
This game was HUGE back in 2007 - 2010 here in Brazil
That's right
Any ideas as to why Habbo Origins Brazil is not very populated compared to where it should be?
@@theseek7278 bc time passes and people interests too :3
@@horizont6172yeah also people nowadays have other options like Roblox
@@yz6644 Roblox has been around since 2006 though, yet has had quite the interest of of the younger generation despite being an old game.
Oh this game, I remember seeing an add in my Club Nintendo magazine back in 2006, sadly I didn't start getting internet service until 2010. That pixelated art style looks so lovely.
Ah, glad to see the pool being closed is still breaking fragile minds even to this day.
one of the timeless memes of our generation
Kudos for spelling "Elisa" 99% correctly (in all finnish words the first letter is the strongest in intonation). One of my art teachers used to get short gigs drawing decorations for Habbo Hotel, he did most of the egyptian-themed stuff.
I haven’t played more than half the games featured on this series but, man, do you make it so interesting to hear about. I genuinely get so excited every time I see a new DOAG video.
It was the beginning of summer 2005 and I remember coming home from high school and logging into AOL to look for some flash games to play on Newgrounds. My friend messaged me and told me about a "Star Wars RP" game he was playing and I was like "WHAT? WHERE?!" He told me it wasn't really Star Wars but people roleplaying in the Star Wars universe on game called Habbo Hotel. I was intrigued. I signed up and was introduced to the RP world of Habbo first... Then I got into furni collecting, casinos, trivia games, etc. I will never forget the friends I made along the way. I hope everyone is doing well. I miss them.
Been plating habbo original that launched last week. Just like old school runescape, it goes back to the roots. Its fun so far. Its Habbo from 2005 and updates are voted on by players
I guess the pool's closed for good this time...
I 100% forgot this game existed in my childhood until now
Respect for the self report @5:00 😂
Im a gamer for 30 years now and I never heard of this game. crazy that it had such a impact in the early years
Never even heard of this game and i was the exact age the game was targeted at. Ill be 39 this year, so in 2001 when the English servers started i would have been 16. Im just surprised as i played online games such as EverQuest and Ultima Online. I also used to hang out in MSN and Yahoo chat rooms. So the fact i never even heard of this kinda blows my mind lol.
Now I'm thinking you should do Second Life, Altered Realms, Than there's Project Entropia which became Entropia Universe, Sansar, InWorldz, Furcadia and Blue Mars. Wolfhome (which is just a chatroom with visual elements that you could move around. This was my first visual virtual world experience online after my time in AOL RP chatrooms.)
Aren't most of those still running? Don't get much publicity these days, but still alive.
Habbo Hotel was basically my 14 year old introverted escape from reality.
Do Gaia Online next.
"But kapinder, that's not a games, that's a chat site."
THEN WHY DO I FEEL LIKE I'M BEING PLAYED EVERYTIME I LOG IN?
🤡@kapinder123 cringe,corny 🤡
If you end up doing these kind of games, I definitely hope you look into Gaia online. It had a failing economy, games within the game like "zomg" which the items bloated the market so bad they locked items to players. Or the aquarium that had gold spaming glitches too.
Pool's closed. Form into Traditional Anti-Aids Shuriken formation.
Not even Batman could get me to confess to being a Master of Foreplay
This game taught me how to code when I was a kid. I wanted so desperately to have furni but didn't have the means I just started to program a server in apache to build a clone. I kinda failed but it was am amazing experience.
4:52 okay, lemme check the rules of the internet
**Opens Rule 34
Well it is a game set in a hotel
12:05 oh
I remember having one of the biggest trading rooms in the habbo, that is how learned and got interested in trading
same, and my like of market economies
i remember listening to habbo radio stations a ton back in the day
same!
This is one for the ages.
With the recent "revival" of Habbo Hotel via the Habbo Hotel Origins, this video is perfect timing.
Does anyone remember the Coke spin off of Habbo where you could make music? I need to watch some videos to relive those memories! Both Habbo and that game took a lot of my time!
Habbo had their mazes, casinos, and football games... The creativity of the community was astonishing now that I look back at it!
Yes Coke Music was also very popular, very clever with the music element. Spent a lot of time in there too.
I played the hell out of Habbo as a kid. Played the UK version before the North American servers were out. Then switched to the NA servers. Made an empire of casinos, games, employment centers/clubs, trade rooms. Got married in the game. Listened to the habbo online radio stations. Walked away for the better part of a decade. Realized how much money my account was worth. Got my eBay account banned trying to sell it. Then just gave it all away to random players. What a journey ❤
God, Habbo was HUGE in my rural australian primary school in the 2005-2006 era. I even won a writing contest Habbo hosted when I was 12, and got exclusive in game items as a reward! Which I then traded for coins because I was a child who could not buy my own in game currency and thought owning a club sofa would be WAY more cool than the rare exclusive event item I won......
As someone who never got a real chance to play Habbo, man, this is Luke seeing a train wreck happen, then somehow it gets worse by the second,but I cannot help but stare at it.
With that said,it's always funny to see what slangs people comes up with,and probably the previous generation call it the then equivalent 'brain rot', lol
As someone from Spain, our hotel was used by mexico/argentina users so you can easily see that it didn't end up well unlike US/UK.
It's safe to say that the biggest "branch" of Habbo was the .es branch of it, and I believe it was also the most played because well, all spanish-related languages would use it.
"Habbo hotel a name that is synonymous with..." pools closed.
I never knew Habbo existed until long after it was relevant learning about it for the first time after watching a video about the Pools Closed thing. I was mainly a Club Penguin kid in the 2000's while also dabbling in a few others like Wizard 101, Toontown, and 1 or 2 others I forget the names of.
I won a falling furni game and the host kicked me out… I never forgot it.
But alas, the game was a huge part of my childhood & I miss the feeling of logging in and roleplaying. Work in a Police department, hospital or just joining a school was so fun
Good stuff keep it up
I was on Habbo Italy in 2006-2010 period and later on private servers. Great memories, I have friends till this day, some of them I met in real life.
Ah Habbo Hotel. Played that when I was a kid... didn't know how to get furniture, got free furniture eventually, did Harry Potter roleplaying and then I just stopped playing and moved on to other things. Never knew about the Pools Closed meme until much much later and honestly, I didn't think much of the game after I left until now :D
Habbo Hotel was such a wild time. I joined so many different military groups over the years as a kid, its kind of wild that I ended becoming a pacifist in real life lmao.
I liked the personal stuff you added, had many similar experiences myself but with other social games
I didnt know that have waited for this until this one popped up!
Man I have such fond memories of Habbo. As a super depressed early-teenager it was one of the only places I felt like I could be myself and actually connect with people; because I sure as hell wasn't doing it in school.
Thanks for the trip down memory lane, and thank you for the hard work you do on all your videos.
Similar feelings
The amount of times someone scammed me by selling me two identical portals that weren't actually connected to one another but to some other random portal somewhere and thus useless...
Damn, I loved this game. I wasn't rich but I probably had more than most people thanks to my mom buying me some coins a couple times and getting lucky on trades. My Habbo profile says the last time I logged in was in 2014. I honestly thought it has been longer than that.
I even remember I had two accounts: The main one where I did everything, and another disposable one for scam sites that promised free coins if you put your username and password (I was a kid so in my mind one of them had to work, right?).
After this game I pretty much stopped playing online games and only played singleplayer ones.
I'm glad to finally learn about that game you kept mentioning :)
I don't remember hearing much about Habbo Hotel or Club Penguin here in France, as far as browser games go RuneScape had some players but only got localised in 2008 and by that time Dofus had saturated the market.
my first experience into the social internet was IMVU, which I them moved to Second Life a few years later. After that discord, and right now I'm a CZcams denizen and haven't been very social.
we need a death of game: Gaia Online
The pool remains closed.
Oh Habbo Hotel... it was a Bobba of a trip
Growing up with parents who couldn't give a shit about buying me membership (thank god they did), I became apart of the underground community playing on "Habbo retros", and dang I had so much fun, eventually setting up my own habbo retros. I really miss Habbo. 😢
You forgot to mention that the gambling part was also heavily exploited and abused. People were able to manipulate in their favor. So they always won. People made a lot of cash from this by scamming kids and other naive players.
Wonderful and insightful video. I was an incredibly active habbo from 2004-2012 i love finding these videos to feel nostalgia and reminisce. My only qualm is every habbo video i see primarily focuses on 4 things 1) pools closed 2)Police Investigation 3) great mute 4) gambling/ removing gambling.
Habbo had its own universe that then spread into msn/skype etc and i feel so much of what made habbo special. The games users would create, the roleplay enviroments, the different social circles, the fansite communities, the fact that uber popular shows like survivor and big brother were recreated. There was a habbo basketball association. Name that artist kept you in tune with modern music trends
It was well ahead of its time but we tend to only focus on the bad stuff
You've made me so happy with that next case introduction! I still have the original launcher and intro movie saved in my documents. So hype for the next one! 😎👍
That's awesome!
You should upload it to the internet archive as a piece of internet history
bro, the NOSTALGIA.
for old time's sake: Pool's closed.
Pools Closed due too gooning
Ah yes, the first scam experience I've had online.
This game still means so much to me. Half of my current friends wouldn't even know each if it weren't for Habbo.
Sure, we never played on the official servers. But here in Sweden, we had a massive retro server scene. Where I met one of my current best friends through a random motto with his skype username. This was 10 years in but to us, it never crossed our minds that it was in decline.
Wow, just wow.
I remember playing this when I was 9, joined the habbo marines and got bullied by teenagers that paid for the membership lmao. Those job rooms were wack
Pool’s closed
The nostalgia is actually crazy with this one..
YES! A new video!
I loved this game as a young kid. This was my jam before I found Runrscape haha. Used to run my own games like the spongebob quiz and the multi-game takeshis castle I ran was popular too 😁 loved it!
Yeah I used to get so many furmi due having a casino. Good times, roll 21.
My first online game holy shit
Many fond memories with Habbo Hotel, I was there for the Finnish servers when it launched :)
I remember playing this in my high school computer programming class in 2005-2007... simpler times!
Haha, this game just recently reopened it's legacy servers here in Finland.
Shout out to nerdSlayer Studios showing us some of his best named accounts in Habbo Hotel
I have never thought I would see a video here about Habbo Hotel.
THIS GAME MADE ME STEAL. I've sinned for habbo hotel. From then on, i know the dangers of microtransactions in any video games.
The fact that Habbo Hotel and Club Penguin are both dead is an internet travesty.
All the private habbo “retros” didn’t help them at all either. The community is now fractured among like 10 different hotels.
Damn, this brought back some memories lol. This game hasn't crossed my mind in a long time!
Is fresh hotel still open?
I loved playing Habbo when I was growing up. I played on the Danish version. I fucking miss it, although I got addicted to the casino, lmao. I was super rich though and had my own casino.
Watching this makes me so nostalgic 😢, amazing times ❤
Ah I remember this. It taught me about item flipping (buy low , sell high) which I still use today on mmorpgs and how mean the world could be.
Pretty much I was a high rank in a guild and I left for 3 days. Turns out drama happened and when I returned I was accused of something I had no idea, along with 3 others.
The truth was, the leader did shady stuff and blamed it on others before leaving and those lies ppl believed. The guy was later banned ironically and we all seperated over time.
The lie believers went to form their own guild when had more drama they tried to pin on others (which I used to tell ppl of the previous drama >;) which pretty much got them caught) and the rest stayed friends. I still remember Jamespm's name. It's me Twinthunmast!
Anyway I spent the last time on getting a throne, dragon set and old HC furni through only flipping and then visted everyone still around before leaving forever. Miss you all !
So did they ever reopen that pool?
can't wait for exteel soon
nice one detective!
Iirc that was one of the first f2p games I ever played (alongside DFO/DNF)!
Listening to him pronounce finnish names and words sounds hilarious, but aside from that love the video - this if anything is a true time capsule and a nostalgic callback for me personally, I still vividly remember in my childhood when Habbo Hotel was the hottest coolest thing, and I even remember finnish celebrities visiting the game - there was an event where a finnish jackass group called the "The Dudesons" held an open event in the game and it was exciting to get the feel of being in a same room with a celebrity but in-game, man that takes me back
I was there during pools closed, and I met my friend there, and we met up in Japan multiple times.
I can explain a lot about it. It was the weirdest thing lol
Space Station 13 has entered the room.
fair point