Habbo Armageddon of 2021

The Great Fluke

Habbo Armageddon started in December 31, 2020 and continued onto late February 2021. Basically what happened was Habbo was given an incredible length of time to develop of Habbo client that could exist after Adobe Flash was discontinued. Instead, they stumbled. When flash died, habbo users were given a new version of Habbo called Habbo Beta. This new version was built to be very close in design to Hotel Hideaway, Sulake's new virtual space game. Due to the poor practical and aesthetic design, this turned off the entire Habbo userbase from playing Habbo. And not only were habbos given this low-quality version of their game, but Habbo also decided to tax their credit earnings, and discontinue direct trading of any sort. This truly showed how out of touch Sulake had become with the Habbo community because those implementatins suddenly dissolved entire sections of the community that relied on trading and credit sharing. Agencies, fansites, game rooms etc. This is already ontop of the poor aesthetic design of the new beta. Thus, a mass exodus of Habbo began with users fleeing to retros, hotel hideaway, other games, or just quitting.

The Exodus

Because the main game had become unplayable, many habbos that were previously enjoying their time with their cliques and friends started to use other habbo-like sites. Many habbo regulars and chatroom-style habbos moved to habboon. Many hood-athlete and gamer habbos moved to PeakRP. Habbo cliques even moved to Hotel Hideaway where they ended up being reminded that most of them were now grown adults. The other retros used flash desktop clients causing pretty much no hassle to their userbase.

Quackity and Souljaboy Suprise Celebrity Feature

During this time, Quackity decided to raid habbo with a Hillary Clinton and Pitbull themed raid. Unfortunately, he came back to Habbo Beta and agreed that Sulake ruined the game. Quackity starts a #NOTMYHABBO movement, which causes many habbo rooms to change their room name to it. Quackity proceeded with this raid and crashed most Habbo rooms. He went onto raid other games and crashed 6 games in total. While this was happening, souljaboy heard word of this and during his GTA Twitch stream decided to join the Quackity raid. Quackity left shortly after probably shocked at the suprised soulja feature, which also shook the confused habbo community experiencing the mayham of all the different things happening. Habbos proceeded to go onto soulja's stream and flock him from room to room. He performed a concert in the theatredome (which Habbo made off-access shortly after for some reason), and then went back to his room. There, he was given credits by users and built a room while making a rap about Habbo. Soulja left and proceeded to come on the next day and continued building his room, habbos flocking yet again. He left shortly after and the habbo community realized that the habbo probably wouldn't beat the peaks of the past two days for a very very long time, if not ever.

Habbo's Last Stand

Sulake eventually realizes their userbase has moved to the retros and the folly of their actions. They quickly reintroduce trading and eventually develop a desktop client just like the retros. They then go on a campaign to win back their userbase by giving everyone a Dragon Lamp and 2 months of daily prizes. They also try to deter users from using retros with an anti-retro badge. Still, users are not coming back. Luckily, habbo users start hosting games, creating drama, and starting new movements, all combining in a successful effort to revive the game.

Habbo's Recovery

Habbo eventually recovers, deservingly humbled by the whole experience for not valuing their userbase and failing to prepare for change. Habbo still experienced a significant loss in its population, but is now active enough that a big difference cannot be seen anymore from before and after Habbo Armageddon.