Hey Trolligarch. If you're still actively making videos contact me. I have some interesting info similar to this on a game called OurWorld which has fallen into anarchy. Could make an interesting short video.
In the video you said you couldn't rig dice, This isn't correct, with wired you can force the dice to a certain state with a trigger so it can be possible it's just hard to get away with
Trolligarch check out PIMD(Party in my Dorm). A “role playing” game where real money gets you the latest furniture, avatars, items, and it can be sold for real money on what ATA devs call the black market.
Zer Daddy i used to own a casino and just open and reclose it with all the inested money and pretty much the same people would come back without knowing and then in a week u just close the casino and reopen it with free profit
The problem is, pyramid schemes rely on retards to literally sign themselves up for the scam. Most people at least have a bit of sense unlike the kids that played habbo.
I once worked for 4 hours straight on habbo without anyone paying me, I accidentally logged off and while I tried to explain what happened to the people in the game I cried in real life. I didn't get paid
My cousin use to go to populated areas in runescape and say “anyone need a gf” and then she would say it would cost 300 coin and as soon as they made the transfer she would block them
İbrahim Belen this isn’t garanteed and I hate people who spam beg at GE, but I was my poor self, saying funny things for money, selling ‘funny’ things (‘selling weed’ *gives grass rune*) and some guy traded with me , gave me 10 mil and full iron gilded and after my thank you s, left. I spent at least 5 mil giving back, doing rune scim drop parties and exposing scammers, buying other people’s funny shit, just donating. Such a fun rewarding experience. People can just donate millions to you if you stick around long enough
Ah I remember playing Habbo. I never understood how agencies worked and why someone would pay real money to pay fake money to people for just standing around "working security" or if there were even real people behind them, so I was jobless and broke and just goofed around the edges of the Habbo society with my friends, doing nothing of actual value. Wait a minute, that's just my life right now. What the fuck.
when i used to play habbo years back, I had a job and was able to be promoted to a high position after months of “working.” It was super fuuunnn thoo. I miss playing habbo
Even when I was on it as a 13 year old (and never spending any real money), something felt very dark about this game. The weirdest story I have is when I entered a room and started speaking old English, so people started listening to me and thinking I was like some religious figure or something and then this 18-year-old started messaging me for advice about whether he should convert to Islam in order to marry his long-term girlfriend 😂I freaked out a little and told him I was just a 13-year-old kid so the conversation ended pretty quickly after that.
and its always rigged... without exception ^)^ I havnt watched this one yet but if the maker of the video didn't mention keylogging and habbo radio scams then he hasn't scratched the surface yet
I literally wasted all my day in this game with my friend. I remember forcing her to find a rich bf and when he gives coins to her, I would get the half. Best way to get rich in Habbo 11/10
I like how, even in a game with no direct connection to real life unregulated capitalistic economics, still happened to create every single example of it. Casinos, pyramid schemes, rigged games with no end goals, monopolies, you name it.
Money systems in these type of sites always end up horribly wrong. Whether they turn the whole site into a simulation of anarcho-capitalism or hyperinflate into oblivion.
money systems in games go infinitely deep the moment you give players the ability to trade goods/money, and its usually inflation. animal crossing players make you spend millions for things they didnt even work to get, neopets has players spending millions and millions of money to make their pet look cool, prices of some things in final fantasy 11 went up tenfold, etc. EVE Online is pretty much one of the most resilient virtual economies in human history but that is an absolute miracle with so many devastated economies around because people either get lucky and find an item highly in demand with no supply to support the demand or people dupe things or farm items that should be worth more than they become. It especially gets messy with real life money because the moment money trading is added especially without heavy moderation everywhere people will sell virtual money for real money it doesnt get nearly as interesting but having a system where you can only buy and sell directly with NPCs is something you could do to make an economy basically flatline and never get crazy and do dumb things, like the video mentions Club Penguin which only let you buy from NPCs so the economy never even had a chance to mess up I think an mmo rpg that has a nice middleground is what Wizard101 did quite honestly with the Bazaar where you can buy and sell equipment and crafting recipes to an NPC but you dont get the freedom to rack up the price and instead the price automatically goes up and down depending on how many are in stock that players sold to him, and all items bought with the Real Life Money Currency cannot be sold or bought there
When I was 12 years old someone told me that if I put my password in the chat box and pressed some keys on the keyboard, a funny emoticon would appear, and when I did it he stole all my stuff. It's been 10 years and it still makes me angry that I fell for that smh.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Dude, I am literally wheezing right now. Oldest, and I mean, OLDEST fucking trick in the book!
Habbo has one very major difference from a normal deregulated economy. It was an economy without any form of wealth creation. No primary or secondary industries means that the economy becomes a zero sum game, and only way to make money is effectively exploitative.
That's what I thought. People tend to think that captalism is a zero sum game like Habbo, when in reality wealth can and is created by making ir producing New things. Wealth then is measured by the amount of things and services that can be achived by one's limites resources
Nicotavo Nick is wealth created though? Things are created services are created. Peoples wealth gets distributed differently based on new things and services. But is new wealth actually being generated or just redistributed?
The one major difference between Habbo and anarcho-capitalism is that Habbo can magically assure that there is no violence or straightforwards property theft.
@@desmondbrown5508 My actual line of thought in posting that comment was that in an ordinary situation anarcho-capitalism wouldn't work because the workers could simply seize the means of production because capitalism requires a State to function
@@firetarrasque4667 not necessarily the black market trade says otherwise... money is just a representation of value so if money no longer has value we would just go back to trade/bartering... there need not be any state just have something thats valuable that someone wants more than you...
I had like 3 habbo girlfriends and when one would teleport to me seeing me with another one they would start arguing and cursing me out lmaoooo good times
@@iratepirate3896 thats actually true lots of them look the same and are really dumb and trashy but some of them can be nice(sadly i never met a nice one)
I played Habbo Hotel some 18 years ago. I’m 28 now. Everything he says in this video was true even back then. Moderators existed, but pretty much no matter what you did in private rooms they didn’t bother. Only place there was reason to fear them was at the large public rooms like the pool, because if you said simply mean things there you got blocked out pretty quickly for a while. The non-moderation in private rooms lead to incredible scamming culture. Me and my friend were accumulating a shared stash of items to run our own little casino. I don't think you could pass coins/credits back then or maybe just no one had them. We got furniture as payment by participating in agencies like in the video and trying to play casino games but the latter never worked out because even at the fairest the odds were 50/50. Working in agencies was rough. Back then they were mostly “militaries” and generally hazed newcomers. You’d have to do some sort of squats where you sit in a chair and stand up for 1000 reps. Once you got through hazing and they got to know you they’d easy up though, and you’d be given certain control in their rooms. I think we simply loaned some items from the military to run our scam casino, because the military had begun trusting us enough. If you messed with them they’d do all in their power to hit back because they generally had little to do and they were the military after all. I think I remember some times when we attacked some "enemy" rooms, entering them and spamming text that offended them. There was no room-wide mute. If there was no one with rights to the room present you could cover the entire room with text bubbles. When we finally reached enough furniture to prop up a cheap-looking, bare-bones casino, we immediately ran a scamming operation from the get-go without even any experience at running a casino. The usual tactic most casinos seemed to do was have a friend win. We sucked at the chair game so bad that even with us co-operating someone else would always end up winning, but at that point we'd just have to pretty conspicuously kick them out and pretend like nothing happened. They might keep returning to the room, because you couldn't block people from entering. If it got too bad we might have to start up another room or even transfer our items to new characters by one of us acting as the middleman. But even like this, somehow, you'd find people willing to play. The stuff they wagered was always the cheapest brown trash that no one wanted even as currency, so we didn't exactly make bank. We had a room full of brown trash and a few loaned colorful items, that's about it. The best thing you could do in Habbo, and which was heavily influenced by how rich you appeared, was to have cyber sex. There were pair beds two people could get in, and then you’d write in text how you’d have sex. It was run by the imagination of little kids, so it was pretty much what you’d expect. You’d also constantly be out of sync. In fact the usual reason for us two to enter the public rooms and especially the dance club was to find cyber sex partners. It was pretty fun in itself to hit on girls, Night at the Roxbury style. I don’t think we ever got banned really. We just drifted to other games like Runescape, where we were scamming people into entering the Wilderness by one of us teaming up with someone random to gank others, but that person just ending up getting ganked themselves.
wow what a trip, thanks for sharing your detailed story. Yeah, it's funny how we get sucked into the very system we hate. For me I also joined an agency, but more social one later on, I enjoyed making friends aspect and wasn't in it for the money. Maybe if you had the chance to have that experience, you or perhaps others could enjoy the social and community part of habbo . Anyways just my short experience role playing was fun for me in this game and what I remember fondly.
fam, 2003-2012 was legit the years i sat and rinsed 9 years of my life into this game, gambling gold bars and shit in the casino fml. now it feels like a prison sentence looking back lmao. ngl though i did have some funny times on this game.
I was a dealer in a decent casino and I was making bank off it. I haven't played in years and didn't know gambling was banned now. I wish I could go back to those days
I was thinking the same thing and I only played from 08 till 2014. Still had a good time though w my real life friends scamming people and being like 12 years old. I wouldn’t change it
I remember my brother's friend created a website that allowed him to know the account and password of anyone who enters it while having Habbo open. He got alot of coins like that. I was 8 at the time so it didn't occured to me that it was theft until I thought about it recently. Habbo really was a cesspoll, wasn't it?
I remember when I was 9 I fell for one of those scam websites and all my coins got stolen. I cried the whole day, but learned a valuable lesson. And fuck your friend
These type of games with econonies that mimic real-life, incentivize scamming, and obeying higher bosses imitating reality, is 100x more entertaining than any other type of game
As a student of economics I'm always fascinated to see what i study in theory, with rather counterintuitive mathematical models, appear so brightly in many games.
@@francescoazzoni3445 It's fascinating for me to see just how depraved communities can become, and those types of communities happen to be gold mines of psychological, moral & social decay. Knowledge is fun... when you're the one in control. To me, economics are fascinating... until it starts to involve heavy social engineering & exploitation of people on a large scale. At that point it just becomes repulsive and frankly sociopathic in nature.
You need to watch/read about 2b2t, it's a Minecraft Anarchy server and researching the main history is genuinely some of the most entertaining things I've ever seen on the internet.
The scam I hated the most as a kid was when someone sold you a teleporter that didn't work. Every elevator, closet, phonebooth, and porta-potty is made as a pair such that you walk into one and come out the other. Each has a unique ID for itself and its twin, and these can't be changed. There's no safeguard preventing people from separating pairs, so people often sell single ones to noobs or two that aren't linked. You can't ask them to show you that they work because they could easily demo a working pair but sell you different ones. 1 in 1 million chance you walk through a teleporter and meet whoever got scammed with the other one, but people don't normally bother putting them out. There are countless broken teleporters floating in cyberspace because of this. As a programmer, I consider this an awful mechanic.
lmao I remember the teleports. Actually pretty cool that you could teleport, if it was a workable pair lol, to other people's room. It was a nice feature. But yea I feel the emotions on this.
“I am Andrew Ryan, and I am here to ask you a question. Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? 'No,' says the man in Washington, 'it belongs to the poor.' 'No,' says the man in the Vatican, 'it belongs to God.' 'No,' says the man in Moscow, 'it belongs to everyone.' I rejected those answers. Instead, I chose something different. I chose the impossible. I chose… Rapture. A city where the artist would not fear the censor, where the scientist would not be bound by petty morality, where the great would not be constrained by the small. And with the sweat of your brow, Rapture can become your city, as well.”
Eve online is still more badass, having people using years on infiltration and spying to get information or close down a rivaled corporation, or steal ships and assets.
The difference is that EVE has a sense of community. People didn't want an unregulated environment, so they self-regulated in many places. Habbo lacks that sense of community. That's why agencies aren't an arrangement of work like EVE's corporations, but straight up pyramid schemes.
@@kabobawsome I look at it in another way. Basically, libertarianism can't work in real life. Like the way the goons went after recruiting noobs and then roflstomped the smaller elite alliances under the sheer weight of numbers. And then everyone else had to follow, and EVE got three gigantic space battles.
The two things I loved doing on habbo as a kid were: Scamming children with the dice Getting into corporations by using the ghost effect and back clothing wich made you almost invisible
There is something called the "Crazy chair" The owner moves chairs around for all of the people but one. If you're left without a chair you're gone unless you buy lifes (A credit, a life. Furniture accepted) When you win, you're told you're in for a final, so they sit you in some sort of winner seat. While noone pays attention, they ban you
He kinda did explain it, though. Like, I remember how my teachers used to mark powerpoints with one or two words every page much higher than powerpoints that spew information, because the lion's share of the effort is in the verbal explanation.
@@pedesromanus657 Pedos in a nationalized system doesn't change that people selling kids as child slaves aren't exactly lawful individuals that wouldn't dare to do it in broad daylight if they had the chance
This brings back some good memories. It's so true about the power statement. Being a coinless scrub lining up for hours to maybe get a duck here and there was a brutal life. I used to work at a Falling Furnie room, and I felt so powerful being in charge of the game. Eventually the owner of the room quit and gave it all to me, and I felt like an absolute king. My personal room looked so baller, and I had so many teleporters I must've made 20 maze games and a private club. I was raking in so much money and rising the social ladder so quickly. It was magical. Almost makes me want to log in on Habbo again... almost... Of course this video was supposed to display how bad this stuff was... erm... bad habbo! Bad!
im a 30 year old man and i logged back in the other day, i played when i was a kid, like 12-15, there is something so awesome about habbo, i had a very similar story, someone gave me a duck when i started and i traded and traded and traded up and got rich off just trading and going to giveaways and fallin furni and casinos, it was so fun gertting a throne and a dino and the mazes, i literally still crave to this day
In terms of the "giveaways" section, you forgot to mention that you have the ability to 'stack' furniture into eachother, so people end up stacking about 100 of the teleporters into eachother on each of the "losing" spots. and only one on the "winning" spot. this ensures that you have an even greater monetary value after fast pass, super fast pass and ultra super fast pass purchases (yes, there usually is that many). sources: me, making bank off kids on habbo
@@pergioserez You could actually see if there were stacked items, because they'd usually become brighter as more items were stacked, so it wasn't that it was a secret, it was more that you didn't know the odds, as you would do with a dice.
It seems like a massive benefit of virtual games is to have social experiments or economic experiments in a much more ethical way than to attempt it in real life
That is exactly the reason why I watch stuff like this as an econ major lol. This one is more of a hilarious story than anything actually usable by a scientist though. Habbo didn't have a real way of generating value, so it's entire economy had to be based upon scams and exploitation by design. Totally interesting and fun to listen to, but not really applicable to the real world.
i hope no kid has a lifelong gambling addiction bc they spent all their allowance on coins but fr there is so much to learn about our capitalism from this lord of the flies version
@@mylhouse0887 Good point, I wonder how susceptible kids are to gambling addiction compared to adults? As a kid I spent my allowance on similar virtual nothings, and it only taught me what a waste it is
@@TV-8-301 I know I'm late to the party, but the answer is more vulnerable than adults. I work in addictions and research suggests kids age 12 are about 8 times more likely to develop an addiction than an 18 year old, and 18 year olds are about 8 times more likely than 25 year olds to develop addictions. So 12 year olds are very vulnerable, from the perspective of addiction treatment professionals. The earlier you're exposed to a substance or behavioral process, the more likely you are to develop an addiction, up until about age 25, since that's about when your brain is fully developed
@@mylhouse0887 "we herd u liek smoking weed, so we banned it **oops** here have these really dodgy synthetic cannabinoids instead lol hope you enjoy psych wards"
Man I played habbo for so long and I feel like I just never did it right. I didn't ever get involved heavily in casinos or mafias/agencies/armies. I was a VIP in a lot of mafias/armies but I never paid for it, I just befriended people and eventually I'd be given VIP. I played a lot of games like falling furni and costume change but never for the prizes, I just enjoyed the games. My favourite thing ever was habbo mazes, god I loved the mazes.
When your boss violates the NAP when he underpays you for your job. So you retaliate by launching your army of 600 recreational nukes on the McArmyBaseTM which your boss owns.
This game taught me an important lesson about scamming and trust. When i was just 11 years old, bought my first coins and some furni (green sofas, some regular dice) hoping to start my own casino. Someone that was helping me build the room befriended me and managed to phish just enough info out of me to take over my account and steal all my furni. Learned to never trust people online and have never been scammed again! Shouts out to whoever stole the furni from Clasik back in 2007. RIP Habbo.
you should watch Red Bard's Gaia Online vid and Izzzyzzz's Animal Jam vid if you want more of that sweet sweet "online game turned capitalist nightmare" fuel
My first ever experience striking was on Habbo. I was one of those “models” that would judge other people’s looks. Anyway, long story short the owner of the modelling room wanted to start charging us for using the room to judge other people (it was all in good fun). All of the “judges” private messages each other and stopped visiting the room so her room wasn’t popular anymore. Good times 😂
@@theblackkoopa2329 The same place with looser morals and slightly fewer friends. You can't make any money on sites like Habbo. There's nothing to spend the coins on so there's not much demand.
@Tom Guadalupe Lol this was a cute innocent game for most players but this shit was mental. I made around 100 euros on this game when I was 12 years old. We made casinos with big groups of people, but as you know: the house always wins.
@Tom Guadalupe I really don't think it was ever a cute innocent game; I played back in 2010; people were just gambling, cybering and shit-talking. It was a pretty eye open introduction to the internet.
A guy at my school once made a Habbo hotel and almost everyone at our school was on it. He gave me money to buy furniture and I build the nicest room in the whole hotel. It was a park with a river and a bench. Every time I think about that period in my life, it makes me happy. The guy who made the hotel even set it as the "home room" of the hotel.
@@DrCanary i didn't get a single credit in three days of being there. they literally just try and fool you into thinking that you're getting closer to being paid the whole time. they promoted me every 10 minutes, told me that payment was closed for the day but that i could get "promotion _as payment"_ to avoid paying me, then the next day i had someone promote me to advertiser for no reason instead of telling me how to get my fucking pay badge... then eventually, when i hounded them for details enough, they brought up "online time points" which, surprise surprise, had not been mentioned at any point before. they just keep stringing you along like you're their lapdog, which would actually be amusing if it wasn't so depressing.
Impressive documentary. You have a knack for this and I would love if you made more on other Habbo subjects. It can be enticing to fall into the trap of scams and con games. Most users are kids who lack a solid sense of self and moral compass, and so they watch their peers find success by conducting themselves in duplicitous ways, and so they start doing the same. With the lack of moderation scamming quickly becomes the best way to get ahead, other than, you know, actually buying credits the legit way. As a child on Habbo Hotel I was not immune to this type of behaviour myself. I would host falling furniture games and collect people's payments to stay without any intention of handing out a prize. I built up a foundation of wealth at the expense of other users. I'm not proud of it. As the years passed, though, I realized there was a better way to make credits without compromising on my values in the process. I learned how to play the market. I made smart investments in rare furniture that rose in value over the years. I became even more wealthy that way than I did by scamming others. Scamming is so alluring because it is the quickest way to gain wealth, but as scamming becomes more commonplace people become smarter to the ways of scammers. People are continually inventing new ways to make a buck, usually at the expense of someone else. It's a corrupt system and one that I now refuse to participate in. Would I take any of it back? No. I think Habbo is actually a GREAT learning experience for teenagers. It's like a replication of the real world, but online. You toughen up quickly, and if you're smart you learn not to replicate the mistakes you made on Habbo in real life. So, while on the surface someone might think it is awful for teenagers to be exposed to a world like this, I quite think it's the opposite. This game is like a test run of real life - the problem is that some people never make their way back into the real world.
This game was too frustrating to enjoy when I was a teenager. I had actually had furni because I got a rich habbo bf for the furni. I had cyber sex for furni. Then my friends got Habbo and instantly everyone demanded “GIVE ME YOUR FURNI”. Hotel Hideaway is better because no one has to trade things for anything in return.
Doll Parts x was it that fake cyber sex I used to see people having all the time, where they’d talk dirty and put the avatars next to each other? If it was real cyber sex, I’m sorry to hear that. I stopped playing the game because social capital and not socializing was the focus of the game. I preferred to log on to other chatrooms where people actually wanted to talk instead of bragging about cyber shit they bought with their mom’s credit card.
I used to have a friend who would give me furni but my dumbass fell for those free coins scams and they took all my furni so i swapped to playing Zap Hotel LMAO
Just wondering though, is it still mostly teenagers in 2019? I recently logged in (not the English hotel) and it was mostly 18/20+ people hanging out for nostalgia
There’s nothing nostalgia anymore about habbo, as a long time player since 2005... I think it’s pure shit since about 2010-2011 Recently logged in again because I was curious, saw almost nothing else than FBI and CIA agencies in the navigator, 10+ fansites was reduced to 1 and stuff like 1 credit coin costing 2 credits (dafuq?) Still find it so weird that I saw many well known habbo’s from back in the days still online now....they must be almost 30 now ....still...playing...habbo...fucking...hotel
Not sure what OLGMC is talking about, must be a retro. But Habbo itself still has quite a few Agencies running, CIA hasn't been running for quite a long time. Surprisingly the population is very decent still.
my favorite thing was to take the jackhammer and push the button to pull it out repeatedly so that it looked like my penguin was rummaging around behind his back and then type in all caps I HAVE A GUN!!!!!!
@Hotsam Noirchards He clearly made a Rick And Morty reference, inciting that he is joking. But you took it too serious expounding your point which just made you look butthurt, chill man.
I got scammed once, and it changed my life, for real. I started scamming people in every game i played, first Habbo with those fake free credits sites and then maplestory, with the same idea. I got so many credits in habbo doing this, but since i didnt care about real money at the time, I gave it all away. Habbo really taught me how to behave in a capitalist society and not to trust anyone. fuck
I think that kids should be taught this, otherwise we will have a generation of kids who dont see scams coming or dont understand how casinos make money
you can make money at a casino but you need to know how to play the system... they will often let you win a few hands to draw you in after all whats fun about a game where you always lose? win what few hands you can and know when you should walk away or go to the net game...
@@bangtanfoxy depends on the place and how buisy they are you eventually get a feel for it but if you have good situational awareness you tend to catch the local trend faster
Not really, there is a state. Private property is there and violence is not possible. If it was possible to steal and kill, an actual state would emerge.
@@somethingwithbungalows I think that if they introduce stealing, violence and some kind of punishment for dying (long respawn time) some form of state would emerge
@@francescoazzoni3445 I happen to be a programmer with nothing much to do (I mean that's not really a title, Anyone can program nowadays), Think I should try to make a similar game dedicated to anarchy and unfair rule?
Basically all my habbo friends quit when they banned casinos, they were such a core part of the gameplay loop. - Play games in peoples rooms - Sometimes win prizes - Take those prizes and gamble them in casinos - Usually lose it all and start over The prizes started feeling worthless when you could only use them to decorate your room instead of using them to gamble
All it took was me and a friend acting as a "customer" and we ran a scam falling furni game. Raked in a rediculous amount of furni in the 2 hours we ran this scam over our saturday afternoon. God I miss elementary school
I remember getting coins by stealing my father’s cellphone to send those messages that would get you some coins. Then i would complain to the cellphone company that I hadn’t sent any of those messages so I could have the money back. I did it for months and i get many coins without spending any real money. I lied a lot for habbo
Glad to see someone talking about this game. Truly one of my favorites. This is a perfect example of what kind of place the internet was in the 2000s. In my opinion some of the best games were happening at this time. Thanks sulake, jagax, wizet, blizzard and valve
I played on the alternative servers where you started with thousands of coins. We were like 10 people in there and we ended up being super close friends. All without spending a single cent.
Pool's closed due to AIDS. Those were the days. When the raids happened. Back when anonymous did habbo raids. We would design our characters with black suits and afros and would block passageways and cause chaos. We had scripts that would detect moderators, spam chat, and unban ourselves and cause chaos again. Memes were very different back in the days. It had a more underground feeling to it.
I made this video quite a while back actually. It took me seven attempts to upload this damn video, and it was one of the most stressful weeks I've ever had (and the stress was self-imposed too). First, I tried rendering my video (i.e. making it into an actual watchable file) and my editor crashed every time. I reckoned my editor was killing my device so I switched to a PC. It took me around four attempts of my editor crashing at various percentages from 14% to 28% to 50% for me to finally realise that turning my device into a portable microwave may not necessarily be a good thing. Then I tried exporting my project onto PC. All of the clips were corrupted for some reason and I had to manually replace every file I ever used. Next I tried to render my video on my PC. My video was rendered at 89% - and mind you, to get here, you had to wait an entire hour - only for my hard drive to tell me it ran out of memory and my editor told me "Rendering failed." Then I moved all of my files away from my hard drive and onto a separate data storage. Point is, uploading this video took way more hassle than it should've. I hope you enjoyed my video regardless!
I haven't been on Habbo for over a decade but I played this game back when it first came to the English speaking market in 2001 and I can confirm that it turned teenagers into ruthless little shits. If I had all day to go on about it, I could tell some absolutely mental stories about the early days of the scamming, hacking and gambling I saw on the UK hotel, but one always stood out to me just because of how much money the guy made out of it and how efficient his method was. I remember being friends with this dude who accidentally discovered a method for getting his hands on massive quantities of thrones and other rare items very quickly while he was hacking accounts that had fancy usernames. He quickly noticed that a lot of these accounts that were registered before a very specific date had a gift from the old hotel manager called ione, and said gifts contained one of three items: a russian samovar, a holo boy, or a throne. Needless to say, the mission quickly shifted from "hack accounts with rare names and sell them" to "hack any accounts created before XX.XX.02, steal their ione gift and move onto the next one". As far as I am aware, he got quite a few thousand thrones out of doing this, and managed to flood the economy with so many russian samovars that the value of them crashed completely for a while. Just to top this one off, the same guy made literally tens of thousands of pounds selling said items and other stuff that he got his mits on for real money via UK bank transfer. I even remember one occasion when he bought himself a Golf GTi with some of the proceeds and bragged about it on a Habbo hacking/scripting forum sometime around 2006. I fucking swear that not a word of this is made up, you might even be able to find a bit about it if you ask around or look on the Wayback Machine. He was one of the biggest casino dealers on the UK hotel, and I guarantee that you'd know his name if I were to share it. Thanks for the blast from the past OP, gave me a laugh at the 2:40 mark. Hope you liked my story :^)
Would you mind doing an interview at some point? If you could, could you join my Discord. I have tons of questions and I'm working on a new video actually (but don't want to give too much away!)
@@wolfzmusic9706 Okay, so here's a TL;DR response for you because this isn't easy to sum up in short: Back when I used to play in the early - mid 2000's, people defined "rare" names as usernames that were either real words, or real peoples first names. So for example, the name "Cool" would be considered rare, but "Cool1985" wouldn't be considered rare, and "Kyle" would be considered rare, but "SuperCoolKidKyle" wouldn't be. They were considered "rare" because they were VERY rarely seen around the game due to the vast majority of them being registered in 2001 and 2002 in the games infancy, so most people who claimed these names didn't play anymore. They became desirable in part because they looked nicer than "normal" names, and in part because they came with the status of "I joined early enough to get a rare name." I feel it's also worth noting that names also varied in value a lot depending on exactly *what* words they were, so for example "God" would be worth a lot more than "Photosynthesis" or whatever. The way people came to decide this sort of thing was based off of how *desirable* the word was to have as a username, but ultimately it was personal preference. One name might be worth a lot to one person but worth absolutely nothing to someone else. Real persons names are often a good example of this unless they're extremely common ones that can be sold quickly. Sometimes usernames that didn't fit the above criteria were also considered rare because they either contained special characters that were no longer able to be registered such as < _ > + / ~ \ $ % (etc.), or they were ridiculously short in length (as in 1 - 2 characters). I actually remember my friend who had name "0-" on the UK hotel getting into an argument with someone over whether or not his username should be considered rare because "It's not a word and there's loads of 2 character names around" - Weird stuff. People actually stopped calling them rare usernames in (somewhat) recent years and started calling them "OG" names from what I know. Anyway, as for your other question: "wouldnt you pick your own username?" Yes and no. Picked? Yes, totally. Registered it yourself? Not necessarily, no. Back in the mid 2000's, literally thousands of usernames on Habbo (and other sites too, actually) got stolen by having their passwords bruteforced because people decided that they wanted a specific username that was taken but left unused by whoever created it. Going over the history of bruteforcing accounts for their usernames is a whole other story in itself though, and I don't really feel like OP's comment section is the place for it. As a pretty funny side-note to all of this, I decided to login to Habbo again recently to have a look at what was going on, and I came across 3 accounts that belonged to a few friends of mine back in the day, and NONE of them are owned by the same people they were 10+ years ago, but the owners are apparently recognised as oldschool members of the community, and one of them is actually quite famous now apparently. The more things change, the more things stay the same I guess :^) Hope this reply helped clear up any confusion. I know it's probably hard to understand any of this unless you've come across it before.
10 year old me: *starts playing habbo* > let's see... all the cool stuff costs coins > how do I get these? *10 minutes later* "WHAT? I HAVE TO WORK AN HOUR FOR ONLY 1 COIN WHILE THOSE BITCH ASS PRETENTIOUS ASSHOLES BOSS ME AROUND???" 10 year old me: *stops playing habbo*
this game was so addictive as a kid. I would roleplay on there a lot (I remember being really fond of airplane roleplay rooms but then it'd get sad quick when people pretended to be terrorists, huge yikes all around). One time my older brother and I were messing around and dressed up as "hobo santa claus", found a scraggly looking kid, convinced him he was "shovels the elf", the orphan that wraps bodies instead of presents, the guy totally went along with it, we confused the shit out of a bunch of people, and I still think about it from time to time. I enjoyed the day I spent with shovels the elf so much, I wonder if he's still out there and remembers this wild fucking stuff that we did like I do. Weird, weird memories.
just commenting so people know i read a comment by someone who watched a video on anarchy and capitalism and habbo after watching a video on anarchy and capitalism and habbo
