Too old for Habbo(x)?

[j0rd]

wow loved reading this thread

I don't use habbo, and haven't actively for about 4 years. Habbo may as well be non-existent for me, it's genuinely only Habbox that still keeps me around.

Even though Habbox is barely active, threads don't interest me and the majority of friends I have contact with outside the forum - I still find myself opening the forum just to see what's happening

I think it's impossible to pinpoint an age but it feel it's a lot down to the situation. Obviously the majority of us elders use Habbo(x) as either a force of habit or to socialise with friends, you can't put an age on that

[ItsMeerken]

I've got friends that are in their late 20's and still play the game, in my opinion around 28+ is too old for it as you may know with the whole Channel 4 thing that went on :/

[Conor]

what about if people are using the website as a coping mechanism or because they're lonely etc? is it acceptable then? i know in the past i used the site excessively because i was lonely and it sabotaged my real life.

People use the site for loads of different reasons, because they're bored, because they're lonely, because they want to make friends. Whatever it is, its completely up to them if they want to play or not.

[FlyingJesus]

I've got friends that are in their late 20's and still play the game, in my opinion around 28+ is too old for it as you may know with the whole Channel 4 thing that went on :/

Are you suggesting that everyone over the age of 28 is a paedophile?
It's very worrying the number of people who don't seem to think people can interact with youngsters without trying to have sex with them

[Zak]

I still play games. I probably always will. I was playing Pokemon Blue yesterday, a game that's 20 years old (in Japan). Does that mean I'm too old for Pokemon?

[Empired]

Are you suggesting that everyone over the age of 28 is a paedophile?
It's very worrying the number of people who don't seem to think people can interact with youngsters without trying to have sex with them

What I was thinking.

Plus I should think the majority of the evidence they found on the C4 'scandal' will be stupid hormonal boys whose brain is located in their pants begging "ADD ME 4 CAM LADIES" even though they haven't actually hit puberty so there's nothing of them to see.

[Inseriousity.]

I constantly have this argument with my brother. My brother is 21 and we both joined Habbo around the same time but he left when he was 15 cos he thought he was too old for it. He now thinks that because he's not playing it because he's too old, I shouldn't be allowed to play it (include Runescape in this too because I tend to switch between the two). He thinks I should be a normal person who goes out, gets drunk, goes out some more, gets drunk some more and it doesn't seem to cross his head that perhaps I just don't want to do that? Maybe just maybe I am not actually depressed or lonely. I've always felt more lonely at parties even though there are tons of people there. Perhaps it's simply because I have decided to do the things I want to do, that I enjoy, rather than do things I don't want to just because they're the norm.

Admittedly, Habbox has become less enjoyable over the years and I seem to log on out of a sense of loyalty rather than because I like the people here. I do of course but like Tom, I very rarely speak to any of you. My whole day used to be about juggling multiple conversations with different people here. Now, I see people's names and wonder who they are but that's how it should be. People move on not because they're too old* but because that's life.

*that graph in the OP is pretty terrifying though, ngl

[scottish]

http://www.kzero.co.uk/blog/avg-user...try-for-habbo/

[e5]

I'm 21, soon to be 22. I've naturally stopped using Habbo and Habbox but still occasionally play just because I can. I don't think there's an age. If you play the game as its intended and follow the rules, play until you're 90!

[RyRy]

Wow, I feel like you took that way more personally than it was intended, your response is very telling and I suspect it's not the first time you've heard that opinion, probably from somebody IRL!

Alas, I wasnt telling anybody how to live their life, I was stating my opinion however popular or unpopular that may be. If you don't like that opinion, fine, but no need to get all personal over somebody just airing their thoughts.

That's such a weird attitude to take. "Ew you should stop doing that hobby you enjoy because you're too old" just seems depressing. Nothing to be embarrassed about if you're 25 and still enjoy being HxHD staff, and I don't think it's anyone else's place to be telling you you should stop enjoying something because you should be getting a house lol!

Habbox has been an important part of my life - it's offered me friends when I was too socially anxious to leave the house and I'm so glad I found it. I'm sure there are a lot of people in fairly similar situations to me and it's nice to want to give something back to a community that's been such a big part of many of our lives.

If you've got to a point where you don't need Habbox anymore, Ryan, then I congratulate you and you're in a better place than I am. But don't tell the rest of us what we should/shouldn't be doing and then try and make up up for it with a quick "each to their own though lolz" bolted on at the end. We all go through things at our own pace.