Habbo's 'Hotel Hideaway' Now Available After Lengthy, Unorthodox Soft Launch
The long-running Habbo franchise gets its latest game, out now on mobile, called Hotel Hideaway [Free], and it's a social MMO where you get to interact with other hotel denizens on a giant, permanent vacation resort. You can do all sorts of stuff. You can spin the wheel for prizes, you can buy new outfits, get a new hair color, mine for new materials from interdimensional rifts...you know, typical vacation stuff. There's also a whole gesture system where you can combine different body parts and movements to do different things, like shaking a giant foam fist at other people. The whole game's a lot about interaction and talking with people, so please don't be a jerk. This hotel is supposed to be classy, don't go telling people to die! But, as a social MMO, I guess that's what people are gonna do.
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Now, there's just one catch: Hotel Hideaway has technically been out on the App Store since 2016. It's ready for prime time now, and I guess this does mean that the game has an established player base now that it's ready for the general public. But it does show that the idea of what a "release" is, and what constitutes a "soft launch" are dramatically changing.
This is in line with larger attitudes of a "release" in the grand schemes of things. After all, Fortnite [Free] just ran an invite-only event, and the game is still technically "Early Access" though it's, uh, making money hand over fis...
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