{"id":178815,"date":"2023-10-22T05:41:49","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T00:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/?p=178815"},"modified":"2023-10-22T05:41:49","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T00:11:49","slug":"habbo-game-plans-to-keep-using-nfts-without-uttering-dirty-crypto-jargon-crypto-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/habbo-game-plans-to-keep-using-nfts-without-uttering-dirty-crypto-jargon-crypto-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Habbo Game Plans to Keep Using NFTs Without Uttering Dirty Crypto ‘Jargon’ – Crypto News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Classic social web game Habbo made a pivot into NFTs<\/a> in 2021, 20 years after launched as a more visual riff on chat rooms. The pivot didn\u2019t land well with all Habbo fans, similar to what happened with Neopets.<\/p>\n

But unlike Neopets<\/a>, the company isn\u2019t dumping its NFTs. It\u2019s just going to start using different terms to talk about them.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Habbo announced that it will shift its terminology, ditching the existing \u201cHabbo NFT\u201d phrasing in favor of \u201cHabbo Collectibles.\u201d In a post<\/a> (via PC Gamer<\/i><\/a>), Habbo said that it will move away from blockchain industry jargon.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo make it easier for current and prospective players to understand what Habbo Collectibles are about\u2014collecting and trading items in Habbo\u2014in the majority of our marketing and communications, we\u2019ll be moving away from jargon like \u2018NFT,\u2019 \u2018Web3<\/a>,\u2019 and \u2018blockchain,\u2019 etc.\u201d<\/p>\n

Habbo\u2019s move echoes that of many brands and companies that have shifted away from how they refer to NFT assets, with many calling them \u201cdigital collectibles\u201d instead<\/a>. Online messaging platform Reddit, for example, calls its NFTs \u201cCollectible Avatars\u201d<\/a> and has avoided using NFT terminology in its public communications.<\/p>\n

Such changes won\u2019t all happen at once, however. In the post, the company said that it will leave the branding for its Habbo NFT Twitter account and Discord server intact, at least \u201cfor now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Habbo\u2019s NFT avatars were minted on the Ethereum<\/a> mainnet, while follow-up collections for items like digital furniture are minted on Ethereum scaling network Immutable X<\/a>. Owners of the 11,600 NFT avatars gain exclusive access to a specialized Habbo Hotel server called Habbo X. Secondary market prices start at nearly 0.18 ETH ($275) on the OpenSea marketplace<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Edited by Stacy Elliott<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

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Classic social web game Habbo made a pivot into NFTs in 2021, 20 years after launched as a more visual riff on chat rooms. The pivot didn\u2019t land well with all Habbo fans, similar to what happened with Neopets. But unlike Neopets, the company isn\u2019t dumping its NFTs. It\u2019s just going to start using different […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":178816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[230,225,221,227,226,228,229,60,223,224,222],"class_list":["post-178815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency","tag-brave","tag-coinbase","tag-crypto","tag-decentralised","tag-decentralized","tag-decentralized-exchange","tag-erc-20","tag-featured","tag-meme-coin","tag-robinhood","tag-solana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178815"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178818,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178815\/revisions\/178818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dripp.zone\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}