Dubby reviews it! November 2025
DUBBY REVIEWS IT – November 2025
Goodbye gossip (for now). My focus within Bobba.me is shifting towards critically and fairly reviewing each month going forward, giving a rating that in my opinion accurately reflects the community’s sentiment. I always try to look at both sides of the coin, and you’ll see my arguments clearly outlined for what works and what doesn’t.
New Public Room
Neopets has landed in Origins, and what a beautiful room we’re able to fish in. It’s a fresh reskin of Zen Garden made specifically for this campaign, and as someone who isn’t a Neopets player, I was initially concerned about the aesthetic. However, the artist behind this public room absolutely nailed it.
My only issue was that, at launch, each fish had noticeable blue squares around them. I don’t think this was anyone’s specific fault,it’s simply a side-effect of old code where introducing something new can sometimes cause unexpected knock-on issues. In this case it affected the fishing visuals, though thankfully the mechanics themselves worked fine.
Neopets Furni
Honestly, I can only imagine how difficult it must be to design furniture that represents Neopets while still fitting the Origins aesthetic. If it hadn’t matched, the community would have let everyone know immediately. Once again, the artist(s) smashed it. It’s a lovely furni line.
Horizons
A new Horizon room was introduced this month. Admittedly, I was hoping for something Habboween-themed or autumnal, which feels like a missed opportunity. That said, I was extremely happy with this Horizon, and many others appreciated how bright and vibrant it was. No notes from me.
Funky Friday
Meh. A bit of a womp-womp for me personally.
Week 1 brought moodlights - which didn’t work.
Week 2 introduced Pura furni in midnight blue, alongside the other colour variants.
Week 3 blank
Week 4 brought a black coloured large television
Pura as a line just isn’t for me. While I can appreciate that other players love it, I’m simply not one of them, so it was a skip.
Catalogue Rares
Praise be! The rares tied into the Neopets promotion were fantastic,I loved all of them. I do wish my Negg Machine didn’t hand me a glass of water and instead functioned how I imagined it would, but I’m aware that any “machine” that gives hand items has historically been problematic on Origins. I do think rather than a second arcade machine, the cola machine would have went down better and have the second arcade machine in December but that’s just a personally opinion from comments I saw on habbo and via the discord server.
Before anything else, I want to acknowledge the update shared during the week commencing 17/11/2025 regarding the Rare and Funky Friday items not being added due to unexpected scheduling issues. I don’t know all the details, but since we know Macklebee manages these updates and he’s currently our only developer, it’s completely understandable that he may need to take time off when needed. His schedule is his own, and it isn’t something the community should be commenting on, but I do think there should be a plan B. Particularly right now as we only launched on steam one month ago.
LiveOps Campaigns / Article
While we’ve seen consistent efforts from Macklebee to improve Origins, efforts the community genuinely values but the LiveOps side of the campaign felt very light this month. We received only a handful of articles and a single competition, which unfortunately didn’t feel as engaging as it could have been. For a theme as vibrant as Neopets, the campaign didn’t quite reach its potential.
Given that we launched on Steam in mid-October, it’s understandable that expectations for November were high. That’s why it felt disappointing to see so little happening on the LiveOps front. The community continues to provide valid feedback, yet this area appears to have been declining, and players are really feeling that.
Keeping players engaged doesn’t require anything overly complex. Some enjoyed collecting Neopoints and completing treasure maps, but there’s also a significant group who weren’t interested in these activities and had nothing else to keep them online.
Throughout the month, the LiveOps output consisted mainly of the Neopets announcement, the Harvest Grounds end date, rare releases, Funky Friday drops, and a community poll. While these are necessary updates, they don’t offer much in terms of player engagement, especially so soon after a major platform launch.
I do want to recognise the activities that were provided, such as bag collecting and map pieces, these helped fill gaps and were appreciated. But November was expected to be a busy, content-rich month, and it simply didn’t land that way. There’s definitely opportunity for LiveOps to deliver more consistent and meaningful engagement going forward.
Neopoints
OK, I have quite a bit to say about this. The bags were bugged when they first launched, although you could still collect a decent amount before a fix was put in place a few days later. As the activity runs throughout the entire month, this didn’t bother me too much.
However, members of the community began using bots and alt accounts to grab Neopoint bags, and once again this highlighted the greed of certain individuals. Thankfully, Macklebee implemented measures to stop the bots, but people were still able to make use of alts. This isn’t the fault of anyone on the Habbo side, this is a downfall of the community and those who don’t care about others trying to participate fairly, believing they are somehow ‘owed’ these rewards.
I’ve never been a fan of this kind of behaviour and disagreed with the comments suggesting Habbo needed to put a stop to it. No - the community needs to stop doing it.
The furni could be purchased using Neopoints in the public room, which was great. However, it was tradeable, which in my opinion only encouraged those who were botting and/or using alts to keep doing so. I would personally prefer event-specific furniture like this to be non-tradeable, but that’s just my view, I know there’s a percentage of the community who completely disagree with me on this.
Daily Challenge
We received a new daily challenge for a Mystery Box and I loved it. It gave me a genuine reason to log in (not that I wouldn’t have been logged in anyway). All you had to do was collect 15 Neopoint bags to claim a free Mystery Box containing one of the plushies.
What really impressed me was how rare the Black Neopet boxes were to pull. I’m sure many of the people opening 100, 150, even 200 boxes on stream had traded for them, used alts, or botted (I’m not saying everyone did this). The fact that maybe one black box appeared in that entire haul, rather than black box after black box, was important. As I can guarantee you: if viewers had watched someone pull black box after black box on a livestream, it would have absolutely infuriated the community.
For me, this was a huge win for origins and for anyone new logging in, it created a fair opportunity to obtain a free piece of furni and one priced at 10 credits in the catalogue, every day throughout the month.
Community Poll
I touched on this in my October review, and I still stand by my view that including timed furni in the Steam launch boxes was not a good move. I’ve already outlined my reasoning last month, so I won’t revisit it here.
However, it’s been made clear that this feature is beneficial for onboarding and for new Habbos. As a long-time player, I’ll only use this functionality occasionally and mainly when I’m building and want to test how furni looks when stacked or whether it has any clipping issues. Far too many times I’ve bought something, attempted to stack it, discovered it clips horribly, and then shoved it into storage never to see it again (or given it away).
Unfortunately, much of the poll failed however, Short Stay furni is coming to Origins we just don’t know the finer details.
Final thoughts
Overall, the month was… fine. It wasn’t terrible, but it certainly wasn’t great either. Most of the enjoyment we did get was thanks to Macklebee’s direct efforts, and that deserves recognition.
However, if LiveOps continue to ignore community feedback, then their whole approach needs to be reconsidered. In my view, LiveOps should be delivering at least two events each month and if they can’t think of what the community would like that month, simply ask them through social media.
Creativity doesn’t require reinventing the wheel. Sometimes it’s just about showing up and giving the community something (anything) to enjoy. I have spoken to numerous people who joined from steam launch and their playtime has reduced and when I have asked why the response: “there’s nothing to do, no body speaks when fishing and gardening is a solo task”. That isn’t me bad mouthing these activities because I love both but, people need a little more bite.
Although, I really hope on reflection regarding November. The team are ready to hit December out of the park and that looks promising with Christmas, Arctic, puzzle box, the snow football, there are a lot of opportunities, but engagement absolutely needs to be at the forefront.
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