Splash Plastic

Splash Card on Habbo Website

Splash Plastic is a prepaid debit card owned by Maestro, which requires to be topped up by users in order to pay for services or products. It was formerly a payment method available on the Habbo.co.uk hotel and was widely well-known for both its ease of use, but also for its involvement in a Credits glitch that was used by various Habbo users to exploit thousands of Credits without being charged for them. The exploit led to the banning of at least hundreds, but potentially thousands of Splash Plastic users, who then faced various consequences.

Exploit & Aftermath

Around late August - mid-September of 2004, Sulake staff became aware of a glitch that various players had been using to obtain Credits without being charged. It has been said that some users did not glitch but rather instead they simply were not charged, but this remains unconfirmed. For the users who did exploit the confirmed glitch, they did so by refreshing the final page of the payment process which had told them their Credits had 'gone through' and this would keep generating more Credits - since users could refresh an infinite number of times, many were able to acquire thousands of Credits in a short space of time.

Since this was never the intention of the Splash Plastic payment system and under guildines of the Terms & Conditions of Habbo, Sulake staff banned supposedly all users who had ever made a purchase with this method as they had committed theft. Players were slowly unbanned, but only after their accounts had been checked to see whether they exploited the glitch or not - depending on their actions, various outcomes resulted:

• 1. If they hadn't exploited the glitch, they were unbanned and their account left as it was.
• 2. If they had exploited the glitch, but had more Credits than they'd illegally gained, their exploited amount was simply removed.
• 3. If they had exploited the glitch and didn't have more Credits than they'd illegally gained, they had their account set into minus Credits which could only be removed by paying for the cost of however many minus Credits they had.
• 4. It was also rumoured that some players remained permanently banned for this, though is yet to be confirmed.

The exploit was quickly resolved after being noticed and Splash Plastic remained as a payment method for several years after on Habbo. Some users were issued with minus Credits of supposedly a value up to -2000, but these were apparently eventually reset to 0 if the user had not paid the amount back.