Oh dear, this is so sad it's practically hilarious. Most of what I want to say has already been said, but I'd like to analyze this replacement of passes with diamonds a bit more. Originally, this first change I heard about pass horses was a year or two back when Howrse planned to do away with getting passes from horses altogether and instead create a ranking for number of horses killed, and the ability to receive a divine (Yggdrasil) once you killed a certain number. You would get 10 passes from the player loyalty meter instead. I'm not sure if this exact change is implemented on other servers such as Italian (@Aldebaran, maybe clear that up for me, or any other players on servers that have an implemented change, thanks!). But anyway, replacing diamonds with passes is frankly, a destructive decision. A cheat. Because diamonds, it seems very clear to me, are much less valuable than a pass.

Case in point, one diamond equals 1 AP while a pass equals 20. 10 diamonds equal one pass when you want to buy a BMIs or APs. Also, you can't use them to buy anything in the sales that requires a pass or more. So essentially, you can buy only items, and not everyone has a divine to spend diamonds on, so I'm ruling that out as a really useful aspect (I am under the impression it is very exhaustive to use diamonds on a divine to get significant skill gain). And may I point out that since less players will have passes to spend, people selling horses for passes also will not get passes, and behold, down goes the economy for horses with a price of passes. I suppose the idea is to get more players to buy passes but it is evident that that is not working because Howrse is doing stuff like this.

So Howrse is definitely shorting us out by replacing passes with diamonds, which have a much lower capacity for usefulness than a pass does, in my opinion. Not only that, but they're replacing 10 passes with 90 diamonds, and as 90 diamonds equal a pass, that's, if we pretend for a second that 10 diamonds is equivalent in use to a single pass, that's only 9 passes, so Howrse is still cheating players. What does that say to me, as player? It says, your opinion doesn't matter, we want/need more money so we're going to take something that affects everyone away and replace it with something of significantly less value in an attempt to get you to buy what we just took away. Cool, thanks! You know, an easy solution I see to this problem would be simply lowering the pass prices, or creating some special offers.

I don't know if the Ambassadors will be able to have much sway regarding these changes, for passes and co-man, but if you can do anything, //please do something!// Also, no offense to the Ambassadors, but it would be so easy so just take a poll that all players could answer instead of having Ambassadors communicate to them (as far as I can tell, Ambassadors aren't allowed to communicate developments and such to us players, but correct me if I'm wrong, it is true that we have yet to see what they can do as the Ambassador program was just implemented). But I digress. My last comment would be that I think it would be hilarious if we could do a cross-server movement where we all quit the game for 2-3 days (since we can log back in within 5 days to stop the process) and give them all a big scare. Might actually get their attention. Watch me get punished for that suggestion, oh boy. But I sem-seriously think it could be effective.

Oh I sincerely hope they do not require us to activate co every time we sign out in order to enable it. NONE of the times I've had to be away from the game came with warning. I'm not on any teams, nor filling, nor anything else - I just need my trusted friends to be able to sign in to keep my account active if I'm in the HOSPITAL long term due to my health, or cannot lift my hands enough to use my phone to sign in. I won't remember to do this every time I sign out. My short term memory is fried due to my illness. I'm going to end up getting deleted after 10 years of commitment, buying passes, etc. Please don't do this. People have situations they cannot predict or control. We won't remember to activate this setting every single time and it will only take forgetting once, at the wrong time, to end up deleting players with real life difficulties. I would be utterly devastated. I know I'm not the only player with unpredictable health like this. Many players have struggles very like mine for various reasons. It's hard enough being sick all the time, Howrse is our escape. Please don't make it harder on us.