[UPDATED] Devs' Corner: April 2024

Our developers have something to tell you! Every three (3) weeks, our devs will provide you with information about their work in the “Dev’s Corner.”

This publication is a way of keeping everyone updated on what’s happening with the game. We invite you to discuss and leave your feedback for each of the publications.

Note: All posts must adhere to the forum guidelines and be constructively made.

Take a look at our very first Devs' Corner publication!

Warm wishes,

The Howrse Team
 
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Arabians are best wrote:

It's just sooo ridiculous.....why on Earth would the 'Next trophies' be Evolution! II or Memory II when you can't possibly achieve those because those events aren't even running???

Who is thinking up this stuff??


The whole page is just broken. I can't even see what trophies I have already earned, let alone see what I need to do to get the next set of trophies. Plus half of the ones displayed are for divine series I don't even have - and don't think that's incentive, Howrse. I have no desire to spend any real money on getting the divines. I'm not even that motivated to spend pixel money.
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This is why I feel that we should be able to filter out trophies that either can't be improved upon due to the promo not going on, or they ask you to use a divine series that you don't have. It wouldn't fix the issue of having trophies you can't work towards, but it would make the page less cluttered.
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"Next trophies" doesn't appear to actually do anything, it doesn't show the ones you're furthest along in progress towards and it doesn't filter for ones you can actually complete. It just looks like it picks 3 random trophies you're more than halfway done with and sticks them at the top of the page for some reason?
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Me, opening Luck items on Mobile because of the lack of Popup
Howrse: We have now added popups to mobile!

NOOOO default smiley xd
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Check out this month's brand-new features in the new Dev’s Corner!

Best Regards,
The Howrse Team
EchOw
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You forgot to mention that you have been tinkering with the resolution as well default smiley ;)

As a PC player I now have to set my zoom level to 110%
At 3840 x 2160 it is VERY clear to me that the resolution of the graphics and art has been lowered significantly.

So one more step towards going mobile then.

Not using the mobile app, and still waiting for a fix on the trophies.
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"We invite you to discuss and leave your feedback for each of the publications"
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Here's my feedback:

New features for the equestrian centers on mobile! Don't care, don't use it.

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Stop asking me to go to TikTok or Discord or any other off-site social-media. I'M HERE! Let's talk about this game HERE!

Where is the update about Trophies? Where is the fix on Promotional/Advertisement Videos?

I'm waiting.........
Arabians are best
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Took a break for a bit and it felt nice to get away from this game. Came back to see that there has still been no measurable update towards the desktop version of the game. I don't want to go towards mobile nor do I want to follow Howrse on any social media.

Time to take another, probably longer, break!
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For me the only reason I'd use mobile is for congratulations. Faster then on the web. ONLY reason I use it maybe once in a blue moon, other then that I use it to check messages when out and about.

When I actually have to do something with my horses? I switch to classic in the blink of an eye

The great thing about this game is that it IS A WEB GAME!!! I can switch tabs if I want to do something else, but the game will still be right there!! Making everything mobile would ruin the whole thing for me
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I am not entirely sure actively encouraging players, many of whom are children, via DM to seek out sites such as TikTok is a smart move. Especially not in light of recent revelations about said site, and other BigTech-related media for that matter.

The game should be... self-contained. We shouldn't have to have other accounts elsewhere to play it fully.
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STILL waiting on trophies so I have some kind of motivation to *really* play the game again.

Also TikTok? REALLY.
If you absolutely *have* to have 'adventures of Powny' or life at the office vids, go brush the dust off your YT channel and do something with that instead of sending us to fricken TikTok.
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STOP changing the resolution! For Xanthos's sake y'all!

your mobile site will never match the desktop site and attempting to match them is a futile waste of time and energy. Fix the dang trophy page you're all so proud of ruining!
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Asfridur wrote:

You forgot to mention that you have been tinkering with the resolution as well default smiley ;)

As a PC player I now have to set my zoom level to 110%
At 3840 x 2160 it is VERY clear to me that the resolution of the graphics and art has been lowered significantly.

So one more step towards going mobile then.

Not using the mobile app, and still waiting for a fix on the trophies.


I noticed this immediately as well. They're changing things and not telling us hoping to avoid backlash
Mikunotcheating
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Veren wrote:

How many people wanted to use a magic wand to restore the old trophy system (maybe just adding prizes for winning trophies)?

Honestly, they wanted to know how motivating the trophies are. Well, they used to be a main motivation and now there's none. So frustrating.


Literally everyone on the website and the Howrse team knows it.They're practically rubbing our noses into the carpet over it...Feeling constantly spat on by Howrse lately.
Mikunotcheating
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Mikunotcheating wrote:

I noticed this immediately as well. They're changing things and not telling us hoping to avoid backlash

Yes thy think we do not notice.
They don't care about their PC players - they want to go mobile and the social media way only.
It's sad - I joined this game a long time ago, because of the gorgeous art. Now that part is being wrecked as well.

I seriously doubt the site can get enough paying customers to survive going mobile. But hey prove me wrong..... and good luck battling it out with the other mobile games out there. Your going to need it.

I honestly do not know why I even bother to post any more... this is yet another nail in the coffin.

Rather grotesque that your actually telling us your now on TikTok.
This is a SAD day howrse. Haven't anybody at the company been keeping tabs on what's going on RL?
Asfridur
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censurer This message has been censored since it does not follow the forum rules.
Tired now of rudeness and abuse to staff and volunteers.
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100% agree with what was in the now censored (for no reason) post; Contact Us is like talking to a wall but several times more infuriating in between not-answers, copy and paste, answering something that wasn't asked instead of the actuall ticket's content, ignoring most of the ticket, not actually knowing what they're talking about because they never played the game etc.
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I just want to know why 'the powers that be' insist on making changes that only cater to players who don't, and probably never will, buy passes. Like, TikTok? Mobile updates? Not encouraging the players you have to spend money. Don't they realize who funds this game? Because it's not twelve year olds who just want another app on their phone.
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I would much prefer if mobile allowed us to change/repair several boxes/fields at once. Doing it one by one back and forth with how mobile glitches when you want to go back just sucks.default smiley 8-)
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As someone who primarily plays on mobile, I love the ability to create in the workshop without having to go buy every item from the shop first, and it sums everything together into a single price which is nice as well. With the shop's tendency to kick you back to the food page after any purchase it was very annoying trying to buy wood and sand especially since, as a new player, I can't afford large quantities so I was there all the time. I'm hoping that an upcoming update will merge greenhouses and meadows to the same page, similar to classic, or have the "crop finished" notification register the difference, because currently it sends you meadows even if it was greenhouse crops that had finished.
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Did... they actually do anything to improve the game, or did they just add a few new features to the app and set up yet another social media platform so they can pretend to be communicative while ignoring all our concerns and not talking to us here, on the actual site?

I mean it's nice that the mobile players are getting some updates but it kinda feels like a slap in the face to everyone else that THAT'S their main objective and not... actually making the game better for ALL players. :/
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Time to spam their tiktok with our concerns and thoughts ! Let's use their weapons against them
MsAnirine
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I left some honest messages. They don't have lots of subscribers or views, so if you want to voice your opinion, now and on tiktok is a good time.
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MsAnirine wrote:

Time to spam their tiktok with our concerns and thoughts ! Let's use their weapons against them


Honestly, it is better if no one goes to tiktak or any other social media site. Whatever needs to be discussed about this game should be discussed HERE. We also should not be lured to these sites by the promise of Howrse giving us free stuff. It's just a manipulation tactic.
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