New features

Adding new features to a game can be interesting, but I think it becomes a problem when you take something away from the players (and this wasn't a small thing, but literally years and years of tracked progress being erased) instead of adding content on top of the existing content.

So, my general ranking went down by about 8. I have seen other comments about losing ranking, but someone's has to go up then, doesnt it? I wonder who they are.

In my opinion it's completely selfish to say "This doesn't have a negative affect on me and therefore I think it's a good change"

I don't collect trophies. I don't seriously consider myself a collector of anything other than horses I find pretty. This just gives me gifts and divines and has no really negative impact on my gameplay. But it has an awful affect on so many players. You can't just look at your own account when commenting on changes like this. It's no small thing and so many people are unhappy with it.

Also, regardless of the prizes, the design is awful. It's so ugly and confusing. Very few redeeming qualities about this entire update. Some things had potential and working the changes into the old look and system could have made a truly perfect trophy system. But they never ask for players opinions on these things and so, as always, they botched it.


But I guarantee Howrse won't listen. They'll begin to censor people having negative opinions and leave this awful change in place because they don't care about the players of this game and how it affects them. We've seen it time and time again

And I have said this countless times, and will continue to say it. The rewards are not here because Howrse is being generous. They're designed to placate people so they accept this change. Don't be fooled into thinking they care about rewarding hardwork. If that was the case, this change never would have happened

So I went UP 326 spots in trophies...But fell 70 spots in Ranking. Not as bad as it could have been, thank goodness, but as someone who doesn't do a ton of breeding and BLUPing besides my normal Marwaris + Lusis thats 50 spots of hard work right there

Another thing I noticed is because all these coats aren't worth as much because you have to apply them yourself..how the fluff am I supposed to make passes now? I make, or...made, rather..passes from objectives and selling different companions and coats on horses. Now that that market is out the window I have no clue how to gain passes, unless I sell ridiculously cheap. I'm not on teams, nor do I breed skillers and Marwari GP release is so low there is no way I could ever make profit off my foals when they are consistently 1.5-2k behind team release. 10-20 passes for each foal is hardly a sustainable income :/

Not a fan of there being no Golden Horseshoes anymore. I like the prize system. Everything else I either hate or am most surely not a fan of.

I agree and I dont understand what howrse is getting from it? From a logical point of view it just doesnt make any sense? It´s not gonna get them more money beacuse they eliminated the incentive? From what I see the people who are happy are happy because they get free items from playing the game, not because it´s now become more attractive to spend passes?

I just checked and in general ranking I lost 41 positions but trophies I gained +2152 oh yes definitely worth the update (jk)

hoo boy. lost a few hundred in general ranking but checked the trophy rank and.
-696
I'm sorry, *what*

wait no I thought that was bad but I just noticed the user directly below me actually lost -1762 in trophy rank. Jesus, howrse.

I'm happy as it gave me a reason to care about something I never really cared about, as well as things to work towards. Before anyone says I am being selfish for liking this change, please realize that liking it doesn't mean I don't feel bad about those that spent a lot on the trophies and that I don't understand where the upset is coming from. My hope is that they can find a way to change it so that everyone is happy.

I think you make an excellent point. While I am happy with the prizes I got I know a lot of people are unhappy with the recent changes. Last month for me marked 13 years on Howrse. 13 years of work on my part has all but been erased and I don't like the change. It makes me feel like the work I put into my breeding and my horses doesn't matter.

Ridiculous, i was top 100 in trophies and now in the 200s

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Can't the reverse also be true here?

In my opinion, not at all. This is years of hardwork from trophy collectors that's been disregarded. The only reason anyone likes this change at all is for some free prizes. A couple of divines and bmis really doesn't equate to years of collecting

Golden horseshoes have been removed completely. What you're seeing with that trophy is the upcoming event (starts tomorrow), so the type of horseshoes that we collect as tokens during a Great Challenge.

Yep, we were just sort of quickly forgotten about and I just sort of guessed we were no longer a thing

I mean, on another version we received a mail telling us that "If we were ever needed in the future we would be """summoned""" again", which led us to thinking that we were very politely ""fired"", so to speak.

My trophy rank has plummeted, shows I only held a higher position due to my collecting of any/everything!

Curiously my ranking actually went up a few places, but I have never cared about that

Overall I am disappointed that all my collecting no longer really counts for much, but at the same time I'll still be collecting any/everything as I'm not terribly competitive and it's been my focus for so long, I don't really know what else to do!

On a plus point, perhaps the prices in future on 'collectables' will lower if the focus isn't on all of them.

Let's please avoid saying that anyone is X because they like or dislike the update.

Polite debate is one thing, but saying that anyone is X, even in generalized wording, just causes further division.

People can like or dislike the update as they see fit..

I agree with this.. I have never paid much attention to the trophies myself except for an occasional check before buying/breeding a horse..there never seemed to me to be much of a point in them tbh.. now that there are rewards involved well..

True I did lose some ranking points but oh well..the rewards make it worthwhile for me too

I just checked and my trophy ranking went down by 1999 spaces. I am actually deeply hurt by this, 2 thousand spaces down in one update. Literally erased all my progress.

Down 20 in General ranking
Down 1999 in Trophies

Horrible, horrible update.

I've sent feedback using Contact Us at the bottom of the page and I suggest everyone shares their feedback using that option too.

THANK YOU!

I love this update - it's so much easier to figure how where you're at. Also THANK YOU for taking away the 5th element collection where you had to collect normal, uni and peg 5th elements. Just collecting the coats has been made easier as I'm still trying to get the metal one!!! thats a huge weight off my shoulders!!

@crystal clear. that's actually a bold assumption to make. I've been slowly collecting and working towards trophies for years. Granted the prizes are nice but I don't care for them. I purely like the update as it has made things easier for me to look at knowing how far I actually am in a certain collection/trophy. Also the fact they removed the other 5E collections made it worth while for myself.

Though you can't make everyone happy people are going to com-lain no matter what howrse does and that life. They haven't disregarded anyone.

Is there an emoji for all-out bawling?

I hate this change on so many levels...

I was a trophy collector because I could do it at my own pace, I guess that's gone now too.

They have disregarded so many players

It's great that it worked out for you but most collectors are unhappy. And these few good changes could've easily been added to the old system and then everyone would be happy. There's a big difference between the typical "someone will always find a reason to complain" and "almost everyone is unhappy about this change". The majority are speaking out against it. That says more than enough imo

I defend Howrse in circumstances when they've actually been generous and are receiving unnecessary complaints. But this is not one of those. As someone who has been on this game for over 10 years, I am disappointed in these constant bad changes. And they keep getting worse as time goes on