New features

Why did they even implement this change, without even asking, thats what I want to know. All these useless changes are making old players not even want to player anymore.

I hate circle avatars! This is trash! please change it back howrse,please!! I worked so hard on this avatar grrr

I’m sick of the new avatar change. It was fine.

I was just getting semi good at square avatar,and I have no way to make circle ones as I cant download anything...*sigh* guess Ill go against the grain and keep my square one

Howrse. Why.
All of my avatars are ruined. and the circles are so much smaller than the squares were and leave us less room for details.

Literally who wanted this avatar change. Please, who? I just want to know because now over 60% of my avatars can't even be used (simply because they'd look extremely weird and botched with this new format)
Why y'all felt the need to force this change is beyond me but I simply do not vibe with it.

I know I'm in the minority here but I seriously love the circle avatars...they've been square for years and years so it's really nice to have a little change and I think circles are very aesthetically pleasing. Most profile pictures on most other websites are circle anyway.

Ahhh! It’s so hard to recognize users now!

They should at the very least let players choose between a circle or a square for those of us who now have unusable custom avatars that fit the square format.

The issue is that they asked nobody if they would want it nor did they even give an option. A lot of players, such as myself now have a huge workload thanks to this stupid change to fix. A lot of players avatars are now messed up, basically, because Howrse admin team implemented a unwanted change.

Honestly, companies only do what they think is best for their company so whatever the reason for the change it's unlikely Howrse did it for absolutely no reason. And as a graphic designer, it's just as easy for me to design something circular as it is to design something square. It's just an adjustment in what stock I look for and where I place elements, but it certainly isn't the end of the world.

I'm not happy with the lack of communication on it being changed, but I don't mind the change itself.

Apparently I need to say it again. Fix the Lag before adding anymore changes to the game. We have been playing with this lag now for months. Many people have sent in complaints and nothing is being done about it, after stating that the team would look into it.

So, for now until the lag is fixed. You will not be hearing one positive comment from me about these changes. It was fine before.

Please actually listen to what we are telling you needs fixing.

Well I wouldn't have even noticed the change, but circles work for me, it's more aesthetically pleasing I think, brings it inline with most other sites profile images too.

Not everyone saves every single image as individual files, and remaking GIF avatars is a pain in the butt. Me and a lot of others hate this change, sure, avatars can be changed. Far easier to just revoke this change however, instead of many of us top artists, such as myself, having to spend weeks remaking thousands of avatars.

No one wanted this. No one *wants* this. As cool as circle avatars are, if you want one, make one or get one commissioned, don't force it on us. I like the squares as you have more space for the image and work. Especially as a graphics artist this just throws all of my hard work into the trash...Not cool Howrse. Not cool. This is extremely disappointing and I very much regret getting back into graphics now...I took a two year hiatus from them, come back 2 weeks ago and now I'm greeted with this. Thanks.

I make graphics and right now this is just extremely stressful. Over half my work is now useless, about 90% of them are square avatars and I'm sure if I used my circle ones, they wouldn't fit this template.
This decision was poorly thought over and had no care over what the players would think. All my work down the drain because someone thought circles (which you can make with the square template) would be cute.

I'd like to add for those saying that we can just crop our old avatars... it's not usually that simple.

Most players on here aren't graphics artists, so we've had other players make our avatars over the years. And by years, I mean literal years. I have avatars from a long time ago that I would still like to use, but it's not as simple as cropping it into a circle. These old avatars have borders, quotes, usernames, etc. that, for the most part, will look weird or be partially cropped out of a circle avatar. So sure, we can use old square ones, but there's no guarantee that it'll look good, and in most cases, it won't.

So players who have many avatars saved for their personal use are now back to square one since most, if not all, of their avatars no longer look good or don't work at all with this new format.

is anyone else seeing squares now? They're smaller than they used to be, but it looks like the actual avatars aren't being cropped any longer.

If we're going to be able to choose between circles and squares, then thank you to the administration. I assumed the feature was already finished (i.e. they wouldn't be working on it any longer) since it was already rolled out.

I prefer 120x120 as opposed to (what I'm assuming is) 100x100, but I'm glad to see the squares back and I hope they stay that way - or at least that we'll be able to choose between circles and squares. That would be a much better update, and one that I actually would support.

For a game that values player-made creations, I'm surprised they basically threw everyone's avatar creations down the drain.

They’ve fixed it to squares but the proportions are still off

I am! Definitely smaller. I prefer 120x120 as well I hope that gets fixed as well, but honestly I'll deal with smaller squares over circles any day.

Did howrse just... Listen to us?
I'm shocked

thank gosh the squares are back, little too small, but I'm not complaining

Thank you to the admins for listening - again, I would 100% support the introduction of circle avatars as long as players are given a *choice* between those and squares. So I'm hoping, if the circles come back, it'll be an option rather than our only choice.

It looks like it's been changed back to squares...mine's a square, and I'm seeing most other people's as a square, too. It's a shame, in my opinion, as I honestly thought the circles were very aesthetically pleasing and very pretty. Hopefully they introduce a feature to give you an option between square and circle.

I'm not going to get into any in depth conversations/arguments with anybody about who's opinion is correct...some of us hate the change, some of us love it, that's all there is to it...it's probably a good time to point out that this is a game about breeding, training, and competing with horses, not a graphics creation platform. If graphics is your focus on the game, that's perfectly fine, and you do you, but that's not the point of the game. I find it hard to believe that a simple change to the shape of our avatars would impact an active, competitive, pass purchasing player's game so much that they'd throw away their entire account and stop playing.