New features

I know the updates are not necessarily brand new to anyone anymore but I please urge people to still send in a ticket (in addition to posting here) since that goes directly to the team. They have to respond, whereas I am unsure if anyone checks this forum with human eyes. I submitted a ticket and heard back within 36 hours.

Ok I’ve kinda gotten used to it, but still 2 things that are really hard to adjust to:

1. The header that follows you as you go. Just very inconvenient and annoying, not the end of the world but would love to see it removed.

2. The size of the text in the notifications icon section is unnecessarily large, and doesn’t fit well into their bubbles. Also quite hard to read as a result.

Also really sucked that there was no warning of this occurring. We only knew that mobile was being adjusted, and supposedly a message was sent out on the discord server prior to the change, though I would assume not that many players are on there. Is it really that difficult to send a site-wide private message saying a change will be occurring and what to expect?

I do not like the new formatting at all. I know I'm a bit of a stickler for tradition, but this is just BAD. Also, why change a perfectly good layout? There were zero problems with it. Also the header that follows you everywhere and the rounded corners annoy me more than anything.

I'm a little late to the party here. But from my personal opinion, I like it. I would jump on the app and go to "classic mode" as I was never a fan of the mobile version. That being said. I think they should have that same option for those that prefer (or only way one would play) to switch back to the "classic mobile mode". Make it the best of both worlds. OR even better, when you login, set your preference to OG mobile or new mobile mode.

That's my two cents, not that it really matters.

Go back to the other way. This new format is terrible. I am so disappointed

A sincere thank you from a 14+ year player �❤️

To the Howrse Team,

I just wanted to take a moment amidst all the recent noise to say a massive thank you to everyone behind the scenes.

I have been playing this game for over 14 years now, and it is the only game I have consistently kept and played since I first started gaming. To see a game endure for so many years, continue to grow, and constantly welcome new players into the community is truly remarkable.

Thank you for your honesty in your letter, for listening to our feedback, and most of all, thank you for keeping this world alive and kicking for almost two decades. Here is to many more years!

Thank you for listening to our reviews and feedback about the update. I want to point out that we have had the option before the update to switch from default mode to classic mode, which is the same as the desktop version, eliminating the need for similarities on default. The hardest changes for me as I've continued to play on the app after the update, has been the following:
1. Screen is locked in landscape mode, making typing extremely difficult, and the need to scroll is much more often, such is annoying. I miss being able to see everything i need to be handy in the moment fitting all on my screen at once
2. Time selections/feed around selections are much more difficult than the bar we last had. Fingers are too big for the dots, she a stylist is to inaccurate for the design as well. By now, after only a few days in, I've already given up selecting the correct precise amount of feed for any of my horses because getting it right every time takes a ton of time, and i have WAY less horses than most players in the game. Selecting the correct time i want to ride or train take up a ton of time as well.
3. Entering competitions, the change was again unnecessary as the app was already able to switch to give you the options of picking the competitions you enter vs defaulting to whatever it enters you in with just one simple tap. The one tap entry was very useful and practical especially for the app, and entering competitions now takes a ton of time as well.

Basically, the new update had drastically slowed many areas of gameplay overall, and an inescapeable landscape mode complicates most things

Yay feedback saying they're going to rework the header!

I can't say much about the mobile version I'm afraid but as a desktop player the header is definitely the main aspect of the update that's just not working. I'd also suggest moving the Today tab to somewhere else or making it open at a click rather than a mouse-over so it stops popping up during horse care all the time, but baby steps.

The new update is clanky and hard to use. The zooming in and out is annoying, some buttons are hard to press, its just annoying.
The previous user interface was much better.

Unless it changes, Im thinking of quitting.

All they need is a setting where players can toggle between the news and old format. What is so hard to understand that some people like it and some don't?

Players should be able to choose and then you have no problems. Why is this even a solution i have to bring up? It's just plain logic.

We did basically have a toggle before, in the mobile and classic version.

It seems they want to streamline the app and browser, probably to simplify development. For the last 10 years we've had two completely different versions, and the app sometimes had its own separate bugs that didn't occur on classic.

Hopefully they'll be able to develop resizing the site based on the monitor/device you're on. That way the layout looks the same, but it resizes based on your monitor size to make text, links, buttons, etc. easier to view (but not gigantic if you are on a large monitor), yet it doesn't feel like you're playing a near different game if you have to switch devices. This is something other browser games have done, and I hope this is the direction Howrse will go. Horse care on mobile was terribly inefficient for me because actions were separated into different bubbles to tap on, and the horse's information was hidden behind several swipable boxes, compared to just the 3 on desktop. It added more swipes and clicks.

Posting this here since I’m not on Discord. I was happy to receive the message today that Howrse has heard all of our feedback this past week. I do hope they will fix the header issue, I agree with others that it’s visually offensive. I also would like to see the “today’ tab put back at the top. I felt that it had better, larger graphics when it was up there. Now the various events and divine promos are smaller and harder to see/read and the graphics are less appealing because they need to fit in the smaller drop down instead of being larger and at the top.

You already had an option for mobile or desktop version so why would you do this to us. Now we have no choice. Please reverse this

Some points to bring up
1) For anyone saying this is a game targeted towards children. Children with what money? We all know its the older teens and adults that keep this game afloat. Also the type of children that would play howrse these days seem like a endangered species, there's so many horse games on the market, you really think children are picking this game over the others?

2) Howrse you're getting roasted in the playstore reviews, facebook comments, some instagram comments and absolutely cooked on Reddit.

3) Howrse's playstore rating? 3.4 if I recall correctly, 72k reviews and the large majority of the most recent are 1 star. (I'm also never installing the app, so keep dreaming)

4) In terms of attracting new players. If I had no knowledge of Howrse, went to the play store and searched horse games. I'm probably going to be drawn to Rival Stars Horse Racing, I'm not making it past 16 other games and selecting an app with a 3.4 rating.

5) There would be a decent percentage of the playerbase that are detail orientated people, people who prefer things not to be "fixed" if they aren't broken. People would like to NOT be memory clicking and ending up somewhere else entirely.

6) Coming out with a statement saying oops we should have tested this further and gotten more feedback. Literally every time Howrse run a large over haul update we hear from testers involved about suggestions that were made and not listened to. Suggestions that make a lot more sense than whatever Howrse ends up deploying. Every single time its an oops we should have tested this longer and gooten more feedback, when are y'all going to learn?

7) Essentially telling players to suck it up and get used to the changes? yeah no, not when the changes are sending the game down the same basic AI generated rubbish route as other games. The charm Howrse had was the old school vibe, now going down this cookie cutter route, its completely lost its charm. Also what does that say about how Howrse views the playerbase? oh we just have to suck it up no matter what you do? I'm still salty over the trophy debacle.

8) Its starting to get real old, I'm sick of "adapting" to every single change that takes away from the game experience. Also sick of seeing ideas put forward by players, pretty good sounding ideas, just not go anywhere. We're all real tired of the same horse design being used for 3 breeds, 4 breeds, 5 breeds. Yes majority of the horse designs are nice but it do be getting real old.

9) Howrse clearly has the capacity to run polls, ask questions and run comps on Howrse. Stop sending us to "talk about it on Discord"

10) Don't get salty about the feedback for an "update" Howrse quite literally invites us to give feedback.
"We invite you to discuss and leave your feedback for each of the publications."

ryanchi out - for now

Hello!

I recently started playing Howrse and there is a feature I’d like to request.

Could we get a way to see all equus line items by time, or transaction order? I’ve noticed it’s difficult to track income and expenses by category alone.
If there was a list of each change it would make it easier to track increases/decreases. Additionally, it’d help in verifying in optimization. If we can see exactly how much equus increased and where it came from different actions could be evaluated, like determining which competition is most profitable to host, or see if the way it’s run changes income.

Thank you!

Welcome to Howrse!
There is a way to see each transaction listing. On the equus page, instead of selecting the financial summary, click the little button/box just above that. It takes you to the detailed equus history

If you'd like to see which competitions paid out in their respective amounts, you can view that on the breeding farm>competition results page. Although that doesn't allow younto go back as far as the equus history does though

This is true, however im not talking about toggling to mobile and desktop. I play just on desktop, and all we need is toggles between the old format and new. Same with mobile.

I'd like to know why the mobile browser view doesn't work anymore. Is it forcing an app download?

The new layout is just so ugly.

Is Howrse sponsored by cocomelon or something?

I'm actually really happy with the recent update: the events carousel is back at the top (like it used to be) and the tab is NON-STICKY!!.

Thanks to the dev team for actually listening to our feedback on the polls.
Looks way waaay better :}

I am so relieved that they fixed the top bar and put the events tab back up there, I don't play on mobile so I can't speak for that but I appreciate that they listened and fixed the worst of the update.

I still think it looks ugly, but at least there's function! The annoying bar is gone!

I just want the option to be able to play vertically!

As someone who only plays on their phone (with sometimes switching to the desktop version for certain things but MOSTLY using the mobile app), we need the mobile version back. It's difficult to play the events and find what you're looking for. I probably won't play as much now.

I don't know if this will help, or if I'm missing the point, but I always play on classic in a browser. I occasionally need to play on my phone and still use the browser and, using classic, I can turn the phone sideways and the game is then in landscape view. It probably doesn't give the ease of use that the old mobile version did but maybe that might work for some people.