New features

since i know nothing's gonna change it looks like i'll be missing my daily pay in future, not worth the effort, today was my first & last visit to the emporium, anything i find there was already in the header we didn't get to vote for, the way i see it this whole update so far is a joke & it's on the players...

Would love to be a fly on the wall in the Howrse meetings. Did ChatGPT come up with this emporium droppings or why the terrible decision-making?

as for the icon telling me to open the emporium page i'll learn to ignore it quickly enough, already pretty much done with the ascent one

"With this new layout, all our current offers are now consolidated under one roof, **designed to ensure you don't miss a thing**.

There are also a few changes accompanying this new feature:

Privileges with recurring effects (Breeder's Wealth Privilege, Plenty's Privilege, Olympus Wealth Privilege, and Eternal Wealth Privilege) must **now be claimed manually** from the Emporium page."


From here.


Well, this is another update that takes us backwards... ensure we don't miss a thing, by making it more effort to collect equus? Yeah, that totally makes sense...

I'm also already sick of the Emporium notification.

I do like the new background design though.

Why on EARTH would you remove an automated feature and introduce a manual collection for the privileges??? I cannot fathom the thinking or decision making behind that at all. Terrible choice, I am extremely unimpressed.

Ig the reason for manual collecting of the privileges is so you have to look through packs every time you go to collect these daily couple of coins. Like, you'll eventually (or just randomly) find them appealing and buy any of the packs. Can't see the other reasoning behind it, really.

On the other note - is the red notification number supposed to stay on the Emporium? Because it was gone on the German server after I've checked everything in the Emporium, but on this server it's still here.

Changing the privileges to have to be manually collected is downgrading the privileges.

The new Background

Why is there still ONE stray pixel that makes the scrollbar pops out even with the new background?

The version from the Browser, picture is from Kvezal:

Removing the automation and making breeder's wealth manually collectible was such an unfathomably terrible decision. Who ever thought that that would go down well with players? I'll just be here waiting for the day staff open their eyes and change it back. Yeesh. The emporium as a whole is completely unnecessary anyways.

What was the sense in removing an automatic credit feature for us now to claim it manually? Can this be put back to automated?

Specifically talking about manually claiming the offers in the Emporium.

Emporium? Utterly pointless. Manual collection of equus? Unnecessary. I like the new background though

I don't understand the point of the Emporium...
doesn't the ugly banner show you this already?

Adding more game clicks to get your dailypocket money won't drive engagement presumablythe devs are after and just hurts the newbie players who need that money more.

The established players, likely with the deeper pockets, won't really care about that.

Seems like an own goal. Three in a row by my count.

The red notification on TRADE tab finally decided to disappear.

Breeders wealth privilege - manual collection is literally a joke.

So now we have to manually collect equus? I swear you're deliberately trying to alienate people.

Lately, every time Howrse makes a terrible, unwanted change I ask myself, how many players will quit over this? The answer is clearly not enough to make Howrse stop with their stupid antics. Requiring the Breeder's Wealth Privilege to be collected manually is stupid, hurts new players who are already overwhelmed by mechanics, and is clearly just meant to be a way to drive up real money purchases. It is so greedy.

I saw the tab for the Emporium before anything else and thought maybe we finally were given a way to trade things we can't already like companions, but of course, to my disappointment.. nothing.

speaking as an established player (i don't have deep pockets myself but i do in the game) i may not care about the loss of a few equus but seeing something else being taken away from us is just another sign of the constant decline we've been seeing in the game, especially in recent months,

every stupid change they make is another sign they don't care much if the game's still running this time next year

Hey Howrse - We don't like the new changes.
- Signed the majority of players you didn't bother to ask

Are my eyes and brain playing tricks on me or has everything been made smaller??

I’ve been logged in for a couple of hours now and my eyes are really sore. I’ve had to put on my glasses that I only usually have to wear when reading books in the evening.

Is anyone else feeling this?

I really like the new background. Much prettier.

Collecting the privileges seems a completely pointless change unless, as others have said, it is assumed we will all say 'Hey, look at that offer. Think I'll buy it while I'm here'

Well I suppose it might work on a few but its more likely to put off more people than it encourages through the sheer pettiness of the whole thing.

Everyone else has already expressed my thoughts on the Emporium and collecting the daily equus (it's terrible, I don't like it. If we have to collect the equus manually, there are better places to place the boxes, which I already shared on preprod), so I won't be redundant.

However, "This update also marks the end of blurred backgrounds in the game."
The header at the top is still blurred, and it's really annoying with the tree on the upper left side. I keep thinking the page is glitched because the top part of the tree is muted and blurred, while the bottom leaves that just slip under the line are darker.

Ok, so all the cash grabs of late and the recent packs are not working well enough, so howrse forced them onto a special page just so they can add a red dot there to annoy us into looking at it and viewing the cash grabs in the hopes that we'd give in. And they reinforced it by making the cash grabs the default tab that you click into when you enter that page so that you MUST see it before you can go find your breeder's wealth privilege to collect it manually each day and then making the breeder's wealth privilege worth what? A measly 200 equus? As if that is any more useful than the useless 100 equus that it used to be?

I guarantee you that I will not be using the emporium. The only pages that I may use are the ones needed to access my pass and equus history, and I can get there directly by clicking on the respective reserve. Now how do I disable that annoying red dot permanently? Or am I just going to develop another case of environmental blindness where I ignore it so much that I don't even see it anymore and then I can't pinpoint what's missing when it disappears because it matters *that* little?

Yip. I play on my phone in fully zoomed out classical mode. I can confirm that things have been slightly more difficult to tap than before. There was actually a day when I also had to use my glasses to see, which was never necessary before. Thy definitely made everything smaller. You are not going crazy.

i don't like the background