New features

The new background is pretty, the only nice thing I can say about this update.

Don't like the Emporium. Going out of my way for only 200e isn't worth it to me. For the new players who count every bit of equus, it's just another thing they have to learn to navigate

So instead of passively getting the benefits of the Eternal Wealth's Privilege and Breeder's Wealth Privilege we now need to go to a whole new area and manually accept them?

And they are right down the bottom so you have to see the advertised offers before you get there... not sure I like where this could lead in future changes.

What's next? Making us scroll the Pass Purchase page to use BM Items?

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.

WHY???????? So ridiculous!!!!

Thank you Legacy Ann for the clarification.

The new background is a nice change! It is pretty vibrant and heavy so might be tiring after a long while! Nice for now though!
I had to read the comments before I realized I needed to click on those perks to actually get them now! Yikes

Yeah, you missed the mark on making us claim the privileges manually. I mean, you HAVE to have known it was going to make everyone mad. That wasn’t the move to make, and you guys know it. Please reverse it, and do what you need to in order to make it an automatic passive thing again. Very much dislike this change.

Can you give a reason why it had to change in the first place? Because it definitely didn’t need to change.

So disappointed in the Emporium. It's not at all worth it to me to go to another page to collect my privileges, especially not when for years they've been automatically collected without any action on my part other than just logging into the game. For players who have accumulated a lot of equus, it's not going to be detrimental if we forget to manually collect the privileges. But for players who rely on those privileges, they'll just have to hope that they remember to collect it, I guess?

Okay, it turns out if you click the shortcut on the sidebar it takes you to the privileges right away so the idea of putting it there to force-scroll so we'd look at promos is apparently not the case.

I'm baffled. Why was this done at all other than to be annoying and make the game less functional? I don't see why "everything needed to go on the same page" because it... was already ON the same page??? In the promo box?????? I just. I do NOT understand why this was done. Are they just being forced to move stuff around for the sake of it?

Ok I will say the new BMI background is very pretty. I hadn't seen it before. Small net positive out of this, I guess.

I just hope they don't turn the Divine horse perks into passive ones too.
The 5k from Fall for every Fall day is way better than these measly 200 Equus that I’m definitely going to forget or be too lazy to collect.

You still have to open the Emporium page to get to this shortcut and the first thing you see here? Packs. And I'm pretty sure they are all flashy, colorful and all that (I can't see them luckily because of region restrictions).
So, as I think, it still seems that advertising packs is the case here. Which is just ridiculous, as we already have them in the upper menu, in multiple PMs, and have a whole forum topic for them, huh.

I wish we just got the old grass background without the horses on it back. Though I do like the shade of green the new background uses a bit more.
Also, why are two of the three horses in the new background just worse looking redrawn versions of the Dülmen Pony and Shackleford Banks Horse?? You couldn't have drawn something original? The chestnut horse on the right also looks a little familiar, but it hasn't jumped out at me as much as the other two.

Maybe they added the privileges there, and made them require manual collection, just to say 'Look! People are using the emporium! See how many people visit it every day!'

I HATE having to click on the Emporium page to get my Privileges. Just another dumb thing Howrse has done to make us angry and not spend money on this game. You can keep offering those packs but you're not getting anything from me.

I'm not going to bother getting mine. They are useful for newbies but for most of us too small to be of any real interest. I can make them up by doing a few more competitions with a Divine in the time it would take to fetch them

Methinks they came up with the emporium so they could get away with NOT giving us our stuff.

"Oh look-! new feature! that you totally won't clink on every single day so you won't get your due benefits BUT HEY.... we gave you a place to get it. *you* just didn't go click on five things to get them..."

Yea, Howrse... I see you

I wouldn't care about the 200e but I also have a HOP one, that would be painful to forget. I have enough stuff to do and remember every day in real life. I don't need to add one more stupid thing on howrse to remember to do.

I think at this point, every update makes me stray away from the game more and more. I tend to stay to myself and be quiet, just like I have for the last few years until now. I’ve been playing this game since I was 12 in 2013, and i’ve seen a lot. I’m currently at the point of just keeping this account alive for memories and not to destroy what I’ve worked for. There’s currently no incentive for me to actually play this anymore. There’s nothing really fun, exciting, or worth it to me. Many changes have been made to this game that are just so useless, make the game harder or pointless. What was the point of changing the breeders wealth privilege? Something i was getting automatically for free, for years I now have to go in steps just for what… 200e? I don’t care if it’s a way for the company to give out less and i’m falling for it - but I am not doing the process to get it simply because I think it’s a waste of time and stupid. It’s sad how everything in this game is turning into an advertisement for something else, mostly where we can spend real money. A few years ago I came back into competitive teams, and quickly realized unless you’ve been stashing for YEARS, the only way to keep up was real money. Promos used to actually be fun, and I enjoyed playing them. The prizes used to be worth playing for. I don’t care “at least they give us something” when half the prizes are materials and grain… I refuse to spend any more real money to get HOP, TC, or whatever other chance item as that’s also became such a joke! I can’t remember which divine it was that I wanted a few months ago, but I had passes to burn, I got 12 TC and didn’t even get a quarter of the fragments needed only pulling 17-37 each time! There’s no denying that back in the day it was never as stingy as it’s gotten now.
Sorry for rambling, this has been building up for a while, and this game is proving it’s just going to continue to get worse.

I finally found time to take care of my horses and I must say, I do not like the new background they have. The previous one felt nice and subtle, like it is just a placeholder you can change with Helious Ray, but this one feels like a whole Helious Ray background. Horses look kinda... let's say, I wouldn't vote for them. and I am just not a fan of colors used at all. Like, they don't look well combined in my mind. And I have plenty of horses with coats but no HR and they just end up looking extremely weird.

So yeah, I hope they will add an option to chose between which bg we can have, otherwise I'll go broke on all the HR I need to buy

I like the background, but the addition of the horses and the saturated colors makes it a bit busy for use on every page. I have Helios and Ow's landscapes that are much busier, but my eyes get a break now and then because they aren't on every single page.

It would be nice if we had a few default backgrounds to choose from.

boo howrse!!! Changing Breeder's Wealth privilege so we have to manually collect it, and look at all the packs again and again. we see what you're doing! and you've never getting anything from me
Furthermore, it adds to the mental load of remembering it; this is a game to relax, not add to the list of things to remember.

i haven't had fun on this game for a while, basically just keep this account alive because i care too much about what i've reached to let it all go. all due to changes made to the game by you. it's made me so resentful, do you really think i'll spend money on this game now?

we see you, and we are not happy

Why do you even bother with the testing site when you never listen to feedback from players?

Noooo don't give them ideas!

I kind of like the new background. But it really doesn't match some of the divines. They just seem so out of place.

The emporium? A completely pointless, unnecessary change. I'm not even bothering to claim my Equus. It's such an inconsequential amount that it really has no impact on my game. I can easily make it up by entering divines into competitions each day