New features

on one forum there was a player proposed idea to have objectives credited automatically vs having to be claimed. Howrse rep said " Thank you for your input, it will be passed along to the team"

Passed along as more ways to do the opposite of what players are asking for? Why do you continue to give us a bunch of lip service when your actions show you clearly DONT care about feedback from players. Priveledges should have been bundled with the Objectives, and NEITHER should be manual.

click click clickty click scroll, click, scroll, click are we having FUN yet?

I'm also tossing my hat in the ring regarding the manual collection of Privileges in the Emporium - it's completely unnecessary and doesn't add anything to the game functionally or aesthetically, so I really question why Howrse felt it necessary to add in the first place. This is definitely a case of 'if it ain't broke, don't fix'.

Actually, they misspelled the word 'team' they meant 'trash.

Day 3 of manually collecting my privileges. Still really annoying and pointless and I still have no idea WHY it was necessary to make a thing that used to be automatic a click-through.

Seriously howrse -- have you heard of customer care? What a change - want to keep you customers happy or tick them off?

I lack words

... and what with the new background? Not much better than the celebration one

The background is supposed to be subtle and not take focus unless you get a ray with a theme that DOES attract focus if you so decide

Excuse the pun, but not to beat a dead horse...because everyone seems (rightly) annoyed about this, but the Emporium is terrible. I've been playing since probably 2005-2006, and people are right: this game has gotten so geared toward spending real money.

I agree that the Breeder's Wealth Privilege should go back to being automatic, and so should rewards for completed objectives. I've missed out on a bunch of passes because I didn't beat the objective for hours (ex. win x amount of competitions, etc.). Sometimes comps sit open for hours, I don't have time to sit around all day staring at a screen.

The only positive thing I have to say about the update is that I like the new background. I honestly hated the Celebration theme, even if that puts me in the minority, lol. I can see how the new one probably looks funky with some divines, but I do actually enjoy it. Otherwise...eek.

Do you know what I just realized?

The Emporium is nothing more than the "TODAY" tab, but rebranded.

We see you, Howrse/Owlient!

Yep, it is. It’s the epitome of “you didn’t like this? Well, we’ll SHOVE IT DoWN YOuR THROAT whether you like it or not. Toodles! “

Once upon a time objectives were credited automatically. This was removed as a deterrent to players having multi accounts or "hiring" players to care for their account, doing the objectives for them and collecting the passes.

Just stumbled across the Emporium by accident when I was going to go to the trades, otherwise I wouldn't have even known about this update as I've had a busy few days- so now have lost out on several days of privilege, have to scroll to the bottom to find it, and didn't even get a message about it? Feels pretty shady

Making us scroll through all the paid rewards to get to the free one, the one that used to be automatic, is diabolical.

I've decided to just ignore it. It's not worth all that scrolling just for 200 equus a day.

Exactly, I can comp a single one of my divines in the time it takes to click through and scroll through all that, for anywhere between 2x to 10x the amount. It’s still stealing 36k from each of us a year, but… honestly why bother.

Of all the things... and you remove the automatic 200e breeder's privilege...

i should NOT have to MANUALLY go collect 200e every day...are we for real?

And yet today there are hundreds upon hundreds of fake accounts that exist purely for farming objective passes. It's no deterrent at all. In fact, I bet those accounts are able to script an auto-collect on the daily privileges while we forget now and again.



I'm just stubborn enough to do it every single day I can be bothered to log in. But you can bet I'll whine about it every day too.

I'll continue complaining about things I paid real money to receive automatically now requiring me to do the legwork after so long, even if it is a nothing of 200e daily.

Have enough people complained yet? When is this update being rolled back?

The industrial revolution was considered a revolution because it automated or made easier many time consuming processes. Key word.....automated.

So why is Howrse going from the automated collection to manual? It's literally a devolution lol.

I'm not worried about 200e, but it bugs me how that 200e will eventually stack up to an amount I would pay attention to....

Also I would sooner saw off my left leg than pay to play and forcing me to look at packs/promos to get to my 200e will not change how I feel! It will only make me continue not to buy out of spite!

What is the point of the emporium if you can still access all of it from clicking on the passes or equus per usual? Such a useless addition to force us to acknowledge packs for sale if we also want to collect the Breeder's Privilege, which name no longer seems apt. Egregious.

PLEASE remove the Emporium and put things back to the way they were!

At least the images are pretty. Definitely gives a nostalgic feel for how things felt visually when I first started playing as a little girl.
It would be nice if every time I log in I didn't have to see another update that everyone universally hates.

The Emporium is likely meant to force people to work their own games as Co-Managers cannot access the Emporium now that it is located under the passes page which means people who do not log on every day will not get the daily equss or anything else that has to be manually collected now. This is likely due to the number of complaints that have been made about the teams but is also likely due to the fact that most sites collect revenue from advertisers based on how many clicks are made on the site each day and making it so more people have to make more clicks per day the more money Howrse makes. It is a pain but sites that offer free to play options are doing similar things as Howrse as more and more people cannot afford to spend money on games but the games and other sites still require money to operate so in short sites like Howrse are going to continue to make changes that will make people click more until enough people leave at which point Howrse will either close down entirely or become completely Pay to Play same as World of Warcraft and similar games which are all struggling financially to the point that economists are projecting that the bottom of the gaming industry will fall out completely if things continue at the rate they are going.

Clicking the button to pick up the daily e200 is now your 'reward' for scrolling past the purchase offers.

It's not about making you 'work' for the privilege, if it was, it would be under the achievements tab, it is about encouraging more eyes to pass over the adverts in the hope more people will be tempted to spend real money for passes and packs.

Yep, still upset about this.
Nope, still not buying your trashy “offers”.

I usually buy a Christmas Pack as a “gift to myself”, it’s a lot of money to drop on pixel horses but it’s a good deal and I like supporting the game.

You are *seriously* making me reconsider spending my hard-earned money on a game that demonstrates how much it hates me on a daily basis now. I’ll just save my money if this is how you treat us.