New features

We have complained. That's the issue: We all complain but we're just not heard. The voice of the people who keep the game alive both by playing and spending REAL money is constantly being shut down.

On October 6th I did put in a message on the prepod version (after the change was implemented on the live version) just to further prove my disappointment in that they went through with the Emporium. AmOwzing replied that I should write my feedback in this thread instead since the change already was live. Well. The thing is that most of us testers DID write feedback BEFORE the Emporium went live. I can't recall an exact number but there were a few pages of critique against it and 99% of the comments were negatively opposed to the change.

This is where Howrse goes wrong, every time. Because sure, I do understand that I technically can't complain about an already implemented change on the test server, but why is it that it got implemented in the first place?!?!? I also inserted an image from the Welcome-thread on prepod where Howrse states that our feedback is "important" to them. This isn't new either because I know they have rolled out disliked changes multiple times before this. It's just sad to see how little they care about the players. Maybe they'll realize it when people stop spending their money and the game has reached its death.

Images in spoiler due to their size

This has been live for about...what...a bit over a week now?

Within that week, I have remembered to collect my measly 1,200 Equus MAYBE 3 or 4 times, including today.

While its not like I'm starved for equus, and 1.2k/day is pretty inconsequential by itself, it adds up the more days I miss (up to 37.2k a month, 446.6k per year). I am too tired at the end of my day to have to remember to navigate to yet another page, click two more buttons to get those Privlage Equus. I'm pretty sure may others are in the same boat.

This change is abnoxious to say the least and very hurtful to players, especially newer ones,

These aren't privileges anymore, they're offers.

I can easily name an F2P site that isn't adding more hoops just to get free stuff.

If it was about generating ad revenue, they would put effort into fixing ads for desktop/classic, not this. Ads on desktop, which the majority of players play on, have been broken for at least a year now. The bar where the advert is supposed to be is just an internal link to a page that used to be a video page but says "Due to a technical issue, advertising videos are no longer available on the PC version of Howrse. We invite you to use the mobile app to access this feature." I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt that maybe they haven't thought of that...but I'm pretty sure they need degrees to be employed so...

And even if ads DID work, people usually have ad-blockers installed nowadays anyway.

I'm pretty sure the privilege grants weren't activated by co-managers but I could be wrong because I would NEVER trust someone with access to my account. Again, if co-managers were REALLY a problem for ad revenue, they could disable the feature. Would people be irritated? Yes. Would people leave? Probably. But I think enough players play their own games that this is a non-issue.

Its not a pain, its a middle finger to players; especially those that paid for the privileges or worked to get them the old fashioned way through events(before they were "granted" at the end of the tutorial). I (and probably many more) am WAY too busy and tired to be able to remember a few extra clicks on a page every day that is ONLY useful for getting our "privileges".

They shouldn't even be CALLED privileges any more. They're offers. They're OFFERING you stuff every day. You can choose(read forget) to claim it or not. Same with objectives, which is another story...

If you read the room, it seems like this is hurting their bottom line anyway. Yes, I would be sad if Howrse had to shut down; but after many "who asked for this" developments, and pretty consistently ignoring negitive feedback of me and my fellow testers, I would rather spend my hard earned IRL money (where the real revenue is) elsewhere.

Heck, why did you make it so stupidly hard to find the PASS HISTORY?!?!?
What bright light decided to throw at the BOTTOM of the stupid page?! WELL?! JJeez.. start THINKING and stop destroying

I'm tired of the layout change and the big blocky appearance they've been pushing over these last few years. The old pass and equus pages were so much nicer to look at and manage. There was none of this endless scrolling we are now forced to do

And yes, I am aware of the side options. But that requires even more clicking. It was so much easier when I could just click on the equus and passes tabs and then go straight to those pages.

People get 1200? Mine is only 200

The Eternal Wealth Privilege won from an old Cards event awards 1000e a day. The Breeder's Wealth Privilege is 200e. Players with both get 1200e a day

HATE new 'emporium' >.< GET RID!

DEATH to the EMPORIUM!
(seriously, it is the worst.)

First day of forgetting to get the privileges until just now. I expect I'll be doing that a lot in the future, but for *what* was any of this done, I couldn't tell you. If it's to decrease game inflation you might as well just retire them after a certain seniority.

Why did they take something automated and make us click it manually? so silly.... emporium is very poorly designed and silly.

Who wants to know, why Howrse was offline, here the Posts from Discord und who wants to know more about it, just search "PHP-Shell"

I wish Howrse would fix the things that need to be fixed like the 'Get Rewards' which worked fine for years. It's not that the can't, they won't. Putting our Privileges on the Emporium, I have 4, is just another way to scam us. Taking away perks is not a way to win over customers and encourage them to spend money.

Please, for the love of all thing horses, get rid of the Emporium! I hate having to go and manually click on something that I should not have to click on to get! Just put it back to where it was automatically put in my money!

I have Bucephalus and have no idea what they are talking about or how this works. I will not go to Discord ever. Everything should be explained and discussed on the actual game.

Hello,

It is explained on the Dev's Corner page:

"From the page for your breeding farms, select the horses you want to board, then go to the equestrian center registration page. Next, go to the new "Reserved Equestrian Centers" page: There, you can search for a center that has reserved enough boxes for you and register all your horses there in just a few clicks!"

If this explanation is not enough, please be more specific about what your question is, and we will try to help.

Have fun playing!
AmOwzing

Yes, I went to the Dev's Corner page and read the above. Maybe I'm just over tired but I did not understand it.

"From the page for you breeding farms" Is that the heading at the top of the page that says Breeding farm with the Horse's head?

Yes, that is correct: it's on "Breeding farm", and then click on "Horses".
From there, you will be able to choose the intended breeding farm and select the horses you want to mass-register.

Or

Just like mass boarding in any other EC

In your breeding farm check the horses you want to board (make sure they fit your criteria) then choose the boarding option at the bottom of the list. Select reserved boxes and if the horses are all suitable it will offer your EC. Accept length of stay and they are in.

We have been waiting for this for so long. Best change ever

I also love the change to Breeders Manual and EC manual at the top of the Help Centre page. I'm sure many new players never managed to find them tucked away at the bottom of the page.

Mass boarding in my own boxes, ah, how I've yearned for this. I can't wait until my horses board expires to really give it a whirl. I only had to board 3 today, which doesn't yet make up for the years we couldn't do it

I'll have to wait until I get to use my PC later this week to see how I feel about the "enlarged the most visited pages." What looks good on my tablet doesn't always look good in my PC. One size UI doesn't work anymore. We need a responsive UI that resizes based on your window size.

I don't bother to visit the Emporium to collect my Privileges, but the Currencies pages are annoying to visit on my PC. The boxes are incredibly large and take up way more space than is needed. I don't like visiting the Offers page of the Emporium for the same reason.

I'm glad we still have the collapsible promotional banner, because that is much easier for me to quickly see all current offers at a glance

finally, a change that didn't make me swear...

that said i really don't see why that change (one that only benefits VIP players who board horses at their own EC and have Bucephalus) takes precedence over the multitude of things that are seriously broken in the game, things like UNDOING last month's changes for starters then working back for the last few months,

i do like this change to the Bucephalus VIP perk but not that much, i can make use of it but it's a LONG way down the list of things about the game that bug/bugged me, i clearly remember how it felt when i could board multiple horses anywhere BUT my own EC but i got over it pretty quickly and didn't cheer when i saw the change today making it nothing more than a minor annoyance,

not so much a fan of a lot of the other changes in Devs Corner though, once again i don't see how fixing little glitches that annoy a handful of players takes precedence over other, MUCH MORE IMPORTANT fixes, it just doesn't make sense,

the change to the help menu was a good one (you no longer have to scroll to the bottom of the page for the manuals, something to benefit old & new players alike) but the rest look like they'll benefit maybe 1-2% of the players each, much like the boarding change, absolutely nothing on the list will please a 51% majority, let alone the vast majority of us, 7 of the 8 changes don't affect me in the slightest...

So you still have to go to the individual horse select the length of time you want then go to the Boxes section the change boxes and click accept.

There is no different than what we already do.

There is no change to the steps required.

Still waiting for those players that board their own horses in their own EC to be able to mas extend the boarding......like adding an extra command where it says "change boxes"