[Feedback] May Packs!


HellOw!

The May Packs are back with new divine horses, new companions, and new offers that await you on Howrse from May 17th to May 31st!

As we usually do, we are introducing them a bit earlier, so you have enough time to see what is in each pack and plan which one you would like to get.

But enough words; let's have a closer look!

Asteroid Pack

Contents:
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- 1x Pet horse Budgerigar
- 1x Batinson Companion
- 1x Phoenix Companion
- 800 Passes


Comet Pack

Contents:
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- 1x New Extraterrestrial horse (Aartavian)
- 1x German Saddle Horse unicorn
- 1x Hestia's Gift
- 1x Hermes Wand
- 20x Aging points
- 1000 Passes

* Unicorn coat is selected randomly from coats available for the breed


Meteorite Pack

Contents:
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- 1x Spice horse Paprika
- 1 month of VIP membership
- 1x Fertility Wand privilege (30 days)
- 2x Ow's Apple
- 2000 Passes


Nebula Pack

Contents:
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- 1x Asteroid Pack
- 1x Comet Pack
- 1x Meteorite Pack


Galaxy Pack

Contents:
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- 1x Asteroid Pack
- 1x Comet Pack
- 1x Meteorite Pack
- 1x Celtic horse to be chosen
- 1x Metal horse to be chosen
- 1x Aphrodite's Tears' Privilege (30 days)


The May Packs are available from May 17th to May 31st, 10:00 Paris time.

Let us know in the comments your thoughts about this year's May Packs!

Have a great day,
The Howrse Team
 
EchOw
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Do we know what the perks of the Extraterrestrial and Paprika horses are?
Famousamos
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Famousamos wrote:

Do we know what the perks of the Extraterrestrial and Paprika horses are?
The Spice horses have offered passes so far. I don't think the alien one is known yet
Legacy Ann
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WOW - when I looked it up (on Google) 170€ in USD is $183.97!!!!
The Dancing Granny
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The Dancing Granny wrote:

WOW - when I looked it up (on Google) 170€ in USD is $183.97!!!!


In Australian it’s $280 aud
Keeley_B
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The Dancing Granny wrote:

WOW - when I looked it up (on Google) 170€ in USD is $183.97!!!!


Exactly...out of the question for me!default smiley :o
Famousamos
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An update from Discord -

"Hello, thank you for your feedback. As said by AmOwzing and mentioned in the German forum, the prices depend on the country in which you play, your version, and currency. We hear you when you say that 170€ is expensive, but keep in mind that this not necessarily means that it will be the highest price displayed on Friday. We'd rather give you a wide range of prices and let you be positively surprised by the price on Friday, than give you a low expectation and disappoint you. Please also note that the prices might differ from the mobile and web versions."

It looks like they either gave us the range or that was the price they were going for, but after seeing the backlash it's now in discussion.
Oathkeeper
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I hope it is, because the German server has our SAME prices in EUR, which would have made the conversion quite painful.

I hope they're reviewing the prices as we go, but I'm not convinced they will.
Nalu93
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Famousamos - I think I'll opt out on this one default smiley (lol)
The Dancing Granny
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170 euro is over $250 Canadian default smiley :( that’s so much for the galaxy pack. I’d want a lot more passes to be included for that and be able to choose from more of the divines. They have the option to make the prices whatever they want because it’s all digital, there’s nothing physical they have to pay for first default smiley :'( I’ll still be getting something but I don’t think I’ll be doing the largest one any more
AllisonRenae
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AllisonRenae wrote:

170 euro is over $250 Canadian


That's actually insane for a video game purchase. I could buy 2 jugs of milk in Canada for that money!

I was thinking about buying one of the smaller packs but I might opt out honestly and wait for Christmas, those ones seem to have better bang for your buck.
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Y'all are actually wild with these prices. 170 euros is insane, especially since the offer comes with less than 10k passes. default smiley (n)
whomdstve
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Tigress wrote:

Hey , not saying I said it but…. This is a predictable move from Ubisoft. And I hope we do not encourage this sort of action , as far as value for our money. We should be in control of what they deliver to us and it should be fair and reasonable , not a blatant second cash grab off of the top team prix players and those who love to collect divines. It’s just shady and is consistent with why gaming companies are constantly receiving flack for their practices. It’s up to the community to put their foot down and demand fair prices for what they spend their hard earned money on, for pixels in your game OWL.


Legit decided to stop collecting Divines because of this. I'll only go after the ones I can get for cheap thanks to the Ascent to Olympus or during Black Friday. It truly doesn't surprise me because Howrse is owned by Ubisoft. I'm giving it two years tops before Howrse announces we have to pay "membership fees" to play. I've spent thousands of USD on this game over the years, but it truly no longer is worth it.
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Wow yeah $250 CAD would be kinda bananas for the Galaxy pack... I get they might want to preserve the comparative value of Christmas packs so that we're more inclined to spend more then, but that's still a crazy price if you're not even getting 4000 passes?? The top tier Christmas pack had more like 9000 if I remember correctly and it was more like $200 CAD (plus having better/more content in them too). Yikes.

I'd been contemplating going Galaxy for the tears privilege + the extra two divines, but $250 definitely feels like it's creeping into mega corporate greed territory. Kinda frustrating they're splitting up the two privileges as well - I wish they'd combine them at the Nebula/Meteorite pack level or lower (i.e., at Christmas I got 1x of the biggest packs and then extra mid-level ones to get the tears privilege/divine choices).

Putting tears priv. at the highest combo tier will probably actually reduce the total amount people will spend since it'll be pretty difficult to justify multiple Galaxy packs, whereas it might be easier to justify one Galaxy packs but multiple Meteorite packs to get the tears privilege. Ubisoft gonna fly too close to the sun on this pricing and just burn themselves lol
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I was really looking forward to buying a few packs but after reading the comments on how the prices might be, I'm not going to bother. Definitely not worth it.
Crystal Coven
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Oathkeeper wrote:

An update from Discord -

"Hello, thank you for your feedback. As said by AmOwzing and mentioned in the German forum, the prices depend on the country in which you play, your version, and currency. We hear you when you say that 170€ is expensive, but keep in mind that this not necessarily means that it will be the highest price displayed on Friday. We'd rather give you a wide range of prices and let you be positively surprised by the price on Friday, than give you a low expectation and disappoint you. Please also note that the prices might differ from the mobile and web versions."

It looks like they either gave us the range or that was the price they were going for, but after seeing the backlash it's now in discussion.



Don't say I didn't say it was so default smiley xd , i think this is great news, finally some sort of respect for the community !
Tigress
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kiragm123 wrote:

Wow yeah $250 CAD would be kinda bananas for the Galaxy pack... I get they might want to preserve the comparative value of Christmas packs so that we're more inclined to spend more then, but that's still a crazy price if you're not even getting 4000 passes?? The top tier Christmas pack had more like 9000 if I remember correctly and it was more like $200 CAD (plus having better/more content in them too). Yikes.

I'd been contemplating going Galaxy for the tears privilege + the extra two divines, but $250 definitely feels like it's creeping into mega corporate greed territory. Kinda frustrating they're splitting up the two privileges as well - I wish they'd combine them at the Nebula/Meteorite pack level or lower (i.e., at Christmas I got 1x of the biggest packs and then extra mid-level ones to get the tears privilege/divine choices).

Putting tears priv. at the highest combo tier will probably actually reduce the total amount people will spend since it'll be pretty difficult to justify multiple Galaxy packs, whereas it might be easier to justify one Galaxy packs but multiple Meteorite packs to get the tears privilege. Ubisoft gonna fly too close to the sun on this pricing and just burn themselves lol


Top pack had 13,990 passes or something close to that....RIDICULOUS!!! They are trying to pour water on our legs and tell us it's raining..."200$ please and thank you CHACHING... CASHCOW!!" Is how they perceive this entire economic move.
Tigress
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If I understand right, the values of passes and divines have gone down? If so, then if these are correct prices, they are overpriced and they are not reflecting true value, which should be less than last time there were packs of this nature available, IF the pass and divine value have gone down.
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Aartavian and Paprika have now been uploaded and are no longer a Spoiler.


I *hate* the uneven passes. Hate it.
Nalu93
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Another pet that looks like something you’d see in an experiment gone awry horror movie
Ruffian
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170 for the top pack default smiley :@
Ruffian
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155€ here.
It's not worth it. Not not not not worth it. Had there been the 13,900p we get in Christmas packs then MAYBE, but as it is? Nah.
Nalu93
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They are all overpriced for what you get.
Ruffian
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PAHHAHA...Ubisoft , do better!!! default smiley :k
Tigress
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It feels like you're making fun of us when pretending to charge 20 euro for the minimum pack that isn't even a divine, is a ridiculous pet-horse, with 2 o 3 little gifts that you can get for free in any promo. I'm not even beginning to talk about the alien horse that only gives 25 passes when reaching 300 points default smiley :k

Really? 150 euros is a month of good (really good) food here in Spain. Is embarrassing that, just the way things are, people spends 150 euros in a game. I think we should start taking responsability on what we spend... It feels simply shameful, for real. default smiley (d)
Destino22
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Honestly it's a shame, I was really hoping to get a couple of them too default smiley :'( $275 NZD for the Galaxy pack?! I really really wanted Paprika too but idk if I can justify $105...
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