[Known Issue][May 2025] Ongoing Performance Issues



HellOw everyone,

Thank you to everyone who has reported issues within the game after the maintenance yesterday.

We would like to assure you that we're working to resolve these issues as soon as possible and ask for your continued patience while we continue investigating and applying fixes to the game.

I've listed a few of the most common issues below:
- Game lag,
- Game slowness,
- Delay in receiving password reset emails,
- Delay in receiving verification emails,
- Horse competitions becoming stuck "In progress"

Please know that the above list is not exclusive and is only the most frequent issues being encountered by our players.

We thank you in advance for your continued patience regarding these issues.

The Howrse Team




Hello,

On May 28th, all the servers underwent maintenance to address the performance issues.

We have already received positive feedback from multiple players. Can you please let us know if the server performance (lag, slowness) is better or resolved for you?

And now that this was addressed, the team will continue tackling the rest of the issues, for example:

Unavailable payment methods;
E-mails from Howrse are not being received;
Inability to log in;
Special horses are not providing their gift;
The Pieces of Cloud Pack from the May Packs are not working;
The ranking is not updated on some versions.
And a few others...

Please note that once the main problems are resolved and the game has stabilized, we will work on compensation for all the issues that happened in the past weeks.

Once more, we are really sorry about the inconvenience, and thank you for your patience over the past weeks!

The Howrse Team




Hello,

Regarding the global compensation, our team is still unable to share details about all the compensation planned, but one very likely option is an extension of the privileges included in the May packs for all players.

Please be patient, as it may take time to prepare the script for the compensation distribution, and the team is not working with fully operational tools right now.

About the May Packs: the date was extended and they will be available until Wednesday, June 18th, at 10 am (Paris time).

Regarding the Payment methods: We are aiming to bring Xsolla back by the end of next week at the latest. Unfortunately, we cannot say if Paysafe will be fixed before the 18th.

Other than that, the team is still busy with getting everything else up and running again (emails, preprod, many of our internal tools, etc).

We'll keep you updated when we have more news.

Thank you for your understanding!
The Howrse Team




Hello,

We have a new update on the current situation.

The payment method Xsolla should be back by the end of next week. Unfortunately, we still cannot guarantee anything for Paysafe.

Regarding the Email issue, the technical team had a breakthrough today, and hopefully, the problem will be fixed at the beginning of next week. (Maybe even today?)

We know the recent disruptions have impacted your experience, and we want to make it right with a generous compensation package.

We can already say that, in addition to the privileges from the May packs, we will also extend the VIP and Pegasus subscriptions for the concerned players.

A more global compensation will contain a bundle of items for everyone, such as some luck items and aging points. Those are only examples, and the detailed content and number of items still need to be confirmed.
We cannot share a date for when it will be distributed, as we want to fix the email issue first, and the Dev team will need some time to code the compensation script.

Additionally, the team is still busy ensuring our internal tools are properly operational again and addressing the remaining issues.

Thank you for your understanding, and have a nice weekend!default smiley (ow)
The Howrse Team
 
EchOw
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the whole site is slow and it opens poorly.

I need to reload the page ten times to load it and allow to do one action
Onnea
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Can barely get on the game right now, have to go to my search history because the log in page is all white, as is anything I try to click on outside of the one page I come to from google

Also can't send PMs right now default smiley :o

Hopefully they can figure this out soon!! This is the first time its gotten that bad for me and now I can't take care of my divines for the day... which sucks for the pass divines.
jsniper
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Yeah it's *really* bad now. It actually hadn't been that bad for me except for the objective problem but now I have to refresh several times in order to load a single page, and it can take minutes to do even one action. I won't be able to play until it clears up. default smiley :s
Crookedstar915
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Today - nothing works!! Site is lagging, doesn't load pictures or buttons. I can do 1 thing and then it'll be just white screen. I have to refresh page 10x before anything shows up.

These issues are becoming more and more serious. You've had weeks to fix things, but you've done basically nothing.

I'm sorry, but this is slowly becoming unacceptable! People pay to play your game (me too) an, right now, its a waste of money.
pallaadium
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I hope this issue gets fixed soon.
I tried to play today and it's still bugged.
I don't even know how it got to this point of such a massive lag for everyone.
Army0_0
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Also having issues, blank white page or improperly loaded page, refreshing often takes many tries, what usually takes an hour has already taken at least 30 minutes and im not even half done
arabians2go
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Oh, for the love of all Gods, Howrse, come on, fix you javascript issue! How hard can it be, this is driving me crazy!!!! The only thing that works right now for me is your pretty notice in dev console, which is ironic, but it's not funny anymore after half a day of "undefined"-ers screwing my game.....!
PrimeHellix
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Site. Working mostly except the advanced search if im picking something like silver apple coats past first, riding pegasus etc in my stables hardly goes past first page direct aales goes up the third page.
Ravenknight
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Wasn't able to long onto the game until now. That's an entire 24 hours of blank white screens Howrse! Everything was working just fine on every other site except yours! Seriously please fix your game! default smiley :k
Angwen777
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I don't know how it's possible to neglect all of these problems for so long, even I don't procrastinate this much! I know you might be busy fixing it currently, but if it continues to go down hill like this, you won't even have a playable game!
Angwen777
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Yes... I'm back again. I'm currently "unranked" in trophies even though I've gotten 150 of them! It took my less than five minutes to spot this issue howrse please... default smiley :s
Angwen777
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Angwen777 wrote:

Yes... I'm back again. I'm currently "unranked" in trophies even though I've gotten 150 of them! It took my less than five minutes to spot this issue howrse please... default smiley :s
We are all unranked with trophies, don't worry. They will fix it and you will get your ranking back. The important thing is website is currently working properly enough and the game is playable.
PrimeHellix
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I'm trying to complete the beginner objectives but I got stuck with the "improve your position in the general ranking by at least 1 place" one because the ranking is not working. I can't finish the objectives now.
Velia
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I wasn't even able to log in or open the game yesterday. I hope we get compensation.
Sativa
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Yes i hope we get compensation too. This kind of thing makes me seriously consider leaving because I can’t put my time and effort into something that is this unreliable. There are time sensitive things that happen on Howrse and a lot of them didn’t happen yesterday with the outage!default smiley :(
gcat113
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[quote=1519712564][author]gcat113[/author]Yes i hope we get compensation too. This kind of thing makes me seriously consider leaving because I can’t put my time and effort into something that is this unreliable. There are time sensitive things that happen on Howrse and a lot of them didn’t happen yesterday with the outage!default smiley :([/quote:0]Exactly! The game used to allow for a miss here or there with things and you could get away with it but over the years these events have evolved into only being able to complete them being exactly perfect with every move and choice or you fail. Right when I went to use my over night clicks that built up, is when the game started having trouble, which continued until the evening for me. I missed an entire day! default smiley (n)
armourpony
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Very disappointed with the site being unavailable for most of yesterday. I missed out (potentially) on a lot of passes as I was unable to work 78 pass giving Divines.
Crystal Coven
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I really hope they'll fix these issues in the maintenance tomorrow
Angwen777
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Howrse needs to compensate for all the missed door clicks when we were unable to login and just got hours of white screen.
db1263
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Really annoying for breeding uni's. Can usually get breed between 6-7 uni's each session, now im struggling to get 4!
Hopefully its fixed soon. default smiley :)
Megan53
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Still lagging, white screens and watching the monkey twirl endlessly, taking hours to painfully blup. Some members just got through paying real money for VIP and Privileges and can't even use them as playing the game has gone basically unplayable. Howrse really needs to compensate these members.

Howrse "knew" that the server migrations were causing extreme lag (just read the posts on their discord from the other previous migrations on the smaller servers) Howrse should have been prepared or fixed the issues before doing this server, their largest. Their response to the members of this community is more than lacking. The silence for the past week is deafening. No wonder that players are leaving, finding other games to play. I have been looking at the number of players that are connected to the game when I am on. It has never been above 500. So having these type of issues with so few online makes one wonder why?
Desperado
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Hopefully the maintenance works tomorrow - but because yesterday wasn't online, I missed out on making a lot of passes with my horses - that was sad default smiley :'(
Christy's E Ticket
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I hope this maintenance works, can't click on any drop down farm tabs to take care of my horses default smiley :'(.
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It Appears that the Gran Prix Western Pleasure race is still running at 8:27 EST?
Is that happening with anyone else?

Also I was one of those totally unable to get on yesterday. Hope the above is corrected by the update
puterkatz
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Will the prix finish before maintenance default smiley (o)
Ruffian
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