First off i must ask, why? It's the question on everyones mind: what would make howrse - a fun family friendly game that has been entertaining the young and old for many years - suddenly do something that causes so many of their 'loyal players' to revolt? If the aim of this new update is to indeed reward the loyal players, then why doesn't howrse ASK how we would like to be rewarded instead of introducing something most of the howrse community will no doubt be against? If all of their so called 'loyal players' are against the idea which is supposed to reward them in particular, maybe howrse should take notice of this and come up with something better?
As far as i am concerned there is no reason to do an update that doesn't benefit the game players. The real reason for the update is to force people to buy passes, we all know that. The new divine won't take our attention away from the fact that this is completely unacceptable either... like others have said already, this new shiney can't do that. It doesn't blind us. Its another pixel horse to add a collection of other pixel horses, full stop. Our hard earned money is much more important to us than that.
So, dear howrse/owlient, we won't forget this and will continue to fight it until the update is in place, and beyond. You have been warned - we will leave the game permanently if you go with this. Yes, you heard me, permanently. Becuase remember, the customer is always right. Always.

Anyway, i feel my little rant has gone on for long enough, so here is a list of pros and cons to finish off my opinion about this possible update. I will add more, and i am sure others will too.

Pros:
1. Don't have to pay 180k + to get a ready pass horse or spend months on end raising one
Cons:
1. There is no market for pass horses, and selling/aging 30yr+ horses is pointless
2. You can only get a maximum of 10 passes per month + the 'free' one
3. The 10 passes aren't even guaranteed
4. The value of a pass will jump really high in a short period of time and cause havoc in the sales

**PASS HORSES CHANGE, NEW RANKINGS, INTRODUCING NEW DIVINE**

The changes will be applied on 8.11.2016 (November) > Only on few servers CZ, IT

1) You can earn one pass per 3 days, through loyalty pass player.
How? The daily limit for points achieved (10) will be replaced with maximum of 30.

2) Do not let your old horses die for passes. Keep them, as there will be new Divine horse, which will be achievable only, by sending old horses to heaven.
--If you send to heaven 10 horses, older than 25 years, you'll get new Divine.
(More infor from Ow next week.)

3) New rakings

"Number of horses sent to the heaven this month"
- This ranking will count EVERY HORSE sent to heaven, no matter it's age since 1. of every month.

"Number of old horses sent to heaven this month"
- This ranking will count only horses OLDER than 25 years, sent to heaven since 1. of every month.

"Number of horses sold to Safe Haven this month"
-This ranking will count EVERY horse, no matter it's age, sold to Safe Haven since 1. of every month.

**NEW DIVINE LOOK**

"By !unsubstantiated! information the Divine will "grow" everytime, you send horse to the heaven."

Perk is still a mystery.

**ABOLITION OF TIME LIMITED ITEMS AND ITEM EXCHANGE CHANGES**

Based on you feedback we decided to cancel the limited items.
Items from promos will no longer be limited, as well, as items from your inventory. (Not sure here, heh.) Also items given by Divines (Aquarius, Libra, Gemini...) will no longer be limited.
Together with this, there'll be new changes in Item Exchange system:

- Hermes' Wings, Bewitched Pumpkin, Seal of the Apocalypse aren't tradeable anymore
- Magic Hat, Double-Sided Medallion, Ow's Helios' Ray aren't tradeable but without a time limit
- Bonus items (whip, spurs etc) not tradeable but giftable
- Golden Fleece is tradeable

**NEW LANDSCAPES FOR OW'S HELIOS' RAY**

**CELTIC CARDS PROMO**

Celtic cards
Thanks to some card you can win a prize and the other cards can help you finish the puzzle.
Get also the Wild cards! These card will allow you, to choose any card with the same rarity.

You'll get the golden horseshoes, if you'll collect certain number of different cards:
> 3 different cards
> 12 different card
> 33 different card
> 63 different cards
Collect at least 2 golden horseshoes to take part in the prize draw, which will take place at the end of the event, to try and win the divine horse Morrigan.

How to get cards?
First log in in the day. (2 cards per day)
While training your horse. (1 card per day)
Winning with a horse in a competition. (1 card per day)
Flash sales.
Change of the duplicated cards for equus. (1 card per day)
Buying cards. (for passes)



Bronze Joker
This card will alow you to get any bronze card of your choice.
Choose the card, you want to get.

**PRIZES IN CELTIC CARDS PROMO**

**NEW DIVINE COLLECTION CELTIC HORSES**

Celtic horses are Divine horses. Each of them represents one of the Celtic gods. They have the power of divinationm, that allows you to discover 3 ogham* letters each day. Some letters are part of a prediction and some not. Find 5 letters which are part of prediction to win a gift. Then discover a new prediction!

Each of the Celtic horse is immortal, unsellable and unclassifiable.
They cannot:
Reproduce
Being customized
Participate in Grand Prix
Be aged manually
They do not affect the prestige of a EC, where they are boarded
They can participate in a competitions for a normal horses once a day. However they can participate in competition for Divines, Wild horses and Legendary horses as many times, as their energy allows.

*Ogham is an Early Medieval alphabet used to write the early Irish language.

**NEW DIVINE MORRIGAN**


Morrigan
Morrigan is part of the Celtic Horses. Find 5 Ogham letters of his prediction by using every day his power of divination. Once completed you can win:
- 1 Medusa's Blood
-10 000 Equus
-1 Bell Boots.

You cannot sell this divine

Let me just tell you that players are more than not happy about this. As I stated there, if they will add this update to the game, I will quit. I am paying customer but let me tell you I won't let them destroy my wallet. What are they trying to do is steal one free pass from players every month, that means 12 passes per year. This is their way how to deal with multi-accounts. Oh, and yeah. They also stated their are trying to make game easier for new players. Like excuse me but did they forget that only thanks to us paying customers they are able to eat or even live ? I am really mad and I don't like this game anymore. They changed so many thing that it is not even old Howrse we know. They are trying to make game easier for new players .. but what about all old players ? I honestly think that people from from Owient/Ubisoft have no idea about what this game is or how it works. Since Owlient is part of Ubisoft, this game is dying .. rapidly.

Either they will stop making stupid changes or a lot of players will quit.

And I thought divine horses are supposed to be special and rare. Now they are going to give free divine horse to everyone. Awesome logic, another slap for paying customers. Also I don't know if someone already mentioned it, but this supposed to be that new divine horse :

WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM!? Sending horses to heaven above to to get passes is the ONLY way I can keep my VIP INCLUDING play this game. Occasionally have a pass spent on a black market item. Achivement divine? Go ahead and send it out if its that needed,but no.Nonononono.


Do.NOT.touch my pass horses. EVER.
Not cool.Not cool,never will be cool,Stop DESTROYING my gameplay!!

They know about it. Why do you think Ow from Czech version is quiet about this ? At first he was like "It is great change.", "You will like it.", "It will be easier." WELL maybe fore new players. If they already made new divine horse for this, they are serious about it.

That divine does indeed seems to be part of the deal,however, it dosent mean it cannot be changed. It says you get it by sending horses to heaven so its kind of...reaper divine? cool. It dosent say however,it gives you any kind of reward for doing it unless I missed some info. Not sure but I believe Zaldias perk was also changed a little bit before official release on real server due to heavy critic toward its perk on preprod.


Yes,try to stay positive that anything can be changed on preprod. Its not going to be easy but there is that one shot we have to take. I know i will as soon I get my hands on preprod.

And from the sound of it,a lot of servers are NOT happy about it with is a good thing!


And IF this change launches...well then Howrse may have to invest in using scripts to pretend they have any players left that play this game actively


I do hear what you are saying and what you mean tough *hugs'

It does no mean I'm less angry about such a potential change.
I suspect more and more, myself included, spend pass horses to renew the VIP, as well as taking part in some promos, grabbing the odd BM etc. etc.

That means they earn less RL $.
They gave us the teams, and I love the concept, but it was still not enough.

Therefor strike 1 - offering difficult to get mediocre divine, and divine that only offer a gift once a full blue moon, if it occurs on a Sunday.
If they offered too many good divine, it would defeat the purpose - namely to get us to buy passes to fund the game and our gameplay.

Strike 2 - Putting a time limit on BM items that can be won in promos. Purpose to drain the exchange and prevent us from swapping or selling an item for something we want/need.
(Yes they will revoke that part eventually. But they will make it impossible to exchange other items in the process).

Strike 3 - getting rid of the pass horse option, replacing it with some quaint and vague log on bonus concept. So if you miss even 1 day, or do not meet the unnamed criteria, you will not get the 1 pass every 3 days, and thus won't be able to get 10 passes per month. Not to mention the fact that the mini-games do still NOT work on tablets.

They still earn a lot with all the promos, and from the teams, but I suspect not nearly as much as they used to.

The VIP and peg accounts were released as RL gold sinks.
I love the perks I get, but since several use the in game currency to get the perks, they do not earn as much as they could, if we all used RL currency.

The new rankings - couldn't care less about those.
Why would I want to work my behind off aging passhorses, or breeding one foal after the other to just send them all off, hoping to get some badge or trophy?
And feeding a divine passhorse for some mystery perk, that can easily be changed, as it has already been said.... don't make me laugh.

All I can say is each change makes it more and more clear to me, just why I have chosen to use ingame items to fund my game, in stead of using my $ to buy passes.

that BMI will no longer have time limits! I've had P. Stones, Harmony Packs, Aphrodites Tears, and Hera Packs go to waste since I couldn't sell them. I make my equus on BMI sales and getting rid of the time limit on BMI is such a relief.

I still hate the new pass horse system though.