Thank you very much for your reply! I like Narnia's suggestion, and I hope the compaions come through well. Good luck Howrse team!

You say nothing has been mentioned officially about the HoG; does this mean it has been mentioned? Has anyone actually asked if it will come back?

freya will be ~3600 passes

but the greyfell and other crystal-tier prizes should be obtainable for 1170!

I personally have been waiting for the companions to come back for years, and I'm incredibly excited. In large servers like this one, companions can still be purchased. On the Bulgarian server, on the one hand, we do not even have half the companions here.




On the other hand, most players, who play the game when companions are not limited, are no longer in attendance, or do not give their companions at no cost. We on the small servers, like all the others, pay real money to satisfy our collector's passion, so I'm on the seventh heaven that we can see the companions again.

The other thing I think is that, it is logical, the new item price is 100 passes, to gather all the companions you must put 2100 passes. Considering how each week we are flooded with at least 2 promotional offers that pop up new and old horses, hardly everyone will have the opportunity to open 21 times this item, not to mention more than 21 times. I do not think trade with companions will be so badly hurt.

By "official" I mean we have not received a response from Admin/the game team about its return yet, so we don't know about its return at this time.

Bear in mind that it's based on preprod, and things are not guaranteed to be the same. Given what's just happened with the objective HOP, I wouldn't put them past 'fixing' it before it goes live.

Also (guaranteeing) getting the Greyfell that cheap is not going to be easy. It involves careful use of tiles and trading to maximise the crystal chests you get. Something a lot of folks on pre-prod found very confusing. I'm not sure I'll manage to do it that cheap myself (though of course there's a good chance of getting a Greyfell by chance earlier). I am planning on writing up a guide including screenshots!

My first bit of a advice though is to do the tutorial, and do the rides/whatever to get free tiles, but other than that don't start playing straight away. Wait and gather tiles to give you more choices. (And that will give me more time to get the guide up!)

I am thrilled for the companions to come back. I would love to put them on my two horses Jafar and Jasmine. So does this mean we are guaranteed to win one if not a few companions in the following promo?

there's now an advertising video shown on the pass page, and by the looks of it you can watch the video and win prizes of different rarity levels with passes as the most rare. Other prizes include equus, coloured tack and items like carrots and fodder I think.

Just looked and it's on International preprod. It doesn't seem to be working yet: I watched a few videos and won nothing! Not sure I like that it looks like passes are going to be very rare... but not surprising really. Having coloured tack available that way will help with objectives though.

I imagine it would be based on luck however, I am not 100% certain. I think a lot of players are excited for the return of companions.

I don't think there's any in the next promo (forgotten country) but after that there's going to be the egg decorating promo, and you can win some companions from decorating eggs. I'm not sure if the companions chest will be released at the same time as that promo, but they're both up on preprod together at the moment so I'd assume they might be!

I am very glad to see the return of the pets, I always thought it was one of the great unfairs of this game.

For the simple reason that the trophy that required you to have all the pets appeared after the pets was removed.

For some reason I remember that it was Neptune you won from the promo that removed the pets from the game and the one OW has is from 2012-07-16 and if am remembering correctly after the promo was over any pet you had in stock was deleted, and while I'm not entirely sure on when the trophys was introduced it was definitely a year after possibly even more.

I do have the bee and ladybug and required them over five years ago but they still cost a fortune back then, but if you're new player coming to this game you're not gone get them it is actually impossible.

So while I don't think it should be easy to acquire the rear ones, I think it's fair if it's having a Balios you bred yourself difficult, but not in a 1 million years impossible.

I will also join in saying I would love the return of the horn of gold I remember how much fun I had matching background, coat and pet.

Also think all the wonderful artist is who makes creation space coats for us, would love the diversity of making something else than horses and backgrounds.