NOTE: Sorry about the crazy length! It stops at around 25:00. NOTE 2: @ 01:02 it should be Denise WISEstorm, go watch their videos! That channel is amazing! I wanted to look at the problems we have in the community, to show why people are upset with the Glassdoor video. However, I can make mistakes, and if you think I made one, or I missed something, please let me know! I am always open to criticism.

When too many horses in your horse game is an issue, you know you're doing something Super wrong.

I am so tired of them saying that players are the problem and that we must be patient etc... It's been almost 2 years since we had an interesting content. It is just so sad. They totally ignore us and that is so much hurtful

The fact that the Jorvik wild horses talk make the bond between rider and horse less... magical.

i feel like there's an sso revolution going on rn lmao

I haven't played SSO in months. The one time I came on is to buy a horse and then logged off immediately.

Aye, ya'll remember that time when fort maria was supposed to be a thing?

I can confirm that yes, Sweden never had a "real" lock down, they just told us "please stay home- if you can" so of course everyone went to work the next day.....

if star stable doesn’t change their ways as soon as possible, this is a beginning of an end. it’s unfortunate, but it’s happening.

This whole situation makes me wanna cry tbh :/ I've been playing this game since 2011 and it is a big part of my childhood, I have so many great memories and I still love the game dearly... I don't want to see it go to waste over money, greed, or just plain stupidity.

As a player of SSO for 8 years, it’s kinda sad to see what SSO has become. I just miss the good old days where the quests were actually interesting, new horses would be coming out every few months, etc. Now- it’s basically about horses and only horses..

"Denise WINDstorm" 😭😭

the fact that they keep blatantly lying to us is what gets me going more than anything (not that they don't do a good job at it with their lack of good updates, quests or anything that improves or even maintains the existing gameplay, but I digress). they keep trying to appear cooperative and oh so considerate, asking for our feedback and replying to our messages and telling us how well they 'hear' us, not to mention stretching out new area releases and recycling races making them seem utterly desperate with their weekly updates at this point. I would love for them to give us fewer updates just so long as they give us something of quality! I always find myself getting so excited for the next update, already knowing its going to be a new horse but I can't help but hold out hope that they'll give us something else with it, but all we end up with are empty, shiny promises. the way they've extended releasing wildwoods makes me wonder how long they're going to make us wait for the character updates they promised us months earlier, and if that's the only thing with any worth or value they've actually got in store for 2021.

As a business administrator, you nailed this topic right on the head. A company needs to make revenue to succeed but listening and caring for the customer is mandatory in any business for it to continue to succeed and make the necessary revenue to thrive as a business. Star Stable is a company at the end of the day and therefore they will continue to fail if their customers are not happy. It's not the business itself that succeeds it's the customers that make the business succeed. No customers no business! Make your product better listen to the customer make them happy or you will go under!

"we scheduled around what we thought players would want" ARE YOU SURE? people have been badgering you for more quests, updated areas, and updated horses. and you choose to focus only on horses. _and bringing in new ones at that!_ we do not need new breeds, we have been wanting some poor gen 1s and 2s to get updates.

if we wanna get there attention we need to stop buying star coins, if they notice horses get less revenue and they'll 100% notice it

My pick is, they don’t want to continue or ever finish the story. Their updating/content release system is what keeps bringing people back. I don’t know of many games that haven’t atleast finished their main storyline on release. I think it’s their business model to keep people hanging on for content for as long as they can, making people check the updates every Wednesday so it stays alive. And why not release some cute horses that you can buy while you wait for the story to continue 🙈

i thought sso couldn't get worse and then i found out they are releasing a WRITING MASTERCLASS . so . that's gonna be a thing

Does anyone remember when they did focus on the game more and we had to ask for horses but they have fallen so much from the game play

I grew up with SSO, it was a huge part of my teenage years! I started playing it in 2012 and sort of grew out of it in 2018, but started again recently just before Christmas when being away at university made me really miss horses. I played OBSESSIVELY every single day for a few months to catch up and complete the main story quests, but after those ran out, I quickly stopped playing. Now I just log in to see if a new horse is worth it and immediately log out after buying it, or deciding I don't want it. I feel like new, probably younger, players are being catered for over us older players because they still have the main quest to keep them busy, and I know in their shoes I would have been ecstatic to see so many new horses. But now it seems bland because there's nothing to do WITH the new horses, except ride round in circles, do a few races, take a few photos and then what? I tried so hard to keep interest in the game but I haven't played at all in 2 months now and honestly feel no desire to go back which really saddens me, as I love this game SO much but feel the core heart of SSO and the world of Jorvik is slowly dying out.

if they really don't have time/resources for substantial weekly updates, why don't they do them every two/three weeks instead of one? i wouldn't mind the wait, especially if it meant actual content! i really hope sso can get their sh!t together, cause even though i haven't played in a while it really means a lot to me

I'm not really defending SSO here but I need to clear up this misconception; The behind the scenes footage of the Friesian wasn't them asking for critique. And that because the model and the horse were already fully done at that point. I'm not a game designer (nor do I work for SSO) but I have done 3D modeling + animation and I know how a bit more insight on this stuff. You see the post of the Friesian model in grayscale was posted 4 weeks before the release of the horse- And the animations take about 2 to 3 months to make for each horse (there's a video on SSO KZfaq with behind the scenes of the Marwari horse and the 3D modeler mentions that it takes couple weeks or more to texture the horse, bit less to color aka make the coats and 2 to 3 months to do the animations.) This means that they cannot change the actual model of the horse after doing the animations, because the animation rig wouldn't fit on the horse anymore. The only thing they can really improve at that point is the coat color or paint more detail on the coat. Even something as small as an eye placement or a muzzle shape can't be changed because they are both animated. Think of it as a building a house, you can't change the base of the house without having to take down the whole thing and start over. Not even talking about the fact that game updates are done way before hand, aka The Friesian horse was finished month or couple months before it's release so. God knows how old the greyscale screenshot was at that point. This is just to not overwork the employees before a deadline or if something were to go wrong we wouldn't be left without and update on Wednesday. For example if they decide to release a horse on December, all the work for that horse has to be done in November or even sooner. So why did they post behind the scenes stuff? I don't know. It's something that I can't get behind, because ofc everyone was going to assume that they could change the horse still and obviously the community was going to get angry with them not actually changing the horse. Like who in their right mind thought showing behind the scenes footage was a good idea? It wasn't going to end well. Then again it does come down to SSO just not telling their players anything. A lot of other games explain to their players this kind of stuff and clear up misconceptions, but SSO's social media ''team'' is just either just bad or overly controlled (which is more likely the case) as to how much they can tell us. It was mentioned couple times on the old employee reviews as well that the head management team is just awful, and need to be replaced and I totally agree with that. And it is the head management team who also decides what updates to do. So it is just one bad choice after another. And it has gotten so much worse through these years. I read on a newspage that SSO did get a quite significant investment in 2018: ''The Danish entertainment company, which invests in Nordic game studios, now has a 40% ownership stake in Star Stable Entertainment. Nordisk Film, a massive entertainment company based in Copenhagen, Denmark, announced today that it has acquired more shares in Star Stable Entertainment, bringing its ownership up to 40%.17th Dec 2018'' This was around the time the quality of horses went up significantly as well so it makes sense. ''Nordic media outfit Nordisk Film has invested €15 million ($17.9 million) into Swedish studio Star Stable Entertainment in exchange for a "substantial" minority stake. '' God knows who even owns this company anymore and who really is calling the shots over this game's management and updates. But this is how it usually goes, a company gets sold for co-owner ship so their quality of work improves because there's more money invested, but after a while it does end up hurting the game severely in other areas. The same thing happened to a popular Moba League of legends where: ''In 2011, Tencent paid $400 million for a 93% stake in Los Angeles-based Riot Games, the studio behind League of Legends, the No. 1 game on PCs. Four years later, it scooped up the rest.17th Sep 2020'' And now in 2021 the game is going severely downhill and is only a money making machine. But unlike league SSO is targeting children so it's just that much worse.

Star Stable has been going so fast at making horses for the game that they forgot things. They copy some of the animations from other horses. Star Stable needs to steep up there game and see what we want. You are so right about everything.

The two teams argument has never made sense to me, it means that sso is admitting that they prioritise horses... SSO is a company they decide who and how many people they employ, as well as what their role is... if sso truly cared about quests and quality of life updates, it would be reflected in the teams(with the questing one being larger)! It’s just excuse after excuse... we’re all sick of ‘filler’ updates!

I literally joined for the quests. I stopped for two years because there were no quests for me to do. Also. Why should I have to go search for so many of Catherine’s memories just to try and further the storyline. I honestly don’t even think they’re going to continue it anytime soon. I literally just logged on recently to check out Wildwood but that’s it. I finished the quests and now I’m bored again.

I imagine the "we will share this with the team" was truthful but the team/higher-ups simply wouldn't listen to their employees, as suggested by the employee reviews of the company

Man sometimes I feel like im white lying to myself for this game

Tbh it's just sad how it's going.

This is getting out of hand, as they’ve dropped the saint patriks day, Easter and other important days. I’m afraid that they’ll drop the rainbow festival for June. Which is very frustrating and sad, as the festival is very important to people of the community. And it would be a down step for sso.

Lets start #listenSSO , maybe it will trend and open their eyes😒

I was reporting sooo many bugs in game and on horses and they NEVER fixed it! Into 2020 I was hoping that they are trying they best, but it changed in half of the 2020. I'm playing this game since 2013 after they released 1st generation of Friesan horses. The game in those times was sooo much productive in gameplay way. I'm so disappointed that they started to be hungry only for money. It's so hella sad. The whole support team is now just non-human being - meaning that there's probably autobot answering system. Another thing which I personaly don't like is the fact that they are talking to all of us like to kids and they probably don't know the fact that more like 45% of their players are teens or adult players as same as me being 20.yo in these days. I totally agree with your opinion. Thank you for this video! :)

Also yes dead and quests WHAT ABOUT THE TINE AVALON SAID THAT VALEDALE WOULD GET COVERED IN SNOW AND DIE?????

I'm so happy someone made a detailed video about this entire situation! Thank you!

At this point, I would be so happy if SSO just sold their game to another company.

Awesome video, you talk about this really well and are very specific with every single topic of issue. Thanks for this

When I saw "SSO's response" I was like "You're not telling me they have actually addressed any of the issues?", but it was just comment replies. 😂 They really should communicate better and make official statements instead of replying to comments on social media.

Time to make our own horse game.

I played this game since 2015... I still play it, but it's so tiresome. I just play it because I don't really have that much to do in my free time. The storyline was definitely my favorite part of the game, but I also loved the events like Christmas and Valentine. Fortuna and Halloween are my favorite events in the game... I'm really upset that they skipped Fortuna and Valentine. #listenSSO

Thank you for making such a detailed video. Can't wait to see it shared under every SSO twitter post, it certainly deserves the spot of fame! I think the biggest proof of SSO's changing goal is the skin switch option- the shyness was an important part of the magical horses, and altrough I recognize people wanted it, by doing this SSO shot their lore in the foot, not even giving the players option to keep it the old way unless we want to switch it manually,, Ah well, may this bring us better times. Btw, you have a really beautiful voice. Hearing a familiar accent makes me happy. :D

No other SSO KZfaqr could have made a more comprehensive, insightful and critically informative video like this one! I hope this video gets spread around as much as possible because SSO seeing this is one thing, but the community could use a dose of reality here and there too. Not saying it's a bad community (most of the time), but when many are not informed or even refuse to be informed, then it becomes a problem. I've started playing in 2019 and I'm really sad that the game has started to go down this road, as it's such a beautiful game with potential. I sincerely hope that the team will stop sugarcoating things, be more transparent with us and take our concerns in much deeper consideration than what they've been doing over the years. Thank you so much for this video! P.S .... What the heck?? "Paper is patient" is an old South African saying?? I'm South African too and that's the first time I've heard of such a saying, hahah XD Guess I need to freshen up on my idioms. Hallo and lots of love from a fellow South African 🇿🇦 Lekker dag!

I love how their response feels like "Fuck Susan they're complaining again, give them some hope to hold on while we work on more overpriced horses to release and make this whole situation a much bigger shitshow than it has to be." At this point I'm not even playing the game, I'm just watching this whole situation unfold :') I'm hoping for the best but it seems like they're not taking anything seriously, but we'll see 🙏

Here is the thing. If they can make so many horses, they can also make quests. Covid is not an excuse.

They are digging there own grave, they dont give two cents about the players.

Here is something else I want sso to add being available to "rebirth" or start again with sso…but just keep your horses otherwise that would be annoying and even though they would let us keep our horses they could make them level one. Then it's fair.

Amazing video! This deserves more attention, subscribed and liked! We absolutely shouldn’t stay silent. This game has always struggled with releasing content consistently but what’s been going on since 2020 is atrocious. I’m happy people are waking up

Its funny how wizard101 has more story content updates than sso in a year.. sad

17:20 I love that analogy so much, and it fits perfectly with what’s going on at Star Stable right now.

I actually believe it goes far deeper computing issues than just ordering new pc's . It think it has more to do with the "pipeline" of their process of game design. I think due to SSO having to rely on their old engine introducing new game design and features that actually focus on interaction and gameplay rather then cosmetic (horses & tack) seem to be harder (which i take from the previous updates, since sso only added so few of them over all these years) The lack of Seniors in deir Dev teams lead me to think that nobody really "knows" how to efficiently work Star stable and the Glassdoor comments make it seem like its not even encouraged by SSo to find out (which normally would be either pay raises or going up the career ladder, which sso both doesnt do apperently) There are soo many ways for sso to increase revenue and diversify as a company to grow and spread but they really barely take any opportunities. Which is unfortunate but i hope a competitor comes along at some point to take over the valuable position sso is in. They are sitting on a gold mine and they arent even aware.

Guys, everytime you see sso replah to someone and telling them to be patient send them this. Actually, let's start kinda spamming it everywhere so they can actually listen for once in a long timw

I am tired of Star Stable not hearing the players. I used to release videos on my KZfaq channel every Wednesday and that quickly became difficult when interesting updates stopped happening. I recently came back into the game after a few years of inconsistent playing and was very disappointed to see hardly any real changes. Thanks so much for creating this video. I hope this inspires the SSO team to shift their priorities.

I really hope they get their Damm act together all of what you said I 100% agree with. If they don’t act fast with their decision making and choices of what is updated and not, they’re going to lose hundreds of players who do not give a Damm about the horses and are concerned about the releases of quests, storyline, bugs and well all you mentioned that players are complaining about.

This video needs to go viral, thank you for spending your time in this video. Hopefully HOPEFULLY sso will listen or someone in the industry who will cause a change.

i feel like sso was lazy with the new area. by making the horses talk for no reason they didn´t have to make people with animations, no bildings or homes and les stuff around it. i think it would be much more fun if there were people that where isolated from our world

Okay but FOR REAL NOW! I would love that ”we hear your concerns!” -meme🤠

Love this channel and this is yet another amazing video highlighting what sso has done wrong. I am honestly terrified that the game is going to die. Star Stable is the game that I played throughout my childhood. I still can’t believe they said that they thought we wanted more horses when we were literally saying NO MORE HORSES. I hate the argument,”We have different teams for quests and horses.”. It’s rubbish. We want story quests. It feels like they are spending all of their money on things like the books, mistfall (the animated series), new games, star stable on mobile devices. I’m losing trust in the team. They always say oh the team will get this feedback but they never do. If they do get the feedback, it’s not acted on. We don’t even get holiday quests anymore like for valentines Saint Patrick’s or April fools. And they use all these excuses of different teams ,new management but none of it works anymore. They really need to step up their game.

I just wanted to say thank you for making such a detailed and thought-out video! I hope it spreads throughout the SSO community and helps people to realize the truth about what's been going on in this game for a very long time. I also hope that people realize that those of us trying to invoke much needed changes aren't trying to hate on SSO. We're just tired of being ignored for years now and it's disheartening to see a game we love that has SO much potential being run into the ground for the sake of revenue. Keep up the awesome work and I look forward to the next video!

Sso 5 years ago: a game with a girl and her horse that go on adventures and quest together to save Jorvik from Garnok. You learn that you’re a magical soul rider and you explore the world together with unique NPCs with amazing backstories and relatable characters. Sso today: if you like buying cartoony versions of horse breeds and doing the same races over and over again until they max then the games for you

Bro even if sso took like a month off the weekly updates to spend time fixing bugs, making quests, ordering new computers etc. that’d be fine, it’s just so annoying that they’re only really focusing on the horses. I’m on level 19 and only 85 XP from level 20, I’ve been grinding with the reputation quests I have left but even after weeks of doing the daily quests (of the places that I have reputation quests) I’m still 1000’s of points away from being able to do the quests, I’m honestly hoping so much that there’s quests that I can do at level 20

I've been also trying to figure out why they removed the old fjord models. They never removed any other horses so why just them? It could still bring in passive income by keeping them in the game. The only conclusion i could come up with is that that model was a creation of either a singular previous employee or employees that owned the rights to that model...and when they left they wanted them removed? Idk all this deleting the whole damn storyline is a very shifty thing to me

I'm happy that a more important part of the community starts to open their eyes but I'm afraid it's too late now. They are really good at playing with their most demanding fans's feelings, offering them the feeling to be important - ambassador, the most useless title ever - for them. And that forced positivity ? Nobody finds that unhealthy to use that to counter the critiques ? I can't possibly be the only one to see a similarity with the way some sects and gurus act to keep their fans and make them giving more and more money ?

17:22 couldn’t have said it better myself 😤👏

they could actually make MORE money by having a completed story but selling it in 8$ episode packs with plenty of content while giving the base game a good expansion and new content.

I'd literally go on for just events, until there was either a new area or quests i could do. Back in the day those quests took like a week, sometimes 2. Now they take 2 hours or less. I'm 32, I moved on to horseisle 3 until there are new quests. Then I'll do those, then move back. Because theres nothing else to do....

I just discovered your channel, and I am *so* impressed with you and the information you collect and how you arrange everything. Your videos are so well structured and informative, and I'm really glad that there's more videos about this crisis in SSO, because I'm really trying to be more informed to form my own opinion and contact SSO about it. Thank you again, and I really hope that your channel grows more, you work so hard ❤

this video sums everything up perfectly, thank you for this. also, can we talk about how in the latest update's small information card that appears when launching the game, they included the week old finnhorse update as well, just to make the current update seem bigger? it kind of makes me laugh, to be honest :D

I know that the community asked for more different horses, but there are just too many to enjoy the game now

Fellow SA player here!🇿🇦 completely agree with your video, very well said 👍🥰

Me, who's been playing for around 5 or 6 years: New players get free SR? I wish there was something for older players :c And I miss snowy Jorvik and all the quests with the chtistmas tree

It's the obvious lying that hurts me the most. I love Star Stable, but I've been stretched until I've been broken. I'm bored of the game, as there is nothing fun and entertaining to do, and the constant horses? They're not worth buying! The greediness that I've witnessed this year is beyond what I could have imagined.

I genuinely dont understand how your video havent gotten the recognition it deserves, this need to be WELL KNOWN throughout the entire community. Also Im from sweden and let me tell you basically nothing has happened anywhere, they cant blame it on covid bc it was also a problem even before covid! What is a game with a bunch of horses where you cant do anything with said horses? There is basically nothing to do for so many of their players

I was protecting sso for so long and now I am so tired, and making money like that is just sad. I started playing 2017 and I was so into the story, I bought the books (In swedesh), I played Star Shine Legacy but all if them ends and starstable is the start. If I am correct, Fripp is still hurt and starstable have not finished the story quests. R.I.P Fripp

You know what is sad, me watching this video in August 2023, knowing, that nothing hast really changed. . . It got even worse, with the difference, that we have story updates. But the castel isn't out, they let the wildwoods fall down somewhere, still one horse after another every update, SSo fired a lot of their stuff, because they are loosing money, but still do not lusten to theire community. . .

I swear the excuse of the ”Horse team doesn’t want to do anything else” only makes me more frustrated. If you can’t have a flexible team, stop hiring the stubborn ones that only infuriate the community more with the continuous horses.

Fellow South African here👋 Great video!! Agree %100 with all points made. I havent played the game in more than a year because theres nothing to play for anymore. Used to love the game and it's really sad its turned out this way

Thank you so much for this video! Thank you for making it very clear, also you explaining everything, it was very comfortable to watch and also listen to! :D

honestly i can agree that i've BEEN that type of person who always gave sso one more chance on and on, but this has been the turning point for me. i did have my doubts about this whole thing since 2018. from that point i've started to notice kind of a flame, that's slowly dying out. same as you, the responses make me boil up inside like im some sort of tea in a pot. this could be resolved so easily.. but instead they choose the hard way.

something that we need them to do is to help the servers spring star an peanepell mountain bc those servers are litrally dying and we need to go to other servers or there will be like only 40 ppl playing on 1 server i hope they do something rlly fast about all of what is happening rn

Just wanted to say thank you for making this video and keeping it relatively objective. I only started playing around two years ago and I had several monthly breaks because of real life shit. And I have more than enough quests and main story and content left, so I am still really excited and haven't had a problem with the horses dropping so fast. But this video has shown me how it is for others that have been playing for a lot longer than I have. And it really opened my eyes. So thank you!

Oh wow. Just... wow. This explains so much. I hadn't logged onto SSO in nearly 2 years (didn't keep up with updates either, and was completely in the dark), and just this last week I got the hankering to play again. I was expecting a good amount of quests built up in my absence, but when I looked at the map... those yellow exclamation points were so sparse. Just a lot of simple 5 exp side quests and, the more I looked, piles upon piles of new horses. I was shocked and confused. And the bugs... so many graphical bugs, and I have a much better computer now than I did 2 years ago, so it couldn't be me. I can't believe the game I used to love so much now feels so shallow. I'm appalled at them. That "if you need to take a break, we understand" response?! Passive-aggressive and absolutely shameful. The last time I gave them money was when I bought lifetime 5-odd years ago, and I'm confident in saying they won't ever see another penny out of me again until they straighten out their mess. Wonderful video (feels weird to say considering the context lol!) and you earned a sub from me!

im hoping this video gets boosted more bcus this sums up how i feel 10000000%

Thank you for taking your time to make this video! It’s well thought through and just helps with informing people on the issues with sso

I have been screaming at the top of my lungs about this and I gave up a few months ago, but I think it's important for SSO players to know When SSO announced the aquatic horses, I contacted them since I was concerned about the blue/purple horse. It's a long story, but I sent an email to SSO years ago when I was looking for a job as a character/creature designer for their games, and in my portfolio, I included some horse designs which I had done. Among them there's Caspian, my aquatic horse created in 2016. I never got a reply back from them so I assumed they werent interested and ended up finding a job elsewhere Once I saw their announcement of their aquatic horses a few years later, I was shook , their blue/purple aquatic horse is an almost copy of my Caspian, just missing the leg and shoulder fins and horn, which I assume were removed due to the tack. I tried to contacted SSO about it several times, I only got the automatic response of "We hear you, and we will keep your suggestion in mind". After sending them more emails requesting to at least change the blue/purple color to something else, make it dark blue, or dark purple, since the horses were already in game, basically to just change it enough to not look like my horse design, or change the coat pattern... I again never got a reply back. I have screenshot with dates of posting my design on my deviantart account, and even doing art of it on a beach to prove that he indeed, existed before SSO created their aquatic horses. I truly believe SSO stole from me for profit, since their goal is to do horses left and right. SSO refuses to contact me about it. They have also deleted my Instagram comment about it. As a horse game lover and someone who works as a character/creature designer in the industry, Im disappointed, and they have lost all respect I had for them...

Crazy. I saw SSO posting a new job position a few months ago. They were looking for a new marketing manager and I was really interested in applying though I remembered that I hated SSO for a very common reason. It all makes sense now that I watch this video.

great video, very informative and well-structured! i wish sso would be more transparent with their player base and actually start taking feedback into account. that being said, i immensely dislike how some people forgo the whole 'constructive' part of 'constructive criticism' and just leave hate on sso, it doesn't help anyone. i really like that you didn't do that, and instead gave solid, factual, and helpful critique :)

This is really detailed and well thought out. Thanks for posting this to keep us aware and updated :D

All of this is so true!!! Oml, I was thrilled when I got enough star coins and I went to buy an AQH, I picked out the one I wanted, clicked to buy it, and when I bought it, it said I got a network error, I logged back on, to find my star coins GONE and the AQH I bought NOWHERE to be found, I messaged sso like, I'd say about 20 times at the most, and you know what they gave me? A free day of Stable Care, wow... just wow.

This video is almost too good. I got in an argument with ambassadors a few days ago, and all my opinions about this "situation" are in this video. ITS NOT JUST MEEE. SO frustrating because sso practically talks through the ambassadors. New subscriber here, good job on this.

The Googley eyes rattle slaps on the thumbnails and characters give me serotonin

This was a very extremely informative video so thank you for this

The North Swedish model is one of my favourites, so I was very excited for the Runerunner and when I finally, after months of daily grind, got it, I was very proud. Like all the daily horrors were now being rewarded. Only to find out that the front lock glitches through the head when the horse is on a fast gallop. It's nothing game breaking and you could overlook it, but I think it's a perfect allegory: The Players think they get valued with something special and unique for the hard work they put into. Instead they get a re-heated model that is special in no way and even has bugs....

Now this needs more views.

i lowkey feel bad for the team bc i dont think its their fault i think its the management's fault

Star stable is a company that has lot’s of money and a huge fan base. But over time they started to shut the fan’s opinions and ideas away and only cared about the money that they are making. They’re being selfish and lazy in my opinion. I don’t want this to be seen as a rude comment I’m only making this to say that I miss what star stable used to be. ( And thank you for the videos that you are making they’re really shedding light on stuff that should be talked about in the Community. And as I’m watching a video I’ll probably make more edits to this comment ) Edit: So I halfway through the video and the company has flat out lied to us. Do they understand that once the fan’s realise this everything they’ve worked for is gonna go downhill. Lying to their Community that they have worked so hard to gain. That is just sick and it makes me so upset that this is what has happened to star stable the game used to be so lovable and now look at what it’s turned into. Edit 2: The star stable community is filled with happiness kindness and love. We have been nice about the situation we have given import when they asked for it. And they take that kindness and the idea and threw it back in our face and this is just the tip of the iceberg. They say that the pandemic has hit them hard and “it’s gonna to take a while for them to get there act together” if they don’t start doing something soon the community won’t be happy. we done everything we’ve been nice and kind we’ve been grateful but they’re just blocking it out as if we are worthless.

In my opinion Wildwoods was very well made, the only problem is that its quests and storyline were so short. SSE put so much effort into the physical appearance of the area, but then forgot to add a proportionate amount of quests to go along with it.

I never comment on videos really generally speaking. I'm the quiet mouse in the audience, but I wholeheartily agree with everything you've said. I really hope they see this an d take it seriously in making these changes and save their game. They got a great fan base that could carry them through that transition if they would only own up and start making that change. That change being putting the game they created and the players first. The best and most successful companies are the ones that keep their porities straight and the money always follows. Keep your mind on improving your business and listen to the customers, basic business knowledge. it would be more than amazing to see this game turn around for the better, but after all you have shown here and put together so well in all this community has been struggling with and saying I no longer am a diehard supporter of sso in acting like everything is great. Truth is, it's not, and its high time they got it together-they STILL have a chance to come back from this fall from grace. However, not sure how much longer if anymore of us leave. Many of the ones voicing have stayed loyal just waiting for the change that never seems to come. With each new player that leaves their hourglass gets smaller. Sad to see it like this in a game that still holds so much potential and a game I have loved for the better part of 10years now. I have never been apart of a game for this length of time. But I feel at this point, I'm not alone in that feeling.

Thank you SOOO much for making this video! I listened intently to every part of it and the whole time I was thinking about how much I agreed with every part. I love that as a community we are all getting frustrated, bored, etc. at the same time because we have been given the same small updates, every. Single. Week. We are all getting incredibly tired of it, and that is an understatement. I have a lot of other things that I could be doing with my time, but I still take 10-20 minutes to check out the one thing they added every week, and I am disappointed every time. And then they give us the 'Coming Next Week..' title or whatever, with "A new race is coming.." and at this point I, and many other people in the SSO community, feel helpless. We tried everything, and at this point we are just there to make the game pretty, so then more people will come in and be just as disappointed as we are. It's sad, and it's honestly so so so frustrating. The thing is is that they say "take a break" but that's basically what we have been doing for the past 2 years because the updates have been crap. I feel like going to Sweden myself, and just seeing what they are actually doing. Probably nothing tbh. SSO, we've cried, and they just don't care, which scares me.

I think the part I hate the most was sso dropping events. I still have collectables from multiple events from years ago because I was inactive for a while. sso needs to start actually listening to their players. they need to take the criticism. I wish they would bring back events because I looked forward to them every year. I'm also pretty sure they took the magic bunny away from April fools day, which I really enjoyed. I loved changing my horse's color (this was before magic horses were a thing). sso has so much potential to be an amazing game, but instead everything is lackluster and like you said they are just dragging their feet. wake up sso.

I felt I was crying wolf trying to alert players on the lack of quests, updates, things to do, core gameplay issues not getting fixed and costumer support being CONSISTENTLY bad IN 2017. Now in 2021 I'm finally seeing newer players and larger masses catching on with what's really going on, and how not a single thing has been changed for the better if you ignore visuals. This is going to keep building, heightening tension further and further until it finally snaps; then two things can happen. Either, they massively shift their focus, learn the error of their ways, put in effort in everything gameplay, fix, apologize for and rightly compensating for any and all issues that stems from the lack of responsability they've put in costumer service, fixing hacked accounts, going back on gifts, shifting blame, officially apologize and eventually make sso a really good game again (unless they fall back into their old ways when things calm down.) -The saddest thing is I'm fairly certain this won't happen unless management gets completely dethroned and people who are actually interested in the game get to call the shots. Or they crawl into a hole so toxic towards their playerbase they cannot crawl their way out of and let the game die an undignifed, slow and painful death; if not all at once. -This is the much, much more likely result, and one they have been inching towards for. over. 4. years.

I remember when "shadow update" was add - it was just that, graphical update with better shadows but a few updates later there was 1 bit bigger which I guess was to make up for what they didn't add then

this video was much needed, thank you :0