[UPDATED] Devs' Corner: April 2025

I'm finished with Wilds as they're overpriced the way they release them and without the (collection) trophy there's no incentive for me to do it, so this is yet another update that does jack all for me.

Did they add the Iris Coats back into collections yet?

well at least you'll only need them when theres a wild/chimera/pet in the promos LOL

Wish the new trophies were to have x amount of wild, chimera or pet tamed. It is unfair to those of us who have been collecting them and working them, i am not buying doubles and it will take forever for help requests....

Also why is Wild and Chimera 2 times per help ask (for the first trophy) but Pet horse is 10? That doesn't make sense, they're all virtually the same thing.

I very much agree with this, I have 11 chimeras, all tamed, yet all I can do is accept help requests with them to aid towards the trophy, or spend up to 2000 passes to get another one to use when they are next on offer. I don't mind losing some passes to help towards the trophies, but over a 1000 passes loss is way too much for even me to justify. Even if they can't be fully backtracked for the trophies, it would be nice if you could have some points added to the trophy based on the amount you had tamed already.

It's the same with trophies like the rosettes, where more should have been done to give a more accurate starting amount. Like, my Ocean has over 200, yet only 67 of those are currently counting towards the trophies? I understand they probably don't have all the data stored, but when you have a horse that has that many and you are the breeder, it should have been used as a starting point if it was higher than the amount at the time of the change.

I don't even think ANY pass loss is worth it for the trophies. The prizes they give aren't worth more than 300 passes max, and quite a few of them are worth less than that. Wilds give a 150-pass net loss on average, and chimeras give even more. If you buy expensive horses for these trophy rewards, you are GOING to lose money, full-stop.

Howrse did a really poor job making an incentive to play these.

To me it isn't a loss to buy things for these trophies, mainly because I eventually want to try and get all the divines, the next one is one I don't have, so, the way I see it, I take a small loss and eventually get a divine that would have otherwise cost me thousands to buy when it eventually came up in a weekend offer. That said, I do make around 1000+ passes on a good week just through working my divines and doing objectives, so 300 points is barely going to make a dent in my reserve and doesn't take long for me to make up.

No one has to agree with what I do when it comes to my game or even follow my example, but it really would be nice if I could post the direction I take without effectively being told what I did was a bad idea, as, believe me, I do weigh up my options a lot before I invest in these kind of things, I don't just throw passes around for the sake of throwing them around.

Also, how is spending more passes on a wild/chimera any different than spending a ton on a series that will take years to pay you back? Example, you spend 4k maxing out the meter for a love divine, it would take you almost 17 years to pay the passes back, yet you decide to do it anyway because you want to keep a full set. Another example is the rainbow divines, who only give 40 or 50 passes a month if you don't have VIP, yet cost 6000+ passes to max the meter each, taking over a decade to pay back the passes that were spent on them.

Yes, these series will eventually pay you back, but, realistically, the majority of players will not stick around that long, yet those players still buy them for the sake of completing the collection, even when they probably won't get back the passes they spent on them.

Yeah, if you have enough reserve and it furthers a goal you have it wouldn't be an issue, since it gets you closer to where you want to be on the game.

My problem wasn't with you, it's that Howrse set this up where you have to buy duplicates of an already-overpriced (net loss) Special in order to progress with the trophies and they rewards they offer don't cover the cost. The only reason to do it would be, like you said, if you've already got such a massive reserve that the net loss is negligible AND you specifically want one of the Divines offered.

Otherwise, they're setting us up to lose money and I think it should be clear that that's what they're doing by making these things so obscenely expensive and for such little reward to most players. If a specific player wants a specific Divine and considers the expense worth it, that's fine, but I am going to continue to call Howrse out for making pass drains and thinking we won't notice.

I just think it's in bad practice. Sorry if it sounded like I was attacking you, I wasn't, I was just saying from my perspective I think they shouldn't be jacking up the prices on these things where you have to pay 900 passes up front to get a Golden Apple (100 passes). It's nuts. It's been an issue I've had since the beginning with these new trophies though, they're just not worth it and they get worse with every single update.