[UPDATED] Devs' Corner: May 2026

I agree.

I've never found them useful at all. It's much more profitable for me to grow cows instead in my meadows and make millions of equus crafting the leather into items for resale.

I'm still waiting with baited breath for our lag to be resolved! Every day for the past 9-some months, I've logged in and thought, "maybe today will be the day". Then, I see how long it takes to even load my home page and I think about all the other things I can do with my time.

In all seriousness? We've had 6-12 hours of lag that affects all players every day for about 9 months now. Maybe we could prioritize making the game playable over the next exciting promotion.

Re pass seeds. It would be good if we could plant them in an extra field, so we still had 6 for crops....

The affix change is super cool! It would be cool to have a mass renaming one as well, but for now this is an improvement that i agree with!

Oh by the way, for those that don't know, the thing that's gone wrong with this update is... there's a problem with submitting via the Black Pearl. So there may be less creations to vote on this month.

Wouldn't be an update without something going wrong

I seldom change anything about affixes, so I will have to experiment with that change, but I definitely can see how it will be useful for some players, so thumbs up there.

The VAs are largely G3 coats, for which I am glad because the G2s were *terrible*. Almost all the horses looked alike, and they had knees and hocks far too high on the legs, plus they stood like they were suffering from laminitis. G3s are fine, though I mostly prefer the G4s we have now (yes, including Vanners, which look now like actual horses instead of a cartoon -- which is an improvement for a "breed" that pretty much *is* a cartoon... ).



The main interest I really have in the VA is the trophy for it. Beyond that, they sit in their breeding farm and are ignored. Making it a little easier to collect VAs for the trophy is fine with me, I like that.

To be honest I didn't even realise this was a universal problem. I just thought either my laptop was dying or my internet was bad, the awful amount of lag recently has made me play less and less because it's taken ages to just do the dailies. I really hope it is fixed

One thing I don't like is that, yes howrse has to make VIP etc worth it for paying customers, but they're doing it at the cost of losing some of their most loyal non-pass-buying players.

I've been on the game for almost 11 years (!!) and every SINGLE player I knew right from the beginning has quit the game because of the outright unfair bias against non-pass buyers. I am literally the only one left out of all the friends I made back in 2010.

I have nothing against VIP players and pass buyers, I have bought passes before myself, however it shouldn't prioritise players above others, it should just give them a better gameplay experience. (This does not include allowing them to win all the prizes like for buying passes to add skills to the reindeers etc! This is just outright unfair.)

The game is still very biased and that needs to change!

Also this 'we worked hard on the star rain' is a joke.

You're telling me someone will win a mash and someone will win a nyx pack? Laughable

I am just going to point out that it is also a Pegasus perk, which everyone has access to and a month can be bought with 10 days of successfully completing both objectives, or 50 days worth if you decide to buy 6 months. Absolutely zero pass purchase required for this perk if you save for a while.

Been here for 12 years myself, about 8 of those were spent as a non pass buyer, a further 2 was spent with the very rare purchase, while only in the last year or two have I been able to spend a fair amount.

It's very possible to succeed with this game if you are willing to put the time in.