I know you've "just" posted the video about etg. But I feel like there's a need of criticism from someone like you once again at this point. The current ETG reddit is a disaster filled with rants and actual hartred from the community, which I can say is pretty damn deserved
I realized they were just a bunch of empty words a while ago. It truly is sad. I think they started out with good intentions but then got greedy and lost touch with the vision. I think that’s why some of my favorite people left the team, they still had the vision in mind and realized it wasn’t ever going to happen. The lack of good horse games breaks my heart on the regular. Some of the best games I’ve played are from the early 2000s.
You want a horse game that is open worldmulti player even the ranches you can ride around in an invite your friends there too. An you do not have to buy gems unless you want the game does give gems you can save up for summonings tack horses an fantasy horses. It is a Foxie game called Star Equestrian Horse Ranch. Yes it is fairly new an they do keep trying to improve opon it. Star Equestrian Horse Ranch is actually one of the best outshining this game by far.
"Astride dosen have much, but it dosent have a damm horse market" was so funny. My favorite astride feature is the new tack and being able to "kidnap" other peoples horses. I even moved a devs horse away from them during a livestream lmao
I'm also absolutely dying at the idea that "we just wanted to make a horse game, we didn't care how it would be monetised!!" Uh. I've literally been in discussions on making games in niche markets, like horse games. Even if you aren't presenting business models for grants, how you're going to monetise the thing is step number one in planning. The base mechanics need to be crafted with the monetisation plan in mind. Is it pay up front? Is it free to download with paid bonuses? Is it progression gated? You kind of need to know these things very early!
Well yeah. Company growth isn’t a net positive. If anything haft of all companies rip apart their products for unstable market growth. This is an inherent trait.
There have been so many (me included) players that played since the release that Warner about it. We tried so hard to make others wake up but majority of ppl didn't care. They puked out 300 coins for a pass and told off any negativity as "hate" and told us to shut up and leave the community if we so don't like it. But the thing is we all loved the game, it HAD potential. But the developers are crap af
i have been one of main negative voices when horses started to cost coins in the market. There are solid 20 super active players that must generate enough income for then to stay somewhat afloat. Like amount of cash they waste on this game is ridiculous. Devs don't care about game breaking glitches but they removed the breeding glitch literally 3 days after someone mentioned it in the main group. They have been promising dressage for years and then backed out after realising it will actually take time and effort to implement opposed to reusing Kyoto season for like 5th time and slapping new paint onto same tack we have already 10 swatches of. The game has been dead for months, the devs killed it. It honestly has such a loyal fan base and devs just exploited it beyond repair
@@avikasixfour2362what gets me is you can make it through the pass for free without even earning any reasonable tack? Like just random food? Who tf wants to waste hours of their life on that? They’ll never see any playtime from me, never mind my money.
I am never touching a game made by them. They will never receive any of my money - even if they change their ways. The way she thinks of customers is sickening. She acts as if she's giving us a gift, when all she's given us is coal dusted in a thick layer of poo, and demands we kiss her feet for it. The entire situation, and the way Molly acts, rubs me the wrong way. Makes me super uncomfy, and disgusted. She should be ashamed of how she's acting, but she's not, and probably never will. Never supporting etg, or any of her future projects. I'm glad I only spent 5 minutes in the game when I didn't know about the whole discord thing, I saved myself so much time and money.
Something that never ceases to baffle me is the disregard for the non-paying players. ETG's stance that if ur not paying ur opinion matters less (the way its framed its sounding like if ur not paying ur opinion matters not at all tbh) but like... Shoudn't the goal BE to turn non-paying players into paying players? You don't make any bit of the community happy when u write off those not actively paying as unimportant because that type of attitude will never turn those players INTO paying players. For all Star Stables faults, I can appriciate the attempts they make to make the experience better for non-paying players (assess to seasonal events to some regards, reworking the beginning quests to make them more engaging for new players, etc.) Which often turns those non-paying players INTO paying players, which SHOULD be part of the goal LOL
Looking back on it, it is hilarious how the SSO community immediately jumped on the train that ETG was going to be better than SSO before ETG launch. Now it is worse than SSO and way more money hungry. I'm glad the community learned from their mistake and are taking two potential better games with a grain of salt and not setting the bar extremely high.
Those kinds of breakdown videos make me really wish we had a Rattle for animal Roleplay games. This kind of stuff happens way too often in here too, and this entire situation reminds me of Fer.al's discord breakdown all too well, too. Man, solidarity with you horse game players.
I love horse games, I miss being able to ride again, but I will be honest the horse game community is so *exhausting* to be in sometimes. All these games we put high hope on like ‘ooooh this looks like it’ll be the one!’ only for our hearts to be either lightly bruised somewhere or flat out just stabbed out of us. (Or maybe its just me, don’t let me talk for you) its exhausting but we’re still waiting on the game that’ll hit most of the boxes of what we want or don’t want. I salute you Rattle for having the patience and endurance to keep up with ALL OF THEM AT THE SAME TIME, OH MY WORD HAVE MY PERSONAL STASH OF TEA
Yeah, I definitely agree. Sometimes I just take a few months where I don't involve myself in the community itself but just play the games and chill and try to be positive, or I just go on red dead online and do the races on there because there's actually good and the horses feel so alive lol. But tales of rain ravine has been my saving grace as of late! Definitely still upset that the game dev didn't communicate well, but now that the game is out on steam for free at last, I have finally found a game to love, even if it's still only early access. Can't wait for more lessons, show jumping and proper dressage to be added! ❤❤
If you like the breeding and training aspect of horse games, Horse World Online is a very well established, solid, not money hungry game with a very sweet and responsive dev team. It's a browser game so no actually riding the horses but it's great for breeding abominations and has probably the single most complex breeding system of any horse game I've ever played. Highly recommend
ETG is such a deep wound for me, I played the first year it came out and fell in love with the whole game, even though it was always expensive, it seemed worth it with the regular updates and addition of new content, I thought we would be able to eventually retire our older horses in order to save our favorite horses and keep the stable clean but they just gave us 36 stable slots and abandoned any plans for a pasture/retirement system and that means I have to abandon my game once I max out my stables and dont want to sell anymore of my favorite horses. thats my biggest complaint is that all the money spent on custom horses and breeding gets tossed away in game for close to nothing. its honestly quite a disgtusting and ugly thing when you realize how much passion and hard work gets dumped so easily. the least they couldve done would have been adding nore stables and a pasture like rival stars. i bred myself into a corner and im not willing to sell any of the horses i have, theyre all too rare and hard to breed, so the game ive spent easily over $200 USD on just sits with no activity. its shameful. this was all before pintos even, imo pintos ruined the game for good in a weird way..... God I miss my flaxen chestnut welsh cob Willow so much.... I sold her to make space for higher pot horses but i wouldve retired her just to have a joy ride here and there but the devs just have their heads too far up where the sun doesnt shine to see what people want and need. RIP what etg could have been 💔
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I'm not there yet, but I can see my stables filling up and I am very much convinced that I'm going to be in the same boat as you in a short while. I don't understand how a game can be this badly developed and designed, but here we are. It's a tragedy of a game. Not gonna lie.
$200+ USD on something I don't even use anymore. For shame on me. For shame (please don't tell my husband haha). I would definitely spend a one-time $50 on the most perfect, complete, and well-rounded PC horse game, but it will never exist. There is no market for a horse game. Mobile apps with micro transactions or (barf) PC games with micro transactions are the only options for horse games. I played ETG from day 1 until they announced paywalling the trailer. Never went back. Sigh.
I'm glad I got out when I did. I'm someone who played this game for hours, every day, during the pandemic, set timers for shop resets and everything and even did spend a bit more money than I wanted to initially. I struggled a lot with the stable slot number, especially once breeding came out. Eventually, despite really trying to wait it out, I started getting bored of the game because of the lack of content and I also started getting whiffs of (overly) greedy monetary implementation. I tried revisiting every now and then, but every time there were just new ways to spend money and new cosmetics. Half the time the new competition courses were glitched and the leaderboards were led by cheaters which persisted even after they said they fixed it. Screw that.
yknow, ive never played a horse game. i may never play a horse game. but rattle uploaded? i'm running. i'm throwing everything to the ground and sprinting as fast as i can to the channel. i love your horse game videos!!!! (and its awesome to see a south african creator :])
Same!! I never had a horse phase, but I can't resist gamedev drama hehe, it's a special skill to get people outside of your target audience just as interested as you on a subject
Fr, if you can't even be bothered to pay REAL PEOPLE for something as important as your game's image, it's clear you don't give two shits about said game and just want to make a quick buck
Another job well done, Rattle. Unfortunately I was a beta tester as well for this game and backed the game, I had so much hope for this game and liked only a few technical things about the game. While that being said it still needed attention and work. Over 2 years later none of these technical things I liked about ETG had been "fleshed" out or expanded upon. When I had hopes that they would focus on gameplay aspects and at least SOME sort of way to grind for premium currency- the updates continued to be about seasons (which are great!--- if done correctly). They've dropped aspects of the game that would have gave players a diverse experience- a true shame. From the get go at launch they've operated under the lens of $$$ and it's a shame they refuse to work at mending their community. Thank you for sharing these videos to bring exposure to those who did not see all that goes on behind the scenes, keep up the phenomenal work ~ ♥
The horses also feel like, not alive. Compared to Rival Stars they feel dead kind've. (I don't know if you have said this yet, but I just wanted to get my opinion on it)
I think it’s because they lack personality, they lack lifelike movements other than basic gaits, and there’s no way to bond with them. No grooming, no raising foals, and everything feels like a chore. The game is so dull and lifeless in general.
I’m a mod for some pretty active discord servers for RPGs and I could not IMAGINE feeling guilty for going to work for only 4-6 hours. That poor mod. Majority of my shifts are 12-14 hours cause I work at an animal ER hospital so I am away way longer. Do I feel guilty when I get behind on my tasks? Absolutely. Has my team ever made me feel bad about it? No. I could not imagine us shaming each other for having REAL LIFE issues. At the end of the day we volunteer our free time because we enjoy our hobby. Hobby being the keyword. Your mods and ambassadors wellbeing’s are important they shouldn’t feel shamed for not being able to give 100% of their time all the time
Hi, Thank you for your sweet message (I showed the others it as well). I am said person. I was an ambassador not a mod but it was a difficult time for me. I was already working in a toxic environment and my hobby had turned toxic as well, it did feel like there was no escape however I had my friend to cheer me up when I was down, laugh with and play games with. Pretty much all of the mods and ambassadors are still very close due to a server we created when launch happened so that we didn’t clog up the chats with our constant chatter. It was named super secret server in pig Latin as a joke because we couldn’t think of a name and I remember Molly assuming it was a server we made to bitch about her despite me putting it in the ambassador chat, we even have a few of the Ex devs in there though they’re not active on discord anymore. Looking back at that time still makes me sad but I am grateful that I have the friends I made from their server so at least ETG did something good for me. (If any of my awesome nerds read this. I love you guys)
@@LittleKitten702 I'm so glad y'all had each other! And I'm very sorry the ETG scene didn't work out for you. Its so sweet to hear y'all are still friends and support each other. I hope you've gotten a less toxic work environment since then, or if not, at least you now have friends to keep cheering you on!
I love how , despite the often aggrivating topics, your videos always make me laugh aloud. Your comedic timing is simply great. (and softens the impact just enough for the gravity of the problem to be properly absorbed )
Man when I finally was able to access it (why did the us take so long to get access !?) I loved the game and was so hopeful for incoming features. The dressage was my favorite part- jumping got boring and repetitive so quickly and there's only so long I can fill my day with training my horses levels up before I never want to login. I got the game for the promised dressage. Was a paying player and still abandoned it because they didn't do jack all for the game.
I'll say this for the 100th time, goddamn I am happy I got out of there when I did.. It's still a shame things went the way that it did. We had such an awesome community in the closed beta.
im not surprised about any of this, this is insane and totally expected lmao, but seeing all the seasons theyve done so far is CRAZY. all for money, and so obvious. i cant BELIEEVVEE theyre making ANOTHER GAME already when they didnt even put all of these previously promised basic gameplay features in the one they have??? also, with WHAT MONEY? btw, for some reason 22:37 REALLY cracked me up LMAOO
I love that you make these videos on ETG. The prices they charge for the little amount you get in the game is appalling on its own. Let alone all the other drama AND the fact I spent money on the game when I first got it and my game randomly got deleted and they wouldn’t get back to me about trying to reinstate my game. Lost money and time. ETG was a big disappointment
Wow, the time you put into this video and the quality with all the effects Is amazing! :O Of course... we saw this coming. Rip another horse game :') 20:11 broke me... That was way to funny :'D
its so sad bc this game looked so promising i remember thinking wow this is gonna be a new like top 5 horse game but unfortunately it fell off due to poor management
Do you only do these commentaries on horse games. I love your voice and your raw explanations to show the truth. I’m wondering if you could shed light on some other games.
Thank yoU! ♥ I have done a vid on Stray ua-cam.com/video/Neyq9SPeiXI/v-deo.html And I'm hoping to get two vids done in November: one on Sherlock Holmes, the other on Plague Tale. They were supposed to be done for October, but a lot happened XD
I have put too much time and energy into ETG to quit and at this point (having hosted the biggest and most involved competition the game will likely ever have on instagram) I'm too invested in the community to quit. I'm really disappointed in how money hungry the game has become, as a free player, but I can't possibly walk away now. I love the riding system. I like the training, I just wish it was less repetitive. The breeding system confuses me at times but I overall enjoy it. I can't believe the dev team screwed up this bad.
"Because the tutorial breaks! as soon as you touch it :D ! !!! " I SCREAMEDDDDDDDDDDDDDD THATS SO TRUE, your commentary is so good, cannot stop watching anytime you post. (I'm on a spare account right now-)
Looks like the goal is to get money out of the people who want so desperately a good horse game ,more than let's give those people a horse game that is not perfect but feels nice to play and reflects the community's true request i hope the perspective shifts soon
I remember the first and last time I thought about buying anything on this game: I was going to make a custom horse, but realized it wouldn't make a horse higher than the rank I was, despite lowering their skill ranges to the events I was doing and that the horses themselves weren't worth buying because they had no options. I also couldn't show them off, no multiplayer aspect, they just... weren't worth the money. Then I saw the prices, had Korean MMO PTSD Flashbacks and uninstalled it.
Fr tho- instead of adding stupid passes, seasons and horse breeds they should focus on making new disciplines. Tbh i like showjumping and its one of my fave disciplines. But if its the ONLY discipline,the game gets boring quickly when there aren't any other disciplines. I'd like some xc or dressage,Heck maybe even some barrel racing, just to make the game less boring. (AND OMG THE HORSEY ON THE THUMBNAIL IS SO CUTSEY)
If ETG got a accurate add made: *Narrator voice* "ETG The spent your money simulator Disguised as a Horse game." If mollie wanted stabilaty she should've started with a couple Smal games to build that before taking more risk... Community would be easier to manage that way but No mollie wanted to Gamble at the cost of her futere game dev career.
I love everything about this video! Reading the Article on Mane Quest literally hurt, I barely could stand all this lies and sugarcoating! But well, isn't the first time Alice is sugarcoating heavy topics. But holly hell was I annoyed by Molly's hypocrisy! Your video sums it up pretty well. Damn I am upset again over this disaster!
I was always sceptical of ETG. I remember seeing it when it was in development and thought they'd had huge dreams. Then it became a mobile game. I don't play mobile because of the micro transactions and ads. And now I am watching it crash and burn..
I wish I was part of the community so I could thank all the HARD working people who did it for free. I don't understand the work at all but I hope that the ex-mods are in a better place right now. I hope the creators of the game and those who were in charge of the servers (Not mods) do better. Also, having no foals in a game with breeding? Like... really? Also I love the idea of having horses retire after a certain time. Like when they get too old. I know little to nothing about horses but I do love listening to all the videos while I work on art projects or crochet projects. 300- 1700?!!!???!?!?! A jump of 1400 :O I can understand of 1-200 (Maybe 3-400) but 1400 is a massive jump! D: WTH NOPE Never going to be playing this game ever!!! (Unless it has a huge revamp and becomes better)
Well explained, thank you for the video Rattle! I hate to be that one person, but could someone tell me what song did she use in the background between 6:55 and 7:11? I'm indebted.
Rattle please with some of these predictions about their next game, if they come true you gotta put them in a vid about the new game as a gag. I'd lol so hard
It's just so sad, as this game really had potential. The horse models and animations really stand out and I have never seen such a good attemt to translate real riding into game controls. It really shocked me to hear they are considering ETG close to completion - that is ridiculous and just confirms that it was the right decision to not spend any more money on the game quite a long time ago. I really wonder what those 20 people are working on. I think there is so much room for small improvements that should not be too hard or time consuming. Just to mention one example, since launch players are asking for an option to change the manes and tails and all they managed to do so far is remove the braids from breeding. I really don't mind paying for a game if prices are fair and if I actually get some value in return. Sadly most "free to play" games don't manage to find a good balance and there's just always the chance that after seven years the devs just tell their players, sorry, but we are not able to deliver what we promised, so we consider the game complete now and move on to the next project.
RATTLE! You should do Star Equestrian! It also has these problems too, the devs refuse to listen to people. Especially if we are reporting long term glitches about the game or if the game forgot to give you your currency after you just flat out bought from it. Everytime an update occurs, new glitches form. It feels half-assed. And there’s people pouring out a fortune on horses; especially breeding. The costs are crazy; and the devs never let us know anything about updates or storylines. It’s been over a year and they never added anymore stories despite it being labeled “unfinished.” Even above all this they decided to create a game called “Pony Tales” behind our backs whilst there’s many problems within Star Equestrian! I’m just pissed. Anyway, great video!
Rattle, you always have me laughing! The crap this company pull has me adding whiskey to my coffee too! I must admit I didn’t read the article, I have no interest in the game whatsoever now but thank you for bringing it to us in such an informative and hilarious way! I can’t believe people are still paying these ridiculous prices??!! Like you say, can buy a full AAA game for less than you can spend on this mobile crap! Keep up the amazing work! (Chicken kickers for life!!)
Regardless of all critics, I simply enjoy the game and since I'm a very patient person, I don't mind saving up on coins for a long time to buy a new horse
I downloaded it for fun around a year ago... it was just bored. I mean, I really hate the trend of mobile-games with waiting on stuff for endless hours/days, not to speak of the money you can spend on that damn things. But ETG was plain boring from the first minutes I dived into it. They really just made a shop and did some gameish stuff around it to klick on... that's it.
As soon as this game launched, I noticed how dull it was from the first gameplay. And how you had to pay real money to get items n shit. I deleted it in the hopes that with more time, it’d develop and be more interesting. BUT every time I gave it another try after MONTHS, it was the same or worse. And now I see this 😭 explains everything
35:04 I died 🤣 Gosh am I glad I never invested any money in this game. I tried it for a bit but thought it was boring and the colours, although nice, are too bland. I made such mistake once with an ubisoft game, 'Horse adventures, Tale of Etria'. For different area's you needed specific 'divine' horses. I bought 3, each €20,00. Then one day they just quit the game without much explanation. I contacted google play, but there was no way for me to get a refund, it was too long ago. Really too bad, it was such a nice game.
I absolutely ADORE your videos and feedback you give these games, I’m not sure if you’ve been requested this game before, and it’s not the most realistic game, Horse life on Roblox? It’s much more f2p friendly, and the breeding system is complex and well made. Totally understand if it’s just not something your interested in, but it’s one of my favorite horse/pony games!
I’m starting to feel like horse games wanted to make us feel the same excitement as PC games such as Pippa (I don’t know the English name, my bad if it’s wrong, I mean Alexandra Ledermann). Those games gave us a plot, horses to care for and to bond with but also, some fun way to make money INSIDE the game. As they were on CD, we didn’t have the option to pay and pay and pay. Tales of Rein Ravine brought back that feeling of simple enjoyment, only focusing on the gameplay and not constant calculating money to see what we can do. That feeling is even harder to recreate for mobile games and games who plan on releasing unfinished product. Like ToRR, devs should focus more on what we can do in game, rather than the beauty and animations of horses. Because we will have a better experience if we have actual things to do rather than just look at ponies. I remember having so much fun in quests that I didn’t even had the time to critique horse animations ! Anyways, thanks for your video, I quit ETG last year and tried it again… it’s horrible. There was nothing to do back then but now ? There’s even less if you don’t pay. Not for me, definitely.
Remember times when TMQ would roast developers for shitty practices in their articles? This was such a chore to read through, all this corporate lingo and zero challenge imposed on ETG ideals. Guess being entangled in the business side of things just really makes you feel less sympathetic towards players as years go by.
30:32 Hearing Rattle praise SSO in any way makes me quite happy lol. Ik they’ve done a lot wrong but I still feel they deserve praise when they do something right. If I may ask Rattle, what exactly where the positive changes you were referring to here? :)
32:22 so if something is immoral and disgusting but works well then it’s completely fine. That’s a stance and a half, one conmen and Disney villains would agree with
With the amount of talented people I’ve seen in these bad situations who just want a good horse game to come out, I feel like we could all just band together and make one ourselves lol. All thats missing is the piggy bank
Astride DID NOT handle the backlash well. I was in there, giving fair criticism and they were childish and unprofessional. It was a rough one. Glad to hear it's a kinder place now. I enjoyed the video! Thank you for the information!
I accidently put the rough first draft of THIS vid into the playlist! XD I wasn't aware people could watch it there! So after I posted this one, which was the correct, I deleted the old one. I'll just remove it from the list! Sorry for any confusion! ♥
It should be illegal for any company to use Ai in places where they could hire actual people instead of using a program to steal images from those people.
I haven't gotten back to playing ETG for gods know how long, I might play the game again but slim chance that I'll just not touch the game ever again. It's a shame that a game that could have had potential is just lead to die by the creators.
We have a situation where there is a company that overestimated it's capabilites and funding, which is typical for this sort of young software company, and a player base that has no idea how a company and making software like this works, well they never worked at a company. Something that many fail to understand is that the paying player base of a game that is about horse dress up and design is very slim. It is pointless to invest that much into the visuals and sets you up for failure. What people want is something that offers mechanics and substance behind it. Adding another skin won't make people pick it up. Appropriate respect in criticism is important. If someone fails to respect others, they shouldn't be surprised they won't be appreciated. It is also important to respect the views of a person who offers feedback to you, and if you want people to understand, you need to explain. You need to hire a community manager who is not involved in making the game as developers won't have time nor the nerves to manage this.
The gacha games i play are more f2p than this game that has devs REPEATEDLY made awful decisions, lied, and outright treat their fans and past mods and others like dirt. The amount of times ive seen the head of TMQ be confrontational and defensive towards people bringing this up also was a buildup to the point I had enough and left that server as well since I was utterly talked down to as if f2p games couldn't charge for real money to pay for bills and I had also questioned why they made the game in the first place and it was taken as me claiming that the devs do not care about the game when my point was if they're going to use AI, why did they make the game in the first place? As an artist, I would refuse to use AI to use it in ads just to get clicks just to make bank. That shit is inexcusable. They can easily take screenshots of their own game assets. ETG is pretty but it's not a game made with love at all anymore. The devs are not someone I will ever trust with money nor make a good game either.
I'm on a strict diet too.. can't eat dairy gluten corn or any fats... it sucks and I'm so hungry ;-; Anyways when I first started equestrian the game I was actually quite excited until I saw the controls and I honestly didn't really have anything to do since I had to pay for everything... so I just deleted it, I think the game was doomed from the start.. classic horse game moment..
Just a reminder: Please do not contact anyone in this video! ♥Did you guys read the article? What did you think about it?
shut up
@@dominykasbeinoris4661don’t need to be rude
I know you've "just" posted the video about etg. But I feel like there's a need of criticism from someone like you once again at this point. The current ETG reddit is a disaster filled with rants and actual hartred from the community, which I can say is pretty damn deserved
I realized they were just a bunch of empty words a while ago. It truly is sad. I think they started out with good intentions but then got greedy and lost touch with the vision. I think that’s why some of my favorite people left the team, they still had the vision in mind and realized it wasn’t ever going to happen. The lack of good horse games breaks my heart on the regular. Some of the best games I’ve played are from the early 2000s.
You want a horse game that is open worldmulti player even the ranches you can ride around in an invite your friends there too. An you do not have to buy gems unless you want the game does give gems you can save up for summonings tack horses an fantasy horses. It is a Foxie game called Star Equestrian Horse Ranch. Yes it is fairly new an they do keep trying to improve opon it. Star Equestrian Horse Ranch is actually one of the best outshining this game by far.
Babe wake up Rattle just posted
Whoop, whoop! Here's a coffee to get you going :D
Got some new Witch’s Potion tea from my local tea shop!
IM AWAKE
I'm filled with rage every time I'm reminded that they have a 20-person studio
It is shocking, isn't it? XD
Yeah, I know game dev is hard but being a software dev myself, if THIS would take my 3 people team 7 years, my boss would be pissed LOL
"Astride dosen have much, but it dosent have a damm horse market" was so funny. My favorite astride feature is the new tack and being able to "kidnap" other peoples horses. I even moved a devs horse away from them during a livestream lmao
"We want to grow as a company"
*Microtransactions intensify*
FR THO
I'm also absolutely dying at the idea that "we just wanted to make a horse game, we didn't care how it would be monetised!!"
Uh. I've literally been in discussions on making games in niche markets, like horse games. Even if you aren't presenting business models for grants, how you're going to monetise the thing is step number one in planning. The base mechanics need to be crafted with the monetisation plan in mind. Is it pay up front? Is it free to download with paid bonuses? Is it progression gated? You kind of need to know these things very early!
Well yeah. Company growth isn’t a net positive.
If anything haft of all companies rip apart their products for unstable market growth.
This is an inherent trait.
There have been so many (me included) players that played since the release that Warner about it. We tried so hard to make others wake up but majority of ppl didn't care. They puked out 300 coins for a pass and told off any negativity as "hate" and told us to shut up and leave the community if we so don't like it. But the thing is we all loved the game, it HAD potential. But the developers are crap af
It had so much potential, but they treated it like a cash cow instead of a game and here we are. I'm sorry for anyone who invested in this game ♥
i have been one of main negative voices when horses started to cost coins in the market. There are solid 20 super active players that must generate enough income for then to stay somewhat afloat. Like amount of cash they waste on this game is ridiculous. Devs don't care about game breaking glitches but they removed the breeding glitch literally 3 days after someone mentioned it in the main group.
They have been promising dressage for years and then backed out after realising it will actually take time and effort to implement opposed to reusing Kyoto season for like 5th time and slapping new paint onto same tack we have already 10 swatches of. The game has been dead for months, the devs killed it. It honestly has such a loyal fan base and devs just exploited it beyond repair
@@avikasixfour2362what gets me is you can make it through the pass for free without even earning any reasonable tack? Like just random food? Who tf wants to waste hours of their life on that? They’ll never see any playtime from me, never mind my money.
"I hope she does not sue me" That had me ROLLING 🤣
😂😂
Rattle vs Abigail, the greatest battle in the horse gaming community.
I am never touching a game made by them. They will never receive any of my money - even if they change their ways. The way she thinks of customers is sickening. She acts as if she's giving us a gift, when all she's given us is coal dusted in a thick layer of poo, and demands we kiss her feet for it.
The entire situation, and the way Molly acts, rubs me the wrong way. Makes me super uncomfy, and disgusted. She should be ashamed of how she's acting, but she's not, and probably never will.
Never supporting etg, or any of her future projects. I'm glad I only spent 5 minutes in the game when I didn't know about the whole discord thing, I saved myself so much time and money.
Me: seeing that rattle posted
*sees its about ETG*
Oh god what did they do this time?!
this is my exact thought to when i see another ETG video haha!!
LOLLOL
Lets be honest, we all knew this would happen
Something that never ceases to baffle me is the disregard for the non-paying players. ETG's stance that if ur not paying ur opinion matters less (the way its framed its sounding like if ur not paying ur opinion matters not at all tbh) but like...
Shoudn't the goal BE to turn non-paying players into paying players? You don't make any bit of the community happy when u write off those not actively paying as unimportant because that type of attitude will never turn those players INTO paying players.
For all Star Stables faults, I can appriciate the attempts they make to make the experience better for non-paying players (assess to seasonal events to some regards, reworking the beginning quests to make them more engaging for new players, etc.) Which often turns those non-paying players INTO paying players, which SHOULD be part of the goal LOL
Looking back on it, it is hilarious how the SSO community immediately jumped on the train that ETG was going to be better than SSO before ETG launch. Now it is worse than SSO and way more money hungry. I'm glad the community learned from their mistake and are taking two potential better games with a grain of salt and not setting the bar extremely high.
@HannaFardew ETG was feeding the flames on that too, they were shading the Jorvik Fresian after revealing their fresian model prior to release 😭
Those kinds of breakdown videos make me really wish we had a Rattle for animal Roleplay games. This kind of stuff happens way too often in here too, and this entire situation reminds me of Fer.al's discord breakdown all too well, too. Man, solidarity with you horse game players.
I've heard about the animal RP fiascos! Hope it gets better for you guys! ♥
This though!
Lmaooo I’ve been in some Horse Art Role Playing Games (HARPGs) for over 10 years and lemme tell youuuuu 😂
legalrightsguru AI fixes this. "They lied: aggressive microtransactions, AI ads."
I love horse games, I miss being able to ride again, but I will be honest the horse game community is so *exhausting* to be in sometimes. All these games we put high hope on like ‘ooooh this looks like it’ll be the one!’ only for our hearts to be either lightly bruised somewhere or flat out just stabbed out of us. (Or maybe its just me, don’t let me talk for you)
its exhausting but we’re still waiting on the game that’ll hit most of the boxes of what we want or don’t want.
I salute you Rattle for having the patience and endurance to keep up with ALL OF THEM AT THE SAME TIME, OH MY WORD HAVE MY PERSONAL STASH OF TEA
Yeah, I definitely agree. Sometimes I just take a few months where I don't involve myself in the community itself but just play the games and chill and try to be positive, or I just go on red dead online and do the races on there because there's actually good and the horses feel so alive lol. But tales of rain ravine has been my saving grace as of late! Definitely still upset that the game dev didn't communicate well, but now that the game is out on steam for free at last, I have finally found a game to love, even if it's still only early access. Can't wait for more lessons, show jumping and proper dressage to be added! ❤❤
Same. Even I’m keeping an eye on astride and rein ravine like they’re going to stab their community at any moment lol
One of my bigger fears is that I die without having played another great horse game. This thought makes me so extremely sad and anxious...
If you like the breeding and training aspect of horse games, Horse World Online is a very well established, solid, not money hungry game with a very sweet and responsive dev team. It's a browser game so no actually riding the horses but it's great for breeding abominations and has probably the single most complex breeding system of any horse game I've ever played. Highly recommend
ETG is such a deep wound for me, I played the first year it came out and fell in love with the whole game, even though it was always expensive, it seemed worth it with the regular updates and addition of new content, I thought we would be able to eventually retire our older horses in order to save our favorite horses and keep the stable clean but they just gave us 36 stable slots and abandoned any plans for a pasture/retirement system and that means I have to abandon my game once I max out my stables and dont want to sell anymore of my favorite horses. thats my biggest complaint is that all the money spent on custom horses and breeding gets tossed away in game for close to nothing. its honestly quite a disgtusting and ugly thing when you realize how much passion and hard work gets dumped so easily. the least they couldve done would have been adding nore stables and a pasture like rival stars. i bred myself into a corner and im not willing to sell any of the horses i have, theyre all too rare and hard to breed, so the game ive spent easily over $200 USD on just sits with no activity. its shameful. this was all before pintos even, imo pintos ruined the game for good in a weird way..... God I miss my flaxen chestnut welsh cob Willow so much.... I sold her to make space for higher pot horses but i wouldve retired her just to have a joy ride here and there but the devs just have their heads too far up where the sun doesnt shine to see what people want and need. RIP what etg could have been 💔
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. I'm not there yet, but I can see my stables filling up and I am very much convinced that I'm going to be in the same boat as you in a short while. I don't understand how a game can be this badly developed and designed, but here we are. It's a tragedy of a game. Not gonna lie.
$200+ USD on something I don't even use anymore. For shame on me. For shame (please don't tell my husband haha). I would definitely spend a one-time $50 on the most perfect, complete, and well-rounded PC horse game, but it will never exist. There is no market for a horse game. Mobile apps with micro transactions or (barf) PC games with micro transactions are the only options for horse games. I played ETG from day 1 until they announced paywalling the trailer. Never went back. Sigh.
I'm glad I got out when I did. I'm someone who played this game for hours, every day, during the pandemic, set timers for shop resets and everything and even did spend a bit more money than I wanted to initially. I struggled a lot with the stable slot number, especially once breeding came out. Eventually, despite really trying to wait it out, I started getting bored of the game because of the lack of content and I also started getting whiffs of (overly) greedy monetary implementation. I tried revisiting every now and then, but every time there were just new ways to spend money and new cosmetics. Half the time the new competition courses were glitched and the leaderboards were led by cheaters which persisted even after they said they fixed it. Screw that.
The whiskey side plot made me laugh way more than it should have.
Can't cover a horse game without whiskey 😆
yknow, ive never played a horse game. i may never play a horse game. but rattle uploaded? i'm running. i'm throwing everything to the ground and sprinting as fast as i can to the channel. i love your horse game videos!!!! (and its awesome to see a south african creator :])
You didn't choose the horse drama life, the horse drama life chose YOU XD
Thank you! ♥♥
And yay for South African Creators!
Same!! I never had a horse phase, but I can't resist gamedev drama hehe, it's a special skill to get people outside of your target audience just as interested as you on a subject
@@YTRattle always looking forward to your next upload rattle!!!!!!
@@xobunnyfangsxo it really is, right..?! i could watch a video about almost any topic if theyr'e as well informed and eloquent as rattles are!
i automatically dont like any company or individual using ai “art” to promote themselves
ai isnt art its theft
YES! Exactly!
"aI aRt Is ChEaP aNd EaSy"
-ETG probably
Fr, if you can't even be bothered to pay REAL PEOPLE for something as important as your game's image, it's clear you don't give two shits about said game and just want to make a quick buck
Another job well done, Rattle. Unfortunately I was a beta tester as well for this game and backed the game, I had so much hope for this game and liked only a few technical things about the game. While that being said it still needed attention and work. Over 2 years later none of these technical things I liked about ETG had been "fleshed" out or expanded upon. When I had hopes that they would focus on gameplay aspects and at least SOME sort of way to grind for premium currency- the updates continued to be about seasons (which are great!--- if done correctly). They've dropped aspects of the game that would have gave players a diverse experience- a true shame. From the get go at launch they've operated under the lens of $$$ and it's a shame they refuse to work at mending their community.
Thank you for sharing these videos to bring exposure to those who did not see all that goes on behind the scenes, keep up the phenomenal work ~ ♥
The horses also feel like, not alive. Compared to Rival Stars they feel dead kind've.
(I don't know if you have said this yet, but I just wanted to get my opinion on it)
Yeah, the feel 'dull'
I want a horse game with red dead horses
@@luminousbug5585 Sameee
@@YTRattle Oopsie
I think it’s because they lack personality, they lack lifelike movements other than basic gaits, and there’s no way to bond with them. No grooming, no raising foals, and everything feels like a chore. The game is so dull and lifeless in general.
I’m a mod for some pretty active discord servers for RPGs and I could not IMAGINE feeling guilty for going to work for only 4-6 hours. That poor mod. Majority of my shifts are 12-14 hours cause I work at an animal ER hospital so I am away way longer. Do I feel guilty when I get behind on my tasks? Absolutely. Has my team ever made me feel bad about it? No. I could not imagine us shaming each other for having REAL LIFE issues. At the end of the day we volunteer our free time because we enjoy our hobby. Hobby being the keyword. Your mods and ambassadors wellbeing’s are important they shouldn’t feel shamed for not being able to give 100% of their time all the time
Hi,
Thank you for your sweet message (I showed the others it as well). I am said person. I was an ambassador not a mod but it was a difficult time for me. I was already working in a toxic environment and my hobby had turned toxic as well, it did feel like there was no escape however I had my friend to cheer me up when I was down, laugh with and play games with. Pretty much all of the mods and ambassadors are still very close due to a server we created when launch happened so that we didn’t clog up the chats with our constant chatter. It was named super secret server in pig Latin as a joke because we couldn’t think of a name and I remember Molly assuming it was a server we made to bitch about her despite me putting it in the ambassador chat, we even have a few of the Ex devs in there though they’re not active on discord anymore.
Looking back at that time still makes me sad but I am grateful that I have the friends I made from their server so at least ETG did something good for me.
(If any of my awesome nerds read this. I love you guys)
@@LittleKitten702 I'm so glad y'all had each other! And I'm very sorry the ETG scene didn't work out for you. Its so sweet to hear y'all are still friends and support each other. I hope you've gotten a less toxic work environment since then, or if not, at least you now have friends to keep cheering you on!
I just finished recent videos and there's another! Such a nice surprise, thanks Rattle!
I love how , despite the often aggrivating topics, your videos always make me laugh aloud. Your comedic timing is simply great. (and softens the impact just enough for the gravity of the problem to be properly absorbed )
Awaiting the NFT/Crypto horse game attempt from Kavalri
😂😆 Coming this summer!!!! LOL
Man when I finally was able to access it (why did the us take so long to get access !?) I loved the game and was so hopeful for incoming features. The dressage was my favorite part- jumping got boring and repetitive so quickly and there's only so long I can fill my day with training my horses levels up before I never want to login. I got the game for the promised dressage. Was a paying player and still abandoned it because they didn't do jack all for the game.
I'll say this for the 100th time, goddamn I am happy I got out of there when I did.. It's still a shame things went the way that it did. We had such an awesome community in the closed beta.
I spy with my little eye 😝😝
I haven't really finished watching, but just letting yall know that Alice was also involved with the issues surrounding Wildshade
Yip, she was there for that as well! And hello, Rebecca! ♥
@@YTRattle hi Rattle! 💚 can't wait to finish the video
And another one bites the dust~ Cha 👏
Dun-dun-dun-dun
i keep forgetting abt your channel and every time i find it again its always really great content!
word ability just floating up the messages on the right xD 19:40
LOL I didn't even see that XD
Virgin ETG vs. Chad Ranch of Rivershine and TRR... Great video as always ^^
Just got home from a hard day at work and I am so glad I have your videos to watch
literally just after i binged the equestrian videos! yipeeee!
im not surprised about any of this, this is insane and totally expected lmao, but seeing all the seasons theyve done so far is CRAZY. all for money, and so obvious. i cant BELIEEVVEE theyre making ANOTHER GAME already when they didnt even put all of these previously promised basic gameplay features in the one they have??? also, with WHAT MONEY? btw, for some reason 22:37 REALLY cracked me up LMAOO
I love that you make these videos on ETG. The prices they charge for the little amount you get in the game is appalling on its own. Let alone all the other drama AND the fact I spent money on the game when I first got it and my game randomly got deleted and they wouldn’t get back to me about trying to reinstate my game. Lost money and time. ETG was a big disappointment
oh my gosh i'm early! rattle i love your content, you're who i go to for all my horsie content!
Ahhh! Thank you! I hope you enjoy! ♥♥
Wow, the time you put into this video and the quality with all the effects Is amazing! :O Of course... we saw this coming. Rip another horse game :')
20:11 broke me... That was way to funny :'D
its so sad bc this game looked so promising i remember thinking wow this is gonna be a new like top 5 horse game but unfortunately it fell off due to poor management
Do you only do these commentaries on horse games. I love your voice and your raw explanations to show the truth. I’m wondering if you could shed light on some other games.
Thank yoU! ♥ I have done a vid on Stray ua-cam.com/video/Neyq9SPeiXI/v-deo.html
And I'm hoping to get two vids done in November: one on Sherlock Holmes, the other on Plague Tale. They were supposed to be done for October, but a lot happened XD
ooooooo i love these videosssss thankyouuuu rattleeee😍
28:05 I honestly think that might be true. They might just have believed the game would be so extreamly sucessful ads wasn't needed
I have put too much time and energy into ETG to quit and at this point (having hosted the biggest and most involved competition the game will likely ever have on instagram) I'm too invested in the community to quit. I'm really disappointed in how money hungry the game has become, as a free player, but I can't possibly walk away now.
I love the riding system. I like the training, I just wish it was less repetitive. The breeding system confuses me at times but I overall enjoy it. I can't believe the dev team screwed up this bad.
"Because the tutorial breaks! as soon as you touch it :D ! !!! "
I SCREAMEDDDDDDDDDDDDDD THATS SO TRUE,
your commentary is so good, cannot stop watching anytime you post. (I'm on a spare account right now-)
man, your voice is sooooo nice. i would absolutely crush an audiobook read by you
Thank you! ♥♥ :D
Looks like the goal is to get money out of the people who want so desperately a good horse game ,more than let's give those people a horse game that is not perfect but feels nice to play and reflects the community's true request
i hope the perspective shifts soon
I remember the first and last time I thought about buying anything on this game: I was going to make a custom horse, but realized it wouldn't make a horse higher than the rank I was, despite lowering their skill ranges to the events I was doing and that the horses themselves weren't worth buying because they had no options. I also couldn't show them off, no multiplayer aspect, they just... weren't worth the money.
Then I saw the prices, had Korean MMO PTSD Flashbacks and uninstalled it.
Fr tho- instead of adding stupid passes, seasons and horse breeds they should focus on making new disciplines. Tbh i like showjumping and its one of my fave disciplines. But if its the ONLY discipline,the game gets boring quickly when there aren't any other disciplines. I'd like some xc or dressage,Heck maybe even some barrel racing, just to make the game less boring. (AND OMG THE HORSEY ON THE THUMBNAIL IS SO CUTSEY)
If ETG got a accurate add made:
*Narrator voice*
"ETG The spent your money simulator Disguised as a Horse game."
If mollie wanted stabilaty she should've started with a couple Smal games to build that before taking more risk...
Community would be easier to manage that way but No mollie wanted to Gamble at the cost of her futere game dev career.
I love everything about this video! Reading the Article on Mane Quest literally hurt, I barely could stand all this lies and sugarcoating! But well, isn't the first time Alice is sugarcoating heavy topics.
But holly hell was I annoyed by Molly's hypocrisy!
Your video sums it up pretty well. Damn I am upset again over this disaster!
I was always sceptical of ETG. I remember seeing it when it was in development and thought they'd had huge dreams. Then it became a mobile game. I don't play mobile because of the micro transactions and ads. And now I am watching it crash and burn..
I wish I was part of the community so I could thank all the HARD working people who did it for free. I don't understand the work at all but I hope that the ex-mods are in a better place right now. I hope the creators of the game and those who were in charge of the servers (Not mods) do better.
Also, having no foals in a game with breeding? Like... really? Also I love the idea of having horses retire after a certain time. Like when they get too old. I know little to nothing about horses but I do love listening to all the videos while I work on art projects or crochet projects.
300- 1700?!!!???!?!?! A jump of 1400 :O I can understand of 1-200 (Maybe 3-400) but 1400 is a massive jump! D: WTH
NOPE Never going to be playing this game ever!!! (Unless it has a huge revamp and becomes better)
Well explained, thank you for the video Rattle!
I hate to be that one person, but could someone tell me what song did she use in the background between 6:55 and 7:11? I'm indebted.
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I got a baaaad feelin' bout you XD
@@YTRattle Thank you very much!
Given their track record I should not have been as surprised and disappointed as I was and YET
Rattle please with some of these predictions about their next game, if they come true you gotta put them in a vid about the new game as a gag. I'd lol so hard
I'm just here for Rattle's hilarious sass! haha! I can't even remember the last time I logged on to ETG
34:40
"Cue the start trek music!"
[loud obnoxious music plays]
"That's not star trek!"
I'm dead lol
It's just so sad, as this game really had potential. The horse models and animations really stand out and I have never seen such a good attemt to translate real riding into game controls. It really shocked me to hear they are considering ETG close to completion - that is ridiculous and just confirms that it was the right decision to not spend any more money on the game quite a long time ago.
I really wonder what those 20 people are working on. I think there is so much room for small improvements that should not be too hard or time consuming. Just to mention one example, since launch players are asking for an option to change the manes and tails and all they managed to do so far is remove the braids from breeding.
I really don't mind paying for a game if prices are fair and if I actually get some value in return. Sadly most "free to play" games don't manage to find a good balance and there's just always the chance that after seven years the devs just tell their players, sorry, but we are not able to deliver what we promised, so we consider the game complete now and move on to the next project.
Thank you for your content Rattle ❤
RATTLE! You should do Star Equestrian! It also has these problems too, the devs refuse to listen to people. Especially if we are reporting long term glitches about the game or if the game forgot to give you your currency after you just flat out bought from it.
Everytime an update occurs, new glitches form. It feels half-assed. And there’s people pouring out a fortune on horses; especially breeding.
The costs are crazy; and the devs never let us know anything about updates or storylines. It’s been over a year and they never added anymore stories despite it being labeled “unfinished.”
Even above all this they decided to create a game called “Pony Tales” behind our backs whilst there’s many problems within Star Equestrian!
I’m just pissed. Anyway, great video!
Rattle, you always have me laughing! The crap this company pull has me adding whiskey to my coffee too! I must admit I didn’t read the article, I have no interest in the game whatsoever now but thank you for bringing it to us in such an informative and hilarious way!
I can’t believe people are still paying these ridiculous prices??!! Like you say, can buy a full AAA game for less than you can spend on this mobile crap!
Keep up the amazing work! (Chicken kickers for life!!)
The fact I haven’t even thought of this game since your last video
not me getting an ad for etg on this vid
I was early but forgot to comment so whoops but anyways, thank you Rattle for the new video! 😂❤
Regardless of all critics, I simply enjoy the game and since I'm a very patient person, I don't mind saving up on coins for a long time to buy a new horse
I downloaded it for fun around a year ago... it was just bored. I mean, I really hate the trend of mobile-games with waiting on stuff for endless hours/days, not to speak of the money you can spend on that damn things. But ETG was plain boring from the first minutes I dived into it.
They really just made a shop and did some gameish stuff around it to klick on... that's it.
I wish instead the usual jumping game genre, devs would consider something different, like harness and barrel racing
Rattle, I love your rants, please never change
As soon as this game launched, I noticed how dull it was from the first gameplay. And how you had to pay real money to get items n shit. I deleted it in the hopes that with more time, it’d develop and be more interesting. BUT every time I gave it another try after MONTHS, it was the same or worse. And now I see this 😭 explains everything
35:04 I died 🤣 Gosh am I glad I never invested any money in this game. I tried it for a bit but thought it was boring and the colours, although nice, are too bland. I made such mistake once with an ubisoft game, 'Horse adventures, Tale of Etria'. For different area's you needed specific 'divine' horses. I bought 3, each €20,00. Then one day they just quit the game without much explanation. I contacted google play, but there was no way for me to get a refund, it was too long ago. Really too bad, it was such a nice game.
I absolutely ADORE your videos and feedback you give these games, I’m not sure if you’ve been requested this game before, and it’s not the most realistic game, Horse life on Roblox? It’s much more f2p friendly, and the breeding system is complex and well made. Totally understand if it’s just not something your interested in, but it’s one of my favorite horse/pony games!
This isn't related to the video subject but I wanna know what that background music is bc it's kinda a bop. :P
I think I spent 10 minutes playing ETG. I just couldn't stand the controls or the microtransactions.
I’m starting to feel like horse games wanted to make us feel the same excitement as PC games such as Pippa (I don’t know the English name, my bad if it’s wrong, I mean Alexandra Ledermann).
Those games gave us a plot, horses to care for and to bond with but also, some fun way to make money INSIDE the game. As they were on CD, we didn’t have the option to pay and pay and pay.
Tales of Rein Ravine brought back that feeling of simple enjoyment, only focusing on the gameplay and not constant calculating money to see what we can do.
That feeling is even harder to recreate for mobile games and games who plan on releasing unfinished product.
Like ToRR, devs should focus more on what we can do in game, rather than the beauty and animations of horses. Because we will have a better experience if we have actual things to do rather than just look at ponies.
I remember having so much fun in quests that I didn’t even had the time to critique horse animations !
Anyways, thanks for your video, I quit ETG last year and tried it again… it’s horrible. There was nothing to do back then but now ? There’s even less if you don’t pay. Not for me, definitely.
Remember times when TMQ would roast developers for shitty practices in their articles? This was such a chore to read through, all this corporate lingo and zero challenge imposed on ETG ideals. Guess being entangled in the business side of things just really makes you feel less sympathetic towards players as years go by.
Let’s go!!! An another rattle video!
I've literally never played this or any horse game but this was on my feed, so welcome to my reccomendations
I downloaded the game after seeing an ad for it, saw how much i have to pay for basic things, and immediately uninstalled it
30:32 Hearing Rattle praise SSO in any way makes me quite happy lol. Ik they’ve done a lot wrong but I still feel they deserve praise when they do something right. If I may ask Rattle, what exactly where the positive changes you were referring to here? :)
32:22 so if something is immoral and disgusting but works well then it’s completely fine. That’s a stance and a half, one conmen and Disney villains would agree with
It makes me so sad see my Fav game Die.... i waited 4 years for this game and was sooo excited!!!!😭😭😭😭
With the amount of talented people I’ve seen in these bad situations who just want a good horse game to come out, I feel like we could all just band together and make one ourselves lol. All thats missing is the piggy bank
We need to start a go-fund me
"We want to make a horse game, please help!" LOL
@ Hey, if ETG can somehow get people to buy their useless passes, I think we’ll be set on funding 😂
Rattle, I love your videos! Thank you for making me laugh but most importantly HOLDING THESE PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE!
This company seems to have aspirations to be the new EA.
Astride DID NOT handle the backlash well. I was in there, giving fair criticism and they were childish and unprofessional. It was a rough one. Glad to hear it's a kinder place now.
I enjoyed the video! Thank you for the information!
Every day I am more glad I was banned from the Mane Quest server when I find out how drama filled it is in there.
Why did you delete your previous video in the ETG playlist?
I accidently put the rough first draft of THIS vid into the playlist! XD I wasn't aware people could watch it there! So after I posted this one, which was the correct, I deleted the old one. I'll just remove it from the list! Sorry for any confusion! ♥
Nah bc I just lost my entire game file with over 100$ worth of e-coins due to a glitch and they are refusing to gimme my acc back or refund me 😭
I have never been more interested in something I know nothing about
It should be illegal for any company to use Ai in places where they could hire actual people instead of using a program to steal images from those people.
I haven't gotten back to playing ETG for gods know how long, I might play the game again but slim chance that I'll just not touch the game ever again. It's a shame that a game that could have had potential is just lead to die by the creators.
We have a situation where there is a company that overestimated it's capabilites and funding, which is typical for this sort of young software company, and a player base that has no idea how a company and making software like this works, well they never worked at a company.
Something that many fail to understand is that the paying player base of a game that is about horse dress up and design is very slim. It is pointless to invest that much into the visuals and sets you up for failure. What people want is something that offers mechanics and substance behind it. Adding another skin won't make people pick it up.
Appropriate respect in criticism is important. If someone fails to respect others, they shouldn't be surprised they won't be appreciated. It is also important to respect the views of a person who offers feedback to you, and if you want people to understand, you need to explain. You need to hire a community manager who is not involved in making the game as developers won't have time nor the nerves to manage this.
1:27 couple seconds later PLEASE PUT AN EPILEPSY WARNING IN THE VIDEO!!!!!!
I did! At the very start of the video!! 😆
Nevermind, just finished the video and now I need a wiskey too
So glad I never spent any money on that game (not that I played it for very long, I was bored out of my mind after a few months)
The gacha games i play are more f2p than this game that has devs REPEATEDLY made awful decisions, lied, and outright treat their fans and past mods and others like dirt. The amount of times ive seen the head of TMQ be confrontational and defensive towards people bringing this up also was a buildup to the point I had enough and left that server as well since I was utterly talked down to as if f2p games couldn't charge for real money to pay for bills and I had also questioned why they made the game in the first place and it was taken as me claiming that the devs do not care about the game when my point was if they're going to use AI, why did they make the game in the first place? As an artist, I would refuse to use AI to use it in ads just to get clicks just to make bank. That shit is inexcusable. They can easily take screenshots of their own game assets.
ETG is pretty but it's not a game made with love at all anymore. The devs are not someone I will ever trust with money nor make a good game either.
38:52 that misspell of you made me laught so hard 😂
Omg the UA-cam ad I got was for this game lol on this video
So glad I’ve never spent a cent on this game.
I'm on a strict diet too.. can't eat dairy gluten corn or any fats... it sucks and I'm so hungry ;-;
Anyways when I first started equestrian the game I was actually quite excited until I saw the controls and I honestly didn't really have anything to do since I had to pay for everything... so I just deleted it, I think the game was doomed from the start.. classic horse game moment..