Can’t believe I have to say this AGAIN, but my comment sections are not a place for you to showcase your homophobia, racism, transphobia, sexism, xenophobia, etc. Act like adults. You can discuss a horse game without being shitty people.
Finally a UA-camr you doesn’t have 50,0000000 star coins saying “oh I just save” even though everyone knows they just buy star coins, thanks for being so honest Edit: WOAHH TY FOR THE LIKES
@@AmeliaDreambell half my server had beef with this game master, he had main beef with me when i was 13, he ended up banning my 5 lifetime accounts and got fired somewhere in 2018. They refused to unban my acc until i sent them a video of me talking to them in 2022 and they agreed to unban my acc's. Still think they shouldve done this after he got fired
I used to play SSO a lot between 2013-2017 but I just grew out of it, maybe I just got older and do not find interest in it anymore, but also seeing it change through the years didn't help in making me come back. Whenever I go online (once a year ahah) I just find that nostalgia, I look at my friends list and remember how it was and how people we were close with suddenly stopped playing just like I did :')
@Julia Karlsson They removed quests ?! Does that mean newer players won’t have the same xp after finishing every quest? I started playing in 2013 and stopped around 2017. I join back once a year or so
@juliakarlsson6065 ironically they seem to still be overly condescending despite a massive portion of their audience being from 10 years ago. well, generally i find being condescending even to children and babying them still pretty bad but the fact that they haven’t grown out of it is crazy. it’s more polished but lacks any character, it screams “barbie” in terms of the art style. there were endless directions to improve upon old graphics and this one gives off a very plastic and calculated approach, the kind that makes me feel like i just stepped into a lifeless doll house. i just really don’t dig it.
I quit after Christmas honestly it’s just not fun and the quests are insanely repetitive, I spent so much money on sso they really need to up their game honestly. The only reason I play is for roleplaying. I also bought life time, I know I will probably get into it again, but yeah your points are so true and I agree entirely.
I quit at level 19 by the sale with andalusians, It started to get boring and took longer to log on ( i could just took awhile. ) and the quests, i was just logging on for club practices/ events and hanging out with friends. I’m also on another server then most of my friends. ( Night Star. )
@@xxlol_escapexx5275 honestly I feel you, the Christmas event was kind of lame.. and really boring. Although a big event is coming up if you’re interested in seeing that, lots of new free tack and limited horses.
I’ve been playing since around 2014 and maybe it’s just because I’ve grown out of it, but sso doesn’t feel as realistic to me now as it did back then. I loved the little clicking sounds that your horse used to make to indicate that they were about to slow down or when you needed to go to a stable in order to take care of them. Also when you had to be on a cold tolerance horse in order to run at full speed in valley of the hidden dinosaur. Most recently, getting rid of your horses energy (you used to have to constantly click w for your horse to keep running at full speed) so now your horse somehow has infinite energy? My horses feel like robots now. There’s so many others things I could list but yeah. I understand how these things could be seen as annoying to some people but to me they made the game more fun and feel more alive. I wish I felt connected to the sso world the way I did when I was younger.
also is anyone going to talk about the endurance skill being essentially useless? the only way your horse loses health is if you take a risky jump. why aren’t they using endurance for.. endurance?? it should be for stamina, which imo adds more life to it. it would preferably make you have to think about when to jump or full gallop in races etc before exhausting your horse and slowing down.
VERY well said, especially about the expensivity part. This game is very expensive and I myself have a list of horses I want to buy every time new ones get added XD Also would like to say for the record I do like your talking videos as I find myself listening to them while I train my horses
the price is for the labor of course, they put a lot of man power into horses. the only problem with this is that they just flat out refuse to work smarter instead of harder. you don’t have to make a unique texture for every single horse breed or start from scratch with animations… you can literally just model for different horse body types to avoid texture stretching (pony, warmbloof, coldblood) and use textures unique to those body types instead of unique to the horse. all you do is just resize proportions to fit the breed n you’re golden, minimal stretching in my experience. it’s so efficient, i’m doing this for my own game as well and it makes the art more consistent and quick. sso horses tend to have varying shading and some look more “blocky” than others because they’re constantly pouring resources to make each horse unique when they don’t have to.
@@comfortme What a load of crap. They are lazy & do half buts jobs. If they depended on people to come into their store to buy things they would be CLOSED.
The sso community is so toxic!! The other day I was just riding my Belgian Warmblood with just a bridle (no saddle or anything just for fun lol) and I literally got grief for it!! It’s so annoying when ppl are just all up in your face!! “YoUr SuPpOsEd To RiDe WiTh A sAdDlE.. WhErE iS yOuR sAdDlE?” In my inventory- 💀
Maybe a year or two after I started playing I was riding my starter horse cause I was working on leveling it up (plus I love my starter horse) and someone came up to me on spirit and started making fun of me for riding a starter horse so I challenged them to a race after adding them to a group and I won and they just left, they just disappeared, might've logged out or called for pick up idk but I found it funny.
I gotten told "YoUR suPPoSeD tO RiDE wiTH a EnGLiSH SadDLe" many many times for riding a "English breed(funny thing I was told that the Jorvik Wild Horse is a English breed???? its a all purpose breed from what I can tell and has more of a stock(western) and a draft build then the warmblood's Lusitano's or PRE's)" now the English saddles MAY have better stats but someone would have gotten pssed at me for saying that you could only ride western horses(AQHA's in game may be based off western pleasure BUT they are a all purpose breed!!!!) in western tack also I'm high enough level that the tack stats don't even matter unless I'm racing???? I also personally ride western so I lean more to western in game SINCE ITS WHAT I RIDE????????(well used to ride curse my medical issues!!!!!!)
@@phenoix_wolf1035yeah honestly what’s up with that. First, it’s a game. Second, in real life, any horse breed can do any discipline. A quarter horse (stereotypical western horse) can be trained for English and a thoroughbred (stereotypical English horse) can ride western. Third, the Jorvik warm blood is a made-up breed
My one biggest issue with sso are the clubs. They're extremely clique-y, and people take them way too seriously. It's not an issue with the devs, more of the players, but still an issue
And the club sets/horses I get that its supposed some sort of "uniform" but I ain't spending my star coins on a lusitano and expensive tack to get kicked out a week later because a club member was literally harassing me and manipulated the club leader (which I was good friends with) to punish ME I left the club. And thank god I haven't bought that stupid andalusian
21:30 this. I'm a brand-new player, been playing maybe a few weeks. I can't help but compare this game to other MMO's like World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14, what with the questing, other players, and open-world exploration. SSO, WoW, and FFXIV have all been around a really long time, but SSO is seriously lacking in quality of life features across the board, features I would have expected as a bare minimum. I already have a growing list of minor grievances and edits that would make average day-to-day play much more enjoyable and on-par with other MMO's (am I the only one who wants to be able to zoom in on the map window??). As it is right now, in my opinion, it is not worth the prices for Star Rider subscription/lifetime or the SC to buy horses (I'm on a budget bc I want a new car more than I want a new 3D horse). The only reason I'm playing at all is for the nostalgia of StarShine Legacy, and I am a sucker for story. I guarantee you, once I run out of quests to do, I won't be logging on unless things change. Even as a new player with just 1 horse I've bought, I'd rather have the SSO team work on quality of life updates to bring the game into modern times, than have them keep pumping out horses, tack, clothes, and races. I'm overwhelmed with choices already. I am very much looking forward to the updated playermodels and I HOPE they aren't gonna charge us to explore the options and make a change for the first edit. I haven't bothered to add friends/join clubs for this reason, as I know there's a big chance I won't be active in the long run. As a final note, I am an adult female human and I headcanon that my character is a male rider, because I can and I do not care if others think it's strange. It makes it more interesting for me, and I also cannot come up with feminine names I like at all anyways. It's not hurting anyone. Like I said, looking forward to the gender-neutral playermodel options in the future. If you read all of this, thanks for coming to my TED Talk about Magic Horse Game TM And Why It Really Does Kinda Suck RN. Fjord horse best horse edited for typos/clarification
They aren't gonna stop pumping out horses when those are legit their most popular updates to date, and also, it's legit a game about horses, what do you expect them to do? Oh Idk, release horses
@@montanamountaingarden476 1. I don’t understand why you’re trying to argue like every single comment on this video after you stated you haven’t even watched it. 2. Their comment didn’t just focus on too many horses. Reread it. Popular update or not, they push horses out too fast and the quality of them is deteriorating.
OH MY GOD YES. ive been saying this to myself for years i love mmorps and stuff, so ive always wanted sso to be a bit more like one - i feel like with their cutesy style itd work really well and even young players would be able to like it
The only reason for new horses & pets is to get people to spend MONEY to buy star coins. They no longer care about the content of the game. That is why this game is dying.
I'm over 50, and I play this game. I had a group of three people following me around, telling me how terrible my tack and outfit were. I told them I didn't care about their opinions. They said I should, since they were fashionistas. I am a metalhead irl, and couldn't care less what people think about me. I agree, they are miserable and looking to make everyone else miserable. It's just words on a screen, and they don't mean a damn thing. Good for you for being true to yourself.
This video was very well said and clearly has genuine understanding of the star stable community, it’s very difficult to keep up with the cost of the game, especially for content creators. Thank you for raising awareness 💗
It's been two years and a half since I'm only going on SSO to buy the new horses (only when they're worth it, unlike the morgans which are a total failure).. Since a while, SSO only cares about money and getting new players hooked on the game so they can make profit. Us old players are completely ignored for everything... So it's totally normal that people are leaving since they don't listen to any of us..
I agree with you there. They don't care about keeping the game fresh. They just want to make more horses & pets to get people to spend more money on the game. That is why people are leaving. And they don't fix their glitches
I had a best friend and he lefted bc ppl were making fun of him bc he was a boy playing sso, I blamed all on my self and probly did not log on to sso for abt 3 monthes bc I was that heart broken and sso its not as fun as it use to be tbh. Also I love ur vids
I am taking a break from SSO due to my mental health since people just were so rude and stuff and also because of money. It is an expensive game but it's also really nice but it's very different atm to be honest. SSO is slowly dying which is pretty sad but I understand why people quit and they're excused. I remember a few months ago looking at the new horses and stuff and just not being as happy and excited, I loved this game when I was a child. I haven't been on SSO for months now and to be honest I feel happiness, I'm planning into coming back soon and check out new things with some of my online friends. This video is truly relatable and well said! We love you Amelia!
Super well said! I kinda quitted months ago with an account lvl 6 lifetime because all the horses were the same and it was kinda confusing where to go to level up and everything, but I respect everyone’s opinions!
The Star Coins stuff is so true - I used to ask my dad every. Single. Month. For 500+500 but eventually we decided to do it once every 2 months. Then because I asked for Pay-Once Star Rider, I had to wait until X-Mas but I still asked before. At some point, I stopped playing SSO for 2+ months and realised that i don't need to ask for Star Coins, I'm not interested in the new horses, new clothing, new tack. So, I rarely buy stuff and now I have 400SC (I bought the discounted ETB recently). If I do ask for Star Coins, it'll only be 100+100 and very rarely. If this made no sense, this was written by a 10-13 y/o who likes writing but cannot make anything make sense Edit: Also, it's annoying with the prices rises. Make it CHEAPER, not more expensive! If they make it cheaper, more people will buy them, and more money. Companies really need to think about that- And, one time, my dad was getting 500+500CS for me and it didn't work so we bought it again. He had to spend double than usual and I felt so bad.
Bro... what they did to scare you--that's just plain wrong. My friend was randomly charged $20 to her account for no reason. I totally agree with you, SSO is rlly unfair to other genders. Boys deserve to play too, and the ENTIRE main story plot is based on girls. SSO needs to start listening to us. But what I rlly find weird is the Chat Filter. I can't say UA-cam... it's ridiculous, and as a non-star rider, you can't visit 3/4 of the world--crazy. My non-star rider friend finished all her quests in 3 days and never played again, she has nothing to do. All I do on SSO now is Film, Chat with my friends for a little, Get updated with the latest news, Leave. I'm getting exasperated with SSO, it used to be the only thing that made me happy--now, though I like SSO, I just don't feel the same. Love ur vids btw! (Sry for long comment btw xD) 🤣
its based on girls for a reason, literally the smallest chunk of games are focused on girls anyway, and the map is also blocked.... for a reason.... you dont see many other games with that much money just give away all their free-roam shit for free
@@aster6883 I get that they want it to be focused on girls but still, I mean...would it rlly change reality just for them to add boy characters? And, yes, I get that some of the world should be locked BUT...LIKE MORE THAN 3/4 of the world? Um no. Like, I wish I could at least go into jarl or smthn. :/
@@ria2453 no, they only listen to those damn toddlers. Babies want more magic horses? They give them more magic horses! They want old sso to be gone and forgotten? They will do that! They want represantation through gay horses? They got just that!
Hi. Saw this video in my feed. I don't play Star Stable anymore, I am a 2016-2022 player. In fact, I only played enthusiastically between Halloween 2016 and Valentines 2017, finishing all quests that were currently in the game, in that exact timeframe. Afterwards, I had a pretty big break, several months I think. And after that break I returned, but not with much enthusiasm. I kept wanting to leave, so I did leave again, but after the second leave, I came back a second time. So, I ended up in this cycle of leaving and returning, and I returned with less and less enthusiasm and genuineness each time. The magic wore away over time. I was forcing myself. It didn't help that due to my account being a Lifetime Star Rider account, I felt the need to play, in order to "not waste the money". I feel like psychologically, the Lifetime subscription holds you hostage :( My worst phase was when my sister joined in. At the beginning I introduced SSO to her, and I genuinely wanted to play it with her. For a while, we both enjoyed it. But that was already after 02/2017, so I was already kinda worn by then. Well, we kept playing, but after a while, I forced myself into that cycle of leaving and returning yet again, this time with my sister involved. She was actually mad at me when I confessed to her that I don't want to play anymore. Like a Karen, she found that unacceptable. And when I told her that I am straight up quitting forever, she completely cut off contact with me. Insane. Can you imagine? Over a videogame? With your own biological sister?? In 2023, I haven't opened SSO even once. This is officially my first year "SSO-free". And I blame my addiction-like relationship with SSO on its payment structure. If it was a paid game from the beginning, if the payment was one-off, then I wouldn't feel so guilty for not playing it. But with a subscription it's different, because by definition a subscription is continuous, regular. That's why when something is called a subscription, you are psychologically tricked to think of it as something that you should regularly return to. Because after all, otherwise you'll waste that _one-off_ money, right? Exactly, one-off. The lifetime subscription is no different from a one-off purchase, they just named it differently to trick their customers. If people were to see through that, they'd realize that the price of Star Stable as a game is insane. It's literally twice the price of GTA V! The Sims 4 used to go for $60-$40, that's also what Star Stable is currently at. So, literally EA-tier prices. Not to mention the star coin prices are inflated too. Spending a given amount of money on microtransactions in other games gets you more rewards than spending that same amount on the ones in SSO. After following this game closely for several years, I must conclude... SSO is a scam.
Tested the game in 2012; current main created in early 2013; been semi active in the game the whole 10 years and still play like once a week. I would leave a "Do not recommend" review despite my thousands of hours; they are full of regrets :´) I consider myself retired player now who just can't leave for good. I am just frustrated with this game, hoping it would someday become better. I still care about it a lot. Also my account has been put a lot effort into, which makes me passionate about it. I don't care about horses that much anymore now that I'm not a kid anymore. Only thing about SSO I like is how casual and chill it is; open world and wander around, find new stuff and do some chill tasks, but RDR2 now has taken that spot. Only reason I really play anymore is either because of habits or because I got nostalgic. All my friends have quit too. The game lost its focus on creating an adventure game, and now it feels like a horse-buying simulator. Horses feel soulless; health and stamina have been removed, and still no personality traits for them. Horses have become cosmetics. Game is also now made far too easy to even be called a "game" anymore. New quests come so rarely, that you could stay away for a year, then comeback and finish all the new quests in a few days. New quests feel so half a**ed, the technology/engine is ancient and clanky, gameplay hasn't improved since the game launched, you have so little to do once you have finished the quests. Racing is the only challenge the game provides, and once you've mastered that then what? you still get beaten by cheaters or server's poor performance. Also the game is actually worth like 20 euros at best, not 70e.....
I started playing SSO when the cat on the saddle was the loading screen. IYKYK And a few things that have made me slowly start to stop playing is... 1. the quest are boring 2. they did not want to add the natural gate of the TW because it was "abusive" even tho its NATURAL Gait (not talking about big lick) 3. all the kids on the game make the players hump one another on global chat. and are very strange over all 4. adding all of the unrelaistic horses (sorry can't spell) 5. and only some tack can be used on certain horses and its really annoying! like I get the Arabian halters, but saddle pads!!!??? like ughhh
I agree. They don’t listen to our point of view and lots of people have been asking and still are if we can have headcollers , rugs etc and instead they are doing things lots of people aren’t interested in.
My issue is that sso acts like they are a small indie game yet charge 70-80$ for lifetime (you could buy a WAY better quality game with a story and content to last you years and years for only 60$ without having to purchase 30 dollars per different color horse). The quality of the game doesn’t reflect the millions they are making. Sso is not a triple A game so the prices they are charging, the spam horse releases, removing any and all immersion including horse noises, horse speed, moods, ect are stupid. It’s predatory and disrespectful to the community. Theres a reason why people just stand at steves farm, literally nothing to do but stand in one spot and watch the drama in global chat.
can we talk about the soundtrack too….. i used to LOVE the music, especially the race soundtrack and silverglade soundtrack and they just ruined it and changed it to something so childish. ESPECIALLY the race soundtrack, like what is that?
I’ve been playing since 2015 and back then I use to feel happy and a little spark in my body when buying a horse now I have to many star coins and spend them on horses I don’t even like, I feel no happiness when buying them anymore all I say to myself is it’s just another horse, I’ve lost that spark now and to me there is no point in the game it’s just gone down hill for the past few years, Im sad to say that the game isn’t special to me and a lot of others anymore but at the moment to a lot of people the star stable team only cares about the money not their players, it’s sad,
I've been playing the game since launch on multiple accounts, and nowadays I log on once every five or six months just to peek around and buy a couple of horses with the star coins that have saved up. It says something that almost all of the festivals have been removed, and that in the last three years there's been basically nothing new to log on to see so you don't really log on again. I don't leave because it's a lovely and beautiful thing, but I definitely don't have the same feelings for it anymore.
I joined sso about a year ago, although I’ve been following the game for _years._ I was never able to play because I’ve never had a desktop, and I couldn’t afford sr. So when I heard sso was coming to mobile.. I was so excited!! I downloaded it on my phone and I’ve been playing ever since. Its really sad to see how this game has progressed though, last years Halloween event was so.. dull. Extra grinding for old prizes, absolutely garbage. I did like the new horses though. This years winter festival was fun too! It felt a little boring though, not much going for it but small side quests and whatnot. I really wish sso cared about it’s players more.. if you want a new horse its $17 out of pocket, and even that will barely get you a new one. And only 100sc a week? For the money we pay to keep this game running?? I paid for lifetime and I’m astonished at how little I received from this game after paying over $50. I’m never spending another penny on this game and I’m just going to save up.
I am so guilty about that same thing,i have 14 pages of horses and I have no room in my storage is full hehe, you have a great voice for this keep up the good work
And your very right about the star coins ! If u get star rider for a month or life time (life time is like 80$) and u only get 100 star coins a week when most horses are like 300+ and can even get to 900 and u only get 100 star coins a week for paying monthly irl money or paying 80$ once ...
I quit SSO because the game is going in a direction i don't like, I'm not a equestrian, i love horses but i'm not into competitions and dressage, what made me love SSO back in the day was the exploring and adventure, now this game is becoming very equestrian focused, which isn't a bad thing, but it's not my thing.
I've personally played this game since 2016 (11 years old). I hated how everything had to do with money a year in, and I wasn't going anywhere because I had to unlock a region in the map to do a quest. It was a really fun game. I've recently transitioned to Roblox wild horse islands.
you are fine just enjoy, what you do to people who leave the game, if you speak to them and maybe put up a pole about what they are leaving for then send that pole to sso it might help.
I've only ever had to deal with drama on especially controversial updates where I don't shy away from arguing the good and the bad. That being said, the boring and expensive gameplay has been shooing me away for years now. I don't buy SC often (only on Double weekends and only MAYBE 2k at a time every year or so) but I have a little nest actually saved bc I just don't have any interest in the game. Reshade is literally the ONLY reason I log in now. I like to RRP (but don't post anymore bc I'm lazy) so I login in, make shaders/presets, take cute pics, logout. That's it. The game has gotten boring, and IMO kind of ugly with how plastic it looks everywhere, and EXPENSIVE so why bother that much?
I don't like star stable anymore....I don't like all the updates and getting rid of horses, horses and things are too expensive, I lag everytime I play and I can't play it anymore cause I don't have room on my computer from all the updates and people talk about things I wouldn't like to say and it's getting really boring and if I go in wild mode people will make fun of me etc
personally why i quit sso in 2019 after playing it for 4 years was the fact that they focused on too many things at the same time and couldn't finish any of the projects, i started playing again in may of this year, and gotta say that it is still bit true, there are huge areas which they haven't updated yet, which they started to do in 2018... it's just frustraiting, i want new areas to explore so the lore could expand more as well. the thing they're great at is just promise more never coming stuff, my server is literally dead, i usually see around 10 players max when i play around the map, it also makes me sometimes wanna quit again, because there is no one playing. i wish they could do updates which everyone could enjoy more often, so the community wouldn't be so dead.
I just found this channel and it feels somewhat refreshing to me to just see a sso youtuber who kinda is just casual and not somewhat more targeted for younger audiences (I'm aware that there's probably plenty of youtubers who do sso videos and aren't targeted towards younger audiences I just haven't seen many). I they made very good points and kinda just have a good perspective on everything going on with sso and community. I've been playing for around 4-5 years and the game was a big part of my childhood, me and my old best friend would play for hours running around and doing whatever just enjoying ourselves so sso holds a very special place as a part of my childhood. I feel like over the past couple years the game has had some great updates along with really boring ones, for example in my opinion all the new horses are getting a little old and not exciting. I remember that whenever I would see a sneak peak for a new horse around 3 years ago I would get super excited and text my old friend about it but now it's become a normal thing that isn't as exciting anymore. I understand why sso is currently more targeted towards girls and my guess is that it's because the game was originally made 10 years ago and I don't really know but there might not have been a lot of good games for girls to be the main character/hero or whatever you wanna call it. I think adding male avatars might not be a great idea cause it would likely cause a lot of the older players to be mad or just flat out leave plus I think they'd have to change words in the quests which wouldn't be terrible just extra work. I think a good idea would be to add more masculine clothes and hairstyles for guys that might play or even girls who prefer that style (me being one of them). I don't mean to sound rude but I believe star stable is good as a game with a female lead considering it was made so long ago. I don't wanna ramble on anymore so I'll stop there and I don't mean to sound offensive in anyway I just wanted to state my opinions on some things that people might have been mad about or something like that.
I would love to play SSO again. However, the program is so old that I had to download an old version of a specific driver to my laptop and ever since I did that my laptop has been fidgety... :L
When my boyfriend and I are just sitting together my friend will come up and she’ll just flick us off while glaring at us, like, could you make it any more obvious that you’re jealous?
when I first got this game i stayed on for hours at level like 12 do practice dressage now I hardly ever even do dressage anymore, and I get bored and mostly do wild do some filming still shots cause i have some things made like coffee mugs made from pictures from sso and coasters and some stickers and pens and notebooks with and a throw rug with pictures off sso so it has its uses but i do get bored the artwork on your page is that yours it really pretty
I been playing since 2011 and I stopped playing for 2 years during the lockdown, I was playing RDR2 but came back when they increased the pay for doing championships and the times. When you have been playing as long as me daily stuff you do alone I was just over it, competing with others and friends makes it fun. And not every server has toxic players, if u find some just move servers. And this game is unrealistically expensive....in the beginning I remember then we got the first set of new horses, it was the best thing to happen, then to find out you could only have 5 horses and had the sell them when u wanted the new ones.
Heyyy! Love ur vids ❤Btw idk but could u make another video on your near death experiences?? XD I'm sorry but it was funny, and maybe doing a training time where u read other ppls near death experiences, idk why i found it entertaining but yh x Have a nice day!💞
@@Georgia_Stormfly i literally made a video laughing about all the times I’ve almost died. If I think MY personal experiences are funny, then it’s ok if other people find it funny. That’s the whole reason I made the video.
@@Georgia_Stormfly ik but i mean if people are comfortable about talking about it like amelia was, she found it funny about all of the times she nearly died, i would submit all of the times i have nearly died and i would look back on it and find it funny. its just a suggestion thats all
I have to agree on a lot of things. I would like see male players. Yes the game is expensive and i didnt like the fact that the makers took away the option of paying once and if you dont want to next month that thats fine. I did have a bug but it was fixed pretty quickly.
i know nothing about this game but i keep seeing it since I really love horses. I am concerned though since lots of people are leaving I don't know if I should start playing. I do really like horse games and this one looks cool but very confusing lol.
It’s definitely worth playing it for once if you haven’t yet it’s for everyones own taste you may like it more than others that started disliking the game so def give it a try and see if you’ll like the game in my opinion it is worth it but some things can get really annoying for example the expensive prices for the horses & starcoins, bugs etc.. but other than that it’s actually a nice game if they didn’t change it that much & there are still people playing this game so dw! :) many people leave for a break and come back after idk how long they’ve token their break for
I only have to take breaks for a few months, then I'm back to train a few horses, then I'm off. It takes a lot for me to get back one and train. Quests bore me. 😬
I played 2014-2018 and quit cause a glitch happend to my ac and the team just ignored my calls for help.. just new horses i didnt had any fun with the game anymore cause of the grapthic glitch and i was a stupid kid who always wanted expensive stuff.. i dont see a reason anymore to keep playing and spending a ton of money over the years to just get ignored when asking for help on a glitch that makes playing almost Impossible... Yes my ac is glitched with the dark graphic bug, yes i tried many pc's reinstalling, using the standard options, when playing with a diffrent ac (tried a friends) it worked normaly on my pc...
I had to stop playing in April because I let SSO do an update on my computer & it crashed. It was working fine until the update. I had to buy a new laptop.
I have a few online friends, one hasn’t logged on all year, my other friend only logs on for club meetings. And bc of it I lost all my connection with them 😢 but I am still in touch with one of them ❤
my main reasons why i rarly log into star stable now are a lot of reasons. they dont listen to us with anything really the one i remember the most are the lead ropes for the halters they even asked the community if we want lead ropes to go with the halters and i cant think of one person who said they didnt want lead ropes. the cost of star stable is to much its the reason i dont spend mony on star stable anymore the only thing you should buy from star stable is the life time star rider cause you get star rider for life and you get free starcoins every week. but the biggest reason i dont log in anymore is because of the main quest line i mean it dosent make sence anymore is used to be about 5 girls fighting aganist the meanest people saving the world and going through portals but now is just nothing i dont even know what it is anymore and we never went through the 3rd door in the tomb of adien or whatever it was it was a long time ago. and poor lisa was a rock star and now shes a country singer chick person. i know everyone has there opinions on this but this is mine so yeah that all i have to say and i hope everyone has a good night edit: i really do like the star stable movies and series though there are some really good ones out there that ive seen. my favorate one ive seen is called seven its really good you should go check it out and i really like watching stuff from haley kittenhope and bianca ponyer
Im polish and while you were talking about the sc prices i was like, “theyre not that expensive ere they” and then i went to look at the usd prices and my jaw dropped, here in poland they are literally 3x cheaper, if we convert pln to usd we pay 25 bucks for the 5000 bundle, which is still alot for a horse game, but the difference is just so shocking to me?
Personally I quit playing actively sso someday in 2018 I think and since then I log in the game like once for few minutes after several months. The game has zero endgame content where you can't do anything else then train or buy a new horse to train again, play rps or join clubs. But what else is there? Waiting simulator for new quests which comes like 1 times per year? How funny. Is it worth the time? Definitely not. Was the game worth the money? HECK NO, it was the biggest mistake of my life. Just a trash to be said in the end, that's all that game is.. and I didn't even start with how they weren't able to finish their game (story) after more then a 10 years. Quite sad.
I have 32 pages of horses so your not alone,my storage is overflowing i have to keep tack on some of my horses cause i have no room in my storage, and my clothing dont get me started i have so much clothing i am going to have to sell some for new stuff XD
I wouldn't say I've quit but I would say I log in maybe once every other week for less than 5 minutes. It could be due to the fact there's an update which looks slightly interesting then I realise it's boring. But the main reasons why I barely play anymore is because SSO has changed. I understand that in the past 3-4 years they have grown, mainly because of lockdown so their investors have increased and they are earning more money. They used to put players first and would listen to their advice but now it's investors, they release way too many horses so they can persuade people to buy more star coins so they can get more money. Then they use 'cost of living crisis' as an excuse to raise the price of star coins when they are a stable enough company, they have millions of subs already and they're "struggling" it's just greedy. Another reason as to why I barely ever play anymore is because it's boring, I really miss the quests like saving Anne because they were actually interesting. Drama is another reason why I hate playing, the amount of people who are homophobic and racist is disgusting and it's mainly children. I had another account that got permanently suspended for no reason and I questioned sso and they said chat ban, I only had 1 chat ban warning in the past and it was about 2 years prior but there are children using slurs and they don't get banned it's utterly ridiculous. I tried MULTIPLE times telling them to investigate because 'chat ban' isn't enough to permanently suspend me but all I got was 'once the system has permanently suspended your account we cannot get it back' I had spent over $600 on that account. The whole game is boring, expensive and a waste of money. At this moment in time can I see other horse games overtaking sso? Not at the moment but if they listen to players and make the game for players not for money, I can see it happen.
I'm so sorry that people harass you so much. I can't wait for the rangers duty series but take your time and make sure that you don't burn yourself out. take care xxx
dont come at me, but i stopped playing starstable last year bc its gotten so out of control there, everyone is so inappropriate and toxic- people were talking about making money at a str!p club with their friends, and they were being so weird. also, everyone there is lowk cringe...
I honestly wish rhe game was free to play beyond level 5, because not everyone can afford membership just to play.. like there can be other ways fir starstable to make money on special horses ect like the magical horses can cost actaual money and we can buy every other breed with regular tokens, i feel like starstable can do better with the game money wise, why should new players need to be forced to buy their membership in order to continue to play the game? Anygame should be free to play when it comes to level up they can make money other ways for ex the magical horses, and magical companions they arent really new player friendly when it comes to that
You opened it up by putting up "The reasons people quit SSO" , so we are telling why we quit. As for me it is because they have change the game so much that I am not sure why I am playing it anymore. As I have said before, I had to go on disability & leave my job. I got internet & my own computer at home. I found this game on the internet & I liked that the horses moved like real horses & it was like like riding in a realistic place. It reminded me of when I use to trail ride my own horse. The quest thing was fun too. BUT Star stable & SSO have become nothing but a GREEDY company who only cares about making money without a care about the product they are trying to sell. Unfortunately this is happening all over the country. I was born in 1963, so I have seen a lot of things & I don't like what I am seeing. This is my personal opinion & unless our country has turned into a Communist country I am allowed to express my thoughts. I am now done with SSO & looking for another horse game to play. One more to my liking. I will also be deleting my account. I really think that Star stable is dying but only time will tell.
I havent played since the stupid race updates. No reason to play anymore since level 2 horses and riders can win champs and hi points now. Makes all the time and effort I have put into the game useless.
Idk if it's addressed in this vid, as I haven't watched it. But have y'all maybe considered that some ppl quit playing SSO just bc they merely outgrow the game and find other interests?
I have been playing sso since 2018 and I played every day for 2 years and my dad has spent over £1000 on like 100 horses on a game I don’t play anymore I play it like every 3 months I do enjoy The game but the price is a bit stupid and my dad could be buying me new phones stuff for my room and that all though Ik he has the money I feel bad asking for £60 when he spends like £10 on vapes for me everyday and money to go to the shop and get lunch and go shopping I understand that it is a lot of money and work to do all these updates and stuff but I feel like the cost of living and all that is just gonna make people fall out of love with the game since it’s so expensive especially how the game is targeted at young people I do love the game but it’s getting a bit to much and no one plays in my severs anymore other then like 10 people so its pretty dead..
Out of my 5 years of playing I would off have 6 and 1/2 years off playing if I hadn't quite for 2 years and then started to play then quit for a half of a year
U talking about the SSO community kinda reminds me of the red dead online community lol (I've only been playing SSO for about 2 weeks) I've played rdr for over 3... And its really sad that people will boot you offline over a video game ...and the people who go out of their way to harasse you they truely have no life or just have a lot of personal issues they need to work on lol
Ive never played sso im not gonna get it cause i dont have 123u923u448qt dollars even buying the game is expensive and im lucky enough to even have a house cause we r poor asf plus, if u want it for free u only get to play to LEVEL 5?? its so unfair, if u gonna make so many people pay like 3498853 dollars just for star coins atleast make the game free to play, dont be stupid sso and make it more fun for everyone else.
listen, sso is a paid game, jsut like for example minecraft. the 5 free levels are simply a demo. i dont think you know how games and money work, and i doubt youre above the age of 12
i quit sso in late 2019 just bc it stopped working for me, it put a virus (or so im convinced it did) into my computer.. and so it stopped letting me log in, it said there was an error and everything was wrong so i couldnt play. the urge to download it again is SO big rn.. but at the same time its the fear of the virus and the amount of money that goes into it.
I am soooooo glad that I am not the only one who had trouble with their computer because of SSO. In April of this year I said yes to an update & it crashed my computer & no one will believe me. I had to buy a new laptop. I am looking for another horse game.
I just feel like if you're (using that as a general term) doxxing people or telling them to end themselves over a horse game...... Yeah...... It's not them who needs help.....
Not having any complaints or criticism towards SSO doesn’t mean you’re a “bootlicker”. It just means you’re happy with what is currently happening in-game. ❤
This! The only time ive really been active ingame is if the update is interesting enough (main quest, updated area etc), events also if I have enough sc to be able to buy horses and train them (but tbh its starting to get a hectic as its really repetati,ve)
Can’t believe I have to say this AGAIN, but my comment sections are not a place for you to showcase your homophobia, racism, transphobia, sexism, xenophobia, etc. Act like adults. You can discuss a horse game without being shitty people.
thank you
The fact that the people in this comment section (who are saying shit things) aren’t mature enough to play a kids targeted game.
LMAOOOOOOOOO "You can discuss a horse game without being shitty people." im dead
LMAOOOOOOOOO "You can discuss a horse game without being shitty people." im dead
THANK YOU
Finally a UA-camr you doesn’t have 50,0000000 star coins saying “oh I just save” even though everyone knows they just buy star coins, thanks for being so honest
Edit: WOAHH TY FOR THE LIKES
My acc was banned from sept 2017 till nov 2022 so i did log into the acc with 27k LOL
@@KorraHDAMV how did you get banned that long omgggg 😭
@@KorraHDAMV lolll
@@AmeliaDreambell half my server had beef with this game master, he had main beef with me when i was 13, he ended up banning my 5 lifetime accounts and got fired somewhere in 2018. They refused to unban my acc until i sent them a video of me talking to them in 2022 and they agreed to unban my acc's. Still think they shouldve done this after he got fired
@@KorraHDAMV I’m glad he got fired at least tho bc wtf 😭 I’m so sorry that happened to u
I used to play SSO a lot between 2013-2017 but I just grew out of it, maybe I just got older and do not find interest in it anymore, but also seeing it change through the years didn't help in making me come back. Whenever I go online (once a year ahah) I just find that nostalgia, I look at my friends list and remember how it was and how people we were close with suddenly stopped playing just like I did :')
this.
And the they are like “oh im so broke” when they have enough sc to buy like 20 horses 👹
@@Horses_R_Us Wish I could be broke like them AHAHAH I just let a close irl friend play on my account since I don't use it anymore so no sc for me 👹
@Julia Karlsson They removed quests ?! Does that mean newer players won’t have the same xp after finishing every quest?
I started playing in 2013 and stopped around 2017. I join back once a year or so
@juliakarlsson6065 ironically they seem to still be overly condescending despite a massive portion of their audience being from 10 years ago. well, generally i find being condescending even to children and babying them still pretty bad but the fact that they haven’t grown out of it is crazy. it’s more polished but lacks any character, it screams “barbie” in terms of the art style. there were endless directions to improve upon old graphics and this one gives off a very plastic and calculated approach, the kind that makes me feel like i just stepped into a lifeless doll house. i just really don’t dig it.
I quit after Christmas honestly it’s just not fun and the quests are insanely repetitive, I spent so much money on sso they really need to up their game honestly. The only reason I play is for roleplaying. I also bought life time, I know I will probably get into it again, but yeah your points are so true and I agree entirely.
I quit at level 19 by the sale with andalusians, It started to get boring and took longer to log on ( i could just took awhile. ) and the quests, i was just logging on for club practices/ events and hanging out with friends. I’m also on another server then most of my friends. ( Night Star. )
@@xxlol_escapexx5275 honestly I feel you, the Christmas event was kind of lame.. and really boring. Although a big event is coming up if you’re interested in seeing that, lots of new free tack and limited horses.
@@BitterCyder True.
Same honestly
@@BitterCyder Just another excuse to make people come on so they can get you to spend more money.
I’ve been playing since around 2014 and maybe it’s just because I’ve grown out of it, but sso doesn’t feel as realistic to me now as it did back then. I loved the little clicking sounds that your horse used to make to indicate that they were about to slow down or when you needed to go to a stable in order to take care of them. Also when you had to be on a cold tolerance horse in order to run at full speed in valley of the hidden dinosaur. Most recently, getting rid of your horses energy (you used to have to constantly click w for your horse to keep running at full speed) so now your horse somehow has infinite energy? My horses feel like robots now. There’s so many others things I could list but yeah. I understand how these things could be seen as annoying to some people but to me they made the game more fun and feel more alive. I wish I felt connected to the sso world the way I did when I was younger.
YESSSS THE ENERGY!! I miss that so much more than I thought I would.. Whenever I get on SSO to just revisit it, I find myself clicking w instinctively
i didn’t even realise you don’t have to press w a lot anymore
also is anyone going to talk about the endurance skill being essentially useless? the only way your horse loses health is if you take a risky jump. why aren’t they using endurance for.. endurance?? it should be for stamina, which imo adds more life to it. it would preferably make you have to think about when to jump or full gallop in races etc before exhausting your horse and slowing down.
VERY well said, especially about the expensivity part. This game is very expensive and I myself have a list of horses I want to buy every time new ones get added XD
Also would like to say for the record I do like your talking videos as I find myself listening to them while I train my horses
the price is for the labor of course, they put a lot of man power into horses. the only problem with this is that they just flat out refuse to work smarter instead of harder. you don’t have to make a unique texture for every single horse breed or start from scratch with animations… you can literally just model for different horse body types to avoid texture stretching (pony, warmbloof, coldblood) and use textures unique to those body types instead of unique to the horse. all you do is just resize proportions to fit the breed n you’re golden, minimal stretching in my experience. it’s so efficient, i’m doing this for my own game as well and it makes the art more consistent and quick. sso horses tend to have varying shading and some look more “blocky” than others because they’re constantly pouring resources to make each horse unique when they don’t have to.
@@comfortme What a load of crap. They are lazy & do half buts jobs. If they depended on people to come into their store to buy things they would be CLOSED.
The sso community is so toxic!! The other day I was just riding my Belgian Warmblood with just a bridle (no saddle or anything just for fun lol) and I literally got grief for it!! It’s so annoying when ppl are just all up in your face!! “YoUr SuPpOsEd To RiDe WiTh A sAdDlE.. WhErE iS yOuR sAdDlE?” In my inventory- 💀
That's where the ignore button comes in handy, when someone does that to me, they find themselves a nice cozy spot in the Ignore Hotel
Maybe a year or two after I started playing I was riding my starter horse cause I was working on leveling it up (plus I love my starter horse) and someone came up to me on spirit and started making fun of me for riding a starter horse so I challenged them to a race after adding them to a group and I won and they just left, they just disappeared, might've logged out or called for pick up idk but I found it funny.
I gotten told "YoUR suPPoSeD tO RiDE wiTH a EnGLiSH SadDLe" many many times for riding a "English breed(funny thing I was told that the Jorvik Wild Horse is a English breed???? its a all purpose breed from what I can tell and has more of a stock(western) and a draft build then the warmblood's Lusitano's or PRE's)" now the English saddles MAY have better stats but someone would have gotten pssed at me for saying that you could only ride western horses(AQHA's in game may be based off western pleasure BUT they are a all purpose breed!!!!) in western tack also I'm high enough level that the tack stats don't even matter unless I'm racing???? I also personally ride western so I lean more to western in game SINCE ITS WHAT I RIDE????????(well used to ride curse my medical issues!!!!!!)
@@phenoix_wolf1035yeah honestly what’s up with that. First, it’s a game. Second, in real life, any horse breed can do any discipline. A quarter horse (stereotypical western horse) can be trained for English and a thoroughbred (stereotypical English horse) can ride western. Third, the Jorvik warm blood is a made-up breed
I would just copy u fr 😂 like
No saddle?
Alright no saddle!
FINALLY a UA-camr that doesn’t just rant and talk about how ‘bad’ the game is but continue to make content.. love this channel.
thank you hun 🤍 means a lot!
My one biggest issue with sso are the clubs. They're extremely clique-y, and people take them way too seriously. It's not an issue with the devs, more of the players, but still an issue
And the club sets/horses
I get that its supposed some sort of "uniform" but I ain't spending my star coins on a lusitano and expensive tack to get kicked out a week later because a club member was literally harassing me and manipulated the club leader (which I was good friends with) to punish ME
I left the club. And thank god I haven't bought that stupid andalusian
21:30 this. I'm a brand-new player, been playing maybe a few weeks. I can't help but compare this game to other MMO's like World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy 14, what with the questing, other players, and open-world exploration. SSO, WoW, and FFXIV have all been around a really long time, but SSO is seriously lacking in quality of life features across the board, features I would have expected as a bare minimum. I already have a growing list of minor grievances and edits that would make average day-to-day play much more enjoyable and on-par with other MMO's (am I the only one who wants to be able to zoom in on the map window??). As it is right now, in my opinion, it is not worth the prices for Star Rider subscription/lifetime or the SC to buy horses (I'm on a budget bc I want a new car more than I want a new 3D horse). The only reason I'm playing at all is for the nostalgia of StarShine Legacy, and I am a sucker for story. I guarantee you, once I run out of quests to do, I won't be logging on unless things change.
Even as a new player with just 1 horse I've bought, I'd rather have the SSO team work on quality of life updates to bring the game into modern times, than have them keep pumping out horses, tack, clothes, and races. I'm overwhelmed with choices already. I am very much looking forward to the updated playermodels and I HOPE they aren't gonna charge us to explore the options and make a change for the first edit. I haven't bothered to add friends/join clubs for this reason, as I know there's a big chance I won't be active in the long run.
As a final note, I am an adult female human and I headcanon that my character is a male rider, because I can and I do not care if others think it's strange. It makes it more interesting for me, and I also cannot come up with feminine names I like at all anyways. It's not hurting anyone. Like I said, looking forward to the gender-neutral playermodel options in the future.
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took the words out of my mouth
They aren't gonna stop pumping out horses when those are legit their most popular updates to date, and also, it's legit a game about horses, what do you expect them to do? Oh Idk, release horses
@@montanamountaingarden476 1. I don’t understand why you’re trying to argue like every single comment on this video after you stated you haven’t even watched it.
2. Their comment didn’t just focus on too many horses. Reread it. Popular update or not, they push horses out too fast and the quality of them is deteriorating.
OH MY GOD YES. ive been saying this to myself for years i love mmorps and stuff, so ive always wanted sso to be a bit more like one - i feel like with their cutesy style itd work really well and even young players would be able to like it
The only reason for new horses & pets is to get people to spend MONEY to buy star coins. They no longer care about the content of the game. That is why this game is dying.
I'm over 50, and I play this game. I had a group of three people following me around, telling me how terrible my tack and outfit were. I told them I didn't care about their opinions. They said I should, since they were fashionistas. I am a metalhead irl, and couldn't care less what people think about me. I agree, they are miserable and looking to make everyone else miserable. It's just words on a screen, and they don't mean a damn thing. Good for you for being true to yourself.
This video was very well said and clearly has genuine understanding of the star stable community, it’s very difficult to keep up with the cost of the game, especially for content creators. Thank you for raising awareness 💗
It's been two years and a half since I'm only going on SSO to buy the new horses (only when they're worth it, unlike the morgans which are a total failure)..
Since a while, SSO only cares about money and getting new players hooked on the game so they can make profit. Us old players are completely ignored for everything...
So it's totally normal that people are leaving since they don't listen to any of us..
I agree with you there. They don't care about keeping the game fresh. They just want to make more horses & pets to get people to spend more money on the game. That is why people are leaving. And they don't fix their glitches
@@brandishearer12 exactly
I had a best friend and he lefted bc ppl were making fun of him bc he was a boy playing sso, I blamed all on my self and probly did not log on to sso for abt 3 monthes bc I was that heart broken and sso its not as fun as it use to be tbh. Also I love ur vids
I am taking a break from SSO due to my mental health since people just were so rude and stuff and also because of money. It is an expensive game but it's also really nice but it's very different atm to be honest. SSO is slowly dying which is pretty sad but I understand why people quit and they're excused. I remember a few months ago looking at the new horses and stuff and just not being as happy and excited, I loved this game when I was a child. I haven't been on SSO for months now and to be honest I feel happiness, I'm planning into coming back soon and check out new things with some of my online friends. This video is truly relatable and well said! We love you Amelia!
Super well said! I kinda quitted months ago with an account lvl 6 lifetime because all the horses were the same and it was kinda confusing where to go to level up and everything, but I respect everyone’s opinions!
The Star Coins stuff is so true - I used to ask my dad every. Single. Month. For 500+500 but eventually we decided to do it once every 2 months. Then because I asked for Pay-Once Star Rider, I had to wait until X-Mas but I still asked before. At some point, I stopped playing SSO for 2+ months and realised that i don't need to ask for Star Coins, I'm not interested in the new horses, new clothing, new tack. So, I rarely buy stuff and now I have 400SC (I bought the discounted ETB recently). If I do ask for Star Coins, it'll only be 100+100 and very rarely.
If this made no sense, this was written by a 10-13 y/o who likes writing but cannot make anything make sense
Edit: Also, it's annoying with the prices rises. Make it CHEAPER, not more expensive! If they make it cheaper, more people will buy them, and more money. Companies really need to think about that- And, one time, my dad was getting 500+500CS for me and it didn't work so we bought it again. He had to spend double than usual and I felt so bad.
Bro... what they did to scare you--that's just plain wrong. My friend was randomly charged $20 to her account for no reason. I totally agree with you, SSO is rlly unfair to other genders. Boys deserve to play too, and the ENTIRE main story plot is based on girls. SSO needs to start listening to us. But what I rlly find weird is the Chat Filter. I can't say UA-cam... it's ridiculous, and as a non-star rider, you can't visit 3/4 of the world--crazy. My non-star rider friend finished all her quests in 3 days and never played again, she has nothing to do. All I do on SSO now is Film, Chat with my friends for a little, Get updated with the latest news, Leave. I'm getting exasperated with SSO, it used to be the only thing that made me happy--now, though I like SSO, I just don't feel the same. Love ur vids btw! (Sry for long comment btw xD) 🤣
its based on girls for a reason, literally the smallest chunk of games are focused on girls anyway, and the map is also blocked.... for a reason.... you dont see many other games with that much money just give away all their free-roam shit for free
@@aster6883 I get that they want it to be focused on girls but still, I mean...would it rlly change reality just for them to add boy characters? And, yes, I get that some of the world should be locked BUT...LIKE MORE THAN 3/4 of the world? Um no. Like, I wish I could at least go into jarl or smthn. :/
They listen to new players, that's why the game is terrible. The new players ruined the game.
@@RimFaxxe they dont listen to anyone
@@ria2453 no, they only listen to those damn toddlers. Babies want more magic horses? They give them more magic horses! They want old sso to be gone and forgotten? They will do that! They want represantation through gay horses? They got just that!
Hi. Saw this video in my feed.
I don't play Star Stable anymore, I am a 2016-2022 player.
In fact, I only played enthusiastically between Halloween 2016 and Valentines 2017, finishing all quests that were currently in the game, in that exact timeframe.
Afterwards, I had a pretty big break, several months I think. And after that break I returned, but not with much enthusiasm. I kept wanting to leave, so I did leave again, but after the second leave, I came back a second time. So, I ended up in this cycle of leaving and returning, and I returned with less and less enthusiasm and genuineness each time. The magic wore away over time. I was forcing myself.
It didn't help that due to my account being a Lifetime Star Rider account, I felt the need to play, in order to "not waste the money". I feel like psychologically, the Lifetime subscription holds you hostage :(
My worst phase was when my sister joined in. At the beginning I introduced SSO to her, and I genuinely wanted to play it with her. For a while, we both enjoyed it. But that was already after 02/2017, so I was already kinda worn by then. Well, we kept playing, but after a while, I forced myself into that cycle of leaving and returning yet again, this time with my sister involved. She was actually mad at me when I confessed to her that I don't want to play anymore. Like a Karen, she found that unacceptable. And when I told her that I am straight up quitting forever, she completely cut off contact with me. Insane. Can you imagine? Over a videogame? With your own biological sister??
In 2023, I haven't opened SSO even once. This is officially my first year "SSO-free".
And I blame my addiction-like relationship with SSO on its payment structure. If it was a paid game from the beginning, if the payment was one-off, then I wouldn't feel so guilty for not playing it. But with a subscription it's different, because by definition a subscription is continuous, regular. That's why when something is called a subscription, you are psychologically tricked to think of it as something that you should regularly return to. Because after all, otherwise you'll waste that _one-off_ money, right? Exactly, one-off. The lifetime subscription is no different from a one-off purchase, they just named it differently to trick their customers. If people were to see through that, they'd realize that the price of Star Stable as a game is insane. It's literally twice the price of GTA V! The Sims 4 used to go for $60-$40, that's also what Star Stable is currently at. So, literally EA-tier prices. Not to mention the star coin prices are inflated too. Spending a given amount of money on microtransactions in other games gets you more rewards than spending that same amount on the ones in SSO.
After following this game closely for several years, I must conclude... SSO is a scam.
I am so sorry for you that this happend to you 😓 This is the first video that I have seen of you and you seem very lovely🍀
Tested the game in 2012; current main created in early 2013; been semi active in the game the whole 10 years and still play like once a week. I would leave a "Do not recommend" review despite my thousands of hours; they are full of regrets :´) I consider myself retired player now who just can't leave for good. I am just frustrated with this game, hoping it would someday become better. I still care about it a lot. Also my account has been put a lot effort into, which makes me passionate about it.
I don't care about horses that much anymore now that I'm not a kid anymore. Only thing about SSO I like is how casual and chill it is; open world and wander around, find new stuff and do some chill tasks, but RDR2 now has taken that spot. Only reason I really play anymore is either because of habits or because I got nostalgic. All my friends have quit too. The game lost its focus on creating an adventure game, and now it feels like a horse-buying simulator. Horses feel soulless; health and stamina have been removed, and still no personality traits for them. Horses have become cosmetics. Game is also now made far too easy to even be called a "game" anymore.
New quests come so rarely, that you could stay away for a year, then comeback and finish all the new quests in a few days. New quests feel so half a**ed, the technology/engine is ancient and clanky, gameplay hasn't improved since the game launched, you have so little to do once you have finished the quests. Racing is the only challenge the game provides, and once you've mastered that then what? you still get beaten by cheaters or server's poor performance. Also the game is actually worth like 20 euros at best, not 70e.....
I started playing SSO when the cat on the saddle was the loading screen. IYKYK And a few things that have made me slowly start to stop playing is...
1. the quest are boring
2. they did not want to add the natural gate of the TW because it was "abusive" even tho its NATURAL Gait (not talking about big lick)
3. all the kids on the game make the players hump one another on global chat. and are very strange over all
4. adding all of the unrelaistic horses (sorry can't spell)
5. and only some tack can be used on certain horses and its really annoying! like I get the Arabian halters, but saddle pads!!!??? like ughhh
I agree. They don’t listen to our point of view and lots of people have been asking and still are if we can have headcollers , rugs etc and instead they are doing things lots of people aren’t interested in.
My issue is that sso acts like they are a small indie game yet charge 70-80$ for lifetime (you could buy a WAY better quality game with a story and content to last you years and years for only 60$ without having to purchase 30 dollars per different color horse). The quality of the game doesn’t reflect the millions they are making. Sso is not a triple A game so the prices they are charging, the spam horse releases, removing any and all immersion including horse noises, horse speed, moods, ect are stupid. It’s predatory and disrespectful to the community. Theres a reason why people just stand at steves farm, literally nothing to do but stand in one spot and watch the drama in global chat.
can we talk about the soundtrack too….. i used to LOVE the music, especially the race soundtrack and silverglade soundtrack and they just ruined it and changed it to something so childish. ESPECIALLY the race soundtrack, like what is that?
I’ve been playing since 2015 and back then I use to feel happy and a little spark in my body when buying a horse now I have to many star coins and spend them on horses I don’t even like, I feel no happiness when buying them anymore all I say to myself is it’s just another horse, I’ve lost that spark now and to me there is no point in the game it’s just gone down hill for the past few years, Im sad to say that the game isn’t special to me and a lot of others anymore but at the moment to a lot of people the star stable team only cares about the money not their players, it’s sad,
I just can't afford to play it anymore.
I've been playing the game since launch on multiple accounts, and nowadays I log on once every five or six months just to peek around and buy a couple of horses with the star coins that have saved up. It says something that almost all of the festivals have been removed, and that in the last three years there's been basically nothing new to log on to see so you don't really log on again. I don't leave because it's a lovely and beautiful thing, but I definitely don't have the same feelings for it anymore.
I joined sso about a year ago, although I’ve been following the game for _years._
I was never able to play because I’ve never had a desktop, and I couldn’t afford sr. So when I heard sso was coming to mobile.. I was so excited!! I downloaded it on my phone and I’ve been playing ever since. Its really sad to see how this game has progressed though, last years Halloween event was so.. dull. Extra grinding for old prizes, absolutely garbage. I did like the new horses though. This years winter festival was fun too! It felt a little boring though, not much going for it but small side quests and whatnot. I really wish sso cared about it’s players more.. if you want a new horse its $17 out of pocket, and even that will barely get you a new one. And only 100sc a week? For the money we pay to keep this game running?? I paid for lifetime and I’m astonished at how little I received from this game after paying over $50. I’m never spending another penny on this game and I’m just going to save up.
I am so guilty about that same thing,i have 14 pages of horses and I have no room in my storage is full hehe, you have a great voice for this keep up the good work
I quit cause i grew up and the game is not the same anymore. Everytime i go on i barely recognize stuff and i just wish it was back to original
And your very right about the star coins !
If u get star rider for a month or life time (life time is like 80$) and u only get 100 star coins a week when most horses are like 300+ and can even get to 900 and u only get 100 star coins a week for paying monthly irl money or paying 80$ once ...
most horses are between 750-950, most expensive breed being 975sc
I quit SSO because the game is going in a direction i don't like, I'm not a equestrian, i love horses but i'm not into competitions and dressage, what made me love SSO back in the day was the exploring and adventure, now this game is becoming very equestrian focused, which isn't a bad thing, but it's not my thing.
I've personally played this game since 2016 (11 years old). I hated how everything had to do with money a year in, and I wasn't going anywhere because I had to unlock a region in the map to do a quest. It was a really fun game. I've recently transitioned to Roblox wild horse islands.
you are fine just enjoy, what you do to people who leave the game, if you speak to them and maybe put up a pole about what they are leaving for then send that pole to sso it might help.
I quit sso because violets passing 😭😭😭 it just feels horrible without her.
Wait,who died?
@@Aksiosa Violet Flowergarden a sso ytber
@@SCequine1 lol, violet flowergarden almost like violet evergarden, the anime.
Same, I cant play the game without feeling a lump in my throat. I cant play horse games anymore
sorry if you don’t mind me asking, what saddle pad were you wearing? it’s super pretty.
Go to silver glade manor and go to the little shop beside where r u might have a home stable and then select saddle pads
@@lexiallen6170Do you know where she got her pants from as well cuz i’m trying to find more flare type pants but can’t find much of them
@@xzthls no maybe starshine or a quest ?
For the morgans, they can make 2 types. That will fix it, since they won't have to change the one being out now.
I've only ever had to deal with drama on especially controversial updates where I don't shy away from arguing the good and the bad. That being said, the boring and expensive gameplay has been shooing me away for years now. I don't buy SC often (only on Double weekends and only MAYBE 2k at a time every year or so) but I have a little nest actually saved bc I just don't have any interest in the game.
Reshade is literally the ONLY reason I log in now. I like to RRP (but don't post anymore bc I'm lazy) so I login in, make shaders/presets, take cute pics, logout. That's it.
The game has gotten boring, and IMO kind of ugly with how plastic it looks everywhere, and EXPENSIVE so why bother that much?
I don't like star stable anymore....I don't like all the updates and getting rid of horses, horses and things are too expensive, I lag everytime I play and I can't play it anymore cause I don't have room on my computer from all the updates and people talk about things I wouldn't like to say and it's getting really boring and if I go in wild mode people will make fun of me etc
personally why i quit sso in 2019 after playing it for 4 years was the fact that they focused on too many things at the same time and couldn't finish any of the projects, i started playing again in may of this year, and gotta say that it is still bit true, there are huge areas which they haven't updated yet, which they started to do in 2018... it's just frustraiting, i want new areas to explore so the lore could expand more as well. the thing they're great at is just promise more never coming stuff, my server is literally dead, i usually see around 10 players max when i play around the map, it also makes me sometimes wanna quit again, because there is no one playing. i wish they could do updates which everyone could enjoy more often, so the community wouldn't be so dead.
I haven’t played in almost six months. Do we have a ignore all players button yet? 😭
I just found this channel and it feels somewhat refreshing to me to just see a sso youtuber who kinda is just casual and not somewhat more targeted for younger audiences (I'm aware that there's probably plenty of youtubers who do sso videos and aren't targeted towards younger audiences I just haven't seen many). I they made very good points and kinda just have a good perspective on everything going on with sso and community. I've been playing for around 4-5 years and the game was a big part of my childhood, me and my old best friend would play for hours running around and doing whatever just enjoying ourselves so sso holds a very special place as a part of my childhood.
I feel like over the past couple years the game has had some great updates along with really boring ones, for example in my opinion all the new horses are getting a little old and not exciting. I remember that whenever I would see a sneak peak for a new horse around 3 years ago I would get super excited and text my old friend about it but now it's become a normal thing that isn't as exciting anymore.
I understand why sso is currently more targeted towards girls and my guess is that it's because the game was originally made 10 years ago and I don't really know but there might not have been a lot of good games for girls to be the main character/hero or whatever you wanna call it. I think adding male avatars might not be a great idea cause it would likely cause a lot of the older players to be mad or just flat out leave plus I think they'd have to change words in the quests which wouldn't be terrible just extra work. I think a good idea would be to add more masculine clothes and hairstyles for guys that might play or even girls who prefer that style (me being one of them). I don't mean to sound rude but I believe star stable is good as a game with a female lead considering it was made so long ago.
I don't wanna ramble on anymore so I'll stop there and I don't mean to sound offensive in anyway I just wanted to state my opinions on some things that people might have been mad about or something like that.
Omg actually i’m super excited for the SWEM rrp series!!
yeah i run around like a wild horse but i lost my drive for club events dressage and other things it kinda sad
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I would love to play SSO again. However, the program is so old that I had to download an old version of a specific driver to my laptop and ever since I did that my laptop has been fidgety... :L
i quit sso bc all the other fun people quit so i have nobody to talk to on there anymore
When my boyfriend and I are just sitting together my friend will come up and she’ll just flick us off while glaring at us, like, could you make it any more obvious that you’re jealous?
when I first got this game i stayed on for hours at level like 12 do practice dressage now I hardly ever even do dressage anymore, and I get bored and mostly do wild do some filming still shots cause i have some things made like coffee mugs made from pictures from sso and coasters and some stickers and pens and notebooks with and a throw rug with pictures off sso so it has its uses but i do get bored the artwork on your page is that yours it really pretty
I been playing since 2011 and I stopped playing for 2 years during the lockdown, I was playing RDR2 but came back when they increased the pay for doing championships and the times. When you have been playing as long as me daily stuff you do alone I was just over it, competing with others and friends makes it fun. And not every server has toxic players, if u find some just move servers. And this game is unrealistically expensive....in the beginning I remember then we got the first set of new horses, it was the best thing to happen, then to find out you could only have 5 horses and had the sell them when u wanted the new ones.
One reason I don’t play it more is bc I need to become star rider to do the other stuffs
never finnish big quest the seedling never got finished, the new characters are aggravating
why did you post like 20 comments? tf
sorry didn't mean to offend anyone@@lonelycastel
Heyyy! Love ur vids ❤Btw idk but could u make another video on your near death experiences?? XD I'm sorry but it was funny, and maybe doing a training time where u read other ppls near death experiences, idk why i found it entertaining but yh x Have a nice day!💞
Death stuff is not funny. Death stuff is a big deal.
@@Georgia_Stormfly i literally made a video laughing about all the times I’ve almost died. If I think MY personal experiences are funny, then it’s ok if other people find it funny. That’s the whole reason I made the video.
@@Georgia_Stormfly ik but i mean if people are comfortable about talking about it like amelia was, she found it funny about all of the times she nearly died, i would submit all of the times i have nearly died and i would look back on it and find it funny. its just a suggestion thats all
I have to agree on a lot of things. I would like see male players.
Yes the game is expensive and i didnt like the fact that the makers took away the option of paying once and if you dont want to next month that thats fine. I did have a bug but it was fixed pretty quickly.
aw I'm sorry you have to remind others to be nice thank you for your videos
i know nothing about this game but i keep seeing it since I really love horses. I am concerned though since lots of people are leaving I don't know if I should start playing. I do really like horse games and this one looks cool but very confusing lol.
It’s definitely worth playing it for once if you haven’t yet it’s for everyones own taste you may like it more than others that started disliking the game so def give it a try and see if you’ll like the game in my opinion it is worth it but some things can get really annoying for example the expensive prices for the horses & starcoins, bugs etc.. but other than that it’s actually a nice game if they didn’t change it that much & there are still people playing this game so dw! :) many people leave for a break and come back after idk how long they’ve token their break for
I only have to take breaks for a few months, then I'm back to train a few horses, then I'm off.
It takes a lot for me to get back one and train. Quests bore me. 😬
I played 2014-2018 and quit cause a glitch happend to my ac and the team just ignored my calls for help.. just new horses i didnt had any fun with the game anymore cause of the grapthic glitch and i was a stupid kid who always wanted expensive stuff.. i dont see a reason anymore to keep playing and spending a ton of money over the years to just get ignored when asking for help on a glitch that makes playing almost Impossible...
Yes my ac is glitched with the dark graphic bug, yes i tried many pc's reinstalling, using the standard options, when playing with a diffrent ac (tried a friends) it worked normaly on my pc...
I had to stop playing in April because I let SSO do an update on my computer & it crashed. It was working fine until the update. I had to buy a new laptop.
I have a few online friends, one hasn’t logged on all year, my other friend only logs on for club meetings. And bc of it I lost all my connection with them 😢 but I am still in touch with one of them ❤
my main reasons why i rarly log into star stable now are a lot of reasons. they dont listen to us with anything really the one i remember the most are the lead ropes for the halters they even asked the community if we want lead ropes to go with the halters and i cant think of one person who said they didnt want lead ropes. the cost of star stable is to much its the reason i dont spend mony on star stable anymore the only thing you should buy from star stable is the life time star rider cause you get star rider for life and you get free starcoins every week. but the biggest reason i dont log in anymore is because of the main quest line i mean it dosent make sence anymore is used to be about 5 girls fighting aganist the meanest people saving the world and going through portals but now is just nothing i dont even know what it is anymore and we never went through the 3rd door in the tomb of adien or whatever it was it was a long time ago. and poor lisa was a rock star and now shes a country singer chick person. i know everyone has there opinions on this but this is mine so yeah that all i have to say and i hope everyone has a good night
edit: i really do like the star stable movies and series though there are some really good ones out there that ive seen. my favorate one ive seen is called seven its really good you should go check it out and i really like watching stuff from haley kittenhope and bianca ponyer
I stopped playing because SSO crashed my computer in April because I said yes to an update.
Im polish and while you were talking about the sc prices i was like, “theyre not that expensive ere they” and then i went to look at the usd prices and my jaw dropped, here in poland they are literally 3x cheaper, if we convert pln to usd we pay 25 bucks for the 5000 bundle, which is still alot for a horse game, but the difference is just so shocking to me?
ur so right 100000% agreed
your advice is amazing, love your vids!
Personally I quit playing actively sso someday in 2018 I think and since then I log in the game like once for few minutes after several months. The game has zero endgame content where you can't do anything else then train or buy a new horse to train again, play rps or join clubs. But what else is there? Waiting simulator for new quests which comes like 1 times per year? How funny. Is it worth the time? Definitely not. Was the game worth the money? HECK NO, it was the biggest mistake of my life. Just a trash to be said in the end, that's all that game is.. and I didn't even start with how they weren't able to finish their game (story) after more then a 10 years. Quite sad.
I have noticed that some players who want to quit are trying to sell their accounts on Ig. That's illegal even if someone quits.
the only thing i don't like is when people ask me for sc I really think its rude.
I have 32 pages of horses so your not alone,my storage is overflowing i have to keep tack on some of my horses cause i have no room in my storage, and my clothing dont get me started i have so much clothing i am going to have to sell some for new stuff XD
I wouldn't say I've quit but I would say I log in maybe once every other week for less than 5 minutes. It could be due to the fact there's an update which looks slightly interesting then I realise it's boring. But the main reasons why I barely play anymore is because SSO has changed. I understand that in the past 3-4 years they have grown, mainly because of lockdown so their investors have increased and they are earning more money. They used to put players first and would listen to their advice but now it's investors, they release way too many horses so they can persuade people to buy more star coins so they can get more money. Then they use 'cost of living crisis' as an excuse to raise the price of star coins when they are a stable enough company, they have millions of subs already and they're "struggling" it's just greedy. Another reason as to why I barely ever play anymore is because it's boring, I really miss the quests like saving Anne because they were actually interesting. Drama is another reason why I hate playing, the amount of people who are homophobic and racist is disgusting and it's mainly children. I had another account that got permanently suspended for no reason and I questioned sso and they said chat ban, I only had 1 chat ban warning in the past and it was about 2 years prior but there are children using slurs and they don't get banned it's utterly ridiculous. I tried MULTIPLE times telling them to investigate because 'chat ban' isn't enough to permanently suspend me but all I got was 'once the system has permanently suspended your account we cannot get it back' I had spent over $600 on that account. The whole game is boring, expensive and a waste of money. At this moment in time can I see other horse games overtaking sso? Not at the moment but if they listen to players and make the game for players not for money, I can see it happen.
hope they scrap the new characters
What mic do you use?
I'm so sorry that people harass you so much. I can't wait for the rangers duty series but take your time and make sure that you don't burn yourself out. take care xxx
You’ve earned yourself a new sub!!
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dont come at me, but i stopped playing starstable last year bc its gotten so out of control there, everyone is so inappropriate and toxic- people were talking about making money at a str!p club with their friends, and they were being so weird. also, everyone there is lowk cringe...
it is indeed expensive i even don't play that much i only come online to check the update or a club outing but not that much anymore
Omg im actually early but I had have meny toughs to leave and i appreciate your vids 😊
I honestly wish rhe game was free to play beyond level 5, because not everyone can afford membership just to play.. like there can be other ways fir starstable to make money on special horses ect like the magical horses can cost actaual money and we can buy every other breed with regular tokens, i feel like starstable can do better with the game money wise, why should new players need to be forced to buy their membership in order to continue to play the game? Anygame should be free to play when it comes to level up they can make money other ways for ex the magical horses, and magical companions they arent really new player friendly when it comes to that
sso is a paid game, like minecraft. it simply offers a free demo, like a lot of paid games do. this is the best way for them to make money
You opened it up by putting up "The reasons people quit SSO" , so we are telling why we quit. As for me it is because they have change the game so much that I am not sure why I am playing it anymore. As I have said before, I had to go on disability & leave my job. I got internet & my own computer at home. I found this game on the internet & I liked that the horses moved like real horses & it was like like riding in a realistic place. It reminded me of when I use to trail ride my own horse. The quest thing was fun too. BUT Star stable & SSO have become nothing but a GREEDY company who only cares about making money without a care about the product they are trying to sell. Unfortunately this is happening all over the country. I was born in 1963, so I have seen a lot of things & I don't like what I am seeing. This is my personal opinion & unless our country has turned into a Communist country I am allowed to express my thoughts. I am now done with SSO & looking for another horse game to play. One more to my liking. I will also be deleting my account. I really think that Star stable is dying but only time will tell.
I havent played since the stupid race updates. No reason to play anymore since level 2 horses and riders can win champs and hi points now. Makes all the time and effort I have put into the game useless.
Idk if it's addressed in this vid, as I haven't watched it. But have y'all maybe considered that some ppl quit playing SSO just bc they merely outgrow the game and find other interests?
I’m pretty sure that’s obvious.
YES YOU'RE GONNA DO A SWEM RRP LETS GOOOOO
I have been playing sso since 2018 and I played every day for 2 years and my dad has spent over £1000 on like 100 horses on a game I don’t play anymore I play it like every 3 months I do enjoy The game but the price is a bit stupid and my dad could be buying me new phones stuff for my room and that all though Ik he has the money I feel bad asking for £60 when he spends like £10 on vapes for me everyday and money to go to the shop and get lunch and go shopping I understand that it is a lot of money and work to do all these updates and stuff but I feel like the cost of living and all that is just gonna make people fall out of love with the game since it’s so expensive especially how the game is targeted at young people I do love the game but it’s getting a bit to much and no one plays in my severs anymore other then like 10 people so its pretty dead..
Out of my 5 years of playing I would off have 6 and 1/2 years off playing if I hadn't quite for 2 years and then started to play then quit for a half of a year
ngl i’ll probably play sso until it reaches its end, i do love the game because it was a huge part of my childhood, but its gotten so very boring..
i stopped beginning last year cuz it was getting boring somthimes i log on to spend my sc and then log off again
U talking about the SSO community kinda reminds me of the red dead online community lol (I've only been playing SSO for about 2 weeks) I've played rdr for over 3...
And its really sad that people will boot you offline over a video game ...and the people who go out of their way to harasse you they truely have no life or just have a lot of personal issues they need to work on lol
What is the horse breed you're using?
She's using a percheron
the ann quest was kinda like a filler not really needed
I played it for 3 years. And then I grew up
Ive never played sso im not gonna get it cause i dont have 123u923u448qt dollars even buying the game is expensive and im lucky enough to even have a house cause we r poor asf plus, if u want it for free u only get to play to LEVEL 5?? its so unfair, if u gonna make so many people pay like 3498853 dollars just for star coins atleast make the game free to play, dont be stupid sso and make it more fun for everyone else.
listen, sso is a paid game, jsut like for example minecraft. the 5 free levels are simply a demo. i dont think you know how games and money work, and i doubt youre above the age of 12
i quit sso in late 2019 just bc it stopped working for me, it put a virus (or so im convinced it did) into my computer.. and so it stopped letting me log in, it said there was an error and everything was wrong so i couldnt play. the urge to download it again is SO big rn.. but at the same time its the fear of the virus and the amount of money that goes into it.
I am soooooo glad that I am not the only one who had trouble with their computer because of SSO. In April of this year I said yes to an update & it crashed my computer & no one will believe me. I had to buy a new laptop. I am looking for another horse game.
Amelia language!
its is true-
I lost intrest but lately im slowly coming back and im so happy i didnt buy lifetime cause Iwould be been a waste
I just feel like if you're (using that as a general term) doxxing people or telling them to end themselves over a horse game...... Yeah...... It's not them who needs help.....
What minecraft do you play!
Java
@Amelia Dreambell omg 😲 I play it to and I have a server on Java 😱
Not having any complaints or criticism towards SSO doesn’t mean you’re a “bootlicker”. It just means you’re happy with what is currently happening in-game. ❤
sure, but you have to at least see the negatives.
I would play it more if star coins weren't so expensive and I could buy horses and tack
I think that star stable needs to be more proactive about the harassment that’s going on in their game.
This! The only time ive really been active ingame is if the update is interesting enough (main quest, updated area etc), events also if I have enough sc to be able to buy horses and train them (but tbh its starting to get a hectic as its really repetati,ve)
Global needs more control sad