I wouldn’t be surprised if Sso ended. The game got boring around the end of 2019 after they neglected any quests or new features. Looking back at the older updates from about two years ago, I can see why I spent money on the game; there were lots of quests and events coming out and horses were a special occurrence. Now the game is just a click and buy horses simulator with a horrible currency. It’ll be sad to see Sso go but at the same time they’re digging their own grave
And it gets me so mad bc when I was a newbie I was so obsessed I spent $75 for star rider and more money on the game to get new horses and tack and all that was just wasted😡 and even worse this is not only my problem, many people had the same problem, now I only ever log on to buy a new horse, and the quests are just so boring I don’t even wanna read anymore. It’s so sad 😭 I haven’t logged on to the game since like 2-3 months and my friend wants me to give her permission to manage my club since I’m never on (and I do too) but I just never log on anymore or I forget. I used to play everyday now I don’t even play anymore
i don’t need to buy star coins anymore tbh because im just playing this game too rarely for spending my money into it and i think for me it’s just not worth it anymore it’s good that you mentioned it denis!
I personally feel that if the the SSO development team focused more on bringing out new story quests, interactivity within the game and quality of life updates (new player/npc models, updating more areas and fixing bugs/animations) more often, rather than bringing new horses out very week, it would bring the game 'back-to-life'. I really don't want to get bored of this game, but there isn't much to do anymore, which does upset me and a lot of other people that I play SSO with. I've also recently started getting the impression that they are more focused on making money off the game (bringing in 'limited edition' horses, bringing back previous magic horses without a heads up and bringing more and more new horses out) , rather than pleasing their audience.
Exactly. I do not want to get bored of this game either, but there's absolutely nothing to do. It was my only comfort place, where I could find myself some friends, nowdays it's just a mess and all of my old friends stopped playing as well. Everyone comes back once in a while, but we leave right after checking the update (and I don't even feel like logging in when there's a boring update, for example new clothes or horses, what could I do with that-) I used to play daily and even when I did everything possible, I still decided to stay and my friends did the same thing. We would talk and do stupid things.. it was fun. I feel like the only thing that's keeping SSO a bit alive now are clubs. Or more likely the club activities (mostly dressage, which was brought in by players, not the team) and even these fun events are dying, because people don't feel like logging in anymore, so clubs are losing activity and people are getting more and more bored. It's sad.. edit: I also don't think that age is the reason why we're getting bored. You can play and do whatever you want no matter how old or young you are. There's even older players that enjoy games like these, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that! You can find yourself fun anywhere, but SSO is killing their own game
In all the years sso has been a game, they’ve always released a new horse every month that’s not this new idea they’ve started doing it’s how it’s always been. And we KNOW that sso has different teams for horse models and story quests, they’re not the same team and we can have both. Quests take longer to make than horses, and again the quantity of story quests being released hasn’t really changed. The sso Instagram said they were waiting longer for story quests to make them longer rather than every two months with a five minute story quest. We have more quests earlier in the game because they’ve been made in the multiple years sso has been a game, and every time a quest is released it has to be written in multiple languages and animated correctly. Horses are easier to make, you only need 1 model for all the horses being released which is why we get more horses than quests
star stable is just boring now, they never give the older players anything, its usually just star rider codes now. the whole game turned into a money grabbing simulator or something. all my friends quit so i dont see myself logging on as much. global chat is always talking abt how the game will die within a year or so, yet star stable isnt doing anything.
I agree. I used to log onto star stable everyday but now I don’t even feel like logging onto see the new updates because my guess is that they are releasing yet another horse and using it to get money.
@@audvry1047 Same here, I haven't played for months I occasionally log in to see if anything has changed but all that has is new the horses, it's not fun anymore and the game gets boring after not even 10 minutes of playing.
thats actually not true lots of people have quests to do in the game and dont just log on for clubs and just because some people are bored of it dosent mean everyone is there are lots of people who still like the game
@@hermosa.mariposa you seem to have lots of hope for this game. Not that that's wrong. Just try to understand that the game is indeed, slowly dying. There's mutiple server almost completely empty due to loss of audience. Said audience being players who've done all the quests and have nothing to do. Endgame players usually have lifetime star rider and since they don't log on often due to having no entertaining content, they can accumulate enough star coins to buy whatever horse they want on the release date. And since training also gets boring fast, they log off and don't come back untill they see an item/horse they like. Reputation quests are boring and repetitive, not worth the grind. The game does try to force you to log on every day with daily quests, but there's too many of those and they all get boring rather quick. If the management team doesn't wake up soon, the game is guaranteed to die. That's all I'm saying. You did make a good point with the quests, but that only applies to people whove only started playing the game recently. Most players are level 20+ with nothing to do. Sad tbh
I think what's happening is that the first generation of kids playing sso are growing up, most of us are now at least 16 or so, and have moved on for the most part. hopefully the gen under us (I guess kids like 10-16) will start making videos and it will start a new cycle!
@@lilacheart_ 17. Wow there’s a massive age difference in us. People think I’m 11 and 12, I act so mature and I’m not stupid and ‘silly’ like normal 9 year olds. (I’m 9)
@@flxssie_equestrian oh aha cool! im almost a fully fledged adult Lol. just remember to enjoy being a kid and that its okay to be silly and stupid. I know you'll hear it a lot but don't waste your childhood like I did :')
The Game director changed recently, the New one is an old player, she is passionate about the game... She knows how the community feels. The game direction might change for the better in the future... (i hope so)
@@QuinnOakhearthSSO No, it’s not too late. The old players who quit still watch you tubers. As long as sso you tubers keep making vids of sso. and sso steps their game itl become a great game again
I play SSO for 6 years now. For me 2016 was the best year, the updates were awesome and most of my friends played SSO. Now they just quit. Now the only thing we get in updates are races and horses and things that just come back every year, like the midsummer festival is ALWAYS the same. I used to play alot SSO, but now I just only log on and check my Star Coins that's it. Hopefully SSO will change things and just also care about the players that play for a longer time. And not only releasing just horses. We also want other things. (Btw I don't want to give hate to SSO, this is just my opinion on how SSO is now. 💕)
Honestly when I started playing Genshin Impact I forgot about SSO. There is literally nothing to do, next week all we get is a race. THATS IT. Bonus comment: If you started something with commitment then follow your promise or at least change that game description because currently it isn’t about magic and fun its an antique vase. Spend money just to look at it, a decoration for your desktop.
agreed. I play Genshin *way* more than I do SSO - heck I'm only missing Xiao, Mona, Albedo, and Ganyu (not including the Inazuma peeps but I got Ayaka last night). . . if Genshin added horses it might become the new SSO xD
Yeah I started in 2017 I believe, got lifetime in 2018, haven’t played since August of 2020. You grow up, you fall out of love with the game, sad I spent all that money on it but man SSO had some of the best times.
Honestly, not surprising that this game is just about dead. I quit just last night, which lead to me also having to leave my club - Red Rush (club on the UK server, Cupcake Valley). The game is overall boring & full of drama, not gonna lie. I've lost all motivation to just log onto this game & all.
Same :/ I overall started having a hate relationship with sso after my account got permanently banned, hundreds, maybe thousands on that game. Luckily my friend gave me an extremely good account, though, I'm still in the hate relationship.
@@niiahnicole Oh wow. Star Stable really need to improve, in my opinion. Star coins etc are way too expensive - quite sure I've spent 2k+ on the game which I am not proud of.
@@z1oqx Mhm. There "gaining" there moderation. So apparently you get banned if you do any crapping glitch. Even the dance glitch! But wow sso, what a great way to make your game get hated. 👏🏼
I havent played SSO in about a year now, logged in last night and was shocked about the lack of improvement in this game... But honestly I didnt even miss playing Sso, for me, running the same races over and over everyday is a waste of time :/ You cant even buy or earn anything in this game with in-game money (except for one horse *slow clap*). I switched to a really good MMO where I Dont have to spend money for anything except the monthly subscription and I realized how bad SSO actually ist from an MMO perspective... But I still watch your videos, even though I dont comment really often, keep up the great content 👍🏻💕
I’m too broke to buy the new horse and I’m not buying sc :,) The horse is actually one of my favorite Arabians. It’s so beautiful! Thanks for always keeping us up to date ❤️
ikr its 30 dollars for 1 damn horse im glad my grandma paid for it but her wallet is stacked i remember when there was a school party and my grandma came to bring me money and me and my friends saw her and started screaming "granny brought her thick wallet!!" its still a mystery of how she got that money.. i hope she isnt a stripper..
id like to add to this video i think it was hilarious at 8:56 when you tried to show the horse's hooves but star stable's camera options don't go down low enough because they STILL haven't added the lower camera option everyone has been asking for!
I've seen many mmos come and go, but I wouldn't say SSO is dying, its just on a general player decline. I think SSO (company ) struggling to deal with the star coin strike was a management issue. The company clearly has issues with communication across the board, so their financial hardships only highlight how fundamentally broken inside communication is.
I’m the opposite on the community topic. I don’t play as much because I just don’t have time not because I find it boring I’m just so busy with work and everything. I really really just wanna play sso and hang out with friends, I miss it :(( Also tbh I think they’re doing a great job with the Percherons, Mayas quest, Open House etc
Same here, I'm in a big club (or their second club for the inactives) and when I play I have a lot of fun, but I just don't have the time since I finished school and started college
Honestly, I use to love this game, starstable was a game I could escape from- a very bad reality and I loved horses so much, I found it after finding my bestfriend and afterwards, I just fell in love with SSO, but now that i've grown up, I rarely see myself playing it. I'm mostly playing PC games that are worth my time (Example: Rival stars, or other steam games, like survival games.), the big reasoning was it was so pay to play (p2p/ptp) and it was a shame, I began to just sit back and watch everyone just go with the rythem, then slowly saw people quitting, I use to own a massive guild called Autumn Aces and I basically watched it disappear. I stopped buying SC for awhile now and just got em by saving them every week or so. The game gave me no hope, and hop reason to play and it's a shame. Now the entire community is in chaos, complaining or arguing about SSO or people defending SSO. I get the company needs to thrive and NEEDS money....but how much money has SSO in reality tooken from us with little bribes and trickery? We are all human and temptation is a real thing, and that's what sso has been doing, targeting people, whether it's adults, teens, or children. But it seems the teens and children are a bit more targeted...I just wish this game would fix itself before it lands itself into losing its entire fanbase and it's game....and maybe that would be a good thing for sso tbh, maybe then SSO can start new.
if star stable would stop focusing on horses and get more things like map updates and quests maybe even new characters then it would not be dyeing there are so many recommendation from everyone but star stable wont listen
It’s sad really, the game feels more like a chore than something fun. There’s just nothing being provided anymore. I wish the game felt the same when I first started in 2015
Well, I personally don't think that the game is dying. I live in England and people here who play the game are really into it and pretty much all my club members log on everyday. I see my friends in ALL the time. So yeah, I think that the game is doing fine.
Yeah definitely, in some servers and places they're doing fine and great. I think most of the issues are on social media, and small bits of the general public separated in different servers that have small complaints
So, I’m in the Star Stable embassy discord server and from what I’ve noticed on there, it seems like the game will die out. The community is barely together anymore, and only 20 of us out of 2,026 members actually participate and even then, what goes on is far from being Star Stable related. Hopefully the devs and management wake up before the game dies, but I don’t think it’s going to happen any time soon
I'm in the rrp side of the sso community and that side of the community is pretty active to be honest. Of course the game is dying but yeah the community is still alive.
At this point I'd actually be happy to see SSO die so that something better could rise from its ashes. Because of the company ignoring the pleas of their players for several years now I've completely lost hope. We won't get the miraculous turnaround that we've all been waiting for. No offense to the Star stable team, just an opinion.
I sort of agree, because if more people leave - so noticeable that SSO realizes how many people are uninterested in the game now - maybe change will happen. But unfortunately at the end of the day, there will always be some younger audience that doesn't care about these big corp issues and they'll just want their parents to keep buying them horses (which is understandable too for younger kids).
You are 100% correct Denise... This damn game needs to die. It will show the SSO team what happens when players aren't engaged. I've been playing since 2015 and have unofficially quit. My computer won't load Star Stable no matter what I do and I don't feel the need to try and fix it since it's become incredibly boring anyways. The people blindly defending SSO need to OPEN THEIR EYES and see what is happening. It's sickening to see what has happened to this community.
@Ham the almighty Lol, don't tell me to stop over exaggerating. If you played this game at all you would see it's done. Over. Dead. While I hate to see it like this, I know how to face the truth.
@@sageflower24 I feel that even if they did try, it wouldn't help. Most of the mature, older (who are the ones who invest money into the game!!) players have already left. (This is including me) Also, I wouldn't be fighting if the user above didn't tell me to stop over exaggerating. They could have simply said "No, it doesn't need to die in my opinion," without adding the last bit.
I will agree to SSO practically digging their own grave, but at the same time I don't want it to "Die" like everyone else seems to be demanding for it to. I feel like it finally entered it's buffering zone where everyone is trying to update to a new style and make new changes hence the updates to Silverglade Village, the characters, and we been teased that the Riding House was even getting a new look, while using horses to try and keep players interested as they go through this. Which is Exactly how they digging their own graves, not saying they shouldn't update to a new look or style, just saying that this alone is why everyone Including me are slowly losing interest because of the constant horse releases rather than actual gameplay updates or quests.
It’s been literal years that old players have been speaking up and try to save their game because it truly has a lot of potential and the community used to be a true family. It wasn’t perfect, sure, but it felt really great to have people share the same love for horses and the game. Now people are leaving, getting tired of being ignored by a company they trusted with their money and time. We saw them grow, getting better, and we were excited every wednesday for the updates because they were actually exciting and something to look out for. They were less horses to buy which meant that everyone would be ecstatic when a trailer randomly dropped of a new companion to purchase and train. It seems like it was so long ago since the servers would literally crash and our pc’s would bug because of how many people would log in for quests & horses. It truly is sad that such game with an open world and an exciting story line is about to meet their end because they couldn’t manage to dose how greedy they are. Of course they need money, but the amount of horses they release in such short time notice knowing star riders literally only get 100sc per week, which is approx. 5300sc a year, feels like they’re milking a cow that’s starting to get tired of it. What i would suggest them is to do what made them good in the first place, listening to their players, to the people who make this game going. The majority of players now only play because they found a community and friends through clubs and others. Make them excited to log in again, even slow down the updates to 2 per month, every two wednesdays, we truly don’t care to have less updates if it means better quality. Add to the SR’s allowance so people who truly can’t afford to buy sc’s don’t wait a lifetime before buying a new horse only to see that a better one will get added not even a week later. The possibilities are endless for them to find solutions and fix their problem, make their OG players come back to the game or just be better for the new ones who are still enjoying it. But it all starts with actual communication and not muting out the community y’all worked so hard to get.
I left sso for a few years ( not deliberately) around the end of 2017 - February 2021. When I logged on all I had was about 10 quests, which I assumed would be longer than just side quests, and NO like no new story quests ( tf!?) I bought all the new horses I liked since over that time I had got 10k sc, and then it was deaf after I trained my horses. I was appauled at how little has changed and how 1 small area got the "new" update texture in the 3 or 4 years we've had it. This really isn't good enough.
I’ve had SSO since the very beginning, since it was first released. And I don’t even touch it anymore, unless a new horse peeks my interest and I have enough given sc from my lifetime to buy it.
If SSO gets shut down or "dies", I will actually have a life crisis over how much money I've put into the game. :') I don't see why people want the game gone, anyway, because they've been releasing content, it's just slowly releasing. Which isn't that a good thing, because it means they're putting their works full into the updates with quest content!? I am LIVING for Redwood point and Tailtop village, as well as the updated silverglade village! That's all content, or do some people not understand what content is??
i agree with ya, am not necessarily an old player, but i do appreciate the updates that *are* coming out. i think the SSO team is putting more work and effort into them, altough its not much(except new areas). i rather have tho that they put quality time into one update, rather than having more big updates but less quality, i dont know if that makes sense? i hope that more people will appreciate that what they do, since all we do is play it. and yeah, thats how a game works, but appreciating that it still exists and stuff is also important- got the feeling am gonna look back to this comment and think "i am a dumdum" hopefully not lol i still agree with both sides of people :(
the updates are pretty sucky though they have done updates but no one asked for them theres so much we need in the game and they release a crap ton of horses every week and they are all pretty ugly like the Friesian they wind magically blows its hair and its all clumped together the tail looks like you just waked it off with a katana and irl Friesian horses have feathering and the animations... the walk is jerky, the trot is jerky, canter is very very glitchy, the slow gallop makes me want to die, and the gallop is just... so.. bad.. the tail barely moves in the wind, the reverse is the best animation but its still crappy compared to others, when they rear the tail dosent know what to do and it goes through the floor and starts flopping around, all jumps in every jumping speed is DISGUSTING, and the updates are usually a race and a random character gets a makeover while the horses usually look amazing but our characters still look shitty, they never listen to us, it takes them forever to fix something, and its overpriced people defend them but 30 dollars for 1 horse is wayyy too much and they barely have people working for them so they have millions laying around unless they went on a vacation or bought a lambo or 10
@@mobstercrow7515 i get ur point, but this is all your opinion about how the gen. 3 friesian looks like which came out half a year ago- they improved a lot since then. some people still like the gen. 3 friesians. alotta stuff are overpriced, yea. but the game is starting to die out which makes them have less money, on which the updates are tinier on which more people quit. this isnt always the case tho, but i think SSO should maybe just have more teammates and then it could go better, not sure.
I feel like the game is on its last legs, which is really unfortunate because it made me in some ways. I grew up playing the game and it has such a beautiful and captivating story- and on top of all of that it is such a unique horse game. Its one of a kind, but as someone else said it almost seems to be like a "buy horses simulator" which is lame. I'm fine with the continuous release of horses, I just wish the other teams could keep up. HOWEVER, I do understand everything is a process, EXCEPT the game has been getting so many complaints. You would think that they would start looking to see if there was a true issue with the development in the game, and if there is, they would quickly start making changes (i.e. looking for more employees, story writers, animators, etc. and look into upgrading equipment and software). I feel as though these changes are going to be expensive, so they would have to start by making more releases (in quests and activities) before they start upgrading items and adding to the team. SSO is in desire need of some TLC and activities to bring the game to life. I really miss the days where there were more players online. I think the company should start looking into extra activities beyond questing- maybe make the game more competitive and find away to make training a horse to maximum level more rewarding; maybe make the championships more important to the game; give players different advancements that they can achieve/unlock. I feel as though the competitive side to Star Stable is close to being completely lost and I remember *loving* watching championship videos. Anyway, this all is just my opinion of course. TL;DR: SSO is possibly dying and a way to revive the game could not only be through quests, but more activities (i.e. advancements for players; more to training, and not just in terms of races; championships being brought back to life; basically make the game more competitive and rewarding). This is an opinion.
Also, on the competitive aspect, it shouldn’t take away from the chill and relaxing part of the game. It shouldn’t be a requirement to become competitive in the game, but an option.
It hurts to see sso go but there's hardly anything left to the game once the main storyline quests have been completed. I've been a player since like 2015 maybe?? I still remember the old starter horses, before dundall and when we still had to click and drag the ticket onto the side of the bus we had to wait for. But I just can't find enjoyment in playing anymore
I'm being completely honest Star Stables will die in the next couple of years . if Star Stables doesn't change what they're doing .I have no motivation to log on whatsoever. the only reason why I log on everyday is because of my club. Also I find it kind of funny how they release the seahorses again even though they said that it was going to be limited edition.
I’m just wondering if the writers team at SSO just have serious writers block cause it honestly feels like it from a on off writers perspective and that’s why they’re currently doing what they are doing
I'm one of the older players, (I'm literally 25), and even I can admit that this game has gotten really stale. I've been playing for about 6-7 years now, and I will always remember how I found this game by accident, played it for one day and the next day I ended up being a star rider, because I enjoyed it so much (and mind it was back in the time when it still had the old graphics and models, you could literally count all the pixels). I couldn't stop playing for at least 2-3 years.... Untill it started to go more and more stale. First was the chat ban outrage, how we got chat banned for even the smallest thing. Then we started to see overpriced pets in Dundull, and how people were angry how SSO advertised a double star coin weekend, and right after that on the next update we got the "Buy star coins and you get a silver fox pet!" Then more and more things started to pile, but all that back then wasn't as bad as it is now. Horses every month. Special, limited time offers. Not a single quest, instead you get reputation grinds with nearly no character experience attached. Yes, we finally got some story quests, but I swear I couldn't count on one hand how many bugs and glitches I encountered during it. It was very clear it was very rushed, possibly cuz of the recent outrage. World events like midsummer, each year the same thing over and over with the same old bugs. I won't sugarcoat. It's a cash grab now, that preys on children's need to stand out with special things. Me, as a working adult, maybe I have the privilege to buy star coins whenever I can afford or feel like it, but even I don't buy it unless it's double star coins, because the base amount is just absurd. But let's be honest, the main target audience of this game are kids age 9-16, and we all know kids want to feel included, they will want that glowy new thing that everyone else has, even more so when there's pressure of it being special and for limited time. So they ask parents hard earned money (unless they worked for it themselves, tho it's still their parents money) to buy it, and the cycle repeats over and over with each new limited horse/pet/item. And THATS how SSO preys on kids to get their money, cuz kids are easier to manipulate. There might be some younger audience here, that might backfire at me, but honestly, as someone, who has worked in retail and in sales for years, this is legit the truth, that kids will always want the new shiny thing cuz everyone else has it. They don't want to feel left out, so they will buy it despite not even knowing it was the company's intent, tho not voiced loudly of course. Come at me all you want, but I've seen it first hand how this all works, and SSO is basically milking children from their money. It would all be fine and ok, if they actually listened to their players, especially those, who have played for years, for advice, what needs to be added, what needs to be fixed etc etc. Actually listen to feedback. But they don't, and I don't see them changing that anytime soon.
My opinion is that if SSO would understand what their players want, they wouldn't be in this situation and why would a game company not doing what their "money makers" want? Like I play SSO for like 6 years and I always loved it. Now it's not the same, I can't enjoy this game as much as before and it's just sad. I don't want to grow up ;¬;
I started playing a year ago and I’m already at level 20. I feel like after the starcoin strike they’re pushing out so many horses just to grab cash; first the percherons, next week the tellina and kampos, and now all the open house stuff. I only log on for my community, the club I’m helping grow (I’m a riding instructor), my best friends online and in general my server. Without them I would have left by now. I have to admit I am buying sc on double, I’m getting 10k and have a plan. I’ll be getting a lusitano or two, tellina, and the new Arabian. Then I’ll only buy the Halloween horses I like, max 2. For other horses, I’ll create a wish list. Then I’ll be saving whilst training the horses I like and will ride (most of them) and until they’re all maxed not buy any horse except limited ones I really want. It should keep me going till Christmas. I hate to see the family I love dying. Sso is digging their grave and NEEDS to listen, and improve its community. I like the maya quests. That was the first ACTUALLY GOOD update in however long. Next week it’s just a race… useful for people who like racing, trash for the rest of people. Literally all I do is do champs, dressy with my club and hang out with my friends. There’s nothing else to do.
That's a great wish list. I'm making something similar. I had a lot of Star Coins so I bought the Open House Arabian, a halloween horse, a winter horse, one dragon friesian and maybe the pinto friesian if that one will ever come out.
I remember a few years ago I took at 2 year break from sso, I just wasn't into it anymore, but I logged on one day out of boredom and started to play again. I found some new friends, some of which I have lost now. But currently about 5 months ago I joined a club, which sadly disbanded, but from that club I found my new best friends, we made our own club (Sunday Doves), it's been going great so far.
I dropped my tablet on pavement when I saw the title- also I wouldn't be surprised (Even tho I don't play it) I don't see many people make exciting vids on it ppl have been complaining on how bored it is to them I've wanted to play this game since I was 6.. I don't think I ever will or can.. I've never had I computer (with the bad financial decisions I make I'm not surprised I can't afford it) but I will say it will have a place in my heart even if I didn't play it. Every chance I got I would go to yt and watch star stable vids. Horses are a big thing in my family background so it wasn't surprising I wanted to play the game since I didn't have a horse. But I don't think I will waste money on a game I won't touch. But I still might (since I may never be able to ride a horse with my back always hurting and my knees always hurting) and it is just sad to look at the chat according to players bc they said ppl got weird and disgusting rps in chat (sounds a lot like wildcraft -.-) and it just is sad cuz that was my childhood and dream to become a star stable yter look at me now giving up on all social media platforms. Having a tough life. My childhood dreams I can never reach.
Even if they focused more on new coats instead of entirely new horses maybe they’d actually be able to fully update the game. 80% just feels so old, it feels like wizard 101 back when I was still playing sometimes..
I feel like perhaps a lot of old and well known SSO UA-cam channels have not been as engaged with the game because a lot of people may have moved on, have acquired other interests or are just fully occupied by school/work etc. It is sad to see, truly, but I can understand why the game is drying out. I literally haven’t logged in for the longest time solely because SSO is just not to my interest. For the longest time, I’ve had a feeling that SSO’s fundamental outlook in relation to the players is the money. Whilst I understand that it is an important part in order for them to develop the game more, they could have done it in a sharper way. The only bond I still have with this game is the fact that I started playing very young and it gives me a little nostalgic thrill from time to time.
the thing is, when you first start playing it’s actually really fun to play. you get new quests all the time and there’s always new quests coming and things to look forward to, like unlocking new areas and stuff. but for players like me for example and probably the majority of the community, we have absolutely nothing to do. we all have to rely on the weekly updates for things to do, and a lot of the updates nowadays aren’t that exciting. next week for example, we get an old race. that’s it. i understand that it takes time to develop a game. but c’mon, we literally had to wait over 2 years to get another story quest after saving anne
I feel like the reason why the popular star stable yters aren’t uploading is because they are all graduating, dealing with school, and becoming adults. I feel like the next generation of sso you tubers will come soon.
yep. its really sad, but i feel like i don't even know what star stable is anymore :( the game got boring so quickly, its their fault, they made the wrong decision to many times. and it all came down to this. i come on for updates, thinking something might have changed, but nope. nothing did. ill stay on for about 5 minutes, then go. and they are so money hungry, no body can defend them anymore.
In my opinion, buying something like lifetime star rider is a good deal if you're going to play the game for a long time. Like, I've been playing it for 7 years. So it basically paid for itself over time. But star coins are WAY too overpriced. With the price of horses, you pay 65 dollars and only get like 5 horses? Not to mention clothing is becoming way too overpriced as well. It's so easy to drop over 500 dollars on this game. I haven't bought star coins in over a year because I feel like it's just a waste of money. And then the quests. I find once you reach level 20 you basically have nothing else to do. All the quests that are available are all ones you have to build reputation for and then you only do like one thing and you have to build more reputation again. It's boring. They release horses way too much and don't focus on the storyline. Like I'm sorry but I think the Percherons are absolutely horrific, the mane literally makes me wanna cry. I get the horse designing team is separate from everything else but like they could still do better? The Jorvik Warmbloods were a huge piss off because of all the mirroring. Like they could've been so much more pretty if they had of just taken their time. I feel like they rush.
I completely agree! It's a bit boring now, and even I have seemed to loose a bit of interest. But in the comments I do see some people saying they want updated player models and such, and I'm NOT trying to side with star stable on this one, but I would like to remind everyone that with new player models comes REDOING how ALL of the clothes in this game FIT on the player itself. Other than that I think since they took away April Fools, and gave us back the same old shop for valentines day, with no new clothes & tack we should have gotten at LEAST a 200sc code to keep us engaged. I would have totally bought some star coins for my birthday this week, and have been waiting for double star coins to come so I can support the company a bit, but all there is now is item bundles. I think maybe Double Star Coins may be coming to an end soon :/ Thanks for reading
I really just want more fun and interactive quests and to do quests on the UFO, the Castle up in Golden Hills, and more. I like running around in the game and going race when I’m bored but I haven’t done many quests anymore. I wish they would update the older model horses before bringing out even more new horses ( especially magic ones 💀) I did however get the all black Arabian named Mini
I started playing SSO in 2014. A friend of mine wanted me to play it, so I did. There were really fantastic updates every Wednesday! But in 2019, when I lost my main account to a hacker, I really hated it. Still I managed to play SSO on a backup account of mine, but not as a lifetime star rider. The game updates are really going downhill. When there's a race, sometimes that's all there is. What's nice about that? I hope, and I keep that hope, that SSO will release updates like before + that the game is alive again 🙏🏻
Truthfully, the main reason I’m still continuing the game is because I had stopped playing for four years so I have quit a few quests and new areas to unlock. It’s a game that kept me going when I didn’t have much else. Plus I started playing it when I was only 8/9 and now I’m turning 18 in three months, so it’s got a very special place in my heart.
i wish sso could give us 200 sc once a month for pay once firestar. it would be really good bc then sso would get more attraction and players, i wish the horses didnt cost so much :c
I mostly agree with the general public. Most of the reasons the game is "falling apart" is because people are growing up and realizing how bad and unprogressive the game actually is, and of course, we all know SSO is very money hungry. But another reason that's sort of left out, is the fact that when we were younger we just *liked* doing more things. We probably read all the quest lines, roleplayed, cared more about our horses etc. Growing up, you start to actually want a *good* game, and we don't really have that. Edit: The only reason I play is because my sister and I play together, we care about our horses and make personalities for them and stuff, but if I was playing alone or only had SSO friends that were quitting anyway, I 100% would not be playing this game everyday. It shows that the only enjoyable thing about it is having someone else to be and have entertainment with, the game itself is not good enough anymore. I think the only hope for SSO is if more people start to realize these issues, go on more strikes and stop paying for Star Coins, and SSO finally pulls their head out of their as* and stops sucking up our money for pixels that aren't even special anymore.
I've been playing SSO since 2016 and it's really sad seeing this game die. But I also feel like it's time for me to move on completely from SSO. I've been uninterested in the updates for like 3 years now. I'm tired of logging in just to buy new horses.
I've only logged on maybe 2 times in the past few months since I fell out with an irl friend I played SSO with, even in the last months of us being friends we would mostly play RDR2 or Minecraft. I want to enjoy SSO again because it's the only big horse game out there, I might try and play more again but it's unlikely to be as fun as it used to be back when I could play for a whole day and still not get bored. SSO has been a big part of my life but the mediocre updates and the fact that all my good memories on it are now tainted (cause of that 'friend') I've mostly moved onto other games as well as doing more in my irl hobbies so I have less time for SSO and won't make time cause I can't have fun anymore. I cannot stress how much I just want to go back to the old days when I could just vibe in SSO and do roleplays or train while singing my music (very badly I must add). Maybe I might play again tomorrow as I will likely need entertainment (I'm going to see family and most of them are lowkey horrible people cause generational trauma y'know), gaming is good escapism I guess.
If sso is dying, I'm glad it is. I don't play anymore and I want other games to rise. The childhood is over guys, let's find something better like Apex Legends or Genshin Impact.
Yeah, I agree, unfortunately, the game just isn't as enjoyable as we'd hope. I think it'd be cool if they added something new like an in-game high school where you study about being a soul rider, and can have your own dorm to decorate and invite people in. This would be so cool! and I don't think I'd mind learning more about the lore through a more unique experience in the game. Honestly, I think the community itself is lowkey carrying star stable right now when it comes to content, discord servers like SSD, SSC, etc are all offering experiences beyond what sso has added.
I started playing SSO in 2012 and honestly I feel like the game has been dead for some years now. Back then, when I was a kid, the game was so exciting. I used to wait for every update playing with my friends or even with complete strangers, training my horses, doing quests etc. Whole community was so nice and calm, even if we had dramas, they weren't that big and they didn't happen that often. But it all felt right. And now I just can't imagine the players being that integrated. Surely there are the ones that wanna play with others, but you know what I mean. I really don't want to say this but right now SSO is only about buying new horses (every three weeks 🤪) and searching new bugs or glitches, and it's really sad to look at it from the perspective of a person who was playing the game from the very beginning. I personally have too many good memories to just leave the game and never come back, but I think it will happen some day, because SSO is doing nothing to stop old players from leaving
I'm level 21 I believe, I've been playing for as long as I can even remember and I never play anymore other than the occasional log on to finish up training, or do story quests. I play alicia online much more often- I find it easier to grind but there are some aspects I dislike aswell. (super sorry if this paragraph was spotty or hard to understand, I recently started a new medication which makes me lose my train of thought extremely easily)
If Star stable ended I would cry. Then look at my receipts and cry more. Then I would have rage. Then I’d literally have to be a Roblox or Minecraft UA-camr 😞 It would really suck. Maybe I should fly over to Sweden and make them listen…
i started playing in 2013 and played religiously till 2017, now every once in a while i’ll get on and play for a week straight and then won’t touch it for another year lol. but i will forever love this game
*sigh* I have no more hope for this game.. Anyway y’all, if you are looking for a cool game play Genshin Impact ! It’s not a horse game but I really recommend this game !
SSO is finally closing down after the company sold the copyright. In 2022 there will be an announcement on the website stating that anyone that still has star rider status is not going to be refunded their subscription. This is why they started doing more youtube sponsors, and more ads on google.
i haven't bought any star coins at all this year, and last year i only bought them 4 times (i think it was like 1500 in total). I've still managed to buy the horses that I've wanted and honestly i don't think the game deserves our money at this point with how much they've changed everything
Wouldn’t be surprised about the sso community, sso is just digging there own grave. They just getting money hungry bringing updates out like this so that kids that don’t have star rider just bug the adults till they give in and pay for it so they stop bothering them then they get stuck on it, if they brought out more codes for free star rider every once a month then I would say fair but it’s not fair seeing these updates if your a non star rider. I know i’m like that cause im a non star rider. I hope star stable doesn’t go down hill because I like playing but not if there getting money hungry.
I really think this might be sso last year but maybe not who knows. I also wanted to know how much sc we got this year just with the weekly 100 sc and that is 2.900sc, so say you want one horse from every breed that came out this year starting with the jorvik friesian, you would need 4.350sc, this is without any of the magical horses or the ones that are staying for a limited time, so either you need to have around 1.500sc left from last year to get one horse of all of the new breeds or you are gonna have to buy sc, this isnt even with the one day stable care strategy, that’s somewhere around 420sc this year alone. I am not even talking about how much it is gonna cost you if you wanna buy more than one horse from a breed and all of these breeds cost 750+ sc. Really I am done with sso, I might actually quit, been playing for 6+ years now but this is outragious, I barely come online anymore, it took me a week to even wanna do maya’s new quest, I used to love training but now I am barely doing it cause it feels like a task and its just all the same.
i personally never cared about the quests and just played to ride around and see new horses. now i also like club stuff (i have a dressage club) and taking pics. tbh i groan when theres new quests cause theyre boring for me but i get that for some theyre the reason they even play. for the community, honestly, having played since 2013 or so there never really was a community imho
The game is literally sitting taking up space on my pc, I got a lifetime Christmas 2019 really I have no motivation to play it anymore. Everyone of my friends left or dont play and it's so boring now.
I barely log on anymore and i havent bought star coins since last year. I basically buy the new horses when my weekly sc income can allow it. As a player from 2016, i could see how the weekly updates got repeateadly boring and i dont know how to feel about it anymore. It sucks to see how slow and eventless the community feels nowawadays
I play sso a lot more and I don’t get star coins often it doesn’t mean I hate the game I just don’t wanna buy the star coins we all have different opinions and we should be posting and engaging more so we can keep the game going! I have had 5 of my friends join the game this year and I hope the game never losses it’s worth
I’ve been playing this game since 2015 and I loved it. It has been my childhood. Since Christmas 2020 I’ve haven’t been playing much. I think it’s just bc the updates are boring. I come online once a month bc there is an ‘exciting update’ a new horse or a mission. I left my club and now there’s nothing to do. Im not suprised if its dying.
It makes me sad to see that SSO is struggling to keep it's player base alive, i've been playing the game for exactly 2 years, since i'm not an older player, the game is still fun and entertaining for me, but i know many people are bored and dissapointed and for good reasons. SSO has a lot of potential, i hope the community stays together for more time ❤
me: plans a horse's name for days, sometimes weeks, before getting it. And even then sometimes spends ages on the name selection screen worrying about my favourite few choices. Denise Wisestorm: 3:00
I only started to play like last week and the servers go dead at like 5 O clock in the evenings (I'm on Ireland servers) and nobody in my club logs on any more and then people will log on at like 1 O clock in the day and then just disappear,it's really sad
I played sso for how long i can remember honestly. I played the game every. Single. Day. I almost cried when i couldnt play it for a day😅 Yes i was young but the game was so much better and yes they improved with how the game looks but there is literally nothing nice to do anymore... in the past i had so much to do and had a lot of online friends to play with and we were having so much fun and they all quit because its so boring. I havent played for a long time and i don’t enjoy it anymore i wish they would just listen to us :(
I started playing in fall of 2018. I quit for a year and came back in 2019, played for like a week then quit again. I started playing during COVID, got lifetime, and have been playing ever since. I’m playing less and less now because it’s getting boring with no quests and less interesting horses and tack. Hopefully they do SOMETHING that brings a bunch of people back. With the SSO con, a lot of people came just to see people, I haven’t seen many submissions tho.
i have been playing sso for abt 3 months now and i still have so much fun playing! i was clubless for abt 4 weeks at one point and didn’t care. i will continue to play for a long time lol
I’ve been playing since 2013 and I stopped playing so many times. But I always come back and train horses. I miss the old time but also love the new one.
I moved on to other games. A couple of new single-player games were released which I thought are interesting and now I spend most of my gaming time playing a single-player open world RPG.
It’s so sad to see this game deteriorate at a alarming pace… I remember back in 2018 Wednesday was so special to me and basically a highlight of my week, now I don’t even view Wednesday as SSO update day. Like when galloper Thompson’s horse came out, I begged my dad for Star coins, now new horses don’t feel special and I’m just excited about them coming out for not even a day. I have very fond memories of playing SSO and when it used to snow and playing the saving Anne for 7 hours straight, but the last good memory I have with that game is from the winter quests and stuff, and I can almost guarantee that that memory will be the last good memory about this game I will every have… :(
i don’t think sso is dying at all…. my server is always packed, i always see groups doing rp’s and training, i always see clubs together, ofc i’m a newer player and i cant rlly say much about how it’s getting boring cause i’m only at lvl 10 and have many many quests left, but it’s definitely not dead or dying
Personally , I used to love sso with my whole heart. But I'm slowly getting sick of it , I used to log on for my friends / club , but then the club disbanded and I haven't been on for 1 and a half month...
I think a lot of older plays have moved on. I started in 2018, played for 2 years. In 2020 I quit. The thing is I was 7 when I was playing, so I’m 9 now and god, I quit. I think 9/10-14 year olds aren’t playing it either.
@@homosexualsam6887 Not necessarily a problem. Things targeted for a younger audience can turn out to be wonderful. However in this case for SSO it seems like an easy way to get a quick buck.
I used to love Sso so much, I’d log on almost every day and *try* to go to every club event. I had lots of amazing friends who I’d spend hours on call and playing with. I’d also just spend ages questing, but now I log on for 5 mins and I’m already bored. Maybe it’s just cause I’ve grown up now and have better things to do🤣
I recently had to cancel my SSo subscription and uninstall the game, because my laptop genuinely couldn't load into the game anymore- and I was actually bummed out because it is a bit of a guilty pleasure but not enough of one that I'm going to drop money on a PC. I have been playing the single month subscription since like February or so, and genuinely was thinking of just buying the game- I'm so glad I held off but still disappointed I can't play it.
So there's a theory that I saw saying SSO was created as a money making machine, and the developers want to let it die. It would explain why they are making a new game, when they haven't even come close to finishing this one and fixing it's problems. I really hope that is not true.
I'll be sad to see sso go. Honestly. I've been online for around 6 years, and those were the best times. I remember the awe of the game when I first started, the amount of kind people, and the engaging experience that kept me online more often than not. But around 2019, things just went massively downhill. Sso wasn't listening to their fans and what they wanted, the amount of new horses they were adding was overwhelming, and just the general drama that went down every single day was just so annoying and tiring. Luckily, throughout the drama I found some amazing friends that I share a Discord server with. But other than the events that our club does, I don't log on. I just don't see the point of a game where you have to sit around and wait for 9 WEEKS to get your money, and then buy a digital horse, wasting 9 whole weeks of your life waiting for those damn coins. Even the questline is boring. I've unlocked epona but that's all I'm ever going to do for the questline. I'm not gonna go buy more horses. I'm not gonna play the game unless my club has something to do on there. The memories the game has given me won't be forgotten, but what I do want forget is the absolute shit-show the sso devs and community has become.
I had the BEST time in this game for a month, and then finished the main quest line and got bored, I loved looking forward to what was going to happen next.
Switching to Horse Reality was a game changer to me a few years ago. It takes time to learn but breeding and all that you can do keeps me entertained and it’s free…. Completely free..
the thing is for me its completely different i havent played in 5 months and since a few weeks im playing again and its really exciting for me to see all the new things and all the new horses they added and its making me so happx but yeah i get it for the people that played all the time because it kinda gets boring but trust me when you take a break from it it will come back to you eventually.
I've taken a year break from SSO. Came back, and I saw it was disapointing as ever. I don't think anything will ever help me like the game again now that I've seen the horrible states it's in.
@@stormhooves2353 well i think they made some big progress in horses, designs and the new areas but thats different for everyone! in my opinion they made some good changes
I started playing around early 2013/late 2012 and the game has collapsed. I mean there’s nothing to do anymore, nothing to entertain yourself with. And the community has gone to absolute trash. I mean, the game is mostly older kids at this point who curse every chance they get or argue over whatever they find. It’s sad
I wouldn’t be surprised if Sso ended. The game got boring around the end of 2019 after they neglected any quests or new features. Looking back at the older updates from about two years ago, I can see why I spent money on the game; there were lots of quests and events coming out and horses were a special occurrence. Now the game is just a click and buy horses simulator with a horrible currency. It’ll be sad to see Sso go but at the same time they’re digging their own grave
Good thing i didn’t buy star rider or sc bc i just started in april 2021
And it gets me so mad bc when I was a newbie I was so obsessed I spent $75 for star rider and more money on the game to get new horses and tack and all that was just wasted😡 and even worse this is not only my problem, many people had the same problem, now I only ever log on to buy a new horse, and the quests are just so boring I don’t even wanna read anymore. It’s so sad 😭 I haven’t logged on to the game since like 2-3 months and my friend wants me to give her permission to manage my club since I’m never on (and I do too) but I just never log on anymore or I forget. I used to play everyday now I don’t even play anymore
I love you for "Now the game is just a click and buy horses simulator with a horrible currency."
I hope it doesn’t because I just got star rider, though they really need to listen to their players :(
i don’t need to buy star coins anymore tbh because im just playing this game too rarely for spending my money into it and i think for me it’s just not worth it anymore
it’s good that you mentioned it denis!
Honestly same
I agree with what you're saying! ALSO ARE YOU A STAY TOO? XD I SEE YOUR PFP AHA
@@cnb603 yes, i am a stay☺️
@@ancienshi yessssss i love them sm
@@cnb603 sameee
I personally feel that if the the SSO development team focused more on bringing out new story quests, interactivity within the game and quality of life updates (new player/npc models, updating more areas and fixing bugs/animations) more often, rather than bringing new horses out very week, it would bring the game 'back-to-life'. I really don't want to get bored of this game, but there isn't much to do anymore, which does upset me and a lot of other people that I play SSO with.
I've also recently started getting the impression that they are more focused on making money off the game (bringing in 'limited edition' horses, bringing back previous magic horses without a heads up and bringing more and more new horses out) , rather than pleasing their audience.
Exactly. I do not want to get bored of this game either, but there's absolutely nothing to do. It was my only comfort place, where I could find myself some friends, nowdays it's just a mess and all of my old friends stopped playing as well. Everyone comes back once in a while, but we leave right after checking the update (and I don't even feel like logging in when there's a boring update, for example new clothes or horses, what could I do with that-) I used to play daily and even when I did everything possible, I still decided to stay and my friends did the same thing. We would talk and do stupid things.. it was fun. I feel like the only thing that's keeping SSO a bit alive now are clubs. Or more likely the club activities (mostly dressage, which was brought in by players, not the team) and even these fun events are dying, because people don't feel like logging in anymore, so clubs are losing activity and people are getting more and more bored. It's sad..
edit: I also don't think that age is the reason why we're getting bored. You can play and do whatever you want no matter how old or young you are. There's even older players that enjoy games like these, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that! You can find yourself fun anywhere, but SSO is killing their own game
In all the years sso has been a game, they’ve always released a new horse every month that’s not this new idea they’ve started doing it’s how it’s always been. And we KNOW that sso has different teams for horse models and story quests, they’re not the same team and we can have both. Quests take longer to make than horses, and again the quantity of story quests being released hasn’t really changed. The sso Instagram said they were waiting longer for story quests to make them longer rather than every two months with a five minute story quest. We have more quests earlier in the game because they’ve been made in the multiple years sso has been a game, and every time a quest is released it has to be written in multiple languages and animated correctly. Horses are easier to make, you only need 1 model for all the horses being released which is why we get more horses than quests
star stable is just boring now, they never give the older players anything, its usually just star rider codes now. the whole game turned into a money grabbing simulator or something. all my friends quit so i dont see myself logging on as much. global chat is always talking abt how the game will die within a year or so, yet star stable isnt doing anything.
I agree. I used to log onto star stable everyday but now I don’t even feel like logging onto see the new updates because my guess is that they are releasing yet another horse and using it to get money.
@@audvry1047 Same here, I haven't played for months I occasionally log in to see if anything has changed but all that has is new the horses, it's not fun anymore and the game gets boring after not even 10 minutes of playing.
Not to be rude to others but in my opinion I really in-joy the game still but yet again just my opinion
The only reason most people log on regularly are clubs. Imo if SSO didn't have the club function, the game would've died minimum 2 years ago tbh
Yep. I hardly log on much anymore. When I do, it's just because of my friends and club.
thats actually not true lots of people have quests to do in the game and dont just log on for clubs and just because some people are bored of it dosent mean everyone is there are lots of people who still like the game
@@hermosa.mariposa I'm talking about the majority of players (that I've seen/met)
@@fazaonzaza Well yeah thats who you have met or seen the game wouldent have died if those people got bored
@@hermosa.mariposa you seem to have lots of hope for this game. Not that that's wrong. Just try to understand that the game is indeed, slowly dying. There's mutiple server almost completely empty due to loss of audience. Said audience being players who've done all the quests and have nothing to do. Endgame players usually have lifetime star rider and since they don't log on often due to having no entertaining content, they can accumulate enough star coins to buy whatever horse they want on the release date. And since training also gets boring fast, they log off and don't come back untill they see an item/horse they like. Reputation quests are boring and repetitive, not worth the grind. The game does try to force you to log on every day with daily quests, but there's too many of those and they all get boring rather quick. If the management team doesn't wake up soon, the game is guaranteed to die. That's all I'm saying. You did make a good point with the quests, but that only applies to people whove only started playing the game recently. Most players are level 20+ with nothing to do. Sad tbh
I think what's happening is that the first generation of kids playing sso are growing up, most of us are now at least 16 or so, and have moved on for the most part. hopefully the gen under us (I guess kids like 10-16) will start making videos and it will start a new cycle!
I’m under 16 and I’ve quit, just god it’s boring.
@@flxssie_equestrian that's fine! :) its not for everyone. im 17, been playing for 6 years, and still enjoy it
@@lilacheart_ 17. Wow there’s a massive age difference in us. People think I’m 11 and 12, I act so mature and I’m not stupid and ‘silly’ like normal 9 year olds. (I’m 9)
@@flxssie_equestrian oh aha cool! im almost a fully fledged adult Lol. just remember to enjoy being a kid and that its okay to be silly and stupid. I know you'll hear it a lot but don't waste your childhood like I did :')
@@flxssie_equestrian I'm around your age (a little bit older, I'd rather not specify) and people think I'm 19 lol
The Game director changed recently, the New one is an old player, she is passionate about the game... She knows how the community feels. The game direction might change for the better in the future... (i hope so)
Really? That's great to hear!
But... I think it's too late...
@@QuinnOakhearthSSO No, it’s not too late. The old players who quit still watch you tubers. As long as sso you tubers keep making vids of sso. and sso steps their game itl become a great game again
Would be fantastic if that was actually true! I hope it is.
@@VibingMeike it is true 😅 star stable said it on Twitter
@@judebagarre Oh that sounds good
I play SSO for 6 years now. For me 2016 was the best year, the updates were awesome and most of my friends played SSO. Now they just quit. Now the only thing we get in updates are races and horses and things that just come back every year, like the midsummer festival is ALWAYS the same. I used to play alot SSO, but now I just only log on and check my Star Coins that's it. Hopefully SSO will change things and just also care about the players that play for a longer time. And not only releasing just horses. We also want other things. (Btw I don't want to give hate to SSO, this is just my opinion on how SSO is now. 💕)
Honestly when I started playing Genshin Impact I forgot about SSO. There is literally nothing to do, next week all we get is a race. THATS IT.
Bonus comment: If you started something with commitment then follow your promise or at least change that game description because currently it isn’t about magic and fun its an antique vase. Spend money just to look at it, a decoration for your desktop.
Not to mention it’s a race that’s been here before. All they are doing is recycling updates at this point
@@gracemiller4183 unfortunately yea. I understand that development is hard but dude.
Same thing for me when I started RDR2. Such a step up and I can’t bring myself to get back into SSO, it’s been a damn year since I got online.
Me with rdr2
agreed. I play Genshin *way* more than I do SSO - heck I'm only missing Xiao, Mona, Albedo, and Ganyu (not including the Inazuma peeps but I got Ayaka last night). . . if Genshin added horses it might become the new SSO xD
I started playing Christmas 2020, and I got lifetime star rider, now I haven’t touched the game since The perchy
Oof... I don't play all too often. Maybe once every week or two
Yeah I started in 2017 I believe, got lifetime in 2018, haven’t played since August of 2020. You grow up, you fall out of love with the game, sad I spent all that money on it but man SSO had some of the best times.
Lmaoaoooooaaoaoo sameee
@Ur Mom I haven't spent any more than $100 on this game. I still love it though, despite it being boring sometimes and a broken community
@@enexius67 I bet you were rich tho 😆
Honestly, not surprising that this game is just about dead. I quit just last night, which lead to me also having to leave my club - Red Rush (club on the UK server, Cupcake Valley). The game is overall boring & full of drama, not gonna lie. I've lost all motivation to just log onto this game & all.
Same :/ I overall started having a hate relationship with sso after my account got permanently banned, hundreds, maybe thousands on that game. Luckily my friend gave me an extremely good account, though, I'm still in the hate relationship.
Bro red rush is stil a thing? I quit like 2 years ago and they were pretty well known on the uk servers
@@wxsninski Yup! Still around after all this time aha
@@niiahnicole Oh wow. Star Stable really need to improve, in my opinion. Star coins etc are way too expensive - quite sure I've spent 2k+ on the game which I am not proud of.
@@z1oqx Mhm. There "gaining" there moderation. So apparently you get banned if you do any crapping glitch. Even the dance glitch! But wow sso, what a great way to make your game get hated. 👏🏼
"English is not my first language so I make a lot of mistakes"
Denise, my first and only language is English and I still make many mistakes 😂
The whole reason I go to SSO anymore is because of the drama. I love being in global and watching children yell at each other!
I havent played SSO in about a year now, logged in last night and was shocked about the lack of improvement in this game... But honestly I didnt even miss playing Sso, for me, running the same races over and over everyday is a waste of time :/ You cant even buy or earn anything in this game with in-game money (except for one horse *slow clap*). I switched to a really good MMO where I Dont have to spend money for anything except the monthly subscription and I realized how bad SSO actually ist from an MMO perspective... But I still watch your videos, even though I dont comment really often, keep up the great content 👍🏻💕
Thank you, appreciate that! :)
What MMO are you playing?
@@astriafaewood4897 Final Fantasy XIV ☺️
Did you have lifetime if you did how many’s c did you have 😩
i barely get online anymore, the game has gotten so boring honestly and i don’t have any desire to play anymore it’s sad
I’m too broke to buy the new horse and I’m not buying sc :,)
The horse is actually one of my favorite Arabians. It’s so beautiful!
Thanks for always keeping us up to date ❤️
ikr its 30 dollars for 1 damn horse im glad my grandma paid for it but her wallet is stacked i remember when there was a school party and my grandma came to bring me money and me and my friends saw her and started screaming "granny brought her thick wallet!!" its still a mystery of how she got that money.. i hope she isnt a stripper..
id like to add to this video i think it was hilarious at 8:56 when you tried to show the horse's hooves but star stable's camera options don't go down low enough because they STILL haven't added the lower camera option everyone has been asking for!
I've seen many mmos come and go, but I wouldn't say SSO is dying, its just on a general player decline. I think SSO (company ) struggling to deal with the star coin strike was a management issue. The company clearly has issues with communication across the board, so their financial hardships only highlight how fundamentally broken inside communication is.
I’m the opposite on the community topic. I don’t play as much because I just don’t have time not because I find it boring I’m just so busy with work and everything. I really really just wanna play sso and hang out with friends, I miss it :((
Also tbh I think they’re doing a great job with the Percherons, Mayas quest, Open House etc
Same here, I'm in a big club (or their second club for the inactives) and when I play I have a lot of fun, but I just don't have the time since I finished school and started college
Honestly, I use to love this game, starstable was a game I could escape from- a very bad reality and I loved horses so much, I found it after finding my bestfriend and afterwards, I just fell in love with SSO, but now that i've grown up, I rarely see myself playing it. I'm mostly playing PC games that are worth my time (Example: Rival stars, or other steam games, like survival games.), the big reasoning was it was so pay to play (p2p/ptp) and it was a shame, I began to just sit back and watch everyone just go with the rythem, then slowly saw people quitting, I use to own a massive guild called Autumn Aces and I basically watched it disappear. I stopped buying SC for awhile now and just got em by saving them every week or so. The game gave me no hope, and hop reason to play and it's a shame.
Now the entire community is in chaos, complaining or arguing about SSO or people defending SSO. I get the company needs to thrive and NEEDS money....but how much money has SSO in reality tooken from us with little bribes and trickery? We are all human and temptation is a real thing, and that's what sso has been doing, targeting people, whether it's adults, teens, or children. But it seems the teens and children are a bit more targeted...I just wish this game would fix itself before it lands itself into losing its entire fanbase and it's game....and maybe that would be a good thing for sso tbh, maybe then SSO can start new.
if star stable would stop focusing on horses and get more things like map updates and quests maybe even new characters then it would not be dyeing there are so many recommendation from everyone but star stable wont listen
Earlier than Denis can say “Dinky rat”
It’s sad really, the game feels more like a chore than something fun. There’s just nothing being provided anymore. I wish the game felt the same when I first started in 2015
Well, I personally don't think that the game is dying. I live in England and people here who play the game are really into it and pretty much all my club members log on everyday. I see my friends in ALL the time. So yeah, I think that the game is doing fine.
Yeah definitely, in some servers and places they're doing fine and great. I think most of the issues are on social media, and small bits of the general public separated in different servers that have small complaints
So, I’m in the Star Stable embassy discord server and from what I’ve noticed on there, it seems like the game will die out. The community is barely together anymore, and only 20 of us out of 2,026 members actually participate and even then, what goes on is far from being Star Stable related. Hopefully the devs and management wake up before the game dies, but I don’t think it’s going to happen any time soon
I'm in the rrp side of the sso community and that side of the community is pretty active to be honest. Of course the game is dying but yeah the community is still alive.
At this point I'd actually be happy to see SSO die so that something better could rise from its ashes. Because of the company ignoring the pleas of their players for several years now I've completely lost hope. We won't get the miraculous turnaround that we've all been waiting for. No offense to the Star stable team, just an opinion.
I sort of agree, because if more people leave - so noticeable that SSO realizes how many people are uninterested in the game now - maybe change will happen. But unfortunately at the end of the day, there will always be some younger audience that doesn't care about these big corp issues and they'll just want their parents to keep buying them horses (which is understandable too for younger kids).
You are 100% correct Denise... This damn game needs to die. It will show the SSO team what happens when players aren't engaged. I've been playing since 2015 and have unofficially quit. My computer won't load Star Stable no matter what I do and I don't feel the need to try and fix it since it's become incredibly boring anyways. The people blindly defending SSO need to OPEN THEIR EYES and see what is happening. It's sickening to see what has happened to this community.
@Ham the almighty Lol, don't tell me to stop over exaggerating. If you played this game at all you would see it's done. Over. Dead. While I hate to see it like this, I know how to face the truth.
There is ways to revive the game, they aren’t truly trying to. Effort is the problem. Also, fighting in the comments is not necessary
@@sageflower24 I feel that even if they did try, it wouldn't help. Most of the mature, older (who are the ones who invest money into the game!!) players have already left. (This is including me) Also, I wouldn't be fighting if the user above didn't tell me to stop over exaggerating. They could have simply said "No, it doesn't need to die in my opinion," without adding the last bit.
I don't want it to die... I used to love it so much ):
@@VibingMeike Yeah, well, so did I. But now I see how bad of a turn it took. It needs to end.
I will agree to SSO practically digging their own grave, but at the same time I don't want it to "Die" like everyone else seems to be demanding for it to. I feel like it finally entered it's buffering zone where everyone is trying to update to a new style and make new changes hence the updates to Silverglade Village, the characters, and we been teased that the Riding House was even getting a new look, while using horses to try and keep players interested as they go through this.
Which is Exactly how they digging their own graves, not saying they shouldn't update to a new look or style, just saying that this alone is why everyone Including me are slowly losing interest because of the constant horse releases rather than actual gameplay updates or quests.
It’s been literal years that old players have been speaking up and try to save their game because it truly has a lot of potential and the community used to be a true family. It wasn’t perfect, sure, but it felt really great to have people share the same love for horses and the game. Now people are leaving, getting tired of being ignored by a company they trusted with their money and time. We saw them grow, getting better, and we were excited every wednesday for the updates because they were actually exciting and something to look out for. They were less horses to buy which meant that everyone would be ecstatic when a trailer randomly dropped of a new companion to purchase and train. It seems like it was so long ago since the servers would literally crash and our pc’s would bug because of how many people would log in for quests & horses. It truly is sad that such game with an open world and an exciting story line is about to meet their end because they couldn’t manage to dose how greedy they are. Of course they need money, but the amount of horses they release in such short time notice knowing star riders literally only get 100sc per week, which is approx. 5300sc a year, feels like they’re milking a cow that’s starting to get tired of it.
What i would suggest them is to do what made them good in the first place, listening to their players, to the people who make this game going. The majority of players now only play because they found a community and friends through clubs and others. Make them excited to log in again, even slow down the updates to 2 per month, every two wednesdays, we truly don’t care to have less updates if it means better quality. Add to the SR’s allowance so people who truly can’t afford to buy sc’s don’t wait a lifetime before buying a new horse only to see that a better one will get added not even a week later.
The possibilities are endless for them to find solutions and fix their problem, make their OG players come back to the game or just be better for the new ones who are still enjoying it. But it all starts with actual communication and not muting out the community y’all worked so hard to get.
I left sso for a few years ( not deliberately) around the end of 2017 - February 2021. When I logged on all I had was about 10 quests, which I assumed would be longer than just side quests, and NO like no new story quests ( tf!?) I bought all the new horses I liked since over that time I had got 10k sc, and then it was deaf after I trained my horses. I was appauled at how little has changed and how 1 small area got the "new" update texture in the 3 or 4 years we've had it. This really isn't good enough.
I’ve had SSO since the very beginning, since it was first released. And I don’t even touch it anymore, unless a new horse peeks my interest and I have enough given sc from my lifetime to buy it.
If SSO gets shut down or "dies", I will actually have a life crisis over how much money I've put into the game. :')
I don't see why people want the game gone, anyway, because they've been releasing content, it's just slowly releasing. Which isn't that a good thing, because it means they're putting their works full into the updates with quest content!?
I am LIVING for Redwood point and Tailtop village, as well as the updated silverglade village! That's all content, or do some people not understand what content is??
i agree with ya, am not necessarily an old player, but i do appreciate the updates that *are* coming out. i think the SSO team is putting more work and effort into them, altough its not much(except new areas).
i rather have tho that they put quality time into one update, rather than having more big updates but less quality, i dont know if that makes sense? i hope that more people will appreciate that what they do, since all we do is play it. and yeah, thats how a game works, but appreciating that it still exists and stuff is also important-
got the feeling am gonna look back to this comment and think "i am a dumdum" hopefully not lol
i still agree with both sides of people :(
the updates are pretty sucky though they have done updates but no one asked for them theres so much we need in the game and they release a crap ton of horses every week and they are all pretty ugly like the Friesian they wind magically blows its hair and its all clumped together the tail looks like you just waked it off with a katana and irl Friesian horses have feathering and the animations... the walk is jerky, the trot is jerky, canter is very very glitchy, the slow gallop makes me want to die, and the gallop is just... so.. bad.. the tail barely moves in the wind, the reverse is the best animation but its still crappy compared to others, when they rear the tail dosent know what to do and it goes through the floor and starts flopping around, all jumps in every jumping speed is DISGUSTING, and the updates are usually a race and a random character gets a makeover while the horses usually look amazing but our characters still look shitty, they never listen to us, it takes them forever to fix something, and its overpriced people defend them but 30 dollars for 1 horse is wayyy too much and they barely have people working for them so they have millions laying around unless they went on a vacation or bought a lambo or 10
@@mobstercrow7515 i get ur point, but this is all your opinion about how the gen. 3 friesian looks like which came out half a year ago- they improved a lot since then. some people still like the gen. 3 friesians. alotta stuff are overpriced, yea. but the game is starting to die out which makes them have less money, on which the updates are tinier on which more people quit. this isnt always the case tho, but i think SSO should maybe just have more teammates and then it could go better, not sure.
@@hangarian no the jorvik Friesians
@@mobstercrow7515 y e e e e s ?
I feel like the game is on its last legs, which is really unfortunate because it made me in some ways. I grew up playing the game and it has such a beautiful and captivating story- and on top of all of that it is such a unique horse game. Its one of a kind, but as someone else said it almost seems to be like a "buy horses simulator" which is lame. I'm fine with the continuous release of horses, I just wish the other teams could keep up. HOWEVER, I do understand everything is a process, EXCEPT the game has been getting so many complaints. You would think that they would start looking to see if there was a true issue with the development in the game, and if there is, they would quickly start making changes (i.e. looking for more employees, story writers, animators, etc. and look into upgrading equipment and software). I feel as though these changes are going to be expensive, so they would have to start by making more releases (in quests and activities) before they start upgrading items and adding to the team. SSO is in desire need of some TLC and activities to bring the game to life. I really miss the days where there were more players online.
I think the company should start looking into extra activities beyond questing- maybe make the game more competitive and find away to make training a horse to maximum level more rewarding; maybe make the championships more important to the game; give players different advancements that they can achieve/unlock. I feel as though the competitive side to Star Stable is close to being completely lost and I remember *loving* watching championship videos.
Anyway, this all is just my opinion of course.
TL;DR: SSO is possibly dying and a way to revive the game could not only be through quests, but more activities (i.e. advancements for players; more to training, and not just in terms of races; championships being brought back to life; basically make the game more competitive and rewarding). This is an opinion.
Also, on the competitive aspect, it shouldn’t take away from the chill and relaxing part of the game. It shouldn’t be a requirement to become competitive in the game, but an option.
It hurts to see sso go but there's hardly anything left to the game once the main storyline quests have been completed. I've been a player since like 2015 maybe?? I still remember the old starter horses, before dundall and when we still had to click and drag the ticket onto the side of the bus we had to wait for. But I just can't find enjoyment in playing anymore
Yeahh I wanted this horse too but I'm broke and there is no way I'm going to spend 20 euro's on a pixel < -
I'm being completely honest Star Stables will die in the next couple of years . if Star Stables doesn't change what they're doing .I have no motivation to log on whatsoever. the only reason why I log on everyday is because of my club. Also I find it kind of funny how they release the seahorses again even though they said that it was going to be limited edition.
Congrats on finishing high school Denise
I’m just wondering if the writers team at SSO just have serious writers block cause it honestly feels like it from a on off writers perspective and that’s why they’re currently doing what they are doing
I'm one of the older players, (I'm literally 25), and even I can admit that this game has gotten really stale. I've been playing for about 6-7 years now, and I will always remember how I found this game by accident, played it for one day and the next day I ended up being a star rider, because I enjoyed it so much (and mind it was back in the time when it still had the old graphics and models, you could literally count all the pixels). I couldn't stop playing for at least 2-3 years.... Untill it started to go more and more stale.
First was the chat ban outrage, how we got chat banned for even the smallest thing. Then we started to see overpriced pets in Dundull, and how people were angry how SSO advertised a double star coin weekend, and right after that on the next update we got the "Buy star coins and you get a silver fox pet!" Then more and more things started to pile, but all that back then wasn't as bad as it is now.
Horses every month. Special, limited time offers. Not a single quest, instead you get reputation grinds with nearly no character experience attached. Yes, we finally got some story quests, but I swear I couldn't count on one hand how many bugs and glitches I encountered during it. It was very clear it was very rushed, possibly cuz of the recent outrage. World events like midsummer, each year the same thing over and over with the same old bugs.
I won't sugarcoat. It's a cash grab now, that preys on children's need to stand out with special things. Me, as a working adult, maybe I have the privilege to buy star coins whenever I can afford or feel like it, but even I don't buy it unless it's double star coins, because the base amount is just absurd.
But let's be honest, the main target audience of this game are kids age 9-16, and we all know kids want to feel included, they will want that glowy new thing that everyone else has, even more so when there's pressure of it being special and for limited time. So they ask parents hard earned money (unless they worked for it themselves, tho it's still their parents money) to buy it, and the cycle repeats over and over with each new limited horse/pet/item. And THATS how SSO preys on kids to get their money, cuz kids are easier to manipulate.
There might be some younger audience here, that might backfire at me, but honestly, as someone, who has worked in retail and in sales for years, this is legit the truth, that kids will always want the new shiny thing cuz everyone else has it. They don't want to feel left out, so they will buy it despite not even knowing it was the company's intent, tho not voiced loudly of course. Come at me all you want, but I've seen it first hand how this all works, and SSO is basically milking children from their money. It would all be fine and ok, if they actually listened to their players, especially those, who have played for years, for advice, what needs to be added, what needs to be fixed etc etc. Actually listen to feedback.
But they don't, and I don't see them changing that anytime soon.
well said.
My opinion is that if SSO would understand what their players want, they wouldn't be in this situation and why would a game company not doing what their "money makers" want? Like I play SSO for like 6 years and I always loved it. Now it's not the same, I can't enjoy this game as much as before and it's just sad. I don't want to grow up ;¬;
I actually just got an Arabian last week after saving up and then this beauty showed up and I was like 👁👄👁
I started playing a year ago and I’m already at level 20. I feel like after the starcoin strike they’re pushing out so many horses just to grab cash; first the percherons, next week the tellina and kampos, and now all the open house stuff. I only log on for my community, the club I’m helping grow (I’m a riding instructor), my best friends online and in general my server. Without them I would have left by now. I have to admit I am buying sc on double, I’m getting 10k and have a plan. I’ll be getting a lusitano or two, tellina, and the new Arabian. Then I’ll only buy the Halloween horses I like, max 2. For other horses, I’ll create a wish list. Then I’ll be saving whilst training the horses I like and will ride (most of them) and until they’re all maxed not buy any horse except limited ones I really want. It should keep me going till Christmas. I hate to see the family I love dying. Sso is digging their grave and NEEDS to listen, and improve its community. I like the maya quests. That was the first ACTUALLY GOOD update in however long. Next week it’s just a race… useful for people who like racing, trash for the rest of people. Literally all I do is do champs, dressy with my club and hang out with my friends. There’s nothing else to do.
That's a great wish list. I'm making something similar. I had a lot of Star Coins so I bought the Open House Arabian, a halloween horse, a winter horse, one dragon friesian and maybe the pinto friesian if that one will ever come out.
I remember a few years ago I took at 2 year break from sso, I just wasn't into it anymore, but I logged on one day out of boredom and started to play again. I found some new friends, some of which I have lost now. But currently about 5 months ago I joined a club, which sadly disbanded, but from that club I found my new best friends, we made our own club (Sunday Doves), it's been going great so far.
I dropped my tablet on pavement when I saw the title- also I wouldn't be surprised (Even tho I don't play it) I don't see many people make exciting vids on it ppl have been complaining on how bored it is to them I've wanted to play this game since I was 6.. I don't think I ever will or can.. I've never had I computer (with the bad financial decisions I make I'm not surprised I can't afford it) but I will say it will have a place in my heart even if I didn't play it. Every chance I got I would go to yt and watch star stable vids. Horses are a big thing in my family background so it wasn't surprising I wanted to play the game since I didn't have a horse. But I don't think I will waste money on a game I won't touch. But I still might (since I may never be able to ride a horse with my back always hurting and my knees always hurting) and it is just sad to look at the chat according to players bc they said ppl got weird and disgusting rps in chat (sounds a lot like wildcraft -.-) and it just is sad cuz that was my childhood and dream to become a star stable yter look at me now giving up on all social media platforms. Having a tough life. My childhood dreams I can never reach.
Even if they focused more on new coats instead of entirely new horses maybe they’d actually be able to fully update the game. 80% just feels so old, it feels like wizard 101 back when I was still playing sometimes..
I feel like perhaps a lot of old and well known SSO UA-cam channels have not been as engaged with the game because a lot of people may have moved on, have acquired other interests or are just fully occupied by school/work etc. It is sad to see, truly, but I can understand why the game is drying out. I literally haven’t logged in for the longest time solely because SSO is just not to my interest. For the longest time, I’ve had a feeling that SSO’s fundamental outlook in relation to the players is the money. Whilst I understand that it is an important part in order for them to develop the game more, they could have done it in a sharper way.
The only bond I still have with this game is the fact that I started playing very young and it gives me a little nostalgic thrill from time to time.
the thing is, when you first start playing it’s actually really fun to play. you get new quests all the time and there’s always new quests coming and things to look forward to, like unlocking new areas and stuff. but for players like me for example and probably the majority of the community, we have absolutely nothing to do. we all have to rely on the weekly updates for things to do, and a lot of the updates nowadays aren’t that exciting. next week for example, we get an old race. that’s it. i understand that it takes time to develop a game. but c’mon, we literally had to wait over 2 years to get another story quest after saving anne
I feel like the reason why the popular star stable yters aren’t uploading is because they are all graduating, dealing with school, and becoming adults. I feel like the next generation of sso you tubers will come soon.
yep. its really sad, but i feel like i don't even know what star stable is anymore :(
the game got boring so quickly, its their fault, they made the wrong decision to many times. and it all came down to this.
i come on for updates, thinking something might have changed, but nope. nothing did. ill stay on for about 5 minutes, then go.
and they are so money hungry, no body can defend them anymore.
In my opinion, buying something like lifetime star rider is a good deal if you're going to play the game for a long time. Like, I've been playing it for 7 years. So it basically paid for itself over time. But star coins are WAY too overpriced. With the price of horses, you pay 65 dollars and only get like 5 horses? Not to mention clothing is becoming way too overpriced as well. It's so easy to drop over 500 dollars on this game. I haven't bought star coins in over a year because I feel like it's just a waste of money.
And then the quests. I find once you reach level 20 you basically have nothing else to do. All the quests that are available are all ones you have to build reputation for and then you only do like one thing and you have to build more reputation again. It's boring. They release horses way too much and don't focus on the storyline. Like I'm sorry but I think the Percherons are absolutely horrific, the mane literally makes me wanna cry. I get the horse designing team is separate from everything else but like they could still do better? The Jorvik Warmbloods were a huge piss off because of all the mirroring. Like they could've been so much more pretty if they had of just taken their time. I feel like they rush.
I completely agree! It's a bit boring now, and even I have seemed to loose a bit of interest. But in the comments I do see some people saying they want updated player models and such, and I'm NOT trying to side with star stable on this one, but I would like to remind everyone that with new player models comes REDOING how ALL of the clothes in this game FIT on the player itself. Other than that I think since they took away April Fools, and gave us back the same old shop for valentines day, with no new clothes & tack we should have gotten at LEAST a 200sc code to keep us engaged. I would have totally bought some star coins for my birthday this week, and have been waiting for double star coins to come so I can support the company a bit, but all there is now is item bundles. I think maybe Double Star Coins may be coming to an end soon :/ Thanks for reading
I really just want more fun and interactive quests and to do quests on the UFO, the Castle up in Golden Hills, and more. I like running around in the game and going race when I’m bored but I haven’t done many quests anymore. I wish they would update the older model horses before bringing out even more new horses ( especially magic ones 💀) I did however get the all black Arabian named Mini
I wish they made a bonding system for wild horses... That would be my dream update
I started playing SSO in 2014. A friend of mine wanted me to play it, so I did. There were really fantastic updates every Wednesday! But in 2019, when I lost my main account to a hacker, I really hated it. Still I managed to play SSO on a backup account of mine, but not as a lifetime star rider. The game updates are really going downhill. When there's a race, sometimes that's all there is. What's nice about that? I hope, and I keep that hope, that SSO will release updates like before + that the game is alive again 🙏🏻
Truthfully, the main reason I’m still continuing the game is because I had stopped playing for four years so I have quit a few quests and new areas to unlock. It’s a game that kept me going when I didn’t have much else. Plus I started playing it when I was only 8/9 and now I’m turning 18 in three months, so it’s got a very special place in my heart.
It’s sad bc it barely feels like a game anymore, when I log on once every few months it feels like a chore
i wish sso could give us 200 sc once a month for pay once firestar. it would be really good bc then sso would get more attraction and players, i wish the horses didnt cost so much :c
I mostly agree with the general public. Most of the reasons the game is "falling apart" is because people are growing up and realizing how bad and unprogressive the game actually is, and of course, we all know SSO is very money hungry. But another reason that's sort of left out, is the fact that when we were younger we just *liked* doing more things. We probably read all the quest lines, roleplayed, cared more about our horses etc. Growing up, you start to actually want a *good* game, and we don't really have that.
Edit: The only reason I play is because my sister and I play together, we care about our horses and make personalities for them and stuff, but if I was playing alone or only had SSO friends that were quitting anyway, I 100% would not be playing this game everyday. It shows that the only enjoyable thing about it is having someone else to be and have entertainment with, the game itself is not good enough anymore. I think the only hope for SSO is if more people start to realize these issues, go on more strikes and stop paying for Star Coins, and SSO finally pulls their head out of their as* and stops sucking up our money for pixels that aren't even special anymore.
I've been playing SSO since 2016 and it's really sad seeing this game die. But I also feel like it's time for me to move on completely from SSO. I've been uninterested in the updates for like 3 years now. I'm tired of logging in just to buy new horses.
I've only logged on maybe 2 times in the past few months since I fell out with an irl friend I played SSO with, even in the last months of us being friends we would mostly play RDR2 or Minecraft. I want to enjoy SSO again because it's the only big horse game out there, I might try and play more again but it's unlikely to be as fun as it used to be back when I could play for a whole day and still not get bored.
SSO has been a big part of my life but the mediocre updates and the fact that all my good memories on it are now tainted (cause of that 'friend') I've mostly moved onto other games as well as doing more in my irl hobbies so I have less time for SSO and won't make time cause I can't have fun anymore.
I cannot stress how much I just want to go back to the old days when I could just vibe in SSO and do roleplays or train while singing my music (very badly I must add). Maybe I might play again tomorrow as I will likely need entertainment (I'm going to see family and most of them are lowkey horrible people cause generational trauma y'know), gaming is good escapism I guess.
Dressage clubs that do Dressage at Jorvik Stables: Praise the gods, Its here.
I haven't seen a single riding club there. It's pretty empty there... Except for on Wednesday but now there is barely anyone.
If sso is dying, I'm glad it is. I don't play anymore and I want other games to rise. The childhood is over guys, let's find something better like Apex Legends or Genshin Impact.
Yeah, I agree, unfortunately, the game just isn't as enjoyable as we'd hope. I think it'd be cool if they added something new like an in-game high school where you study about being a soul rider, and can have your own dorm to decorate and invite people in. This would be so cool! and I don't think I'd mind learning more about the lore through a more unique experience in the game.
Honestly, I think the community itself is lowkey carrying star stable right now when it comes to content, discord servers like SSD, SSC, etc are all offering experiences beyond what sso has added.
I started playing SSO in 2012 and honestly I feel like the game has been dead for some years now. Back then, when I was a kid, the game was so exciting. I used to wait for every update playing with my friends or even with complete strangers, training my horses, doing quests etc. Whole community was so nice and calm, even if we had dramas, they weren't that big and they didn't happen that often. But it all felt right. And now I just can't imagine the players being that integrated. Surely there are the ones that wanna play with others, but you know what I mean. I really don't want to say this but right now SSO is only about buying new horses (every three weeks 🤪) and searching new bugs or glitches, and it's really sad to look at it from the perspective of a person who was playing the game from the very beginning. I personally have too many good memories to just leave the game and never come back, but I think it will happen some day, because SSO is doing nothing to stop old players from leaving
I'm level 21 I believe, I've been playing for as long as I can even remember and I never play anymore other than the occasional log on to finish up training, or do story quests. I play alicia online much more often- I find it easier to grind but there are some aspects I dislike aswell. (super sorry if this paragraph was spotty or hard to understand, I recently started a new medication which makes me lose my train of thought extremely easily)
omg this horse would be brilliant in dressage’s with that outfit you wore!!
If Star stable ended I would cry. Then look at my receipts and cry more. Then I would have rage. Then I’d literally have to be a Roblox or Minecraft UA-camr 😞
It would really suck. Maybe I should fly over to Sweden and make them listen…
i started playing in 2013 and played religiously till 2017, now every once in a while i’ll get on and play for a week straight and then won’t touch it for another year lol. but i will forever love this game
*sigh* I have no more hope for this game.. Anyway y’all, if you are looking for a cool game play Genshin Impact ! It’s not a horse game but I really recommend this game !
SSO is finally closing down after the company sold the copyright. In 2022 there will be an announcement on the website stating that anyone that still has star rider status is not going to be refunded their subscription. This is why they started doing more youtube sponsors, and more ads on google.
i haven't bought any star coins at all this year, and last year i only bought them 4 times (i think it was like 1500 in total). I've still managed to buy the horses that I've wanted and honestly i don't think the game deserves our money at this point with how much they've changed everything
Wouldn’t be surprised about the sso community, sso is just digging there own grave. They just getting money hungry bringing updates out like this so that kids that don’t have star rider just bug the adults till they give in and pay for it so they stop bothering them then they get stuck on it, if they brought out more codes for free star rider every once a month then I would say fair but it’s not fair seeing these updates if your a non star rider. I know i’m like that cause im a non star rider. I hope star stable doesn’t go down hill because I like playing but not if there getting money hungry.
I really think this might be sso last year but maybe not who knows. I also wanted to know how much sc we got this year just with the weekly 100 sc and that is 2.900sc, so say you want one horse from every breed that came out this year starting with the jorvik friesian, you would need 4.350sc, this is without any of the magical horses or the ones that are staying for a limited time, so either you need to have around 1.500sc left from last year to get one horse of all of the new breeds or you are gonna have to buy sc, this isnt even with the one day stable care strategy, that’s somewhere around 420sc this year alone. I am not even talking about how much it is gonna cost you if you wanna buy more than one horse from a breed and all of these breeds cost 750+ sc. Really I am done with sso, I might actually quit, been playing for 6+ years now but this is outragious, I barely come online anymore, it took me a week to even wanna do maya’s new quest, I used to love training but now I am barely doing it cause it feels like a task and its just all the same.
i personally never cared about the quests and just played to ride around and see new horses. now i also like club stuff (i have a dressage club) and taking pics. tbh i groan when theres new quests cause theyre boring for me but i get that for some theyre the reason they even play. for the community, honestly, having played since 2013 or so there never really was a community imho
The game is literally sitting taking up space on my pc, I got a lifetime Christmas 2019 really I have no motivation to play it anymore. Everyone of my friends left or dont play and it's so boring now.
I barely log on anymore and i havent bought star coins since last year. I basically buy the new horses when my weekly sc income can allow it. As a player from 2016, i could see how the weekly updates got repeateadly boring and i dont know how to feel about it anymore. It sucks to see how slow and eventless the community feels nowawadays
I play sso a lot more and I don’t get star coins often it doesn’t mean I hate the game I just don’t wanna buy the star coins we all have different opinions and we should be posting and engaging more so we can keep the game going! I have had 5 of my friends join the game this year and I hope the game never losses it’s worth
The community has literally turned into a community of drama
i dont reckon ill call it a community anymore but a debate club
@@gentorii_ felt that. Everything’s either drama over who knows what or debates over everything
I’ve been playing this game since 2015 and I loved it. It has been my childhood. Since Christmas 2020 I’ve haven’t been playing much. I think it’s just bc the updates are boring. I come online once a month bc there is an ‘exciting update’ a new horse or a mission. I left my club and now there’s nothing to do. Im not suprised if its dying.
It makes me sad to see that SSO is struggling to keep it's player base alive, i've been playing the game for exactly 2 years, since i'm not an older player, the game is still fun and entertaining for me, but i know many people are bored and dissapointed and for good reasons. SSO has a lot of potential, i hope the community stays together for more time ❤
me: plans a horse's name for days, sometimes weeks, before getting it. And even then sometimes spends ages on the name selection screen worrying about my favourite few choices.
Denise Wisestorm: 3:00
I only started to play like last week and the servers go dead at like 5 O clock in the evenings (I'm on Ireland servers) and nobody in my club logs on any more and then people will log on at like 1 O clock in the day and then just disappear,it's really sad
I played sso for how long i can remember honestly. I played the game every. Single. Day. I almost cried when i couldnt play it for a day😅 Yes i was young but the game was so much better and yes they improved with how the game looks but there is literally nothing nice to do anymore... in the past i had so much to do and had a lot of online friends to play with and we were having so much fun and they all quit because its so boring. I havent played for a long time and i don’t enjoy it anymore i wish they would just listen to us :(
I started playing in fall of 2018. I quit for a year and came back in 2019, played for like a week then quit again. I started playing during COVID, got lifetime, and have been playing ever since. I’m playing less and less now because it’s getting boring with no quests and less interesting horses and tack. Hopefully they do SOMETHING that brings a bunch of people back. With the SSO con, a lot of people came just to see people, I haven’t seen many submissions tho.
i have been playing sso for abt 3 months now and i still have so much fun playing! i was clubless for abt 4 weeks at one point and didn’t care. i will continue to play for a long time lol
I’ve been playing since 2013 and I stopped playing so many times. But I always come back and train horses. I miss the old time but also love the new one.
I moved on to other games.
A couple of new single-player games were released which I thought are interesting and now I spend most of my gaming time playing a single-player open world RPG.
It’s so sad to see this game deteriorate at a alarming pace… I remember back in 2018 Wednesday was so special to me and basically a highlight of my week, now I don’t even view Wednesday as SSO update day. Like when galloper Thompson’s horse came out, I begged my dad for Star coins, now new horses don’t feel special and I’m just excited about them coming out for not even a day. I have very fond memories of playing SSO and when it used to snow and playing the saving Anne for 7 hours straight, but the last good memory I have with that game is from the winter quests and stuff, and I can almost guarantee that that memory will be the last good memory about this game I will every have… :(
One of the staff of the SSO team said that there will be more quests coming! Stay patient guys💜
i don’t think sso is dying at all…. my server is always packed, i always see groups doing rp’s and training, i always see clubs together, ofc i’m a newer player and i cant rlly say much about how it’s getting boring cause i’m only at lvl 10 and have many many quests left, but it’s definitely not dead or dying
Yeah, but this is on YOUR server. You haven't seen what the other ones are like, so you really can't say much about how active it is.
Personally , I used to love sso with my whole heart. But I'm slowly getting sick of it , I used to log on for my friends / club , but then the club disbanded and I haven't been on for 1 and a half month...
I think a lot of older plays have moved on. I started in 2018, played for 2 years. In 2020 I quit. The thing is I was 7 when I was playing, so I’m 9 now and god, I quit. I think 9/10-14 year olds aren’t playing it either.
Yes, they are. It's the older players that are getting left in the dark. The game is literallg targeted towards 9 year olds.
@@homosexualsam6887 Not necessarily a problem. Things targeted for a younger audience can turn out to be wonderful. However in this case for SSO it seems like an easy way to get a quick buck.
@@homosexualsam6887 I guess yes, but I’m 9 and I occasionally log on, but not often but older players have quit.
I used to love Sso so much, I’d log on almost every day and *try* to go to every club event. I had lots of amazing friends who I’d spend hours on call and playing with. I’d also just spend ages questing, but now I log on for 5 mins and I’m already bored. Maybe it’s just cause I’ve grown up now and have better things to do🤣
I recently had to cancel my SSo subscription and uninstall the game, because my laptop genuinely couldn't load into the game anymore- and I was actually bummed out because it is a bit of a guilty pleasure but not enough of one that I'm going to drop money on a PC.
I have been playing the single month subscription since like February or so, and genuinely was thinking of just buying the game- I'm so glad I held off but still disappointed I can't play it.
So there's a theory that I saw saying SSO was created as a money making machine, and the developers want to let it die. It would explain why they are making a new game, when they haven't even come close to finishing this one and fixing it's problems. I really hope that is not true.
I'll be sad to see sso go. Honestly. I've been online for around 6 years, and those were the best times. I remember the awe of the game when I first started, the amount of kind people, and the engaging experience that kept me online more often than not. But around 2019, things just went massively downhill. Sso wasn't listening to their fans and what they wanted, the amount of new horses they were adding was overwhelming, and just the general drama that went down every single day was just so annoying and tiring. Luckily, throughout the drama I found some amazing friends that I share a Discord server with. But other than the events that our club does, I don't log on. I just don't see the point of a game where you have to sit around and wait for 9 WEEKS to get your money, and then buy a digital horse, wasting 9 whole weeks of your life waiting for those damn coins. Even the questline is boring. I've unlocked epona but that's all I'm ever going to do for the questline. I'm not gonna go buy more horses. I'm not gonna play the game unless my club has something to do on there.
The memories the game has given me won't be forgotten, but what I do want forget is the absolute shit-show the sso devs and community has become.
I had the BEST time in this game for a month, and then finished the main quest line and got bored, I loved looking forward to what was going to happen next.
Switching to Horse Reality was a game changer to me a few years ago. It takes time to learn but breeding and all that you can do keeps me entertained and it’s free…. Completely free..
the thing is for me its completely different i havent played in 5 months and since a few weeks im playing again and its really exciting for me to see all the new things and all the new horses they added and its making me so happx but yeah i get it for the people that played all the time because it kinda gets boring but trust me when you take a break from it it will come back to you eventually.
I've taken a year break from SSO. Came back, and I saw it was disapointing as ever. I don't think anything will ever help me like the game again now that I've seen the horrible states it's in.
@@stormhooves2353 well i think they made some big progress in horses, designs and the new areas but thats different for everyone! in my opinion they made some good changes
I started playing around early 2013/late 2012 and the game has collapsed. I mean there’s nothing to do anymore, nothing to entertain yourself with. And the community has gone to absolute trash. I mean, the game is mostly older kids at this point who curse every chance they get or argue over whatever they find. It’s sad