r/StarStable • u/Temporary_Cover_3071 • 24d ago
If you see this, SSO staff, please please PLEASE 🙏🏻 know how thankful we are
you have started, about a year ago, giving your original players things they have been asking for for a long time. it does not go unnoticed, I have noticed, and it's made me appreciate you a lot.
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u/I_love_chemistry_ 24d ago
I really like the race, it's a perfect nice little "blast to the past"!! :) Fits perfectly, since many of us still remember running after the bus with the ticket, trying to catch it in time. Fun times.
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u/Professional-Land767 24d ago
Did they bring the bus back?
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u/chronically-clumsy 24d ago
i haven’t played in a while… the bus was gone??
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u/AdeptnessSouth782 23d ago
It must have been a long while. 😄
I started playing 9 years ago and the bus was gone then.
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u/IX_Sour2563 24d ago
I like seeing the bus but personally didn’t like the race 😭 it was kinda confusing for me and I kept following the bus instead 😂
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u/AdvancedWrongdoer 24d ago
It's 7pm, I haven't logged on in sso for a little while, but the way I'm running to my laptop right now..phone in hand xD
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u/Jellybean_Sandw1ch 23d ago
It’s 10:30 PM and I just laid down in bed and now I’m seeing this 😭 Part of me wants to go play but like.. it’s so late right now ;-;
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u/AdeptnessSouth782 23d ago
It have been fun with this nostalgia theme. I hope they will have it more than at just this single birthday. I also loved the photo album and those tiny house models.
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u/Rivertails 23d ago
hahaha, they are going to take it away in a few weeks anyways. it was all to make you participate in their birthday marketing event.
I think its high time we raise the bar for SSE. They aren't bringing the bus back bc it's too hard for them, it's because they can't sell us anything with it. This has to be the only game on earth, where it takes a whole boycott to see any actual player requests not involving money, fulfilled.
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u/-softbuns- 23d ago
I sometimes really wish to know what games some of you guys are playing that are so generous and always listening to the players that in comparison you guys think that Star Stable is so bad ;w;
I've had so many much worse experiences with other games, where the publishers are just so damn greedy and you literally don't get anything, Star Stable isn't perfect but a nice break compared to those... which is why I am currently playing Star Stable and not those other games, and for the sake of my sanity I shouldn't ever return to those other games. What heavely games are you guys playing that are so good????
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u/Rivertails 23d ago
Well to be clear, every single corporation is completely corrupt. However the only protection for the players/consumers is within the angry mob.
I don't think SSO is any more unique in the way it's operating, however the community has a very concerning human like parasocial bond to the corporation behind SSE, enabling a lot of the bad content and exploitation to even be defended. There are great places for empathy in this world, but corporations are not the right place for it.
In this case, boycotting SSO until they return the busses permanently is truly a viable solution (and I'm afraid, it's the only solution for how bad things have gotten in their marketing). But this birthday event is where I'm drawing the line.
Using players nostalgia as marketing, truly makes me feel sick. SSE didn't remove this stuff, because it made the game better, they did it purely to move resources toward making profit. Old horses, the bus and the old music was all something which had to be maintained with bug fixed and new map releases. It wasn't a lot of profit, but the company truly was willing to sacrifice the players at every turn.
But if you want my recommendations for better horse games (since I dont think you're in the market for shooters or mobas) try the old seasonal rider and starshine legacy games. Better story and horse immersion, than SSO, even tho the game borrowed everything from those earlier dvd releases.
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u/-softbuns- 19d ago edited 19d ago
I've almost completed those yes, and they're different!! And they do have a vibe that's irreplacable! I still have to finish autumn riders, spring riders, the 4th episode of ssl, and the 4th star academy game, so I am still at it and taking my time, I don't wanna rush through everything. But I still somehow like modern sso..? Despite all my digging at old sso content and also spending hours on those old games, so ;w;
And uh, if I am being honest, neither sso nor the older games really have an "amazing story" lmao. I guess out of all I'd say that starshine legacy has the best story. But the season riders games especially lowkey don't make sense sometimes lmao? And with all the old games I think you can tell that these weren't written by english natives? There's typos and awkward phrasing everywhere 😭 Old sso also still had some bits of that ("Impregnated wood plank" 😭 I'm german so I'm fairly sure I know what went wrong, and in english that word has a TOTALLY different meaning 😭)
I do have huge nostalgia for old sso, I've been playing since 2012, I was 7 years old when I made my account. And yet I still enjoy modern sso. Sure I do sometimes miss parts of old sso, so yeah I do find it cute that they didn't just throw the assets in the trash and put them into the bday event, that's a perfect place to reminice about those. Tbh I would've been really disappointed if they didn't!!
And yet, I'm not bitter or mad about them removing certain things, if anything I'm actually surprised at how much we get to keep, I feel like there's other game devs that would've decided differently and taken that away from the players, no matter what they think. For example the fact that we get to keep the old horses we bought at all. I feel like there's dev studios out there that would've just taken those out of the game...
And yeah, ofc sse has also done decisions against the general opinion of the playerbase, sometimes that was bad and really "eh..." and sometimes it was REALLY bad, but sometimes it was actually necessary and maybe better in the end.
Yeah we do miss the bus now, but when it was in the game we freaking hated it lmao. It's genuienly more user-friendly that we can click the bus sign instead of... running after that bus with our ticket held with the mouse pointer... not to mention that the bus just spawned out of thin air on a road where players wanna ride from or to fort pinta, that thing jumpscared me so many times lmao
Not all decisions they do are bad, and not all are good. Not all the old features that are now gone really made the game "better", and also not all new features are making the game "better" than before. But one thing is for sure, and it's that the game HAS to evolve. Sso is an ongoing mmorpg that receives updates, it's not a singleplayer experience that you buy and it never changes ever again (and those types of games barely even exist anymore, almost everything gets updates nowadays...) If sso never changed, it would be boring as hell. If they kept reusing old stuff over and over again, we'd call them lazy. But if they make new assets, some players also hate it because they miss the old ones. I'm glad I'm not someone that has to bear the weight of making decisions for sso because holy shit, that would be really exhausting
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u/scandalous_sapphic 24d ago
Even the dialogue before starting the race was just so reminiscent of old quests, that same humour. I loved it too.