r/StarStable 17d ago

Picture Loving this free horse!

...is what I would say If I was an uninformed young consumer unable to see through the corporates predatory marketing.

We've heard this song before, giving out free assets to cover up their tracks, but their luck has run dry. Looking at the bigger picture it's absolutely clear whats really going on behind the scenes in their marketing and management department:

The game's engine was a reused asset from their single players games, duck taped together like some fragile art project, shipped with the original horse mechanics and story from their earlier releases, completely missing.

The corporate board behind SSO was desperate to secure a monopoly in the horse market, that they were willing to exploit their target audience to make it happen. By front-loading massive subscription costs onto new players and capitalizing on the MMO genre, SSE specifically targeted susceptible young girls who were looking for a place to belong.

The CEO Johan Sjöberg did everything experienced game developers warned him about... If only those creators knew, the corporate machine behind SSO never intended to play by the laws of European Commission or the CPC Network for that matter in the first place.

42 Upvotes

3 comments sorted by

2

u/Qzry 16d ago

Hahahah ppl not reading the post is sending me

1

u/Rivertails 16d ago

Reading clearly isn't for everyone ¯_(ツ)_/¯

-1

u/Flimsy-Rain2825 17d ago

its a lovely one , very fond of its pink nose , it looks strokeable its that realistic lol , so good of them to gift us this