[UPDATED] Devs' Corner: July 2025

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HellOw,

Our developers have something to tell you!

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The Howrse Team
 
Ow
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Even though I don't sell very many, I have to agree. Now I may not be able to sell them or get nearly as much as I used to. default smiley (n)
gollygee
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Wow, you have just diminished the value of my Iris coats and that is why I paid 500 passes for the cloud pack to breed for additional Iris coats. This is also a way I make passes to use on the game and frankly I am disappointed in this one.
nvern
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With everything that you add to the shop, why can't we trade these items using the exchange? I have a bunch of these BM items in my inventory and I play very casually. It'd be nice to trade some of these items that we can buy in the Black Market without having to do extra if another player asks/wants something that I can't trade.
NightSteed22
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what a joke. please tell me this is a joke. the game is a mess and all you care about is devaluing items. FIX the PROBLEMS that we care about.
Hiram Farmer
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6 times in the last week I've mentioned how they keep making changes no one wants, cares about or needs. I think this ridiculous update to a game that is total mess just proved my point. FIX the PROBLEMS we care about. it's not that hard all we want is a game that WORKS. we don't care that now we can buy these items in the BM. all that did was lower the value of the horses that already have it and the items we already have in stock.
Hiram Farmer
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Now rainbow coats and elements are worth even less...and I've seen them sitting in the sales for 10-20 passes for weeks now...cool...
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On one hand, yay! I like the coats and don't have to wait for them. On the other hand, now getting them in the games isn't nearly as exciting default smiley :@
Meanwhile the actual site has problems including, but not limited to, THE TROPHIES
MatchaBlossom
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The android app has completely stopped working! Just a few words show up on a black screen!! This update was a complete utter failure!!! If I try to resume, it sends me to the website. What is the point of having a non-functional app??? ���
Gh0stmare
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If they haven't been added to the exchanges, then I don't care.
Royale
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Such a pointless change. The market for all these items is already over saturated. Why would I spend passes on them? They've been released and rereleased in so many promotions that at this point they have no value. I also have a stockpile of most of them from being in promos so I have no need to buy them from the black market
Nemesis.
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Sisyphus Stone now in the black market. Finally! default smiley <:o)default smiley <:o) *does a little happy dance* I've been waiting for that update for ages default smiley <:o)default smiley <:o) *does another little happy dance*
Dr Zig
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default smiley :d default smiley <:o) what a brilliant addition to the black market and will make the game much more fun and without causing the loss of using the water of youth, we will always need them for certain divines and of course objectives default smiley ^) default smiley (y)
Saracen 101
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I honestly don't see the point of this update outside of devaluing items and Divines that players worked hard to obtain. default smiley (o)

Less currency for the playerbase, more for Howrse, I guess.
Crookedstar915
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Sisyphus Stone is a good item for Black Market if you don't want it to take forever to skill your Grand Prix horses. The rest of them don't seem to be of much use to me now that they don't count towards trophies. I have no real reason to collect one of everything anymore. I do wish Howrse would add more items to trade in the Black Market.

Also starting a pet exchange might be cool since most of us have companions we would be happy to sell or exchange. A Ye Olde Pet Shoppe, much like the black market would be cool. Maybe have rare companions in a flash sales section as a bonus. Might as well devalue the companions too since they aren't really worth that much anymore because we all know they might end up in a promo.

P l e a s e give us the silver retired horn of glory we have been asking for years for!!!default smiley (l)default smiley (l)default smiley (l)default smiley (l)
Sissy Long Stockings
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I'm so glad to see the Iris Coat now a permanent item in the shop!
When I'm using an Iris Coat over and over again on a certain horse to get a certain coat color, it gets expensive - and that's only one horse.
Waiting every 1 - 3 events to get a single Iris Coat took forever and a half.
I'm so glad with this decision!

Woven Tail Braid?
Yes, please - goes great with the Iris Coat!

Sisyphus Stone?
Haven't used them much except for one horse maybe, but still - great!

5th Element - the same as Iris Coat - so difficult to get certain coats on certain horses, so now I'm glad I can have more options to try again without having to wait between many events to try to get one!

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Sneaky Shadow
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I agree with adding the Sisyphus Stone to the BM, and my wrists will be thanking me for a long time to come as the amount of clicking on this game is insane.

However, we need the ability to trade or even sell back the other items would have been better than adding them to the black market permanently. The Iris and 5th elements are not special items anymore. I've had too many of these sitting in inventory or in sales unable to sell or use for months due to devaluing.

Also, yes, the Horn of Gold trophy and a Helios Ray trophy would be nice to actually put some of these to use in the game itself. As for the Golden Apple "Collection" that no one will be able to actually collect every one of each due to some of the coats only having 1 copy left now... that can continue to sit there and I would be very happy to see it removed.
nlriver
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I will have to agree with everyone that it feels like horses with these coats are being massively devalued now. I only okay very casually but I see where players are coming from and it would be rather frustrating if you've spent time and multitudes of passes on something that is now worth very little.
shuttupjoey
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Gh0stmare wrote:

The android app has completely stopped working! Just a few words show up on a black screen!! This update was a complete utter failure!!! If I try to resume, it sends me to the website. What is the point of having a non-functional app??? ���

I redownloaded the app and it started working again for me. Hope that helps default smiley ^)
PebblePrincess
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I've been working on breeding Iris horses to sell for passes (non-pass-buying-player), but I don't think I'll be able to sell them for nearly as much now - although it's nice to be able to buy them, when you make a change like this it devalues the item and it's hard for players who have been banking on the exclusivity of the item.

MatchaBlossom wrote:

Meanwhile the actual site has problems including, but not limited to, THE TROPHIES
Nice to see I'm not the only one still mentioning them at the update. default smiley (6)
Veren
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So I have a set of 5th element unis. I bred them with tears and skilled them, which means with WOY. I've been removing the WOYs slowly using the daily objectives. It's been 1 year and I still have 1 uni with the WOY left.

Anyway, this was before the sys stones were a thing. I guess I can avoid this WOY pain if I want to do another set of female unis now.
Tearsong
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Yess give us nothing default smiley :) These past few "updates" have been god awful and have genuinely made this game so much worse.
Viff
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I'm not going to touch on the BMIs, but what's the point of the Change Log if we aren't being told about changes made?

This BLUP notification is a new change (a useful one, at least), but isn't mentioned anywhere.
fletcher
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Very nice change!
I rather like having some Easter Eggs default smiley ^)
gaff
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HellOw,

Thank you, everyone, for sharing your feedback!

I've gathered and shared it with the team.default smiley (ow)

Have fun playing Howrse!
AmOwzing
AmOwzing
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Am I correct in understanding that buying horses with special coats from sales no longer goes towards the trophy/collections? I have been away from the game for a bit. If so, thats a bummer. Thank you!
Smokeys Girl
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