[Survey] The Great Challenge and the Lottery



HellOw!

The Great Challenge and the Lottery has come to a close. We hope that you were lucky during the lottery draw and were able to win all the prizes during this event.

We would like to gather your thoughts and feedback about the event. Below are a series of questions you can rate: What was good about the event? What can be improved? Ratings range from 1 (the lowest) to 5 (the highest).

We always appreciate your feedback, but please remember the forum rules and keep it constructive!

Thank you for your time and feedback!

Sincerely,
The Howrse Team
pOwny
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Trying to find my prizes from the last draw :/
campari_and
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While I liked the prizes, I still strongly feel that the slightly cheaper starting price for the tickets, and a few more during the challenge portion, was not a fair return for losing the third draw that we always reached. It would have been nice if we could have made it up elsewhere, like through more friend tickets and competitions per round. The key ticket also should have been up'ed to two to make up for the loss of draws, as the only way to get that was through pass use.
Oathkeeper
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campari_and wrote:

Trying to find my prizes from the last draw :/

There’s a message with the contents.
Ruffian
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I loved my prizes was disappointed in not getting some but heck that is life. And I finally got a hestias touch which I immediately slapped on a unicorn mare as well as a hera pack!default smiley (l)
I did buy some stuff during the event age points and tack with clovers. But the rest I left to pure chance. default smiley (7) so I am definitely happy with what I got! Thank you.
Gandalf
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I genuinely thought this event had been nerfed going into it but am pretty pleased with my awards. The lower frequency draws currently works well with my play style, too.
silver--mane
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It was better when they did the lottery every 8 hours. The 12 hour was very disappointing prize drop
deery
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I much preferred the 12 hourly draw as there was no scrabbling round to make sure to log in and get the 2 wins etc but did find it hard to find lottery UFOs. As a long time player most of the prizes were things I already have plenty of but can see that, for others, they may have been good. I kept getting Phanes Eggs, which I never use, and not a sniff of a Fleece , which would be useful to me but that's how lotteries are. I would say I'd prefer a decent divine as the top prize but I'm just not interested in the jennies or zebras.
minkthepink
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campari_and wrote:

Trying to find my prizes from the last draw :/


Look for a pm with the link.



I much preferred this version to previous ones. Less time wasted keep checking back and looking for wins. It means that no-one misses a draw no matter which timezone they are in.

For me lottery prizes have always been poor so I like the clovers to allow choice of at least some prizes that are useful to me. I am very happy with what I got this time.
deimos
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The lottery was fun and I enjoyed the great challenge aswell, I felt like I might have missed a day with the great challenge, because towards the end it just didn't work out with the horse shoes. I can't wait for the next one.
Now with the lottery portion, it was super fun aswell, I do feel though that the percentage of people winning the special horses was very low in comparison to how many players were participating in the game. But overall it was fun!
MoonlightMaya
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I personally found this version to be completely underwhelming. The prices were mediocre, or at least my luck was. I still don't like that you have to pick "all or nothing" (I ended up picking new tickets in every single draw, and the final draw was just a disappointment. The same goes for the prize shop...), and I don't like that you have to activate the golden tickets for each draw. They really should carry over. I much prefererred the original lottery.

I will say my friends list really came through and gave tickets for every single draw, and I did my best to give tickets in return to everyone I saw. So my friends list was the best part of the event.
Cranedaughter
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I really wish Howrse would retire the lottery and the great challenge. A long time ago, the lottery was done much differently and I enjoyed that route, but now? It is just tedious. default smiley (n)
WildKratts
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I would say it was okay, didn't get anything special in lottery draws, the best I got was fertility wand default smiley (lol)
EviTA
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I still think we need to change up the Great Challenge to make it a little more invigorating. Like, there should be no limit as to how many horseshoes we are allowed to collect.
StarLegacy
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While the clovers were nice for picking what I wanted and I was happy with selecting the Hera’s pack and Hestia’s gift, I would have liked to receive black market items more often. I also received a lot of duplicate companions, which got a little boring. It would have been nice to select which prizes we could trade back for tickets instead of trading the entire winnings
Azeravla
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This oontest was very good when it was first introduced years ago. I think this older format could be implemented next time to make it a "Great" challenge again.

Prizes were ok, not fantastic.

Zonkeys are not a useful Divine other than collecting. Please offer a Divine that offers monthly perks at least.

I disliked only having 2 draws daily. Quite a few potential prizes were lost during the course of the contest.

Please offer small pass packs again! Had this years ago - packs of 3 or 5 passes. A useful item, and not a companion.

Thank you for your consideration.
carlaz84
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@ pOwny

I know what I can do with my clovers; I am asking about any other prizes that I lost from the last draw, since I was unable to come online and claim any rewards (other than the clovers I see at my disposal) before the draw page disappears from the game (before event ended).
PrimeHellix
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I only wish that we could exchange our sell the prizes we don't want. I got two items that specifically deal with breeds I don't have/don't want. default smiley :s
QuietCryptid
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OK, got the message in my inbox. All clear. Thanks.
PrimeHellix
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So, that's 190 tickets from beginning to start, never took my prizes in between. I won 89 items compared to the 470 "on average" (?). I bought the 600p pass beforehand. I missed 2 draws because I could not play before 2pm (my timezone). The draw before would have given me one Shark and one Fleece. I should have taken this one. My bad. Anyway, I had 3000+ clovers and bought 2 Hestias and 1 Hera. Have split up the rest on small things.

Despite Jenny and Zebra (to name something...), I am disappointed.

I am going to quote myself with the text I already wrote in the event forum for the lottery:

"This is a request towards Owlient, and I think many people are with me when I say:
Please bring back the old version of the Lottery. We win/buy tickets and when the draw starts you always instantly get the price but you can also win tickets for the next draw again. Which AUTOMATICALLY lets you take part in the next lottery. If you think we need clovers, sure then, give us clovers as well. But right now you can never take part in the next draw anymore before you decide what to do. And if I am not online, I wont even get the chance to win stuff. And I get the idea of 2 draws a day [for] better stuff, but if you stick to those low value prices, we really need our 3 or 4 draws back."
DieBestän
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For the Great challenge I think there should be the possibility to get enough horseshoes to complete it all even with a day without login. It really isn't fair that even with working hard on the days you're on. If you don't get all the shoes on one day or you just don't have the time to log in you're doomed and that's really underwhealming for a newish player who's trying to get the more out of every event but still has a life to tend to irl.
As for the lottery, I surely woul've liked to be able to choose wich prices to keep and which give away for new tickets. Having to sacrifice a whole bunch of tickets for just one item isn't really nice imo
Boffindur
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Beginning to end* of course, not start to start, that would have been cool default smiley xd
DieBestän
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The lottery side was much better with the 2 draws per day, felt it was much more generous with the clovers
default smiley :)
Fleas
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This was my first lottery/great challenge. The challenge was fun, the lottery was way too expensive for new players (I've been here less than a month I think) and it was tedious for me to get friend tickets or even pay for regular tickets because the price increased so substantially. I also bought all the fragments for lava that I could afford with the clovers I got and it wasn't even half of the ones I needed to get the horse. It was disappointing because I spent a lot of money for little reward, which I feel is not really fair to those that are newer or not as successful as those who have a lot of money to pay for passes and what not. Perhaps a rethink of how it works is in order.
AllunahSoliel
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Thank you Howrse for all the games you give us with all the free prizes! I did use passes to get the extra prizes, and I usually do in this game. I was very happy to win 2 HGs with the clovers this time. I really like the 12 hour draws and I didn't miss a single lottery game this time. Yay! default smiley (l)
Asking
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Omg I wrote out a whole complaint about being late to the last lottery draw but JUST saw howrse actually grabbed them for me, thank you!!default smiley (l)
Sashtato
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