Howrse

Yes, people do loose karma and they do delete accounts without notice. But no one has accually listed the good points. Howrse is an oppurtunity to be creative, and have fun. You can enter your own GA and RC coats that go to voting and can become part of the game, and you can create your own Helios rays (backgrounds for the horses). The passes problem is not a problem for me. I am, and always will be, a non pass buyer. I earn my passes through daily objectives, which can give you up to 30 passes every day. The promos are hard to win, but they are most certainly not impossible, I mean, they can't just hand everything over to you. It is a fun game, but it does has a few issues. Players get to test new events, which is very fun, and help howrse find any bugs and/or glitches.

I am not saying you must get howrse now, this is just my personal experience. I have had a good experience (and no, I am not one of those 'snobby' high ranked teams. I am accually pretty low in the rankings). I hope a lot of others have the same experience I didn't, but hey, you win some you loose some.

Ever since they came out the love divines were in a HOP offer every Valentine's. Guess what, now they're in the reserved sales for 2 000 $#*!ing passes and the new one is in the Golden Fleeces. It's not the first nor the last slight we'll receive from them. This game is run by greedy bastards and it deserves to crash and burn to the ground. I spent years and years on this game and like many others I put thousands of hours of work into it only for them to mock and screw us over at every occasion they get.

This entire game is run and filled by greedy slobs. Not only is the sight hard to navigate, but it's entirely rigged for the people who can pay their way through it. The community and the Horse Sales are a nightmare. Someone is always there to outbid you and every horse in direct sales is insanely overpriced. Why can't I drop the price on a non-purebred from 200K to 27K? Seriously? These aren't even real horses and people are freaking and playing like they are. This game really isn't worth it. I highly recommend you find a better game to play.

Money hungry corp
"We sanctioned your account because we found that you did not obey these rules. Efficient tools aid in the detection of these infringements of the rules, and the punishment is, thereby, justified; thus, we won't lift the penalty."

This is what they say when they think you are multi accounting. But there just happens to be 2 people in the same family that play howrse. Honestly s hit company. These new changes are crappy, You have to kiss the mod's asses to not get karma docked for saying anything.
PAY TO WIN GAME BY THE WAY IF NO ONE NOTICED.
Their customer service is worse then talking to a scam company. They dont listen whatsoever. Sooo if you send them alot of emails, they have to respond to every one of them. So what happens if u send 100x emails a day over small s hit in the game? IDK ima try bc im petty.
Game is dominated my people without a real life. GP race, drama, mods, the entire howrse team, they all suck butt.
Luckily i never spent money but i know a bunch that did that all got perma banned. Remember in 2018 or something, a TON of players all got banned? That was fun lul

Free speech doesnt exist in the game.
Your opinion will get you banned.
Bans people without warning
Contact us is like talking to a wall
Pay to win
Cant do anyhting for first 30 days of the game. Why not just quite within those 30 days
Gotta kiss those mod's asses to live/not get karma docked
Its literally impossible to get the divines from promos without paying.
Not every teen kid playing howrse can afford to pay 200 dollars for some useless divines.
Mad expensive
Their "Efficient tools aid in the detection" is just how much they like you.

They dont give a flying duck about the game, they just want money. Its so obv since all the new changes are so money focused(piggy bank)

I joined Howrse.com as a child in 2007. I loved it. I spent HOURS on it. Now, the game is unrecognizable. It is no fun and completely impossible if you don't want to spend real money. Final straw for me was the pass currency change and the loss of pass horses. They used to give you 1 pass if a horse died in your care over the age of 30. I'm a retired coat collector. Small scale. I'd earn enough Equus to buy a few pass horses a month and would save for coats. They took that away from me, and I refuse to pay $15 for passes to buy a retired coat horse. This game has been going down hill for YEARS, but it total trash now.

I had my account for 10 years with howrse. Spent tons of money too. I had rare and divine horses, horses I'd spend literally hours on trying to perfect their skills. It's all gone forever. They completely wipe your account with no warning after 6 months of inactivity. 6 months is not that long for an account that has been around for 10. YEARS. I'm an adult now, of course I can't play every day. I'm just really upset about this because they won't restore anything that I've lost, and they DO NOT KEEP RECORDS. I keep better records than them - I have the original email from when I first signed up. But they haven't kept any information on file so I just can't get anything back. How absolutely dumb. What a nice surprise for a loyal customer of 10 years. Never giving them another penny.

I have played howrse for several years and was obsessed with this game. I had so much fun breeding, buying and selling horses. Unfortunately life got in the way and I wasn't able to play for two years resulting in my account being deleted. I recently created a new account to try it out again as I loved this game. It was then I realized that my beloved game and turned into something I didn't even recognize. All these changes they've implemented to "improve" the site have done nothing but drive loyal long time players away and scare off new ones. The passes, the piggy bank, the need for people to spend spend spend just to play a "free" game is absolutely ridiculous. You used to be able to work you way up in the game and do well for yourself without spending money. Now they're essentially saying "if you can't pay, don't play. We don't want you here." It's nothing more than a way to take advantage of unsuspecting kids and long time players trying to keep up with a warped version of something they one loved. Just stay away!

Nothing but a greedy game with a toxic community. I joined when the game first started and loved it - loyal member up until Owlient wasn't the owner and it's become nothing but a sad site to see. They will boot you for just about anything including having an opinion of your own (Even if respectful mind you). You can't get far in the game without a bunch of $. I highly suggest looking else where. Try Horse Reality out! You won't be as disappointed or taken advantage of. Plus it's got graphics worth checking out.

I have played on Howrse for over 10 years now and I have seen some unfairness when playing, but now I can see how one sided it is; I and another player were warned simply for standing up for ourselves to a person that decided to belittle and bully with their high-and-mighty attitude of "you have no life because you play differently to me". It seems unless you pat Howrse's backside you are enemy number 1, which makes you a target.
While I will not be one of those that goes "Howrse is a game only for the rich" as I know from experience you can play by in game means, but having one side that is allowed to bully another is sickening and makes for an insanely bad atmosphere.
Contact us is beyond useless and is all hush hush when it comes to telling us things and will never admit fault, even when they were not clear and it cost you to lose out as a result, something which happened to myself and several others during a promo that happened last year.
Some of the mods are so far up their backside that it is quite clear they are just kissing Howrse's backside or are just too far up their own high horse to care that they are insulting a lot of people and just being rude. That said, there are some lovely mods that are beyond kind and helpful and will do whatever they can to help you, but there are more good than bad.
10 years of loyalty and I have finally opened my eyes to the abuse and one sidedness that goes on on this game.
Don't dare voice your dislike, as otherwise you will get the Howrse kiss-ups on your backside and will become a target.
Shame that a once great game is going down the pan due to the failures running it.

This was a good game... in the beginning. Then the changes started and the constant promos. I guess the first red flag was some of the admins leaving. Admins that used to play the game and talk to us in the forums, not DOWN to us.

Major red flag for me was when there was a mass exodus of all the mods. And i still do not know the reason why. But it is very suspicious.

This game has become a cult. It is very sad but it is true.

Here is why i say that with absolute conviction

1) The group displays excessively zealous and unquestioning commitment to itself.

Yes this is howrse in a nutshell the admins and mods are excessively zealous and punish any dissenters.

2)Questioning, doubt, and dissent are discouraged or even punished.

I have nothing further to say on this subject

3) The leadership dictates, sometimes in great detail, how members should think, act, and feel (for example how one should play the game. Everyone is being told to play the same way.)

4)suppressing any dissenting opinions (example, everyone who says anything remotely against howrse is bullied and/or banned away from the forums. This serves to show others what could happen to them if they go the same route and do not totally love everything about howrse)

5)The group is elitist, claiming a special, exalted status for itself, its leader(s) and members ( the admins can not be called into account. The mods can not be called into account. If you want to be a mod they do not have specific rules for that but everyone knows it takes serious brown nosing. They dangle the carrot of becoming a mod as a special status

6)The group has a polarized us-versus-them mentality, which may cause conflict with the others players of the game. This has already come into effect.

7)The team is not accountable to any one.

8)The team teaches or implies that its supposedly exalted ends justify whatever means it deems necessary. Many years ago a dear friend and her son were banned from the game and accused of multi accounting. Just because they have the same ip address. Over the years this has happened to more and more people. When questioned the teams stated they had this "super advanced multi accounting tech sniffer" that could tell if someone on the same ip address was cheating or if there were more family members. If this is true then you would not need the spring cleaning that came and now they are claiming the pass horse change is also to stop cheaters.

When will the madness end?

9)The leadership induces feelings of shame and/or guilt iin order to influence and/or control members. Often, this is done through peer pressure and subtle forms of persuasion. Need i say more?

10) Subservience to the leader or group (example if you go against the team you will be labeled a trouble maker and bullied and/or banned.

11)The group is preoccupied with bringing in new members.

12)The group is preoccupied with making money.

13)Members are expected to devote inordinate amounts of time to the group and group-related activities. (hence the unrelenting promos)

14) i am sorry should there be more? Is this not enough to convince you?

I've played this game for 10 years. I've spend thousands in USD supporting this game and almost half of my life bolstering my ranking and helping teams grown the GP of many different teams. I've dedicated so much to this game, but in the end it really isn't worth it. The administration is awful--often, they acknowledge that players hate new changes and don't want them, but respond with a "too bad" attitude and sanction users for any public outcries. This game used to be so much fun to play, and I still remember when I was a little girl getting to live out my dream of caring for horses in a way that was realistic for me. It isn't like that anymore. You can be punished for anything imaginable, from saying you dislike a promo to just having too many warning, which can be any amount of warnings at all! Most of the rules are not written anywhere on the site, and moderators and administrators complete ignore vicious cyberbullying in the forums. You can even be banned for trying to defend yourself against insults! You cannot advance in this game without real money, and Howrse and its staff do not care about you. If you have a problem, it can take weeks for them to get back to you. If a promo or something else on the site is broken, no one will address it until it is already fixed. Communication doesn't exist on this site. It's a broken system, and it deserves to fade into the background.

I've played since 2012 and I'm now I'm quitting because the game is going down hill and is no longer fun to play. Their is little communication with players. There is censorship in the forums and on your own page if your opinion opposes their ideas or new features. There are rules that are simply just dumb and need reform for example, you cannot give away equus because it is trafficking but you can buy any horses you want (for any price as long as you can afford it). Years ago there was a forum for players ideas and that is long gone since they do not care about what players think. The ambassadors in the game are only being used to pretend like they communicate with players. Howrse announced a new update that the ambassadors never knew about. Over the years the promotions have increased and so has the number of divine horses. They are a very money hungry company. I was also banned out of the blue for multiaccounting when I wasn't and was banned for 30 days. I don't know if it was related to a mod being on one of my teams.

That's the best way I can describe it. While the company itself may think its doing itself a favor by pushing updates and changing economy, I see it driving many players away. They've restricted the ease and the amount of the premium currency you can obtain in-game without paying money for it. Relating it to real life for people who haven't played, if before you could get $30 for 2 hours of work, now you get $9 for a month of work. They've added an unnecessary 10% tax to all sales in the market, claiming its to limit cheating. They do the minimum when it comes to communicating with players. There is no specific set of rules to follow. When asked why we dont have a list of rules, we are told it is because there are too many to list off. This results in rules being vague, people getting extra warnings and bans because of not understanding what is and what isnt allowed.

I could go on, but my final verdict is - dont play the game. Its far too much effort, far too hard, rigged, expensive, and is becoming quite a chore rather than a game.