Howrse

I am honestly shocked at this game's operation. Ostensibly open to players of all ages, it is free to open an account, but requires a significant investment of real money to advance. In talking with other players, I have learned that investments of hundreds and even thousands of dollars annually are required to play competitively. That is something to consider before joining a sim game with possibly addictive elements.

But what is more alarming is the hostility and outright contempt with which the administrators of the game treat their players. Huge game upheavals occur regularly as rules are changed with little or no warning, leaving long-time players at a serious loss. Non-appealable decisions by game administrators eliminate accounts, sanction players, and punish game members for minor or innocent offenses. Game reps have admonished players with rude and inappropriate language, without repercussion. Honestly surprised that this game has survived the growth of social media, as it is just the sort of uncaring corporate monolith that is regularly taken down by organized protest.

My son and I used to bond over this game.

For six months we worked our asses off to build our money and horses

Then they accused us of Multi Accounts and TOOK EVERYTHING.

When I emailed them, this was their exact response

Hello phil,

Thanks for contacting us. Having several accounts (named "Multi-using" or "multi-account") is strictly forbidden on Owlient games. Several warnings about this are mentioned in the game.

If you were punished it is because your accounts have been identified as multi-accounts. Please keep in mind that connecting to another player's account is also considered multiple accounting.

We realize there are times when players would like some help tending their horses. The game includes a Shared Account feature for use with trusted family members. When the ban is lifted and you connect to your account, please review information about Account sharing in our Game Help Breeder's Manual > Section 1.6 Account sharing.

http://us.howrse.com/aide/manuel#gestion-partage

As this identification is done with effective tools, the punishment is thus justified and will not be reversed. Please do not send further inquiries about this.

When the punishment is over (you will be able to see that when you try to connect to your account), you will be allowed to play again, but only on one account.

Thank you for your understanding.

Kind regards,
The Howrse Team

The punishment was a suspension of my sons account and a 30 day wait to play on my account

REALLY? WOW, HERES MY RESPONSE... YOU ARROGANT POS's...
GO F**K YOURSELF

My advice to any one thinking of playing... DONT WASTE YOUR TIME AND MONEY!

This game and the company that manages it has got to be one of the most misleading things I've ever seen. They did a "economic overhaul" and all players who sell horses have to be taxed on the sale price. The 10% of funds go to a "community piggy bank" where you can buy special items for easily obtained "equus" instead of store bought "passes". The thing that makes me, and a lot of other players, mad is that there is no announcement of the "community piggy bank" opening to buy the items. They send out other almost worthless emails about the game, but can't bother to send out a notification that players put their earned time into happening? They also implemented this feature for the sake of curving "item and pass trafficking". Bogus.

There are also more and more reports of accounts that have had hundreds, if not thousands, of real dollars put into being hacked. Howrse's website is a very simple, hackable script. And their security features are so simple it's very easy to hack other player's accounts. Howrse, your players out TIME, MONEY, ENERGY and FAITH in you and your game. Step up and be held accountable to your actions! Offering a player who spent hundreds of dollars into your company an almost worthless starting pack after her account and hundreds of literally irreplaceable horses are lost is ABSOLUTELY OBSURD! This is what turns long time players off of putting more money into your game!

This game sucks big time. Lazy unhelpful & highly unprofessional customer service. My 4 brothers all played with different accounts so their logic is we were the same user. They're so stupid that they assumed it was one account which means their rules are even dumber. I did so a chargeback & got my money back after they temporarily banned a couple of our family accounts. Not giving my money to these greedy thieves again. Horrible game & people. Very unprofessional. Stay away!

This games used to be a lot of fun to play but it seems to have all gone downhill now and to top it off my account got deleted :/ I've been playing for many years now, 500+ seniority, horses with retired coats, bewitched pumpkins, diamond apples, rare custom companions, divines etc. and after I took a little while away from the game at the start of college they deleted my account along with all of my horses and hard work. There are also a load of new, ridiculous rules that had me losing karma points left and right every time I left the game for a while despite not doing anything intentionally 'bad'. Not going to be making a new account.

My kids and i joined... each with separate accounts. I spent money on each person's account. We were doing it as a family fun thing. Within 4 days they blocked all of out claiming that i had multiple accounts. NO. I appealed and explained that the 4 accounts were for myself and my three children. Separate people, separate accounts, separate emails, separate computers/tablets. They refused to reinstate our accounts and ignored my request to refund my money. Basically they called me a liar. I don't know how their "sophisticated technology" works but it screwed up for us and I have to wonder how many others this has happened to. Seriously ticked off. I called my credit card company and they said I have no grounds to dispute it because I have one ip address and one method of payment so Howrse see it as one user. Next time I guess I should have my kids move out and use their own credit cards? Kind of hard as they are all too young. Ridiculous. Infuriating.

I WOULD NOT GO ANYWHERE NEAR THIS GAME OR APP! It is worth crap and they rip you off so you will spend more money... STAY AWAY... STAY AWAY... STAY AWAY... STAY AWAY... STAY AWAY There are just tooo many OTHER GAMES TO USE... DONT SPEND A PENNY ON THIS... YOU WILL REGRET IT. If I could give them a negative 1 billion... I WOULD... but they force you to give them a one. STAY AWAY... STAY AWAY... STAY AWAY... STAY AWAY... STAY AWAY...

Hello
I have played howrse for almost 10 yrs. Just recently my daughter who turned 10 this year asked if she could join. I told her of course she could. Now my daughter is bright for her age and is used to setting up her own accounts for a lot of her online games and media things like Music. Ly. So she set her account up on her own laptop, created her own account using her own email address. That was in May 2018. Since she spends the summer at her dads house almost 1100 miles away her account was not very active. Though she did pop on from time to time and we sent an occasional message to her. That being said, she was a different inter net provider using the isp from her laptop that I dont use. She does not have my password and I do not know hers and could not have possibly been in two different states almost 1100 miles apart at the same time or within hours of out log ins. She earned the money for passes doing chores but since she is only ten, I used my card to get her passes that she earned. My account has never gained passes from her account, we have traded a few horses here and there but so do the top breeding players on countless levels on a daily basis! But I guess Howrse and Owlient see this as multi accounting and banned my account for 30 days! And my daughters as well. Almost ten years of loyalty and a lot of hard earned money and I was met with an abrasive generic response with no actual proof of multi accounting. What myself and my daughter did is no different than the top teams do between their players selling horses to each other and trading BMI items on a daily basis. The only difference is that my horses and my daughters horses can not even make a dent in the top gp breeding teams therefore no advantage could possibly be made for myself or my daughter.
My advice save your money and your time, to much politics and too many higher ups who don't give a crap for any of the people who play. Howrse is not the same game it used to be. If you are fanatic horse lovers like myself and my daughter, invest in Star Stable accounts! Way more fun and so much nicer and better to play. We have so much fun being able to see each other in game and to race and compete together, train horses together, do the story quest together! A much better venue for quality game time with my daughter!

They never listen to complaints or concerns. If you feel if another player is being rude to u they will side in their favour so long as they didnt curse or use black listed words. They're making it harder to get passes too. They recently added a new feature that literally every player said no to when they put it on the test server. They also recently to me accidentally deposited a large sum of money into my bank account. They did not tell me about it at all, and 3 days later when they realized this happened without my consent they withdrew that money from my bank. It was their finds to begin with yes but they just made the withdrawal without telling me or asking for consent, thus I feel they completely violated my privacy. And what do they do when I SHOW them what happened? $#*! all. And they try to tell me it was delayed charges. I used to love the game and still love the overall gameplay, but their managment has me feeling completely violated of my privacy

Perhaps one of the the worst games to exist. Incompetent administration, corrupt moderations and a gaggle of players who can do no wrong.

There is no free speech on this website called howrse.con. Any complaints about the company will get you docked karma (their magical system for silencing players) and they will restrict your gameplay functions. Anything said MUST be sugarcoated or the admin or one of their brainwashed moderators will target you for the rest of your game.

Their "contact us" is the WORST. Administration do not have provide proof for any of their actions, citing "privacy reasons". I'm pretty sure that's illegal or something, but since Howrse is an obscure game, they can skirt these regulations. Their behavior is also hilarious. Replies seem to be automated, and there is no consideration of the human behind the screen. You have no rights on this game, and admin can and WILL sanction you and ban you.

Their game rules are not "exhaustive", which means if they don't like you, they will find a way to make a rule so that you can be sanctioned. They must be getting pay rises for banning the players honestly. Just a power hungry corrupt team of incompetent "people".

Now, the game isn't sucky at all. It's quite addicting, with a handful of decent players. But do I recommend it? No! You'll be screwed over sooner or later.

If more curious about the human rights violations that go on at this game everyday, join a Facebook group about Howrse. Howrse Drama Support does a good job of outlining the abuses.

So... I played a little while ago and had a great reputation on the site. I had valuable horses I worked tirelessly to get, a top ranked equestrian centre. I worked hard. Than my Aunty and Nan both died in the same year. My dad got cancer and I was trying to study full time. Only recently have I been able to go back now that things are settled. But I can't... they deleted my account. This is absolutely pathetic! There is no excuse for deleting accounts due to inactivity. Pathetic! Literally every other account based games hold onto that information indefinitely. I have many and have not played some of these for actual years and I could still go back today with no issues. Absolutely awful. All my time and money down the drain. And the worst part for me? Is that they don't say it ANYWHERE that they delete inactive accounts! Literally no where. I checked their rules and help centre and it's not anywhere on the website. It's deceitful and nasty. Now all of my valuable horses are just gone and my passes I had just paid for before my life fell to pieces and I didn't have time to play for a while. It's jaur absolutely shameful of a company to do this. It's like if you go buy groceries and put them in your cupboard, but your supplier thinks you took to long to eat it so he steals it and destroys it.

I have been on this game for years... and i mean easily 5-8 years. I worked so hard to build up passes, and horses, and breeds, and build up an equestrian center and games within this game to have a pretty awesome set up. I was thoroughly dissapointed when my personal life changed a bit and after having to take some time of from the game i login to see MY ACCOUNT HAD BEEN DELETED... my email wasn't even associated with the game anymore. YEARS and so much time of work and real money was WASTED on this game. Only to have my account deleted without notice, without warning, just GONE... I'm so heart broken and disapointed in the game. I don't even want to take the time to start over after spending so much time investing myself into this game... so upset.

First off, I have played this game on both servers, International and USA. The game is full of greedy people who like to scam you of your hard work. The game itself can be very unfair to its users and I believe their goal is money, not the well being of their users. The game doesn't allow multi-accounts but allows people of the same "family" to have accounts when in reality it is not that hard to say you're family and then be multi-accounting. I have seen and heard many issues of Howrse wrongly accusing people who have worked hard and then deleted their accounts. The game itself is poorly created and is full of greedy people. I do NOT recommend this game as young players get taken advantage of the Promos always make you pay real money, and for young players it is very unfair. I will not be returning to this game by any means or recommending it at all.