Star Stable Online: Where you buy horses (and that's about it)

Strap in for a forty minute video on why SSO is a decent horse-game with bad practices. And why I don't think they care about their players as much as they seem to pretend to.
0:00 Introduction
02:53 Subscriptions
04:05 Quests
11:36 Rune Runner
13:40 The Fjords
15:39 Environments
20:25 Training
29:57 Horses
35:13 Star Stable Horses
36:05 Poke Horse
38:39 Conclusion
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[@roxroxengren3307]

16:39 Me watching this in 2021, knowing they removed the "cold" mecanism and now all horses can be ridden in the dino valley :,)

[@YTRattle]

I try not to think about that, one of the few unique features in the game gutted because it was 'inconvenient'. Dodging is inconvenient, you don't see them taking it out of Dark Souls!

[@HoldingMoneyRansom]

@@YTRattle You compare rdr2 and sso a lot. RDR2 also has the "cold" effect, not going to say it but studs freeze up in the cold, the care features lower so you have to feed more and they can't run as fast because of their legs in the snow.

[@CANINETHEROPY]

@phantom thief alibaba Dodging will always be inconvenient to the player themselves (well, depending on who it is, but this rule goes for most of them). The game itself is beautiful and well-done, and dodging is something quite important to the game's mechanic, but the controls to do so and maybe how it plays out can be inconvenient.

[@Aimee0206]

4:13 Watching this in 2023, knowing that they've capped player stats at level 25 :'). SSO really seems to be doing all they can to make their game boring and un-motivating to play, especially for older players

[@aikaterinikera4095]

In the end of the day it all comes down to the... Horses

[@YTRattle]

Lol! XD Amen!

[@rott1ng_corpse]

I’m stuck on a main quest, fishing idk how to do

[@blobbertmcblob4888]

HORSES

[@samiaachard6118]

So true 🤣

[@alextheasparagus6675]

comparing sso to rdr2 makes me so sad that there’s no equestrian sport/adventure game with those amazing graphics and animations, and it also reminds me of how OLD sso’s graphics are.

[@YTRattle]

This is a feeling I know well. It breaks my heart that there is this wide untapped market, but no one is interested in making a good horse game. It's just sad.

[@m4tta]

i’ve actually thought about this and have started to plan a real horse game, im thinking of having semi-realistic graphics and gameplay for older audiences, most horse games are for girls 5-13 years old, i want something for adults

[@yesman7777]

The SSO graphics look so greasy!!! I always hated them before and after the update😅

[@DogDogGodFog]

SSO was stylized and still is. They just changed the stylization style.

[@DogDogGodFog]

​@@yesman7777"Greasy"? What does that mean?

[@fattfatt502]

youve gotta be the most mature person ive seen that plays sso. all the others lie about the game so they dont get hate, but you do it in such a good way.

[@YTRattle]

Wow! Thanks :D :D

[@spacealien_4438]

definitly

[@lexi8893]

I agreeeeeee

[@neann6]

A desert area in SSO would be THE BOMB. I imagine the desert in Uncharted 3, with abandoned cities and wild horses and sandstorms. It would be soooo coooooool

[@savanadawg]

OMG YES!! And roaming around camels would be 👌🏽 might not fit with the geography of Scandinavia tho 😭

[@neann6]

@@savanadawg Eternal fall isn't very scandinavian either, I think we're good! 😂

[@maokreatywne4059]

You put so much effort into your videos and you have such a small audience. It's honestly just sad.

[@YTRattle]

Wow! Thank you so much! ♥ I

[@annaspringwater8932]

“Pick up brains” lmfao felt that

[@YTRattle]

Lollol!

[@nightmarewolf5187]

The health bar was there before, for then you fell off a cliff or high place your screen would flash red and it would say "you have taken a dangerous fall! be careful next time" and you or your horse would lose health. If your horse loses all of its health I think you get sent back to your stable. It's the same thing with you falling into the water.

[@YTRattle]

Thanks! I do remember that :D It's Just a pity it doesn't seem to work at all in recent years. I say just dump it, or bring in a different mechanism to utilize it better :)

[@nightmarewolf5187]

@@YTRattle Yes! I'm so glad one of my friends showed me this video, cause you have opened up so many doors. I hope sso can fix these problems, or at least some of them cause like you said, sso cant add breeding, sso can't do this do that yada yada. now I think of it, this is why many players, like myself, are finding sso boring. Now that I'm a lvl 20-star rider, all I do when I come on sso is to either: -look at the update -make outfits that ill never use (sso is getting boring) -take photos - or buy the new horses that sso keeps on releasing and watch me, when they release this next horse, imma go through the same routine, buy it and never train it to cause cant be bothered. I'm still training my Gotland pony! I'm astonished to see that your videos don't have that many views! Girl, all of the sso players need to hear the stuff you're saying so we can finally say something to sso and Jussssssssssssssssssst maybe they will actually listen. All the other times they were listening is for ideas or opinions on horses so they can make them better and other examples like you said in the video. I hope sso will listen.

[@YTRattle]

THIS THIS THIS! Everying you said I do! And thank you ♥ :D :D D: I just don't care about the game anymore - I want to, I see a lot of potential, but I don't think SSO really cares. And to be frank the newest updater with the Wild Woods area was a little; eh? The quests were lackluster (carry around love-letter, pick up junk and go find a sentimental item at the same place everytime? You kidding me?) and they removed the race to release it later? It feels as if they're doing less and less for this game as every week goes by. Last week was a new horse (again) and the ability to switch between colors for the wilds. Wow. How about some game-play. How nice would that be? It would be so awesome if they listened! Just spruce up the game-play it would do wonders for the game :D

[@nightmarewolf5187]

@@YTRattle I agree. It's so frustrating. Every update that's hyped sounds so much cooler before it gets released. That time when sso released Redwood and there was that lore about a girl that was the first person to venture in the forest, and there was little lore about her and clues I guess, but that when astray. Same with the deer/stag spirit thing, it hyped the community up because of 'oo new cool looking forest spirit! could potentially bring cool quests like healing parts of the forest and regrowing stuff' same with the new character animations that came with the first encounter to the deer 'oo new animations (same with the new animations to the NPC park rangers in that area) maybe new character animations for the future!' but nope. Yet again we'll need to wait a bit for the quests to reveal what they have in store. Because we still have that sentinal tree in wildwoods that looks old and dying so maybe the forest spirit will come into play there. The lore about the girl could be something in the future, and we will eventually get new character models but why are they showing new animations now if they haven't probably started the models yet? ugh its a bit everywhere for me. It would be so easy for sso to do something different or even add a small detail that would probably change the game a little bit, like a different caring system, horse personality, realism etc. sooooooo much stuff they could add but no, they just wanna add a lot of horses and little to non-quests. What will they do when they run out of horses to update or add? probably do re-colours of them into magic horses.

[@olddawny]

@@YTRattle it also worked with your character for an amount of time, idk what happened but it stopped working with the characters and it would automatically hurt the horse even if you weren’t riding it. eventually the health bars have stopped working altogether pretty much

[@nonnon13591]

I love the sarcasm xD i chuckled so hard "here you go starstable, a jorvik shilling, you earned it"

[@kmcle1595]

My personal summary of and experience with Star Stable: Hi. I've been playing this game for eight years. I'm nearing my fifth anniversary of hitting level twenty. I'm predicting that in another two years, I might just be able to hit level twenty-one. If I remember right, the last time a main-line/soul rider story quest that wasn't the drastic alteration of Lisa's backstory was two or so years ago. Practically everything I own in that game is a quest prize, because I refuse to do something like buy a pet fox that costs more than a pony. As such, all of my "outfits" are mismatched, and I'm often mistaken for a noob by people around level ten. Only once have I ever bought a new hairstyle for my character, and never have I bought new makeup. There are only two models of horses that I have duplicates of, and they're some of the cheapest models available. One of those horses was free. I rarely play the game outside of when it updates, and specifically when an update puts new content into the non-star rider areas. Why? Because despite playing this game for so many years, I've never had the money or willingness to oay almost $90 AUD for lifetime star rider. Even now, I haven't bought star rider since June or July of last year. When I log on outside of updates that I can actually access, I have nothing to do except look at my horses. I have no club, because my last one was disbanded. I'm pretty sure most of my friends have either stopped playing or moved servers. Roleplays are out of the question, since no one is available for long enough to hold a story, or their writing style and mine don't mix, or they're a twelve year old trying to roleplay something inappropriate. I don't have much in the way of artistic skill, so I can't engage in the Instagram artist side of the roleplay community. My server is populated by noobs who only know how to start fights. I have nothing to do, and have had nothing to do for almost five years.

[@ruthnorton1883]

Just like you I have never spent any money on this game and don’t plan to yet I have been playing since 2016 or 17. I have three horses and am at about level 10. The only time I play is when they add something interesting to the non-star rider areas. We are in this weird middle ground between the free player and the old player - the game is boring for me and I have nothing to do yet I have given them no money. Sure I’ve used the codes for a short period of star rider but that is just to give me something to do in the game without spending money.

[@RushikuTwT]

I spent around 400€ on sso trough 6 years I've been playing it. And Its NOT WORTH IT, even tho I have a lifetime subscribsion... Sso as a game sunk so low it just makes me wanna cry

[@erinli3445]

@@RushikuTwT Stop being so dramatic 🙄whats so bad about sso

[@RushikuTwT]

@@erinli3445 😂😂😂 Well yes I spend money on a good game back then Which went to trash over the years obviously it makes my angry lol

[@erinli3445]

@@RushikuTwTim sorry but I dont get it i think sso has only gotten better the graphics used to be awful and their amazing now so I dont get it

[@karlafogknight1661]

End game players... more like dead end? I’ve been playing for 7 years now... I’m done with sso not listening and communicating with their fan base. It’s sad when games not focused on horses, have significantly better horse mechanics than a game based and focused solely on horses. Sso have forgotten that ‘RPG’ on the end of mmorpg ✌🏻 love ur videos!

[@YTRattle]

"Dead End Players" Oh God! I am so using that in a next video XD Lol! And everything you said to the power of ten! It is an insanely frustrating thing to witness and they just keep churning out the horses with no regard for anything else other than MOAR MONEY! I keep hoping with the next update they'll do SOMETHING but it's such a disappointment everytime :(

[@VibingMeike]

@@YTRattle Yeah it's sad... Quality over quantity Star Stable! Quality over quantity...

[@dimitriwarchief301]

7 years?.....thats sad

[@Aramisskai]

Honestly, I'd be more interested in the Rune Runner if we were able to customize it. Like pick its coat color, or whatnot. But meh. I agree with all the points made in this video. Still triggered at the fact the Jorvik Shillings are capped at 10 thousand with all these other items costing just about that amount. Love your sense of humor. Awesome video.

[@YTRattle]

IKR! What were they thinkin! There is a black cowboy hat in the game that I want and it costs, you guessed it 10K shillings. SIGH. But thank you so much! It's always awesome to know people enjoyed the video ♥, and my humour to boot XD I love this game, and I so badly wanted to see it get better!

[@StrayKisswHobyStrayKids]

the 2022 rainbow SETS, yes, multiple sets, are like one dress = 10k Schillings and 100Sc needless to say, my hate on SSO was fueled more :D

[@DBZgeek2000]

I've been playing this game for a year and a half, and I've seen all of this. We haven't gotten a main story quest since the thing with Lisa's mom . . . I propose we start a hashtag #wakeupstarstable

[@matteolofsson6287]

As a person who has been playing for the last nine years, i'll tell you it's not worth your time cause it wont happen a thing. It all went to shit when they changed the management team and all they started to focus on was pumping out new horses. They neither listen to their employees or their players.

[@DBZgeek2000]

@@matteolofsson6287 the only thing keeping me still playing is my friends at this point - and my dressage club xD

[@imjusttired9524]

@@DBZgeek2000 the only thing keeping me playing is how much money my mother spent on it

[@justaviewer439]

I've been playing sso since 2014 or 2015 and still no main quests are released. Only horses :/

[@Wild.fursandtails]

@@imjusttired9524 yea I feel bad wasting like 500+ US dollars on this game right now I would rather robux or some game on steam😅

[@overcookedrock]

12:07 'and not just fast travel all the time' Most of the players: uses the trailer during souls ridiny

[@YTRattle]

Lollol! Well that just shot that argument out the window XD

[@Morinaut]

About the health bar a few years ago it actually had a purpose, if you had enough "dangerous falls" or rode into the purple car or a tractor it would send you to your home stable with a message that said something around the lines of "your horse has been seriously injured but after some care you are able to return home" This resulted in your horse having all the care needs again. You would just have to re-care for your horse. This was around 2017. and i noticed a few years later that it had been completely removed. Also I never remember it having a player use? like your character couldn't be injured. ;D

[@faelicious]

I'm pretty sure I got injured (as a character) during the quest where I was running on the field near Steve's farm and picked up potatoes for the family dinner or something. That yellow tractor rode at me and it sent me back at the home stable. The horse was away at the time so it was 100% my character injured but sadly I don't remember what the text said. But you can still try getting hurt with that tractor I guess

[@Morinaut]

@@faelicious interesting ;0

[@olddawny]

it actually was once possible to get hurt while on foot and not on your horse. it could happen the same way it happens with your horse; falling off a cliff, taking a dangerous fall, getting hit by a car, etc. i noticed it eventually got moved to your character couldn’t get hurt and if you took a dangerous fall while on foot, it would hurt your horse instead. then the whole thing got removed all together 🤷‍♀️

[@Apsie]

I remember I joined when mistfall was brand new and everyone was so excited and hyped to go there on their brand new frezzys that they obtained at the level of 12. it looked genuinely exciting and I couldn't wait to take part in it. When I finally reached level 12 and unlocked the area it was cool but it just didn't feel like it fit in. I was a bit dissapointed with it..

[@bluucaterpillars]

i've been playing this game for about 6 years now. i'm autistic and i can never stay away from the game for long. i'm fully aware of the issues but i still wanna buy all the magic horses when they come out. idk how to stop tbh. i desperately want more main story, since i love the occasional boss battles. hopefully project curie will be better, but i want to finish the game and we never will when theres more people on their horse team than their quest team. why did i write all this out

[@YTRattle]

Lol! It's a place to vent :D We all need a place to vent ♥ And you're always welcome to let it all out here ^_^ And I totally agree! There is a lot to love in this game, it is just a little frustrating when their focus is so heavily on horses that they forget to focus on the game. I worry about project Curie to be honest. Although I am glad to know they are expanding, I am worried that they will let SSO die and focus on their new project. It might just be my own cynicism talking, and I really hope it is, but the last few updates have been so lackluster I just can't help but worry XD But here is me hoping they pull up their socks and get cracking on some great quests for all of us to enjoy! And thank you for watching ♥

[@javefiqbal7654]

@@YTRattle Honestly I get the feeling that they are creating project curie, mainly because they know SSO will die. And don't to fix it. Because horses is the only thing management can think onto make money. They are already making over 10 million a month, add that up, 120 million at the least in a year

[@m4tta]

curie won’t even be about horses tho :(

[@mooniia]

Well, back in the day, you could actually take damage to the horse. And after the health bar went down, you’d get teleported to your home stable

[@wolfdogamer47439]

I remember that! And our horses little care icons would all be red so we had to manually care for it before riding off again.

[@ninawood3970]

I have just started playing SSO around 4 days ago, and bought the full time membership. I have to say I definitely have more access to things with it, and I’m already at lvl 5. I’ve been watching Star Stable videos for months now and I admit that it’s not the same. The quests I have to do are all the same, picking stuff up. (mostly flowers) It’s now getting impossible for me to level up, i’ve been “grinding” the whole day for no reason. Clothing and tack is too expensive, and I really don’t wanna waste my star coins because I don’t have enough Shillings. In the old YT videos of SSO, I would see people talking and communicating in the game with other players and making friends. But during my whole 4 days of grinding on the game, the only people i’ve seen are begginers who don’t say a word in the chat. I’m not sure if that’s because less people are starting to play but i’ve never had any social interactions with anyone in the game. I thought that in SSO you would make amazing friends, bond with your horse, and discover wonderful things. All in all, star stable is definitely not what I expected, and I am slightly disappointed. It’s still fun.. but you know what I mean. If your looking to buy a pay-once membership, I’d suggest you spend those $70 on an actual riding lesson.

[@HoldingMoneyRansom]

I would have been a level 15 player when this is written. I'm level 20 now. I used to never use chat because people are very high headed on their opinions.. I ride irl, own my barn and horses. Honestly the star coins spent to buy every horse that comes out in a year in a GAME is more than I pay to feed, water, shavings, ferrier and vet each month. Vets are expensive, my show horses are each bred to cost 50k and when they go lame it's like- 2k to have the vet just LOOK at the horses. Not to include trailering and barn upkeep. All of this added compared to a year in a horse game, vs a month of a AQHA equestrian who shows once a week in bigger shows and SSO is still more expensive? Kinda sad ngl.

[@katblackwell]

I literally grew up with this game and it's ancestors. I played all the Starshine Legacy and Star Stable games, and oh boy, you have no idea how much I love them still to this day. And it makes me so mad and disappointed what they have done to SSO, because I care about it. I really really miss the good ol' days of this game (which is like 2015 and before that), and I would lie if I said it wasn't just because of the nostalgia, but It's extremely sad what SSO has become. Such a waste of potential. Thank you so much for making this video, the topics you covered were very interesting and thought-provoking for many of us, and I couldn't agree more with everything you've said here. You deserve way more many views! Now if you'll excuse me, i'm going to watch all your other videos.

[@matteolofsson6287]

I have played star stable for half of my life, and i completely agree. These games carry so many memories and i completely agree about the good ol' days around 2015 and before. I personally think it all went to shit when they changed their management and they scrapped like all the ideas the old management had. Ideas players have wished for for a long time and then instead only started to focus on making horses and nothing else mattered anymore.

[@itsnotthatdeep6657]

Just commenting bc I think videos like this actually really help put into perspective how much SSO has started to change just within this last year (2024). I think 2023 was one of the worse years for SSO. People were striking, SSO was removing stuff we liked and adding stuff we hated, not to mention the Christmas star coin fiasco. Well, recently they've started changing and it has been nice. New horses have finally slowed down- turning bimonthly rather than weekly. They're making ways to get around needless roadblocks without paying 75 star coins. They've definitely become more open to criticism than they used to be. And now they've even added to the story (finally!) And just posted a blog saying they're basically going to start trying to make events better and even potentially bring back old events but they didn't give us a frame of time which is great! Cause they'd give us a frame of time and then not meet the deadline! They released nine codes in February, most of them giving free star coins. They have started discounting star rider by a pretty significant amount every now and then, and no! They didn't get rid of double star coin weekend!.. It's all good stuff IMO. They're recognizing outright the game has problems (full on admitting to stuff being a buggy mess, having even decidated an update day to fixing bugs!) And I definitely feel like slowly, but surely, they're starting to pivot back towards consumer interest rather than shareholder and wallet interest. I think it's because they basically crashed their own economy by thinking they were making profits only for it to be a short spike in profits before a huge drought.. And honestly I don't care if that's why they're only just now listening. I just like that they're listening and I really hope they finally learned their lesson.

[@filidolphini]

oh my god, what an amazing video. seriously, good work! you pointed everything out perfectly. i have nothing to add.

[@YTRattle]

WIOW!!! Thank you :D ♥♥

[@flatwoodsdaemon]

I think I realized just how money-grabbing SSO, and other kids games like it (Animal Jam comes to mind) are when I first played Genshin Impact. I was frankly shocked at how generous the game was with its premium in-game currency; a pull on the gacha is 160, and just doing the daily commissions every day, you can earn around 60. That doesn't include quest rewards, web events, normal events, random chests, achievements, etc etc. Practically everything you do in the game is guaranteed to net you at least a few primogems. And the community thought that wasn't enough! I didn't understand it because I'd grown up with games that had given you NOTHING. And, when I think about it, it's really screwed up! Why is Genshin Impact, a GACHA game, more generous with its currency than a game aimed at young girls?

[@YTRattle]

Because girls are more accepting and don't complain as easily as boys. It's the old 'pink tax' argument. Women will pay exuberant prices because they simply won't challenge it. Whereas men's products are less expensive because men WILL challenge it. It's the saddest thing, but they are exploiting the natural kindness of girls.

[@flatwoodsdaemon]

@@YTRattle Oh god, it's even more horrifying when you put it that way. They claim to be changing the system with their emphasis on a diverse workforce, but that promise rings hollow when their whole business model is centred around exploitation.

[@emilybourget4515]

I think the only reason they have a health bar is because I’m the OG CD games you could fall enough where it ran out and you got sent back to the stable. This is a fantastic video riddled with sooo many facts I really wish SSO will change.

[@picklesandwich2591]

At the time I'm writing this comment, 1000 star coins is 30 dollars. 30 dollars for one pixelated horse. This is too much

[@fattfatt502]

double starcoins make the offers actually worth the money

[@picklesandwich2591]

@@fattfatt502 yeah, that's the only time i buy them

[@louisedavie4195]

I cant think of anything to comment there is just to many 💫facts 💫 👉facts 👈 💥facts💥 she👏 knows👏what👏she👏 is👏 talking👏 about👏 people👏 sso wake up abit

[@YTRattle]

😮 Thank you! 😃😄 💛💛💛

[@Joey-dc5xk]

Thank you so much for this video. You truly opened up my eyes to what this game really is, when my parents failed to explain it to me. A bit of backstory: When I was younger, I used to watch Violet Flowergarden a lot. I saw how many horses she had and just assumed that was the normal amount. (She had around 130 I believe.) so, from then on, I kept buying the new horses again and again every time they were released, it was almost like an addiction. Actually, I probably was addicted to it, I’m not sure. My parents tried to warn me about spending so much money, but I just ignored them, I guess. I’m pretty sure it was peer-pressure that made me do it, along with wanting to find my ‘soul’ horse that I would really be able to ‘bond’ with, (even though I knew my starter was supposed to be) wanting to be ‘cool’ AND wanting a nice gen 3 warmblood, and I cannot stress that enough. The only reason the Andalusians got the ‘hype’, was because they are pretty-looking warmbloods. If the game JUST added a nice looking warmblood for once, I can confidently say that 90% of players would buy it. (The Andalusians are good but so many people have them that it they got boring. Plus, yes! A lot of us do end up making our own fun. If you want to loan, breed, bond, train skills etc., the only way you can do that, is well, pretending. The game gets really boring because it’s aim is to make you grind till you’re bored to death, then buy a new horse for the thrill. That’s the only thing that’s keeping the game going. If they made more interesting places, more things to do, more variety of tack, like blankets, halters that actually have lead ropes, not restricting tack as much for the oldish generations, (My favourite horse to ride is my Trakhner, Bowo, and I’d really like to have him wear a friesian’s bridle, but oh, no! That would be wayyyy to much work to fit it to all horse breeds, and besidesess, people will want to buy the friesian more if it’s the only one that can wear those bridles.) and an actual bonding mechanism, as you said, then probably less people would end up quitting the game after they reach level 20 or so. Honestly, before I watched this video, I had no idea how much I was being tricked. I owe probably a lot of money to you for this video, as you saved me from buying the horses again and again. (Well, I was starting to realise before the video and hadn’t bought star coins in months, but still.)

[@YTRattle]

Wow, this is an awesome comment! Thank you for sharing your experience. I'm glad the vid meant something to you :) ♥♥♥ , and it's sad to hear so many players feel the way you do. What you're saying is so true, we're addicted to getting horses, and they're just pushing out more and more because that's how they make money. We're doing a boycott in May, as in we're trying to get as many people as we can to NOT buy SC. and perhaps get SSO to listen to us, at least through their pockets. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn't. but it's a shot worth taking :) The most we're going to lose is... well, not getting a horse on the release date. But we'll be saving money, so I think it's not a bad win tbh :D

[@cblgirl2001]

I hate to say how true this is....🥺🥺

[@petra9373]

Me doing my fishing quests while listening to this video: [Insert reaction because I'm braindead]

[@fireeagle5525]

I love the Fjords! I remember back before I got my first one, I quested a lot to get to Dino because I wanted one so much. They were a really fun motivator through the reputation building and the already exciting factor of unlocking a new area. This is why I was really sad when they said they were removing them. Instead they added their remodeled new version which you can just go and buy in one of the main areas all star riders already have anyway. Just like all their other hundreds of horses, how special and interactive. I really wish atleast a few more horses had things like this, it makes the whole thing more.. Immersive? The process of having to do something (that wasn't the longest grind in the world) to be able to buy the horse and even a little bit of lore sprinkled in was just amazing. 14:12 only one was level 10 when you got it though from what I remember? it also cost 1000 sc instead of the... 750? that the others cost. But I agree other than that!

[@3VR3N.]

38:32 Someone tell me why from here onwards I really couldn’t control my laughter and my family thought I was a psychopath which is true-

[@Constellasaur]

29:32 Y'know, funnily enough, the health bar USED to actually have a function lol Every time your horse got a dangerous fall, etc. The horse's health bar would go down a bit. Do it enough times and the health bar would deplete completely and you would be sent back to your home stable and all your horse's care icons would be red (so you would need to take care of your horse again). This was removed at some point, and I think it is possible to get the health bar to go down on occasion still?? (It's been a while since I tried so I could be wrong), but the health bar for the most part was rendered useless at some point between 2016-2020

[@ameliagaucamole9845]

they should change the acronym to $$O lmao

[@YTRattle]

HAHHAHA! I am so using this on their FB next time! XD

[@justl4147]

also, since the gotland pony, all horses that came out since then including the gotland pony, when you turn in walk, trot, etc., the saddle will move WITH it, meaning the saddle will shrink and stuff like that, making it look like shit

[@hunorhumorzsak2726]

Send this video to sso support 🙂

[@YTRattle]

Hey! Thanks :D Will do! I've tagged them in FB Twitter and Instagram. But I'll send it along as well!

[@applelilly6027]

Sso is beyond fixable at this point where the management only care about money tbh its just sad its sader them dar man studios acting an that is so sad an the most sadest thing of all is the fact u dont have a bigger audience that u deserve so much due to ur efforts

[@skxlllae]

A few years ago, I spent quite a lot of money on SSO. Being young, and stupid, I promised my father that I would put the money to good use, and continue to play the game because of the money he put into it. I stopped playing around two months after. My largest regret was using $100+ on a game that basically has no development (excluding horses). Especially, when it’s only my father and I; he spends so much time earning money, and I wasted that over a game I forgot four months later - that’s how trashy I feel this game is. Not because of its graphics, story, or horses, but because you forget about the game unless something comes out that peaks your interest, which most of the time, are only new horses.

[@breadcult-bj2wh]

I love the amount of sarcasm lmao

[@lorrainewolfrock2363]

Your videos are amazing!!! How you can have only a few subscribers with so much quality! I fallen in love with your channel, you add humor while saying everything that everyone thinks! You do a really really good job, thank you!! Oh and I remember the time, when I played at the beggining that if we were star rider, we had 200sc per week, not 100sc

[@ramondiamond6152]

I don't even play horse games but I'm in love with your voice and wit so I've been binge watching your reviews like crazy. Thank you for the awesome vids!

[@episstarstable9678]

I feel like SSO really put effort in their quests all the way until 2017-2018. Yes, they didn’t have the best animations, best quality and so forth (I mean, look at RDR2 for instance), yet the plots, the tension and the experience from the quests got you HOOKED and wanting to explore and experience more. This entire video was structured so well and brought out the problems with the game I’ve been pondering a lot for the last few years. This was awesome, thank you!

[@marialindell9874]

Also RDR2 has literally used a real horse for all of the animations. They are as realistic as they come.

[@honeyspice8989]

I remember when i the fjords came out it was H U G E. It was a mistake that SSO got rid of the old models i was lucky enough to get 2.

[@YTRattle]

Why did they do that? I've never understood it!

[@honeyspice8989]

@@YTRattle me neither! They were one fo the few horses in the older game where the gates where noticeably different from any other horse in its time

[@mogichi7490]

LMAO the pickup brains comment made me choke :’) Just subscribed!

[@childofgod5414]

Lol Yess Same!😂

[@gracedugdale715]

The only reason the horses have a health bar is so that when you run off the bridge behind the diving board/swimarea at Fort Pinta onto the shark that appeasr every now and then, your horse will actually "get hurt/die" and you will be immediately taken back to your stable :)

[@TrinketTheDragonsHoarde]

The only thing that might get them to change is probably competition. It's too bad there's not more MMORPG's involving horses. Something that combines Racing, Dressage, Rodeo, Bonding with ones Horse(s), and a breeding element would certainly be nice with fun quests that aren't rehashing older ones... and crafting ones own gear? There's a lot who'd love a game like that but either no developer developing one or even someone with great ideas doesn't have the know how to make their ideas come to life or the funds to pay someone else to make it.

[@agarus77]

why do you have so few subscriptions and likes? When I was watching this, I felt like watching really famous so ytber :OOO

[@amberazull]

Honestly I’m a y2k girly and there was nothing I loved more than how y2k sso was the graphics, colors, sounds, vibe, music, just everything

[@cupcakes1669]

I have never found anyone on youtube that understands how I feel... I'm so glad I found your youtube. Now this is something I would gladly subscribe to :}

[@YTRattle]

Oh wow! Thank you CupCakes! I'm so glad this channel means something to you ♥

[@Bee-kv5tx]

What I also hate about the rune runner is that you have to do all that work to get it and it still comes as a level one horse... meaning you have to spend even more days training it up

[@miasuntiger3490]

About the fjords, all you said is true except one thing : there was only one fjord who could be bought at level 10 and it cost almost 1500 sc. It’s just a detail, and the rest of the video is amazing, thanks for all the work❤️ Oh and that’s so cute when you said « the reskinned halloween horse » and it’s actually the horse in the series Mistfall.

[@YTRattle]

Oh crap! Memory is a silly thing XD Thanks for letting me know ♥♥ And yeah, it was an assumption for the Halloween horse XD Bad assumption :P lol!

[@carinburger5407]

Love your'e video! And love your'e voice! Awsome!

[@YTRattle]

Thank you! ♥♥♥

[@gabriellaleander]

Why havent I found your channel earlier? You're so right in everything you say. Your voice is really nice to listen to aswell ^^

[@KalDoesStuff]

Also talking about horse bonding, we also have zelda botw that does it better than sso. The animations are better, you need to catch your horse and make it trust you. I have played the game and have felt devastated each tome my horse gets hit or is into danger. Sure there is no danger in sso, but I do love to have bonds and kinda roleplay while playing to make it more fun and less boring.

[@chloekhamxox]

I agree so much with the fjord part, the mysteriousness, the reward, the symbolism, hard work, etc. It was so interesting back then

[@WillowEllie84]

I just found this video and your channel and I Love it ♥️ You speak so much truth! I love sso but, it's getting harder to stay interested in playing since I have done all the quests etc.. I was so disappointed when the main storyline more or less finished after savings Anne. By the time I could do that quest I was so hooked and ready to "save the world". Especially after all the mindless grinding I had done, so I was so sad and disappointed that I wasn't able to go battle the bad guys after all the time and money I had spent (both on my accounts and my daughters). I hope they improve instead of just getting worse. Especially since I'm one of those suckers that feel compelled to buy all the new and limited horses they keep dishing out lol. I'm still hoping for Australian breeds and tack but not holding my breath lol. Thank you for your content. Im looking forward to watching the rest of your videos.

[@xskyren_ri]

At 29:31 we actually used to get hurt with the health bar, your horse included! I was playing the game when it first came out in North America (2012) and if you got hit by the farming machines or the car around Steve's farm your horse's health would go down until a vet would be called and you got transported back to your stable with red care options. The moodlets to feed and groom, etc. deteriorated when you played (yellow first, then orange, then dark red). Then they got reset to yellow when the next day came along for daily care. AND your character could go to the "hospital". If your character stood in front of one of those machines/the car you got a loading screen saying you were badly injured, went to the hospital, and then you respawned at your home stable. That doesn't happen anymore though! The care moodlets don't even pop up anymore either, once you do your daily care that's it. Your horse never gets thirsty/hungry/dirty the longer you play.

[@childofgod5414]

I love your videos, so far though I only see a few, I hope you get more subscribers as I enjoy your honest star stable videos.

[@zarah6076]

Your video is sooo true! You hade amazing points and information. Star stable needs to hear your videos. The game is dieting, which is so sad considering it could offer so much.

[@VivianaSilverback]

While i wouldn't call SSO players "Not true gamers", i agree with everything else you said. I had an idea that would make the gameplay a little bit better, but would still generate profit. Types of horses. It's based off what you said for the desert area. Some horses are better at running in the desert, some are better in dino valley, some are better for racing, for dressage, etc.. So many players would buy all the horses and would generate income, but you wouldn't have to pay to get that special ability at all! I also had some more ideas. I know they'll get implemented into the game, but i just wanted to share my two cents on how i would try and make the game better. I wish i could do something about it..

[@fae4531]

I think your videos are really interesting, i'll watch the rest ^^ You have a critical point of vue, and by that way your reveal some disfonctionnements, thank you

[@justl4147]

I really like to re-watch this video from time to time

[@sxtarsii9380]

the only reason why we have to do quests: to unlock areas and, that's why we actually do them star stable

[@Starrymauvy]

Does anyone else rewatch Rattle’s videos just for their voice? My god Idk I could listen for hours, where’s the podcast?

[@beetlejuice7356]

I hope that creators see this and listen to your advice, it’s an amazing video, well done

[@YTRattle]

Meep! Thank you! ♥

[@SierraF]

Why don't you have more subscribers, I keep asking myself. This is an amazing explanation I've been looking for. Also loved the sarcasm :P You've gained a subscriber :)

[@kazucruz5027]

Love listening to your video essays recently and I always crack up when you say "Have a jorkiv shilling." I JUST CANT AJKSDHIKAOHSND

[@allysaicestone2627]

You are like the source of this game’s problems, and I mean this in a positive way. You are fulfilling us with this information, and I just want to thank you. You help the community with their choices, and if anyone really wants to spend THAT MUCH money on a VERY overpriced game? It’s amazing. You’re so amazing and mature, also because you are sharing your and other’s opinions. Good on you.

[@eartworm7189]

another problem recently is they've almost gotten rid of every thing that actually made u travel in sso, I remember when you'd have to take the ferry to get to other islands because it was impossible to drive there, instead they made it so you can drive anywhere now so the ferry is useless and you don't have to travel. The bus to get to the mall so you could shop now you don't need to use that because guess what there's a global shop button, so now shopping with your friends doesn't exist. and omg the balloon to get to south hoof, guess what doesn't matter because you can get in a trailer and somehow get out of a balloon to get there.

[@amyhun4487]

I literally agree with everything you said. Subcribed. The only thing I regret here is not finding this channel sooner.

[@letthedevilout4943]

You end up so much knowing the races by heart. I'm watching a cartoon next door, or a YT video, and suddenly I realize that I've done half the races without realizing it... Nice experience.

[@s2may0116]

SSO normally just does stuff like in the video where they say “ bonding “ and all of that stuff but the part where it’s a wild horse, I don’t think they really mean what they say. After all, you can buy them, and there’s no struggle. It’s just a normal horse in the game. I really feel like SSO needs to make things more reliable than to what they say now.

[@YTRattle]

That's true! They don't really mean what they say, but they should. It creates a false impression and can create a false-hype, so to speak. The Jorvik Wild horses was just a good example of that.

[@superderp703]

how have i not seen this channel? your humor, your sarcasm is amazing :)

[@YTRattle]

😃 Thank you! :D ♥♥♥

[@paulaunger3061]

Only recently discovered your channel, and I love your videos! I've also just downloaded the free trial for Black Desert Online.... ;)

[@TheRealJuniForlife]

Don’t forget the fact you have to buy in game your starter horse Also we should get like a semi dessert and star stable can have its facy horses there and they could make leopard geckos in the game where you have to befriend them and when you do you can have one as a pet. I think it would be cute and they could have a wild mustang herd where again you can tame one that helps you find the hidden village in the simi desert

[@erinli3445]

You don’t actually have to buy your starter horse lol just don’t do the quest

[@singularity3467]

this is so off topic but your voice and accent is so soothing to me. you sound like a really smart person :) but on a more related note, star stable is a game that I've wanted to play since i was 8, meaning that this game has been in the back of my mind all the time for 6 years as of now lol. I actually started playing a few weeks ago using a free star rider code and I was so in love with it that I was even thinking about asking my mom to buy me lifetime star rider, but with all the points you've presented in this video I'm starting to have second thoughts. I don't want spend time in a game that doesn't care about what its players think and only cares about profit. :((

[@YTRattle]

I will say if you're this excited for the game perhaps try it for a month? The problem only comes in once you've gotten that full-time membership, then you're going to start running out of stuff to do. As a new player, you'll have a lot to do - at least for 4-5 months. After that, it'll start trickling down. But maybe at least play it for a month, you will have a good time, at least for that full month :) Thank you for watching the video :D ♥

[@YTRattle]

Also, thank you! I am very self-conscious about my accent, so this means a LOT to me ♥♥♥

[@javefiqbal7654]

I finally understand what u based the channel name on! FINALLY!

[@StrayKisswHobyStrayKids]

watching this over and over again because the video is so great

[@YTRattle]

Wow! 😮 Thank you so much! ♥

[@JustMe-zn6bz]

I love your vids, it's just upsetting that you have so little views. Also, all of your points are so true, and correct, atleast, in my opinion.

[@lakeshakstudios509]

i agree, sometimes its sad that a while ago there were videos on players having fun and now its mostly ppl buying horses, and getting frustrated with nothing to do. i wish star stable changes.

[@loramassegee2463]

If you run into too many walls, fall off cliffs, stuff lick that, the health bar of the horse goes down. As for the player Heath bar, is for certain areas like when you are on foot in a quest. And if the health bar drops to zero; it will send you back to your home stable.

[@YTRattle]

I think it's a bit redundant when most of these 'dangers' have been removed from the game - most horses can drop like 100 feet at this point without any problems. I wish our horses could, for example, get sick or injured - like in Alicia Online, that would have been awesome :D

[@saborblaze762]

Grate video ❤❤ love it we need more content for sure❤❤❤

[@l.g.s.1931]

The more I watch the more I want to play this one old single-player horse-ranch game I forgot the name of. Mostly because I remember how fun it was to do challenges with your horse and to take care of the horses you had

[@definitelynotashark1799]

I can't believe I recognised this game as connected to Starshine Legacy ONLY from seeing the character in the trailer at the beginning 💀 I was never into horses, but my step sister was and she got Starshine with some magazine subscription. She wasn't much of a gamer and I had to help her with a lot of the races, and I ended up LOVING the somewhat edgy atmosphere of the game and bought all the parts second-hand. Also there were cute boys. And I think I had a crush on Alex too... anyway, I had no idea that franchise ever went anywhere!!

[@flufflewarrior]

Finally some says the things that need to be adressed. I enjoy SSO, but all those repetitive quest and the lack of story quests is unforgiving for their prices. Also can we just take a moment to talk about the fact that the characters of RDR2, outlaws who kill and rob banks, take better care of their horses?

[@YTRattle]

LOL! I love that comparrison! XD

[@flufflewarrior]

@@YTRattle Thank you xD

[@rach5016]

just watched some of your channel's videos for the first time after seeing your recent upload about sso revoking the lifetime gift they gave to you. you put so many of my frustrations with this game into words in a very mature and detailed way. having been a fan of sse and their games since childhood, i love sso and will probably never truly stop playing, but the game is flawed and its hard to watch this company dig themselves into deeper and deeper holes. so many quests and mechanics are shells of what they truly could be. newly released quests can be finished in under an hour, horses are literally just cosmetic items, and new areas are released but nothing is ever added to make them special in any way. i remember when wildwoods was coming out a lot of people were hoping some sort of wild-horse-befriending/bonding mechanic would follow. i truly cannot find a reason in my mind why sso couldnt add this or some other mechanic, besides for pure laziness. i would be happy to still pay starcoins or whatever for a horse at the end of such a task, as long as the process was different somehow. on a similar note, the area that's always bugged me the most in terms of laziness and wasted potential will ALWAYS be south hoof/the rescue ranch. we got ONE foal to rehabilitate, teasing a somewhat new process that could open up so so many doors for this game. in this video you were talking about the health bars and why they even exist... imagine if taking dangerous falls or damage from the shadow seekers actually did permanent damage to your horse's health. when they reached zero, it would make sense that they couldnt be ridden any longer, right? what if, to heal your horse back to ridable status, you had to board them at the rescue ranch and help them heal over time? i would absolutely eat up daily quests if they were like that. something, anything, to make the area have purpose and to, like you said, have our horses feel like real, living animals. right now i have about as much attatchment to mine as i would if they were just bikes. lmao idk, this turned into a vent and probably doesnt make much sense, but its so nice to find other people who dont hate the game and can see the potential it has, but also arent afraid to speak up about their frustrations and dissapointments. i wish sso would listen. this game could be so much more than it is.

[@VibingMeike]

Great video! I really have to look through all of your old videos, because they're very entertaining and interesting. It all comes down to the simple fact that sso has HUGE potential... But it's essentially wasted on, you guessed it horses. Horses you can barely do anything with. I really want a bonding system, actual dressage, better jumping courses and... Overall just something interesting to do with the horses! But noooo we can't have nice things as long as greedy people run the business. Also 12:39 lmao didn't expect to see a Star Wars reference in a sso video, 'a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.'

[@taquegg]

You resumed why I stopped playing this game since the end of 2017 / start of 2018. I was playing since 2015. Really nice video. 👍

[@YTRattle]

Thank you ♥♥♥ I'm so glad you liked it :D

[@merjaeger]

Hi I was thinking about the same thing yesterday and came across your video I was also comparing the horse bonding and mechanics from RDR2 with Star Stable. In fact, in RDR, your horse gets frightened by running animals or loud noises, and you can actually SEE and FEEL your horse’s frustration, so automatically, you pet it or praise it to calm it down. I absolutely love the way Arthur praises the horse he’s riding. Why can’t SSO hire voice actors and add the same functions into their game ? It would make it much more realistic. The problem is that games that don’t focus on horse riding like RDR2 have better and more realistic horse mechanics than an actual horse game. Why can’t I tie my horse to a barrier? Why can’t I pick my whole gear and manually put it to another horse instead of putting everything to my inventory ? SSO lacks of realness.

[@elen2166]

As someone who played starstable for 7-8 years, there has been SOO much potential that they skipped because of money. First off, when I started playing at a young age. I was a rider irl so I expected a free horse game that would be similar to irl riding. I will make this a like list with explaination. * Falling off - This has been my most requested thing of all times playing starstable, they could save things if they added falling off because then they would add volume and not pointlessly riding around being the most stable individual in the entire universe. * Different riding styles - Western and english riding is 2 different styles sure, but have you ever thought of adding horse racing? As someone who loves to watch horse racing and trot competitions it would be super fun to see ingame because it's just speed (AND MAKING IT LOOK LIKE ITS HORSE RACING AS WELL AND NOT SITTING DEEP INTO THE SADDLE WHEN GALOPPING), like adding somewhere close to a city just a big racing track and competing against other players like 2 laps for a little higher price money would be super fun to see. * Horse personalities - Do I really need to explain this? * Your oc's character development - As someone 'til this day still wonders why the players begin riding in Moorland and develop out from there, like as far as I can remember you don't have a backstory at all. Like for an example, genshin impact, one of my most played games, has the story of the 2 siblings travelling from world to world but gets stopped by a god when entering teyvat and they lose their sibling and they have to search for the sibling to continue the journey between worlds. * The graphics - I don't wanna talk about this one but I need to. Some places in the game has little to no graphics at all, some have just pngs pasted onto the model and just left there. I know they're tryna make it run as good as possible but like, it sometimes look super ugly on some places. Latest time I checked they're barely any lightning in the game, like what the fuck. That was just surface levels of my suggestions, thanks for reading.

[@photosynthesispro2057]

29:16 I once blew myself up with dynamite in this game. Only time I've ever seen the health bar actually move.

[@liaavv_4959]

Just found ur channel and ur videos aee so good, u sound so intelligient

[@Nothingtoseehereanyway]

Not to mention, if you don't know what a word in a quest is it can really throw you off and you'll end up on a wild goose chase, mainly when there are no videos doing the quests on youtube, since they have changed the starting quests a lot over the years..

[@KSJen]

It's 2021... and this video is still legit 100% true! Goodjob! ♥ And now, levling a horse takes 3 days (if you do all races), so new horse = three days of "fun".. same old races and UGH.. then it's back to having NOTHING to do..

[@assassinwoman16]

This really shows how far Star Stable has come, but also how far they've fallen.. I remember waking up being excited about it being Wednesday and going to check the News, but now.. what's the point when it's just gonna be another horse taking the spotlight.

[@ivanabiki6343]

They need to take acountability!!!!

[@tempest4804]

Cool fact about red dead redemption when doing the animations for the horse and rider they used those green white ball things to capture the movement of A REAL HORSE in action Now that’s so real realistic animations right there! 😮

[@sashamaverick8416]

Imagine if star stable agreed to this video. Thanks you are such a big help I love this channel

[@JackTheVulture]

Ive noticed something that seems to be a problem w games like this that are made specifically for one passion or community (horses, dinosaurs etc) is that they often...arent...like. Fun? They're barely games? Theres very little to do and the devs dont seem interested in making interesting things to do? Meanwhile there are people who play RDR2 specifically for the horse mechanic and i cant help but wonder if its because the people making that game set out to make a Good Game, not just just a Game for Horse People. I mean also obviously theyre a AAA studio with a lot more money. But idk. SSO seems like it exists for profit and keeping itself afloat and thats a shame. But some games feel like theyre focused on being Game with Horses first, Good game second. Instead of being a Good Game that has horses in it.

[@kirikiri1502]

15:07 This reminds me so much of the time 5 years ago that i would come on everyday to do all my quest in the hope that i would unlock to get an Icelandic horse and it meant the world to me when i could finally buy one