rip pinky 🫶🏻🫶🏻 she was the reason i started playing sso and was the reason i came off of my break, i only found out she had died because of the comments on videos. i love you violet, you will be missed 🕊
My biggest problem is that there’s nothing for old players to do, which was fine until they also removed player xp from quests. There’s literally no reason for old players to log in anymore and it’s so annoying and frustrating
literally all my horses are maxed and i cant buy a new one, i dont have any quests...why should i log in? if i do buy a new horse itll be maxed in three days...its so boring
By far my biggest rant about the game is that they seldom remaster a character, they rewrite them. I really liked Lisa's original design, ngl Anne definitley got the best of all the remasters. I admit I am not a huge fan of how Sabine looks now but I like her attitude. That dark rider with the toy horse tho, is straight up a villain from the barbie movies when it passed it's good era lol she's literally the one from secret door
My biggest rants would be that the racing system is really not fun anymore, and that they’re releasing more horses than quests, so now we’re stuck just buying horses, when we actually want to be questing and getting up to level 23
The new Dark Riders bother me a whole lot because they completely 180'd Sabine, Jessica being genderbent is _not_ trans rep, Katja was my favorite in her original characterization and all of it is gone, and the one I can't remember the name of is literally a *child?* They don't fit together, they don't work as a group, they are not threatening whatsoever, and they're all generic "pure evil, taunting you only when they see you, mess stuff up but minimal damage aside from empty threats" villains now and it is such a _shame._ Anyone remember the quest we had to rescue our Starter horse from the Dark Core rig? I had DAYS of struggling to get through that quest and I remember being so incredibly proud when I did. The quests now are easy, sugar-coated races that hold no stakes. The biggest highlight I've seen in recent times is SSO killing off Elizabeth- which I cried at, I was very attached to Elizabeth's character when I was younger- and Anne grieving Concorde and snapping because of how she feels. And- this may get me guillotined by the fandom- but I *can not stand* Darko. I hate that "character" with every fiber of my being. He's a goddamn Disney villain. Pure evil, no story, a petty little brat, and he is such a massive downgrade from Mr. Sands that I cringe whenever SSO brings him in all high and mighty acting like he's so goddamn scary. Maybe it's because I have a certain liking for villains with depth (blame American Horror Story and Scream Queens for that) but Mr. Sands as a character came with a special kind of nostalgia for me, among the depth he'd been given recently during the Catherine quests, only for it to be completely dropped in favor of having *Darko, this goddamn nobody* kill *Elizabeth, who had been with us since the beginning.* And that's where my bitterness stems from, I think. The fact they REALLY had Darko be the one to kill such a loved character in the storyline. Having one of the *original* Dark Riders do it somehow, or have Mr. Sands find a way to do it himself, maybe using his involvement with Garnok, would have had _that much_ more weight to Elizabeth dying, especially since this was also a ripple effect of saving Anne, which again, had nothing to do with Darko. I haven't played in a while, and it's been forever since I did these quests, so I'm sorry if I'm remembering wrong, but I just. I genuinely hate Darko so much- He's not even a character. He just gets shoved in whenever SSO wants him to be like he's some special big-bad for us to defeat when I genuinely think a kick from an Irish Cob could kill him. He's a villain out of a kids' TV show.
yea I don't get the Jessica (Jay) thing. because SSO does use She/her pronouns for the character still, while Jay looks more like a boy or a non binary person. I kinda wished they left Jessica female, because she would've looked so cool!
i hate how instead of making a trans character they ruined an existing character. i dont get why it was so hard to just make a trans character from the start.
@@paytonmonaghan I’m pretty sure that’s she was jumping with her horse and her horse tripped and flipped on her. I’m not sure if that’s the correct story❤️❤️❤️
For me, one of the most annoying things is that there is no keybinding option. For a game that constantly talks about inclusivity, this would be one of the first things to include in your game, as it would allow players, especially people with disabilities, to optimise the controls to their own needs.
When you said “Did you at one point like it…” really spoke to me because although I don’t play it as much now my past self had so much fun and i could never regret that.
I've been playing sso since 2017 and the game used to be so much more fun back then, we rarely got horse updates or new horses which I honestly liked bc it made it sooooo exciting whenever a new horse was coming. and also the quests were so much better !!! I don't know if I'd say I miss the "old starstable" bc the game is much better developed now and it looks nicer, but I do miss how fun it used to be. maybe that's just me getting older tho haha
I been around since the beginning and there are races gone that used to be in the game that I really miss. and your right about old players dont really have much to do anymore. I pretty much log in and grind a horse up to level 15 doing races.
I’ve been playing since 2014 and I had so much fun, I grew up tho. I still play it the game just not as much as I used to. I still love the game, it’s just I got no Motivation to do as much to do the stuff on it as much
@@wolfyy664 i been playing since 2016 and really enjoyed the game until 2018. usually I just log on every once in a while for the events, get xp for my horses, maybe rp and spend more time with the friends i made on sso lol
@@cha_hoe yeahh I’m in a club, I was on a lot during Halloween but the past week I haven’t been on. I get these burst of motivation to get on and then I just don’t after a while
R.I.P Violet flower garden. 🕊️🪦❤️ She was my child hood, maybe everyone else’s, and she passed to early. I keep seeing her old videos and I just can’t believe she will never post again. The star stable community will not remember her for a long time, but forever. I hope where every she is right now, she is having the best time. She was the reason I got star stable/ got back into star stable and when ever I log on to sso, I just think of her. I keep watching her videos and remembering her and I still won’t believe you passed :( Love me.
WARNING A LITERAL NOVEL. I watched this SSO documentary last night made by a Player and it was an hour long on why star stable is going down hill. It was very informative, they went into detail and pulled actual receipts. The reason why SSO’s story line doesn’t make sense is because They don’t have a set “Quest team”. They don’t have a department dedicated to writing, Designing, Programming etc for the quests. Which makes sense for a number of things 1. The storyline doesn’t make sense and they add stuff randomly like no tomorrow 2. Why we only get new main story quests like twice a year. Also allegedly there was a “Lore book” where all the Quest dialog was written down and information (so future quests can make sense) and supposedly when The SSO team moved office they lost the Lore book and that’s why the Quests are made up. Can we all not forget that The map we have on SSO is only Meant to be Half of Jorvik and there is meant to be a lot more. SSO is so slow on bringing out Game Development’s in the last 11-12 years, we have gotten Dino,Golden hills, Jarla, Epona, mistsfull, tall top, pandoria and south hoof. We really haven’t gotten a lot of content and the main Quest line is not even half way through. The development is super slow, I started playing when I was 9 and I’m now 18. So by logistics I would be like 30 when SSO finishes the game. Also can we also note that The SSO team has changed so much of the original older quests for new players. So no one’s story is the same, it really is a mess and they need to get their crap together because it’s ridiculous. The updated characters don’t make any sense also. Lisa was originally a “punk” rock chick and they turned her country? The only person they semi did justice for in my opinion is Anne. But even then they kinda botched her. I feel like SSO just started remaking and adding different personalities and styles for every single Soul rider. If you want to watch the documentary I can give you the persons name, it is an hour long but extremely informative it really made the think and my jaw was dropped the whole way through. I just can’t believe me, an adult would care so much about a horse game that I played relentlessly my childhood. But I do.
“sso is going downhill.” you made it sound like sso is slowly worsening their own game, or something will happen and sso is gonna go bankrupt soon.😭 overall the way you worded this sounds like an actual novel, even though its just a comment about a sso documentary
My biggest rant is the quests. I just feel like the quests are just basically doing other characters chores while they stand there. Idk, most of them are not fun to do anymore. I love your videos!!!
This makes me tear up, I just found your page again I miss how much joy this game brought me and the simple good old days. I would do anything to be a kid again just discovering the game for the first time.
I started playing this game at the beginning of COVID sense I got bored. I quickly fell out of the game as I saw how expensive the game was and how hard it was to get horses. I used to watch you all the time and decided to come back and watch. Thank you for the fun times :D
There’s also no challenge which I feel like older players (older in age) want which is why ETG has become so popular because the only way to get money to buy horses and upgrade your area is by competing in different levels of shows and training your horses, in my opinion sso is way too easy and that’s why they’re having problems keeping older players enjoying the game
Probs my current biggest rant is not having updated Mustangs, I want to see them with Star Stables new knowledge, mainly because I want the buck- we need more horses with the buck😭 I understand that Star Stable works hard, and I appreciate every update, I'd just like updated Mustangs-
Yeah but it would be really cool if every horse could do buck lay sit ect, it wou” be good for the fact of people like to Roleplay on star stable it would be a nice update ( *Also they could lay and sit for however long they wanted, wel” untill they click to get back up, I just feel like a emote button would be cool. Just click T and a sheet of emotes comes up and you can select whatever and for however long, just an Idea, that alot of role players would die for, y’know.* )
@@ilamoon233 Oh just in general the horses having their own personality’s. Like you ride a horse it’s gonna have an attitude and want you off or it could be broke to death. Like just getting to trust the horse and the horse trusting you
violet makes me so happy with all her jokes and positivity, and she always looks out for people and gives real-world advice that has helped me so much- thank you violet I hope you have a lovely day/night!
My biggest rant would probably be there are hardly any quests now and I’m bored of just training all the time and also just random but I think a good idea for a training time would be, things you would want back from the old sso or what you would want to do in sso for the first time again, btw love ur vids 💖
remember when you had to actually TRAIN the horse to jump higher lol you couldn't compete in some races because a horse was not to a certain level lol.
@@KallaBeccani I wanna say I kinda remember this? I remember when we actually had to be taught how to jump... (aka one of the big reasons back in the day why people wanted star rider.) I've been playing since around 2015... I might just be confusing my memory's though lol
Ngl my biggest rant about sso is actually towards other players really crap talking the developers whenever an area is redone or something is redone for the betterment of the game. Like when Steve's farm and silver glade were redone so many players on my server were so mean about. I totally understand people have nostalgia with sso but the game can't be the same forever:/
exactly! they can't please everyone. they didnt redo those areas just for the sake of it, but to fit in with the rest of the areas as everything is slowly getting redone. but ig alot of people hold attachments to those areas and cant bare it ever changing bc it was what they were used to for a long time, even if it was outdated af
ngl you have a point, i did hate the steves farm update at first and have a lot of memories from the old steves farm (and the dumb square arena ofc), but honestly your right there isnt anything wrong with them changing it as years go by.
I totally get you! I can understand nostalgia, but people must understand that old coding is going to break the game and then there won't be anything for anyone. It would be a nice thing if people would be able to recreate the game with older rgaphics and then only have the storyquests. kinda like how they redid SSL for their tenth Birthday.
@@karinne74 granted I've only played sso for the past 2 and a half years. So I don't have a nostalgic feeling to it yet. But I see why people who have played for years have strong feelings towards the changes. But the game looks beautiful.
Here it comes: I hate soul riders so much. I hate that they're presented as goodie two shoes who can do no wrong and I hate how Lisa is literally their main mascot. Just whenever I get quests with them I try to be men to them on purpose.
This was such a needed video. A lot of the topics you went over have been a problem in Sso for so long and has needed to be discussed about. Thanks for making yet another awesome video!!
Violet you don’t even know how much you helped me when you where talking about growing out of things i have been struggling with deciding on a big decision and this had really helped me understand some thing love you :)
seriously same, idk it’s just so comforting and nostalgic to me, it’s great. Horses are amazing as well. i suffer with severe anxiety and deal with it 24/7. it sucks. star stable to me is just one of those things which help me escape.
I've been playing this game since 2014 or before i don't remember. But I do know that sso has had such a great impact on my life regardless of the crappy way it's turned. I've met some of my favorite people on here, and one being my best friend of now 7 years, who I got to meet in person right before covid hit. Also my club who is my second family (Happy Town). But on the note of where the game is going, I agree there are too many horses and not enough player XP. I, along with many others, are stuck on level 22 and just want to advance but honestly the only reason I log on anymore is for club stuff (which is fairly rare) or a walk through greendale. I tend to log on and go on a trail ride or somethin when I'm not feeling great, or it's late at night and I want to relax. Just listening to the music is one of the good parts of sso that I enjoy. I miss the old silverglade music and I'm afraid they're gonna take away the other old music that brings me, and i'm sure many other players, lots of nostalgia. It's been my favorite game since childhood, the game that got me to ride irl, and the game that's kept me happy so many years.
voilet ive been following u for years u are my fav yt iLY SOOO much u are the only thing that keeps a smile on my face i got to meet u at the summer fest on merang server and it rlly was my dream come true tysm for making such amazeing content (:
I left a box talking about how the sso team deserves more but I regret saying that, last night someone hacked my account and when I contacted customer support, they brushed me off and said I wasn’t hacked when I obviously was, all of my stuff (including my 80+ horses) were sold. And it basically broke me because I had just gotten back into sso and it really just destroyed me. The sso team refused to help me further than restoring 10 of my 80 sold horses. I’ve wasted HUNDREDS of dollars, and I know it’s just a pixel horse game but I feel like I’ve made so many friends and memories on sso, it honestly was my first online game, my entire internet persona is based on sso and now…it’s all gone without anyone saying “it will be ok, I’ll help you”
The thing about people wanting non binary people and male characters have always bothered me a little. I wouldn't mind if sso would add them but the fact that people got PISSED when sso released the video at the 10th birthday saying that it's a "game for girls" or whatever is sickening. Like, why can't we just have a game where you target one gender? It's impossible these days since EVERYONE wants to feel included, validated and loved. It's selfish, really. If a game mainly wants to focus on one gender, that's okay. It's not like they're saying that "boys aren't allowed", sso simply meant that they have always been a game TARGETED towards girls. Plus, there are sooo many other games that includes other genders. And I think that people are forgetting that women are opressed in many ways still. Star Stable just wanted to create a game where women could feel safe and have fun with other women. Is it the end of the world if ONE popular game wants to target ONE opressed group of people? No. I think that they're doing a good thing surrounding that. And please don't send hate. Just wanted to express my opinion.
Yep I get you. Back when sso was new games were mainly targeted at boys. And girls never complained about that? We just went with it and played the game. But it seems like just because this game is targeted for girls it is an issue. I used to LOVE call of duty even though you could only be a male character in most of their games. I love sso for the fact that they wish to have a game where women can have fun with other women. Its just a nice thought that women are the heroes for once
@@grumpgremlin7695 Yep, i agree. Women are disrespected, and that sickens me. It's always "Oh you're a woman you can't do that!". It's really great to see a game targeted towards Women/Girls. That's why I love SSO.
I’ve been playing since 2013, got lifetime membership in 2014. I get back on occasionally every couple of months or so and just do everything for a week when it’s available. As an old player, I guess a few things to mention is just the lack of quests, although the ones they put out every once in a while are okay since the dialogue can be funny. as for the characters, some of the re-renderings are really out there, and don’t even look like their old designs, but I’m also appreciative of it as well, as i watched the game have Linda be the only form of poc representation in the entire game, to a multitude of characters spanning across multiple different backgrounds, which I think was really cool to see. what I would love is for our character to see a remodel, as it is weird seeing our low-poly main character next to fully rendered, animated models. also maybe maybe a bump-up for the allowance of star coins every week, because 100 seems so little for the stuff they’re selling in-game lol the game is certainly not the worst, but i do believe that there is more they could be doing with quests that would add more to the game, rather than having an event there and here with minimal quests. obviously they’re not going to be able to appeal to every players wish, but there is certainly room for improvement! :)
I'm a super new player, just started this week. But I've been playing online games for a very long time, and right away there area few things about SSO that I admire and others that worry me: PROS: I like that the devs keep adding updates, especially the art revamps. I think the game would not be able to age as well if it still had the original horses/world design it started with, frankly. I knew about SSO for years but never paid much attention until recently when I saw they had added Akhal-Tekes and made the starter horse actually cute. I really like the Gen3 horses overall, they look fantastic and have lots of character. The races and such are fun and just riding around casually vibing is enjoyable. CONS: The quest system is garbage. It's primitive, janky (in-progress quests are abandoned if you log out without completing them--what?) and most are massively boring wastes of time. I especially dislike the ones where there is no horse-based stuff required -- fetch quests and such. Overall the game needs more horse activities -- races, competition questline arcs, and more interesting terrain with places to explore on horseback. I'm not playing SSO to 'pick 5 weeds' and go back and forth between lazy NPCs doing their chores for them. I don't see why they don't add more races at least, there seems to be plenty of space in the game for new tracks to be set up. I've known the significant updates are very slow for this game, and I think that one reason may be because the game engine is probably a clunky, primitive fossil (my guess). I have a suspicion that adding complex content may be more difficult than if SSO had a better engine with more robust tools... but that's not something that can be easily changed without making a 'SSO2'. But the history of the game does seem to say, to me, that they are polishing what they have and adding lots of horses because that's literally what's fastest to accomplish -- anything bigger takes will take them years and the players get restless. I wonder if their team is not big enough or organized for their workflow needs properly, or what their budget is like. 'Millions of dollars' sounds like a lot until you factor things like rent, taxes, payroll, servers, etc. so for all we know they may have to choose the cheapest/easiest things to add the most often. I'll close with a financial angle -- I see why they release horses constantly; this sort of game needs a regular income-stream, and making Lifetime Rider able to afford everything ingame easily with its free starcoin allowance would frankly be self-destructive. There HAS to be pressure (FOMO) to spend money regularly, it's just basic online-game economics. And no horses are really -required- past the starter you get free.... and I will bet decent tack and gear can be got ingame if you're not collecting multiple horses with custom tack sets and player-costumes for each. Those cosmetic things are the 'real endgame' (since major content is sparse) so they chose to make that their main income. And yeah, keeping up with that gets expensive. Other online games call players who indulge in that sort of purchasing 'whales' and they tend to make up the backbone of a game's income stream (small number of big spenders carrying everything). So I assume, that despite many longtime players being bored by the horses, they probably make the game a lot of $$$, more than people buying Lifetime Rider and then never paying in again. From an income standpoint, Lifetime Riders are a dead end unless they have reasons to keep buying coins.
Rest in peace dear🕊️❤️ Hope u will see Lola your cats and your brother in heaven🕊️ Love u sm❤️ I’ll never forget u😭❤️🕊️ Still can’t believe that your gone❤️🕊️ Fly high❤️❤️🕊️
thank you for saying what you said in this jul 15 video about people using the game as an escape to true when their life is upsetting or not happy and sometimes take it out on the people playing the game unfortunately sadly it can ruin some people game time.
I think the Jorvik shillings thing is to get you to go buy stuff with star coins because if it goes over your limit you have to use sc and if it's close to it you have to work really hard to get the shillings again just to be emptied out by one item or horse it's supposed to put pressure on players and their patience and time or to get them to panic buy on limited events.
a little bit ahead (like 7 seconds) of 8:52 I had a club with my friends, Emerald Snakes United. It wasn't huge but I enjoyed it, I remember the disappointment when they said they were disbanding in the discord. I'm still really good friends with the owner but we don't talk much anymore. As upsetting as it is now I'm still glad I got to have those moments.
Sso most likely has the shilling cap because they don’t want players to buy thins with shillings. They pry on impatience so you’ll buy star coins instead of saving shillings
ik this will sound weird but GIVE THE DAMM HORSES MUSCLES LIKE I DONT UNDERSTAND as i have one older horse and a younger in rl my older one has lost his muscle and the younger has muscles ik this isnt for every horse but i thing they should do it more!
THE JORVIK SHILLINGS THING PISSES ME OFFFF i didn’t even know it was possible to do that until i started playing again LIKE WHATTTTTTT that’s the one thing that actually makes me want to quit it’s so hard to build up outfits and tack 😭 sso will never care they need us to keep grinding
My biggest rant is that they have changed the map SO MUCH in only CERTAIN places.. like- For example- they completely changed silverglade village but they won't do ANYTHING with Valedale village. and this is different- But the update where you can "browse" horses and stuff- AND THEY MOVED THE HORSES AROUND UGH🖐😃
I think they are slowly but surely (and, when I say slowly I mean very slowly...) getting around to those areas... Tbh I don't wanna know what they will do too Vale.
@@Helpherplease Honestly agreed. Like- Silverglade village was supposed to be a "rustic" Village, and what they turned it into is almost like jorvik city. In my opinion, Silverglade changed too much. And now it looks like a "Modern Town" I guess. I dunno, im an old player, and happy for the Improvement but it's just so much.
@@Daydreamgal I personally don't really care for this more "open" feel they are going/cartering for. The one thing I like about Valedale (it being my hs.) is how kind of small the area is (being mostly made up of Hollow woods.) I like me some small and cozy areas that not a lot of players visit while it being in the middle of everything, (Some may argue that Steve is in the middle of everything I agree but, I see Vale as more of a middle point.) I've been playing since around 2015.
@@Helpherplease yeah! Agreed, sso is just focusing on the wrong places to update! I love vale the way it is. I think that if anywhere needs updating its golden. (My hs) I dunno. It just is a little out dated if that makes sense.
I think the jorvik shilling limit is just to be fair, because if you had A LOT of shillings, people will start ranting about how they should be able to buy HORSES with shillings, which would be good for players but sso would definitely lose money because not as many people would be buying star coins.
Tbh I am taking a 2-3 week break from sso. It just doesn’t have my interest right now bc there’s no quests and none of my friends r logging on. I spend most of my time rping with myself. Theres also daters, toxic people, fake friends etc. and there’s tons of drama which can be entertaining but is annoying when people are trying to advertise for roles and clubs. Everyone also gets triggered so easily especially the people who always get involved in drama. There’s also bullying which can make people not want to play anymore as words can really hurt people. There’s also tons of little kids who join my rrps and are like “ Omg! I think my horse wants to show us something!” Like what do they want to show us? This is a rrp and we’re going to a jumping lesson. I’m also not a good club owner so I tend to only let my bff join as we only use he club for the riding arena. I would join a club but there all dressage and I am so bad at dressage and I’m not really a fan of it. So what am I meant to do? I also used to have this club with two of my bffs in it ( one of them I still talk to today) but the other girl who I met first was actually really toxic and a fake friend so when they unfriendly me and left the club it hit me really hard because she never said anything and we had so many good times together. I miss the enjoyment of having a club with two people and it was really fun to do jumping, trail rides, and shopping, playing hide and seek, and eating in the mall. Also yell at how ugly Ydris is (he still is) and “make fun” of one of my club members who wasn’t toxic for liking Ydris (they dont anymore) Yeah I’m done now.
My biggest rant is definitely the new characters, and Ik we have only seen like a beta thing but I looks like you have put the sims and sso together. Now don’t get me wrong I like that there wil be male characters and other body sizes. But I hope that they wil also add slimmer bodies and mby different body types like pear, apple and hourglass. But In my opinion the “new” characters don’t fit in. This sounds weird but I wish that when the new characters com out that you could chose weather you would want the new or the old ones🙃
