The Reboot Of Star Stable Online ⭐ This Is What Happens When You Remove Realism & Change Storylines 

They changed the soul riders as a whole... their characters? Gone. Their looks? Gone. Storyline? At this point its totally different from what we knew

“We have a game that now has way better graphics but it no longer feels like Star Stable” is such a good way to put it

Sometimes I am like “why don’t they just renew the graphics and NOT change the outfits?” Like, is it that hard, star stable???

I hate what they did to Silverglade village 💀💀💀💀💀

I hate Lisas "new hairstyle" I cant stand it. I always thought her punkrock style made her unike

I 100% agree with the Americanization of this game, as a Finnish person it was saddening to see Redwood Point being added to the game. On one hand, it is gorgeous, and by far the most cozy forest in the game, but did it have to have Redwood trees, only native to America, if I am correct (I am talking out of my ass). The game was so Nordic and Scandinavic up until 2018 at least, it was a very fresh unique style of game. The talking horses in Wild Woods along with the Dark Rider update really made me lose hope on the story of the game. I remember watching sso YT videos in 2013, and being very interested and invested in the story, and I wasn't even playing the game at that point. Now, they have retroactively changed so many parts of the story and the characters that it is impossible and hard to keep up with it. The original story was so dark, mysterious and magical. Now they have definitely dumbed it down for the 8 year-olds that play this game, and they are trying to push the paying customers, the teen/adult players away with it.

Yeah, the engine they run it on is outdated and a huge problem, but it wasn't the art that broke me. I logged on for the first time in months to do the new newspaper quest they added? And I was excited...until I realized the entire thing was just repeatedly running around Jarleheim. Clicking once or twice. Over and over. They've now even removed needing to click and drag quest items from your inventory. Removed a reason to immerse or INTERACT with anything. You just click and wait for a bar to finish then rush to the next, and that was somehow the moment it finally clicked for me that Star Stable had lost ALL its charm. I've been clinging to it for a decade, and finally it was this little thing that broke me. I miss what it used to be.

Star stable doesn't know how to "update" things they only know how to "redesign and transform" them. That's why I'll probably be quitting the game when they launch the new characters and will have changed all the npc (ms Holdsworth is literally a whole new person with a whole new body type, face etc.)

I'm from Denmark, and I miss the Nordic feel. Been to the US and its not my cup of cake. So I'll miss my nordic feel.

9:55 Yeah, but the sad part is, that they did the changes so slowly, that you didn't even had a chance to, like, say goodbye to the old game. Some companies releases sequels to their MMOs, but that's another game, you can have some expectations, info about whether the old game will stay or shut down, etc. With SSO, they basically replaced the original game with a reboot without anybody noticing until after the fact. I don't think that's really fair.

so many old players WERE upset? we are STILL upset... and with the new player interface coming to the game.. oh my god sso is going to loose SO many players. they're trying to make the pc game so much like like mobile game.. is digusting.

no genuinely like as a swede, i loved the aspect of the game that truly felt like home, like sweden! it sucks how americanized it has become, because like, EVERY other game is so american but there was this one game that not only was a huge part of my childhood and early teen years (and still in my late teens is), it also reminded me so much of home, the places surrounding me and i truly hate that it's been kind of lost

You brought up so many good points here. There were a few that really jumped out at me, because they've been my biggest issues with the game for the last few years (it's a long comment, feel free to skip, lol): -The Americanization of SSO: I started playing SSO in 2015 after I watched some playthroughs, and therefore knew it was a Swedish based game when I joined. I'm American, and enjoyed experiencing the Swedish culture through the game, especially during the holiday events. The "update" of Silverglade crushed my enjoyment of that area. The medieval, fortress like village with the wall became a sprawling mess. For all of the Western aspects, including clothing, tack, and buildings, they've so far stuck to an almost...howdy-doody... style, I want to call it? (They do nearly always say "howdy" when anything western comes up in the news or in-game, lol). I've rode Western my whole life, but most of the tack and clothes they release feels dated to me. The artwork is all well done, it's just that the style is the most westerny-western look they could possibly pick. -Aging down the game: I was already an adult when I started playing SSO, so the "oh, you just outgrew the game" argument that comes up quite a bit doesn't apply to me. I liked the game I started playing, so I never outgrew it. The game itself changed (you mentioned the writing style, which I've noticed too), and I began to disconnect with what it morphed (down) into. I've not played other MMOs, so I don't know if forever updates are a risk we take when playing them, vs. a disc or finished game that stays the same long after you bought it. I understand updates, but it seems strange to drastically change, reboot rather, the things that brought players to the game in the first place. I paid for the game, but I can't play the game I originally payed for. I think you mentioned it later on, but what frustrates me the most is the inability to replay the game, without paying on another account. It would certainly give us maxed players something to do while we wait for the occasional quest.

I just wish they could've put the old music back in its place, I would be so happy 😭

star stable soul has gone💔 i hope SSO soul or their art style come back🌺

Is it bad I want sso to shut down so someone will run a private fan server of 2015 sso?

I agree with everyone else in the comments but I haven’t seen anyone bring up the fact that they made James look like a normal person, he was almost a dwarf before and he was CUTE 😭

Also, western riding - they could focus on going upwards with map and leave most of western to the Summer Riders area. It would fit better. And we could have some more open areas instead of squashed wildwoods.

star stable is so random, it reminds me of a minecraft world that you create just to play around with when you get bored. In this case the team made the minecraft world and is the one playing around with it.

As a player who started back in early 2013, I really appreciated this video. Hearing someone talk and share my feelings about the graphics and look/vibe of the game was very comforting. I miss the mysterious vibe of the game, the "personability" of the game. The term "Reboot" was a perfect way to describe this. I'm from America and I loved the different culture in the game. I can't express how much I miss old sso, it's extremely difficult knowing you can no longer play that game anymore and have to deal with the left overs of what looks like the older game. But all in all, thank you for making this video and sharing your thoughts

You can critique art guilt-free - in all art, all opinions are valid. But this type of art isn't creative expression for its own sake, it's guided entirely by commercial values. So critiquing it for basically selling out is perfectly valid.

I honestly believe that if fortnite never existed that the artstyle would be DRASTICALLY different, cuz its weirdly coincidental that when the new area (mistfall) came out it was at the exact same time fortnite became popular

i once played a horse game on roblox and the fact that i had more fun playing the horse game on roblox, than playing SSO, the horse game i used to love and log on to every single day for years the game i'd play for hours, the game that i had fun and friends on. the game has changed so much that if i wouldn't have played it for so long, i'd be close to hating it. Idk thb i might even hate it already which makes me very sad. Love your vids you put it together so well thank you for your content

also idk bout u all but the horses don't feel special anymore, like back then i got sooo excited to buy a new horse and it kinda had its own personality in my head even though they had 'no life' to them idk how to explain it tbh

I never thought I would ever want to buy the crusty gen 1 horses but they do look kind of cute and make me feel cosy. Now they're the only old thing (besides the gear) that I can still cling to furiously. Not even Hollow Woods bird Chirpy was safe from the graphical changes man wth 😭

Honestly ive come to the realisation that the old version of Sso could also just be called StarStable: Online Horse Adventures. This is how they used to market it swell, as did I a lot of other early 2000 horse games.(2011-2017) and this new era is just Star Stable Online.

This is kind of wierd for me since I started playing on around the starting point of the updates. There are some things I couldn't imagine being different, and I find those good and natural (for example the horses) but there are a lot of things I find very wierd and disturbing too. Like how at this point in time all the characters in game have a different style? The soulriders look slightly cartoony but still very realistic, some NPCs, for some reason mostly the old ladys, look VERY realistic, while other NPCs and the players still look very old cartoon style-ish. The same can be said with the areas. I personally don't have that much of a problem with the look of the newest designs but it really just would have been better to make a SSO 2.0 at this point. Also RIP Silverglade TwT.

I’m glad they’re improving the graphics etc. and are trying to appeal to new players but god do I miss the old magical feel it had especially the glow some areas had :(

I don't know if I'm the only one but I hate desigh of new grass 😂 the old one was so... detailed? There were small halms and they were even moving in the wind... but now it looks more like there's just some texture of big grass printed on some green floor 🤷‍♀️

i miss old sso sm, the old vibe was the best

The reason SSO has an 'inconsistent' art style is because they are trying to cater to both their old and new audiences where their preference in art style obviously varies, it's not "which one is it?" it's both, they make both cartoon-like horses and also realistic ones. They want to make sure that there are consistent combinations of both styles so they don't lean into one style too much, or people will complain the game is changing too much. I think in game developing nobody should be approaching things in black and white thinking, it's either this or that. Star stable is supposed to be a realistic-type horse game, if they didn't add any of the more cartoon-like features it wouldn't be a game anymore, it would be like a horse simulator, which is obviously not what they intend to make it.

i'm so glad that someone out there has the exact same opinions as i do, and that you voice your opinion as well. thank you so much for your videos!

as a older starstable player, this game did need to be updated, like any other game, but they WAY they updated it is just odd. yes the graphics had to be updated, but idk was this the best way to go? it just feels odd, they keep updating everything the hardest way yk, like why this game looks so different now? i dont understand how the lore has been same over 15yrs and then suddely they decided to change it, or they way they keep removing stuff instead of updating it, like the bus and making global store so many ppl wouldnt visit mall etc so they wouldnt need to update it. or even the order the updates are coming, why they couldnt just take a time to focus on one topic, like map graphics, the characters, then horses? theyve been updating the map for 5 years now and its still missing many areas, and it makes the game also look weird, because when theyre finally done with the map updating, the graphics in mistfall etc starts to be outdated.. i feel like they just focus on making the game for kids, and i do understand, but afterall adult players are the most important ones.. i love sso, but it is not the same game as star stable, its like two different games. both are great but nothing a like.... its like as if you were comparing rdr2 and sotc, two totally different games but with the same concept. ive been wating for north link to open up for years, because it always had that hole there, and i thought that when sso came out, it wouldnt take more than like 2 years to open up?? but no. i know i cant have everything i personally want and that i should be thankful for them even keeping jorvik lore ongoing, and i am, but the way they wont listen to the players until its happy feedback only.. when theyre gonna admit that theyre sorry for making this whole game so messy? i just feel so unheard and disrespected in this community.. and if we think about it, starstable went from teenagers game to like children game slowly eventho no one asked for that, no one. just sad to see how this game is totally different from what it used to be, but it is what it is i guess

i really like the new artstyle personally but the warrior cat horse herd TOOK ME OUT

I have an old laptop with starstable starshine legacy etc and it still works and idk where the laptop is but only my dad knows where it is and I'm so socially awkward at this point that I can't even ask my parents if I could play old starstable again on the laptop I can't 😭

I think what you said about them not updating areas but completely redoing them is completely correct. It was bad enough with Silverglade but looking at the new Hollow Woods it is a completely different area they just put it in the same place and did not change the name

I miss the old version of Starstable, its not the same game anymore. The storyline is gone. I wish that sso let us choose the game launcher that we wanted to play on. So like, if players want to play the 2014 version still

as of writing this were waiting for a character update today, and ngl all i wanted was to be able to change my character name 💀 They could have just tweaked their textures to be modern as you said, but now it got americanized and they sold themselfs which makes me so disgusted, so ill just quit. Maybe ill check in once in a blue moon but thats it, the game is dead

I feel like immersion was just thrown out the window when they changed to the fortnite graphic art style. Also the redesigns of the characters entirely changed their personality .

I presonally don"t agree with the Americanization of the game, I too miss the old Silverglade Village but I also like the new one better. And they also didn't make it more American they just based it of of a different place, you can litteraly just go type in google old villages in sweden and search up the first one that pops up and you'll just see that the Silverglade Village is the exact replica of it. As for the western thing I do agree that they've been making a lot more western tack and horses but I think that they're just trying to make the game more diverse and make it possible for everyone to do the sport they like in game, also I don't think having one ranch in a horse game can hurt it so much.

Steves farm looks pretty norwegian tho, but I still miss the old yellow one

That moment where you can't watch a video fully because it just hurts your heart too friggin much XD

i dont mind if some horses look realistic and others look more cartoony. I n ever thought of that as an issue. I think it adds character to each. For example some horses may look more cartoony which makes them seem more fun to play with whereas the more realistic looking ones look very serious. It's just about your preference and i like both.

I am not even a new player but I get sad about how much it changes. Like the new Ui coming. and the character changes.

And now our characters look totally different, even the hairstyles and clothes have changed. It's so sad

as a gamer who playes alot of ganres and a player of sso for 10 years. the character do not look like fortnite even my bf who is more of a game addict than myself sais the same. and yes i do miss the vibes sometimes. but honestly i like it much better the style is starstable i would recognise it anywhere. the quest are more grindy but thats normal. games now adays are grinding games. graphyics and gameplay wise everyone likes something else. but they had to update if they dont follow trends and what is popular now we would not have sso. but compairing the characters to fortnite characters is just no they are not .

I agree with many of the points here, but i don't think it's fair to bash sso for updating their style and character models (like with Sabine and the soul riders) like they have. I mean, you can't say "it looks like Fortnite" as if Fortnite holds authority over that kind of style. It doesn’t, and associating it with that in such a negative manner hurts both games for merely having an appearance. Early sso style ran close to the chunky, Bratz-esque, early 2000s girls games go (except in 3D) and nobody seems skeptical of that. Just... to point out... The truth is, the game's community is so heavily divided that opinions on how the game should look, run, etc. often give entirely opposite perspectives. The game needs a revamp but everyone is hit or miss with the graphics. They get around to doing something the community asked for and it's never good enough. We look forward to the horses looking realistic, but then they either don't or they look "too realistic," and we nitpick their flawed movements to the bone, saying they look lame or too silly. Yet we somehow look to the models that barely pass as a horse to be superior. At what point do we stop to think that we're *not helping* by giving them feedback as if we make the game? At some point, I expect sso to just stop listening to its community entirely, because they get so much hate and conflicting arguments no matter what they do. That will be their downfall, I'm sure, but I can see it happening. I'm not one to typically like or agree with the actions sso takes, but I don't flat out hate them for their choices. I see it both ways. The reasons in this video aren't entirely reasonable. Star Stable, in its team abd its community, is full of angry hypocrites.

Silverglade village is very Swedish now and it’s nice BUT it’s not silverglade village. I’d like it more if it were in another location like a new area

22:02 even changing her clothes she still looks like a 10 year old when her old design made her look ATLEAST 16 but imo I always HC she was atleast 18 like she looked older in the old art

it's a really long and time consuming game meant for older kids from the beggining and now its for children does not make any sense tf

I think you mixed the info. 13 min into the video. About the horses and sounds. I'm a very old player of SSO. And the horses used to be making more sounds back then than now. As well slow down after some X seconds and you have to make it go fast. Now days. No noises from the horses. As well no limits of time for speed.

wow im very early 💀💀