Why we miss the old SSO 

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I think the main aspect what causes the community to be to incomplete is the lack of events, they don't celebrate things like easter, midsummer or valentines. I made most my friends through events or clubs back in 2013. I remember last year at the SSO anniversary there were so many people on I had to be in a queue to get online, I play on Misty Mountain. In my opinion the game is too blue tinted, if you look good at all the trees and grass. They're all so blue tinted, if they just were to reshape everything to something warmer It'd feel much homier and not like Fortnite

Sso was at its peak in 2014 when they opened the Dino Valley. It was awesome back then and it had a very cozy atmosphere. Now it feels like a different game. Their biggest mistake was removing the old music and the original lore. I think many played the game because of the story and not because of the horses, that was at least my case as i wasn't really a horse girl.

l'm also a nostalgic player, and particulary sensitive about the music. I want to share a trick that I found to listen to our beloved "Walks in Moorland" in the game : when you get out moorland's transporter and you walk to the left, follow the wall and go past the two benches, the song will start playing ! :) You can try it as much as you want, it works every time :)) Now, when I'm feeling nostalgic I run to Moorland and go back and forth in front of this wall :') New players must think I'm crazy

Aw, those old songs were so special to me! They made sso feel familiar and like a home of sorts. I've always loved horses so being in a world with a storyline centered around our bond and adventures with horses was a big reason i played sso constantly back in the day.

Whenever people say they miss the "old" Starstable, I question what their version of old SS is. Like some people mean 2017 while others are talking way back in 2012. For me my old SS is 2014-2016, I believe what I miss the most is the iconic recognizable soundtrack, the more balanced blend between being fantasy-based to have connections to real-life aspects (Holidays, persons, landscapes, construction and the rise of suburban lifestyle). While little me joined and played for a horse game, I stayed n became invested in the game for that very blend. I've always loved fantasy, tho lately SSO has been focusing solely on fantasy that it becomes less n less charming or whimsical for me. Back then it felt mysterious, eerie, and really engaging to find out the secrets n lore of Jorvik. The music helped so much with this feeling and determination I had to learn more, especially since a lot were from the SSE games which I got into later on. Now... It all feels really automated, sort of like the team isn't as passoniate as they used to be. As a kid I ADORED logging in and walking in moorland stables, mostly cause of the theme! It always made me excited to play more quests and gallop around the island on my own adventures. Though it's so different now- And from what I seen new players don't start in Moorland anymore, just that weird riding camp that looks really outta place as if it were slapped onto the map wit no care. I'm in my 20s now and only really still play the game time to time for comfort, to ride around the island and calm my racing neurodivergent brain. I don't do quests anymore and will only get a new horse n train em when I got nothin better to do. I don't even have the game music on anymore I just listen to my own music or even the old soundtracks from before. Everything feels dull but I'll play still until I'm sick of it. I never comment on SSO vids cause I avoid the community like the plague- But this is a really good vid and you deserve load of credit!

It's funny because I've had my game volume off for about 3 years now, and I recently made a playlist dedicated to my old favourites to listen to while I play. I didn't even realise the old soundtrack pieces weren't in the game anymore

The Dews farm song itself evoques what SSO used to be: authentic, nostalgic, cozy with a hint of creepiness in the background.

As a 25 year old who has been playing SSO since it came available to the US (2011-2012ish). This is a lot of the same complaints I see among everyone especially people my age and who have been playing as long as me. Literally the music is half the reason I got on; think of Skyrim (which came out in 2011) the music is literally the entire reason I get on and play it again and again!

GIRL U MADE ME CRY THOSE SONGS ARE SO NOSTALGIC

its honestly mostly becasue of how much emmersive stuff they took out, the bus/busticket, the use of mail boxes, trailers EVERYWHERE. like who needs a trailer from steves to marley??

Hearing the older songs really does bring me back. For me, music is a big part of my life and it makes and has made a big impact for me, not just on star stable. I especially love the south hoof soundtrack. :) I remember the moorland soundtrack, the silverglade one, and i even forgot that your homestable had any music... It all felt so calm to me, but now that its changed, it doesnt feel the same. Bc the songs have been changed, ive been playing with the just the music volume completely muted for some time. I dont even do quests with sound on, bc the music just doesnt feel the same anymore. The old racing soundtrack was ICONIC, idk why sso would just remove it. Sure, they need to change stuff so new players can join, but changing such things like soundtracks that arent even that outdated and still sound really good, isnt needed. Though, i always turn on my music volume ingame when im doing races with the miscreants music!! That band is truly amazing :))

i don’t think i’ve ever even played star stable but something about the music feels really nostalgic

Okay I never comment but your video was sooo good !!! I'm a french player and I play SSO since 2013 (I was 9 back then) and it had been my special interest since then... The changes SSO made absolutely shattered me (especially the new lore, i spent hours making mental cards of the old one, hoping it won't fall into lost media lol ;() I'm now 19 and I still play it, a lot less, but my room is still filled with some SSO merchandise, books, starshine legacy (anything that could be in link with Star Stable) Me and my friends met back in 2019 (we're still friends, even if we play once a month) and i'll never forget the memories that game gave me, no matter the direction the game will take now, i'll try to hold one those memories. Star Stable is not the game i used to know, it shattered its own identity at the second it got bought back by an another company, multiple artists got fired, original writters for the lore aswell, it broke that "harmony" the game got... The new ones are good, ofc ! but it's not the same vibe, even the new redesigns had been made by people who didn't know anything about the game itself, so yea, it gave so much black holes in the lore. Some characters were not meant to exist (c.f Ydris) I ramble a lot but we could talk about every point for HOURS, Star Stable had and interesting story, and like you said, it won't come back ! Thank you for your video, made me think a lot and was pleasant to watch !

To me, old SSO is... Starshine Legacy. As a kid, I only knew about that game series, and at the time (2009, I was 13) I could only find one of the games, Anne's episode. At the time, if you couldn't find the game you wanted in store, well, tough luck, the concept of buying online was there, but still foreign and a little scary. I played it on my first laptop, in summer, chilling in the countryside, and to me, Starshine Legacy is all about those happy days, the best days of my childhood, so when I grew up, I went on and downloaded the remaining games to play the entire series from start to finish. Simple as it may be, it still brought back those same emotions and feelings, and I had so much fun with it! Of course I had to play SSO when I discovered it! And then... then I discovered Star Academy and Season Riders (my only way of experiencing old SSO). Turned out that there was so much more to the series I liked even as an adult. I enjoy SSO. I may not have much nostalgia for it, although it still makes me a little sad that it stepped so far away from Starshine Legacy. And while there's no old SSO for me, a relatively new player, to miss, a part of me wishes it embraced its roots more. Edit: I would like to add that I made my account before the character model update, but then I had to take a break as I could not buy Star Rider at the time, and when I came back, oh did it take me some time to get used to it. I am all for updating graphics as the game as to stay relevant and fresh to survive, and the days of 2000s character designs are long gone as they had their own trends and aspects, I welcome changes, but I do feel like the art style kind of lost its identity, and I would love it to be a bit more... distinct. To each their own, but this is how I feel.

Great video! :D About the music in SSO, I find it mind-boggling that they've changed some of the races songs to that tune that plays in the circus race. Insane, does not fit at all. Something I would've liked was if you read out loud the questions you asked Mathilda. :)

I honestly thought The Sound Of Frozen Valleys played in the sso stable, but i do know it plays in the Sso Horses app still

I was watching this on my TV but as soon as i heard Peninsula of Wild Ponies i knew i had to comment that this is my absolute favourite songs of all the places, i always used to stand there and listen to the song playing in repeat while looking for the wild horses 10:23

Amazing video! This really brought back a lot of memories, unless they’ve removed them now I used to run with the south hoof ponies because they were not an updated model and I felt a lot closer to them!

i completely understand how you feel, i started sso way back when it was only 2 years old, i made so many friends along the way and also joined fun clubs, but as i got older and more got updated i started losing those people and also got busier with life myself, now i still play it sometimes as an adult and it just doesnt feel the same anymore, no one to hang out with anymore when it was always so fun, its great you made a statement about this!

Wonderful video Stina - great work! We hope for more videos in the future!

I felt so nostalgic at 21:40 when you scrolled down all your quests, it's been years since I've had as many quests ! Been playing SSO since 2014 and now I litterally have nothing to do in game. I finish the new content soooo fast, feels like there's no more challenge on updates nowadays.. Btw hi from France, hope my english isn't that bad !

i started playing again and i didnt realize how much emotion has been stored in all the songs. the new songs gives me some nostalgia but welcome to jorvik and a walk in moorland nearly made me cry 😭😭

I absolutely loved this video!

I've heard most of those soundtracks in all the areas fairly recently- especially the stable one so that's odd that others can't hear them.

6:33 oh my goodness, memories just came flooding back 😢

I used to play Star Stable as kid, but I never got a membership as my parents saw it as a waste of money. Fair tbh. But recently ive come back to discover what I never got to! However this was after a lot of massive updates like the UI changes, character models, and some overworld changes. Even then I didnt break into the community until, well, this video. Its incredibly interesting to look into Star Stable's history and community as someone whos known about it for years, but have only really gotten involved now. This video was very informative for me, thanks for putting this all together :]. Also, I may have not have been there to experience most of sso- but those first two removed songs unlocked memories I had forgotten. I remember thinking collecting all the overworld stars would turn you into a "star" rider 😓

Idk much about the music aspect or if they updated it after receiving complaints but I have heard the examples you used in the video.. more subtly and less around the world but they're definitely still around! Maybe more as little references to the older version of the game

I can still hear the original Moorland Soundtrack! I've been playing since 2013, so the feelings when I hear those songs are intense lmao

Such a great video! Torille!🇫🇮 I'm also from Finland and have accounts on both Carrot cove and Spring star. Even though I think it's brilliant that Finland multiple servers, I still enjoy playing on English speaking server more. I wish I could change all my accounts to spring star 😭

this video was a 10/10, thank you so much for posting this. I wish SSO would take our opinions into account like they say they would.

i honestly think a lot of people don't like how the plot developed, like we started out trying to save jorvik from ged, and don't get me wrong I love the magic and all that but I feel like we completely forgot abt the "real" issues. i haven't finished the video so if you talk abt this sorry haha

They should make a sso classic version that is playable separate to the main version like runescape did with old school runescape and world of warcraft did with world of warcraft classic. I dont know why they haven't done this as classic re-releases are almost always very popular

I just came across your video. So I started playing the 9th of august 2015, I don’t consider myself an OG, I mean not a true one at least lol. The real dinosaurs of the game aka my friends that are getting as old as me after they have spent 9 - 12 years on that game told me even though I was OG, which I sure agree, (my account will celebrate its 9 years this year) is that the real OG definitely are 2011 - 2014. In my perception it is 2011 - 2016 but we were just what the real OG used to call newfags back then. Something that I do miss about the old star stable is that before 2016 right after I joined in 2015, all was calm. We were so supportive, helpful and great towards each others, it is not only one server on the game affected by this issue of very toxic players actually, but every server. So as I said in 2016 here they come here they are, the toxic people drama makers arrived in France, bullying in the global tchat, stalking of your private social medias, openly revealing your private life in the eyes of everyone, jealousy because a player is better than someone that is a “pro” but you don’t know every pro on the French servers I guess, nobody can assume there is only one pro player and also the last issue I will mention the jealousy of some people accusing you of cheating because you play since soon 9 years (this thing is affecting me personally this time lol at least my acc) and you are level 26 what a cheater damn !!! All this just for pixels, can’t people just mind their own acc ? I haven’t played for almost 9 years, farmed all the quests since I am 11 on this game to be accused of cheating lmao, best is to block them, the thing attached to this is jealousy about the fact that you have a lot of horses…Like a lot and we are many in this case that people openly insult you “she has too many horses”, “she uses cheats” like bro I am turning 21 and what I do of my money isn’t your problem. Anyway long ass text but yeah I kinda explained all I could say

I love watching thosevideos about downfall of sso, but also hate - because it's saddening to see childhood game dying. I really relate to your opinions. Especially music, it's nostalgic part of the game. I really wish the old team was still there :( The game lost its soul and magic T-T. And all they care about is money...

Whoever Sargeant Tom is, he needs to work with Star Stable again, because his music is fantastic

I used to absolutely LOVE star stable and I played it every single day for years but it's getting an bit boring for me because friends left, clubs ended and all there is left to do for me is take pictures for instagram and that's it, don't get me wrong I love posting pictures but after more then 1400 pictures taken there is not much left for me in the game to get new inspiration from. I still try tho! Love you video, will share it on my instagram because you deserve every view and subscriber 😊

Wow I did not know nothing of this .The sound so hard😢❤

Everyone is talking about how they removed the songs, but I still hear those songs in game? The stable one is still used, when I’m in the moorland arena it’s still the old song, and all of that. I hear the new and old ones all the time, even the ones that people say were removed. Keep in mind that I usually play on mobile, since I’m too lazy to go get my computer, so perhaps that has something to do with it?

i don’t miss the old sso, i miss the fun i’ve had in the game. i miss being a little kid waiting for every update

Personally i actually think the game is so much better now. The game wasn’t better then, just the feeling of the game. I have played since 2014 and i don’t feel the same magical and mystic feeling anymore :( it’s like the charm and spark in the game is gone. I REALLY miss the old music. But honestly, the game is better now. But i really miss the old days…and get so much nostalgia. My dream is that we could play the old sso, like in 2015/16, as its own game.

I dunno what you're talking about, almost all the songs you listed i hear on a regular basis. And I'm a new player who doesn't know the nostalgia but i can definitely hear these songs in-game 🤔

I made a starstable account in 2012 but started playing activily in 2013. Reasons because I used to play the Star Shine legacy CDROM games when I was younger. When I heared that there was a game based of the SSL and SA games I was thrilled to download it. My journey started out good so I played a lot. Even tho i didnt become a lifetime starrider back then I used to buy the monthly star rider or live off star rider codes. I also played a lot and I loved how the story continued. As I got older I had other priorities like finishing high school and college etc. I didnt play as much because I became bored. The reason for it was that there were no quests anymore. Somewhere in 2014 or 2015 star stable had released the news that they wouldnt give us quests every update because they wanted to focus more on the story quests. I thought it was fine because that would mean that the story quests would be longer. Well the disapointment came after that. Because the gameplay of one story quest after that update was just 20-30 minutes then everything died again. Few years after I made my account I bought myself life time starrrider. thinking that it would get much better. Well with no story quests or other small quests I could only train. However clubs are nothing for me because I cant listen to younger leaders who wanted me for every event that they organized (which i understand but its not my thing). I quit for a few years and I tried to get back after I graduated college last summer but I didnt have any time. Now Ive been playing for a month again and I am so confused about the story quests... Like nothing makes sense. So i searched on google why star stables story quests dont make any sense and apparently all the original creators/ devs left sso and the booklet where they kept the sso story was LOST. So the new devs are just trying to add their own spice to it. They also dont want to be associated witht the SSL games so thats why it doesnt make any sense with the past games anymore. It will never be the same and the story quests will have a whole different turn. Also when you make a new account it doesnt say that we're special or the chosen one anymore. They removed the WHOLE story you get at the beginning. Also weird how we meet Anne, linde and lisa on the first day we arrive at the "horse camp". This game will only make senso to new players tbh.

I also originally bought the no weekly allowance sr, but I found out some years ago from a friend that you can change it to the weekly allowance one by messaging sso and asking them to change it. I don't remember what sso responded 100% correctly, but it was something about me having used so much money on sso that it sums up to the price of the weekly allowance sr. After that, they changed my subscription to the weekly allowance sr without me having to pay anything extra. Idk if that works anymore, but I wanted to throw that out here in case it helps someone :,D Also, there's nothing more I wish than to be able to return to my old server pineapple mountain :( It sucks being stuck on a server.

Community: I feel like the community is not only falling apart but also quite toxic. Getting bullied because they dont like your horse, tack or set. Or jealousy of your horse, tack or set. Starters are regularly bullied relentlessly becouse they have a very low level, the starter horse etc. Losing my first account: Due to the safety regulations i lost my first account witch i played untill 2014 i beleve. It took months/years to delete the account so i could start over. Starting over and getting bullied: Once i could start over, i started over. I was not a complete beginner as in knowledge of sso. But i was beginner in level and horse. I got bullied relentlessly when participating in championships. "I was worthless, i could never win with a starter." was said to me regularly. Star rider beginning: Once i got unlimited star rider i finally got respected, with a new horse or more a pony. Sso on mobile: Now that sso is on mobile phone i play a lot inbetween lessons at school depending on time the missions took. Or just basically taking care of my horse(s). Gliches on mobile: Mobile has so many gliches. One of these gliches is my horse having their own mind on where we were going, or the speed. Or not being able to chat. I have now been waiting for about 2 weeks for sso to fix the typing issues. The other glich i learned to navigate. Result of the typing glich: I felt so bad ignoring a starter who asked a question, simply because i could not awnser. Of course the starter was not happy i ignored her but did not say anything.

It’s crazy how the price varies regarding to currency. I paid for my lifetime in 2017 with weekly starcoins, and if I convert my currency to euros, it was about 20€

Vanhoja musiikkeja on kyllä niin ikävä... 😭 Mä pelasin lapsena/esiteininä alkuperäisiä Starshine Legacyja ja Star Stableja jo kauan ennen SSO:ta ja ne niissäkin soineet musat on kyllä niin nostalgisia ja yksi syy sille, miksi SSO:kin on tuntunut niin ihanan kotoisalta peliltä. Koko pelin tunnelma on kyllä paljon muuttunut alkuajoista, mm. juuri musiikin vaihtumisen (ja uusien grafiikoiden) takia. Melkein tuntuu kuin pelais ihan eri peliä kuin silloin reilut 10 vuotta sitten kun SSO:nkin aloitin.

When the new characters in sso came out I couldn’t stop crying

Hearing the music honestly brought tears to my eyes. It's so sad to see this game change so much, forcing me to leave.

i can't say i miss old sso exactly. i'd say i miss the effort they put into this game back then. i really love design of new horses and areas. if i'd be the same age as i was back in 2017 i'd still enjoy this game maybe the same i did, cuz kids can find fun in almost everything. but now, when i don't really feel like roleplaying and stuff (and also i did every quest and reputation i had) i don't have anything to do :[ i could train horses, but i don't have any to train, so i log in just to collect some fireflies and i just simply wait for events or new lore quests, cuz when they're giving us quests that aren't lore-ish we can finish them in under 10 minutes :'') well, i hope they'll focus on our enterteinment not just horses :'v (i mean they are somehow part of it, but why am i suppose to spend money to buy a horse in game where the only thing i can do with it is horsing around feeling bored and unmotivated to do anything at all)

I feel like if the colors were more natural in the game, they brought back the bloom effect, and improved the lighting and sky changes, people would like the current game more. I cant play without reshade and thats sad

I now just turn the music off in-game completely and manually play the songs for what area im in xD

I’m so confused why I have more subscribers than you, you’re a lot better at being a RU-vidr than me, you’re amazing ❤

17:20 I feel like it is worthy to note here that Star Stable slowed down a lot on RU-vid around the same time RU-vid got in trouble in regards to COPPA laws. The end result was the entirety of the official Star Stable RU-vid channel getting marked down as "Not For Kids" due to the games target audience, which ultimately means videos don't get pushed as much, making money from this content is no longer an extremely viable source of revenue (or even really a way to advertise the game) as it used to be, etc. etc. I miss the Star Stable RU-vid content a LOT but I'm not really surprised it happened, it's not quick and easy content like TikTok or even Instagram, it takes a long time with little pay off (+ now a lack of community engagement on youtube itself with how kids content is blocked off from comments entirely. RU-vid rarely bothers to even notify me when Star Stable DOES upload anymore LOL) I'm not really surprised to see the company has essentially written it off a non-priotity from the looks of it :''')))

Love this

Do I have to buy the subscription in order to join clubs and continue playing past level 5?

16:37 A Duchess sso player here, i am not able to get in the server Spring Star, it wont show up when changing servers

If I’m being completely honest these days put the music down in game and play the old ones because I like the old music better

I think a big aspect of missing the „old Sso“ is also missing being younger. I mean when I started playing I was 10 years old and what cares does a 10 year old have?

i gotta say, in terms of game soundtracks, red dead redemption 2 is probably my favourite! it's such an amazing soundtrack and i love is sm. i will say though that the game is not a horse game nor is it for kids- so kids looking for other horse games shouldnt play this game thats rated 18+ as for the sso soundtrack, i dont feel nearly as immersed anymore. comparing to rdr2, i dont feel like im *there* with my horse. in rdr2 i feel much more immersed and more as if i could actually be arthur, john or the own designed playable character in red dead online

Great video bro! RU-vidr Stina is here 😉

13:14 I play sso since 2017 (eventually quit in 2018 and came back in 2019). And I am from River Valley, a South American server, in which you can´t even turn to the other region's servers. I've played like 6 years in the same serverrrrrr 😭😭😭😭 Which now adays is COMPLETELY abandoned!! I played almost every day since 2019 and since the update of Steve's farm, the global chat is empty the whole day. LITERALLY. I'm desperate for a new beggining at an American/British server, I can live in english but I need to socialice 😿

Ot is so funny to hear someone talking about good old days and meaning 2018 or 2020... 😂 I started in January 2013 and i think this talking about the "good old days" started in 2015....

You know I don’t necessarily mind the addition of new songs in the soundtrack. Some of the new stuff is really good, for example the new music for the forest in goldenhills and greendale woods. I also have trained so many horses and done so many races chasing high scores by now that the original race soundtrack playing for almost every single race got stale for a while. But! That doesn’t mean I never want to hear the original soundtracks ever again. Keep the old race music for certain races and add variation for other races where appropriate instead of slowly erasing it completely. I also don’t understand why they can’t just have multiple sound tracks for each area instead of just one. Why not have both the old and the new play interchangeably? Take stardew valley for example. They have three soundtracks per farming season, plus different tracks for some of the areas you explore, and that’s enough to keep the music fresh for a long time while still remaining nostalgic.

Is it really not worth it anymore? I used to play from 2016-2019 (not consistently - I never finished the story), and just got recommended it again - I was thinking of coming back to it. However, when I logged on I was honestly appalled, my outfit did NOT translate well to the new model. Plus, I never got lifetime star rider, so I'm still as broke as I was back in the day. The inability to switch servers internationally needs to be fixed lol... I was thinking of giving it another go, or maybe I'm just scraping together all the crumbs of nostalgia I can

i’ve been playing for 2 years n still haven’t made a single friend🙏🏽

I still have the stable soundtrack? Hmmm 8:38

I miss old SSO, mostly for nostalgia, and imo that's not a bad thing. the old SSO makes me happy, instead of the new one with textures and areas that feel bland (cough cough new Hollow Woods and Silverglade Village)... I hate that I can't get joy out of this game anymore. I guess it's time for me to move on. if sso decides to copy WoW and make a classic version of their game, which I doubt they'll do, I might return. but don't let me distract you from enjoying this game, I'm very ''old man yells at cloud'' when it comes to these things.

no we are not stuck in the past we just prefer pixel art over fortnite art

With the new Star stable I don't get the same excitement as I did with old Star stable the new characters they're okay but they just for some reason just don't catch my eye as much 😔 it's kind of a disappointment for me especially with the horses feels like coming out each week or maybe each month usually it would be like each year or a horse would come out or maybe a month sometimes but yeah All Star stable is better because I had more friends and every morning I would wake up like at 4:00 in the morning and wait until the news comes out

New player and the old South Hoof song is incredible why remove that?! I have the music muted because it all sounded the same to me plus it got annoying after awhile. But that song? I would have it on high volume lol

nyt tuli ikävä☹️ Tarinatehtäviä tehessä must tuntuu et oon skipannu jonku chapterin, oon välillä niin cofused lmao

@StarStable

they sold the company right? I guess that is the reason for the game changing in literally every way. Too bad, I wish we just had a way to play the old game

I’m Victoria light knight I play star stable game

My reason for stop playing is because you have to pay to enter new areas…

IDK why people say they miss the old SSO. You all would be complaining if they didn't update the game and the look. So there ya go. So why complain about the old Star Stable when in fact you would complain if they didn't update the game.

I never got to fully experience star stable back then, coming from a poor country where every penny is saved, paying for games was unheard of. i have blurry and vague memories of the boxy low poly starter horse, fort pinta and moorland. i feel it's a bit unfair to constantly cry about the old when some of us couldn't experience it and only now can pay with their own money. just hope the community would be a bit more kinder and considerate :)