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[dorianwolfforest]

THIS FEELS LIKE AN OVERSIGHT

[ourbatshill]

why do you think the races have summer tokens as rewards?

star stable said sink or swim

[tobnuuy]

Camp Western – Summer event 2023

Star Stable is the exciting online game where adventures, horses and mysteries are waiting to be explored. Play free of charge up to level 5

Here’s the page for the Western event!

It’s not accessible through their website navigation yet, found it through guessing URLs (based on them calling it Camp Western in the “coming next week” section of today’s article… they keep making this far too easy LOL).

[dorianwolfforest]

Diversity wins! Camp western is a women only event. Men and gnc folk will sit in the pasture petting the cows while the women do all the tough ranch work

[tobnuuy]

Theyre so obsessed with the word cowgirl… like WHY

This one feels like I’m being called a slur

[dorianwolfforest]

Me when i force sse to be inclusive so they call me a cow person

[shiroselia]

Couldn’t they literally have just used partner though??? Like, atleast in the star coins one “it’s time to become one, partner” it would also sound a lot more natural

[tobnuuy]

I think this whole problem arises bc they’re a company built of primarily millennials and older trying SOOOOO desperately to be woke and use cool lingo in the specific ways that younger gen Z kids are (think tiktok kids) and it’s just backfiring on them SO severely because they don’t and can’t understand it (can’t because they’re not and will never be as immersed in that internet as a real 15 year old).

…And also because they keep going through phases of being more gender neutral in their articles but then a couple months later doing a full 180 and doubling down like twice as hard on the girl theming as the last time they doubled down. Like remember when they changed “craftswomen” in that one article to a gender neutral term? But now we’re back to “cowgirl” when, as you and dorian pointed out, “partner” and “cowpoke” are BOTH terms that exist.

But yeah they’re definitely giving off like. Woman Making “I’m not a “birthing person” I’m a MOTHER” Videos On TikTok vibes

[ourbatshill]

The fact that SSO has not figured out a way to have current updates anywhere but on fucking twitter out of all places is insane to me.

Fucking put the alerts on the website or some shit. Im not gonna sign up on a page owned by a antisemitic transphobe just to see if the game is down for a quick update.

Figure this shit out

[ourbatshill]

now that twitter has closed off for everyone without an account, i ask again. Figure this shit out

[ourbatshill]

i want this

[ourbatshill]

👉👈 pwwease

[ourbatshill]

If your counter to people being fat phobic is to be skinny phobic you are cringe.

No one deserves this shit. Nothing justifies this kind of behavior.

[dorianwolfforest]

galloper in pride galloper in pride galloper in pride

[ourbatshill]

they changed it. Its not blue anymore

[juni-ravenhall]

what are the 180 employees at sse like... currently doing

if they cancelled many of the side projects

[centeris2]

180??? oh my, they were boasting over 200 before, so they really downsized by 10%

[tobnuuy]

Were they really?? I don’t think I’ve ever seen them boast “200+”, only maybe “around 200” - and when they get down to more specific numbers they’ve been saying “180+” for as long as I can remember and I’ve been occasionally snooping around their LinkedIn for at the very least over a year. So unless they very quickly upsized and then just as quickly downsized again (possible, to be fair) my feeling is as always that the “200+” that goes around the community might just be a community construction.

Plus they probably were never counting contractors in that number or it would likely be a lot larger (considering they outsource a lot of their textures, for example), and contractors are from my understanding what they’ve mostly been cutting down on? (might be wrong about that though)

Also re: what they’re doing… probably putting a loooooot juice into SSO. Their projects as of late (better quests, new MC, horse progression system) have been pretty ambitious coding and design-wise, so that’s the entire group that actually works with the game for you… and let’s not forget most of the company is probably doing other things (marketing, community management, HR, finances, customer service (because apparently SOME of it is in house), etc).

[yasminewestbank-archive]

i think they have 1 coder and 179 handling community management

[ourbatshill]

have you seen the comment section on their social media? It says a lot that the spaces with the best managed communities are literally the ones owned and operated by fans/players.

[lilakennedy]

This is, hands down, my absolute FAVORITE part of the whiny instagram comments:

This comment has 200+ likes -

[ourbatshill]

Im 99% sure they meant "conventionally attractive" option

[northberg]

PLEASE are they actually bringing katja back for the rainbow festival again 💀 home of phobic....

[piosplayhouse]

[katjaluvr]

GUYS SHES NOT HOMOPHOBIC SHE HAS DONATED 102948480202975 DOLLARS TO GAY PEOPLE😢😢😢😢😢😢😢STOP KATJA SLANDER 2023

[ourbatshill]

shes not beating the homophobic allegations

[viktoropalmoon]

cant wait to see global chat! im sure everyone will have very normal opinions

[ourbatshill]

fatphobia? in global chat? more likely than you think!

[ourbatshill]

Looks like there is no / will be no beta for the characters? (Fluffyanny is an Star Stable Ambassador)

[ourbatshill]

damn i thought sso reddit was bad. Those comments on Instagram are fucking vicious. Jesus christ.

[yasminewestbank-archive]

if they just

[dorianwolfforest]

I’d like to thank Jamie Olivetree for curing my misogyny. I used to believe women belong in the kitchen, but now I’m not so sure.

[adelaideoldburg]

[ourbatshill]

you are the reason im waiting for the irish cobs to go on sale

[tobnuuy]

"I hope Ranch of Rivershine and Astride put pressure on SSO to improve" no offence, actually full offence, but SSO is working on and releasing the improvements you're asking for as we speak and you are complaining about them

[ourbatshill]

They are right though. How do you see "competition" (bc RoR isnt technically competition for SSO) as a bad thing? it drives innovation and can inspire progress and new ideas. SSO constantly takes inspiration from other games, so they might as well take it from other horsegames. Let alone the fact that games can just co-exist.

People complaining about improvements is because they dont see it as improvements or just plainly dont like them. How people feel about the stuff SSO is working on is not anyones fault, people just have thoughts and preferences.

People are allowed to complain and dislike stuff just as much as people are allowed to love and appreciate them.