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“but you pay $80 to get ten years of content!” the fact that theyve been working on this game for ten years and it has far FAR less content than other cheaper games is why im fucking annoyed

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Summertime hangs 🥰

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So I was given this response by a dev about the AI thing who I have since blocked, primarily for what I'm about to talk about in this post.

I want to talk about your right to absolutely be critical, mean, negative and angry about star stable online if you want to, and why that in no way, shape, or form is "harassment".

There's this saying in bookworld, "no authors in review spaces, reviews are for readers". Its intention is to say that, no matter how much you as an author want to know how people are reacting to your book, you do not go chasing down reviews because they're not meant as a learning opportunity for you, they're meant to let others know more about your product. You do not watch videos reviewing your book. You do not read through your goodreads. You do not intentionally seek out the two or one star reviews. You are, however, encouraged to find a friend who can look through the reviews for you, find positive or constructive ones, and give them to you.

If you want to learn how to improve for your next book, you make use of the beta readers. You make use of the sensitivity readers. You make use of the editors. There is nothing a review can say that will help you, because the book the review belongs to has already been written.

In a similar vein, I do not believe developers should involve themselves in fandom spaces. Yes, I will be overjoyed at an Ismael tweet, because that is Ismael's own space. That's his world. That's his presence, he's allowed to exist online if he wants to and Ismael is still allowed to talk about SSO on his account like how authors are allowed to talk about their books, because he does not go chasing down sso neg about his own work, the server upkeep. I, as the "reviewer", do not go into his tweet replies and let him know how much I hate the most recent quests or how bad a horse breed is (much like how I, if I don't like a book, don't go on twitter and tag the author to tell them that their book sucks). I save that for my space, the reviewer space. SSOblr, in this instance.

In our own space, as reviewers, we are allowed to be critical and negative about the product we consume, because we understand that it's about the work, not the people behind it. In many instances, we don't even know who the person behind what we're critiquing is. There is also the assumption, the hope, that the person will never see it, because developers, like authors, shouldn't hunt down reviews of their work, and if they do find something that is critical, it should be a standard that they either ignore it, or read it but don't respond to it.

We've had a grown woman on this platform beef with and publicly call out a teenager for expressing the opinion that the quests she made weren't good, with the justification that the review was "hurtful". Plenty of reviews have the potential to be hurtful, it comes with the profession. That's why you don't read them. Even then, no one who expresses critical thoughts does so specifically to upset or hurt the person behind the work, far from it. That's why we stick to our tiny individual corners of the internet and don't chase you down to tell you our opinion.

Within Star Stable Entertainment, the friends an author might use to collect positive and constructive reviews are your support team (which, unfortunately, isn't all that great. Hooray for being told to overlook antisemitism) and social media accounts. All you need to know about how people react to you and your work should be filtered through them.

If the person who used AI art feels targeted and harassed, that is on them. We didn't know it was even one single person who did it, you as a company singled them out to us so that we'd stop blaming you as a whole. Furthermore we don't know who it is, we physically cannot harass them. Who do we tag? who do we send messages to in order to harass them? No one. They would need to go on SSOblr and look through the tag after a massive controversy caused by them, purposefully searching for outrage. That's not on us.

You are fully within your right to have public opinions about the content you consume, and if a developer oversteps the creator/reviewer boundary you are not the one who should be apologizing.

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hey fuck this game btw

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This is the full email I was sent, I just cut out the greeting cause it had my email in it. You ever just. Get real tired.

For context here’s the response I sent after his last email.

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one of my friends looked up ydris and was like "im so sorry but that's the Oncler"

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No actually anyone who doesnt have this setup is a casual.

Hard mode is playing SSO on a Movie. >:)

I did it, horse nerds. Rate my Star Stable gaming setup.

I have managed already to run multiple races while this thing is in motion without making a mistake.

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REPEAT AFTER ME: NEVER stay the night!!!! Because you will blow through your SC and quests in like three months and when you turn around you will have been playing for seven years and you haven't had anything to do besides the updates and you will look back and desperately regret.

Oh. Huh.

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Maybe I’d just an oldfuddy duddy raised in the 90s during the neo-hippy “save he planet” era (we were all very crunchy right before Grunge)- but I think this would be a good time for the Stars Table to post some actual wolf facts like how they don’t actually have a reputation for attacking humans, how people are trying to make it legal to hunt them from like, helicopters (bad sportmanship if you ask me but also illegal in 48 states of the United states), and how destroying their numbers wreaks havoc on biodiversity. 

That might be what bothered me the most about this whole shebang

This of course is what I’ve seen looking at it from American sources 

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I mean, the news says it will pop up anytime you're "in the Camp Western area" so i have to believe it's intentional. Does it continue coming back if you fill it out?

Oh so SSE does random game-interrupting pop-ups now? That's cute.

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Controversial Character Tournament Round 1: Ydris from Star Stable Online

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feline acquired

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Josh: hey go get in the pen with that bull

Josh: omg you fucking idiot i didnt think you would actually

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oh my GOD i kept seeing pictures of other people with their stirrups right and i was like "oh i guess my game is fuckin broken". good to know its not just me!!

Been looking closer at the issue with the stirrup/foot placement and the gallop pose. Turns out your character actually looks fine while on your starter horse. It's only on other horses that the feet and sometimes the butt are positioned wrong... and they're in different places depending on the breed.

Also, wierdly, when you look at OTHER players, their feet are in the right place regardless of what breed they're riding....

... with only a few exceptions.

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It isn’t any news that SSO’s biggest adult demographics can be basically clear cut divided into “queers” and “gender essentialist bigoted cishet women ages 20-40″ but sometimes it Really hits you in the face that the latter group certainly cannot shut the absolute fuck up

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Zee: Why does MC call you babygirl

Ydris: How about we stop talking for a little while

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from SSO’s instagram