[Survey] The Great Challenge and the Lottery



HellOw!

The Great Challenge and the Lottery has come to a close. We hope that you were lucky during the lottery draw and were able to win all the prizes during this event.

We would like to gather your thoughts and feedback about the event. Below are a series of questions you can rate: What was good about the event? What can be improved? Ratings range from 1 (the lowest) to 5 (the highest).

We always appreciate your feedback, but please remember the forum rules and keep it constructive!

Thank you for your time and feedback!

Sincerely,
The Howrse Team
pOwny
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well what can i say,


Gifts where of poorest quality you took all the good items out the lottery reduced the amount of lottery draws and offered us nothing in substitute

Have to say am left with 3000 clovers and there is nothing i want from the shop cause i don't need anything and half of the gifts are not worth anything dropping's and fertilizer as gifts are default smiley (n)

overall i wouldn't bother please bring back the nyx packs it was the only item i actually bothered with as am sure others feel the same
HighWing
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Goodness, this has to have been the worst lottery event so far. The GC was exactly the same as always, which was fine, but halving the draws and doubling the top prizes did not make up for the horribly poor other prizes. There seemed to be nothing between a very few 'excellent's and lots and lots of 'fillers'.

I 'won' absolutely nothing of value draw after draw, so rolled my tickets over each time. I ended up with around 150 tickets before I finally won a BMI item (and not a high value one). With over 4000 clovers at the end, the choices in the Clover Shop were really depressing. Maybe good for Unicorn breeders, I guess.

The theory was that clover numbers given would be higher with this lottery, but when there's nothing you want available to buy with them, they become a symbol of frustration.

Thing I am most happy about the lottery is that it's over.

If you genuinely want to improve it for the most players possible, don't just give out an extra divine, which makes one more player happy, give out a better balance of gifts - even a wide range of low- and mid-level BMI would be nice.
Suzanna's Zodiac
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The event was fun to play and was a nice touch to be able to look forward to the price draw twice a day. However, as others have said, the prizes were a bit lack lustre. Please bring some more exciting prizes in the future. default smiley :)
Lalaia
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The Great Challenge is not my favourite event, but I like that on most days I could get all my daily horseshoes just by looking after my usual horses. At one point I thought I wasn't going to finish but I did manage to get Zebra! The main thing I did not like about this part was the annoying pop-ups every time I won a prize as they interrupt the flow of me looking after horses etc. It would be better to only have one to show when you've got 100 horseshoes for the day (so I can stop doing each ride in 30 minute increments) or just to have a notification (without a pop-up, like the daily objectives get). This is not the worst thing by far to deal with, obviously, but I can imagine accidentally clicking the link to get your prize would be more irritating if I were breeding unicorns.

For the Lottery, my opinions are mixed. I actually liked having only 2 draws as there was less pressure to log on (especially if I'm busy) so it felt more relaxing than it has done (especially since I didn't have to get up super early to exchange my winnings). However, I did not feel that the changes made to the prizes to compensate for this were sufficient, in fact I think the prizes were possibly worse than before. I did not win anything particularly useful from the draws and I am not terribly interested in anything in the shop, so I don't know what I'll get yet.

Overall, it was kind of a nice event, but definitely not as good as it has been in the past. default smiley :)
Indigo 03
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I know this probably won't be taken into account for the next round of this event.

The GC I've always disliked, it's not entertaining, and I find the 'premium' key not really worth it since I couldn't care less for Jennys or Zebras. I have very little motivation to continue with that event, same measly prizes as every year.

Onto the lottery, there are only 2 good things I can say.
1. The draws being more spread apart did help with being busy IRL, but maybe 3 times a day would've been good.
2. I liked getting 2 Hestias and a Hera.

The BAD...there's a lot to list:
1. Whilst reducing the number of draws to apparently 'help players', the prizes in the clover shop on offer have been worse than they have ever been. Where were the Nyx packs or HoPs, Fleeces, TCs? So it wasn't purely aimed at unicorn breeders? What happened to the good lower-tier prizes?
2. The number of clovers was abysmal - what a joke.
3. I didn't get any 'good' prizes, I collected all the tickets until the very last event (181 in total!). 4. the top draw prizes one of them being ero's egg is of no use to many players, including myself. I wish we were able to choose between some prizes (should I ever win any!)
5. I've always liked the lottery but every year it becomes more of a disappointment. HOPEFULLY, if feedback is listened to i.e better prizes on offer etc it would be the same great event it once was!
Tallist14
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I usually buy the premium key each year as the prizes are worth it - I'm sorry to say that this year's pool was kind of a joke, and the same goes for the regular prizes as well with both the Great Challenge and the Lottery.

To your credit I do appreciate reducing the number of draws - it makes navigating the lottery a lot easier with real life in mind. That being said I agree with some of the other comments here about how it was not appropriately balanced with the rest of the event, for example continuing to increase the price of tickets exponentially is good to reduce pay-to-win but insanely expensive with fewer draws if you want the chance to get anything halfway decent.

I am one of many who rolled their tickets at every opportunity as the prizes just didn't seem to improve, and the clovers were of little value except for the Hestia's Gift and maybe the Hera's Pack. There was almost no incentive to cash in your tickets and I was disappointed with the event as a result.

I love gambling, but it usually has a payoff. This did not.

Also, the the divine sucks. All that work and clovers for a horse that every now and then gives you a single piece of a three piece set? I'll save my money, thank you. I love the designs of the fire horses but I can't justify working towards them when they have zero value.

Most other years the GC and Lottery have been some of my favourite events; I applaud you for managing to suck the joy out of it!

With the mind to keep things constructive I will reiterate what I have given in feedback previously: reward players for hard work, don't spit out low-value divines as a substitution for quality events and prizes, and please remember that most of us are playing for fun - not to line your pockets.

Hoping the next event is better! default smiley (l)
ITisNowHere
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I do find this event boring and as for the lottery it was disapointing to say the least, the prizes were not very good, and I really think the lottery should return to its former format, just win decent prizes no store and no clovers, at least I was lucky and won Lava so really pleased about that.
cruk
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meh...

Great challenge was boring, and far too many clovers (at least make the exchange prizes better..)
PalominoPinto
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HellOw,

I hope everyone had fun with this event and got all the prizes too. default smiley :d

See you on the next one. default smiley ^)

Good Luck & Cheers!!
pOwny
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