Breaking down the lack of a Star Coin code this year, a few of my friends and I, got together and we began to scour over SSO's clothing, tack, makeup, hair, and pets for a generalized idea of what these items would cost, if we purchased them outright from any one of the shops. Now we may be slightly over but we figured we'd round each area out to a well rounded number. So if something seems exaggerated, that's why. As we have no sure fire way to know what this year's items will cost in SC, till they're released to next year's shops, we're simply going by what last year's items cost.
I hate to break it to everyone but we got OVER 5kSC in free items. A few players have added up everything from the Hollow Woods items, to the Winter quest items, to the Yule presents, and you have well over 5kSC worth in items that were given to players for free. It makes zero sense to give an additional 300SC which costs roughly $13.99CAD to purchase.
Hollow Woods: Players didn't break the current two factions up. You get the following; Hair, makeup, clothing set, tack set, pets x2 - costs roughly 2kSC
Snowflake Quest: You get the following; Tack set, clothing set - costs roughly 1kSC
Yule Presents: You get the following; Tack Set, Clothing Set, Yeti Pet - costs roughly 2kSC
Now. If you had PAID for these items from the shops, they would of costed you roughly 5kSC This EXCLUDES the previous Weekly Bundle items which include x2 tack sets, x2 clothing sets, and x2 pets. Had you bought these from the shops, this would of been an additional 4kSC
As a business, it makes zero sense for SSO to give a 300SC code this year. And in fact, had players been paying attention like many others have been, those complaining would of noticed that this was going to be the outcome for the 2023 season.
Asking SSO to be transparent about whether you're getting a $13.99 SC code, makes no sense either because whenever SSO HAS been transparent about something, players have STILL complained and called them rude, nasty, things, and some of the comments I've seen, would of seen many of those in jail had they said the things I've seen, to another human being physically.
This year was hard for my family. I didn't go around blabbing about what they were getting for Christmas. They got what they got and were grateful for the effort, the time, and the thought that went behind each of the gifts. I had a vet emergency that had it not gone well, I would of outright canceled my Christmas entirely, and my family was fully prepared to put aside their holiday to help me grieve, had it not gone the way I was expecting. Thankfully, everything was fine, but at the end of the day, SSO has given us so damn much this year, that it just seems the player base is getting more and more greedy, versus being grateful.
"But it's tradition!" No. No it's not. It's literally just something SSO began doing out of the kindness of their hearts because the team they had in the previous years, wasn't as large as it is for this year's item making. I've seen the excuse of "they just recolored other items! They're lazy!" Ahhh do you know how long it takes to code in new clothing, tack, hair, etc? Yeah, it may seem like it don't take SSO long, considering the weekly updates they do, but by the time this year's Christmas items came out, SSO had already began making them shortly after the Hollow Woods update and shortly after the Halloween event. We're talking two whole months for them to make sure all the tack, clothing, hair, etc, was up to the current graphics standards in which they've been aiming for.
"Yeah but it's lazy!" This came from a commenter on a video. This person is VERY well known for buying DeviantArt adopts made on bases that are premade, and reused by THOUSANDS of people. So. With that said, does this person really have room to talk about SSO reusing items within their game when they themselves buy (using real money I might add), adoptables made on premade and preused bases? Nope. Not really.
"SSO DOESN'T LISTEN TO USSSSSS!" Alright felicia, sit down. We asked for new and exciting things to do in the Hollow Woods and we got it. What more are you asking for? It's not our fault or the company's fault you decided to speed run through the dang event and end up with nothing to do. That's a you issue. Not an SSO issue. The event in Hollow Woods is meant to be relaxing, and make you actually work for the redeems, it's not meant to be Bladerunner'ed through till you've got nothing left. But either way. SSO did in fact listen. Not once but several times.
They added two events with a third coming in the new year to the Hollow Woods with the Valedale championship coming sometime next year.
They made finding snowflakes easier to do and therefore getting the Snowflake event finished easier after complaints were made that it would be nearly impossible for some to complete (which it would of been for those working long hours).
They added even more content to the Winter Village, and even expanded it by several degrees (you'll notice the borderline has opened up quite a bit since last year).
They fixed several bugs and glitches in as timely a manner as they could, all the while keeping us up to date on how that was going.
"They should of been more transparent about us not getting a star coin code!" Er why? Because you've demanded it? It's not a tradition. A tradition is like having your mom or grandmother bake a month in advance to Christmas, then running around like a chicken with it's head hacked off a few days before Christmas eve, cooking for a dang army (yeah welcome to my family prior to the end of 2003). THAT'S a tradition.
A tradition is giving a book on the eve of Christmas (such as what they do in Iceland) or having the Welsh tradition of having a freaking Skeletal horse's head come banging at ya front door, and demanding you somehow beat it at jokes??? Yeah welcome to my family again, cause when I did this last year, I nearly got arrested LMAO. Thanks alot Mari Lwyd x'D THESE are traditions. Getting a $13.99CAD Star Coin code for free is NOT a tradition. It's being greedy for something you could ask your mom, dad, or save up for yourself (hi how are ya? Yeah, I was playing SSO since I was 16. I saved up all my money to buy SC so yeah no excuse).
Christmas is a time for giving and being grateful for what we get and got. I'd really love to know when the SSO community forgot about all this and simply said "Thanks" to SSO for an amazing year.
So how greedy is the community.
I'd say pretty damn greedy 🙄
Yep. This is a thing folks. This is what greed looks like🙄
So this is the extent that people are willing to go too, to get a point across while failing to cite all the things SSO has listened to us for. No one, literally no one wants to have that conversation ever. A boycott will, in the end, cost the employees their jobs, their income, and for many, SSO is their only source of income. So we're willing to see people homeless? Possibly jobless. Do you not understand what happens when a company decides to give people a big 'screw you'? I do. I remember what happened to Mixer, which, after it's sale, had far worse issues than what SSO is facing or has ever faced.
Mixer had proven allegations of sexual assaults', harassment, racism, etc. And when Microsoft got wind of the backlash it's own employee had caused, instead of firing her, they turned around and SHUT MIXER DOWN. That's right. A multi million dollar live streaming platform, one of the only solid competitors for Twitch, was shut down because the company refused to fire it's highly criticized employee. The reasoning cited by Microsoft? "Mixer wasn't meeting our expected price points". Keep in mind they had just signed on Ninja and Snoop Dogg for a three year contract. And then, en masse, reports and open letters to Mixer and Microsoft were made. But in the end, our pleas for the site to remain open, were for naught, and the site was shut down, taking with it, legacy accounts, accounts of deceased live streamers who only ever saved their videos to their Mixer accounts. We lost everything. And that's what a boycott of SSO will do.
This community has become about as toxic as the model horse collecting community has and honestly? It's saddening. We used to be grateful for what we got, but now? Not so much.
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