Another Howrse Lottery

There's a new Lottery on Howrse - it runs until 6th February at 00:00 Game Time.

The top prize is a Jade Divine horse followed by a set of 10 passes and 100,000e. There are also lots of smaller prizes available ranging from Philosopher's Stones to apples and aging points.

To enter you simply need to click on the button that has appeared at the top of every game page saying 'The Lottery'.

You can get tickets in several different ways:

• Use your equus to buy as many tickets as you like. Unlike previous draws you can buy an unlimited amount of tickets for each draw but the price triples each time. So you first ticket is 100e, your second 300e, your third 900e and so on.
• Use passes on the game (excluding buying horses). For each pass spent you get 3 lottery tickets.
• Have your friends send you tickets (this is limited to 5 tickets per draw).
• Get tickets when your horses win competitions (limited to 2 per draw).

The lottery also offers stars as prizes. The more stars you earn he more prizes you can win. So for example when you've earned 5 stars you get 1000e and if you manage to earn 2000 stars you get a pegasus account subscription free for 6 months!

In the first draw I managed to get a months' free Pegasus account - so get buying those tickets.

Patsy

Howrse 'survey'

You should all be getting an email from Howrse (in your Howrse email on the game) about now, which is entitled 'Satisfaction Survey'. When you read it, this is what it says:

Hello ......,
We are constantly striving to improve our users' gameplay experience. That is why we are currently conducting a satisfaction survey to identify our community's needs and wishes.
To participate, click here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/XBJ7H7M
Thank you for participating.

The Owlient Team

So I decided to have a look at this survey (run by SurveyMonkey) to see how Owlient (Howrse) wanted to assess my satisfaction with the game. Well, what a surprise. The survey actually has nothing at all to do with customer/player satisfaction. The whole 'survey' is designed to find out about your mobile gaming habits. They ask questions about what sort of phone you have; if it's a smartphone; how much time you spend gaming on your phone and if you've ever paid for any games on your phone.

So, clearly Owlient (and their new owners Ubisoft) are simply doing some market research to see if it's worth developing either a fully mobile version of Howrse and/or other mobile games to tempt you with.

So, feel free to complete the 'survey' but just be aware that is more to do with marketing than with customer satisfaction!

Patsy