Ghost Horse Quest Bugged. Can No Longer Finish It.

[Player7]

After spotting the ghost horse, it wandered close enough for me to tame it without moving. But for some reason the quest wouldn't complete. I wiki'd it, and apparently the ghost horse was supposed to run away first in order to trigger my quest to the next part. Since I caught it the first time I saw it, the quest is stuck and I cannot finish it or get the reward even though I have tamed the ghost horse.
I'm not sure how to get around this but I'd love to get the item from the quest...

[hjrogue]

Ghost Horse? I think you're in the wrong game or do you mean the emerald valley devil? There isn't any ghost horses in this game and you don't get items for completing quests just fame and area unlocks...

[Player7]

Originally posted by hjrogue:

Ghost Horse? I think you're in the wrong game or do you mean the emerald valley devil? There isn't any ghost horses in this game and you don't get items for completing quests just fame and area unlocks...

There is a mystery quest for the ghost horse in Emerald Valley Ranch. This bug report is a bit of a spoiler, but unfortunately, its not working so it needs to be reported.

Emerald Valley Devil is the first special horse but I'm not talking about that one. And you do get items. They're recipes for building structures, but I call them items. I'm assuming you have no helpful advice for me, lol. Is there someone that does?

[Player7]

After checking the Community page, it looks like I am not the only one with this issue. Hopefully the devs will fix this problem. It's definitely frustrating.

[hjrogue]

cyber bullies wouldn't stop insulting them, they used to do updates/bug fixes around twice a month, but after a really nasty attack on them they went silent at the beginning of this year... I hope they get back to it as a lot of people love this game, but if they do it won't likely be for a while and without a lot of support from fans...
Where do you find the ghost horse? I've thought I've finished this game 10 times already and never found it or a quest line for it. Are there more special horses besides them?

[Player7]

Originally posted by hjrogue:

cyber bullies wouldn't stop insulting them, they used to do updates/bug fixes around twice a month, but after a really nasty attack on them they went silent at the beginning of this year... I hope they get back to it as a lot of people love this game, but if they do it won't likely be for a while and without a lot of support from fans...
Where do you find the ghost horse? I've thought I've finished this game 10 times already and never found it or a quest line for it. Are there more special horses besides them?

As much as I empathize with cyberbullying being a problem, all devs in popular genres or genres with a passionate following will deal with that so it's not an excuse to depart from your product, especially when it clearly had issues. This sort of behavior comes with game development. As with any professional business, you don't quit just because someone rando on the internet whines about you. If that was how business worked, most companies would have quit by now. That's silly.

That being said, I don't believe they stopped because of bullies. It's likely that the main company saw the game wasn't well received and didn't plan to back it after release anyway. Microids is apparently known for releasing unfinished games anyway so there's also that.

It's also likely that the game devs honestly believed the game is fine and complete as it is. They said themselves that they would only do some bug fixes and they had nothing planned for the game after it's release. This was something they had figured out before the complaints. If they planned to release anything, they would have figured that out long before the full release of this game.

The ghost quest you get from Matteo. There's a post about the steps in community for it. Don't catch the horse the first time you encounter it even if it lets you. Let it run off while you crouch up to it. Hopefully that will make it work for you.

[hjrogue]

Thanks for letting me know about the ghost horse, I can't wait to see it. I know devs deal with bullies like everyone else, I just wish it would stop. There is no reason for it.

[Player7]

Originally posted by hjrogue:

Thanks for letting me know about the ghost horse, I can't wait to see it. I know devs deal with bullies like everyone else, I just wish it would stop. There is no reason for it.

No problem. I hope that honesty about poor development decisions is not what's considered bullying here. Nothing is wrong with being blunt when something is not okay. You don't have to be positive and sweet when reviewing a game.

[hjrogue]

Originally posted by Player7:

Originally posted by hjrogue:

Thanks for letting me know about the ghost horse, I can't wait to see it. I know devs deal with bullies like everyone else, I just wish it would stop. There is no reason for it.

No problem. I hope that honesty about poor development decisions is not what's considered bullying here. Nothing is wrong with being blunt when something is not okay. You don't have to be positive and sweet when reviewing a game.

Blunt is fine, borderline cussing them out is uncalled for though.

[Player7]

Originally posted by hjrogue:

Originally posted by Player7:

No problem. I hope that honesty about poor development decisions is not what's considered bullying here. Nothing is wrong with being blunt when something is not okay. You don't have to be positive and sweet when reviewing a game.

Blunt is fine, borderline cussing them out is uncalled for though.

Insults are not cool, no. As far as I know, most of the negative reviews were not that way though, so I'm sure they are fine. I don't include trolls as a part of that system since they are not there to be constructive in the first place.