#shaking the whole thing to its core and it sucks and I haven't felt like this in a while and it sucks

[goatsandgangsters]

work people are generally good about my pronouns, like any misgendering is usually infrequent and from people I don't work with often

but in the past one single week alone, THREE people I've worked with closely for yeaaars have all misgendered me and I'm like wtf

two of those people I specifically work with on lgbtq stuff which like. wtf

[fiomeras]

holding out my hand to you i too was a sky artist for a time until the game wore me out

it sucks because i really love the core gameplay loop a lot and then it became farming and cosmetics and micro transactions n shit

i wrote a whole custom ttrpg for the game that ill never really be able to publish because the mechanics are so intertwined with the game and i cant really legally sell fan products (i even went so far as to email their legal team)

i designed a whole character sheet and it was gorgeous and one of my favorite pieces ive wver done and she will never see the light of day…

sorry this is random just wanted to commiserate for a bit. followed u for sky but stuck around cause ur cool

uh yeah thabks bye

this has been in my drafts for more than a week already ( my own fault ive been really thinking of a response to this bc anything skycotl has been a tense subject to talk about ) but i am SO glad to hear you felt a similar way about it and sad that youve come to that point. Ive become increasingly disillusioned for the game as time passes but looking back on it depresses me. Especially since its one of THE games that have carried me here to where i am today and one that i used to hold very close to my heart along with journey and several of thatgamecompany games. Its a shame! The longer time goes, the more apparent how demoralised the company becomes to the core ideas that made the game special wither away into the very chasm of videogame greed they sought to repel from the start.

To be fair. I haven't played for a very long time and its going to be kept that way, so maybe my claims on here arent as true as they used to be back in its hayday. Because for some reason i still think this game can pull itself up and reclaim what it had lost long long ago but from what ive heard recently it hasn't been that way and unfortunately the influx of players coming out to complain about tgc gives me that impression.

And like i understand what that feels to have made something you were impassioned to do as a testament of love for the game only to come out with disdain. I can't divorce it from the media it came from because of how inextricable all the designs and concepts were to the world of sky that it'd be almost next to nothing if it were detached from it! Unless i just copy the entire lore ground up which in that case would just be plagiarism and something I just wouldn't like doing. Not all is lost though imo im on the belief that every thing you make you will learn from for future projects so if its not sky, the things you learned from creating it can be used to aid in the creation of your next thing!

So 🤝 shaking your hand anyways. What mightve happened to me when i was 16 might not be something that happened to you but i feel the frustration, hopefully you're on bigger ventures now from sky. It's done me alot of good and alot of bad and honestly glad to have experienced the good while it lasted.

Also sfgsg I've heard about the dreamweaving event where fans could submit fan designs for the team to choose from that quickly turned really sour when some of the contributions were stolen fanart and its like, lol. Ok. I have no idea how none of the devs thought that wasn't gonna happen but it's like i could really care less about their decisions at this point. SFSHSF