#thatskygams crit

[bird-in-thesky]

Played a bit more sky again (had been taking a semi permanent break) cuz I wanted the snowboard item and not to be immediately negative, but man, it’s disappointing it just disappears into the ground you’re sliding on. Jumping with it looks awesome, but most of the time it clips into the ground… what’s the point

[defyingthefates]

Caught the very last of the Aurora encore concerts and figured I'd post my recording of Queendom here, since who knows when/if they'll come back.

[bird-in-thesky]

im so tired of grinding in sky it feels like every new addition just jacks up prices more or in some way makes it even more grindy (like with tickets and stuff). Actually insane to me that if i wanted to get just TWO spirit’s of the upcoming season’s stuff, i’d have to play 40 of 70 days if i were f2p.

I have never seen a game company that was so bold in assuming you’d play their game every day for a ton (70) days straight. Never. It’s crazy. It’s evil. They’re just milking this, and it’s terrible

[bird-in-thesky]

decided to refine a previous post on why exactly I believe sky children of light is a failed MMO. 

In this, let’s think of time as money; in a way, you’re making an investment choice when you choose to play the game, let alone when you choose to actively buy things from it. You could be playing xyz other games, or doing other things.

And in that case... what is there even to invest in? 

The gameplay loop is very grindy, and it’s not exactly fun in any way. Most MMOs have games (think a kiddy website) or a raiding aspect (think WoW) that they focus on to varying degrees, even if it’s just a way of earning in game currency/items. 

Sky doesn’t really... have that. Calling the quests a game is stretching it; it’s just “go to locations A, B, C, and D” most of the time, which isn’t exactly fun. Each season, the season-based quests are interesting, but again not very engaging as far as gameplay/challenge goes outside of Prophecy, and add roughly 30 minutes of content every 2ish months. 

The game is well crafted for a person to spend a month-ish on it, exploring and doing all the main quests, doing Eden once or twice, and then being done with it. What is there to stay for? The primary answer is your friends, but the ways of socializing in this game are extremely limited, primarily due to the aforementioned lack of engaging content (minigames/raids/etc). 

I personally realized at some point when I was considering letting a bot grind candles for me and not play otherwise that maybe playing this game just wasn’t fun. The cosmetics are just cosmetics, and often ridiculous prices, and the seasonal stuff comes back anyways for the most part, which really lowers incentive to buy it. I bought stuff for exclusive items and to give some money to TGC, but those items stopped being exclusive (you’re basically paying $10 for just the end items and to get them early if you’re a long term player) and the money doesn’t seem to be going anywhere, what with the small and clunky design of the new seasonal areas (30-60 mins of content + some clunky design choices that leads to areas never being visited again except for lights, such as lack of wax in Abyss and why isn’t the stage a passive wax area???). 

I think when you’re a new player, Sky is really fun. It’s a very beautiful and impressive game, and giving it a playthrough like Journey is just perfect. But as an MMO, as something you hypothetically could dump a lot of time into over months, years? I think it’s a failure; there’s not enough there. I only stayed because I wanted it to eventually be good, because it became habit... but a majority of people will trickle off just as I have. 

tl;dr/conclusion: Sky doesn’t really have anything that makes it worth staying, let alone buying, and I believe this lack of engaging content will lead to it dying a slow death. 

[bird-in-thesky]

Now that we’ve been through an event and are into another, I’m wondering how people feel about the tickets? I asked before, but it was at the beginning of Days of Color.

Please reblog and explain your feelings (or at least just reblog)!