Sky Cotl is such a mess

It started with people nicely suggesting ways to better the game and evolve it to some beautiful thing... until we realized our niceness is wasted on them. Reminder that some players are literal children who can't afford these things. sigh blah blah, everything has been said ages ago, nothing improved, more waste of time and finger power (for typing these). I don't have the energy to retell everything. Anyone wanna try making a game that will surpass Sky? Like how Palworld slapped Pokemon's face when they showed the potential of a game that was sadly never improved for WAY too long.

it's like i said

sky is basically a high budget animal jam, there's jus no excuse 😭

I joined Sky right before season of Abyss started. I didn't really notice that many changes at that time, mainly because as a new player I had focused on the main run and the quests for the longest time. That is until I discovered I had to do cr to get cosmetics. I've always just done Praire and sometimes also Forest runs, but I think nowadays it's just not enough. I've been using hacks for a while to get candles faster, but recently i got temporarily banned in Sky for that. I don't know for how long, because before discovering this message I took a long break from Sky (and I generally just stopped visiting that often anymore), but it was for over 8 days, maybe a month, idk. But afterwards, I stopped using hacks just for safety. Now I visit Sky even more rarely.
In short, what started as an appreciation for the atmosphere and the main story got switched into an endless cycle of grinding and non-lore-related seasons. I used to join more often at that time just because I had friends there, but most of them left too. Out of everything TGC has announced so far, the only thing I'm actually looking forward to is the Two Embers animation project, which I don't even know the progress of, because I don't keep up with the updates in any of TGC's social media. If they won't lower the prices or at least make cr easier for us, I just want the initial joy back that I had in the game, where the lore and anything related with the Sky kingdom itself was the main focus instead of random collabs and expensive outfits that I outright stopped buying.

Something i think is a little irresponsible about SKYs community is the lack of effort the biggest sky creators put in. Like i understand the dev team rarely listen to anything we have to say anyways, but for them to not even try to lift a finger is lazy imo. Theyre the biggest creatos which the sky devs definatly know about even if they dont care. You'd think with the power they have they'd command a little more authority on the play- bases behalf.

Tgc is so money hungry and I won't change my opinion about this. And the community is always defending this like the company cares for them. I'm a 5 year sky vet, I know what i'm talking about.

The only reason to play this game most of the time was to candle run and I got REALLY tired of staring at doors for 30-60 minutes at some doors… so I gave up

We used to be able to put shared spaces inside the geyser too… 😔 Another thing that I can’t comprehend is TGC’s decision never to bring back ultimate rewards. It’s so silly. The game is 5 years old now. I sincerely doubt there’s a big part of players who joined Sky in the very beginning and are still playing. Why on earth would a creative company gatekeep what they have created in the past? Also, wasn’t Sky about sharing and inclusivity, not exclusivity and being elitist? Anyway, I stopped giving back feedback cause it seems to be falling on deaf ears. 🤷🏼‍♂️

I watched ur vid when u first played this game...ever since then ive quitted sky a while ago so hello

finally someone actually speak up this shitty problem for the community, thanks a lot brodie

“That sucks I actually have to do work” 👌

God, I remember this one time I played and that dreaded flashbang ahh bloom was gone. It actually made the game so much more playable. Like, genuinely, could see things and not have them blinding white in your face when you're in a dark room. And then it turns out it was a visual bug and they returned it 😭
I really hope TGC works on their act because yeah, "People who love sky, but TGC is making it hard to" is so real.

I have given feedback about the broom on more than one occasion about making that thing an IAP, as well as one that costs roughly as much as a darn season pass.

I would be annoyed seeing a player riding the broom and bragging about it. But am more so annoyed at TGC for enabling people who make fun of others who cannot afford these items.
You hit the nail on the head that it is the toxicity being the issue.

Personally I think the prices are too high but completely understandable ❤

i havent played sky in like 2 years and i recently came back. so much money and bugs i cant barely get back jnto it

your humor is impeccable. i agree with all of this as someone who is addicted to this game but hates so much of it (lol). joined during Abyss and currently have been playing nearly everyday for a year straight. in the past 6 months i first saw friends leave because of rocket being nerfed so rip OOBs. now they are making candle running more and more miserable, so more friends are leaving the game or just being so much more inactive.

I read a FAQ with them answering a bunch of questions about the economy and there was a big focus on "we never meant for this to happen! 😢" when addressing people spending so much time on candle runs. They wanted there to be more of a social focus so they removed any potential for passive farming. It seemed like they put prices up to make players earn candles LONG TERM not grind short term. To that i say, EITHER STOP MAKING ITEMS SO TIME SENSITIVE, OR MAKE IT CHEAPER. YOU ARE CULTIVATING YOUR ENTIRE GAME ON FOMO, WHETHER ITS ON PURPOSE OR NOT. THE PRICES ARE FUCKING OUTRAGEOUS AND ITS TOO HARD FOR PLAYERS TO CATCH UP TO INFLATION.

I used to play this game last year during i think the season of Aurora, i quit it for a while out of depression around november last year i think

I returned to it during july this year, and i quit again a week or two ago, the game just became a chore, i dont have freinds that play it, i cant play it with my partner because of our different timezones and for other reasons
Mind u, i use cheats, i dont candle run, and yet i got burnt out, the game has nothing to offer me anymore, cosmetics arent enough to keep me even if i can cheat and wear what i want (no one can see the outfits i get thro hacks alas)
the game is just not fun anymore it feels like a big fuck you to my face

If TGC really wanted to promote "community" by getting rid of the shared space glitches, then they should also get rid of the chibi fall glitch.

This game isn't fun anymore, it's just constant grinding that's giving me burnout, so much work for so little candle light payoff. They've become insanely money hungry. Games are supposed to be FUN. But this game has become a chore.

They make this game unecessarily hard??? Isn't this game suppised to be relaxing??

I used to love this game so much but stopped playing it for this exact reason, everything is sooo expensive and it just stopped being enjoyable because of the amount of grinding you have to do to get ONE item. I really wish this game existed without all the purchases tbh

I started sky in October and loved it at first. But everything pushes you to get cosmetics, so I joined a discord and did candle running. Until I realize that was all I was doing. I wasn’t play sky I was grinding for pieces of an outfit. I broke down sky pricing and it was insane and I stopped playing very quickly. It’s not a game that wants you to explore, relax, make friends. It wants you to grind endlessly and spend money.

Sky is so tiring at this point. Everything's so expensive, from seasons,to events, to IAPS, you have to grind at least 1 hour a day if you want to get a decent amount of candles, on top of that, if you want to spend time with your friends it might take longer. Everything's so repetitive, and it becomes monotonous after a while because there is no new way of collecting candles. We spend so much times at gates, especially at the 8 player gate in prairie, glitches arent fixed, unless its an afk or a glitch that offers you candles, they seem so focused to make candle grinding as boring and as long as possible.
It is true that no one forces you to buy cosmetics, and it doesn't necessarily affect your gameplay, but i feel there is nuance to that. There are cosmetics in the game that can give you a different experience, for example, the cape that can get you to the office, or Aurora's and Little Prince's capes. The whole point of sky is not only to make friends, but it's a customization game, and having to pay so much effort into getting cosmetics, hinders other aspects and makes the game not enjoyable

Nobody hates Sky more than its own community lol

Mention TGC here!!!!!!!!

The removal of shared spaces at grammas and the features of memories that let us collect light easier is honestly a deal breaker for me, I'm disabled (mainly having trouble moving my whole arms because of the meds I have to take and everything I do feels like it has a 5 sec delay) so I can't candle run like everyone else, because of that I also don't have friends to help me with that. TGC was all about inclusivity etc. till it now isn't.

Also the server issues are just straight up horrid, how did it go from communication errors to everyone rubberbanding, me falling under the ground when I go into another room and wax being collected but not ending up counting and disappearing??? Seriously?

i love you videos so much please dont ever explode into a baggillion pieces 😔

Sky making me want to throw my technology out the window is something nothing else has managed to do.

No because I bought stuff when it was cheaper... but now I dont even wanna spend another cent on this game or its merch- its so overpriced like... ugh..

This video BETTER reach them

Sky easily burns you out. The only thing you can actively do in the game is candle running, which is just the same thing over and over again and takes up a lot of energy. You can get around 20 candles a day with a lot of playing. The other only activities are interacting with people and playing instruments. There are not really any minigames that you can actually have fun with for long. So the games atmosphere and cosmetics clearly carry the entire game. So making it so hard to get candles quick, not letting you skip many cutscenes, restricting ways to get trough the game quicker in actions that require other people and making you wait years for cosmetics to come back makes you easily burnt out. Many sky quests aren’t actually fun, it‘s just „run to x place and press the interaction button“. A simple cape is expected to be at least 20$ and it even gets more expensive in other countries. Often they justified their prices by adding candles (even tho we clearly just want the cape) but nowadays they rarely even do this anymore. They actively make the most lame items free and everything else iap or season pass. And yeah obviously they need to get money but this happens every time.

Bugs and issues that have been in the game for years get ignored. My wifi is completely fine but servers freak out the moment 8 people (max) are in it which shouldn’t happen. Dark plants may take multiple attempts to even burn at all. Doors take ages to open despite my candle clearly being on it. Yet bugs that actively benefit players get fixed much quicker. They need to get their priorities straight.

The game is repetitive and overpriced aswell as hypocritical considering their entire theme is nature, friendship and social issues, even collabing with AURORA who has a song saying "you can not eat money if the rivers are poisoned". All I'm seeing at this point is operational greed with no care for the communities opinion.

Tbh as someone who had played Sky nonstop since July 2022, I dropped it cold turkey in August of 2024 and I have never felt more free. I still feel the urge to get on there because of FOMO, but then remember I don’t have candles and the motivation to get candles so I just leave it alone.

I’m sort of just watching the dumpster fire from a distance now I suppose

sky cotl reminds me a lot of the sims 4. the game is taking all your money and giving back bugs.

I'm actually used to the fact that most of the gaming stuff is always expensive for me, considering the situation in my country. I just taught myself not to get distracted by the inability to buy things that cost real money. . .
But when I saw prices in SKY. . . The game which is supposed to be about COMMUNICATION AND RELAXATION. Damn, I just. . . Wh- WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT?
I can literally buy A WHOLE NEW GAME on Steam for the price of some NONEXISTENT OUTFIT. . . WHY?

My biggest complaint with sky is the heart and candle system, ive been playing for about a year and only have one Constellation fully done. I mean i do take breaks but only because of how quickly that game burns me out. It should not take me a full week of doing the daily light for me to get a set of wings. (Season of Aurora TS)

i don't even play this but i watched the vidya

I fell in love with sky so hard, but holy shit is it difficult to open it back up anymore.

I've always been anti TGC ever since the season of dream. A lot of people misunderstand people like me's issues with TGC is not about cosmetics, prices and what not. It's the blatant disrespect to their player base they show. They see something is widely appreciated and hyped? Boom, it's a paid item now. They don't send updates to the game's inbox despite it literally being for that. All their bug fixes are on their discord and websites, which not everyone might know of. The gameplay loop is grindy, lots of people end up exhausted from playing because there's no interesting gameplay loop present. Everything fun is dependent on strangers making it fun. They have been asked for accessibility settings for so long and haven't done anything until those sunglasses that change the screen!

My issue personally with TGC is that they went from a genuinely well meaning company with a clear passion for game that connect people.. To a greedy predatory corporate that stopped listening..

And I also hate their ultimates system. I hate when new players ask how to get the UGs I wear and I can't tell them they can get it. It seriously feel wrong to tell people it's something they can't have because they are too late to the game and it genuinely upset me. It doesn't have it's place in the game, instead of bringing back season with extras cutscenes for previous season holder to enjoy and have a break from those constant seasonal grind, we get more and more seasons with more exclusivity. I get collabs not returning, but seasons made by TGC shouldn't have exclusive reward IMO with no chance of return.

Sorry for the rant, I'm just. So vividly angry at TGC as a corporate and I miss when sky was enjoyable and not constantly a wallet grind.

how do i send this to the feedback channel without skybot deleting it 🤔😔

I've been playing Sky for years and I've been noticing the decline of the core of sky. Not much, but enough to notice. Sky is a game of community, of helping and meeting new people and growing friendships. The biggest thing is the multiplayer doors. Sure, there have always been players who clip through the door but there were always people willing to help out. Now it feels like nobody waits or helps out for anybody. Why should they when you just need to use a shared space? or shared memory? Why bother coming back to help you when you dont have enough light? Just use the memory? Don't get me wrong I love the people who take the time to set up these things, they are doing it to help others but theres just not as much moment to moment helping anymore. AND THEN this gets worse with the prices of items and the lack of afk places. People are more focused collecting candles then they are spending time with strangers. I'm guilty of this too, I'm not rich in candles so I dont take as much time to sit and smell the roses. Then theres all the other stuff like unstable servers, two home spaces so you might not catch your friends when they log on and all the other stuff.
I love Sky, play it every day and it's helped me deal with my social anxiety and even helped me make life long friends but with every good couple steps TGC make they take one massive step back.

can we talk about you running through rocks in eden with 1 stripe of wings left? that was SCARY

btw i've been playing for an year and i already saw the game changing in worse for several reasons...... tgc clearly doesn't care about the community's opinion and i guess they will never care. they could do a lot, but they just decide to ignore the bugs/glitches to add new iap stuff and (almost) always free stuff pretty ugly/irrelevant like hair pins and small things

Ahh, manipulation via fear of missing out.
Worst part is, I'm still tempted. And I don't even play regularly anymore

I already have a demanding job that eats half of my day.

I do not need another job that gives me nothing.

Back to reading, ig. 🤷🏻

I completely agree, but in a way i feel like they are trying to get the connection sky used to have back- theres always a ton of strangers not willing to help out anyone but them self or their friends these days. And im not saying this is everyone, but oh boy i see it and experience it ALL the time. Then again, even newer players, they dont know much about shared spaces or what not, so they wait on people to help them, which usually takes a million years because skys server system, SUCCSS RAAH. But other than the cash grab, that is the only other reason i see. So in conclusion, they MIGHT think, taking away shared space = more people helping eachother out that are currently in the server with you

I would be a reasonable price if the cosmetics can be a game changer. The only game changing cosmetic they can come up is umbrella and fire source cosmetics like campfire and torch, they've been recycling the umbrella too much like is that the only idea they could come up?

Seriously, $25 dollars for a single item, ONE, is fucking insane.

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