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you described my exact feelings after the 3 months of playing. at first it was so much fun to discover the world, but the more i played the more i kept asking myself, where is the lore? the story was so limited, it didn’t feel like i knew anything at all… or perhaps it wasn’t obvious enough. i miss this game. i would be willing to pay for it if they just made the journey feel more impactful… just like with journey 😅

I was there during the controversy around and it was HEATED, even saw the korean social media from sky went from 12.5k followers to 8k and down to 5k (at the time)

Luckily I’m a boy kisser

My GOD MY FRIEND IS SGNing! Hahahahahahahahahhaahahahah TOoo FUNNY

The last one was so hilarious. They all were. Lol

To me, this game is a chatroom with dress up.

Are you still going to play? (I'm asking this question independently of the video.)

This sky when it was first released was soo beautiful and easily became my favorite game. I cried after completing the game - the first and only game made me do that. It really connected me at that time. But damn, what happened to this game? Can’t they just leave it alone and make another game?

Here's the thing, sky can be much more enjoyable depending on what you play it for. The truth is, most people play it for the cosmetics. For me, it's a lovely place to meet my friends. We chat, slowly collect candles, help each other. The thing about mobile games is, it's whole point is to make you want everything, kind of like most Gacha games today. Because no one will, well at least most people won't get everything but this will make them want to spend money on at least something. I think if you play sky as one of the games you regularly play instead of your main game it's breath of fresh air, especially if you have good friends. I think this is why it's called a 'social' adventure. It's very boring without friends.

The first time i played sky a couple players were trying to flirt with me and it kinda ruined my first impression of the game so i didnt touch sky for ~3 years, i was glad to find out that most players werent like that. Now all im dealing with is prices that leave EA rocking in the corner crying for their mom.

Some people really are interesting. I wonder if he thought (if Summer actually was a female) if Summer looked like their character, or he just acted like that because they found their next 'meal', as you could call it

Been playing for a few days after a few years. Having fun. I don't care that I missed a lot.

I've been playing for only a few months, and I'm a big fan of routine, but the grinding and constant cr on sky got to me, it started stressing me out to the point I would panick if I didn't get at least 15 candles per day, and I had no friends so it only made it worse; after a few months I met my only friend so far and he makes the game more fun tbh, I still like the little cr routine I have but I've been taking breaks ocasionally, and I'm starting to enjoy the actual exploring and social aspect of sky

To me the biggest problem with Sky is the lack of gameplay mechanics… Imagine if you could do mining, farming, more advanced fishing, or simply exploring hidden treasure across the sky kingdom (they would change to random locations every day) We need more reasons to explore, more things to do. For me at this point there’s practically nothing to do in this game. I explored everything, finished every quest, Socialized a lot, took photos, learned piano songs, candle running, etc… I have been playing for like 3 years and tried everything. Of course it gets repetitive and boring. If only we actually had any significant new mechanics like the ones I mentioned, you could play Sky in new different ways. But of course the only significant mechanic of this game is buying a season pass to get new cosmetics 🤦‍♂️ it’s all because of this 👉💲💸💵💴

Wait there can be toxic players in this game? how is that possible

Yeah this game sucks. Could've been better

i started playing the game in 2021 (when trials first came out) and i absolutely loved it. I made so many great friends bcs ppl that played it in general cared more about the aesthetics and story and the experiance itself playing the game. but ever sinse the season of shattering, and even before then, the game became idk how to say it, heavy? There was alway more and more grinding for events, limited items, and so much stuff to do at once it got overwhelming to play it at some point. The more players joined later after shattering the more the game was focused only on doing the same daily routine like candle runs and weekly eden and thats it. My friends more or less stoped playing it sometime around then aswell bcs it just didnt feel the same anymore. I took a break in the middle of shattering and came back a week ago, i barely even recognize any items i see random sky kids wearing, or all the quests i have to catch up on and all the shared spaces etc, it doesnt have the same vibe anymore. i miss when the game only had the few main worlds + eden and the seasonal part in one of the maps. It was so much easier to get around, there was no rush in getting anything cus there werent so many events and different updates constantly being announced. I still love the game, i just feel like i missed so much stuff in such a short time it feels like im a whole new player, idek all the wl locatioans and cr route

Really nice vid Well written script cut straight to the important part

For me, it was the lack of clear goal - cosmetics are repetitive and they don't even do anything. You can literally play this without me. I feel like this game focused on FOMO more. (I'm salty because I can't play Stardew Valley in co-op)

I love this guys editing, it's soo comedic 🤣

I'm a new player, so my perspective is still filled with honeymoon phase awe and wonder, however, I am still legitimately confused about this take (in general, I mean. I've seen it on multiple platforms now). Because as someone who comes from actually predatory games *cough* gacha *cough*, Sky isn't giving me any of the fomo and anxiety those do. What for? The cosmetics don't actually matter, do they? Correct me if I'm wrong, like I said, I'm new! I don't know everything yet, but from what I've seen, they don't impact the gameplay in any meaningful way. So what do I care when I miss out on some or even most? Sure, I want my sky kid to look cute, but not at all costs. Even the ultimate pass rewards don't look special enough for me to care at all and I doubt that will change unless they collab with one of my absolute top tier favorite fandoms or sth. In which case, they can gladly have my money. Until then tho, honestly, I'm good. It's been ages since I've experienced a mobile game of this level of quality, that didn't artificially restrict my gameplay with a stamina system, pushed me into a leveling grind and locked core functions behind paywalls or at the bare minimum was pay to progress significantly faster. This, compared to that, is just chill and vibes and feels really freeing. I can't think of a single comparable title that let me explore pretty much every realm on day 1. I mean, wth? I do agree though that the cosmetics are hellllllllla overpriced. I get they need to make money somehow and I don't mind their monetizaton system in general, like I said. I don't feel pressured by it at all which is a very nice change. But setting their prices that high is a very odd choice considering all it really does is look pretty. I imagine they might even make more money with lower prices because more people might be willing to spend, but idk, that's neither here nor there.

im a returning lightseekers moth and when i saw they patched up almost every OOB or table trick we used to do to go to crazy places was insane... and how they removed the beta cape from the shop? i remember buying the fur cape + the crow mask on the shop for a decent price and the healing pack for supporting doctors during COVID... the prices back then tbf were okay. but now???? im hearing my friends spend away almost 60 bucks for a cape and a buggy broom? its MIND BLOWING. im honestly dissapointed with how sky is rn. I miss when they would leave us little tid-bits about lore and the elders, and how we would go on and make up theories.. sky's backbone now its its IAP and probably their chinese market. They need to start giving attention to the core idea of sky: exploration, lore, story and adventure! heck, i even get a bit teary-eyed missing their bright yellow ass buttons instead of the more muted ones you have now! and the little box dimensions.. ATP lets just make the veterans the new CEO's xD

“Isnt this a dating game” I thought this was a kids game

I remember playing the early days of Sky before there was so much cosmetics

Welcome back. Lol

I'm very bad with repetitive things, especially FOMO aspects. I fall out of games FAST. It's for the monotony of Sky 3 years ago that I fell out of playing shortly after Season of Prophecy. (After checking, it's officially been 4 years. Wow.)

I remember being like: *"HA, I'm glad I never ran into these people"* *I was mistake*

Tbh i only go to eden or wasteland, cuz ATLEAST something happens instead of grinding and grinding all day

Oh, ese es Kai, lo reté a hacer un video de calificación de avatar, ja, ja, ja, y no traduzcas este pws.

I have a friend (who I'll assume does not speak english well and is a child) tell me they love me. She said "i love you, you love me" and 😀 girl we are friends

Exactly y I stopped for 2 years as well

FAWK CAPITALISM got me dying

Oh he was my bf yes i told him to target u😂😂

I also live on nepal

I got this game a few days ago to help distract me from some personal issues I'm dealing with, and the calming aesthetic and social aspect definitely helped. But when I started getting curious about cosmetics and realized the cost of them (Both with real and in game currency) as well as the FOMO from realizing how much I had missed and that I'd have to wait for returning/traveling spirits, it made me lose some of my interest in the game. I've already gotten through a lot of it, and while I keep discovering more, it feels a bit lackluster now and I've started to get burnout already because of the grind. It all just feels like a grind now, and I wish it wouldn't because I know the potential this game has :/

Its literally a live service game

They became too greedy

thank god we have to advance in friendship for them to keep talking

Poor thing, how bad :( i don't think was server split moth said they laugh emote... Heartless players sometimes like Throwing people at krill

That was amazing!! 😮 He made it to the end without any wings!!😮

3:00 bro has four wings and thinks he can do krill escape

As someone who started sky since their launch for andriod back in 2020 April, the prices indeed have gone up. If i rmb correctly, 3 season passes set was priced around rm79.90, which yes i bought for 2 seasons to share wif my friends, an individual pass is rm39.90 if im not wrong. Now it went up to rm49.90 and the pack one is rm99.90 if i rmb correctly, just cant seem to justify for myself to even buy the passes anymore. N to whoever out there tryna come at me wif their stupid proofs saying theres no price change, let me tell u one thing, it doesn't change for u bcz you're from the US. But it definitely changed for me and those who are not from the US. Get it? Even the candle pack prices changed. N as someone who r part of the charity efforts, I've contributed to quite a few sky events dedicated for it, and i just stopped purchasing anything since the day season of Nesting came. Things got even worse when season of aurora came n after that only people start feeling the punch. At one point during i even bought the office cape for the candles (during that time they have not implemented the chevron system, it was easy to know how many candles i collected everyday, if i rmb it was only max 15 candles a day) in the office n to help bring people into office everyday. Now thinking back, i regret that. Bcz sky with all its unfixed bugs from the day i started until now, n the ever more variety of IGC added & IAP its just a dress up game. As someone who grinds candles every single day the second the daily reset happens trying to push that candle grind (i play grinding games like Genshin too btw), there's nthg in sky that is game changing at all even after obtaining something. Its just sad & disappointing. I'm glad i got out of the mindset of fomo since the season of nesting n even took a long 1 yr break since season of aurora. I went back recently to discover the reality of all my disappointment relived LOL....

No like how is that there is nothing regarding crabs and krills that they attack, that little cutscene of krill killinv manta at the start of graveyard is not enough for people who do not play games much. I was scared to see a sky kid get krilled before my eyes.

That was really interesting. I've only been playing a couple of months and I haven't spent a penny. I play every day because I love flying and the pretty environment. If I miss out on something I'm not bothered.

So by toxic you mean you right cause it could of easily been ignored 😭🤣 this was funny you my kind of toxic 🫶🏽

The limited view of someone who isn't able to control his FOMO and need to farm a cape he will most probably wear 2 hours and then never again. As someone already said - it's what a player makes out of it. For me Sky is a nice social game and I don't need to collect every gd candle each day. Why should I if I can just enjoy messing around with ingame friends. So yeah, complaining about a f2p game wants to make money with ingame purchase is absolute nonsense. You don't like it or it's too expensive - don't buy it. No one is clapping if you show off your 38th cape...

i started in the season of lightseekers and quit after the end of belonging. Stumbling upon the new areas is a bit overwhelming but i cant find myself to do them. The exploration in sky is a bit boring ngl and the quests just arent engaging to me

With how expensive the IAPs and IGC’s are becoming, you’d think they’d be able to add much needed features, new mechanics, and be able to fix bugs but nah a lot of the bugs from around 5 years ago are still present. Aside from that, they also removed afk farming options, anti-krill bugs, table bugs, etc… which caused so many players to leave. not to mention the thing that happened with the beta mischief cat hair drama; they rlly thought they could sneak the cat hair into IAPs before release after it became popular. That fr made so many players mad to the point they had to return it to in-game currency

Server splits are so evil, I really hope the moth I helped the other day in hidden forest knows how the rain works now

This commentary was really accurate. After all this time, Sky is like the friend who's pretty likeable and comfortable but also has some major flaws. In life, if you get too emotionally invested in trying make a person be who you want them to be, you’ll end up frustrated and disappointed. So the best thing is to accept them where they are, while still encouraging them to be true to their core values. And the thing is, behind Sky there are all real people just like that. Sky game's personality always seemed to be that of an empathetic type, and it has created a safe place for hundreds of thousands of people while still trying make a living. The world itself has gotten darker, and based on the stories and seasons, Sky seemed to want to hold back some of that despair and help people work through their own seasons of life. In the end, Sky gameplay is what each individual makes it, whether hectic or peaceful. There is of course, much room for improvement. I think the reason Season of Shattering was a major missed opportunity in what could have been a really good turning point toward a more sustainable developmental direction. It fell far below players expectations, and especially for veterans, because it raised the long held hope for real sustained story development. But in the end it mostly gave us poor rewards, overpriced cosmetics and not nearly enough continued depth of story. The tasks seemed meaningless because they were delivered without context. In general, and because there was no real context, no understanding of why it was happening, it reflexed too closely the severe and grim uncertainty of the real world that people came to Sky to escape and amplified the stress and discontent that players had already been feeling toward the game. The many event glitches in addition to the regular game bugs didn't help at all in this respect. Since then it's been glaringly obvious that the main story that vaguely started at Isle of Dawn hasn't seemed to develop much further, after all the expectations. Of course, it's only so long after stumbling through as a moth and exploring Sky that Sky Kids would begin to long for more core development, instead of just new distractions in the form of collabs. Even the new season of Moomin, though undoubtedly poignant, just seems like an unrelated short story in a collection of short stories in the Vault. However, it's understandable from game development's strategic side to only release fragments of the story, to keep players teased and intrigued. The problem with that tactic is that in human connections the longer the need is withheld, the greater and greater the strain on the connection. The players have persistently waited, seeking the answers to all the question marks that TGC seems to still be working on, and are still waiting but with less expectancy and enthusiasm. Here are general unsolved mysterys: Why should players continue after Eden? (After returning from Eden everything in terms of story is incredibly anticlimactic and left unanswered.) Why did the world really become like that, why did it shatter, what holds it together? Why are there krill and how did they come to be? Why did shard events start happening? And what is the sky kids beginning and purpose of existence, grand mission, and the greater goal behind Eden sacrifices of light? New events pertaining to more story/history should open up only after each new Eden run with maybe an advanced Eden constellation that opens up or perhaps next level of constellations for each realm, and not only get you closer to elder cosmetics. And on that note, each seasonal spirit should remain discoverable with options to earn certain of their cosmetics but fully open up when their seasons return even with new posible exclusives. When their season returns players could have the option to fully reset the missions and replay the returned season for additional candles, and purchase keys to season exclusive areas or ticket to season events. Even if they keep the boring cosmetic situation the same, there'd be ample reason to keep playing because the main story continues to develop. To answer these questions it means that TGC will need to spend more time developing the plot. If Sky only keeps the introductory plot, then the people who are drawn to Sky because of it's uniqueness for moving our souls, will most definitely continue lose interest. Finally, yes one of the original values of the game is to foster connection and on the business side these connections keep the players playing, but connection remain very shortlived without a common end goal and grand mission to unite players. Appealing soley to consumerism is the soulless fast track to losing the target audience that came seeking connection and purpose. If this game were only for very young children then what they've done so far would be enough, but the fact is the majority of players are at the age to desire more from a game. TGC needs to deliver on story development and glitch fixes, and give satisfyingly interesting incentive structures because of the maturity of their audience. TGC, please feel free to contact me with a job offer.