As a sky veteran, getting all cosmetic while it still using ticket is a must, cuz when that cosmetic return in the future the price would be hella expensive
Yeah, at least things are somewhat doable to get when they're in-season, or the event is still happening. Cause tgc can only make it so expensive when you get ~4 a day(and grinding via quests and picking up tickets is much chiller then cr)
seriously, why do capes cost often 20 dollars each? i don't know why they keep upping the prices. not only are they losing the favor and respect of the community, they are evidently leading to their own demise. i don't get why companies do this, especially for digital products. if a cape was 10 dollars max, it would be much more affordable to everyone, meaning MORE purchases, and MORE money coming in overall because more people are buying, making well over enough to compensate for the price drop. all of my friends who play sky are upset, especially the vets who have to work twice as hard as they used to. i shouldn't have to spend HOURS everyday grinding to afford items with barely any rest. :( the game feels more like a daily chore rather than something fun.
That's what I was saying to a friend, it's an electronic item, it's not like they have to produce it and ship it. I would say 5 dollars max, since that's what most of the online games do. I would buy so much stuff from Sky if it wasn't because of their ridiculous prices. (I'm not form the US by the way, I'm from a third world country so buying stuff from a game is even more expensive because of the currency conversion)
Exactly! That what i was thinking. Im already feel tired every time im thinking to play this game. And it makes no sense, if they would lower the prices to more normal, the more people would coast their money for it. Or maybe we don't know something?
Wait- I saw a video saying the towel capes are all candles (100+) and hearts..not events currency..I was planning to buy the towel capes and then I saw the prices, I’m like “welp- I guess my skykid will not have anything to go with the beach outfit..another outfit will be sitting with dust”
I am an adult who can buy whatever she wants. However, since 2-3 capes cost a brand new game which you can enjoy hours and hours, I won't pay for them just not to feel stupid. This is not an iap it's scamming. Edit: Your rant was so sweet and I feel you.
@sevbu I understand a charity cape or a collab cape as some of the money goes towards who they're collating with or the charity but like a regular IAP cape shouldn't be 20 dollars
OMG you are right. None of the coolest games never coast so much as for example for "pack of journey" So why do we have to pay so many money just for little piece of graphic in game?
The way it was the floaties that was meant to be the iap first but then TGC change it to the earrings bc they know the floaties was way too useless to make people pay for them 💀💀💀
ONGGG BROO I wanted the earrings so much, I was so hyped thinking about the cool outfits I could make with it and then tgc changes it for an useless floaties. Worst part is that bot items could be for event currency bc there is a lot of days of sunlight IAP items already, but they are soooo damn greedy
This is nothing new, even as far back as the winter season (forgot the name), they use the beta to determine what’s most popular so they can make sure to force players to pay for it
exactly 😭 and it really is a shame that once you finish the game, it turns into a grind to win cosmetics/pay to win cosmetics game. it just gets repetitive. for a game about bringing players together, i don't think purposefully giving players fomo (fear of missing out) is the right move.
My biggest complaint is just how unaccessible hearts are. Only way to get them are from spirits, guides, or if you have like a million friends (and the boats and shared experience candle things which isn't even worth mentioning). I'm a pretty anti-social person. I have a few friends on sky, but it is not enough to get a steady supply of hearts. I need to use the candles I'm SAVING to gift to friends so they MIGHT gift back hearts. I just wish there was either a heart package to buy or there was a shop item where you could buy hearts with ascended candles. My thoughts are 1 ascended candle = 2 hearts (or 3 if I'm allowed to have hope).
@AceYagami69 The only way without candles that you can be friends with someone is the friend code but half the friends I make don't even know how to use it so I end up friending them. And if I recall correctly I remember friending someone used to cost 3 candles but now it's one?
Which prices are you talking abt ? 😭 Cause like since it’s a season we only need to get the seasonal pass to get access to everything or am I missing something ? 😭😭
@@Muggy_wfor what I know and what I read (from other people talking about it) Collab season tends to have IAP apart of the season pass, so if you want everything from the season you must pay the season pass and the IAPs
@@Muggy_w so far all collab seasons have had iap, a lot of them. and with how popular moomin is I bet there’s gonna be a ton and they are going to be wayyyyy over priced for what they are
@@Muggy_wcollab season usually have iap too like nine-colored deer there was the mask with antlers and also the cape (that will never come back once season is done)
Oh god, if they're similar to the Aurora IAPS I may never buy anything from TGC again. I love Moomin valley, if they ruin this season with price gouging I'm done.
THANK YOU FOR SAYING THIS. I’m sick of people endlessly trying to defend this company like “oh they’re just an indie studio they need to make money and pay their devs!!” they make MILLIONS of dollars every season. their workers are paid fine, I promise they will live if they reduce the price of some IAPs or give some more items away for free. I genuinely can’t believe people have consistently been ok with paying $20, sometimes even $30 for ONE CAPE or even $3 for EARRINGS. edit: not to mention- while I personally haven’t encountered many bugs besides broken grandma, I know the game has SO MANY bugs, some of which are game breaking. it’s even more frustrating that TGC ignores fixing these bugs in favor of pushing out more IAPs.
@@pumkinpatchwork infact if they reduce the price of their cosmetics more ppl can buy so more money to the company idk why I have to spend my life savings to buy a cape
@@Tag_1t right??? $5 is probably the max that I would shell out any a single item (excluding tiny stuff like earrings or hairpins which are $1-2 MAX), but I’m sure many many more people would buy something for $5, hell maybe even $10. 100 people buying a $10 cape is still more profitable than only 40 people buying a $20 cape
The only reason i could understand for the overpricing is to fund the big animation project, but man i'd be hella dissapointed if it stayed overpriced after that ends
The game is destroying itself bc it's turning into a cosmetics grinding app, like ask anyone in the game why is he playing now and he would say "to get that cosmetic" and not bc of the game itself, cosmetics should be a side decorating thing to beautify the game process and specialize it NOT TURNING INTO THE GAME ITSELF, and tgc is destroying the game just bc they found it an opportunity to grind money and that's sad such a potential game gets left aside like tell me the last time tgc updated sky lore? Don't say seasons bc they are just like random stories added to the game but there is no attention to game lore that specifies it from other phone games that just grind money from the player, when I first discovered sky I was soooo excited like I've never seen a phone game like that before but after a while when I've finished all the realms I was so disappointed that this was your only gameplay about sky and the rest is candle running, even tho there is seasons there isn't any lore for SKY itself and how we got here and the world story, and don't tell me the elders memories are enough bc what kind of lore is me lightning some old crawling guy then never see him again or know anything about him,sky has a gap and to fill this gap tgc should stop money grinding and actually give attention to sky story
On the lore part tbf there will be the animated series for sky and they plan to have seasons alongside the animated series' 2 seasons, so that should give us more lore hopefully. I do agree though I wish they would do something about the coming crisis of it just becoming a cosmetic game after the main story. I'm fine atm since I'm still trying to max out my spirit constellations but I feel like when that's over it'll just be grinding candles till the next event or season.
@@snicksss that's my point and I honestly feel like they are aware of that problem but they don't care and can't change it now since ppl is getting used to this
the game has always been a cosmetics grinding app ngl, its just getting even worse. after you finish the game for the first time its the only thing left to do
I love you, you just said almost everything I have been thinking the last 4 years. A perfect example of that greed that TGC has is the cat hair from days of mischief. In the beta it was a IGC cosmetic and people like it, but TGC instead of just letting it be they wanted to make it a IAP cosmetic, they didn't because of the backlash, but they learned something from that situation and now all the good cosmetics are just IAP and the normal things are IGC. You can see this in the days of moonlight event, all the cosmetics are IAP, but a single flower and a decoration. The days of tournament event shows how incompetent TGC is at handling its own game, because they searched every way to mess with it and did it. A competition (In a game about friendship) where you couldn't select your team (In a competition were you compete to make your team win) and the team distribution was rigged (Forest got more players than other teams.); and they got at least 13 potential item (The simple banners with constelations, the ones with the elders, the four capes and the crap trophy) but only put four, where two of them were actually well designed and beautiful but were IAP, and the other two are just made to have something to the f2p players. That event just needed to not be a competition or have a daily competition with random teams, but TGC is mediocre and incompetent. You can say that maybe sky isn't about cosmetics but about friendship but any friendship-related thing is horrible. Making friends or just TALKING with peoples in benches cost candles, the friendship three is expensive in a unreal level and there are literally NO activities that you can do with a friend. And the male clothing problem is so true, I like dressing more masculine in sky and the options are nonexistence, and if they exist they are all behing a paywall or you need luck that a traveling spirit with male clothing comes and you have the candles to buy it. It is just frustrating. And you cannot just get the items in the time they visit because in those 4 days you could just make 80 candles, and that isn't enough for half of the cosmetics. And the cutscene skip was something that many people wanted and have begged since I started playing sky in 2020, the fact that they are just making that NOW is insulting. They don't even care about their own game when you see how many bugs sky has and how much time they take to fix them, an example is season of remembrance 10 quest, it is bugged and it has been for over a year now, you cannot complete the season thanks to that. And the daily candles quantity is a problem that has been since the game first went live and only got worst with time. The solution is just making that you could get 30 or 40 candles daily, but TGC cannot do that because making a simple change that people have begged is very hard. And the IAP being overpriced is just so anoying, they make things that should cost between 2$-5$ cost 10$-15$. The best way to see it is just looking at any mischief cosmetic, some of them are so overpriced that is just insulting. Sorry for the long rant, is just that this is the first video I have seem to actually adress the real problems the game has. And sorry if anything is hard to understand because of how it is written or something, english isn't my first language.
also about TGC and bug fixes.. TGC will fix things that are perfectly fine but will ignore the bugs that are actually disturbing players gameplay. Sometimes it feels like TGC doesn’t actually listen to their players feedback and it makes me so annoyed..
i usually dont comment a lot but i just had to say i agree with this so, so much. i started playing sky around 4 years ago, dropped it and just got back into it a few months ago. least to say when i came back i did not notice any quality of life improvements in the game. doors were still buggy, darkness plants still had delays when you wanted to burn them, you still had to skip cutscenes, the camera still stunlocked onto spirits whenever you came near someone reliving its memory, and the overall amount of bugs made it genuinely feel like there were no improvements made during the time i was gone. not to mention how long it took them to fix the recent issue at granny's place? it's such a core feature for candle running and they didn't even compensate us with anything. but ofc they still have the audacity to price their IGC cosmetics as high as they do. I'm genuinely so sick and tired of how they handle things
Pls... every comment section on any of their socials is calling them out constantly for years and they just piss on it till a big big big fuck up and they quickly need to appease their precious cash cows. They never cared and all the ppl pushing toxic positivity and constantly ignoring/forgiving them only enabled all TGC is today.
You are so real for this. You know what I did when I couldn't buy a very nice IAP outfit that cost $15? I bought Stardew Valley for the Switch and never looked back. If you can buy a whole game for the same price as virtual clothing, that's saying something. And that something is not good. At all. As much as I love playing this game, I can't help but compare it to the direction that Club Penguin went before it shut down.
@@inksolate tgc just found it an opportunity to grind money and they did, if they don't fix this problem they will destroy their game by themselves and ppl will get bored eventually
EXACTLY. There are so many things to do and so many games to buy with that money, why would I want to waste that much money on just a single cosmetic?? And here, $15 is like 1k and more in my currency so NO WAY I'm going to spend 1K on a single item. I love this gave with my whole heart and its one of my favourite but man, its just kinda tediois to play it everyday now. Barely any of my good friends are online, they probably quit too. I like the new update which is pretty fun, but they seriously need to tone down the prices of items and make some NOT SO GOOD IAPs into free items (with candles ofc). I just wish it could be as fun as it was before
Also hey im sure I've seen you on Ao3. Your writing skills are pretty damn good, its so interesting and intense. But please make more of those on other fandoms too 🙏
True, I've been played for 6 months, doing cr every day. But last days every time im log in, i feel like a slave. I love this game but i feel really tired. The prices too high, the new stuff that you would like comes too long, and i feel like soon im gonna given up at this game. And if I ever find my game blocked by them, im gonna feel sad for all staff i collected, but finally be able to free myself❤🩹
For real That's what I thought. I'm glad I did the event last year! And what? 30 hearts because it's pink???? Hearts are so hard to get when you don't have any friends to play with, I have to cheat and gift myself hearts from another device
@@thelittlenj3338 careful about gifting yourself hearts as it is against TOS (edit: i'm saying don't get caught like some people have before) either way yeah the prices are wacky like why do they cost so much? as a veteran ... i'm asking myself how they even cost that much. they are towels not even popular capes . . .
@@Zeninari I do play with the other account, it's actually an old one I forgot I had but thanks for the warning It's just impossible to have hearts otherwise Evrything is expensive (Capitalism uuhh)
@Zeninari "The hearts are gifts of gratitude and should be given only if you're grateful" Also TGC: "You need 100 or more hearts to complete a constellation." Also TGC: "This limited item and emote costs XX hearts." Also TGC: "Inflate the economy like crazy so every candle you're forced to not give away like candy." I think hearts should be reworked to not be a currency anymore, I think it should be a Skykid Friendship thing only.
As someone who has been playing from TLP, the male clothes have definitely died down, but I think the most recent surge is to almost catch up on "Feminine" clothing as we didn't have skirts really, we had robes, but they were never truly Feminine or Masculine, as Sky children are not Male or Female and the clothes are supposed to be that way as well. it kind of boils down to "bad timing" in that sense of when you join but they should be releasing other clothes as well not JUST skirts (which Duet does have 1 neutral option and it looks nice) AP prices are indeed very dumb, I can't really talk all that as I use my gaming spending money on sky so in a way I have no problem with it, but I still understand it's way overpriced. Event Tickets are indeed nice! However, it is tedious to do, I often see players outright buy the tickets and get the items just so they don't have to keep doing it daily during the events. Last but not least the quests I don't love, BUT it does actually make sense now How and Why you get the quests, they are requests from said spirits! Makes the questing make so much more sense than from just a statue sitting at the home, although the statue was easier, this gives a bit more life to the spirits. (Get it...because they are all dead.)
in the past the quest giver was a spirit, i dont understand why they changed it and i feel like they could just change it back to that to make it make more sense. i guess they wanted to give more life to dailies but i really dont want dailies to become longer...
agreed, majority of the cosmetics are super neutral, and as someone who adores more fem coded / kawaii / magical girl-esque aesthetics, i've been super stoked with the introduction of more skirts and cute capes
yeah but like smh how lazy do some players gotta be…. like i get if you have extra candles or ac or sum but bro it’s just 5 event currency??! i get sometimes it’s like hard to find but like just watch nastymold…. or maybe tgc should just.. put them in more visible spots.. idk but like smh the tickets ain’t really much a problem imo …
I agree with you when it comes to the new dailies (+forced camera pan towards those spirits if you try to go to the quest statue) as well as the lack of masculine clothes. Hell, the prices are getting a bit out of hand too. Especially the in game candle prices. Like why make us spend so many hours running around the exact same places day in day out saving up only to spend 100+ candles on an item??
Just wait till you see the days of feast cape.. not talking about the free one, but the white iap cape.. all they did was take the wise grandparents cape and just added fluff and called it a new cape 😭 and just slapped on a 10$ price
That’s exactly what I thought last year when I was about to purchase it! I literally went “Hmm? This looks familiar 🤔” then went back to my closet and saw it’s literally the exact same as the grandpa cape but with a fluffy border.
I seriously had to think for a minute before realising which cape you're talking about. That's how mediocre that cape is I guess lol, usually I do remember iaps especially if they're pretty
Ngl. The IAPs are a lot more these days. I miss the earrings that cost less than a dollar. I love the earrings. Also THE TOWEL CAPES. They added a candle or two from the original price of the previous event currency conversion.
Tgc is making us poor,to be honest i really dont like how they are overpricing things i dont think that is necessary making the prices higher,im starting to get burn out thanks to the candle run if this dont stop we need to make a protest.
@@thalita7926 tgc is playing with their players feelings by forcing them to cr and buy bc of the fear of missing out, and they know they just don't care,"money is money" when they lost all their players respect that they had at the start
@@scarlett8130 same for some ppl 20$ is not much but for others and me it's too expensive in my country, and the problem that the ppl who doesn't have a problem with prices "mostly from us and UK or any other country that the $ isn't high" are the ones they defend it
I remember when sky first came out, I was up till midnight just waiting for it to launch. Everyone was experiencing the game for the first time together (except for the beta players) and it was a blast! I truly believe that first year of sky was its golden age and it actually felt like what sky advertised itself as, a social game; anytime you would enter a realm you could find people begging to be friends and light candles, I loved to just talk with people from all around the world. Also the “fomo” wasn’t really felt at all at the time with so few seasons, people would just unlock the base capes (yea, remember those exist 😂). Back then it was so special. But after a while, everything started to feel so season centric, and when I got together with sky friends it was usually just grinding candles; that social aspect of the game (for me at least) seemed to disappear. The GRIND for new capes and seasons was just to much for me eventually, I kinda asked myself, “what’s the point spending like 3 weeks to get a new cape if I don’t have friends to enjoy it with?” I tell you most of the early players I knew stopped playing ages ago. Anyway, just thought I’d share my story as an old player, it just doesn’t feel special anymore.
I remember walking in the furniture shop during nesting season and seeing the rock with 3 candles decoration being available for the first time. And it cost what like 30? 40? *ascended candles.* And it suddenly occured to me that if sky was an actual world you lived in, you'd need to die at least twice, and free like 30, 40 dead kids, all to buy a big rock with 3 WHITE CANDLES on it. Three! WHITE candles. On a ROCK. You know? From the dirt? Three white candles and a stone. And it made me so mad i closed the game LMAO
yo en un post que se quejaba de los precios me hice un calculo del sueldo mensual de un skykid con las velas normales, el maximo diario son 20 pero todos sabemos que no todos hacemos el maximo diario aun asi hice con el maximo porque numeros redondos, un mes de 30 dias, numeros redondos y convertir 1 a 1 el dinero, si bien soy de Perú y mi moneda vale aproximadamente entre 3-4 soles equivale a 1 dolar, use los dolares porque son el estandar global, por lo que 1 dolar como 1 vela, bien, entonces, si 1 vela es un dolar, diariamente uno gana 20 dolares el dia, al mes serian unos 600 dolares el mes, para desbloquear cualquier cosa que cueste 200 velas, minimo has tenido que gastar juraria que la mitad de 200 velas, asi que para algunos de esos articulos has casi gastado 2 tercios de tu sueldo mensual por una bonita capa eso sin mencionar que hay arboles mas caros en los que tienes que gastar muertes y vidas de otros para desbloquear la siguiente fase de amistad y ahi gastas aun mas dinero, como el dinero que gastas en los espiritus para desbloquear el tener mas alas en tu siguiente reencarnacion, no olvides eso, porque lo mejor para algunas cosas aqui seria desbloquear las alas adicionales en el juego, alas que claro esta cuestan almas de personas y dinero constante, dinero que quizas no quieras o puedas gastar jamas porque ese dinero se gasta en ropa mas bonita para ser capaz de socializar con el resto de la gente retrasando todo tu progreso en ayudar a la gente en eden, porque antes de ayudarlos debes centrarte en verte bonito y por eso todo lo bonito es tan caro de algun modo de hecho creo que todo el sistema social de sky se rompio en algun punto, porque para socializar mas facilmente con la gente primero debes verte bien, demasiado bien quizas o ser una polilla, pero cualquier cosa en el medio debe tener suerte
As a female, I was annoyed to find out the female outfit for upcoming Days of Style costs in game currency while the male outfit costs actual money. It's also just tiring for items from events such as Days of Color or Days of Sunlight having items that cost 100+ candles. Each person is different, but I get burnt out after like a week of grinding for candles. I'm so glad I got those beach towel capes last year when they used to cost event currency.
I agree only that the masculine shouldn't be locked behind IAP I wouldn't be happy about them switching. But if it were two and two that would be better imo. 2 free and 2 IAP outfits. Both having an option for feminine or masculine. Similar to how it's done this season of duets.
Ok, yet another comment, YES. MORE MASC CLOTHES PLEASEEEEE And I got so excited for the lil suit vest too, but guess what. IAP. YEP. I typed that as you said it lmaooo.
All of this... What's frustrating to me as a vetran is that complaints like this are silenced by the community, especially on the official Discord server. I remember there being so many uproars around the season of performance/shattering, because tgc started implementing really costly shit and features no one wanted. And what did they do? They didn't listen. The following Days Of Sunlight they released a stick that's 20 dollars. A STICK. And y'know what happened in the server? People were outraged and a crazy big part of the server defended the choice. The people who speak up leave and the new players don't know the bullshit vetrans already dealt with... Sincerely hope it becomes more popular and common place to call our TGC because this is just getting crazy
Season of shattering was when I took a two year long break lol. I still find it crazy so many people were willing to defend tgc, the shards were so busted and the crawled mechanic was *busted*. I legit do not even care that I missed out on the krill cape, they should have fucking listened to their beta testers and not pushed the season out so soon. Like easier way to get AC my butt. The shards are easier now, but for a long time I avoided them like the plague, especially the forest ones.
As a veteran I feel you, the official discord sucks so bad it's filled with bootlickers. I can never have a proper discussion critiquing TGC's business practices or how they keep retconing their own lore and themes
I still remember how during days of mischief, the first time the cat boy hair got announced in beta, it was said to be free just to later be changed to IAP. Thankfully, people complained a lot and they made it free again. The company feels quite greedy imo. And the traveling spirit system needs a change bc it ain’t fair how you need to wait almost 2 years to see a cosmetic from a season you missed. I have sm to say abt this game LOL
Yes i remember this! The rare instance of the sky community getting together to stand up. Now if you say something negative, you're immediately bombarded
@DonutToast yeah there's always a bunch of people telling others to "shut up and be grateful" and "you don't need to get everything", "it doesn't affect gameplay". Like that's besides the point🤦♀️, the stuff is grossly overpriced, I don't need some rich folks talking down to me about how a company needs to extort their players to exist or something
@@DeltaRaptoran that and the boycott of sanrio. looking back on it i wouldn't be surprised if those rich chucklefucks telling everyone the shut up are the same twats that got me banned from twitter for calling out sanrio as racist
TGC barely listens when the ENTIRETY of their player base begs and pleads at them for something, what makes you think they’re gonna listen to a video with 200 views? Don’t be delusional, it will only lead to unnecessary stress and disappointment.
@@HHHHammer oof..sorry man, ultimate gifts don't get reruns :') once the season is over you can never get them again. I hope you were thinking of something else for your own sake
I absolutely love how they knew everyone was waiting for the season of shattering spirits to come back and they purposely made everything overpriced. WHY IS A BUTTERFKY 70 CANDLES???
@@blaNkEuLa thing is, the traveling spirits now being priced with regular candles and hearts makes sense since their seasons are over. what doesn't make sense is free items that cost event tickets in the past now costing candles and hearts when the new items still cost event tickets. that change would only make sense if they decided to scrap the event tickets entirely and revert back to candles and hearts hut they didn't do that
Originally every event item cost candles (or sometimes hearts), they added event tickets because they felt it was unfair to new players who just joined and couldn't save up candles for the cosmetics.
it’s literally so annoying bro..not to mention how they make things so expensive and the upcoming events are so close to each other??? like how do they expect us to save up for all of this expensive stuff yet don’t give us TIME. i hope they listen to us bc so many of these things are so nice but it’s literally impossible for more than half of the people who play sky to get stuff
3:52 aaaaa about that, if you look at all previous items most outfits are either gender neutral or "masculine". The first "fem" item came from the hide-and-seek pioneer, all other base items are gender-neutral and masc. The first obvious pretty item was the aurora dress. Recently* TGC has been trying to make more fem items to balance out the masc and gender neutral which is why to newer players it seems as though there are only fem items. The only thing we can do is wait for travelling spirits. Is there a shortage of masc items? Definitely not. Is there a shortage of travelling spirits arriving with pants? For sure! But again that's a problem for all and not just masc or fem presenting players. However, I do agree that we need more masc hairstyles. Glad to see the krill hair from the shattering season is returning and hope everyone can get it! Edit: I agree, I don't understand why they can't just put both masc and fem items as f2p instead of one being paid and one being free?? But again that's most likely a problem with money and TGC greed rather than discrimination against dudes
5:14 I do agree with this, they should really be putting two free items both fem and masc instead of one being free and the other being behind a paywall.
it depends on how you view gender neutral but alot of newer clothing is often based more on feminine appearances. but i suppose my real issue is the hair, they almost never introduce more traditionally masculine hairtypes and when they do its usually locked behind a paywall and its ridiculous
@@veras1020 I agree with you! Although I think a lot of gender neutral items get passed off as feminine simply because they aren't masc enough for western standards.
@@greeniscoollol yes! We have many explicitly female outfits but I feel we don’t have many explicitly male outfits. It’s just depressing since if they want to widen their playerbase they need to have masculine clothing, gender neutral clothing, and feminine clothing
What I find annoying is that those towel capes were all event currency items last year. I was lucky enough to pick them all up last year, and I was a brand new player then. As for masculine items, I've been mostly going for facial hair masks and "hair" cosmetics (I have a bushy beard irl). Apart from the upcoming Days of Style suit, I'm eagerly waiting for Bumbling Boatswain. He has an amazing mustache, a cool captain cape, and a guitar. My first traveling spirit was Star Collector, who had a tie with a fox pendant (to represent the fox from The Little Prince). My next outfit is going to be the suit, the Boatswain cape, the Lamplighter's cap (another Little Prince spirit), the tie, and either a mustache or beard. It'll help me look like a Navy captain or maybe a train conductor, or something like that (or like a certain Jojo character if I play it right).
It used to be exclusive to Playstation players too, until Sky was released on PC, expanding the Journey IAP for all players, and giving PC players an exclusive prop with Portal's Companion Cube.
I’ve been playing for 2 years and I completely agree with you. I saw another person commenting the same thing I’ve been echoing since I started: If IAPs were $5 to $10 max, TGC would have a lot more people purchasing them which would compensate for the lowered cost. $25 cape?? $20 pants?? That’s wayy too expensive. And unfortunately since I live in a country where the exchange rate is NOT in my favour, those cosmetics are honestly a luxury item 😢 You know what else is annoying? TGC used to have IAP feedback in the Beta version but they got rid of it due to the price backlash so players can’t even give feedback if the cosmetics are too expensive anymore. I’m tired of seeing some of the community members defending the prices with ‘You don’t have to buy it, you know?’ or ‘At least Sky isn’t gatcha. Be grateful’. Like that’s not the point 😭 if the cosmetics are more accessible in terms of cost, not only would there be more people buying it, you’d also have a happier community too.
Thing about the male and female clothes is, we have had almost no feminine clothes for the many maaaaany years prior. All I wanted was always a dress that isn't the default dress. There are a BUNCH of Pants that look masculine or unisex. I am absolutely thrilled that we are FINALLY getting dresses because for 3 years i have only had the default dress and it sucked. Last year's Halloween dress was also cute, but it was too gothy for me. But. BUT. I hate that they are behind Paywalls. This season's white dress? Money, The dress from the tournaments? Money. THE OTHER MISCHIEF DRESS? MONEEEYH. I am glad the gray dress was free but let's be honest, it looks similar to the Fire Trial guy pants. I am so happy we are getting more dresses now, so I *really really* disagree on that. We have an overload of male clothes, you just have to catch the right time. But in everything else I totally agree. Their Prices are shameless. Absolutely rediculous if you ask me. Items being up to 30€? That is insane. 20€ Would be the ULTIMATE ALLTIME HIGH LIMIT I would still be able to understand if the item had a special use. For instance the 9Color deer cape. I was thrilled, excited!! 35€... I bougth if reluctantly, turns out it is actually useless in function. You get TPd to an area everyone can access, but you see the deer. That's it? No interaction? No event kr anything? This was the biggest waist of my money EVER.
Been playing since 2021. Pretty sad to see that the game that was supposed to be about "friendship" and "connection to others" slowly turn into a game about who can fork over the most money for cosmetics. Not to mention the stuff that IS free costs a ridiculous amount of candles/hearts.
It's crazy how the prices have been increasing. I've been playing the game for 4 years now, so I've noticed the rising prices. It wasn't even a steady increase, it was just like boom! Everything is now money. I mean, all the big capes and outfits that came with events are all money. Now, you even need more seasonal candles than 3 years ago. When I started the game (I started playing when the Season of Dreams came out), I remember the cost for the peeking post pants was like 17 candles or something like that (I can't exactly trust my memory), but now as a returning spirit, it's 70 candles for the pants, which is fine since everything else is kinda the same price for them. I felt the need to save up candles for so long that I started hating the game. I used to get so excited for new seasons, but now it's all the same to me.
As much as I enjoy this game, because I'm a total sucker for it, I am so here for everything you've said about the IAP and grinding situation. I haven't even played for a whole year, and already saw how expensive things are f2p and p2p. It's ridiculous, and I'm actually happy someone is finally speaking up about it. As said, the game is literally becoming a "grind for cosmetics" game, and it's REALLY destroying it. It's just... ridiculous.
This video speaks of how I feel throughout playing sky. I’ve been playing long enough to see a lot of changes and yes these prices are 💀 as someone who also prefer masc cosmetics I only have a handful of them lmao 😭
The g in tgc stands for greedy lmfao, In all seriousness now, I am from Brazil, and I remember an IAP item reaching almost a hundred dollars... A HUNDRED DOLLARS. Ain't no way I am spending a hundred dollars on something I'll probably get bored of wearing one day 😐 And it's honestly pretty sad to see a game like Sky being destroyed by their own creators bc they are just too greedy
i mean they need money to run their company and to keep the servers up, otherwise they'll go bankrupt and we won't have a game. sure, some of the items are a bit pricey but you don't *need* them.
@@woerm TGC is a very wealthy company, I assure you. Plus if they lowered prices then more people would buy the cosmetics which would most likely just end up increasing their profit.
@@woerm my brother in Christ they make millions from seasons and also in a game where self expression is a big part-clothing IS the content so putting things behind a really expensive (also time gated) paywall is both shitty and predatory
Man, i feel you. Context, i'm also a guy, and i have been playing for 4+ years, and i too have noticed a decline in the number of more male oriented cosmetics, which is pretty disappointing. I understand there's way more of the ladies playing but come on. But then again i've been wearing the same clothes for 3 of those years so ... Candle costs: I have a ton of candles, like, way too many. So i can buy anything i ever want, but it's sad to see other players struggling with getting the cosmetics they like. :/ IAPs: When a single cape costs 20 .... 🤬...$, the cost of 1-3 full indie games, i just can't, that's why i never buy any, all i ever buy is the season pass. Ticket prices: I have been known to go on rants about this, but i'll try to keep it short, it's deceptive. They are worthless, because they don't get converted into anything when the event ends, but they drip feed them to you at a rate to make sure you'll have to log in during the event for 80% of the days to get everything. So these "free" cosmetics, instead of money or effort end up costing you time. It's a rather nasty tactic if you ask me. New quest system: Yes it's slow and annoying, i'm actually thinking of putting my spawn back to old home, because the quest stone still works there, solely because of this. 💀
I totally agree with a lot of your points, I was a season of performance moth and it has just felt like a steady increase in the number of IAPs and the cost of them since I started playing. I’ve stopped buying IAPs almost entirely unless it is something that I *really* want, and I have even skipped a few of the season passes now. Also, the dailies changing in aviary is exactly what motivated me to move back to the OG home space. Kind of a bummer because I like aviary a lot, but not being able to even claim the dailies at the stone after completion got on my last nerve😅
Lol I remember last year the days of sunlight towel capes were pretty much given to everyone for free bc there had been an issue with the prices so they gave a bunch of even tickets to everyone. I have all 3 and I NEVER use them, those prices are absurd
THIS, YOU ARE SPEAKING ABSOLUTE FACTS Also dont forget international prices from different countries also have different prices for IAP stuff, like me for example who lives somewhere in east asia and the prices for me are RIDICULOUSLY expensive! The season pass costs 499.99, the journey pack literally 1k+???? And the more "cheaper" stuff cost 299.99 below I love the game truly! Its beautiful and amazing, the lore is interesting too, plus its unlike any ither mobile game ive played before! But its just slowly being destroyed by TGC's greed... :((
The more I hear about this the sadder I feel.. I’m lucky to live in a place where the AP price < 1hr of work. But it really sucks as I’ve gotten stuff for friends and paid for artists’ APs because for them it’s literally either AP or rent?? I know tgc is probably trying to avoid losses from people buying with foreign currency but surely there has to be a better way than to bar masses of players from their dream items 😔
I’ve been playing sky since 2021, I don’t have a single cape, or accessory (accept for headphones but only sometimes?) and I’ve completed the game about 57 times. The reason why I don’t have shit is because for 2 years I didn’t understand how to get shit without using real money, and about three months ago I picked up the game again after a 7 month break, and it deleted all of my damn candles (Not that I probably could have afforded any of the outfits anyway.)
Having played Sky for years now, I do agree with the need for masculine hairs and non-pants,non-cape accessories. The capes are pretty flexible and the pants issue is mostly a traveling spirit system flaw that even I experienced when I joined (I’m still waiting for any of the pre-Dreams pants cuz I keep missing em) and continue to experience (I only had the Dreams and Assembly pants for years) but I’ve spent a lot of my time in sky preferring masculine presentation and without obtaining the Wasteland elder hair, my few viable hair options are mostly androgynous or just the Valley twin male hair. I’ve really been enjoying the overtly feminine dresses and updo hairs that aren’t all low-hanging styles though and I think they should have balanced representation
Not only am I a guy who plays Sky, but I’ve been getting into the game more recently, and the monetization is incredibly annoying. The mad dash to hoard as many candles as you can so that when an event rolls around, you have enough is frustrating. I missed out on traveling spirits because I didn’t know what they were, and it’s literally impossible to get the candles required unless I pay or have been saving weeks prior just for the occasion. I bought the Nintendo Switch bundle because I like the ocarina, the Switch colors on the cape, and the Link hairstyle, but there are no guy clothes. I just want cool hair or even an outfit, but I have to gamble with every traveling spirit and keep up with leaks to see if there is something cool. If there is (like the suit), it costs around 15 bucks. I’ve seen the player percentages; I know primarily girls play Sky, but they don’t even need to make the outfits necessarily girly. Something unisex works, bro. 3:10 is the perfect visual for what TGC does. They make the capes expensive, they also take your hearts, not just candles, and then they take even more candles. Every event is a gang bang assault on every currency, and you gotta manage like five. You get robbed of 100+ candles minimum. Eden candles are also drained. You better have made hella friends and heart traded, or else you aren’t getting anything heart-priced. Sometimes a cool item straight up costs actual dollars, and then there’s the event currency they made up too for that specific event, so you start at zero. You have to spend that week while the event is up grinding quests or logging on daily to pluck the currency out of the ground in random spots. It’s just so insane. I’m not even an ultra-casual mobile player. I play Sky on PC ever since it released on Steam because I appreciated how beautiful the game looked but would rather play it on PC to free up mobile storage. I’m surprised I don’t hear TGC getting flamed more for the pricing because it’s straight up so bad. Yes, sure, you can get the currencies for free, and it’s all cosmetic, but there’s no way to just casually play Sky. You have to know the geyser hours and the grandma hours to do them daily and get your candles up. Doing quests is confusing for a new player unless they follow a Nastymold guide. I had to miss a couple of cool traveling spirits just to find out how that system works. The whole Ikea season had one outfit, so I had to wait even longer in hopes of cool male cosmetics. I’m literally just saving for the krill hair and cape right now. That’s all I have to look forward to. I thought I was crazy because nobody talks about this stuff, but bro, I’m not paying the price of an indie game just for a cape. I get this is how live service works, and I get the mobile game loop Sky follows to keep you logging on daily like mobile games would like you to do, but it’s so incredibly annoying. I don’t know what else to possibly rant about, but there are a lot of flaws with Sky, and I want a casual “cozy” game that I can play consistently, but the way they’re just doing this stuff is shameless at the very least. Yeah, most of everything is free but the time sink is INSANE, either logging on to do candle runs or get through Eden again for more candles, and then having to recollect your winged light, then more candle runs, and hoarding in HOPES of something cool coming around, which means more waiting, and more time wasted, and more disappointment, God man. they gotta make this shit the slightest bit more bearable because there's no way sky was always like this, I think I had the misfortune of joining too late and not playing through the glory days, it's "prime".
As a veteran, THANK YOU SO MUCH LIKE LITERALLY MOSTLY EVERYTHING IS OVERPRICED, MOTHS BARELY GET COSMETICS BECAUSE OF THIS TOO WHICH IS SO UNFAIR FOR THEM☹️
There is more male pants than female pants. The only reason they’re adding more female clothing right now is because female clothing wasn’t a thing until I think season of abyss I do agree though that everything is over the top priced and only the good things are put in a paywall
i hate when people defend the company in discord yapping abt "they need momey" THEIR FANBASE IS BIGGER THAN EVER, WHY INCREASE YOUR PRICES WHEN MORE PEOPLE ARE BUYING THEM? greeed
Comment #3 because RUclips won’t let me edit and screw it, let’s feed the algorithm. If you set your home to old home, you don’t have to do the shenanigans with going to the lil cafe and talk to each spirit individually for dailies. Ok but that krill hair is fire- I understand the annoyance but mmmmmmh krill hair my beloved. Thanks for rant, I agree, good luck with candles and remaining financially stable my dude, cause I’m definitely not gonna be after this is all over-
My personal tinfoil hat crackpot theory is that the sudden massive influx of IAP items is because of the upcoming Sky series Two Embers. TGC had announced that they will be doing two collaboration seasons which are supposed to have additional content beyond the animated series in 2025. Considering how super ambitious the project is (and the series definitely won't be dirt cheap to animate), TGC is probably milking us dry this year because of their potential golden goose
Imo it would've been less of an issue if they just made like 10 items for the permanent store with a sign clearly saying it's donations for the animation project instead of doing what they are doing now
I did think it was unusual that the suit cost money and yet the dress is free. That’s a giant FU to the boys and masculine females out there playing Sky
I completely agree with you. My husband also plays the game and it takes a long time to get any cosmetics for him. I've been playing for about a year, and it really sad to see that practically ALL the cool stuff is paid. Of course it's okay to have paid and free items, but it's really frustrating to see the huge difference in quality of the cosmetics. And to finish, here in Brazil things quadruple in price + taxes, so it further discourages people from wanting to pay for things.
I think they pushed their costs too high in the back end with the festival tech. Feel like cheaper cosmetics would see them make a bigger profit? I’m a long time player so the no masc clothing thing is a little awkward to me. Cause for a long time there were literally no dresses in the game; and all the clothes were either Andro or masc.Back then I preferred to dress masc anyways so it wasn’t a problem for me personally but there were tons of complaints. I felt like this season does have a good balance tho. Two femme outfits two masc ones. As for the auto cutscene skip feature, yeah people have been begging for that and for favoriting emotes. Sincerely I find sky’s iAPs hard to defend. (Other than the pass) And they *need* to change the traveling spirit system ASAP. Cause it’s brutal for new players. It was brutal when I started and there were only three previous seasons to wait on. I skipped AURORA cause I only wanted one pair of pants and those still aren’t able to come back yet. The wiki has an explanation on traveling spirit timelines. The short version is that a spirit can’t come until at least one spirit from the previous season has come. And since they just pick randomly from the available pool …. in case you feel like you’re exaggerating there, no system as it is right now you will be waiting for literal years if you skip a pass. No one’s really sure if these mini events where groups of spirits come back count too. So maybe after that event the spirit I decided to wait for will be in the list … maybe.
I also started playing sky around 6 months ago and I had to GRIND my butt off for what I have now and there’s so much events coming up (the time I’m commenting this) and to think I have to grind even more to keep up with them seems exhausting :,) I love sky but they need to do something about the pricing
dude its even worse, you should see the days of mischief cosmetic prices. there's at least 6 IAP **capes**, not counting other cosmetics that were iaps, and only 1 cape for candles.. i couldn't be assed to count how many iaps there was total, but it was definitely most of the items. so sad
algorithim boost 🗣💥💥💥💥 but fr tho about the towel capes, (for last years prices) pink cape was 16 tickets yellow was 18 tickets and blue was 23 tickets tickets cost 2 ac (or 6 candles) so that would make these the candle prices (same order) (excluding free tickets) 96 108 and 138 thats more than a lot of expensive ts capes AND ANOTHER THING if you use the candle pack price for ref for the price of the blue cape (with bonus) thats a 60 pack and 2 30 packs or in other words, roughly $40 40 dollars for a yearly event cape what in the even
i never thought too much abt the iap prices bc they’re not something i’d consider buying anyway…. but the igc ones tho… i don’t understand why returning event items get so expensive like??? rich ppl can just buy the beautiful iap items then there’s players who actually grind everyday just to get robbed by 3 returning capes and that’s just insane tbh give new players some mercy man… i started playing in 2020 before we even got the daily candle bonus and i quit for a while in 2023 basically missing most of the events that started using event tickets meaning i have to grind for months just to spend them all on returning items :) can they respect people who actually play their game
Usually I don’t get mad over overpriced iaps in games cause it’s not the main focus, but after a few months of playing scotl the gameplay became dull. I discovered the entire map and pretty sure most spirits. It feels like there’s nothing left to do but grind and collect cosmetics. I could try to complete all constellations, but that requires grinding too anyways. And since the cosmetics are so expensive and grindy , it’s kinda like what am I even playing for at this point lol Although I’m nowhere near being a vet, only been here for the ending Season of Nesting and Duets, so maybe I just need to wait until they add more fun things :P
I understand completely how you feel. I’ve found all the spirits and now I just feel like it’s Groundhog Day every time I play. Doing everything over n over… 😢
TGC is not listening to us. One day the game will become an grinding game. YOU CANT SERIOUSLY FUCKING GIVE US FREE CANDLES DAILY LIKE THE OTHER GAMES TOO? I SPENT THE ENTIRE DAY JUST TO CANDLE RUN ALL REALMS AND GET 22!? MY SLEEP CYCLE IS FUCKING RUINED. I have a love hate thing with this game somehow.
I understand the frustrations and as someone who has been playing sky since late 2019, I have had my own gripes with the game over the years and have seen an increase in IAP items and prices. That being said, I also think that it is important to realize that like you said, sky isn't backed by some mega corporation. They are owned by a small company and as the game puts out frequent content updates, they need to have enough employees to make the seasons and "days of" events sustainable in the long term and this requires having money to pay these employees. Aside from this, IAP content is exclusive to cosmetics which do not alter the core gameplay. I understand that it can be frustrating to wish that you had more cosmetics especially when you are new, we've all been there, but at the end of the day there is no rush. You aren't less than just because you didn't have time to grind to get every single item from every traveling spirit or because you didn't want to spend your money on IAP cosmetics. I know a lot of people argue that sky has turned into a "cosmetic collector" and whilst I understand that that is an accurate description for how some people play the game, it was not intended to be the primary aspect of gameplay as sky is marketing as a game based on discovery and social interaction flavored by the addition of cosmetics and more recently, furniture. Ultimately I think the best thing to do is to play sky at your own pace, let it be fun, and don't grind for candles just because you feel like you have to have every single item. Anyways, I think you are totally valid in your thoughts and opinions but I also think that you shouldn't let those thoughts control how you experience the game because at the end of the day it will only make it worse on yourself, not TGC.
Sky player for 4 years and I just want a longer male hairstyle with bangs Also yeah the pants thing is pretty true. I don't want to use the rhythm pants or prophecy pants for everything. The specific pants are just that: specific. I just hope TGC can make more diverse pants and hair gender wise.
Favorite emote wheel has been something people have been asking for, myself included. But you're 100% correct about the prices. As for male vs female items it really is the first few times I've ever seen dresses besides Aurora season which I unfortunately missed. I think they are trying to balance the masculine and feminine clothes. For the longest it was always boring gender neutral clothes. I'm super happy to have pretty dresses available for igc. But I do agree prices for iaps and returning items are pretty darn steep. 12AC for a pair of cute ballet shoes? 😭
Dude you are so funny!!! I completely agree with you! It’s so dumb, also in the seasons of duets…why is it that the cello is 200 candles?! That’s so silly! When you can pay for it…I totally agree with your frustrations
3:17 i’m so glad you mentioned how weird they price things. theoretically the cost should be the same because they’re just the same models but recolored, but why is the pink towel have the lowest price while blue is the most expensive? i also had this issue with the rainbow shoes as well, or rather the pricing for other cosmetics in general. why the heck are the shoes more expensive than the others?? and it’s literally just shoes, they’re not as big as the capes. my only guess for the unusual priceing is because of the demand of the cosmetics. blue is a popular color, and since the blue verson is probably on demand, they’ll raise the price. of course they have to reasonably price it or else the community goes haywire. as long they don’t price something like 300 candles or over $30, they’ll be good.
As a retired sky veteran, I've literally have had enough of this, though I have saved up a lot of candles, but doing daily quests and candle runs.. it really felt like a job and it just takes too much time, even though the maximum time I take will be about 2-3 hours. I have no more motivation, and I have been drained, it's annoying. And also as a player who doesn't buy stuff with irl currency, there literally are way TOO many good looking but simple or the tiniest cosmetic ever that cost real currency and is expensive, it's just stupid.
As someone who played sky since 2019, I was kind of mad when the cost for cosmetics increased DRASTICALLY overtime. Like, even the prices during seasons wasn’t as expensive as it was back then! Oh and I even though I NEVER bought an IAP ever, it hurts me to see a lot of the good cosmetics cost money, and then the “free” ones as he says cost such an absurd amount of candles. Honestly, the only good thing rn is the seasons cosmetics and chatting with friends.
I’ve been playing for 5 years now and we still don’t have a way to organize spells. That is literally the one thing I ask for in every survey I do. I may be a veteran but good lord everything is way too expensive, you can only get 20 candles per day and even then most people (including me) only get about 12. Knowing all the cr routes isn’t enough because it takes so much time to get everything. Hackers mostly just use the teleporting one to do crs fast and I really appreciate their help with tedious places like Vault and Isle. God PLEASE TGC just lower the prices
It would make sense if they had some fantastic designers working on cool clothes...but they dont. Its sub par designs, safe designs, meh designs. Not worth money imo. I wish they allowed customisation at least until they invest in said talent.
So glad someone said it, I’m only online occasionally and when I am it’s always “OH MY GOD THERES ONLY 3 DAYS LEFT FOR SOMETHING I DONT REALLY LIKE AAAA” everytime I play there’s something new in the shop I feel a need to buy or get and I just don’t know what to do anymore 😭
Naw I'm a dude and am still hyperfixated on the game sometimes. Miss me on paying +$5 on a single cosmetic, though. I get your pain, because anyone that starts game's like Sky late will be hit with FOMO so hard AND burn out from the rising prices. I wish TGC knew that not everyone can play the game everyday. EDIT: OH yeah, just use the portal and have home as your default spot if the new quest system feels tedious. You can skip that part and just collect the candles in one go. (nasty explained it in her update video)
I love paying $12 - $20+ for capes that are purely cosmetic and have zero functionality outside of home space. At least with the Aurora, Little prince, 9 colored deer, and skyfest capes allow you to take your friends to a separate location/instance so it somewhat justifies the steep price By the way, just because you don't buy the IAPs doesn't mean they aren't a problem for players. You don't represent the group of dedicated players who are frustrated at high quality cosmetics being locked behind a $15-$20 paywall while "free" cosmetics are still a slog to get even with the new currency. Stop telling players to play something else too, it shows you are willing to ignore a problem that is slowly getting out of hand
@milanesadearsenico Believe it or not, there exists an entire world outside of the U.S. and Sky and is an international game. I pay double the price for everything which is bad enough but not as impossible as being asked to pay say....8x the amount for a seasonal pass or a useless, virtual item. I get so tired of hearing the '10 to 20' dollar conversation when it doesn't represent the reality of the game for many of us.
its also crazy how it feels like we get maybe 2 or 3 free items compared to the like 3-5 paid items T^T also the suit in days of style being paid as a masc player just hurts so so bad
As a fellow male, I certainly agree that there aren’t nearly as many cosmetic options for us. I’m a 4 year veteran so I’ve managed to get enough items over the years but I still get sad when new things come out and there’s basically nothing for me. Literally the only hair I liked was the little prince hair and finally after years of waiting they came out with the new hair during the 2024 days of bloom event.
I started sky before season of rhythm, used to buy all of the passes for seasons (and sometimes, even ones for friends) and also tried to buy as many of the paid items as I could but, at that point you realize you’re spending an extreme amount of money just for one or two cosmetics, and even when they are free you’re grinding heavily for them. At some point it gets repetitive, and it turns away veteran players or otherwise like me who have less care about cosmetics now and more interest in the world building and community, it’s unfortunate
Fellow male player here! Joined during Dreams. I don’t get why we can’t have more pants instead of dresses. They’re usually great at coming up with new styles of pants and having nice colours. I just don’t want to pay for a season when all of the pant-cosmetics are in fact dresses. I’m never going to use them. I’m an adult! I don’t have time to waste getting items I’ll never use! The insane candle prices are discouraging as well. You basically need to do every map, every day, to save up enough candles and hearts. I don’t have the time for that!
couldn’t agree more tysm for this rant bc. yeah. this game is basically pay to win. there’s no reason for in game prices to be so high, it gets to a point where even if people ARE willing to pay real money for cosmetics, they can’t even afford it. i managed to buy an entire macbook with my job but somehow SKY COTL cosmetics is what i can’t afford. while actively working. i’m so sick of ittt (the touching nipples south park reference is also so on point bc mannn what is this😭) edit: i will say the new changes are all things i actually really wanted (favorite emotes, unfriend feature) but it’s just the fact that THATS the most we get in actual game improvement is also a huge bummer. you can’t even use upgraded emotes in the favorite’s wheel either which made me so sadddd
You can favorite upgraded emotes! Access the wheel, Edit, hold the emote until the level you want, then add it into the slot. You can do so for Stances and Calls too! In case if you haven’t figured it out already
Assuming you get 5 event currency’s for the days of sunlight, it would take 8 days but of course they have to make you wait ONE MORE DAY just to get the last candle. So basically it will take 9 days, over a week, to get the shorts/tanktop, and that’s if they make it 5 currency instead of 4
It's even worse with the premium store, in my country a simple pair of boots or hair costs basically 200$ 💀 it's REALLY badly converted if like 100 polygons with one color costs almost a kidney The parasol is like 99pln?? YOU CAN BUY 3 WHOLE GAMES FOR LESS 💀💀💀 Tgc needs to get some slap to get back to reality or else they're gonna turn into EA
when I saw the Moomin collab announcement I was like "ok this time I might give a shot at investing my money" but then I remembered the prices and went "nevermind!!"
I gave up playing, the candle running got super tiresome, then they punished us for saving 100's of candles by introducing the "event tickets". most players are so busy hoarding candles, it's difficult to even make friends anymore, then when you make one all they're interested in is chasing the candle dragon. tgc continually punishes players trying to maximize candle runs, then says "its not the spirit of how the game should be played" but everything is ludicrously expensive, the iap stuff like $30 for one item, wtf?. I deleted the game last week, I feel much lighter. This game is a black hole.
oh, and the whole paying for the "privilege" of earning items with a season pass by doing the same slog gameplay for 2 months, or risk being locked out from the ultimate reward you already paid for is the stupidest thing I ever got sucked into. Never again.
I think ftp sky fans should learn: 1.) To make peace with the fact that you aren't going to get every event item, let alone the ultimate reward, on the first run of the event(😅Just being realistic)Most events re-run every year and many spirits return as traveling spirits throughout the year too, so don't lose hope! Horde candles for those re-run items your want most! 2.) Learn the candle wax event time tables. That way you have the option of logging in for maybe 10-20 minutes vs. Candle-running for hours every day.(my personal favorite is the polluted geyser, happens five pasted on even hours 8:05,10:05,12:05,ect.) 3.) Do the daily quests and candle-run there while you're at it. Two birds, one stone! 4.) Watch your wax meter(the white candle icon with 3 arrows) The more candles you forge, the more wax they require. You get 5 fast candles, 5 medium candles and 5 slower candles. After that, accumulation is negligible, so its best to come back after reset. You can always tell where your meter is by how many arrows are lit up. 5.) Don't be afriaid to afk with friends. Especially hardcore veterans! Most candle-run every day and holding hands means youre along for the ride(and candle wax)! I know Sky isn't perfect, but if this helps even one player have more fun playing it, I'll be happy😊
Man I'm a veteran and I still have an issue with the seasonal items. Sure you won't be able to get every item, that's normal. But nowadays there's next to nothing that you can get "for free" (aka hours and hours of grinding for a single item), let alone anything that feels worth the grind. They're lucky I'm a music nerd or I'd just be skipping this current season entirely 😭 And that's not even talking about the IAPs, because why does a single cape, a literal clump of (often recicled) pixels, cost more than a whole game?? In what planet are these prices reasonable I get you're trying to help people have fun, and that's great, really. But I still think this is very much a big issue with the company and it needs to be adressed
@@aquajasperI did skip this season's pass as there's just waaaayyyyy too many lazy designed posters and rugs to my liking, and boy is it nice to just only get the items you want and leave the rest of the spirit trees be. I'm skipping two spirit trees entirely so I'm almost done with the season! Tis the first time since shattering since I skipped a pass but I suspect I'll be skipping more and more as I get more burnt out and I also feel I've spent enough on this game lol. I'd pretty much only have gotten the pass for three pairs of pants and I couldn't justify grinding for over 2 months for just that 😅 especially since I know I wouldn't be wearing that dress at all. It's pretty but not my style. I actually prefer the free grey dress.
@@iadoreapplehead yea not worth it to pressure yourself to the point of burnout over a game. I'm only getting the cello from this season and then I'll save the candles, nothing else really does with my character so no use bothering
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Sky Children of the inflation
the word inflation has two meanings and I hate it now
@@juzouukiNOOOOOOO
Wait what’s the other definition- (my two brain cells are genuinely struggling here)
Don’t even pull the “you’re too young to understand” shit 🧍♀️
LOL
As a sky veteran, getting all cosmetic while it still using ticket is a must, cuz when that cosmetic return in the future the price would be hella expensive
Yeah, at least things are somewhat doable to get when they're in-season, or the event is still happening. Cause tgc can only make it so expensive when you get ~4 a day(and grinding via quests and picking up tickets is much chiller then cr)
yeah, it's insane how expensive things have gotten compared to when they were first introduced 😭
I’ve only just started and I realized casual playing is not gonna get me any of the cosmetics for sure 😅
@@TheMoonFlock what are tickets?
@@TheMoonFlock Also how do u grind via quests?
I AM SO TIRED OF DEFENDING THIS COMPANY AND IM SO SO HAPPY PEOPLE ARE COMPLAINING
YES I WANT THE PEOPLE STANDING UP AGAINST THIS BS THAT'S THE STUPID CRAZY INFLATION ON THIS GAME.
DOWN WITH THE QUEEN
aaand my comment got deleted. Great 🗿
i feel like ive seen this whole thread on reddit before 🤔 deja vu???? 🤪
OMG YES SICK OF THIS COMPANYS STANS SAYING “BUT THEYRE A SMALL COMPANY” LIKE BE SO FR
Atp,free just means "you dont have to waste your money but you sure are wasting the next few months of your life to get it"
This is so real
THIS IS SO TRUU 😂 WHYY
seriously, why do capes cost often 20 dollars each? i don't know why they keep upping the prices. not only are they losing the favor and respect of the community, they are evidently leading to their own demise. i don't get why companies do this, especially for digital products. if a cape was 10 dollars max, it would be much more affordable to everyone, meaning MORE purchases, and MORE money coming in overall because more people are buying, making well over enough to compensate for the price drop. all of my friends who play sky are upset, especially the vets who have to work twice as hard as they used to. i shouldn't have to spend HOURS everyday grinding to afford items with barely any rest. :( the game feels more like a daily chore rather than something fun.
That's what I was saying to a friend, it's an electronic item, it's not like they have to produce it and ship it. I would say 5 dollars max, since that's what most of the online games do. I would buy so much stuff from Sky if it wasn't because of their ridiculous prices.
(I'm not form the US by the way, I'm from a third world country so buying stuff from a game is even more expensive because of the currency conversion)
No cape outside collab/function capes cost 20$
@@milanesadearsenicoSometimes currency conversion is high
Their company is in California. That’s all you need to know.
Exactly! That what i was thinking. Im already feel tired every time im thinking to play this game. And it makes no sense, if they would lower the prices to more normal, the more people would coast their money for it. Or maybe we don't know something?
i remember when the black and white cape were a massive symbol of status. now some random stool in the furniture shop costs more than them istg
LITERALLY
Wait till he finds out the prices of the towel capes from last year were basically free & we got extra event tickets so everyone could by all 3 😭💀
Wait- I saw a video saying the towel capes are all candles (100+) and hearts..not events currency..I was planning to buy the towel capes and then I saw the prices, I’m like “welp- I guess my skykid will not have anything to go with the beach outfit..another outfit will be sitting with dust”
@@kiyoomi_hanazaki they came out last year and costed tickets. Ofc after a year on reruns the price changes
Yeah it was from 14 tickets to 22 tickets max 💀 now this is crazy
HUHHH 😭
@@kiyoomi_hanazaki They cost candles now, last year they were bought with event tickets.
I am an adult who can buy whatever she wants. However, since 2-3 capes cost a brand new game which you can enjoy hours and hours, I won't pay for them just not to feel stupid. This is not an iap it's scamming.
Edit: Your rant was so sweet and I feel you.
That's true
@sevbu I understand a charity cape or a collab cape as some of the money goes towards who they're collating with or the charity but like a regular IAP cape shouldn't be 20 dollars
@@candicraveingcloude2822no normal cape is 20$
OMG you are right. None of the coolest games never coast so much as for example for "pack of journey" So why do we have to pay so many money just for little piece of graphic in game?
I totally agree if what they are doing is not scamming I don't know what scam is
The way it was the floaties that was meant to be the iap first but then TGC change it to the earrings bc they know the floaties was way too useless to make people pay for them 💀💀💀
ONGGG BROO I wanted the earrings so much, I was so hyped thinking about the cool outfits I could make with it and then tgc changes it for an useless floaties. Worst part is that bot items could be for event currency bc there is a lot of days of sunlight IAP items already, but they are soooo damn greedy
But I'm happy that the float is free it's really gonna be relaxing especially for my sensory ❤
LMAO FR THEY KNEW NO ONE WAS GONNA BUY A FLOATIE THAT DOESNT EVEN MOVE SMFH
@@PumpKinnii_ But I think most player want the floating more, including me. We have similar earrings and they can‘t be seen often
This is nothing new, even as far back as the winter season (forgot the name), they use the beta to determine what’s most popular so they can make sure to force players to pay for it
exactly 😭 and it really is a shame that once you finish the game, it turns into a grind to win cosmetics/pay to win cosmetics game. it just gets repetitive.
for a game about bringing players together, i don't think purposefully giving players fomo (fear of missing out) is the right move.
Not to mention that's why most older players stop playing, the grind for like 200C is just annoying and boring
My biggest complaint is just how unaccessible hearts are. Only way to get them are from spirits, guides, or if you have like a million friends (and the boats and shared experience candle things which isn't even worth mentioning). I'm a pretty anti-social person. I have a few friends on sky, but it is not enough to get a steady supply of hearts. I need to use the candles I'm SAVING to gift to friends so they MIGHT gift back hearts. I just wish there was either a heart package to buy or there was a shop item where you could buy hearts with ascended candles. My thoughts are 1 ascended candle = 2 hearts (or 3 if I'm allowed to have hope).
Sky had a huge FOMO and pricing issue.
Imagine paying candles just to be friends with someone lol
@AceYagami69 The only way without candles that you can be friends with someone is the friend code but half the friends I make don't even know how to use it so I end up friending them. And if I recall correctly I remember friending someone used to cost 3 candles but now it's one?
EXACTLY THANK YOUUU ALSO THIS MOOMIN SEASON I CANNOT IMAGINE WHAT KINDA PRICES THEY ARE COOKING UP
Which prices are you talking abt ? 😭 Cause like since it’s a season we only need to get the seasonal pass to get access to everything or am I missing something ? 😭😭
@@Muggy_wfor what I know and what I read (from other people talking about it) Collab season tends to have IAP apart of the season pass, so if you want everything from the season you must pay the season pass and the IAPs
@@Muggy_w so far all collab seasons have had iap, a lot of them. and with how popular moomin is I bet there’s gonna be a ton and they are going to be wayyyyy over priced for what they are
@@Muggy_wcollab season usually have iap too like nine-colored deer there was the mask with antlers and also the cape (that will never come back once season is done)
Oh god, if they're similar to the Aurora IAPS I may never buy anything from TGC again. I love Moomin valley, if they ruin this season with price gouging I'm done.
THANK YOU FOR SAYING THIS. I’m sick of people endlessly trying to defend this company like “oh they’re just an indie studio they need to make money and pay their devs!!” they make MILLIONS of dollars every season. their workers are paid fine, I promise they will live if they reduce the price of some IAPs or give some more items away for free. I genuinely can’t believe people have consistently been ok with paying $20, sometimes even $30 for ONE CAPE or even $3 for EARRINGS.
edit: not to mention- while I personally haven’t encountered many bugs besides broken grandma, I know the game has SO MANY bugs, some of which are game breaking. it’s even more frustrating that TGC ignores fixing these bugs in favor of pushing out more IAPs.
@@pumkinpatchwork infact if they reduce the price of their cosmetics more ppl can buy so more money to the company idk why I have to spend my life savings to buy a cape
@@Tag_1t right??? $5 is probably the max that I would shell out any a single item (excluding tiny stuff like earrings or hairpins which are $1-2 MAX), but I’m sure many many more people would buy something for $5, hell maybe even $10. 100 people buying a $10 cape is still more profitable than only 40 people buying a $20 cape
@@pumkinpatchwork true but ppl from countries that the US currency isn't high for them won't feel us so they will keep defending the greedy game
@@Tag_1tfrom which country people think that the prices inst high?? I wonder) Who is the rich as hell?
@@coraline3767 USA and UK mostly I think, bc most of who defend tgc "on RUclips" are from their
The only reason i could understand for the overpricing is to fund the big animation project, but man i'd be hella dissapointed if it stayed overpriced after that ends
Fr
They should’ve made items that are worth the price, not make us buy mediocre items for that amount of money (not mad it’s my point of view😭)
And also pay for lavish lives of devs not complaining but they deserve it 😂
SAMEEEEE but honestly afterwards idk if I'm gonna buy iap anymore 😐 20 dollars for a cape is insane
The game is destroying itself bc it's turning into a cosmetics grinding app, like ask anyone in the game why is he playing now and he would say "to get that cosmetic" and not bc of the game itself, cosmetics should be a side decorating thing to beautify the game process and specialize it NOT TURNING INTO THE GAME ITSELF, and tgc is destroying the game just bc they found it an opportunity to grind money and that's sad such a potential game gets left aside like tell me the last time tgc updated sky lore? Don't say seasons bc they are just like random stories added to the game but there is no attention to game lore that specifies it from other phone games that just grind money from the player, when I first discovered sky I was soooo excited like I've never seen a phone game like that before but after a while when I've finished all the realms I was so disappointed that this was your only gameplay about sky and the rest is candle running, even tho there is seasons there isn't any lore for SKY itself and how we got here and the world story, and don't tell me the elders memories are enough bc what kind of lore is me lightning some old crawling guy then never see him again or know anything about him,sky has a gap and to fill this gap tgc should stop money grinding and actually give attention to sky story
On the lore part tbf there will be the animated series for sky and they plan to have seasons alongside the animated series' 2 seasons, so that should give us more lore hopefully. I do agree though I wish they would do something about the coming crisis of it just becoming a cosmetic game after the main story. I'm fine atm since I'm still trying to max out my spirit constellations but I feel like when that's over it'll just be grinding candles till the next event or season.
REAL
@@snicksss that's my point and I honestly feel like they are aware of that problem but they don't care and can't change it now since ppl is getting used to this
100% agree
the game has always been a cosmetics grinding app ngl, its just getting even worse. after you finish the game for the first time its the only thing left to do
I love you, you just said almost everything I have been thinking the last 4 years.
A perfect example of that greed that TGC has is the cat hair from days of mischief.
In the beta it was a IGC cosmetic and people like it, but TGC instead of just letting it be they wanted to make it a IAP cosmetic, they didn't because of the backlash, but they learned something from that situation and now all the good cosmetics are just IAP and the normal things are IGC.
You can see this in the days of moonlight event, all the cosmetics are IAP, but a single flower and a decoration.
The days of tournament event shows how incompetent TGC is at handling its own game, because they searched every way to mess with it and did it.
A competition (In a game about friendship) where you couldn't select your team (In a competition were you compete to make your team win) and the team distribution was rigged (Forest got more players than other teams.); and they got at least 13 potential item (The simple banners with constelations, the ones with the elders, the four capes and the crap trophy) but only put four, where two of them were actually well designed and beautiful but were IAP, and the other two are just made to have something to the f2p players.
That event just needed to not be a competition or have a daily competition with random teams, but TGC is mediocre and incompetent.
You can say that maybe sky isn't about cosmetics but about friendship but any friendship-related thing is horrible.
Making friends or just TALKING with peoples in benches cost candles, the friendship three is expensive in a unreal level and there are literally NO activities that you can do with a friend.
And the male clothing problem is so true, I like dressing more masculine in sky and the options are nonexistence, and if they exist they are all behing a paywall or you need luck that a traveling spirit with male clothing comes and you have the candles to buy it. It is just frustrating. And you cannot just get the items in the time they visit because in those 4 days you could just make 80 candles, and that isn't enough for half of the cosmetics.
And the cutscene skip was something that many people wanted and have begged since I started playing sky in 2020, the fact that they are just making that NOW is insulting.
They don't even care about their own game when you see how many bugs sky has and how much time they take to fix them, an example is season of remembrance 10 quest, it is bugged and it has been for over a year now, you cannot complete the season thanks to that.
And the daily candles quantity is a problem that has been since the game first went live and only got worst with time.
The solution is just making that you could get 30 or 40 candles daily, but TGC cannot do that because making a simple change that people have begged is very hard.
And the IAP being overpriced is just so anoying, they make things that should cost between 2$-5$ cost 10$-15$. The best way to see it is just looking at any mischief cosmetic, some of them are so overpriced that is just insulting.
Sorry for the long rant, is just that this is the first video I have seem to actually adress the real problems the game has. And sorry if anything is hard to understand because of how it is written or something, english isn't my first language.
also about TGC and bug fixes.. TGC will fix things that are perfectly fine but will ignore the bugs that are actually disturbing players gameplay. Sometimes it feels like TGC doesn’t actually listen to their players feedback and it makes me so annoyed..
Yes, 100% agree
i usually dont comment a lot but i just had to say i agree with this so, so much. i started playing sky around 4 years ago, dropped it and just got back into it a few months ago. least to say when i came back i did not notice any quality of life improvements in the game. doors were still buggy, darkness plants still had delays when you wanted to burn them, you still had to skip cutscenes, the camera still stunlocked onto spirits whenever you came near someone reliving its memory, and the overall amount of bugs made it genuinely feel like there were no improvements made during the time i was gone. not to mention how long it took them to fix the recent issue at granny's place? it's such a core feature for candle running and they didn't even compensate us with anything. but ofc they still have the audacity to price their IGC cosmetics as high as they do.
I'm genuinely so sick and tired of how they handle things
This is beautiful
@@Nori-ww6ruwait what happened with granny?
I hope tgc reads those comments, I don’t want them to ruin themselves bc I still love sky and I believe they can improve someday
Pls... every comment section on any of their socials is calling them out constantly for years and they just piss on it till a big big big fuck up and they quickly need to appease their precious cash cows. They never cared and all the ppl pushing toxic positivity and constantly ignoring/forgiving them only enabled all TGC is today.
That greedy company 😔😔😔
this made me giggle
@@yurimessiah I'm glad!
Idk about greedy,but it's not that much
@@skystepsolos I they meant that there's more IAP item's than free item's.
Fr
You are so real for this. You know what I did when I couldn't buy a very nice IAP outfit that cost $15? I bought Stardew Valley for the Switch and never looked back. If you can buy a whole game for the same price as virtual clothing, that's saying something. And that something is not good. At all. As much as I love playing this game, I can't help but compare it to the direction that Club Penguin went before it shut down.
@@inksolate tgc just found it an opportunity to grind money and they did, if they don't fix this problem they will destroy their game by themselves and ppl will get bored eventually
EXACTLY. There are so many things to do and so many games to buy with that money, why would I want to waste that much money on just a single cosmetic?? And here, $15 is like 1k and more in my currency so NO WAY I'm going to spend 1K on a single item. I love this gave with my whole heart and its one of my favourite but man, its just kinda tediois to play it everyday now. Barely any of my good friends are online, they probably quit too. I like the new update which is pretty fun, but they seriously need to tone down the prices of items and make some NOT SO GOOD IAPs into free items (with candles ofc). I just wish it could be as fun as it was before
Also hey im sure I've seen you on Ao3. Your writing skills are pretty damn good, its so interesting and intense. But please make more of those on other fandoms too 🙏
True, I've been played for 6 months, doing cr every day. But last days every time im log in, i feel like a slave. I love this game but i feel really tired. The prices too high, the new stuff that you would like comes too long, and i feel like soon im gonna given up at this game. And if I ever find my game blocked by them, im gonna feel sad for all staff i collected, but finally be able to free myself❤🩹
@@itisiumair4358 Thank you so much! I'll try my best.
The fact that you could get all of those towel capes for tickets last year, and now they are soo expensive! Happy I already got them, candles saved 😅
For real
That's what I thought. I'm glad I did the event last year!
And what? 30 hearts because it's pink???? Hearts are so hard to get when you don't have any friends to play with, I have to cheat and gift myself hearts from another device
@@thelittlenj3338 careful about gifting yourself hearts as it is against TOS (edit: i'm saying don't get caught like some people have before)
either way yeah the prices are wacky like why do they cost so much? as a veteran ... i'm asking myself how they even cost that much. they are towels not even popular capes . . .
@@Zeninari I do play with the other account, it's actually an old one I forgot I had but thanks for the warning
It's just impossible to have hearts otherwise
Evrything is expensive
(Capitalism uuhh)
That's exactly the point
@Zeninari "The hearts are gifts of gratitude and should be given only if you're grateful"
Also TGC: "You need 100 or more hearts to complete a constellation."
Also TGC: "This limited item and emote costs XX hearts."
Also TGC: "Inflate the economy like crazy so every candle you're forced to not give away like candy."
I think hearts should be reworked to not be a currency anymore, I think it should be a Skykid Friendship thing only.
Skip button, unfriend a friend and favorite emote button? Yeah, I wanted that back then like 2 years ago!
As someone who has been playing from TLP, the male clothes have definitely died down, but I think the most recent surge is to almost catch up on "Feminine" clothing as we didn't have skirts really, we had robes, but they were never truly Feminine or Masculine, as Sky children are not Male or Female and the clothes are supposed to be that way as well. it kind of boils down to "bad timing" in that sense of when you join but they should be releasing other clothes as well not JUST skirts (which Duet does have 1 neutral option and it looks nice)
AP prices are indeed very dumb, I can't really talk all that as I use my gaming spending money on sky so in a way I have no problem with it, but I still understand it's way overpriced.
Event Tickets are indeed nice! However, it is tedious to do, I often see players outright buy the tickets and get the items just so they don't have to keep doing it daily during the events.
Last but not least the quests I don't love, BUT it does actually make sense now How and Why you get the quests, they are requests from said spirits! Makes the questing make so much more sense than from just a statue sitting at the home, although the statue was easier, this gives a bit more life to the spirits. (Get it...because they are all dead.)
exactly how i would have said it :)
in the past the quest giver was a spirit, i dont understand why they changed it and i feel like they could just change it back to that to make it make more sense. i guess they wanted to give more life to dailies but i really dont want dailies to become longer...
agreed, majority of the cosmetics are super neutral, and as someone who adores more fem coded / kawaii / magical girl-esque aesthetics, i've been super stoked with the introduction of more skirts and cute capes
yeah but like smh how lazy do
some players gotta be…. like i get if you have extra candles or ac or sum but bro it’s just 5 event currency??! i get sometimes it’s like hard to find but like just watch nastymold…. or maybe tgc should just.. put them in more visible spots.. idk but like smh the tickets ain’t really much a problem imo …
I never liked gender neutral clothing because it feels limited. Very limited.
I agree with you when it comes to the new dailies (+forced camera pan towards those spirits if you try to go to the quest statue) as well as the lack of masculine clothes. Hell, the prices are getting a bit out of hand too. Especially the in game candle prices. Like why make us spend so many hours running around the exact same places day in day out saving up only to spend 100+ candles on an item??
Just wait till you see the days of feast cape.. not talking about the free one, but the white iap cape.. all they did was take the wise grandparents cape and just added fluff and called it a new cape 😭 and just slapped on a 10$ price
Omg i wantes the blue one from days of feast but the price is actually wiiiild
That’s exactly what I thought last year when I was about to purchase it! I literally went “Hmm? This looks familiar 🤔” then went back to my closet and saw it’s literally the exact same as the grandpa cape but with a fluffy border.
Real I had to buy it because it looked snug af and couldn’t resist but it should’ve been free😭😭😭
I seriously had to think for a minute before realising which cape you're talking about. That's how mediocre that cape is I guess lol, usually I do remember iaps especially if they're pretty
Ngl. The IAPs are a lot more these days. I miss the earrings that cost less than a dollar. I love the earrings. Also THE TOWEL CAPES. They added a candle or two from the original price of the previous event currency conversion.
I know tickets can be bought for 2ac or 6 candles. But it feels like the conversion of ticket to candle increased from the time they released.
Tgc is making us poor,to be honest i really dont like how they are overpricing things i dont think that is necessary making the prices higher,im starting to get burn out thanks to the candle run if this dont stop we need to make a protest.
I fully agree we need to RIOT cuz it’s sm more expensive in my country’s currency
@@thalita7926 tgc is playing with their players feelings by forcing them to cr and buy bc of the fear of missing out, and they know they just don't care,"money is money" when they lost all their players respect that they had at the start
@@scarlett8130 same for some ppl 20$ is not much but for others and me it's too expensive in my country, and the problem that the ppl who doesn't have a problem with prices "mostly from us and UK or any other country that the $ isn't high" are the ones they defend it
we WILL make a protest if this continues
i am SICK of this
we are all sick of this bro we gotta stick together in these trying times
TGC WILL FALL🙏🏻
I remember when sky first came out, I was up till midnight just waiting for it to launch. Everyone was experiencing the game for the first time together (except for the beta players) and it was a blast! I truly believe that first year of sky was its golden age and it actually felt like what sky advertised itself as, a social game; anytime you would enter a realm you could find people begging to be friends and light candles, I loved to just talk with people from all around the world. Also the “fomo” wasn’t really felt at all at the time with so few seasons, people would just unlock the base capes (yea, remember those exist 😂). Back then it was so special.
But after a while, everything started to feel so season centric, and when I got together with sky friends it was usually just grinding candles; that social aspect of the game (for me at least) seemed to disappear. The GRIND for new capes and seasons was just to much for me eventually, I kinda asked myself, “what’s the point spending like 3 weeks to get a new cape if I don’t have friends to enjoy it with?” I tell you most of the early players I knew stopped playing ages ago.
Anyway, just thought I’d share my story as an old player, it just doesn’t feel special anymore.
I remember walking in the furniture shop during nesting season and seeing the rock with 3 candles decoration being available for the first time. And it cost what like 30? 40? *ascended candles.*
And it suddenly occured to me that if sky was an actual world you lived in, you'd need to die at least twice, and free like 30, 40 dead kids, all to buy a big rock with 3 WHITE CANDLES on it. Three! WHITE candles. On a ROCK. You know? From the dirt? Three white candles and a stone. And it made me so mad i closed the game LMAO
yo en un post que se quejaba de los precios me hice un calculo del sueldo mensual de un skykid con las velas normales, el maximo diario son 20 pero todos sabemos que no todos hacemos el maximo diario aun asi hice con el maximo porque numeros redondos, un mes de 30 dias, numeros redondos y convertir 1 a 1 el dinero, si bien soy de Perú y mi moneda vale aproximadamente entre 3-4 soles equivale a 1 dolar, use los dolares porque son el estandar global, por lo que 1 dolar como 1 vela, bien, entonces, si 1 vela es un dolar, diariamente uno gana 20 dolares el dia, al mes serian unos 600 dolares el mes, para desbloquear cualquier cosa que cueste 200 velas, minimo has tenido que gastar juraria que la mitad de 200 velas, asi que para algunos de esos articulos has casi gastado 2 tercios de tu sueldo mensual por una bonita capa
eso sin mencionar que hay arboles mas caros en los que tienes que gastar muertes y vidas de otros para desbloquear la siguiente fase de amistad y ahi gastas aun mas dinero, como el dinero que gastas en los espiritus para desbloquear el tener mas alas en tu siguiente reencarnacion, no olvides eso, porque lo mejor para algunas cosas aqui seria desbloquear las alas adicionales en el juego, alas que claro esta cuestan almas de personas y dinero constante, dinero que quizas no quieras o puedas gastar jamas porque ese dinero se gasta en ropa mas bonita para ser capaz de socializar con el resto de la gente retrasando todo tu progreso en ayudar a la gente en eden, porque antes de ayudarlos debes centrarte en verte bonito y por eso todo lo bonito es tan caro de algun modo
de hecho creo que todo el sistema social de sky se rompio en algun punto, porque para socializar mas facilmente con la gente primero debes verte bien, demasiado bien quizas o ser una polilla, pero cualquier cosa en el medio debe tener suerte
As a female, I was annoyed to find out the female outfit for upcoming Days of Style costs in game currency while the male outfit costs actual money.
It's also just tiring for items from events such as Days of Color or Days of Sunlight having items that cost 100+ candles. Each person is different, but I get burnt out after like a week of grinding for candles. I'm so glad I got those beach towel capes last year when they used to cost event currency.
I agree only that the masculine shouldn't be locked behind IAP I wouldn't be happy about them switching. But if it were two and two that would be better imo. 2 free and 2 IAP outfits. Both having an option for feminine or masculine. Similar to how it's done this season of duets.
@neowolf09 The Season of Duets did have just one free pants, and it was the ugliest one. It was 3 IAP and 1 free.
IKRRRRRRRRR EVEN I, A WOMAN, WANTS MORE MASCULINE OUTFITTTTTT 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 WE WANNA LOOK HANDSOME TOO 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
30 hearts for the pink cape!!!???!!?!!!! man, i got it last year FOR FREE BRO, 30 hearts is CRAZYYYY
Ok, yet another comment, YES. MORE MASC CLOTHES PLEASEEEEE
And I got so excited for the lil suit vest too, but guess what. IAP. YEP. I typed that as you said it lmaooo.
Ikr and even this season all the outfits are pass locked except for the one dress
Ye. It's annoying for people who like dressing their sky kid in a masculine style.
Most of the playerbase is female
@@milanesadearsenico hardly, ikemen are the most common things to bump into while playing the game.
@@woerm ikeman that are mostly female too just saying, on average when you go to sky fest and sky event the majority there will be female.
All of this... What's frustrating to me as a vetran is that complaints like this are silenced by the community, especially on the official Discord server. I remember there being so many uproars around the season of performance/shattering, because tgc started implementing really costly shit and features no one wanted. And what did they do? They didn't listen. The following Days Of Sunlight they released a stick that's 20 dollars. A STICK. And y'know what happened in the server? People were outraged and a crazy big part of the server defended the choice. The people who speak up leave and the new players don't know the bullshit vetrans already dealt with...
Sincerely hope it becomes more popular and common place to call our TGC because this is just getting crazy
Season of shattering was when I took a two year long break lol. I still find it crazy so many people were willing to defend tgc, the shards were so busted and the crawled mechanic was *busted*. I legit do not even care that I missed out on the krill cape, they should have fucking listened to their beta testers and not pushed the season out so soon. Like easier way to get AC my butt. The shards are easier now, but for a long time I avoided them like the plague, especially the forest ones.
As a veteran I feel you, the official discord sucks so bad it's filled with bootlickers. I can never have a proper discussion critiquing TGC's business practices or how they keep retconing their own lore and themes
Exactly.
I still remember how during days of mischief, the first time the cat boy hair got announced in beta, it was said to be free just to later be changed to IAP. Thankfully, people complained a lot and they made it free again.
The company feels quite greedy imo. And the traveling spirit system needs a change bc it ain’t fair how you need to wait almost 2 years to see a cosmetic from a season you missed. I have sm to say abt this game LOL
Yes i remember this! The rare instance of the sky community getting together to stand up. Now if you say something negative, you're immediately bombarded
@DonutToast yeah there's always a bunch of people telling others to "shut up and be grateful" and "you don't need to get everything", "it doesn't affect gameplay".
Like that's besides the point🤦♀️, the stuff is grossly overpriced, I don't need some rich folks talking down to me about how a company needs to extort their players to exist or something
@@DeltaRaptoran that and the boycott of sanrio. looking back on it i wouldn't be surprised if those rich chucklefucks telling everyone the shut up are the same twats that got me banned from twitter for calling out sanrio as racist
I've been waiting for one clothing from a travelling spirit almost 3 years now it's so horrible ngl 🙁
Two years for a 'chance' to see the spirit
The king himself has spoken. Surely they shall listen!
TGC barely listens when the ENTIRETY of their player base begs and pleads at them for something, what makes you think they’re gonna listen to a video with 200 views? Don’t be delusional, it will only lead to unnecessary stress and disappointment.
@@anastasijahabarova1533 man it's a joke.
@@anastasijahabarova1533Then we need more likes for this video, obviously this better then SILENCE 😠
I bought the 7 color deer cape💀 I’ve never regretted buying anything more it literally matches 0 cosmetics in the game lmfao
It matches the season of duet dress. The one with the rainbow colours.
@@yellowishgreendragon.-. it’s not necessarily in my style but it’s a very cute combo :)
@HHHHammer if you have the ultimate gift season of flight pants. They work too.
@@yellowishgreendragon.-.I remember missing that spririt :’) I will wait for it’s return lol
@@HHHHammer oof..sorry man, ultimate gifts don't get reruns :') once the season is over you can never get them again. I hope you were thinking of something else for your own sake
I absolutely love how they knew everyone was waiting for the season of shattering spirits to come back and they purposely made everything overpriced. WHY IS A BUTTERFKY 70 CANDLES???
Damnn
@@cokittyy wait it's not tho
@@fellonahardrock Yea i just realized that😭😭
THE CRAB IS 70 CANDLES WHY IS THE CRAB 70 CANDLES
@@Phantom_Buggo THE BUTTERFLY WAS ACTUALLY 50 CRIES
3:09 Last year you could buy them for like 20 event currency?? What happened that made it now regular candles??!
After an event ends, “old items” return to be sold with regular candles. We can see this with traveling spirits too
@@blaNkEuLa thing is, the traveling spirits now being priced with regular candles and hearts makes sense since their seasons are over. what doesn't make sense is free items that cost event tickets in the past now costing candles and hearts when the new items still cost event tickets. that change would only make sense if they decided to scrap the event tickets entirely and revert back to candles and hearts hut they didn't do that
Originally every event item cost candles (or sometimes hearts), they added event tickets because they felt it was unfair to new players who just joined and couldn't save up candles for the cosmetics.
it’s literally so annoying bro..not to mention how they make things so expensive and the upcoming events are so close to each other??? like how do they expect us to save up for all of this expensive stuff yet don’t give us TIME. i hope they listen to us bc so many of these things are so nice but it’s literally impossible for more than half of the people who play sky to get stuff
and 40 something tickets for those shorts is INSANE… should’ve at least been 10 max😭😭😭😭
@@holydasha9339It’s 30 now. I just got it today. It’s alright but It’s nice to have more than 3 pairs of pants in my inventory.
@@holydasha9339 They might have changed it because for me they're only 30 tickets at least, which will only take 5 days of getting the free tickets.
They don't expect us to - they wanna get us to purchase IAP candles
Also like that little plush that sits on your shoulder thats hard to see being like 3-4 dollars is INSANE
3:52 aaaaa about that, if you look at all previous items most outfits are either gender neutral or "masculine". The first "fem" item came from the hide-and-seek pioneer, all other base items are gender-neutral and masc. The first obvious pretty item was the aurora dress. Recently* TGC has been trying to make more fem items to balance out the masc and gender neutral which is why to newer players it seems as though there are only fem items. The only thing we can do is wait for travelling spirits. Is there a shortage of masc items? Definitely not. Is there a shortage of travelling spirits arriving with pants? For sure! But again that's a problem for all and not just masc or fem presenting players. However, I do agree that we need more masc hairstyles. Glad to see the krill hair from the shattering season is returning and hope everyone can get it!
Edit: I agree, I don't understand why they can't just put both masc and fem items as f2p instead of one being paid and one being free?? But again that's most likely a problem with money and TGC greed rather than discrimination against dudes
5:14 I do agree with this, they should really be putting two free items both fem and masc instead of one being free and the other being behind a paywall.
it depends on how you view gender neutral but alot of newer clothing is often based more on feminine appearances. but i suppose my real issue is the hair, they almost never introduce more traditionally masculine hairtypes and when they do its usually locked behind a paywall and its ridiculous
@@veras1020 I agree with you! Although I think a lot of gender neutral items get passed off as feminine simply because they aren't masc enough for western standards.
@@greeniscoollol yes! We have many explicitly female outfits but I feel we don’t have many explicitly male outfits. It’s just depressing since if they want to widen their playerbase they need to have masculine clothing, gender neutral clothing, and feminine clothing
What I find annoying is that those towel capes were all event currency items last year. I was lucky enough to pick them all up last year, and I was a brand new player then.
As for masculine items, I've been mostly going for facial hair masks and "hair" cosmetics (I have a bushy beard irl).
Apart from the upcoming Days of Style suit, I'm eagerly waiting for Bumbling Boatswain. He has an amazing mustache, a cool captain cape, and a guitar. My first traveling spirit was Star Collector, who had a tie with a fox pendant (to represent the fox from The Little Prince).
My next outfit is going to be the suit, the Boatswain cape, the Lamplighter's cap (another Little Prince spirit), the tie, and either a mustache or beard.
It'll help me look like a Navy captain or maybe a train conductor, or something like that (or like a certain Jojo character if I play it right).
The Lamplighter already came, you'll have to wait a few years
@@milanesadearsenico I picked up his cap already
Bumbling Boatswain doesn't have a guitar. I think you were thinking about Pleaful Parent of Season of Belonging with the red guitar
@@ahja6 I thought he did.
@@taqresu5865 No but Bumbling Boatswain also offers that fluffy acorn hat :]
My favorite iap is the journey pack that literally costs MORE than the game journey itself 🤣🤣🤣
FRRR MAN 😭😭 I love journey so much and it hurts my poor ass that it cost so much money
It used to be exclusive to Playstation players too, until Sky was released on PC, expanding the Journey IAP for all players, and giving PC players an exclusive prop with Portal's Companion Cube.
journey pack costs me $50
@@Ilovepurevessel $50? It only cost me $25, but that was also when it was a Playstation exclusive.
@@Ilovepurevessel the 'journey to work' pack 🤣
I’ve been playing for 2 years and I completely agree with you. I saw another person commenting the same thing I’ve been echoing since I started: If IAPs were $5 to $10 max, TGC would have a lot more people purchasing them which would compensate for the lowered cost. $25 cape?? $20 pants?? That’s wayy too expensive. And unfortunately since I live in a country where the exchange rate is NOT in my favour, those cosmetics are honestly a luxury item 😢
You know what else is annoying? TGC used to have IAP feedback in the Beta version but they got rid of it due to the price backlash so players can’t even give feedback if the cosmetics are too expensive anymore.
I’m tired of seeing some of the community members defending the prices with ‘You don’t have to buy it, you know?’ or ‘At least Sky isn’t gatcha. Be grateful’. Like that’s not the point 😭 if the cosmetics are more accessible in terms of cost, not only would there be more people buying it, you’d also have a happier community too.
Thing about the male and female clothes is, we have had almost no feminine clothes for the many maaaaany years prior. All I wanted was always a dress that isn't the default dress. There are a BUNCH of Pants that look masculine or unisex. I am absolutely thrilled that we are FINALLY getting dresses because for 3 years i have only had the default dress and it sucked. Last year's Halloween dress was also cute, but it was too gothy for me. But. BUT. I hate that they are behind Paywalls. This season's white dress? Money, The dress from the tournaments? Money. THE OTHER MISCHIEF DRESS? MONEEEYH. I am glad the gray dress was free but let's be honest, it looks similar to the Fire Trial guy pants. I am so happy we are getting more dresses now, so I *really really* disagree on that. We have an overload of male clothes, you just have to catch the right time.
But in everything else I totally agree. Their Prices are shameless. Absolutely rediculous if you ask me. Items being up to 30€? That is insane. 20€ Would be the ULTIMATE ALLTIME HIGH LIMIT I would still be able to understand if the item had a special use. For instance the 9Color deer cape. I was thrilled, excited!! 35€... I bougth if reluctantly, turns out it is actually useless in function. You get TPd to an area everyone can access, but you see the deer. That's it? No interaction? No event kr anything? This was the biggest waist of my money EVER.
Been playing since 2021. Pretty sad to see that the game that was supposed to be about "friendship" and "connection to others" slowly turn into a game about who can fork over the most money for cosmetics. Not to mention the stuff that IS free costs a ridiculous amount of candles/hearts.
It's crazy how the prices have been increasing. I've been playing the game for 4 years now, so I've noticed the rising prices. It wasn't even a steady increase, it was just like boom! Everything is now money. I mean, all the big capes and outfits that came with events are all money. Now, you even need more seasonal candles than 3 years ago. When I started the game (I started playing when the Season of Dreams came out), I remember the cost for the peeking post pants was like 17 candles or something like that (I can't exactly trust my memory), but now as a returning spirit, it's 70 candles for the pants, which is fine since everything else is kinda the same price for them. I felt the need to save up candles for so long that I started hating the game. I used to get so excited for new seasons, but now it's all the same to me.
RREAAAAALLLLLL, THE FIRST DAYS OF BLOOM CAPE WAS LITERALLY ONLY 75
75!!!! NOW ITS LITERALLY 399 CANDLES AND 30 HEARTS FOR 3 TOWELS
@@S0UL-0F-SOL I am so sacred to spend any candles now 😭
I started around the time of release and it sucks seeing them become like every single greedy company, I hate what they've done with the game
As much as I enjoy this game, because I'm a total sucker for it, I am so here for everything you've said about the IAP and grinding situation.
I haven't even played for a whole year, and already saw how expensive things are f2p and p2p. It's ridiculous, and I'm actually happy someone is finally speaking up about it.
As said, the game is literally becoming a "grind for cosmetics" game, and it's REALLY destroying it. It's just... ridiculous.
This video speaks of how I feel throughout playing sky. I’ve been playing long enough to see a lot of changes and yes these prices are 💀 as someone who also prefer masc cosmetics I only have a handful of them lmao 😭
The g in tgc stands for greedy lmfao,
In all seriousness now, I am from Brazil, and I remember an IAP item reaching almost a hundred dollars... A HUNDRED DOLLARS. Ain't no way I am spending a hundred dollars on something I'll probably get bored of wearing one day 😐 And it's honestly pretty sad to see a game like Sky being destroyed by their own creators bc they are just too greedy
i mean they need money to run their company and to keep the servers up, otherwise they'll go bankrupt and we won't have a game. sure, some of the items are a bit pricey but you don't *need* them.
@@woerm TGC is a very wealthy company, I assure you. Plus if they lowered prices then more people would buy the cosmetics which would most likely just end up increasing their profit.
@@woerm my brother in Christ they make millions from seasons and also in a game where self expression is a big part-clothing IS the content so putting things behind a really expensive (also time gated) paywall is both shitty and predatory
Honestly, I kind of stopped worrying about IAPs because the prices are just getting out of hand. If it ain't free, it's not for me. 😭😭
Man, i feel you. Context, i'm also a guy, and i have been playing for 4+ years, and i too have noticed a decline in the number of more male oriented cosmetics, which is pretty disappointing. I understand there's way more of the ladies playing but come on. But then again i've been wearing the same clothes for 3 of those years so ...
Candle costs: I have a ton of candles, like, way too many. So i can buy anything i ever want, but it's sad to see other players struggling with getting the cosmetics they like. :/
IAPs: When a single cape costs 20 .... 🤬...$, the cost of 1-3 full indie games, i just can't, that's why i never buy any, all i ever buy is the season pass.
Ticket prices: I have been known to go on rants about this, but i'll try to keep it short, it's deceptive. They are worthless, because they don't get converted into anything when the event ends, but they drip feed them to you at a rate to make sure you'll have to log in during the event for 80% of the days to get everything. So these "free" cosmetics, instead of money or effort end up costing you time. It's a rather nasty tactic if you ask me.
New quest system: Yes it's slow and annoying, i'm actually thinking of putting my spawn back to old home, because the quest stone still works there, solely because of this. 💀
I totally agree with a lot of your points, I was a season of performance moth and it has just felt like a steady increase in the number of IAPs and the cost of them since I started playing. I’ve stopped buying IAPs almost entirely unless it is something that I *really* want, and I have even skipped a few of the season passes now.
Also, the dailies changing in aviary is exactly what motivated me to move back to the OG home space. Kind of a bummer because I like aviary a lot, but not being able to even claim the dailies at the stone after completion got on my last nerve😅
Lol I remember last year the days of sunlight towel capes were pretty much given to everyone for free bc there had been an issue with the prices so they gave a bunch of even tickets to everyone.
I have all 3 and I NEVER use them, those prices are absurd
THIS, YOU ARE SPEAKING ABSOLUTE FACTS
Also dont forget international prices from different countries also have different prices for IAP stuff, like me for example who lives somewhere in east asia and the prices for me are RIDICULOUSLY expensive! The season pass costs 499.99, the journey pack literally 1k+???? And the more "cheaper" stuff cost 299.99 below
I love the game truly! Its beautiful and amazing, the lore is interesting too, plus its unlike any ither mobile game ive played before! But its just slowly being destroyed by TGC's greed... :((
The more I hear about this the sadder I feel.. I’m lucky to live in a place where the AP price < 1hr of work. But it really sucks as I’ve gotten stuff for friends and paid for artists’ APs because for them it’s literally either AP or rent?? I know tgc is probably trying to avoid losses from people buying with foreign currency but surely there has to be a better way than to bar masses of players from their dream items 😔
I’ve been playing sky since 2021, I don’t have a single cape, or accessory (accept for headphones but only sometimes?) and I’ve completed the game about 57 times. The reason why I don’t have shit is because for 2 years I didn’t understand how to get shit without using real money, and about three months ago I picked up the game again after a 7 month break, and it deleted all of my damn candles (Not that I probably could have afforded any of the outfits anyway.)
Having played Sky for years now, I do agree with the need for masculine hairs and non-pants,non-cape accessories.
The capes are pretty flexible and the pants issue is mostly a traveling spirit system flaw that even I experienced when I joined (I’m still waiting for any of the pre-Dreams pants cuz I keep missing em) and continue to experience (I only had the Dreams and Assembly pants for years) but I’ve spent a lot of my time in sky preferring masculine presentation and without obtaining the Wasteland elder hair, my few viable hair options are mostly androgynous or just the Valley twin male hair.
I’ve really been enjoying the overtly feminine dresses and updo hairs that aren’t all low-hanging styles though and I think they should have balanced representation
Not only am I a guy who plays Sky, but I’ve been getting into the game more recently, and the monetization is incredibly annoying. The mad dash to hoard as many candles as you can so that when an event rolls around, you have enough is frustrating. I missed out on traveling spirits because I didn’t know what they were, and it’s literally impossible to get the candles required unless I pay or have been saving weeks prior just for the occasion.
I bought the Nintendo Switch bundle because I like the ocarina, the Switch colors on the cape, and the Link hairstyle, but there are no guy clothes. I just want cool hair or even an outfit, but I have to gamble with every traveling spirit and keep up with leaks to see if there is something cool. If there is (like the suit), it costs around 15 bucks.
I’ve seen the player percentages; I know primarily girls play Sky, but they don’t even need to make the outfits necessarily girly. Something unisex works, bro. 3:10 is the perfect visual for what TGC does. They make the capes expensive, they also take your hearts, not just candles, and then they take even more candles. Every event is a gang bang assault on every currency, and you gotta manage like five. You get robbed of 100+ candles minimum. Eden candles are also drained. You better have made hella friends and heart traded, or else you aren’t getting anything heart-priced. Sometimes a cool item straight up costs actual dollars, and then there’s the event currency they made up too for that specific event, so you start at zero. You have to spend that week while the event is up grinding quests or logging on daily to pluck the currency out of the ground in random spots.
It’s just so insane. I’m not even an ultra-casual mobile player. I play Sky on PC ever since it released on Steam because I appreciated how beautiful the game looked but would rather play it on PC to free up mobile storage. I’m surprised I don’t hear TGC getting flamed more for the pricing because it’s straight up so bad. Yes, sure, you can get the currencies for free, and it’s all cosmetic, but there’s no way to just casually play Sky. You have to know the geyser hours and the grandma hours to do them daily and get your candles up. Doing quests is confusing for a new player unless they follow a Nastymold guide. I had to miss a couple of cool traveling spirits just to find out how that system works. The whole Ikea season had one outfit, so I had to wait even longer in hopes of cool male cosmetics. I’m literally just saving for the krill hair and cape right now. That’s all I have to look forward to. I thought I was crazy because nobody talks about this stuff, but bro, I’m not paying the price of an indie game just for a cape. I get this is how live service works, and I get the mobile game loop Sky follows to keep you logging on daily like mobile games would like you to do, but it’s so incredibly annoying. I don’t know what else to possibly rant about, but there are a lot of flaws with Sky, and I want a casual “cozy” game that I can play consistently, but the way they’re just doing this stuff is shameless at the very least.
Yeah, most of everything is free but the time sink is INSANE, either logging on to do candle runs or get through Eden again for more candles, and then having to recollect your winged light, then more candle runs, and hoarding in HOPES of something cool coming around, which means more waiting, and more time wasted, and more disappointment, God man. they gotta make this shit the slightest bit more bearable because there's no way sky was always like this, I think I had the misfortune of joining too late and not playing through the glory days, it's "prime".
The fact that the towels are
140
30 h
And 110
This year is crazy, last year they costed 11 event tickets each
As a veteran, THANK YOU SO MUCH LIKE LITERALLY MOSTLY EVERYTHING IS OVERPRICED, MOTHS BARELY GET COSMETICS BECAUSE OF THIS TOO WHICH IS SO UNFAIR FOR THEM☹️
There is more male pants than female pants. The only reason they’re adding more female clothing right now is because female clothing wasn’t a thing until I think season of abyss I do agree though that everything is over the top priced and only the good things are put in a paywall
Finally someone who doesn’t aimlessly glaze this game because it’s “cute” and actually address the BS
i hate when people defend the company in discord yapping abt "they need momey" THEIR FANBASE IS BIGGER THAN EVER, WHY INCREASE YOUR PRICES WHEN MORE PEOPLE ARE BUYING THEM? greeed
@@S0UL-0F-SOLGOODDDDDD YEAHHHH the discord is the absolute WORST when it comes to glazing the everloving shit outta tgc its insane 😒
Comment #3 because RUclips won’t let me edit and screw it, let’s feed the algorithm.
If you set your home to old home, you don’t have to do the shenanigans with going to the lil cafe and talk to each spirit individually for dailies.
Ok but that krill hair is fire- I understand the annoyance but mmmmmmh krill hair my beloved.
Thanks for rant, I agree, good luck with candles and remaining financially stable my dude, cause I’m definitely not gonna be after this is all over-
My personal tinfoil hat crackpot theory is that the sudden massive influx of IAP items is because of the upcoming Sky series Two Embers. TGC had announced that they will be doing two collaboration seasons which are supposed to have additional content beyond the animated series in 2025. Considering how super ambitious the project is (and the series definitely won't be dirt cheap to animate), TGC is probably milking us dry this year because of their potential golden goose
Imo it would've been less of an issue if they just made like 10 items for the permanent store with a sign clearly saying it's donations for the animation project instead of doing what they are doing now
Golden goose? I could be wrong, but I doubt anyone outside of their immediate fan base is going to care about the film.
Hmmm, that's actually a good theory.
Oh god not more overpriced cosmetics 😭🤚
I did think it was unusual that the suit cost money and yet the dress is free. That’s a giant FU to the boys and masculine females out there playing Sky
It's the minority
I completely agree with you. My husband also plays the game and it takes a long time to get any cosmetics for him. I've been playing for about a year, and it really sad to see that practically ALL the cool stuff is paid. Of course it's okay to have paid and free items, but it's really frustrating to see the huge difference in quality of the cosmetics. And to finish, here in Brazil things quadruple in price + taxes, so it further discourages people from wanting to pay for things.
I remember how cheap they were last year, but now 💀
I think they pushed their costs too high in the back end with the festival tech. Feel like cheaper cosmetics would see them make a bigger profit?
I’m a long time player so the no masc clothing thing is a little awkward to me. Cause for a long time there were literally no dresses in the game; and all the clothes were either Andro or masc.Back then I preferred to dress masc anyways so it wasn’t a problem for me personally but there were tons of complaints.
I felt like this season does have a good balance tho. Two femme outfits two masc ones.
As for the auto cutscene skip feature, yeah people have been begging for that and for favoriting emotes.
Sincerely I find sky’s iAPs hard to defend. (Other than the pass) And they *need* to change the traveling spirit system ASAP. Cause it’s brutal for new players. It was brutal when I started and there were only three previous seasons to wait on.
I skipped AURORA cause I only wanted one pair of pants and those still aren’t able to come back yet. The wiki has an explanation on traveling spirit timelines. The short version is that a spirit can’t come until at least one spirit from the previous season has come. And since they just pick randomly from the available pool …. in case you feel like you’re exaggerating there, no system as it is right now you will be waiting for literal years if you skip a pass.
No one’s really sure if these mini events where groups of spirits come back count too. So maybe after that event the spirit I decided to wait for will be in the list … maybe.
I also started playing sky around 6 months ago and I had to GRIND my butt off for what I have now and there’s so much events coming up (the time I’m commenting this) and to think I have to grind even more to keep up with them seems exhausting :,) I love sky but they need to do something about the pricing
as a player since light awaits I MISSED WHEN THEY WERENT GREEDY, IT FELT LIKE A PASSION PROJECT BAVK THEN BUT NOW ITS LITERALLY A CASHGRAB
@@S0UL-0F-SOLpassion doesn't pay bills
@@S0UL-0F-SOLIKR as a vet it does make me sad.
dude its even worse, you should see the days of mischief cosmetic prices. there's at least 6 IAP **capes**, not counting other cosmetics that were iaps, and only 1 cape for candles.. i couldn't be assed to count how many iaps there was total, but it was definitely most of the items. so sad
algorithim boost 🗣💥💥💥💥
but fr tho about the towel capes,
(for last years prices)
pink cape was 16 tickets
yellow was 18 tickets
and blue was 23 tickets
tickets cost 2 ac (or 6 candles)
so that would make these the candle prices (same order) (excluding free tickets)
96
108
and 138
thats more than a lot of expensive ts capes
AND ANOTHER THING
if you use the candle pack price for ref for the price of the blue cape (with bonus)
thats a 60 pack and 2 30 packs
or in other words,
roughly $40
40 dollars for a yearly event cape
what in the even
You could get the capes for free
@@milanesadearsenico yea you could
just doin math and stuff excluding f2p options
i never thought too much abt the iap prices bc they’re not something i’d consider buying anyway…. but the igc ones tho… i don’t understand why returning event items get so expensive like??? rich ppl can just buy the beautiful iap items then there’s players who actually grind everyday just to get robbed by 3 returning capes and that’s just insane tbh give new players some mercy man… i started playing in 2020 before we even got the daily candle bonus and i quit for a while in 2023 basically missing most of the events that started using event tickets meaning i have to grind for months just to spend them all on returning items :) can they respect people who actually play their game
Usually I don’t get mad over overpriced iaps in games cause it’s not the main focus, but after a few months of playing scotl the gameplay became dull. I discovered the entire map and pretty sure most spirits. It feels like there’s nothing left to do but grind and collect cosmetics.
I could try to complete all constellations, but that requires grinding too anyways.
And since the cosmetics are so expensive and grindy , it’s kinda like what am I even playing for at this point lol
Although I’m nowhere near being a vet, only been here for the ending Season of Nesting and Duets, so maybe I just need to wait until they add more fun things :P
I understand completely how you feel. I’ve found all the spirits and now I just feel like it’s Groundhog Day every time I play. Doing everything over n over… 😢
i agree 😰ive been here since season of revival and just, what now??
when cosmetic previewers show "free" items, it likely means they are available for "free to play" players. just fyi in case u didnt know that term
TGC is not listening to us. One day the game will become an grinding game. YOU CANT SERIOUSLY FUCKING GIVE US FREE CANDLES DAILY LIKE THE OTHER GAMES TOO? I SPENT THE ENTIRE DAY JUST TO CANDLE RUN ALL REALMS AND GET 22!? MY SLEEP CYCLE IS FUCKING RUINED.
I have a love hate thing with this game somehow.
Two words: Discord Ubers
Ps: Just get 15 candles a day? Then you won't get burnout. You don't need to buy everything.
@@fellonahardrock I know but about the discord ubers thing, they’re not responding to me. Which thats why i have burnout.
They’re not responding to my ping but they do respond to others. Which i felt kinda sad about that
I understand the frustrations and as someone who has been playing sky since late 2019, I have had my own gripes with the game over the years and have seen an increase in IAP items and prices. That being said, I also think that it is important to realize that like you said, sky isn't backed by some mega corporation. They are owned by a small company and as the game puts out frequent content updates, they need to have enough employees to make the seasons and "days of" events sustainable in the long term and this requires having money to pay these employees. Aside from this, IAP content is exclusive to cosmetics which do not alter the core gameplay. I understand that it can be frustrating to wish that you had more cosmetics especially when you are new, we've all been there, but at the end of the day there is no rush. You aren't less than just because you didn't have time to grind to get every single item from every traveling spirit or because you didn't want to spend your money on IAP cosmetics. I know a lot of people argue that sky has turned into a "cosmetic collector" and whilst I understand that that is an accurate description for how some people play the game, it was not intended to be the primary aspect of gameplay as sky is marketing as a game based on discovery and social interaction flavored by the addition of cosmetics and more recently, furniture. Ultimately I think the best thing to do is to play sky at your own pace, let it be fun, and don't grind for candles just because you feel like you have to have every single item. Anyways, I think you are totally valid in your thoughts and opinions but I also think that you shouldn't let those thoughts control how you experience the game because at the end of the day it will only make it worse on yourself, not TGC.
Sky player for 4 years and I just want a longer male hairstyle with bangs
Also yeah the pants thing is pretty true. I don't want to use the rhythm pants or prophecy pants for everything. The specific pants are just that: specific. I just hope TGC can make more diverse pants and hair gender wise.
Favorite emote wheel has been something people have been asking for, myself included.
But you're 100% correct about the prices. As for male vs female items it really is the first few times I've ever seen dresses besides Aurora season which I unfortunately missed.
I think they are trying to balance the masculine and feminine clothes. For the longest it was always boring gender neutral clothes.
I'm super happy to have pretty dresses available for igc. But I do agree prices for iaps and returning items are pretty darn steep.
12AC for a pair of cute ballet shoes? 😭
Nastymold can't even bring topic like this. #1 bootlicker of that greedy company. Well, she get money from them 😛
Dude you are so funny!!! I completely agree with you! It’s so dumb, also in the seasons of duets…why is it that the cello is 200 candles?! That’s so silly! When you can pay for it…I totally agree with your frustrations
3:17 i’m so glad you mentioned how weird they price things. theoretically the cost should be the same because they’re just the same models but recolored, but why is the pink towel have the lowest price while blue is the most expensive? i also had this issue with the rainbow shoes as well, or rather the pricing for other cosmetics in general. why the heck are the shoes more expensive than the others?? and it’s literally just shoes, they’re not as big as the capes. my only guess for the unusual priceing is because of the demand of the cosmetics. blue is a popular color, and since the blue verson is probably on demand, they’ll raise the price. of course they have to reasonably price it or else the community goes haywire. as long they don’t price something like 300 candles or over $30, they’ll be good.
As a retired sky veteran, I've literally have had enough of this, though I have saved up a lot of candles, but doing daily quests and candle runs.. it really felt like a job and it just takes too much time, even though the maximum time I take will be about 2-3 hours. I have no more motivation, and I have been drained, it's annoying. And also as a player who doesn't buy stuff with irl currency, there literally are way TOO many good looking but simple or the tiniest cosmetic ever that cost real currency and is expensive, it's just stupid.
As someone who played sky since 2019, I was kind of mad when the cost for cosmetics increased DRASTICALLY overtime. Like, even the prices during seasons wasn’t as expensive as it was back then! Oh and I even though I NEVER bought an IAP ever, it hurts me to see a lot of the good cosmetics cost money, and then the “free” ones as he says cost such an absurd amount of candles.
Honestly, the only good thing rn is the seasons cosmetics and chatting with friends.
I’ve been playing for 5 years now and we still don’t have a way to organize spells. That is literally the one thing I ask for in every survey I do. I may be a veteran but good lord everything is way too expensive, you can only get 20 candles per day and even then most people (including me) only get about 12. Knowing all the cr routes isn’t enough because it takes so much time to get everything. Hackers mostly just use the teleporting one to do crs fast and I really appreciate their help with tedious places like Vault and Isle. God PLEASE TGC just lower the prices
It would make sense if they had some fantastic designers working on cool clothes...but they dont. Its sub par designs, safe designs, meh designs. Not worth money imo. I wish they allowed customisation at least until they invest in said talent.
So glad someone said it, I’m only online occasionally and when I am it’s always “OH MY GOD THERES ONLY 3 DAYS LEFT FOR SOMETHING I DONT REALLY LIKE AAAA” everytime I play there’s something new in the shop I feel a need to buy or get and I just don’t know what to do anymore 😭
Naw I'm a dude and am still hyperfixated on the game sometimes. Miss me on paying +$5 on a single cosmetic, though.
I get your pain, because anyone that starts game's like Sky late will be hit with FOMO so hard AND burn out from the rising prices. I wish TGC knew that not everyone can play the game everyday.
EDIT: OH yeah, just use the portal and have home as your default spot if the new quest system feels tedious. You can skip that part and just collect the candles in one go.
(nasty explained it in her update video)
I’m a veteran of over 4 years…well I quit because of the HORRIBLY done pricing system that just sucked the joy out of the game. Wake up TGC
I love paying $12 - $20+ for capes that are purely cosmetic and have zero functionality outside of home space. At least with the Aurora, Little prince, 9 colored deer, and skyfest capes allow you to take your friends to a separate location/instance so it somewhat justifies the steep price
By the way, just because you don't buy the IAPs doesn't mean they aren't a problem for players. You don't represent the group of dedicated players who are frustrated at high quality cosmetics being locked behind a $15-$20 paywall while "free" cosmetics are still a slog to get even with the new currency. Stop telling players to play something else too, it shows you are willing to ignore a problem that is slowly getting out of hand
No cape alone is 20$ outside of collab/function capes
@milanesadearsenico Believe it or not, there exists an entire world outside of the U.S. and Sky and is an international game.
I pay double the price for everything which is bad enough but not as impossible as being asked to pay say....8x the amount for a seasonal pass or a useless, virtual item.
I get so tired of hearing the '10 to 20' dollar conversation when it doesn't represent the reality of the game for many of us.
@@TakverReturns get a job then
@@milanesadearsenico"I pay double the price" = unemployed? Try getting some brain cells and reading comprehension. 🙄
Dude the male clothing part is so real ty for addressing it. There is SO MUCH femenine things we need more masculine stuff. Feel u bro
its also crazy how it feels like we get maybe 2 or 3 free items compared to the like 3-5 paid items T^T also the suit in days of style being paid as a masc player just hurts so so bad
As a fellow male, I certainly agree that there aren’t nearly as many cosmetic options for us. I’m a 4 year veteran so I’ve managed to get enough items over the years but I still get sad when new things come out and there’s basically nothing for me. Literally the only hair I liked was the little prince hair and finally after years of waiting they came out with the new hair during the 2024 days of bloom event.
3:07 OMG THE PINK TOWEL IS 30 HEARTS NOW??? IM SO GLAD I CHOSE IT OUT OF THE 3 TOWELS LAST SUMMER WHEN IT WAS A LOT CHEAPER
I started sky before season of rhythm, used to buy all of the passes for seasons (and sometimes, even ones for friends) and also tried to buy as many of the paid items as I could but, at that point you realize you’re spending an extreme amount of money just for one or two cosmetics, and even when they are free you’re grinding heavily for them. At some point it gets repetitive, and it turns away veteran players or otherwise like me who have less care about cosmetics now and more interest in the world building and community, it’s unfortunate
You know I wasn’t having the best of days today but hearing you rant made me laugh and put a smile on my face again
Fellow male player here! Joined during Dreams. I don’t get why we can’t have more pants instead of dresses. They’re usually great at coming up with new styles of pants and having nice colours.
I just don’t want to pay for a season when all of the pant-cosmetics are in fact dresses. I’m never going to use them. I’m an adult! I don’t have time to waste getting items I’ll never use!
The insane candle prices are discouraging as well. You basically need to do every map, every day, to save up enough candles and hearts. I don’t have the time for that!
couldn’t agree more tysm for this rant bc. yeah. this game is basically pay to win. there’s no reason for in game prices to be so high, it gets to a point where even if people ARE willing to pay real money for cosmetics, they can’t even afford it. i managed to buy an entire macbook with my job but somehow SKY COTL cosmetics is what i can’t afford. while actively working. i’m so sick of ittt
(the touching nipples south park reference is also so on point bc mannn what is this😭)
edit: i will say the new changes are all things i actually really wanted (favorite emotes, unfriend feature) but it’s just the fact that THATS the most we get in actual game improvement is also a huge bummer. you can’t even use upgraded emotes in the favorite’s wheel either which made me so sadddd
You can favorite upgraded emotes! Access the wheel, Edit, hold the emote until the level you want, then add it into the slot. You can do so for Stances and Calls too! In case if you haven’t figured it out already
Assuming you get 5 event currency’s for the days of sunlight, it would take 8 days but of course they have to make you wait ONE MORE DAY just to get the last candle. So basically it will take 9 days, over a week, to get the shorts/tanktop, and that’s if they make it 5 currency instead of 4
It's even worse with the premium store, in my country a simple pair of boots or hair costs basically 200$ 💀 it's REALLY badly converted if like 100 polygons with one color costs almost a kidney
The parasol is like 99pln?? YOU CAN BUY 3 WHOLE GAMES FOR LESS 💀💀💀 Tgc needs to get some slap to get back to reality or else they're gonna turn into EA
the average paid item in sky in my currency is literally 499 💀
when I saw the Moomin collab announcement I was like "ok this time I might give a shot at investing my money" but then I remembered the prices and went "nevermind!!"
I gave up playing, the candle running got super tiresome, then they punished us for saving 100's of candles by introducing the "event tickets".
most players are so busy hoarding candles, it's difficult to even make friends anymore, then when you make one all they're interested in is chasing the candle dragon.
tgc continually punishes players trying to maximize candle runs, then says "its not the spirit of how the game should be played" but everything is ludicrously expensive, the iap stuff like $30 for one item, wtf?. I deleted the game last week, I feel much lighter. This game is a black hole.
oh, and the whole paying for the "privilege" of earning items with a season pass by doing the same slog gameplay for 2 months, or risk being locked out from the ultimate reward you already paid for is the stupidest thing I ever got sucked into. Never again.
I think ftp sky fans should learn:
1.) To make peace with the fact that you aren't going to get every event item, let alone the ultimate reward, on the first run of the event(😅Just being realistic)Most events re-run every year and many spirits return as traveling spirits throughout the year too, so don't lose hope! Horde candles for those re-run items your want most!
2.) Learn the candle wax event time tables. That way you have the option of logging in for maybe 10-20 minutes vs. Candle-running for hours every day.(my personal favorite is the polluted geyser, happens five pasted on even hours 8:05,10:05,12:05,ect.)
3.) Do the daily quests and candle-run there while you're at it. Two birds, one stone!
4.) Watch your wax meter(the white candle icon with 3 arrows) The more candles you forge, the more wax they require. You get 5 fast candles, 5 medium candles and 5 slower candles. After that, accumulation is negligible, so its best to come back after reset. You can always tell where your meter is by how many arrows are lit up.
5.) Don't be afriaid to afk with friends. Especially hardcore veterans! Most candle-run every day and holding hands means youre along for the ride(and candle wax)!
I know Sky isn't perfect, but if this helps even one player have more fun playing it, I'll be happy😊
Man I'm a veteran and I still have an issue with the seasonal items. Sure you won't be able to get every item, that's normal. But nowadays there's next to nothing that you can get "for free" (aka hours and hours of grinding for a single item), let alone anything that feels worth the grind. They're lucky I'm a music nerd or I'd just be skipping this current season entirely 😭
And that's not even talking about the IAPs, because why does a single cape, a literal clump of (often recicled) pixels, cost more than a whole game?? In what planet are these prices reasonable
I get you're trying to help people have fun, and that's great, really. But I still think this is very much a big issue with the company and it needs to be adressed
@@aquajasperI did skip this season's pass as there's just waaaayyyyy too many lazy designed posters and rugs to my liking, and boy is it nice to just only get the items you want and leave the rest of the spirit trees be. I'm skipping two spirit trees entirely so I'm almost done with the season! Tis the first time since shattering since I skipped a pass but I suspect I'll be skipping more and more as I get more burnt out and I also feel I've spent enough on this game lol. I'd pretty much only have gotten the pass for three pairs of pants and I couldn't justify grinding for over 2 months for just that 😅 especially since I know I wouldn't be wearing that dress at all. It's pretty but not my style. I actually prefer the free grey dress.
@@iadoreapplehead yea not worth it to pressure yourself to the point of burnout over a game. I'm only getting the cello from this season and then I'll save the candles, nothing else really does with my character so no use bothering
@aquajasper
Oh yeah I totally forgot seasonal candles becomes normal candles. Great tip