#tgc critical

[skykid-nadir]

...yeah

#sky cotl #sky children of the light #sky: cotl #sky: children of the light #tumblr #tgc critical #tumblr critical #hellsite (affectionate)

[slink-a-dink]

why are they locking an incredibly requested and necessary accesibility feature behind a limited time cosmetic?? why is it not just a toggle/setting

Bloom in Sky has always been an eyesore for players, both those with and without photosensitivities, and many players have been asking for a feature to toggle/reduce bloom to make the game more accessible to them.

And we finally get that!

In the form of a PREVIOUS, no longer available cosmetic until 8 more months only available for igc, Accesibility should not be cosmetic.

If they have the ability to give players the option to remove something for accessibility, it should not be restricted to a cosmetic, that many players probably do not have.

the tints are cute and can be sunglasses exclusives but theres gotta be smth better to give to the feast goggles instead of a desired accesibility feature, smth that everyone should have, my god

(the main focus is the feast goggles, the other 2 dont remove bloom)

i encourage people to send feedback if you can, thanks^^

#slink speaks #tgc critical #sky children of the light #im pretty annoyed #im live only so sorry if someone already made a post like this and i didnt see it cause beta tags r filtered

[gaylight-prairie]

Lol remember that time tgc released the yeti goggles for 2022 days of feast and then at a later date gave them the functionality to remove most bloom from bright areas AFTER the event was already over, very cool

Anyways i got them this time. woo

I will be dead by the time tgc adds actual accessibility settings to this game it is so sad

Adding a major accessibility feature that players have been asking for since the games launch to a limited time seasonal igc cosmetic item is not the best decision they have made i think

With yeti goggles bloom filter

Without bloom filter

Man.

#Sky cotl #tgc critical #🍀.txt #Ss

[forestfullofberries]

being a long term sky player is really jumping back and forth between "holy shit i love this game so much it's unreal" and "tgc only cares about profits and pushes for iaps and the fact that they keep pretending their game is so so so profound and different doesn't make them look any better"

#i really don't want to drop this game because they made me care #HOWEVER #it's the ''we're not like other games'' attitude is what gets on my nerves #tgc darling you're a business that wants money. i get it. be honest about it at least #and the stealing from artists? *heavy sigh* #disappointing. #fia.post #tgc critical

[whitebookposts]

needed something to distress from the amount of bs that I witnessed regarding tgc’s shady practices so I’m making something. here is a little part of it

#sky: cotl #sky: children of the light #sky cotl #sky children of the light #thatskygame #sky: the more you know #tgc critical

[bird-in-thesky]

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

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

#tgc crit #tgc critical #thatskygame #sky children #sky children of the light #sky children of light #scotl

[sky-poprocks]

I am kinda of feral about some of the systems that TGC puts in place somewhat because of being a player from like... 3 yrs ago, but also... I really dislike grinding or not making it actually interesting.

I'm haunted by candle runs my fellow skykids, I did so many crs before they changed the candle systems to what they are rn for gathering.

I don't think a normal player should remember where each and every one wax is in an area and how to effectively get to it as fast as possible... nor what days do what candle cakes go and where they are roughly when they use to play <:)

#tgc critical #pop rocked sky children #I do like sky. I just. kjhskhsdhjkd feral thoughts at the candle prices. #I need to rejoin sky discord servers again probably ngl. I left most of the ones I was in during a state of brain scatter after being #inactive for months and all. but ya know

[agodth]

TGC staff posted a statement about the idea theft on reddit

How do you all feel about that?

I remember the hat drama and I appreciate that TGC finally addresses things but also there is still the fact that they have that part in their TOS that says they can just use our fanart and that's still a big red flag to me.

And I find it suspicious that so many of their items look so similar to the ideas of one person. Hard to believe that it's a coincidence tbh. Hard to believe TGC.

#sky #thatskygame #sky children of the light #sky light awaits #sky children of light #thatgamecompany #TGC #tgc critical

[fiomeras]

thank you for the follows and the kind words, but I really don't think I have much to offer as I don't do sky art that much anymore and this is more of a blog where I post just about whatever.

I have nothing more to say, but if you're potentially boycotting or quitting in some way here are some other games that I think definitely deserve more attention than they get! especially OMNO

#i talk #again consider checking these games out . Omno especially as its been made by one person and the looks and mechanics look amazing #theres also 2 games in the works called bitcraft and worldless(from the developers of gris) that might peak ur interest! #so look out for those too :) #tgc critical

[skykid-nadir]

With all the hype of the PC release, the new Season announcement, and the animation clip, the fact that TGC won't be offering free spells during the Cinnamaroll event has been completely overlooked. In addition, the only cosmetics that will be available for free to play users are a tea set and a cupcake headband. Everything else will be iap.

#sky cotl #sky children of the light #sky: cotl #sky: children of the light #cinnamaroll #tgc critical #sky x Cinnamaroll

[slink-a-dink]

(Second image by Tea11#9399 on official discord)

4 hairs, 1 free

2 pants, 2 free

2 capes, 1 free

2 Hair accessories, 1 free

Instrument, Neck accessory both iap

all they had to do was make tumblings hair ftp and there wouldn’t be the issue of one tree being all adventure pass hdjdjdndnd

#slink speaks #tgc critical #sky children of the light #but i do agree other than that its rlly balanced #and at least ftp can save a lot of candles #its kindof a double edged sword i think

[mothwantstoswim]

Sky: Children of the Get Blinded Idiot

#days of sunlight has RUINED THE LIGHTING ENTIRELY #sky: children of the light #sky cotl #tgc critical

[phogay]

n e ways i miss ubering crs, i miss listening to people play music in home, i miss meeting people from literally all over the world i miss entirely randomly making friends with people i miss teaching moths and being taught all sorts of tricks and oobs, and i think thats what most people got out of the game too, if not at least some of these, and i wish tgc couldve seen that and stopped trying to "patch" things to push iaps instead of improving on these parts of the game we loved.

#this is not even mentioning the design theft #which is egregious #but even before (and i think ive talked about this before) #tgc seemed hellbent on making sure players played the game exactly as intended #which. this is an mmo with not too much in the way of base features/goals #like. if youre players are making their own meaning in a game that doesnt have very much in it #shouldnt you encourage that? or at least leave it be? #n e ways im done talking abt it unless tgc fucks up stupendously again #jennifer i miss u i hope u learnt how to use keysmashes #ty for showing me an insane amount of tricks #tgc critical

[whitebookposts]

Should have finished this earlier but yea I honestly don’t have anything to add. I’m just tired 

#sky: cotl #sky: children of the light #sky cotl #sky children of the light #thatskygame #that sky game #tgc critical

[bird-in-thesky]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

#tgc crit #tgc critical #sky children of the light #sky children of light #sky children #scotl #thatskygame

[skys-haunted]

the current days of mischief situation isn’t abt cosmetics really. its about the history of dodgy communication and sketchy behavior from That Game Company towards its playerbase

#sky beta #tgc critical #we don't need cosmetics to play the game and there's more to the game than dress up yeah #im willing to bet folks arent mad that they have to pay money for a popular item (it makes perfect sense) #folks are mad because the company is purposefully miscommunicating to them to get away with asking for more quick cash #and when the company gets called out on it they act like we simply didn't get the memo #its not just cosmetics its been going on with in-game features and updates #beta testers aren't even beta testing because their feedback falls on deaf ears all the time #and that feels bad! people dont like being ignored manipulated and gaslighted #and it looks bad on the company too!! people aren't mad that tgc is trying to make a profit off their game thats perfectly reasonable #i couldn't care less if tgc rolls another event around and 90% of the content is behind a paywall #ftp players already have access to the entire core game its ok if we're less than an afterthought sometimes #whats not ok is the blatant greed and disregard for its entire userbase