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TGC: "this game is all about cooperation and helping each other out!". Players: help each other out. TGC: "No, not like THAT!!!11" 😒😒😒 (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I get that there have been hackers who have exploited the shared camera memories to glitch through whole realms at a time (they aren't even efficient - an in game friend who was carrying me used them a few times, and you have to repeat each at least 3 times to get all the candles lit, it's without a doubt faster to just run it), but surely they can tell the difference between those and the ones that just open a door, and address the hackers' "exploits" without removing a feature that they created and enabled and have allowed to exist for so long it has become essential to solo players.

The fact that they've removed the camera memories but not the chibi fall tells you they're not actually bothered at all about players taking shortcuts, as long as they've spent currency to be able to do it, and as long as it doesn't help others who you aren't carrying or who don't happen to have the mask/spell/will to be tiny.

So this is entirely about removing community driven support that exclusively helps solo players make the grind a teeny tiny bit easier, at zero cost or harm to TGC (the 5-30 minutes you have to wait for other players to help literally gains them nothing), and when there are numerous and frequent game breaking bugs and issues that they aren't addressing because they're not accidentally making playing easier.

My biggest takeaway from TGC's behaviour is that I'm so fucking glad I never gave them any money, and it ensures that I never will, because if I had, I'd be so upset at how they function (or don't) it might have been enough for me to quit completely.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

We all know this glitch was a cheat. But oob are also glitches that are accepted by tgc, because this doesn't affect game currency. I used this useful camera glitch some times, when out of time for CR. This made me think this was one of the better way to use the expression spell, and to gain hard-to-get hearts (thanks to tgc). I agree with you, this is an amazing way to help players, and btw one of the well done hack based on the huge bug base of Sky.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

glitches that are accepted by tgc, because this doesn’t affect game currency

This is what gets me - having the camera memories that help open multi-player doors don't affect the currency at all (I think you can skip them all and still be able to get 20-21 candles a day from everywhere else, it'll just take longer), which makes this that much more frustrating. Though I do think that memories helping anyone for free made them less "acceptable", and chibi falls only helping the ones doing it and can only be done if you spend IG currency makes them more acceptable.

In any case, it's clear that the people making these decisions have never played the game, or at least no more than to see the "product" at work, and are only concerned with finding ways to increase IAP sales, which just really sucks, especially because they have such a unique and amazing game in their hands, and they're slowly ruining it out of greed. 😕

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I like your conclusion!

I can't change the fact that I've given TGC money in the past, but I'll use this one "bug fix" (one of frankly many player-hostile decisions that came before it) now to never buy anything TGC related again, unless they change course.

I'm just tired of them nerfing or straight up eliminating ways to collect candles that are simply different, be that through glitching, solo-candlerunning, or sitting at a campfire, without even giving a hint of a reason or data as to why that truly protects the gaming experience.

I realize that there are good and bad exploits. However, I also realize that there are good reasons and just straight up greed. Until TGC picks a side I'll assume that it's the latter. I'm a free-to-play player from here on out and hell, my wallet will even thank me for it :P

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I appreciate the validation lol

I just updated my game, and the memories are still there for now, I wasn't sure at first because for the first time in forever there were 3 players already at the telekinesis door so I didn't need to use one, but I also had a preview of what's potentially to come at the 4 player door on 2nd floor - 3 of us again, but this time we waited around for 20+ minutes just getting increasingly frustrated that no one is coming to help, people doing crying and moping and faceplanting emotes, no joy or relationship building or anything positive, just frustration. Eventually the server split and I ended up alone so I used a shared memory, but honestly, if it ends up like that every time you need to get the door, unless you're the 4th to arrive, people are just going to skip it (or chibi past the waiting people, making everyone even angrier), which means less help for those who don't want to skip, and again, nothing positive..

I really really hope they decide to only remove the hacked glitches, those where a 3rd party program is used to jump you all over a map, and leave those that use the existing game mechanics, but I'm not holding my breath..

Either way, welcome to the free-to-play dark side, we have a marshmallow roasting stand (not really, those things were expensive! 😂)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

U guys also have some "crippling depression after an expensive item wasn't worth it" on your side?🥺👉👈

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh no 😭😭

I'm almost glad I didn't stick around too long the first time I started playing, because I don't know that I would have been able to resist temptation all that time, but since I started up again earlier this year I've been really good about applying my overthinking to making sure I only buy what I really want lol. But I might have to get back to you on this.. 😂

Which items weren't worth it for you?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I also dropped the game pretty quickly the first time, why didn't that work for me as well?? (╯° □°） ╯︵ ┻━┻

Atleast all that overthinking has an upside! Although I now have a pretty good deterrent too for when the next IAP items drop, it being that while I love Sky, I dislike TGC's attitude even more and it'd be weird for me to fund that.

The items that I regret buying are:

Starter Pack (the money is better spent on a season pass)
TGC office cape (I don't need to explain why😅)
Season of Aurora cape (the concerts are all just eerily empty)
Season of the Nine-Colored Deer cape (seems to be a common regret judging by the YouTube comments)

It's of course all subjective, I've bought 10 IAP's in total (incl. season passes) if that means anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Haha, believe me, if I could share my over thinking (and it's occasional positive results), I would! 😂

I think of all the purchases you mention, the only one I might have been tempted by is the Aurora cape, but more for how it looks than what it does (going to a 9000+ people concert during anniversary was really cool, but then also seeing it with like 300 people, I can absolutely see what you mean about it being eerie), but I can see why you bought them in the first place, they all offer access to limited areas, which is a big temptation! I recently saw the days of love IAP cape I think it was, and I would have had to make a conscious effort not to buy that (I can't help it, I like transparent and glittery things lol, also the cat hood/mask I think from days of mischief?).

I'm almost glad I found out about TGC's attitudes relatively early on in my return to the game, it really does help as a deterrent lol