Palia

I love the story, both past and the coming future. The visuals are amazing. The mechanics are fun. Now onto what I'm sure you've seen everyone else talking about. I understand having to pay for cosmetics since it's a free game. HOWEVER! It is no longer within reason. There should be ways to grind to get the animals you have as pets or as rideable mounts. Ways to grind to up your storage. Make it less than the payable amount of storage, but still have a way to grind for it. There is a difference between having players pay for in game things verses making them have to pay for every NEW thing that comes out just because.

If you do anything before you fall in love with this game like I did, watch the Palia video by ADHDecent I have, for several reasons largely covered by this video, slowly began to play Palia less and less over my years with it. Originally, when solely owned by S6 as a development company, there was promise and the direction to do more. Now, development of new content has slowed to a snails' pace, and monetization has clearly become the priority. With MTX being one of the /most/ expensive I've ever seen in a game like this. It's no longer purely cosmetic either, as we were originally promised, it is now functional, pay-to-win style elements we feared would become the case when a larger corporation took over. Palia is a wonderful, gorgeous game for a lot of reasons, but its soul was cored out for profit and it is likely only going to get worse before it gets better. As someone who loves this game, try it if you like, but I can't recommend it in good conscience anymore as I once did.

This game is free. Your time is NOT. Don't play Palia because it's a game with bugs that erase your progress and devs that refuse to fix their mistakes. The devs prioritize their paid content: cosmetics and battlepasses, over fixing bugs. Palia has always been buggy, and each new patch delivers new bugs because they never test them properly, but their latest patch had a huge bug that erased player's progress. The backbone and endgame of Palia is decorating your house... and the bug was that all the items placed on walls in player's housing plots were sent back to storage. It's not even the first time this happens because last year it was a bug that made all the items placed on surfaces go back to storage. Buggy update released on the 7th and a day later they offered rollbacks and told you not to play until it was done because the rollback would undo all your progress in the new patch. I was one of the many, MANY affected players and never got that rollback. After waiting for two weeks with an open ticket they told me it would be fixed in 24-48h, immediately marked the ticket as solved and... when those 48h were over the rollback still hadn't happened. Usually their patches last a month and a half but this one is going to be only 3 weeks and the new one is releasing on the 28th so I basically missed on all the temporary event stuff because I couldn't play. I know swearing off a game and wanting to warn others about it over some stored decorations might come across as petty or melodramatic but... this isn't about some items, it's about the most important thing between a dev team and their players: TRUST. If players can't trust the devs not to release buggy updates, or not to undo their progress, or even restore it... What even is the point. Why would anyone wish to play a game that will one day undo all their hard work and make them feel like they wasted their time by playing it...

saying "it's still in beta" when someone complains about a gamebreaking glitches, while treating it like a full relased game with packs, microtransactions and being on every platform at this point isn't a great look. oh and it's been in "beta" for 3 years

I've played this occasionally since it came to Steam, and I was having a good time with it! Enough to buy some cosmetics here and there to support the devs. But now they've gone back on their word to not monetize actual gameplay elements, and that's not okay, especially when they've stopped fixing the bugs. I might continue to play once in a while, but I won't be giving this company another cent.

For a game so highly recommended, you would think male and female characters would have different animations, but no. Even if you choose the male character as your base, he has only animations specifically made for a female character. It looks uncanny, not in a funny way. He looks like he broke most of his bones or is posing for an OF ad. In first minutes i also encountered a glitch, the notification about "being a good neighbour" popped out 2 times, and since i didnt skip it the second time, the game crashed, hardlocking me since i didnt complete the character selection yet. The glitch caused a black screen and my pc having to be restarted (the game didnt want to close at all in the dark screen state) The game seems to be made specifically for girl players who play girl characters. Wouldnt really recommed it for anyone who prefers playing as a male character.

Seems like this game's honeymoon phase has ended. And quite fast actually. Patch 0.206 brings a pay walled game mechanic the Devs promised never to lock behind a pay wall. They said only [b][u]cosmetics[/u][/b] were going to be paid. It was ok while it lasted. I'm happy I did not invest too much time in this, I had hopes for this game though.

Agora eles estão cobrando por armazenamento, usam FOMO como forma de extrair lucro dos jogadores, começaram a cobrar por CADA "life path", se você quiser o cavalo legal, vai ter que pagar. Depois de anos de desenvolvimento o jogo continua com vários bugs, um dos mapas, Elder Woods, foi abandonado com um monte de bug de textura e de iluminação, com mecânicas que te frustram e te fazem perder tempo, o farm de essência é extremamente lento, tão lento que no mapa seguinte, Royal Highlands, tornaram o farm de "Amber Echo" trivial. A medida que foram avançando, foram deixando partes do jogo de lado, e estão priorizando cada vez mais a monetização, a interação e os relacionamentos com as personagens foram deixadas de lado. Tudo isso parece ser resultado da venda da desenvolvedora para uma outra empresa, que não se importa com a comunidade, nem com os devs, só querem o lucro mesmo. Decepcionado, pra mim, Palia morreu.

This is far from a wholesome game. In my experience it intentionally fosters monumental amounts of greed, hatred, and delusion in pretty much all who play in order to get people to buy ingame items. It also cultivates profund levels of violence within your psyche by the endless simulation of slaughtering various animals for profit and no real workaround. It's chock full of manipulative design like the fact that you can't get rid of the quest overlay among dozens of others. It's a game that will actively cultivate less wholesomeness within your mind unless you're coming from a baseline of total depravity.