Palia

Lied about microtransactions.

Just like infinity Nikki they have decided to over bloat the game and never fix it and only focus on the paid content. Like outfits or storage space. They have literally said that they are more focused on working on the stuff players will buy with actually money than fix the game bugs. Even the "free" gift they give can't be used without paying actual money. For example, you can get a mount but you need to pay to be able to actually use it as a mount. I don't mind paying for some stuff here and there but when the game is so buggy that I get stuck just walking into town or the rare ingredient I have been trying to get bugs out and is just gone, it just takes the fun out of it. What's the point of buying stuff if the game is to buggy to even play. Also having to wait so long for an update to the main story and you basically shoving paid content down or throats.... I'm just over it lol. I would have rather paid 30 bucks for the game if it meant that I would have regular updates to game play.

I Want to Love This Game, But I Can't Recommend It Right Now. The update cycle increasingly feels like: New update → new bugs → “We're investigating” → next update → new bugs → repeat. At some point, this stops being reassuring and starts becoming a pattern. Bugs happen. This is a huge live-service game, and I don't expect everything to work perfectly. But after around two years of beta, I expect the testing and development process to be improving. Some bugs are especially frustrating when they affect things players already paid for. S6 previously said they wanted to focus monetization on cosmetics, yet we're now getting paid storage. If you're going to charge players for features, those features need to work reliably. There are also issues with players not receiving titles and other rewards they're supposed to get. These aren't things that should repeatedly slip through testing. And whenever people bring up these problems, there's always the same response: “It's a free-to-play game, the devs need to eat!”, “It's still in beta!” How long can we keep using those arguments? Being in beta should mean the game is actively improving and the development process is getting more reliable. It shouldn't be a permanent excuse for recurring problems. Deadlock is a good example. It also chose the beta/early-development approach, yet still showed a huge amount of progress within its first year. The problem isn't that Palia is in beta. The problem is that the same patterns keep repeating. I don't expect Palia to be perfect. I just want better post-update testing and more consistency, especially when real money is involved. I really want Palia to succeed. There is a genuinely great game here, and a community that clearly cares about it. But that goodwill isn't unlimited. I'm leaving this as a negative review because I want to see the game improve, not because I want to see it fail. Right now, though, I simply can't recommend it.

I've been playing this game since before the beta, absolutely loved it, and eventually stepped away for a break from it. Came back a while later to see that they've seemingly thrown their idea of monetizing "light‑utility items" for adding a premium storage expansion with the massive price of upwards of 125$ that takes your storage from 18k+300 to 118k+300. Don't think I'll be coming back to it with that on the table, it's just opening the door for more greed to seep through the cracks. 100k storage that f2p players will never have access to is insane, and should have never happened. Seems that Daybreak acquiring S6 did exactly as was expected. R.I.P. Palia, and goodbye Pay-lia.

Pay to win game, ♥♥♥♥ that ♥♥♥♥. $100 American dollars for storage. L Devs.

I got this game and have many hours on it. I was hooked for a month straight. as of June 2nd update, I have been unable to play my game and don't think I will bother to try and fix it with their recent updat of putting storage behind a paywall, which they said they would never do such a thing or become that kind of game. Game was great until you got greedy.

I played Palia when it first launched years ago both on their launcher and Nintendo Switch. The game was fun and most of the monetization was focused on cosmetics. I decided it was time to return and see what new stuff had been added and was immediately turned off by the aggressive monetization. What was once a market full of outfits is now the bulk of the game. Animals, outfits, skins... just about anything you'd want earn through play and progression is now hidden behind some form of a paywall. This isn't inherently a bad thing but the price of entry for a single outfit can often start at around $15. Honestly at that price I can buy a different farm sim style game and have all the fun I want. I even tried to get my friend to play with me and we both were like "this feels like a single player game that is online" so it's not even a good multiplayer game.

They Promised not adding any paid gameplay advantages and they still say this on their official site. (https://palia.com/news/palia-business-model) "Palia will be free-to-play Palia will monetize cosmetic items Palia will not monetize things you earn through gameplay You won’t need to buy loot boxes or get content through a rotating store We commit to being open and honest in communicating decisions or changes we make in this space" The latest update introduced paid Storage for your Chest. They already charge quite alot for the good outfits (around 35 €) and for their "battlepass" aswell as pets. So not sure why they feel like they need to monetize Gameplay aswell. (Upgrading can be done i nsteeps but upgrading your storage to the max is around 70€) (I only play on the Launcher version and only use the Steam version to leave this review that's why my playtime is so low)

Love Palia, but the bait+switch on monetization has left a sour taste in my mouth. They lured in players YEARS ago saying they would ONLY have cosmetic monetization, guess that was a complete lie. Singularity 6 has become less trustworthy imo