I found out about this game called Skycards on tik tok like 2 weeks ago and I’ve been playing pretty obsessively. I friended the girl who made the tik tok and she’s been playing for months and I’m already a level behind her. I loved this game. I told all my friends about it and I was having so much fun collecting as many unique planes as I could.
I managed to catch 25/76 of a specific kind of passenger plane and I was so proud of that. A Goodyear blimp popped up in my area and there’s only 21 blimps in the world! And all of that is gone now with the update they released today.
They have quite explicitly adopted a punishment system. The core gameplay involves picking a plane in your area and taking a decent picture of it in a little mini game. Before, if you got 100% framing and 0% clouds in the picture, you’d earn a coin for each. If you had 100% framing and 1% clouds, you’d earn one. 99% framing and 0% clouds, you’d get one. Now, you can only earn coins if you get it perfect on both accounts. Same amount of coins but if you mess up at all you don’t get any and you get a “photo penalty” that deducts xp.
They’ve labeled all the planes as new for the new season. So the 25/76 I’ve caught of that rare plane? I can’t know which ones I’ve caught unless I dig through the menu and look for that specific plane registration. Pretty much every aspect of this update pisses me off and makes me not wanna play. They locked achievements away behind a season 0 wall. We can’t work on those anymore. They’ve added a few new achievements and made some of the animations nicer and added more levels to the card collecting with bronze and platinum being included but the sheer disrespect the devs have shown it’s player base is a disgusting cash grab and a disregard for the people dedicated to the game
This discord is going pretty rabid in the suggestions forums which makes me feel better. I hope the devs get their heads out of their asses and fix this or they’re gonna lose the giant player base they worked so hard for. They openly admitted these past few weeks have seen a massive boom in people who play their game and they’ve gone and spit in all of our faces.