Free to play

[Livia]

What's the catch? Game looks really great, but there has to be a catch. I've never played a F2P because I assume it's full of micro transactions or something, but thought I'd ask.

[Kayn]

15-50$ macro transactions for outfits and its grindy as heck

[Kydyrium]

Played this game on open beta for 500+ hours before steam release and it's far from an MMO or cozy with the toxic players in game bickering over the fact you didn't or don't call out every pallium node you find

[Three Words]

I strongly recommend reading the negative reviews posted today to better understand "the catch".

As there are no earnable or craftable outfit or glider cosmetics, if you want your avatar to look different from a majority of the other players, you're going to have to pay ($) quite a bit for it. This is how S6 has decided to fund developing, maintaining, & running the game. Not a base-game price. Not a monthly subscription. Not an IRL merch shop with an IRL hotpot card game, plushies, shirts, hats, or mugs.

If you ask me, I wouldn't bother playing during 0.178.0. Sounds like it's a near unplayable mess. Has anyone not on the Discord even confirmed whether or not the third huntable creature known as "muujin" are back? Edit: Thank you, Valimure, for the update. Well at least one problem was resolved, but sounds like several more were made.

[Roan]

Originally posted by Three Words:

I strongly recommend reading the negative reviews posted today to better understand "the catch".

As there are no earnable or craftable outfit or glider cosmetics, if you want your avatar to look different from a majority of the other players, you're going to have to pay ($) quite a bit for it. This is how S6 has decided to fund developing, maintaining, & running the game. Not a base-game price. Not a monthly subscription. Not an IRL merch shop with an IRL hotpot card game, plushies, shirts, hats, or mugs.

If you ask me, I wouldn't bother playing during 0.178.0. Sounds like it's a near unplayable mess. Has anyone not on the Discord even confirmed whether or not the third huntable creature known as "muujin" are back?

They are indeed. I finally logged in on steam just a bit ago so I could post my review.

The game is a laggy mess, however. Tons of stuttering, and watching people clipping through the ground as they run.

[Batabii • Suikoden I&II HD]

There's already 3 or 4 threads asking this same question

[Noob Golberg Machine]

There really isn't any catch to this game...it's just rather boring and uninspiring in terms of progression. Some clothing cosmetics and furniture pieces are sold in the cash shop, and the free outfits are rather lacking, if you care about stuff like that. But pretty much you can play the entire game without spending a dime...nothing is locked behind a paywall.

[Queen Droxxanna]

well I downloaded the game, took like half an hour to even get into it, even had to update my graphics card for it.
Played for maybe 20 minutes before the game just put me to sleep! Too much small print reading to do.
Woke up 4 hours later and it asked if I would recommend the game --- dont think so.
Cant stand games where they constantly ask for $$ for small stuff, and having other players run around is very distracting too.

[Cel]

Outfits that are the price of a new game is the main money maker.

[mana]

There are no mtx for gameplay progression currently. Everything is cosmetic.

Despite that, the only cosmetics offered in the shop are for gliders and clothing sets which sometimes include unique hairstyles. There's no way to buy a single piece of one set so you have to buy the whole outfit.
The outfits are predetermined color sets so you get a pick of three color sets per outfit.

That said, you can get some free cosmetics through their Refer a Friend promotion for an idea of how outfits in this game work and for changing up your glider:
https://palia.com/refer-a-friend

One of the major criticisms is that the "pet feature" is locked behind the cash shop (they are a bonus for purchasing coins), but it's just another minor cosmetic thing. Having a pet is no benefit and there's only four of them.
https://palia.wiki.gg/wiki/Pets

ETA: I forgot to mention that the main "money sink" is that you have to purchase coins then purchase the cosmetics in the cash shop. There's no way to purchase an exact amount of coins so you have to round up. This means you can end up with excess coins. It seems like they have modified the prices for bundles to be closely tied to the coin packages, but individual outfits will leave you with extra. This is a common practice in a lot of games with a cash shop so most players are desensitized to it by now, but I thought I would include it because that is a deal breaker for some.

The downside of it is that the gameplay is just mediocre at best and I say this as someone who played hundreds of hours of this game before it came to Steam. It's hard to mentally justify spending money on the game in its current state unless it really does bring you joy to play it.

[burn007]

cant make a new topic for some reason, but is there a way to force 4k res. highest option i see is 1440

[MadDawg2552]

Originally posted by Livia:

What's the catch?

The catch is playing with the most toxic community you have ever had the misfortune to participate in. I have more people blocked in this game than any other MMO I have ever played. I've blocked people for straight up offensive names to people just being mean to each other. I don't even participate in the chat, I just block people that are rude so I don't have to listen to them.

Don't even think about joining the Discord server. I have every channel on there muted except the status channels so I can keep up to speed on what's going on with the game.

P.S. Don't have the same Steam name, Discord name, and character name, because people WILL stalk you to harass you.

[mana]

Originally posted by burn007:

cant make a new topic for some reason, but is there a way to force 4k res. highest option i see is 1440

There used to be a way to edit with the GameUserSettings file in notepad (for the resolution size/desired screen width and height/last user confirmed desired screen width/height), but that was a fix from a month or so ago. I'm not sure if it's still applicable now.

[Majava]

They need to add the palia coins to the steam store

[TGC> The Games Collector]

Originally posted by MadDawg2552:

Originally posted by Livia:

What's the catch?

The catch is playing with the most toxic community you have ever had the misfortune to participate in. I have more people blocked in this game than any other MMO I have ever played. I've blocked people for straight up offensive names to people just being mean to each other. I don't even participate in the chat, I just block people that are rude so I don't have to listen to them.

Don't even think about joining the Discord server. I have every channel on there muted except the status channels so I can keep up to speed on what's going on with the game.

P.S. Don't have the same Steam name, Discord name, and character name, because people WILL stalk you to harass you.

lol, it's kinda funny really.

Game with blood and guts flying around : nice, friendly community.

Game trying too hard to look friendly: full of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Why is it so often like this? LOL

[GrungeBro]

Originally posted by TGC> The Games Collector:

Originally posted by MadDawg2552:

The catch is playing with the most toxic community you have ever had the misfortune to participate in. I have more people blocked in this game than any other MMO I have ever played. I've blocked people for straight up offensive names to people just being mean to each other. I don't even participate in the chat, I just block people that are rude so I don't have to listen to them.

Don't even think about joining the Discord server. I have every channel on there muted except the status channels so I can keep up to speed on what's going on with the game.

P.S. Don't have the same Steam name, Discord name, and character name, because people WILL stalk you to harass you.

lol, it's kinda funny really.

Game with blood and guts flying around : nice, friendly community.

Game trying too hard to look friendly: full of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

Why is it so often like this? LOL

Because with free to play devs dont care about toxic as long as people keep pressing that buy credits button. Just like the forum. So much toxic no one does anything about it even the mods dont care cause they are lazy and dont give 2 cents about what goes on