so for past couple of days i've been playing #palia , it's a lovely little cosy #mmo with quite a few #bugs but i can see where it's heading, it's basically #stardewvalley / #disneydreamlightvalley / #animalcrossing etc it's fun and with great community guidelines aimed at protecting players from abuse and discriminatory behaviour, the #housing and crafting system is really simple and intuitive, although i do wish they would allow multi item #crafting instead of sitting there crafting 100 things one at a time. the farming is lovely and simple, till, plant, water, harvest (after growth time) gathering is nice, go upto tree, hit with axe a few times, same with mining, and hunting is with a bow, wich ads a nice extra skill check (sort of)
now onto the major downside
the #cashshop oh dear goddess this is horrendous and so predatory. so to start with as of #open #beta theres no extra clothes that are free, just standard you get in the character creator, everything else you have to pay real money for, and this is where it gets worse, items of #clothing are incredibly expensive,
a 3 outfit pack sets you back £30-£50 for 3 of the same item in slightly different patterns, #pets are locked behind buying credit packs, and each credit pack is just below the price of outfits, so you have to buy 2 packs just to get them, boosting the price up once more, there is currently no way of earning said credits in game either.
like i said theres a fair few bugs, random #gamecrashes are the biggest,
i hope you like my little review of #palia on the first week of #openbeta