Why do old Sky CoTL players QUIT ?

i don't think it's a bad thing that people stop playing Sky. Some things aren't meant to be played continuously. Some things have a beginning and an end. The beauty of Sky is that that "end" can be wherever you want it to be, whether it's your first eden, once you've gotten all the wing buffs, exclusively playing seasons, grinding for the TS each week-2 weeks, buying every single item in Sky, or whatever else.

As someone who plays sky a lot (and that I’ve been around for seven months), I can say with certainty that candle runs are insanely boring, and I almost never do them. Sky is really repetitive, which I feel like might be its worst flaw.

I actually prefer playing this game alone. I feel disappointed when one of my friends comes to join me on a run because all I really want to do is just have a nice peaceful quiet flight. I could spend hours just flying around, thinking, listening to music and just enjoying the casual and fleeting interactions that I do share with strangers. Friends leaving will never be a reason for me to stop playing this game.

I feel like im listening to an old man rant to me about world problems on a park bench

Hi, I’m an old player and I just wanted to share my experience. I found Sky through a Facebook advertisement and I was immediately intrigued. I started playing Sky in 2018 and the game has gone through many, many, changes. I quit after playing for around 5 months. Why? One reason was because they changed so much things. One change that bothered me was the new flight system back then. Before that new flight system, we were able to fly freely. Another thing that made me quit Sky was a thing you mentioned in your video, the game becoming boring. Back then, I didn’t know you could do candle runs to gain more candles so while playing Sky, I just roamed around all the realms. While roaming the Sky kingdom, there were little to no players I could light or talk with, we were just a small community back then. But when I do come across other players, most of them would become my friends which made me happy, but I never got to talk to them. Until one day, I decided to try and go through Wasteland (I haven’t reached the temple back then because I was afraid of the Krills lmao). A stranger came in and befriended me. They guided me through the entire realm. While we did lose our emotes (we lost emotes back then rather than winged light), I was glad that someone came and helped me. We unlocked chat and talked to each other. They kept apologizing because we kept getting hit by Krills haha. Weeks later we went through the last realm and finished it. I almost cried during the ending. But, I didn’t know what to do afterwards. I went through the realm again but this time I went alone. I roamed the realms again and again, but the kingdom felt empty. That was when I decided to quit Sky. COVID spread through the entire world and we stayed in our homes, isolated from the world. My friends from school chat with me sometimes only, so I felt lonely. I kept drawing illustrations, but it never felt enough. I scrolled through Instagram, but I felt empty. Until, I found a post related to Sky. The sensation I felt when I saw that post was nostalgic. The game looked so different, there were new cosmetics and new things. It made me melancholic. So, I came back to the Sky kingdom. I was in awe, it was like I was playing the game with a fresh start. The servers weren’t empty, there were kids running around. It felt like my loneliness disappeared. After 2 weeks, I finally reunited with my friend and I was happy. I roamed around the realms with people I could befriend. People sat with me on the chat benches. I made new friends. It was a place I could escape to from reality. Sorry for the long comment and possibly bad grammar;; I wanted to get something out of my chest. Sky: Children of the Light helps me cope during this pandemic. I’m really glad I came back.

Before Sky was released on Mobile, everyone was legit nice. The bored senpais always picked up and helped the little ones and you'll always randomly see flocks of 3-6 flying around with one Pro and the rest newbies. It was a really nice era in Sky but sadly it's gone now..

I’m a veteran and all of these are just facts at this point. The only reason I go online is because when I mentioned it to my friends that I’d be leaving they begged me not to. This game has been involved with a lot of emotionally attached memories that I formed with my friends, there are things that we can’t control and friendships just escalates and dies at one point for some. Not to mention that because of that I ended up choosing to go solo/hiatus for months before I was stable enough to let other people in my life again. Even with that whole shenanigans the game is incredibly boring in my perspective after playing for so long (no offense, I just had to admit it.) Me and my other Veteran friends discussed about this topic and after that most of them just left after saying goodbye or rarely went online. Now that the community is growing and Sky is getting more popular it doesn’t exactly “feel like before” is what we would say, before the huge updates, before the global release, before the android release. Everything is just different and the feeling we once had in playing the game became cold and stale (not all the time of course, just in a nutshell).

if something was changing on the map everytime we go candle run at least every 2 week or month, or if the quests were not always the same then maybe it could be less "boring" cause it's a pretty cool game that i dont want to quit but as you said i cant find anymore reasons to play sky if it will be like this all the time (sorry bad english)

I saw some other comment here abt Sky being their second life and I haven’t related so much to something in months. I started playing March 1st 2020 during lockdown and I did isle-vault in 2 days. I waited weeks before I dared to do Eden (x At fist the thing that kept me playing was the collection of cosmetics and to explore the world, but after a while it started to get boring. I started looking for friends in-game (it turns out there’s nearly no ppl in my country that has even heard abt this game, so no use looking there). I talked to strangers as much as possible as it was the only enjoyable thing for me atm, and finally in June I met a person at a random table in prairie (x She was a bit older than me, but we still got along. She even introduced me to another one of her friends. Only days later the three of us met FOUR different ppl that we got along with. All 7 of us actually call ourselves a family. The girl I met on that table is now my Sky mom that I love with all my heart, I have a Sky dad that I reference memes with all the time, I have 2 lovely Sky aunties that I candle run with and talk abt musical theatre with and 2 adorable younger cousins that i would die for. I honestly have a better relationship to my friends on Sky than on the few friends I have irl. I’m terrified of my family one day dissolving and leaving Sky. Some of them only play once a week when the entire family meet up for Eden. I haven’t had likeminded friends irl in 8 years, so meeting all these amazing ppl online feels like blessing. Sky is the only place this could happen and I’m eternally grateful for tgc’s view on strangers from all over the world socializing online. While the fact that the game heavily relies on having friends might be a great struggle for many (I’ve been there), I also think it has saved a lot of ppl (also been there). Sorry for possibly clumsy English And sorry for long comment Edit: thank you for all the nice comments. I see there’s a lot of ppl that aren’t as lucky as me so if you would like to mby be friends, here’s my discord, Eduki#9918

You’ve got the reasons pointed out, cause I had these 2 friends back in 2019 during Sky: Lights Awaits. They were my mentor. Showed me places I’ve never been to, lead me to collect emotes and went with me thru Eden. Just when Sky: LA turned into Sky: COTL. Aviary was gone and a new lobby, Home Space. Many memories were made and of course, they took a break from Sky. I hope one day I can see them again and this time, introduce them to the new world of Sky.

for me this game is like a second life, a brand new start, a brand new world, with a brand new friends, i remember the first time i played sky was 5 months ago, i know im not a veteran but to me its a long time, i completed the first eden run in one sitting, but at my first play i met a girl and i was simping for her, so we played alot of it, get to know each other and one day she just dissapeared, and at that point on sky was really boring, until i played it again recently to make new friends and yeah the content is boring, but for me meeting new strangers and get to know them never gets old, but hey thats just my opinion

You nailed it on the head with all three reasons

The same old map~ The same old music~ The candle-running loop~ Old friends keep leaving this game~ Too tired to find a new best friend~ Also, having fun with friends are only about flying together, talk to each other, playing music then travel to OOB places. ——End up only exciting with traveling spirits and new season stuffs. That’s it. SKY is a very good-Indy game. But one day people will get bored and look for new things. That’s a fact.

Great, Now I am scared to become old :'(

but why everytime i make friends in sky they communicate with me all day long and then the next day its like im just a stranger to them :/

As a (apparently?) veteran player that's been playing since the start of Lightseekers, I don't know what really keeps me in the game, to stop playing it is like suddenly just never coming home because you don't like this one couch in your room. Sky is... almost like home to me. I don't play any other games that require a high amount of dedication like sky, and I pretty much don't want to. Literally, it's just home. It's not perfect, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Perhaps it's the community that keeps me there? The comfort of having something so beautiful be so familiar to me? Even as a moth, Sky never felt foreign or strange to me- I suppose the first actual game you really play feels like that. Quitting such a game like that isn't something sudden, like a quick yank at the heartstrings. It's gradual, something that grows inside of you that you never question, never even think much of. It just happens. @Starbyt the Doodler explains it so well, that games in this explorative, vague-lore format have their end only where you decide, and I think that's what make the world of Sky feel so wonderful and peaceful, but not overly fantastical and static- it feels real. Maybe as a newer player, seeing someone quit like that and ever so slowly detach seems so unbelievable and immense (I know I would as a moth), but you just eventually... understand. Personally, all this potentially menial task-doing and candle-running gives me some sort of solace. I don't think Sky should be seen as a place "full of adventure and discovery", but rather of peace and relaxation, like the home you don't really have to leave. I know for a fact players will all have a very personal, emotional relationship with Sky, being the emotional game, no, world that it is, so it probably resonates with different people really differently. Who knows. Maybe my thoughts will expire with time.

I’m a veteran player I stopped playing I thought I really quit sky but I didn’t delete the app. I came back when season of rhythm was 1 week away from ending. To this day all my fellow veteran friends don’t play sky so I decided to unfriend them since I don’t wanna be reminded of that pain of losing friends. I’m glad I came back honestly and honestly I prefer making new player friends (I have a soft spot for moths now lol). I can’t wait to see what sky will look like in 2-5 years.

I’ve always enjoyed the loops, my entire life is big and unpredictable, things change way too often. But in sky, I feel like I have more control in my life. I feel more stable. The changes are small and you can always find people to help you if you can’t find your way.

Tbh the reasons I'd almost quit as because everything is getting super expensive. Like the game is getting more popular and things are getting even more expensive which is just wack to me. I'd bought every season pass from gratitude to sanctuary. Things are also getting abit repetitive and they're starting to not listen as much. They're removing things and fixing things nobody asked for. The day they remove the chunk glitch is the day I quit