New Restrictions Placed On Time Travel In Animal Crossing: New Horizons

It might be cheating but you’re only cheating yourself. Like peeking at cards in solitaire, where’s the fun?

Hah !
I knew it.
Oh, well...
I still have a lot time to play other games or keep time travelling for other events to exploit the items.
Time traveller will never give up ! 🤟

I appreciate this! It's always a bummer to catch spoilers when browsing around online before an event even happens.

Look anyone who has a issue with them restricting it BA to you bc you cheating is cheating and if you don't want to play the game like everyone els then don't buy it. But How I feel I really love that they did this, its nice to not have spoilers, its nice to know that you have to wait for that time xmas day like in real life.

Evah Destruction's tweet gets featured before Isabelle herself? Didn't realise Nintendolife were Dragula fans

I don't need Christmas right now anyway, too many DIY recipes to get before November is over...

I don't time travel, but sucks for the people that do
I understand everyone schedule is not the same and wanting to get a head start
As long as TT are respectful and don't post anything online to spoil surprises I don't care and think people should be able to play the game how they want

The most annoying thing about the Halloween update was DAY 1 of it being out all the time travelers were bragging online showing off their fully decorated Halloween towns with everything unlocked. I’m so glad this is no longer a thing. We all share the same internet communities, it is RUDE to jump ahead and show others what happens. End of conversation.

Did people really not expect this?

@Kimyonaakuma
"I don't need Christmas right now anyway"

All I Want For Christmas is You...

No problems with that here. I’d prefer not to have AC events spoiled ahead of time, especially the month-long ones. I work second shift and don’t always have time to play, especially during the day, so it’s nice that I can still turn time back if I miss out on something, though.

@jamesthemagi if the people that TT are busy and miss it they can TT back and do it that way

All the articles are saying it's a new restriction, but Bunny Day did this too.

Toy day was always the best holiday in any AC game because the music and the snow!

theres no harm in time travelling for a single player game

The spoilers thing I can kinda understand, though how are people being spoiled so easily. I haven't even played they game since June and I have no clue what the other holidays look like. This article actually spoiled more for me than anything else, haha.

I don't see a problem with people doing what they want single-player. I get not wanting spoilers though, I hate spoilers.

I love Nintendolife, but WOW they report on stuff that isn't new as being new a lot.

Was the same for Bunny Day, a patch contained the data ... it wasn't part of the games code until you patched, so you can't "time trivial" to use a feature that isn't part of your freaking game code yet.

That is ALL that happening here. Using time trivial as click bait by suggesting this is a change to that "style of play" is honestly shameful, and horrible journalistic integrity. The headline should say

"Yo, you can't play toy day yet because you don't have the datafiles. Dah."

Stopped playing this a month after it came out but good for people who still care.

Animal Crossing should be enjoyed however a player wants to enjoy the game. It's a mostly relaxed, single player experience that's personal to that particular player. TT should be perfectly fine as the player should have the option to dictate the game's pace not the other way around. I haven't played New Horizons since a little after Bunny Day, so there's plenty for me to take in when I do decide to pick up the game again.

BUT I WANT IT TO BE CHRISTMAS NOW!!!! I’m a GROWN UP!!! Christmas plays by MY RULES!!’ NOT the other way around!!! WHY DOES NInTENDO continue to treat us like BABIES!???!! I’M a ReSPONSiBLE, WELL ADJUSTED ADULTTTT!!! YOU CANT HOLD MY TOY DAY TO RANSOM NINTENDO!!!

NOT FAIR!!!!

How can the game even tell the difference between the clock being skipped forward and it being the actual day in reality?

Really wish I knew how to post a gif here because I would post one of Cher’s music video for If I Could Turn Back Time.

Make everyone angry by selling time travel passes for real money.

@Sam_Loser2
Well, on System setting menu, you can set your time manually or sycnh with your actual Time Zone.
To able join in Festival events, your time clock must be sycnhed with actual Time zone, not by manual adjustment that considered as Time Travel time setting.

I'm so happy Nintendo finally found a way to stop those cheaters. I like to be surprised in the game and not know weeks in advance what is going to happen.

I hate People who time travel forward, if your busy on the day you can still time travel backwards to participate

@Kitoro
There is when they post about it online

I'm not fussed either way, it's nice to have a few surprises now though.

I mean, if you don't have the time you can play them later. I'm not sure why that's so much worse than playing earlier.

I did appreciate having guides that tell me how many things I can find at what time, especially for the wedding event with its arbitrary order limit the game never tells you about until you actually hit it. I would have missed out on so many items because I tend to save up first to know what I can actually afford.

@nessisonett Until they start posting spoilers online. I've seen our local resident time traveler post spoilers about what's to come on here. It kinda does take the fun out of it, reading about it online instead of finding out yourself. Which wouldn't be a problem if this wasn't possible, because then everyone would find out at the same time.

And yet all the new items for Turkey Day and Toy Day have been spoiled online. Hackers are even selling the items for real money. Well done Nintendo.

Time travelleres killed the fun out of this game. Nintendo already designed it so that special events are longer than just a few days to make it easier on people with a tight gaming schedule. I hope the next game bans these cheaters, at least in its first year.

@Tokujo
I think is difficult who to blame there, should it be the hackers that get the 'hate', or Nintendo for leaving the holes.

It seems to me that there are little that the hackers can't break into, which begs to ask why there is so much reliance on the technology.

I never did any time travel as I always wanted to play at the pace Nintendo intended, and enjoyed the game for the 'game.' I knew this was going to happen though, and in my opinion it should. Some things you just need to wait and enjoy as it comes time...stop fancying yourself Dr. Strange.

I'm fine with this. As long as we can travel backwads in case we missed an event. And I only think that option is fair in case I or someone else has to send in their Switch for repair.
I'd be fine if Mr Resetti came out to chew time travellers out too. ^^

I’m personally in the “don’t time travel” camp. However I don’t see TT’ing as cheating and I don’t begrudge those that do it.. doing it. It’s a game and people should be able to play it how they want

The tears sustain me

I mean I never time travel and I don't really agree people who do, but... Why do this? It's so unnecessary.

@HeadPirate am I missing something? I saw loads of people skipping ahead to 31 October for the Halloween event. The news here is that people can no longer do that because the system checks whether the real-world date is correct...

I just don't like that you have to wait for the day of the event to get cool decorations for the event. Like I wanted to make my Island all spooky but I had to wait for Spooky day to make it all spooky so it kinda defeats the point.

Also every Holiday is just a few fetch quests

There should be a ban on anyone doing time travel. It created a toxic community where anyone who doesn't tt is attacked because their islands suck, aren't pretty, etc. And the interest rate, nerfed because of time travellers. The list goes on, by now I believe we all know the side effects of tt. Ban it Nintendo, grow some balls!

All the people saying, "Why does Nintendo bother when this is a single player game," have you forgotten about the online component?

@bosh

You can go ahead and do the event as soon as the game files are there. Always has been that way, always will be that way. Bunny day the game files showed up the day of the event. Halloween they were part of the fall patch for some reason, which is why you could skip ahead. Toy day and Turkey day are not part of the winter patch, so it's like bunny day ... we likely wont even have the files until the day of the event.

The important part is nothing has changed in the way this is being handled, even if it's pretty arbitrary, It's misleading to say this has anything to do with Nintendo making some sort of blanket change to how it's going to handle all events and/or it has anything to do with blocking time travel.

I don’t take issue with people time traveling, but I loathe seeing YouTube thumbnails of holiday events weeks before they actually happen. The game might be a solitary experience, but irresponsible time travelers ruin surprises for those who want to play the game the way it was intended to be enjoyed. I for one am so glad for this change.

I actually think time travelling ruins the game. I'd be playing the game normally and my girlfriend was TT'iing, all my friends were too. I go to their towns and then they go to mine and think I'M the n00b!
B***h please, I was playing AC long before you!

I'm only being half serious. I do think it wrecks the game's spirit, though and I'll actually be bowing out of the series from here on. I'll just take my memories and leave. Hope everyone else continues to enjoy it though.

But a bit of a prediction: The next game in the series won't sell anywhere near the same numbers.

Outrage culture is so exhausting...

I dont think TT was such a problem for previous games in the series but now with the advancement of social media since New Leafs era its incredibly hard to avoid spoilers (save for absconding from the internet entirely 😅). Its reassuring to know that people can TT backwards to events they may have missed however so all is not lost for players who do like to TT, doing it this way keeps everyone happy & even those who are completley against TT no longer have an argument against it.

So they finally notice that good for them

@CodyMKW
Oh ok, didn't know that
That's cool

Is toy day christmas eve or christmas?

@TheSmashTheorist Toy day is December 24th.

I timetraveled on my first island....

I have nightmares, and have only done it twice on my second island

@Pandy why?

@Kieroni As did Wedding Season. It’s not a new thing.

First of all, this isn’t new. Major events like Bunny Day and wedding season were timelocked too. Secondly, Nintendo must be getting as tired of the time travelers whining about no content when they blast through everything as we are of hearing it. Deserved honestly.

If you don't invest 20 years of your life's research, in a flux capacitor you don't deserve to timetravel... But that's just my 2c

This is awesome, I love that Nintendo did this. No more spoilers, now everyone has to wait fair and square which is fair for the developers as well as it is the way they intended the events to be played. People complaining that they don't have time to wait for the event or that they don't have time to play on the actual day will have to suck it up because the fact that we are allowed to time travel backwards to experience the events incase we miss them means all their whining excuses are 100% invalid and just makes them look bad lmao

@nessisonett a lot of people would TT - get all the unique items - return to the present and trade them for bells/NMTs.

The Facebook/Youtube/Reddit social component of the ACNH can’t be forgotten.

Patients is a virtue.

Christmas is the most anticipated holiday of the year so it seems only fitting to make everyone wait.

Put yourself in the Devs shoes. If they intended you to get something on a specific day and you manipulated your clock(Outside of the game) to get it early that must be annoying to them. I’ve been playing since wild world when they had actual consequences doe tting. It could be so much worse.

I'm good with this, so long as they don't hurt you for going back. I was busy a lot of October so want to go back and play leading up to Halloween. I've never wanted to do events early, just be able to do what I missed.

I’ve got a problem with the holidays being called turkey day and toy day. As for me and my house we thankfully celebrate Thanksgiving, and we rejoice that Jesus came at Christmas. It’s not about the turkey or the toys. Don’t let the world make this holiday shallow with birds and toys. Games have no problems showing blood and gore but they want to take the good things out. Not in my house!

I guess I see a reason to stop people from snooping for presents. I would like to see Nintendo add a feature where one could play or replay holiday events they missed or want to revisit, w/o having to change their system date and time. They could limit this to 12 or 6 months or something. I hear so many people say they can't play games during most holidays, at least the adults.

@Snatcher you say "don't buy it" but what about those who have already bought it and now have it made so they cant play the events because they are too busy to participate, plus the whole piont of the game is to play your own way, yet they remove more and more of what helps to make your island your's. l plus it's a simple case of 'if you don't like time travelling, then dont do it.' What others do on their island shouldn't effect you and you shouldn't dictate what they can and cant do.

@joeynitro Some people just don't want to be spoiled. also for those who got the game I'm mostly talking about the people who are thinking about it or are mad about but still want to get it. Things like this happens with games all the time, were they will change somthing even after you have gotten used to it, sadly there is nothing you can do.