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@AtlanteanMan The developers said they’d continue to add content for the next few years lol

@Kalmaro Why did you respond then?

@OrangeSoda she doesn’t have an amiibo/isn’t from the original collab set.

@alexybubble Nope for now it’s just for the returning AC villagers but maybe we’ll get something for her later on.

@Anti-Matter only if you have their amiibos or are willing to trade

@Silly_G “In limited quantities” What? the cards had been out of print for years lmao; the only ones that were/are currently available are either hacked NFC chips or people that kept them hoarded for years to sell them at marked up prices but even then it’s rare to find them as they are nowadays. Just be happy that they’re coming back and stop being negative with the “they should have been in the game since the beginning” lmao like for who? The few hundred people that already owned the cards vs the millions that didn’t? It makes sense for them to be re-released at the same time as the cards officially being reprinted.

As well, technically there were Sanrio things in the game from the beginning. If you scan the card, you get posters. The villagers are a “new” addition.

@suikoden Because it doesn’t have less content than the older games lol. There’s plenty of furniture and hours of things to do, as well as a lot of things that take up space. Just because you don’t enjoy every feature of the game doesn’t mean it’s empty.

@VoidofLight How so? It’s only 60 dollars and offers hours of content and events almost every month. To begin with a big part of animal crossing as a series was decorating, so why is it surprising that we get new furniture with this update? I guess AC ISNT for everyone but this reaction seems a little strange.

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.

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

I don’t see why this didn’t happen sooner. A bunch of businesses were using Animal crossing to market their products and I was also curious about how Biden and co. using the game to promote their campaigns was allowed.

@Anti-Matter I think they didn’t show the other ingredients because it’ll be a surprise.

@shonenjump86 K.K. Slider already comes to your island and you can get emotes from just playing regularly. There’s no point of bringing back that feature unless you just want more buildings in general, which is reasonable.

@Harmonie there’s a new stack of presents too and a Christmas cake log.. thing. I don’t think they showed EVERYTHING that’s in the update in the trailer or on the blog.

I m most excited for the pumpkin planting

@progx Animal Crossing is also a popular franchise. Has been since it’s release all those years ago. So it’s a combination of the pandemic, plus people just liking Animal Crossing in general. And regardless of how it’s making that money, it’s still making that money and would have still made a bunch of money if it weren’t for the pandemic because it’s Animal Crossing.

@johnvboy Everyone? The few hundreds of people on twitter complaining do not equal everyone; and even if it did, no one really started complaining until they were several months into the game, which is pretty good considering you only get one or two days of content out of most games before you get bored of it or notice its flaws.

@inenai It’s highly unlikely as if you could just grow star fragments tree, shooting stars would become obsolete.

@Ekzakt Evidently some things are easier to fix or add than others. Star fragment trees are just money trees to begin with, so it wouldn’t have been hard to revert them back. Probably only took one or two lines of code.

@polarbear Ehhh, most of the features from New Leaf existed in the games before it. Diving and the dream suite feature are the only features that I remember were exclusive to New Leaf unless you’re also counting NPC’s they brought back, but the NPC’s were used for New Horizons exclusive features/events. There was no wedding season event in the previous game, for example. And Harvey’s role in New Leaf was way different than his New Horizons one.

Anyway, according to the game files these were already in the game from the beginning. The player just didn’t have access to them because they’re releasing them on a schedule.

@LilMuku They never said the content was new. They’ve always marketed them as free updates, which shouldn’t even be subject to complaints because they’re FREE. imagine if they made us paid for these. Then you’d really be upset.

Also, ?? Without most of these features, you could still get hundreds of hours of playtime out of decorating and terraforming your island alone. Way more play time than games you spend $60 dollars on but only have like 2 days or less worth of content. It’s already worth the retail price.

@Crono1973 The headline didn’t claim that it was free. They specify in the video that you need Nintendo Online. It’s a shame, but I doubt it was anything that they could control considering how the Switch works.

@Grandiajet Diving is already in the game and has been for the past month. A two new buildings should be coming in the fall update, though. They’re in the games files.

@Apportal Eeer.... these files were in the game from the beginning. They just implement them over time. They’re very clearly on a schedule lol

@noswitchbutidc Yeah, the people who mod things they don’t like out of games that are meant to be fun and ARE fun despite the sea bass “problem” are fun at parties too. /s

There’s really no point of playing a game that relies on chance/luck if you just get rid of the things you don’t want so you can get better stuff easier.

@Laoak Regardless of that, the game is meant to be played a certain way. Otherwise you wouldn’t need a mod to wipe something you don’t like out of the game entirely. You would simply be able to do it.

@SalvorHardin I know right? Its like they’re working through a pandemic or something!

They did make some QOL changes, like fixing the incredibly stupid visitor schedule for example. They just never announced the specific changes. But check out the dataminer Ninji.

@Freddyfred It didn’t really have that much more content, to be honest. Only a few key mechanics here and there, most of which existed in the entries before New Leaf. Thinking back, New Leaf really just outsourced most of the things you could do in the game to interactions with NPC’s. New Horizons instead streamlined most of the mechanics to make it easier on the players, and less tedious to play, but some NPC’s had to be sacrificed or repurposed as a result (Reese and Cyrus for example).

A lot of the other features weren’t that important. Tortimers island where you played mini-game’s and collected medals for more furniture? You don’t need a whole island to play Mini-games in New Horizons. You can just invite some friends over and do it. And from what I remember, one of the mini games was catching a bunch of bugs? Or a bunch of fish. And we play hide and seek with our villagers everyday as they’re increasingly difficult to find. New leaf having more fruit wasn’t that great either, as fruit are either just decorations or used to break rocks faster or cut down trees.

Was there something that was really fun in New Leaf that you wish we could do in New Horizons? Dream Suite and Brewsters are returnin in New Horizons according to data mines so those don’t count.

No, the game doesn’t feel “incomplete” to me. There was plenty to do in the base game before they started rolling out updates.

The only “issue” New Horizons has in that regard, which i don’t really consider an issue but others do, is adding content post-release that are mechanics from the previous games ALONG with features that didn’t exist in the previous games. I frankly agree that diving SHOULD have been in the base game and not an update as it’s such a little feature and doesn’t really make that big of an impact on the game, especially since they didn’t innovate much when implementing it into this game. When I read that diving would be returning, i thought we’d actually be able to see what’s under the water, and pretty coral reefs and stuff. When we got it, It’s simply okay, and I can see how it can get boring fairly quickly, especially if you time travel all the diy recipes and sea creatures (If you get bored in that scenario, it’s more on you than it is on the developers tbh).

But other than that? Meh? No? A lot of the missing features are pretty unimportant, and were probably largely ignored by players of the previous entries in the franchise when the novelty wore of. It’s pretty commonplace for nostalgic players to get prissy when things are missing, even if they’re largely unimportant and don’t impact the overall experience of the game. You can get hundreds of hours of gameplay out of New Horizons before you get bored, and this is with most past game features missing, so that either says something about the entertainment value of New Horizons or the Animal Crossing franchise as a whole.

@Rika_Yoshitake Gamers these days want to be able to blast through things and when they aren’t handed to them right out of the gate, they complain that they aren’t getting their money’s worth even after putting on months of work into the game BEFORE getting bored with it and thusly pretending it lacks the features needed to keep them interested long term.

@Spoony_Tech This. Especially if you’re a time traveler. Once you blast through all the content in the game, what are you going to do then? We get updates at the beginning of every month now. It’s not so bad and could definitely be worse.

This is really cute but I hope that won’t be the only use for the twitter account

@mantez that was updated when diving was implemented. You’ll get every visitor every two weeks now. They also fixed some other things too like the villagers not giving the player quests that often. Now they do it more often than before.

@X68000 It wasnt “bare bones” as it gave hundreds of hours of content. Missing mostly unimportant features like diving didn’t really make a difference in that regard. The game also wasn’t released too early. It was delayed with the release date reupdated.

They deliberately left things out as they said in multiple interviews to add over time in order to extend the lifespan of the game, which makes sense because if everything was in the game from the beginning, people would blow through it all and complain about being bored. Now we have new things to do every month, and a reason to keep coming back to the game after a while.

I don’t know how after 3 months, that it isn’t apparent that the game is on a schedule.

@Joe-b They did. You just have to talk to your villagers more than once, sometimes up to 3 times. It also depends on what your villager is standing by, as they’ll comment on furniture.

@SCAssassin It’s random. Sometimes he’ll give you DIY’s and other times he’ll give you clothes or pearls. It’s annoying getting pearls back to back when you need diys though.

@Apportal they did say they would be updating the game for years so it makes sense that they really constantly working on it.

It’s not selling 100k like it was before, but it’s still doing pretty great. It’s bound to slow down eventually, though. Especially since a Switch shortages are still a thing.

@Mrnotultra last of us 2 gameplay is great even though it’s just a slightly more polished rehash of the gameplay from the first game. Acting is great. Graphics are great. The story, it’s execution and it’s ending “moral” is where the game fails. Also, I suppose debatably, none of the characters are likable and the main relationships the game focuses on are boring.

@Apportal_SMM2 Probably because this is a repeat of an event a lot of people probably cleared already. The pascal guide is probably not needed anymore either because there were already guides the day the update released.

im glad these event items are international. These look great in my shrine-ish area. In New Leaf you couldn’t celebrate Tanabata unless you were in Japan.

@Yosher Well that’s what diving was in the previous game too. I hope they add more things to do in the water than New Leaf did though.

@stevenw45 Really don’t need to make all those precautions for something that is easily avoidable. As soon as you see someone change into a wet suit, end the session. If you hear someone jump into the water, end the session. Or don’t invite people you don’t trust to your island. It’s not hard.

All y’all did by making this article is give more scammers the idea to use the water to ruin people’s islands.

@ReikoMortis We’re 3 months into the game and you still think New Horizons was not only rushed, but that the reason the game is adding things via updates is because they couldn’t while the game was in development? Who told you that? Because That’s not the case.

Nintendo said from the beginning that the “missing” content was intentional and that they would be releasing updates overtime to extend the lifespan of the game. It was never missing content, as everything that was “missing” was in the game files from the beginning and given out over time. The game is on a very apparent schedule and acts like a live service so everyone can experience the gameplay together and enjoy everything in real time. I don’t know how diving being implemented in the summer didn’t tip you off that the game is very deliberately on a schedule and these updates are planned out, even if they’re finished already.

@sanderev More like saying something negative on Twitter to farm likes because it validates them and it’s a cool thing to do. Whoever is running the twitter doesn’t care and will just proceed business as usual anyway.

@Ogbert Why would she need to announce Kicks? If he’s on the square, you’re going to see him anyway. Flick seemingly shows up on your island unannounced so why would she know he’s there. Sure it’ll give Isabelle more to do, but it wouldn’t make sense. The villagers also already do that job for her.

@RhiannonRune Why when most visitors show up unannounced (Gulliver, Redd, Flick for example) or are on the plaza where you would see them anyway? The villagers will also already tell you who is on the island regardless of who it is.

What needs to happen is that they should add icons on the map for every NPC so you know they’re there and where to find them. Isabelle announcing them isn’t going to make running around the island to find Flick any easier.

@60frames-please At least you can speed through the dialogue which only takes a few seconds of your time. They really do need to implement a skip button though. For Saharah, at least. She talks too much.

@noswitchbutidc Isabelle announcing redd wouldn’t make sense. If they knew the ship back there, someone would probably have to investigate it. The villagers tell you about it because they’re less likely to care, but Redd doesn’t need to be announced because he shows up on the Map anyway unlike the other NPC’s.