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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 พ.ค. 2024
- Often labeled the "most wholesome community," today we look back on some of it's worst periods.
0:00 Intro
1:00 Greed
5:10 Pride
6:43 Envy
8:10 Lust
9:26 Wrath
12:37 Gluttony
14:55 Sloth
15:49 Outro
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As a veteran AC fan, everything shifted after NH. The fanbase just went psychotic after that game came out.
Agreed I've been around since City Folk and the New Horizons community had me feeling like as was in the Animal Crossing TRENCHES.
I remember time travelling just being a normal thing in the ac community but after nh came out and so many new players came, they all got offended by it for some reason?
@@cedar4539 yeah true but I feel like after nh people people weren't mad or jealous about it but became furious and said yOu pLaY tHe gAmE wRonG
true ! I started with Wild World when I was a kid, and I have to admit that in New Leaf, the community started to drift to the dark side a little. ( I'm looking at you, thieves, people who said innapropriate stuffs and bullies online ! ) but since New Horizons.. damn I never thought the AC community would be worse.
I think its also due to, in big part, the massive influx of people from outside of that community. Most people who played ACNL or ACWW or AC were pretty chill and pretty OG- The game was big but definitely not BIG like ACNH. And with that burst, came new people, and thus, new problems.
Devs: **consistently puts in the ability to time travel**
Players: **does the thing**
Devs: **surprised pikachu face**
technically the "ability to time travel" has been more a function of keeping your game in-tune with the real world clock than anything. like if you live in pennsylvania but you go on vacation to cali, you need to be able to tell your game that so it accurately reflects daytime events. they obviously never intended for it to be a means of burning through a year's worth of gameplay in 3 weeks.
What if Mr Resetti scolded you for time traveling?
@@dietotaku You're right; they didn't intend for it to be abused, however I'm poking fun at them for scolding people for abusing time travel. It kinda read to me like they didn't expect people to abuse it.
They're perfectly within their own right to be upset by it, but if it's such a big deal as to go online and scold players for it, then it makes me wonder if and what they are going to do to eliminate it.
If nothing can be done, then there's no reason to be so upset about it. Let people play the way they want to play. That's one of the main attraction points of the game.
@@fadedgames1 Hmm, you really don't like people who time travel, do you?
Even if it's just to check Nook's Cranny for a furniture item? Like, 5 minutes? You really can't stand someone time traveling 5 minutes in the past?
@@choryllis6646 plus like adults play these games and alot of them are often extemly busy-how do they expect them to not time travel😭
I remember when I was giving away Marshal 😂 people were offering me 10 mil bells or 100’s of nook mile tickets… I ended up giving Marshal away for free to a little girl who really wanted him. She ended up giving me 10k bells and some items which was sweet lol
People freaked out 😅 got actual threats and some really harsh messages sent to me by some of the others (after I updated my auction post) basically about how I didn’t deserve to control Marshal’s fate or some shii…& that’s putting it lightly. They were seriously furious with me. - The obsession people had over him and Raymond was really on another level back then lmao
I don't understand why everyone goes crazy over these villagers. Like, let me just enjoy my "inoptimal" villagers in peace.
So let me get this straight. You got threats saying you shouldn't be able to control Marshal's fate...by people who, by wanting him on their own islands, basically intended to do exactly that?
@@thedeerguy7579
Yep, it was insane lmao all hell broke loose right after I updated my post about Marshal; I thanked everyone for their many generous offers but decided to give Marshal away for free to a little girl (a friend’s 7 year old little sister)
Got lots of random threats and harassing messages which summed up basically said;
• I had no right to decide his fate so quickly like that and needed to “carefully go over all the offers”
• how a child wouldn’t be able to “truly respect and appreciate Marshal”
• how I need to apologize personally to each person who made an offer because Marshal was a “comfort character” or whatever to many people and I truly upset them by not choosing them…🙄
• EVEN how I was “insulting and disrespecting” the entire AC community by giving him away for free for the following reasons: he didn’t have an amiibo card yet so he’s a rare/treasured villager - there are tons of people who spent countless hours or even days villager hunting for Marshal - and how they would spend every bell they had or even real money to get him. So giving him away for free was a “slap in the face” to those people 💀
Like…the fck lmao
@@thedeerguy7579
Wow, didn’t realize I wrote that much in my previous comment lol my bad.
But anyways; after all that happened I noticed it was sadly a very common reaction for others to get too. People were *seriously crazed* about certain villagers (called “dreamies”).
One even told me I was responsible for shattering her heart and ruining her week. Claimed she cried the entire night because Marshal deserved to be with her; so he could properly be loved & cared for. - just…🫠 huh…?
Like….seriously? 😅🤷♀️ all the hysterics and legitimate anger over a *virtual squirrel*
@@thedeerguy7579
Idk why my comment was removed…?
I’ll repost:
Yep, it was insane lmao people went mad right after l updated my post about Marshal;
I thanked everyone for their many generous offers but decided to give Marshal away for free to a little girl (a friend's 7 year old little sister)
Got lots of messages which summed up basically said;
• I had no right to decide his fate so quickly like that and needed to "carefully go over all the offers"
• how a child wouldn't be able to "truly respect and appreciate Marshal"
• how I need to apologize personally to each person who made an offer because Marshal was a "comfort character" or whatever to many people and I truly upset them by not choosing them...🙄
• EVEN how I was "disrespecting" the entire AC community by giving him away for free for the following reasons: he didn't have an amiibo card yet so he's a rare/treasured villager - there are tons of people who spent countless hours or even days villager hunting for Marshal - and how they would spend every bell they had or even real money to get him. So giving him away for free was a "slap in the face" to those people 💀
Like…. Lmao seriously?
Honestly the “Raymond in a maid dress“ meme was funny and wholesome at first but got out of hand way too much.
ikr
Well
I mean Consider the Source
Its a Cat (Person?)
In a Maid Dress
@@Mr.Brothybear THATS RECIPE FOR 4K DISASTER
Well, here's a fun fact for you: It's actually viable from a gameplay standpoint to give Raymond a maid dress to wear to improve your friendship with him.
The AC community is 90% chill, but man that other 10%. My experience with New Horizons was so different from New Leaf, in both good and bad ways. Feeling connected to an online community is great, but I also kind of miss the more personal and private times with past games. For example I have both Marshall and Raymond on my island, but I don't even really like either of them. I just invited them to my island because I knew how famous they were, and now I don't feel like I can let them leave. Where in New Leaf I didn't care about anything like that, and formed my own opinions about the villagers. So interesting to watch what happens when you throw 35 million players into an online community together
Let them move, invite a rando from the internet to pick them up, boom. Problem solved.
Just remember to fence your bell trees and whatnot.
Or just let them leave. It's your game. You don't ove anyone.
They are popular, but not hard to get any more with them both having amiibo cards now.
there’s a huge difference between the villagers from new leaf and new horizons, i hadn’t played new leaf once but i remember people talking about how villagers had hobbies like this one guy liked archeology and would talk about it and villagers weren’t just things for show
If you don't like them just let them go. It's your game, you should play it in a way that you enjoy. Besides, if you have regrets or anything they both have amiibos now.
I had Raymond for like a month and since I didn't like his house (this was before the 2.0 update), as soon as he mentioned wanting to move I set him free.
Then I let him go to the first person who DMed me on Twitter when I said "Raymond is in boxes, anyone looking for him?", and the person was genuinely surprised I didn't ask for NMTs, Bells, or ACTUAL MONEY for him in return.
The "cute space buns :3" tweet probably resulted in the most insane reaction I have ever seen. I don't think anything the Animal Crossing community has done can really top that. Nothing but Wrath and Pride in those responses.
Update: Ok, did not realize that it was worse in more ways than one.
I saw this, it's depressing that people can be like that.. the user who had the cute space buns privated their account due to it and the person who told them that deleted the tweet
honestly, twitter ruined the animal crossing community. the way people tried to cancel that poor girl over a fucking _hairstyle_ is ridiculous
I’ll never forget or forgive them for that.
FR as a black person, people could have educated her abput them.being afro puffs but instead she got attacked left and right.. Makes me feel bad
I also felt really bad for her, they acted like animals & we all know that angry mob didn't actually care about cultural appropriation, only virtue signaling to "look good" to others on Twitter & it even made me afraid to ever dare wear the puffs or any of the black hairstyles myself even though I'm a white but I have poofy & tight spiraling curly hair but apparently white girls with naturally textured hair do not exist according to the Twitter mobs.
The bit on lust reminded me of a story. While I was in college, I streetpassed somebody who had their basement in New Leaf decorated with a single chair in the middle, a box of tissues next to it, and then custom designs on the walls of Lucario, Flareon, and a couple foxes that I didn't recognize. I didn't get it at first and then I looked again and thought "...waaaaaaiiiit." I just wanted some cool new furniture to order.
Those People Don't Deserve Toilet Paper
thats actually hilarious
hahahaah! someone is horny!
nah that's kinda goofy tho lol
The Nut Room
the whole “sloth” thing made me sad. i love acnh and don’t ever want to put it down for a final time, but i know it’ll come.
"It's a game about F-ing talking animals"
9:21
You've become the one thing you sought to destroy.
My reaction to that was "Phrasing!".
Furries: Sauce?
Furries when:
That line was not worded well...or it was worded perfectly, depending on what the intent was...
Wasn't that how the yellow cat came about?
"Focus on yourself......>And play the older games."
That's actually good advice. Wild World was my favorite back in the day! The younger Animal Crossing players should meet Ressetti.
I actually worked to get Resetti back in my New Leaf game just because he's one of my favorites.
I was kind of sad when i found out that Ressetti wasn't in the new AC, i'm new into the AC community and i really wanted to meet him but ig i'll just watch gameplays of the old games.
@@pascuala. Get his amiibo card and invite him to the Roost! He'll tell you how he's been trying to get his temper in check.
love ressetti, was scared of him back then but I was only 4-5 y/o so :,D
We all are a little bit like resetti
coming from someone who loves Raymond and was super excited when i finally found him to an almost irrational degree tbh, the way that people went completely feral over him is just ridiclous. the way people got so insanely greedy was awful and some people got desperate to a weird degree if we're being honest. the community really seems to have lost sight of the fact that at the end of the day, Raymond is just a digital cat and is not worth starting another world war over.
9:21 "It's a game about fucking talking animals" not sure if that was on propose or not but I like how that can mean 2 things ;)
This is what happens when fan bases get bigger.
I vehemently despise the new fandom that came along with New Horizons. I'm sorry, that's just how it is.
@@_Wakaz_ same tbh. It seems like the acnl community branched off from the newer fandom and became its own thing. It’s just the old fan base with the occasional nh bashing.
Yeah it makes me thankful that many franchises I know stay stay under appreciated gems.
@@_Wakaz_ same
This always happens in every gaming community, while you may claim that you have a nice community you're always going to have the toxic side. Its something most people fail to notice and even won't admit to it.
I had island envy myself. Everyone’s looked so much better than mine in the beginning. I was reluctant to terraform because I was nervous about doing so. Eventually I created something in a small area that I absolutely loved and it helped me get over the envy of other islands and just love mine for what it was. I’m totally in love with my island now (admittedly, finding a pathing I adore has helped tremendously).
Also, Raymond. I would never have bought him, but I did hunt for him. An AC friend actually went the mile with the campsite method and found him for me! She still doesn’t know to this day how much that meant to me because he moved into my island the day after one of my uncles passed. Raymond cheered me up, ngl. All my friend asked was that when I got Raymond’s photo if she could have it because she collects them and won’t let her villagers go until they have given her one. I was happy to do so. In contrast, I found Judy and she asked when she was ready to leave my island if she could have her and I told her yes. (Unbeknownst to her, I fell in love with Judy, so my hunt was on to find her again! And I did. 😊)
That's really nice!
That's really awesome ❤️
Same! I don't have Nintendo Online, so my island is mostly decorated with whatever flowers and items I've got, but I've made so many snack stands and picnic areas, I'm starting to fall in love with it!
same ! wanted to do a horror island and I had island envy because all the horror islands I saw was great but mine wasn't what I wanted. ( I wanted my island to be a abandonned and haunted victorian village. and I'm not good at decorating in animal crossing and this theme was too hard to do. ) but since August I started a new theme that's still on the spooky theme ( I'm doing a Halloween themed island now. ) and I'm loving how I'm doing my island so far, I don't have island envy anymore ! :D ( it's simple and all the areas are really close to each-other but meh. )
I want Judy because I think she is cute! But I'm just happy to get a wild range of villagers!
This game is so wholesome, it kept me sane and warm during lockdown , so it's strange to see people being "envious" and toxic. It's a super chill game and love how slow it is.
Also I don't get why ppl are upset with time travel. I go to work from 7-8 am and I get home at 8 pm or later. Some have full time jobs and a life so I really don't get it if you're just simply enjoying the game.
I’m an AC veteran and I remember the whole selling villagers thing and thinking it was absurd.
The best thing is, when I restarted my island and progressed a bit I decided I wanted to go to some islands so I could get some villagers onto my island. Didn’t matter to me who they were.
I ended up getting Rosie and Marshal and the smug feeling I got when I just got those two villagers no problem while watching the rest of the fandom go fucking batshit crazy over spending millions of bells on villagers like them was great 😭
I was quite happy to have marshal back actually because he was in my new leaf town
My mom got Marshal with a Nook Miles ticket I believe. Same with me, but I got Raymond, not Marshal.
I actually have Raymond on my island and you would not believe the amount of times I've had to suddenly end a visit due to how hard these people were harassing me over a heterochromatic cat
I'm pretty shure if he wasn't heterochromatic no one would care about him.
Everyone fan base have “those” people you can’t find a perfect fan base out there
Jokes on you! There’s no controversy in the rollercoaster tycoon fandom B)
What about Tetris?
Stardew
@@researchaccount9778 Absolutely not
Any big community can also get really notorious for toxicity fast.
Hollow Knight’s fandom, for example
“There will come a time when you set the game down for the last time”
That hits hard. I started playing like 3 months ago so luckily I should playing for a long long time.
A small part is bad. But most of the community is super nice
I remember one time around launch, my sister had turnips for like 423, and just let people come to her island, and some dude was so nice about it and gave her like 5 stacks of max bells because of how much he made from it, bought them for like 93 or some shit
in the reeeally early days of new horizons, raymond offered to move out so i was like “oh sick, i think people like this guy so i’ll list him on nookazon and see what happens”. someone offered me 2 million bells for him and at the time i thought that was super generous and agreed. expecting the wholesome ACNL community i was used to, i naïvely let them talk to raymond before they gave me any bells. aaand sure enough, they left without paying me then deleted their nookazon account. i was like …damn so it’s like THAT huh?
I’m not sure why the community got so upset about time traveling. It really didn’t effect others and if it was how someone wanted to play then so be it.
i dont think people realize that animal crossing could have easily forbid time traveling, but they chose not to. they LET YOU time travel, even if they say its shameful. the best example of anti time traveling mechanics is miitopia and tomodachi life, they softlock you for a day if you time travel not letting you get new items or travelers. animal crossing could do the same thing. but they dont. they let you, and its an acceptable way to play to them. its not a sin to time travel, people need to realize that
its because they feel they are in competition with other players to make a 'good' or 'impressive' island, and they know that the game is intended to be played in real time. So they feel that purposefully time traveling to progress through the game is "cheating" because you can unlock and collect things more quickly that way. So suddenly, the no-time-travel player, that thinks they are in competition with the time-traveling player, finds themself at a disadvantage. The person that is time traveling has more stuff and more bells, and it's "not fair" - its a strange mindset for a non-competitive game.
I miss being able to go back in time to experience events I missed while I was too busy to play the game. The fact Nintendo acquiesced to the people complaining about time traveling honestly killed the game for me (especially since it was a non issue). I don't have the time to play every day of the week. Used to be that I could enjoy events in my own time, but when they started forcing you to play on the exact IRL date the events happened was the exact moment I couldn't bother with the game anymore. Sucks that I have to miss so much.
@@dreadburnz3522 its weird tho because i have definitely time traveled back to events i missed since 2.0; like Festivale
@@gayrobloxgirl I don't think the dev meant it as "it's shameful to time travel" but rather "it kinda sucks that people do that, they're missing on things"
I will never understand people's disdain for time traveling like omg how dare I not have the time to hunt for a villager tomorrow so I wanna do it today. Like sometimes I'm just vibing, sometimes I just wanna go to the next day to move that fuckin house that's In the way of my decorating, chill out yall this doesn't affect you. It's my 40 dollars, I'll use it how I want. It feels like arguing with someone who hates you for putting creamer in your coffee ffs.
I will never forget about how I got Raymond as my first campsite villager (which meant I was forced to invite him onto my island), didn't really like him at first, and didn't know about how screwed up the fan base would become regarding him. I still have him on my island as he has become one of my faves, but sometimes I feel uneasy about the fact that if I really wanted to, I couldve made a couple hundred bucks by selling him during the early weeks of the game.
Now Animal Crossing’s community before was toxic but only the 1%. I feel like When New Horizons came out, I feel like there was a bigger toxicity.
definitely true 😭
y’all have twitter to thank for that. no twitter user can find the positive side of literally anything
Especially with poor Raymond being forced to wear maid dresses
IMO The NMT islands kinda ruined villagers, it was honestly more fun to see what you get, and occasionally a friend had one you wanted, but that was it! I miss that. You bonded more with villagers
I remember being STUCK with shitty ass villagers that I would hate and over the course of months slowly grow to appreciate them. That feeling does not exist in new horizons and I hate that more.
To be fair, you don’t HAVE to go villager hunting if you prefer to just see what you get. The plot eventually autofills
I don’t think this way, I have my island with villagers i feel genuinely connected too and can’t bring myself to get rid of. Kid Cat and Raymond are my favourites. No, i don’t like Raymond cause OMG RAYMOND i like him because I felt genuinely connected to him. He showed up on my last attempt at a villager hunt for him on my BIRTHDAY, and not only that but he also comes and hangs out at my house all the time and he has so much fun on my island. He even goes to the outdoor gym I made Kid Cat recently! I love my villagers and wouldn’t change them for the world. I do wish everything i talked to a lazy villager it wasn’t always “Another NEAT day on **insert island name here”** or when I talk to a peppy they go on about this fab walk that is only good cause I talked to them. Yeah, they need more personality, but those little moments I have with them, is literally one of my favourite things in.. life i guess? Sorry for this random rant, but I will admit, i purchased Olivia and Kiki on discord for about 600 NMTS and 1M bells. I just felt like since they went through the work to do the campsite tasks to get my dreamies to me they deserved something (they offered them for free by the way!) i apologize for this huge rant, but I wanted to share my experience with the game. I think that NMTS in general ruined the economy. (AND treasure islands!) but.. i love this game, and thanks to anyone who spent time reading this paragraph i just wrote lmao
@@skepticaltile For me, no, i got attached to a few then regretted getting rid of them. I hate Merry to death, but she is considered cute, I love Jacob the bird, but hes often called creepy. I personally bond with my villagers but this game is different for everyone!
@@cedar4539 I was just about to say this. I felt more connected to the non-villager characters (Harv, Reese, Cyrus, Blathers, Tom Nook, ect) than I do with the New Horizions villagers. The only reason why I go villager hunting IS so I can get variety in personality. At least somewhat.
Hey, that lake with a shoe in the middle is dope, I'd be ecstatic to go to someone's island and see that lol
Also as a slightly random aside, I just wanted to say thank you for the way you keep the audio at the same level for whole videos, even during comedic bits - there are so many videos dealing with these topics on the internet that have sudden loud sound effects to emphasise a joke and as someone with sensory issues it always really irks me. I love that your videos are really funny and informative while still being relaxing to watch :)
Im gonna be honest this is my AC experience. I normally play shooters, platformers, and rpgs. I started a file, immediately felt like the game was like doing virtual chores, saw the ankha meme, beat my meat, and never played AC ever again.
The ultimate animal crossing experience
yooooo
omg thank you for talking about this. ive always loved animal crossing. ive noticed that ever since new horizons came out the community just went from kind and helping to passive agressive and just… kinda bleh. obviously, not the whole community, but its increasingly obvious that the animal crossing community mainly has the reputation of being “wholesome “ due to the nature of the actual game. to me, the community can be just as bad as others. Aya Kyogoku, the director of new horizons, ended up deleting her twitter because people were spamming her with anger over the no cloud save data :( every time i think about i just feel disgusted. maybe its just because i develop attachment to the people who make the games i love, but i often feel people forget the ones making games for us to play are real people. and that seems to spill over into players interacting with other players.
also, when you were talking about pride/envy, i related so much 😭 i always feel scared to even take a little bit of inspiration from people i admire because i dont know if theyre the kind of person to think im “stealing” their build/idea. people will say animal crossing is not a competition, and up until new horizons i would have agreed (new leaf if you count the hacking people did, but within base game i feel there wasnt much decorating to do lol) but to me i feel like the game is now trying to one up each other all of the time. its stressful! it can be hard to ignore, even if you try to avoid it. now, im a decorating fiend, but i do kinda hope the next AC goes back a bit to its roots and not only has top notch decorating options, but more to do in terms of like, “set” gameplay i guess? just something else to be doing to take a break from decorating every now and then, because i find myself turning on the game, running around doing nothing because im not feeling motivated to decorate, thinking every design idea has already been done and that my island isnt going to be different enough, and shutting the game off.
i love ac so so so much, its my favorite video game franchise of all time. new horizons isnt the most perfect game ever, but no game is. and that applies to the fans and community too.
OMG also, about the “entry fees” and things??? when i would play new leaf, i was in a google+ group (lol) where this one person would let people over to her hacked island with infinite fruit baskets, items, paintings, and everything in between. and she NEVER asked for anything, and was always very nice. and then i think back to like, say star trees in new horizons, and people were charing money for those❗️❗️ (AND THEY GOT TAKEN OUT OF THE GAME SO DOUBLE SCAM❗️❗️❗️) like if you can hack in items, you do NOT need to be charging in game, let alone REAL WORLD MONEY for things you have easy access to anyway😒
I wouldn't mind decorating that much if it wasn't a painfully slow process (especially crafting, wth).
@@vanillamilkbread That first example with the generous person in New Leaf is modern day treasure islands.
Admittedly, I was kind of expecting "wrath" to bring up the whole thing with how people like to hate and bully "ugly" villagers or ones that they find overrated (Raymond being an infamous example.) I definitely think being angry at the developers is more toxic, but I did feel like bringing this up since it is one of my least favorite parts about the AC community. I respect people not liking certain villagers, but what bothers me is when they try to protest against certain villagers by petitioning Nintendo to remove them or make a whole group dedicated to hating them. Obviously, these are fictional characters, so they don't have feelings, but since a big part of AC is building up friendships with these villagers, there are people who care about these villagers because they've made memories with them and would be hurt to see them removed from future titles.
Raymond was def at least way more popular than he had any right to be in the beginning with the real world money traders lmao, it is mostly Nintendo's fault though for taking well over a year to make Amiibo cards for the new villagers. Like IMO Judy is the best looking new one and she makes great faces lol. There's definitely a subgroup of people that will hate on any popular villager just cause they're popular though.
And only partially related but I'm still outraged they brought back some GC villagers and didn't bring over Woolio. I need him back in my town!
@@miyakogfl Yeah, there are some villagers from the GameCube game I want back as well such as Carmen and Flossie who are two adorable mice (I'm convinced Flossie is Bettina's sister since they look very similar.) The villager that bugs me the most that we haven't gotten back is Poko because he's one of the cutest cubs, and his father, Ike returned starting with New Leaf's Welcome Amiibo update. I'm pretty sure Ike misses his son.
What bothers me a lot with it is when people bully villagers for very real features people can have. Like eyes a certain distance apart or a unibrow. It isn't all the hate, but when it comes to real features that people have (especially ones typically made fun of), it just feels wrong. I remember reading a comic a few years ago about a girl that was always insecure and ashamed of her unibrow, but as she grew up, she learned to embrace it. So Hazel and her unibrow is the prime example for me for that. Especially since criticism I've seen is literally telling her to shave it or that "she would be cute if she didn't have it." It's fine to not like certain features and all, but since some of that stuff is stuff that people have to deal with irl, it just feels like a shallow reminder of beauty standards. Again, it's not everyone who hates an "ugly" villager or anything, but I've definitely seen it and it's the part I really dislike.
And yeah, the petitions to remove them and such are the ones I also dislike the most. I found one TH-camr that made a whole video about it and I thought "oh it'll be the generic ugly ones everyone says" but it was mostly other villagers that weren't even that bad or just forgotten. And the TH-camr's tone was so "I hate it I hate it I hate it, get rid of it, it makes me so mad" and it was genuinely just an uncomfortable video to watch. I'm autistic so maybe there was some light hearted nature to it that I missed, but it just felt so angry and mean compared to other people talking about their least favorite villagers that I just couldn't. :/ I get not liking a villager, I absolutely hate Cobb because he reminds me of a Muppet that creeps me out and he gives me anxiety just looking at him, but mostly I just try to ignore his existence. The part of the fandom I see that does that is typically those that make content regularly and it's much less apparent in normal fandom communities (basically regular people that just share.) Like it's still there, but it's definitely less so. It just really rubs me the wrong way a lot of the time. I get it's probably light hearted or meant to be overdramatic, but it just comes off way too mean and uncomfortable to watch or, worse case scenario, just makes me sad cause it's a villager I love. Obviously everyone will have their favorites and least favorites and i am slightly used to it due to how people are in the Pokemon community (I love some regularly hated Pokemon that even my friend has said to me they want gone when I'm just saying I love them), but it feels like when people hate a villager, then NO ONE can like that villager. Obviously most people aren't like that, but it is prominent enough to be a problem.
@@hannahdavis4256 I agree. Hazel's unibrow is a big part of what makes her unique, and without it, I think she looks generic which is my problem with trying to make "ugly" villagers look cute in general. Katt became my first favorite in New Leaf because I love cats, and I thought the way her face looked was unique, plus her sisterly personality made her feel like a best friend, especially when she gave me medicine after seeing I was stung. People often say she looks like a vampire, but that's what I like about her; she's quirky but still cute. The villager I feel gets treated the worst in the community is Rodney. He became infamously hated because of a Subreddit called FuckRodney which is dedicated to abusing him and making hateful jokes about him. I felt bad for this poor little hamster, so I bought his Amiibo card and added him to my island, then he became my new favorite. I personally think he's adorable. I love how geeky he looks with his freckles and his game room. He has droopy eyes that make him look like he's always sleepy. I do admit he looks weird whenever he's shocked or does any other wide-eye expression, but to me his precious smile makes up for it (hence my profile picture) as well as how he loves to sing a lot. Another thing he's commonly criticized for is his pink hair clashes with his teal fur for some people, but I never minded this color combination.
I agree, sadly, i've gotten a lot of experiences with that sort of stuff, one of my comfort characters is overhated in the fandom because he's "annoying" and the other one is really popular so ofc there's going to be one mf saying that they hate him for no reason (this person actually said that they hated him just bc he was popular lmao) so yeah, can't escape those people.
Frankly your lake with a shoe in the middle of it made me doubletake. that's dark, dude. I love it.
As a veteran player that has been out there playing since the release of the very first games, I can say that the best advice you could have given is to go back to the old games! I personally love new horizonts. Yes, they took out A LOT of things that we really miss, but it also brought a lot of new features that have unlocked a...different type of enjoyment to it. However, the spirit and the vibes of the older games, especially when speaking about their communities can be SO different sometimes. If you are feeling tired or unmotivated with your island or with the whole ACNH in general, I would recommend that, if you can afford it, take a little break from NH and go to some of the other games! Especially if you are a "newborn" into the AC games. It is a little bit of a "You don't know what you have util you lose it" type of situation. I am sure that once you realize all of the things that you don't have in the older games, when you go back to NH you will have a lot of ideas and inspiration on how to use all the new resources that the game provides you with.
Its more the butchering of the characters that upsets me. AC, besides the narrative stuff with a select few characters like nooks family, has no story that can be missed by playing a later game. Ergo, there should be no reason as to why you should need to play an older title. But thats just isn't true, because they keep watering down your relationships you form with them. The orginal AC help instrumentally with my aspergers and anxiety because of the bonds i formed with both the community and my villagers. What they did to lazy and snooty villagers makes me feel like im playing a Truman show rendition of AC, which is the completely antithetical feeling i want from playing these games. I really hope the next title reduces the social media aspect, and makes it more about your own experience.
That breaks my heart about green mums. My island had mums and i got green ones pretty quickly and was free to share them with all my friends. A few told me they were rare but I just figured that was cause non of my friends had mums as their starter. Its so sad to see people abused that rarity
I just randomly found mine behind my resident services after a few months of time traveling... still have no idea how to get more but I guess I got crazy lucky
My brother got mums after some hard work. Why do people try so hard to market things, it's free after some work.
Thank you for addressing the fact that some people work b shift or second shift or even third shift in the world and that using time travel to merely play the game is not bad. As a human being, I appreciate you in all that you do. I'm subscribing.
The whole Raymond crazyness spooked me out so much back then. Even more because I probably would not have him on my island if he had not been the first additional villager moving in during the "tutorial phase" of the game.
DUDE IS THAT YOU AT 12:03
DEEP FANTASY IS LIKE MY FAVOURITE ALBUM EVER THANK YOU FOR THE SURFING REP I LOVE IT
Ankha dropping that anchor 😂😂😂 I’m dead af
Now this, this is the video us true Animal Crossing fans and more importantly, us Animal Crossing veterans needed. Thank you so much, Voyan.
as someone who’s been around since launch this brought back memories 😭 it was really so insane to be around during all those times … especially the raymond one
also very true on the island envy, I never feel like my island lives up to others’ and with this game especially it feels like there’s so much pressure to have a pretty or well thought out island yk? it’s why I have to just play one of the older games sometimes to relax
edit: also the e3 2021 story gave me FLASHBACKS 😭 I remember being so upset that day
Can I just take a moment to say your music selection for this video is fire? Great taste dude!
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.” -Anatole France.
Envy really hit home for me. I love watching and listening to animal crossing content, but I haven't played it in months. I felt although my island would never be good enough. I'd never have enough bells or nook mile tickets to be happy. I'd never have all my favourite villagers, and I'd never be doing anything but grinding for materials. I saw all these other people with beautiful islands, and began to realise I would never be like that. I had a similar experience with pretty much every Roblox game as a kid, and it was happening again now. Envy and perfectionism were what my motivation to play was built on, and ended being why I've left it behind.
Couldn't have said it better myself
I ALMOST fell into this kinda mindset, but quickly realized it's MY island with MY ideas, so whatever I thought looked nice was good enough for me.
I completely understand the envy part, though. and sometimes you'd feel guilty for being jealous cuz other players aren't actually doing anything wrong... They just have more motivation to decorate and do all this other shit.
I just kept my town simple and...ME. ⭐
I've been like that. However, I learned to turn that envy into inspiration and incorporated everything I loved on other islands on mine. Not a copy, just slightly based on.
I'm actually happy with my island now
This is so wild to watch as someone who has played AC consistently since the release of the first game but has never seen the online community lmao. I didn't like that I was constantly getting the same items in my shop in NH so I dropped it a while ago. Whereas New Leaf has kept me hooked for 10 years now. I love that there was a "Beau thing" cause he was one of my first villagers in that game and I've spent all these years making sure he doesn't move away hahaa
Can't wait for more videos like this because these are kinda fun and explore in depth of communities. Imagine trying to state the 7 sins of smash or worst off undertale. I can see the horror now
I once had Raymond naturally, and I hated him cause I don't like snob villagers, I tried to sell him, but the buyer didn't show up so I gave it to the runner up who was freaking desperate, and cause it was late in the day and they were begging I just gave him for FREE.
Made someone's day and that was the best thing ever.
I normally just did straight out trades, item for item, or for bells cause I had way too much.
Also had marshel naturally and hate him, my faves are the sisterly villagers, grumpy, peppy.
Also my island is a mess and I like it like that.
Should be fully covered in weeds at this point, my island is practical and efficient, and that how I like it
Just made it for sloth, and I stopped playing it intentionally, I had college stuff to do, and nothing more to play, so said "screw this, I played it for over a year daily, got the DLC, finished it, I'm good now, moving to metroid dread"
Raymond is Smug not Snob.
@@MrMoneyclips They're both annoying.
Funny enough Raymond is preppy
The one island per switch is the original idea. The creator of the game said he wanted a game where people can play at different times but still together. As he wanted families to still spend time together but make it realistic. So if you dad or something went on it in the morning you could see what he did later in the evening when you play it.
I got back into animal crossing recently and I’ve found that I kind of need to time travel. When I first started playing, I was still in high school (online, too) so I had all the time in the world to play whenever I wanted. Now I work 40 hours a week from 3-11:30 at night every weekday. I can’t experience daytime in the game unless I time travel, since my mornings are taken up by getting ready and my commute.
I actually had all the NFCs for villagers spoofed, so if one of my friends needed a villager, I'd just force the villager to move to my town and give them the villager for free. People were charging way too many bells OR REAL MONEY for something you could literally download off the internet and use with an Android device...
tell this to an NFT enjoyer, grab popcorn and enjoy the shitfest
@@alephorsmth9140 NFC is something completely different lmao. It means Near Field Communication, a batteryless and contactless technology used for things like touch to pay, ids, and with nintendo most commonly for amiibos.
@@LilacMonarch I meant the last part. about people charging too much for something you can just download
@@alephorsmth9140 you can't just download an NFT, though. Just because you have a picture of a painting, doesn't mean you have the painting. Also, just because you have a painting, doesn't mean you have the right to distribute tshirts of the painting.
@@tsucube4377Oh, Jesus fuck. Just let it fucking die. The internet as proven how much of a scam NFTs were on multiple occasions.
The Raymond viewing experience will always be my favorite
Thanks for this video. Insane this happened over two years huh.
I certainly have had island envy so hard. Idk how but some how I almost feel like somehow my island has less space to work than those I see on social media
Though I had a very good experience with people in the game, I think the main source of the toxicity was just on Twitter. I don't think many communities are actually bad, most of the toxic people just reside on Twitter.
About time travel, I've wondered a lot about why they added an in game clock in new leaf that's independent of the one from the console so that if you change it, you don't mess with other games that are affected by the console clock and so you don't have to open and close the game to do so.
It's specially strange because the developers are against time traveling and they removed this feature in new horizons.
In my opinion, they're probably fine with people adjusting the time so the town works with their work schedule or whatever, they just didn't intend for people to be warping forward in time constantly to play the game ultra fast. I'm not sure why they removed it though. Maybe just due to the fact that the Switch syncs its time via the internet, idk.
I don't really hold it against people for doing so since I'd be a hypocrite to do that since I did it all the time on AC GC, but for me it makes the game less fun to jump ahead to everything all at once. I almost certainly would have quit playing NH by now if I did that this time, but I am still playing daily today!
I can say that I fell into a category or 2 a few times especially Envy and Greed.
There where times where I've sold a villager to someone, but also times I gave villagers away as well. It is kinda hard to stop yourself in some situations where people offer up large sums of bells or tickets for a villager that is about to leave.
Envy is probably my worst, I've spent days on Discord, Pinterest, Google looking up island designs, mostly for inspiration, which leads to me feeling bad my islands layout or what not.
It do f*cked thst i can hear the words "I've sold a villager" in a AC game.
@@enjoshi-godrez8775 I hate saying it as well.
2:30 i remember when i used to play horizons i had my island open for people to sell my island for turnip related things but had to block off the island cuz i bought alot of turnips and had to lay them on the ground. had a log chair blocking the only way to the shop and a rando hopped onto the chair demanding for "tips" asking for 99,999 bells just to move. still have the chat log screen shots
What are your thoughts on having dedicated menus within animal crossing games just to change the time? If the developers said time traveling is shameful, I wonder why they added a way to time travel without even leaving the game.
I know the core concept of the series is "in-game time is tied to real time", but I wish there was an option to de-synch & let time only pass while playing. Being able to go to bed & skip a day or "sleep till noon"... Maybe straight up skipping ahead a season. If they actually implemented in-game time travel they could prevent players from going backwards in time.
New Leaf kind of had that, you just talk to Isabelle to change the date and time. You don't even need to go to the home menu. It definitely is the easiest and most convenient game to time travel in. It also helps that its loading screens take like 5 seconds.
they said it was "shameful" as a joke. they don't actually care how people play, they'd just prefer playing as intended but time travel capabilities are left in for if that's how you want to play
Voyan: *mentions the sin of sloth*
Me: *holds my breath, waiting for a pun about Leif*
I don't know if this video was made before or after the "space buns" incident but that could have easily gone into the wrath category. That shit was insane.
unrelated to the entire point of this video, I love that you used katamari music at the end it flung me back
poor ankha didnt deserve that
Im so sick of people blaming minus8 or zone for that incident. I was legitimately traumatised by the zone one, but i have no one to blame except me. They put those animations on the websites that wanted them and there is a warning telling you exactly what the animation is before it starts. I consented to see it. If you didn’t, then you saw it in a way that was not intended by the artist, ergo, it is erroneous to blame the artist. The unfortunate reality is trolls can take the content without the artist content, and put it on platforms that did not concent to, to cause the ignorant people that saw it to become hostile towards a group that doesn’t want to cause hostility. They KNOW the consequence of that.
Fr, I wished we never made it a meme, and now I wish everyone would forget about it and move on
Yeah, I am honestly considering getting Ankha for my New Horizons file (I have her amiibo card), and honestly I only want her because she's a cool looking villager. That's all.
I have been playing the series since 2015, and I started with City Folk. It's such a shame that this kind of thing has happened to the community, but then I remind myself that basically every fanbase is toxic in some way.
I have been playing since the launch of New Horizons, but just played it by myself, so I didn't really experience any of the greed myself from other players. Though, I did hear about online, but that was pretty much it.
Man, I'm getting ptsd with this video. After some time after the release in NH the Celeste or turnip fees were just so ridiculous. Luckily I found a community rather quickly where there were no fees, just chill people and nice trading parties. And luckily I never was into the whole villager shenanigans.
Island Envy definitely affected me. Early on I was just enjoying getting into AC for the first time, I tried to get into New Leaf but at that point I had stopped since my 3DS just wasn't as comfortable to play on as it use to be so New Horizons is my first genuine foray into Animal Crossing as a whole and at first I was having a lot of fun but then I started looking up stuff for ideas online and just saw so many people with such amazing islands and even when I tried with the help of time traveling to get things to look nice I just couldn't and got very burnt out and stopped playing for a while cause I just felt like I could never make anything as nice as I see online. Then I eventually started over and was trying less to do what other people do but just got kinda bored in general with lack of meaningful updates and content outside of collecting and trying to build a nice island once you reach the end of the "Story".
Though recently I decided to try and get back into the game and have been playing quite a bit again. I didn't start over I want to finish decorating my current island and I don't plan to compete with the super detailed islands I see shown off so often. I'm not even going to use too many custom paths, mainly cause I just don't like how it covers up the regular path sounds and don't change easily with seasons. I still plan to try and make my island as cool and pretty as possible and will take some inspiration from those really detailed islands in their use of items but my paths will be basic and my terraforming will be pretty simplistic as well. I partially want to do this to prove to myself that you can have an amazing island without being super fancy.
Totally agree. I only recently got New Horizons and while I love it for the most part, there were some things that bothered me that I couldn't quite put my finger on. Having watched this video, I realized that it really must be the whole community that exists around it these days: There is so much admittedly really incredible content out there, so much creativity, but oh my god does it make it hard to be happy with your own island, even if you're trying hard not to compare it to others. There was a beauty about not being able to change anything about your town in the older games apart from placing a bridge or bench in New Leaf, even though it was frustrating sometimes because some unwanted villager plopped their house down right where you were planning on putting your park once someone finally suggested a new PWP (looking at you, Hazel). I love the idea of being able to make your town/island your own, but I do think that there is maybe "too much" freedom being handed over to the player too fast in New Horizons. I don't know. I'm bummed and really miss having something to work for like we had in the older installments.
On another note, that Hotel Dusk soundtrack at 6:10 tripped me so hard. That's been my ringtone for the past 10 years, partially because it's so rare to hear it anywhere (and because I loved that game way too much, the whole soundtrack and atmosphere of it were just incredible and I really wish they hadn't ruined the sequel like they ended up doing... okay, rant over.). Started frantically looking for my phone until I realized it was just background music.
Surprised you didn't go into Wrath with the older games, before there was controls like 'Best Friends' feature (that prevents just anyone from welding a shovel or Axe), strangers would enter towns and indescriminately cut down all the trees in town or dig up hybrids.
Also there was Seeding in ACWW, which hackers could essentially brick your save file.
6:07 THIS PART LMFAO😂
THE ANKA MEMES LMAO
I love helping ppl out all the time!
What’s funny is I’m an NC. State fan, we lost badly to Syracuse yesterday. Good video, but pain.
While Nookazon was great for helping me get specific items, it was more of a nightmare experience than anything. At a certain point, I was like this is bullshit and started making amiibos and giving away popular characters hoping to dent the price hike. I'm sure I made a difference but not enough to lower prices in the market.
10:37 To be fair, sure. Previous entries didn't let you have different towns, the systems they were on only locked you to one account. With the Switch, you're able to have 8 different accounts. So it's only natural that it, like many other games on the Switch, let them have their own separate saves. Especially since one of the main focuses of this game is being able to decorate your island however you want. I can't imagine having to share mine with 7 or let alone 3 other people.
Incorrect. The previous entries only offered one town per memory card/cartridge, but all games allowed for up to 4 players. How it worked changed based on system. Gamecube had all 4 players with small houses (main, 2nd floor, and unfinished storage basement) around a singular plaza always directly south of the train station. DS had all four sharing a classic 6 room house, sleeping in the attic when not playing. Wii had everyone with their separate houses again, in preselected spawn points, but 2 stories with finished basement and attic. 3DS had separate 6 roomed houses with fully expanded sizes. And now Switch with 6 rooms and up to 8 players.
And, by the time ACNH released, most major first party switch games only offered one file per account (BotW, Odyssey, and Pokemon being major examples. The former two being very questionable from being a series that usually let you have 3 save files).
i forgot about that whole entry fee fiasco...great video!
The posters. You could only get them from scanning AC cards or taking your villagers to the photo place so to have them all.. you had to have all the cards and have the villagers who had no cards which very few people had. So poster cataloguing islands were a biiiiit expensive to go to and posters themselves cost an arm and a leg. I actually teamed up with someone to catalogue them. I'm so glad I had a second villager just to store them all because Nintendo removed the ability to order posters you picked up and put back down to catalogue two months after I got them all... meaning all those people who just catalogued them and spent Nook Miles to do so were SOL if they never ordered the poster for their own inventory.
My only complaint of the game is that they need to diversify the dialog more and more personalities. I apparently had my island filled with the same personality type and they were all saying the same thing all the time. It made me go on Etsy and get those fake animal crossing coins to get new villagers.
Also I wish I could have more villager lol, I want my island to look more fill.
Tbh the Ankha meme kinda flew past me, I was aware of but didn’t see it, but it makes me feel really grossed out because I know a lot of kids would have seen that. It’s not cool, it isn’t cool that people kept sharing that meme knowing that kids would see it ):
It's such a nice game to come home to and play for a couple hours. If you start time travelling and trying to get specific villagers you are playing a different game
Proud to be part of one of the most wholesome gaming communities!! 🥰 That being said, I live for drama and this video was pretty entertaining ✨
I started playing this game for the first time recently . I never knew all this nastiness existed . I play alone as I have no friends who play it
I love, bro fr I F*CKING LOVE your Animal Crossing vids, they are funny and you have a good editing also. The humor is not soft like is more “meme” style idk. I love them.
I bought ACNH for my friend, and she ended up playing for not even a year before never touching the game again. She was always unhappy with her island, saying she's bad at designing, comparing it to others, etc. It's sad. I'm not even upset that my money was "wasted", I just wish she could've seen that her island was great as it was.
A little advice if you’re feeling creatively inadequate or stumped in Animal Crossing NH that I give to my friends. Try out designs in Paradise Planning. You can plan out ideas (obviously not terraforming) in the designer app or in the yards of villagers. You can even access the design portal while decorating a house in Paradise Planning! :) (Don’t forget Sable gifts you a TON of design patterns so go to her daily for each of 9 sets- they don’t take up custom slots and look quite nice)
Count squares! I usually make a pattern that is just the outline of a square so I can measure stuff. You can also use a window pattern as long as you can see the ground/wall behind it.
I build in this pattern for outside:
-permanent (buildings and structures and terraforming)
-trees and bushes
-then ground patterns
-furniture and fence placement
-And then finally things like flowers and miscellaneous items to clutter!
Tip: you can control flower production by putting ground patterns down to keep them from breeding! And to contain weeds if you want to use them as decor!
For interiors you can plan a whole room with all the furniture in the catalogue through the designer app once it’s unlocked. Say you plan your house’s bathroom. Once you’ve designed it you take screenshots of each side of the room and write down all the furniture and the color of each item in a list. Then you can be focused on what items you need to buy/order and the ones that need to get redesigned by Cyrus. You can also keep track of what DIYs you need this way.
Using your 4 photos as a reference you can slowly (or quickly if you TT) get all the furniture you need.
A lot of players do what I did when I first started playing NH (I’ve been playing since the first GameCube title)- just throwing whatever looks like a bathroom into the bathroom. And then you get bummed because it looks- off. Paradise Planning gives us a lot more power over the catalogue so if you can dream it up you can make it happen! Also- control color! It’ll help your room appear more complete.
Also- practicing decorating homes (I know a lot of people find it boring. I do too sometimes.) helps a bunch. My first houses are very funny looking compared to the builds I do now. I really enjoy thinking about what the villager would be doing in their shop, what their hobbies are, what their day to day life might be like, and try to build them accordingly. If you need inspiration for villagers go check out their New Leaf profiles! It makes for a lot of fun builds and the narrative helps give the space flavor!
Also- never underestimate the power of Pinterest. You can learn interesting placements and combos- like for example you can put the cushion on top of the zen pillow to make a nice decoration for a very cozy book nook. :) Or you can put the banker’s lamp on top of the velvet stool for a very classy nightstand.
I hope this helps anyone who’s struggling with the decorating side of things! No matter what it takes time to make anything in Animal Crossing! 💙 And even simple spaces are beautiful!
Your enthusiasm genuinely made my day better. Thank you.
i honestly hate the whole villager situation in NH. in NL you were randomly given a set and you dealt with it--and you made the occasional friend. not only that they left whenever they wanted to and had their own personalities. but in NH i don't like having the freedom of choosing the villagers. It sounds weird but its true.
No I get you, we have too much power in NH. Like I miss flowers dying because I neglected them (like in real life) instead of them multiplying like crazy. Same with villagers: they used to feel more like their own individuals choosing to stay or leave when they wanted, instead of waiting for our “permission”.
Tbh I miss the NL/WW feeing of moving into an already existing town. That was more the vibe of AC, then it became the sims…
I agree!
@@fabiofuoco Flower ordinance actually had a purpose.
@@amandaslough125 yes exactly, they took away the choice
Honestly, I suffered from Island jealousy a while back. It was my first island, and had no clue what my aesthetic was, what my island theme to be, or even how to decorate properly without it looking like trash. Then, I restarted! Onto my second island! I enjoyed a lot more than the first one actually achieved a five star island, which was so cool! I am currently on my third island, and I am very confident in my building skills!I know how to terraform, furniture, flowers, The whole shebang! It’s not finished yet, but I’m really proud of it and how far I’ve come!
the sloth one was very true to me lmao
i got busy with work and school which led me to not touch my acnh island for two years-
I've since picked it back up now but it was weird knowing I hadn't played for two whole years
Nookazon is definitely more wholesome than the eBay listings for sure, with how they only let you pay with in game items and not real money, but some people did take it too far with their prices tho.
Usually if I had a bunch of something rare I’d gave them away for free. Even then people would still leave little thank you gifts, which just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
This is such a clever video concept! I'd heard of a good number of these incidents, but I somehow escaped the Ankha one...which was apparently for the better.
Depends on what you wanted. Ankha has a very, emm, large fanbase.
And where you live.
I am still very angry about the 1 island per switch limit. I didnt review-bomb, but I definitely included a "buyer beware" in my reviews. And thank you for bringing up the community's reaction to that E3. I was really happy about FINALLY having a new Metroid title.
newbie alert!
So ok. The problem with the one save file thing is some other series that locked it to one save per console got a kind of workaround on account of switches having multiple user profiles.
Namely, pokemon got rid of that antiquated restriction in such a way
amazing video and i want to say thank you for using music from my favourite game hotel dusk
Before I watch this vid- I just want to say an untarnished experience.
When I got this game, it was because my best friend recommended it. Took a bit of pushing- but I finally caved and went ahead and hit the bullet and was- after a few days- pleasantly surprised!
For context- my favorite games center around survival games like Don’t Starve, The Isle, Day of Dragons, and Primal Carnage- you can see the pattern I’m sure. The tamest of my roster is Pokemon.
So this game was significantly different for me. And as you can imagine, my experience with online players is and always will be a cesspool. I got to the point I’d mute communication because people are just awful.
With this in mind, after a few months of playing (I do not time travel) I decided to dip into turnips. My first shot was a massive failure because I had no idea what I was doing.
So I decided instead of diy screwing myself, I’d “cheat” and look up help. Which is where I discovered the Turnip Calculator and Discord Turnip Exchange.
The latter honestly TERRIFIED me. Mainly because that meant dealing with people. What did they want for this service? Could I even meet demand of what they asked? Would I get jipped? If I opened my island, Someone was sure to be an absolute ass…. So much fencing to do-
But I had already bought all my moneys worth of turnips- and I literally couldn’t afford to just call it a loss. So- in I went and…. Dear god a game has never overhauled my fears so fast and made me ashamed.
Everyone was super cool, didn’t ask anything (most of the time tbf- but didn’t demand) and sometimes even just left gifts for the help when I opened my island afterward when prices were good.
This community is the exact opposite of my norm and such a breath of fresh air that everyone is just in it to help one another. I’m so glad that my fiend offered this island to me because all of you in this community have been the legit best!
Edit: ok. So the first thing I covered in my og comment- but my experience so far has been very help thy neighbor.
The villager market- yeah…. I kinda knew about it- but the Mask Boi series ep “In Boxes” REALLY put that into mind how…. Technically unethical it is.
I mean yeah FR these are only data at the end of the day- but it’s data I personally care about and definitely will not be participating.
For the Pride thing- haven’t really looked into those people, but I’m more than sure they exist because of experiences I’ve had in other games. And honestly- you can’t copyright designs in this game. I mean- it makes no sense.
Envy- well that goes without saying, especially coming from someone with extreme self loathing issues. But this game honestly has been helping me and I’m tinkering slowly to build up (currently on hold because these two roses REFUSE TO GIVE ME A DAMN PURPLE)
Lust- funnily enough I saw the clean version of that first, and it was really cool to see. I genuinely thought someone went back and went cringe mode on it. So eh… but as for someone who loves anthro art- yeah. I knew it was only a matter of time before I bumped into something eye roll worthy. (Took literal seconds)
Wrath- eh. Sure the game slowly becomes repetitive, and eventually that will be the sad end of my interest of this game, but that’s any game ever. You’d wish for updates for all the stated- but we can only hope for more in the next game. (Sometimes they listen)
Gluttony- yeah I’ve played this game so much. I’ve slowed down due to simply focusing on getting a blue rose, but I may have binge hits occasionally. (I do not time travel. I’m too lazy)
I realized that my game's randomizer favored me. My third villager I found was Raymond. I don't know he was a popular villager, but I fell in love with him. I also got Sherb, Beau, and every other villager that people want for some reason. I just think they're awesome.
This is reawakening my my memories abotu snomal crosses. I was so deep into the trading scene and I made BANK im realizing now how lucky I struck it I WAS SWIMMING in bells and travel tickets.
It made me laugh at launch because I got Raymond, Judy, Sherb and Marshal on nmt islands really early on and I genuinely love them but I knew I was sitting on a goldmine lol
I remember having some sort of animal crossing burn out back in 2020 or 2021. At that time I followed the topic animal crossing on Twitter so obviously I saw lots and lots of amazing islands, as well as island tours on TH-cam. I was forcing myself to make a perfect island just like what I saw on socials. I time traveled to play every. single. day. of. the game. It was draining. It was harder and harder for me to keep doing this every time I played the game. I was so perfectionist that my island didn't look like what I saw on socials made me actually unhappy. I couldn't play anymore and was considering completely reseting my island. I decided to not see anything related to acnh Islands on socials, unfollowed the topic on Twitter, and stopped time traveling. I accepted my island for what it was and stopped comparing it to others. This made me able to play the game again, even though the game isn't really interesting anymore. I still time travel when there is something I want or need to do, like listening to kk slider's concerts when I want a specific song. All the pressure to have a perfect island and the underwhelming amount of actual content is what killed the game for me.
As a die hard fan of the series (new leaf is probably one of my top 3 favorite games of all time) it was definitely an experience watching what the internet did it after new horizons. I can't say it was a positive experience but I can't say that's surprising given that 95% of community's online are horrible so when things got bad its wasn't a unfamiliar situation
Ultimately it was the popularity and game design of NH that did it. Its exactly like diablo 3. The core concepts of the game are directly apposed to the principles of the franchise. Being able to choose your villigers is violating the more important aspect of these games, it you saw the consequences.
When I was younger and Google+ was still a thing (miss that site), I used to run a small animal crossing ebay on there lol. Was super small, just 20ish people, but it was super chill and nice. There were other google+ communities for the same thing, really miss those days
Never got too into ACNH. Played it for a bit but the games lack of anything and villagers (well as something else missing) drove me away. I was heavily active on the Bell Tree Fourms a decade ago (to the day!) and it was a lot more normal then. Seeing what happened with NH drove me away further
To add some wholesome stuff, ACNH is genuinely one of my favorite games and thanks to this game along with MW'19, Xenoblade Definitive Edition and Yakuza Like a Dragon, they all made my 2020 genuinely one of my favorite years despite the pandemic. I got to play more with my real life friends and online, which made the year much more barrable.
You have a chronic illness. Wanting everthing to be wholesome for the sack of it is what ruined this franchise.
As for sloth, I’d rather suggest, being too lazy to pick up items you’ve dropped, because of full pocket space and/or storage. Let’s say there’s a reason why I updated Voltage so infrequently, let’s just leave it at that. I know there are more people out there like this.
A bit late to the table, but I actually know of an example pretty recently where reviewbombing actually safed a game because the devs were forced to make a complete turnaround, plus since then they actually started to listen to the community again.
Yes, I am talking about War Thunder.
as far as time travel, i always played AC on a time delay like 4 hours behind or something. so when I got off work I could do most of the time sensitive stuff I wanted as if it were mid afternoon. Only played gamecube, very interesting to find videos like this and see what the game has come to over the years.
back in the early days of ACNH turnip selling, I saw someone ask for 1.1million bells for entry into their island with like a 500 nook selling price, that shit was crazy