I did this recently after not having played the game since like last winter. It was easy to get back into my daily tasks/routines, but at the same time, it also felt like nothing had changed. So after a couple days, I quit again. I'm not really sure what I want out of the game anymore, but that's OK... I did have a wonderful time with it in its early months. It's exactly what I needed.
This is more or less my daily routine as well, although I don't ignore the Gulls
I had so much fun making gyroids rooms work, yeah I do miss them a lot.
It's not love, they just unlocked the same event from last year. It's the least they could do.
I think this is a false dichotomy, there are lots of games that give big free updates. No Man's Sky doesn't have any MTX that I'm aware of for example.
Nintendo set the launch of the game that way, argue with them. I'm sure most of us would have preferred a Wild World/New Leaf approach with all the content available from day one.
This is actually maddening. For the players who have put in hundreds of hours, they must have seen those pointless texts thousands of times. The online was also insanity with it forcing a 1 or 2 min pause every time someone drops in or out
It's not a typical GaS. Nintendo uses it to release games early before they have all the content they would have at release in previous generations. In past games shops and stuff would update based on player progress, but with NH we have to wait for Nintendo to update the game.
I mean I know there's sort of the expectation for more content as this is a modern game, but that just described every single Animal Crossing game ever.
Yea, I really don't understand the theory about the pandemic throwing them off. It sold well, and if they needed more time then just give more time for the "big" stuff.
Btw how is Pocket Camp these days? Haven't played it since launch.Meanwhile in Pocket Camp:
I barely, barely gave them a pass for summer being so anemic last year because of the pandemic, but they legit aren't even bothering any more, meanwhile Pocket Camp continues to get great new items added on a regular basis that would actually give purpose to being able to change up your entire town at will. What does New Horizons get? A freaking Eggplant Cow and a Whoopie Cushion in the space of MONTHS.
I enjoy it a lot still. The furniture is good, events have gotten even easier to finish (even without the Helper plan subscription, which I don't use), and you get enough free Fortune Cookies (the gacha element) to get some exciting new stuff. If you can wait to save for Cookies you really want, the Leaf Ticket currency situation is pretty reasonable. Personally, I have over 800+ LT after having just used about 500 for donut furniture, with tons of LT maps ready if I need them, and I'm F2P.
Also, different departments don't stop the others from working.
I like Pocket Camp, but it's pretty disingenuous to compare New Horizons to it. For one, at least half the furniture/clothing in that image is only obtainable from gacha mechanics or premium currency. You only have a 3% chance to get the best gacha items, and a single pull takes the equivalent of about 2 USD. The premium clothing cost upwards of $6 each. Yes, you get occasional free fortune cookies and some free premium currency, but it's not like you'd be able to get everything in that image without coughing up dough.Meanwhile in Pocket Camp:
I barely, barely gave them a pass for summer being so anemic last year because of the pandemic, but they legit aren't even bothering any more, meanwhile Pocket Camp continues to get great new items added on a regular basis that would actually give purpose to being able to change up your entire town at will. What does New Horizons get? A freaking Eggplant Cow and a Whoopie Cushion in the space of MONTHS.
My island still doesn't look "perfect" to me, so I pick it up occasionally to chip away at that.
The only time I played it was during the cross-promotion stuff for New Horizons and honestly I thought it was vapid, no idea if they've improved things in the last year or so but as much as I love the items the game was absolutely not for me.
Where exactly did I compare PC to NH in terms of anything but updates?
I don't know anything about Pocket Camp, but in New Horizons, if you put out a microphone stand and instruments, villagers will definitely interact with them, especially if there's music playing nearby. As far as snacks are concerned, some villagers can be seen sitting around randomly eating their own snacks.
At this point, I really don't think we can blame it all on covid. It appears that they really just weren't prioritizing more content. Really disappointing that the game launched half baked and is still missing lots of stuff from past games. It's a great game—I played over 400 hours—and it's a disappointing game, too.
PC gets regular updates and new furniture because it's being propped up by whales who spend thousands of dollars on it trying to get all of the gacha/premium currency items. I completely agree that the NH updates have been lackluster and unacceptable, but there's no point in comparing the updates to PC because it's built on an entirely different monetization system.
This same old counter argument comes out time after time as to why New Horizons can't actually ever get any decent items. Someone had to model and make that stupid whoopie cushion. Someone had to model and animate that boba tea and cotton candy in the summer update. They've put more effort into creating new items that nobody cares about than they would have by just porting existing models across from years old Pocket Camp items and passing it off as a big new event.
We have numbers though. NH had 1057 furniture items at launch compared to 1271 in NL at launch. The Welcome Amiibo update added another 493. And 160 of the furniture items in NH are literally just models of all the fish and bugs. If you remove those (let's be honest, they didn't strain themselves by attaching bases to the models they'd already made), NH had like three quarters of what NL had at launch.
It's really not ridiculous. YOU may be satisfied, and that's fine! But it's still missing villagers, tons of NPCs, tons of furniture and items, and other substantial features New Leaf, and it has the worst villager interactions in the series. Really, outside of island customizations (which for some people is the most important thing, fine), it's compares poorly to New Leaf in almost every conceivable way.
