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Cloud saves available July 30 for Animal Crossing New Horizons, on top of a new Summer update
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Not cloud saves, this is a seperate "Island Backup Restoration Service" presumably with more restrictions than Nintendo's cloud save service.
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This. This new service ties all users on the island to a single backed up island-wide save. Fixes the gap in their Save Data Cloud service which only supports regular single-user saves.
"The cheaters!" lol
edit: Anyway, I went to support.nintendo.com and I couldn't find more information about it. Anyone have an idea?
Because the way Animal Crossing "saves" is actually unique as the save is shared among all user accounts, instead of having 1 save for 1 user.
Nintendo Switch needs to function without being connected to the internet.
also this is basically what they've done!
No saving data is ever "unique", regardless of the shape of data, the end result is always a save file, which could be stored in the cloud without issue. Unless you're Nintendo, of course.
Design choice to force everyone to live on the same island. The cynical take is that it's to make ppl buy extra switches, and the generous take is that Nintendo wanted ppl to share islands for the social / community elements of the series. I think it's both a little bit?
The series has always been about multiple users (ie the family) sharing a town/island. This is likely the only way of keeping that core feature.
After playing for a month or so and getting to the post-game, I could see myself coming back after a few of these updates. I'm just not into the decorating aspects, though and need a liiiiitle something more. I also wish the characters had more personality/of a point to them.
Do you honestly expect AC devs to put up their own file server when they can't figure out a way since the inclusion of multiplayer in AC to not take two fucking minutes per person joining? I have no trust in nintendo's online anything.
I disagree with how they chose to do things, because the current implementation means there is the main person who plays, who can do everything, and the family members, who can't. Either let everyone have the same permission levels or allow customization of permission levels, or do 1 save per person.
This is not the problem.
A practical example. User A, user B and user C shares the same Switch console.
- In any game user A has its own save A, user B has save B and user C has save C. There is a 1:1 correlation between user and save.
- In AC user A, user B and user C all save on the save X that is shared between the 3 users.
This makes the NSO cloud save feature technically inadequate to deal with AC. If user C for example could move the save on another console it would remove all A and B progress on the original Switch too.
Huh. I was sorta expecting fireworks to tie into some sort of summer event, but since they're like every week and bug offs are in the summer I guess they're okay just pausing the regular events for a couple months. Things will pick up in the fall and into winter, though, at least.
But why would it need to remove progress from A and B? It could just merge those saves in the cloud, or ask players to sync saves before starting if it's been altered elsewhere or if player B moves to another console, just give them their own save copied from the other save.
Also, cloud saves aren't necessarily for playing on multiple consoles at the same time obviously, so some restrictions would be fine, but not supporting it at all is some weirdness.
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