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Higashi Nogami: "Animal Crossing: New Horizons won't be compatible with cloud backups to avoid manipulating time."
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So if I lose my Switch, I potentially lose hundreds of hours of progress and a town I've put my heart and soul into?
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Officially, the developer discourages the players from manipulating your game session's time.
Better to let hundreds of hours of progress go to waste in the event something happens than to allow a few players to game the system in a primarily single player experience.
It looks like it'll have an even slower start based on there being nothing at first.
Wait. Why? Outside of Nintendo who honestly gives a fuck if someone messes with the time in the game or whatever?
Yeah, just like every previous Animal Crossing game except with cartridges/memory cards.
I can see the point but some want absolute control over their saves and may dislike this.
I recall a lot of folks in the 3DS modding community using save backups to prevent certain citizens from moving out of their towns by manipulating saves in A New Leaf.
Animal Crossing is supposed to have that pseudo living world in the sense stuff is happening even if you turn off the game. So being able to back up a save and reload it later to backtrack takes away from this a bit.
I recall a lot of folks in the 3DS modding community using save backups to prevent certain citizens from moving out of their towns by manipulating saves in A New Leaf.
Animal Crossing is supposed to have that pseudo living world in the sense stuff is happening even if you turn off the game. So being able to back up a save and reload it later to backtrack takes away from this a bit.
Whenever I mess with the clock or use cheats my interest in AC wanes twice as fast so I kinda do.
Right, but cloud saves didn't exist with those consoles/handhelds. This time there's no excuse.
"The potential for anyone to lose hundreds of hours of progress is less important than having a select few people not be able to use an exploit in a singleplayer game with no leaderboards"
Yeah, I know they are going to get a lot of backlash for this, but if they care about preserving the sanctity of the experience for most players, then they might just have to make it a 100% online game next time around.
Yeah, but I'm not sure why they can't do that and also support cloud saves. Or just let people mess with the time, they'll only be ruining the game for themselves.
Fuck.
The games that I'm most concerned about losing progress in (Pokemon and Animal Crossing) have no cloud backup. While Pokemon should have cloud backup, I do understand it. If people found a way to duplicate Mew or Jirachi, those Pokemon would lose all rarity and value. But people have been manipulating time in Animal Crossing since the Gamecube (maybe the 64? I haven't imported that version). If I duplicate a couch, who gives a shit?
I've been all digital on Switch at this point, if I buy Animal Crossing physically do all the saves go to the cartridge like on DS/3DS? So if I took it out of my Switch and put it into another one I'd still have my save file?
The games that I'm most concerned about losing progress in (Pokemon and Animal Crossing) have no cloud backup. While Pokemon should have cloud backup, I do understand it. If people found a way to duplicate Mew or Jirachi, those Pokemon would lose all rarity and value. But people have been manipulating time in Animal Crossing since the Gamecube (maybe the 64? I haven't imported that version). If I duplicate a couch, who gives a shit?
I've been all digital on Switch at this point, if I buy Animal Crossing physically do all the saves go to the cartridge like on DS/3DS? So if I took it out of my Switch and put it into another one I'd still have my save file?
Nintendo working overtime to make sure that I don't give a fuck about spending money for their online service.
Sounds like a personal problem to me.
For some, having the ability to save scum easily can ruin the experience.
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Me too.
I think we can discuss about the debate on whether we should respect the developer's (or lead producer here) decision to not give the players absolute control over their save files.
Open to discussion.
Also, I realized Higashi Nogami is both Splatoon 2 and Animal Crossing New Horizons lead producer.
why is nintendo like this. how do they do so many things so well then fuck up the most basic of basics. i will never understand
Come on. You know they will have a system transfer option as soon as a new hardware revision gets released.
So because you have poor self control everyone else should suffer. Makes sense.
But we have cloud saves now... There's no reason not to support it outside stupid decisions like manipulating time which you could do in previous versions without cloud saving anyways. They lost a sale from me.
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My assumption is that it may have to do with different user profiles using the same island layout.
Astounding how cloud saves isn't allowed for the games that are most in need of a cloud save like Splatoon 2
what is the point ? People are literally 100x more invested in games like those and wants to be safe
At least put weekly cloud saves as a limitation ? If you lose your save you would lose a week of content, this would obviously offset any manipulation that people could do with turnips or whatever else.
what is the point ? People are literally 100x more invested in games like those and wants to be safe
At least put weekly cloud saves as a limitation ? If you lose your save you would lose a week of content, this would obviously offset any manipulation that people could do with turnips or whatever else.
Also people who want to change the time because they only play it at odd hours of the day are screwed too.
Nice of you assume that's the first thing I do when I play animal crossing.
How is it that 3 of Nintendo's biggest upcoming releases are all coming with caveats about ass-backwards online functionality?
Why would they charge money for Online while still making sure it's terrible? (Yes I know they answer is because they could get away with it.)
Why would they charge money for Online while still making sure it's terrible? (Yes I know they answer is because they could get away with it.)