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My Switch is back from repairs. I lost 200+ hrs of Animal Crossing progress. FML.
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Their reasoning for not offering Cloud saves is so stupid. A duping method was discovered day 1. I talked with people who found out how to hack in items day 2-3(I was trading with someone on gamefaqs and they had tons of golden flowers when they didn't even unlock town hall yet). The economy of the game was messed up from the get go and right now things go for super inflated prices (100+ NMT).
This is nightmare fuel for me and so fucking stupid on Nintendo's part to not support cloud saves for a game that requires so much time investment.
I'm sorry to hear that OP. That MEGA SUCKS.
I'd be really pissed off too. I don't have as many hours as that, but I have "170 hours or more" and I just started playing In June. I put hundreds and hundreds of hours into Wild World and New Leaf though.
If I lost a save because I screwed up somehow I would be heartbroken. If I lost a save after sending in my console for repair I'd be livid and I doubt I could find the motivation to play another one again (I still played WIld World years after I was deep into New Leaf because I need just ONE MORE painting, and I could never get it).
I have to pay for NSO (family plan) so I can play Animal Crossing with my niece (she's on my family plan), but it's so.... "bad" I feel almost guilty for paying for it. Like I'm doing something wrong or something, even if it is only like 35 dollars a year.
I'd be really pissed off too. I don't have as many hours as that, but I have "170 hours or more" and I just started playing In June. I put hundreds and hundreds of hours into Wild World and New Leaf though.
If I lost a save because I screwed up somehow I would be heartbroken. If I lost a save after sending in my console for repair I'd be livid and I doubt I could find the motivation to play another one again (I still played WIld World years after I was deep into New Leaf because I need just ONE MORE painting, and I could never get it).
I have to pay for NSO (family plan) so I can play Animal Crossing with my niece (she's on my family plan), but it's so.... "bad" I feel almost guilty for paying for it. Like I'm doing something wrong or something, even if it is only like 35 dollars a year.
Nintendo is the most frustrating game company. They make amazing games but then, boom. They make the dumbest mistake possible and part of the game is ruined.
That's a huge bummer OP. I've put in over 300 hours and would be really sad if I lost my island. If you start playing AC again you should let era/other AC communities know as plenty of players will be happy to help you out. I'd happily give you bells, hybrid flowers, fossils, etc!
The one thing I think might be screwy though I'm not sure, is if someone let a person visit to invite a villager to move to their island, and then person that had the villager move out restores from a cloud save to right before letting someone invite that villager.
The game has a bit of a persistent nature to it, so that may be what is holding things up. I don't know. One fix would be to make it account based and every time the game saves that is tied to your account, Nintendo has experience in this realm with games like FE Heroes, Dragalia Lost, and even Pocket Camp. All of those games are saved locally until linked with a Nintendo account and then whatever progress is made is saved via your account.
No way that I would ever start over in Animal Crossing: New Horizons. I'm 110 hours in.
At least I would get close to full value for selling it back.
At least I would get close to full value for selling it back.
This is another reason I can't bring myself to get too far into New Horizons until they implement cloud saves. Ridiculous that it wasn't there day 1.
A friend of mine decided to give Animal Crossing a try despite reluctance about a very laid-back game. His save got corrupted at some point when he started up the game for the swimming update, and now he has lost interest in playing the series any longer.
Nintendo's fear of cheaters is ridiculous in a game where the only threat when meeting others is feeling FOMO. They're really only making fans and customers feel disheartened when losing their saves.
I'm sorry to hear you lost your save too, OP. You might think you feel too entitled about this, but in this case, you have good reason to when Nintendo is this stuck-up about something that can't really plague Animal Crossing fans.
Nintendo's fear of cheaters is ridiculous in a game where the only threat when meeting others is feeling FOMO. They're really only making fans and customers feel disheartened when losing their saves.
I'm sorry to hear you lost your save too, OP. You might think you feel too entitled about this, but in this case, you have good reason to when Nintendo is this stuck-up about something that can't really plague Animal Crossing fans.
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Isn't a AC:NH save something like a gigabyte in size? I feel like the lack of cloud saves could be Nintendo not wanting to transmit, store and replicate 20tb of AC saves. Uploading such a save over wifi all the time also sounds like an invitation for corruption and time outs.
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I could be totally off but I don't remember the save file being close to that size.
If they really have this big fear of cheaters, they should have confirmed the current time and date to you when you first started the game and locked you in at whatever time and date you specified. Problem solved.
I dread the day something like this happens to my Splatoon and Animal Crossing saves. Over 1500 and 450 hours respectively.
Shit sucks :/
I had the same issue with the card reader
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The reader was probably just not seated well. I re-seated mine, but a year+ later it's doing it again. I may have to open it up again.
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The reader was probably just not seated well. I re-seated mine, but a year+ later it's doing it again. I may have to open it up again.
'They do they thing. They focus different things. They work on it, at least.'
Uh....
Animal crossing has so many dumb ass decisions around it. Actually baffled it reviewed as well as it did
I could be misremembering. I thought large save file size was brought up as an issue in another thread about the lack of AC saves. There are plenty of games where the save files run up into the hundreds of megabytes.
Trawling the homebrew sites, the save file seems to be only around 50-60MB.
I feel that whatever this Save Data transfer function they were working on. it should have been there Day 1.
It's already July, and there's barely any news (short of a datamine that references it exists) on it. And with local transfers to another Switch disabled, this is extremely annoying.
It's already July, and there's barely any news (short of a datamine that references it exists) on it. And with local transfers to another Switch disabled, this is extremely annoying.
If it's fixable like the fan or SD card reader, I'll do it myself. I'm not trusting Nintendo with it unless I can transfer my profile.
Honestly, if anyone wants to know, I'll help you out, it's pretty easy to do. SD card reader just requires unscrewing screws and then popping the SD card reader out, it's totally separate from the system, which is why it's extremely weird they had to replace the Switch. I guess it could have been the pins on the motherboard side, then that becomes a lot more complicated.
Dunno why they couldn't transfer the saves like you said though, I could've done it easily. Just set up the other switch with an empty profile, press transfer and take over that profile with the other.
Honestly, if anyone wants to know, I'll help you out, it's pretty easy to do. SD card reader just requires unscrewing screws and then popping the SD card reader out, it's totally separate from the system, which is why it's extremely weird they had to replace the Switch. I guess it could have been the pins on the motherboard side, then that becomes a lot more complicated.
Dunno why they couldn't transfer the saves like you said though, I could've done it easily. Just set up the other switch with an empty profile, press transfer and take over that profile with the other.
I was originally gonna note that this was a silly idea, and they'd never do it, but... I do remember some cases on reddit/NOA's support forums where people were promised their saves would be intact during repair, they weren't, and so they got mad and called NOA CS to talk to a supervisor about a solution/compensation for the lost data. I swore I remember reading that people were at least able to get compensation credit for a retail game on the eShop by doing this if they raised enough fuss, so it may not be a bad thing to try OP (just be nice to them, of course. Can be very stern and unhappy as long as you stay courteous doing so!)
Wow, that's pretty impressive considering how much the game has to keep a track of. I guess I just got it wrong or was reading FUD. Thank you!
Animal Crossing saves are annoying as hell. I have two switches right now and want to sell the old one but I can't cause my Animal Crossing save is stuck to it. You can't even transfer the save for some stupid reason.
So basically I have one entire switch dedicated to Animal Crossing until there's a way to transfer it
Also anyone that doesn't want to lose progress for other games not Animal Crossing: buy another switch or transfer your user to a family or friends Switch. It saves the headache of Cloud Saves not being reliable with some games and stuff
So basically I have one entire switch dedicated to Animal Crossing until there's a way to transfer it
Also anyone that doesn't want to lose progress for other games not Animal Crossing: buy another switch or transfer your user to a family or friends Switch. It saves the headache of Cloud Saves not being reliable with some games and stuff
Sorry you experienced this. Having lost a similarly long time save in another game, I always set up backup routines for games I play for the long run. Nintendo is *constantly* a particularly bad offender when it comes to that (homebrew was basically your only choice on 3DS if you didn't want a save that's tied to your console hardware for crying out loud), lord knows whats going on in their weirdo brain that they wont even let you backup your stuff properly.
It is amazing how little noise these issues usually make, when Nintendo are the only ones preventing their users to backup their saves for free, locking cloud saves behind a paywall, not allowing local data backup, and on top of that some games, and not minor ones btw, not even supporting such a basic feature.
It's tilting me that you warned people OP. You lost 200 hours. No entitlement at all. Nintendo just can't get their head out of their ass.
I still don't understand how that shit isn't completely server-side. It's baffling.
Every Nintendo game that actually needs cloud saves--Animal Crossing, Pokemon, Splatoon--don't support them. Especially Animal Crossing, where the game isn't actually fun, and the "fun" is just the satisfaction of doing work to progress toward a goal. It's fucking hilarious. Nintendo is a joke of a company sometimes.
Oof. That would have killed the game for me tbh.
Crazy how difficult it must be for a company like Nintendo to embrace something as simple as cloud saves.
you see why people hack Nintendo devices. it's because of how obtuse they are with this stuff.
the main reason i hacked my 3DS and Wii U back in those days was to be able to backup saves easily. i didn't even use the function to rip carts to install them internally until years later because i didn't want to spend extra on SD cards. my main motivator was preventing the kind of thing that happened to OP (oh and region free but Nintendo at least gave us that on Switch).
AC's save on Switch is even worse than other games that don't support cloud saves since you can still move your save for those games if you have a second Switch or have a friend to let you move your profile to their console but with ACNH you can't even move your save. i don't know who had that stupid idea in the first place but it's probably one of the stupidest ideas to get a pass.
the main reason i hacked my 3DS and Wii U back in those days was to be able to backup saves easily. i didn't even use the function to rip carts to install them internally until years later because i didn't want to spend extra on SD cards. my main motivator was preventing the kind of thing that happened to OP (oh and region free but Nintendo at least gave us that on Switch).
AC's save on Switch is even worse than other games that don't support cloud saves since you can still move your save for those games if you have a second Switch or have a friend to let you move your profile to their console but with ACNH you can't even move your save. i don't know who had that stupid idea in the first place but it's probably one of the stupidest ideas to get a pass.
This restriction is totally bullshit. My guess is it is just to prevent people hacking their saves. So to avoid a few people getting unearned benefit from hacking the saves, which doesn't really affect anyone else in a meaningful way, they restrict cloud backups which will genuinely upset fans that have invested lots of time in the game.
You don't need to be Spock to understand that ain't logical
You don't need to be Spock to understand that ain't logical
