A Nook Miles Ticket Rant

[Fey]

It’s really disheartening and I won’t play a part in it.

I’ve already decided not to sell off my popular villagers for Miles, but keep an eye on people searching for them instead. The hope is that they’ll go to somebody who truly wants and will keep them :3

 

[meggiewes]

I just find it a bit silly that people are actually paying real money for Nook Miles Tickets. Isn't that the very definition of a microtransaction that so many people are against? Even worse, that money is going to other people than the developers.

I know there isn't much I can do about it. The only thing I can really do is not participate in it and encourage others to do the same. Personally, I would rather trade item for item or just give something to someone else out of the goodness of my heart. I know that is just me though.

 

[Levolpehh]

Psure the dupe glitch was only for placeable items, you couldn't dupe NMT or Nook Miles. Anyone with absurd amounts of either just cheated them in via modded switch.

That being said, since bells were duped to the point of no tomorrow people adapted to NMT which couldn't have been duped (as easily). Most people with 400+ aren't duping, they're just collecting from other trades.

 

[Berrymia]

People charge tickets now for visiting their nooks or getting a DIY from a villager who’s crafting Man i really hope this Economy will relax. The spirit of animal crossing was always to support each other & help each other out. Idk, maybe I’m weird but I’d let people visit for free :/

 

[thelonewanderer]

And this is why I can't see myself getting "into the market" of animal crossing communities. People get greedy and act like billionaire investors on wall street, cornering the market and making the game less fun by ruining one of the pillars of AC's gameplay.

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Honestly, this is how the game was meant to be played (not only NH, but the whole series). AC was about having a sense of community, not about creating a capitalist state with a virtual currency to exchange animals.

Unfortunately, the biggest part of the fanbase never got the memo about that "sense of community" thing, and went full "wolf of wall street".

People who sell NMT on ebay should have their account ban and not just for AC, their entire Switch account ban!

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People charge tickets now for visiting their nooks or getting a DIY from a villager who’s crafting Man i really hope this Economy will relax. The spirit of animal crossing was always to support each other & help each other out. Idk, maybe I’m weird but I’d let people visit for free :/

I give away stuff for free...this is also a part of the reason I wish AC wasn't popular like it is now. There are too many people that don't give a damn about AC and only bought it due to the hype or what "popular" like those stupid Twitch streamer and do it for views and money and nothing more.

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I can see the demand for NMT, It's the only way to find your dreamie without investing IRL Money.

But the fact people are asking for like 100+ NMT is insane lol. The economy for trading was already screwed with duplication glitch so I'm not all that surprised. You guys do you tho.

And yet you got people on this board alone defending duper/cheaper saying it doesn't affect you and you shouldn't dictate how other plays their game. When I post them this thread, they don't reply back. I'm going to call out a duper/cheater and I don't care what people on here think. Even if you didn't dupe, there no way you have over 1000 NMT and say you did it the "right" way.

I will defend people on here, I won't defend cheater. Sure this isn't e-sport, but it probably much worst considering e-sport affect fews while this affect the entire community.

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The fact that people have created a large economy from a game where you simply live on and island with animals is crazy. It fills me with relief that at least Nintendo didn’t put in-game transactions for irl money for the Nook Tickets.

It’s stuff like this the reason why I limit trading only with friends.

They might now for the next game because of all these bum that buy NMT with real money. Its always the minority that screw it up for the majority.

 

[Jhin]

People charge tickets now for visiting their nooks or getting a DIY from a villager who’s crafting Man i really hope this Economy will relax. The spirit of animal crossing was always to support each other & help each other out. Idk, maybe I’m weird but I’d let people visit for free :/

I've seen people ask for 3+ tickets to sell turnips... for prices in the 80-90 bells range

 

[JKDOS]

It'd be nice if Nintendo could give us 1 free ticket per day. They could do so through the internet to thwart TT'ers from abusing it.

 

[Jared:3]

Yea what really bothers me is the fact that people are now charging you NMT just to visit their island or to sell turnips which is outrageous sometimes, I usually would just let people come for free

 

[SheepMareep]

Nook: hey I'll let u pay off this initial 50k loan for 5,000 nook miles c:
Everyone on this site: so... nmt... are 300k?
Nook: no... its like... not even 25k for one.
Everyone: 300K FOR 1 NMT NO BARGAINING

It's even more annoying when one person is selling them for 300k and the next thread under is saying u need to pay 1 ticket to buy 10 bags of flowers
Like
Are u insinuating 10 bags of flowers are worth 300k or is the market just that screwed

 

[Xara]

i’ve seen people offer 500-600 tickets for raymond and literally almost passed out

 

[Hopeless Opus]

i agree with you completely. this new economy that has been developing is confusing and also stressful as well. i've begun to feel severe guilt for using my NMT to actually do what the game intended for us to do - go searching for villagers that i want. yesterday i went on an expedition that took up 25 NMT and i felt horribly guilty at the end, because i feel like i used up something so valuable, with no worthy outcome. i do not like the new economic system whatsoever.

 

[Amissapanda]

I agree that this is crazy and threw me for a loop, considering it happened in less than a week of the game coming out.

You CAN earn quite a few miles---I earn mine every day and throughout my livestreams and I've made a heck of a lot (even while spending for some things), but the amassed amount of like 500+ of them confuses me. Even the dreamiest of dreamies on NL used to go for around 250-500TBT. At 500TBT = 20 Nook mile tickets... yeah, the math is hecking crazy. It's around 12,500 TBT equivalent to get a dream villager now if they're popular.

I had to conform and buy some NMT myself (but I only bought about 40 tickets and had to do it with TBT, because I never dupe-glitched and was poor in-game), if just because it seems like people wouldn't trade anything else. But I really don't like that the economy has been destroyed this early into the game. After years, I can understand people amassing insane fortunes, but I really think that dupe glitch caused a ton of issues. Massively rich people are just buying tons of NMT and then are able to make these immense bids that raise the prices of villagers to levels that no regular player can possibly achieve. And then the prices of everything go up, as the same people expect lots of NMTs for goods/services. It's extremely sad to see this happen. I used to love trading and buying/selling here, but now it literally scares me. I cannot compete with prices and I don't even know what prices on anything truly are, as they're all just equated to NMT now or masses of bells that normal players cannot easily acquire.

I truly hope this eases down. It has made the economy here almost unbearable.

 

[BokuNoRhythm]

People that have tons of tickets are the dupers

 

[Nerd House]

I don't like it either.

The Bells Voucher is 500 Miles for 3,000 bells.
This means it's 6 bells per mile. Which means the NMT should be 12,000 Bells TOPS.

People that have tons of tickets are the dupers

You could only dupe placeable items. AKA furniture and clothing. You can only *drop* tickets, so they weren't dupe-able.

 

[niko2]

People charge tickets now for visiting their nooks or getting a DIY from a villager who’s crafting Man i really hope this Economy will relax. The spirit of animal crossing was always to support each other & help each other out. Idk, maybe I’m weird but I’d let people visit for free :/

The only time I tip is when selling turnips and earning money... if I visit someone else I can bring a gift etc but if they ask for money or tickets just to visit... I won't go.

 

[JKDOS]

I don't want to be "the bad guy", but I feel dealing with NMT in enormous amounts has not only spawned because of hackers/cheaters/duplicators, but is enabling them too, and as such needs to be avoided, and stopped.

A NMT is 2000 miles. 2000 miles, I assume, if going at a slow or steady pace, will take you about 20 minutes earn. Excluding the stalk market, I don't know a single person who can make 300,000 bells in the same amount of time.

I think what it was was that some people fraudulently acquired hundreds of millions of bells, and then started mass purchasing NMTs at ridiculous amounts, which created the idea in others that NMT could not only be used as currency, but be used inplace of hundreds of thousands of bells.

You could only dupe placeable items. AKA furniture and clothing. You can only *drop* tickets, so they weren't dupe-able.

He/She has a point though. Duplicators have money, and money buys NMT from players

 

[Anj2k6]

I seen people selling Diana for 20+ and I also seen today some guy giving away Diana for free. There still good people out there. I gave tons and tons of villagers for free away in NL 2nd town, Marshal for example, I think that was my most popular giveaway.

I'm only charging 10 - 20 NMT for the amiibo villagers I'm cycling so I can maybe save up to buy Raymond or Judy.
It's truly ridiculous having NMT prices in the upper 100's.

 

[Shyria]

Ok this thread is such a relief!
My contribution to it might upset some people but I think some people might feel the same way so it's good to point it out?
I got a very popular cat as my first villager to visit my campsite and initially (I'm not really up to date with AC news/community and am not on Twitter) i hated him. I actually closed without saving when I found out my two options were "ask him to move in" and "ask him to move in" and waited for the next day to see if he was gone. He wasn't. So I took him in, and thought "hey, I'll see if people want him on the forum I just signed up to". Then I found out how CRAZY things were with him and I got discouraged. I absolutely don't want to have a part in crazy auctions going over hundreds of NMTs, and I didn't feel like engaging in a "first come first served" kind of thing, nor judging who "really deserved" to have him. So for now I'm keeping him. (and he's actually starting to grow on me...)

And I agree, people asking for tickets just to visit their shops or so are crazy... It's just a matter or respect, and giving back.... If I let people in my island because they're interested in stuff I sell, hopefully they'll do the same for me when they have things that interest me... And if they don't, well there's a very well thought ranking system in place that should be enough...

Anyway... luckily, I still manage to find lots of people to trade with in what I consider to be reasonable & fair conditions on here, so that's nice!

 

[Faux]

i’ve seen people offer 500-600 tickets for raymond and literally almost passed out

You're gonna hate to know he just went for 2,500 NMTs last night, lol.

 

[jiojiop]

Yea what really bothers me is the fact that people are now charging you NMT just to visit their island or to sell turnips which is outrageous sometimes, I usually would just let people come for free

Tbf, managing people trying to sell turnips is a lot of work, especially if people leave on their own and don't wait for boot. That means for every 8 people, you're sitting through 16 cutscenes. I think they deserve some compensation for their time. I was annoyed just being a visitor.

You could only dupe placeable items. AKA furniture and clothing. You can only *drop* tickets, so they weren't dupe-able.

Yes but to be fair, duping earns you $$$, and you can use $$$ to purchase NMT. That way, dupers artificially drive up the price of NMT by being able to offer more money, and simultaneously hoarding tickets.

But people are also accumulating them by selling their villagers. So it's not only dupers that have a ton of em.