Animal Crossing E3

[Corrie]

While I’m disappointed with the lack of any announcements, unfortunately I’ve considered NH to be a lost cause for almost a year now. Once the excitement of a new AC game wore off I realized how shallow this entry was at its core. An update adding Brewster will not fix the obnoxious crafting system, the lack of interesting villager dialogue, or the over reliance on pretty graphics vs. meaningful content.

This game was broken as early as the planning stages unfortunately. I’ve been playing animal crossing all my life, I have put an ungodly amount of time into each entry and can still go back and play each one for 100s of hours more. But NH? My island isn’t even finished yet I don’t want to boot the game up again, I’ve just been playing NL instead.

While updates would be nice, from the get-go Nintendo should have released a finished game. No amount of small fixes and new furniture will make this game feel complete to me.

Sorry for the rant, but if a game needs an update a year in to be considered worth playing, I don’t think the game itself is all that great.

Beautifully put. I feel you. I definitely agree that they focused on pretty graphics and nothing else. That's the main problem. The graphical update is so nice that going back to older titles is a little difficult, I find, and I'm sure that's why most people stuck with NH for so long. If it had the same graphics as NL, I definitely would have went back to NL quicker. I'm still under the belief that they sold us a rushed, unfinished game and that fact shouldn't be forgotten simply because it's Nintendo.

 

[Mezzanine]

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[QueenOpossum]

No offense but some of you set yourselves up for disappointment. Why would they have a year old game on E3?

Smash Ultimate came out in 2018. They are still releasing content and it was the first announcement of the direct. They also had a whole section for DLC.

I would like more content for ACNH.

 

[King koopa]

No offense but some of you set yourselves up for disappointment. Why would they have a year old game on E3?

Well they probably didn't think they would show the game, and they have been updating the game every so often, so it's not like it's a year old game that Nintendo doesn't care about at all

 

[Etown20]

It seems like Nintendo is in uncharted territory with Animal Crossing at the moment. While I'm sure they expected ACNH to be successful, I don't think many would have predicted it would be the best selling game on Switch or that the fanbase would be this vocal.

I imagine they had a road map of updates planned for the game that they are probably sticking to. I don't expect these updates to satisfy everyone, but I do think there is more to come.

Given the sales of ACNH, I do think we will eventually see a difference with Nintendo prioritizing the series more, but I think it will take time and may not happen until the next game in the series.

 

[Rosch]

I can understand the frustration and disappointment about the lack of news (I also expected some news but that's on me). But let's keep a bit of optimism here and think a bit more... technically.

Reminder that content for August 2021 onwards is inaccessible. The next update schedule is normally hinted by the availability of the events and seasonal items on the Nook Shopping app. So obviously, the next update should be around late July (August 1 is a Sunday and should have the Fireworks Festival by then). I guess it's still too early to announce an update since we're only mid June.

 

[tiffanistarr]

No offense but some of you set yourselves up for disappointment. Why would they have a year old game on E3?

lmao because that’s where they announce major updates and DLCs for games… what??? lmao

 

[satine]

No offense but some of you set yourselves up for disappointment. Why would they have a year old game on E3?

Then why do they keep reiterating Smash over and over and over each E3 when it's a 3 year old game...?

 

[nanfier]

I can understand the frustration and disappointment about the lack of news (I also expected some news but that's on me). But let's keep a bit of optimism here and think a bit more... technically.

Reminder that content for August 2021 onwards is inaccessible. The next update schedule is normally hinted by the availability of the events and seasonal items on the Nook Shopping app. So obviously, the next update should be around late July (August 1 is a Sunday and should have the Fireworks Festival by then). I guess it's still too early to announce an update since we're only mid June.

I think one problem could be the pace they drop these updates? They already missed all those chances (like ACNH 1st anniversary, 20th for AC series and E3) and it's so confusing if they're ready to drop something like huge. What I was thinking is they could at least tell us we're going to have a big update at August and it's big enough for us to wait patiently for another one or two months.
Now I'd rather believe there's not going to be any big update, and even if we get some small one at August, it doesn't seem like reasonable that we have to wait like three or even four months with nothing to do(well that's me).

 

[-Blue-]

This is really Nintendo's first game where a good bit of it has been dripfed. I can't think of any other game that has been like this. Or at least ones that I haven't played or know about. I really hope Nintendo doesn't try this with any of their other games or IPs because the wait is old and gets boring after a while.

I never expected anything on E3 just a fyi in case someone suspects that with this post or any of mine in this thread. I am simply commenting because I know why people have been frustrated with it. Even if we never got any updates, there are things that should had been a thing from the start like the emotions they added in an update ect. And there are things that are still locked to AI villagers only like food and drinks to name a few. That kind of stuff is still out of our access. That stuff should not be at 1 year and 3 months and still locked.

I mention that because I saw some posts comment that people shouldn't expect anything from a really old game. It's a year old game, yes, but Nintendo pushed it out in what felt like a beta and mentioned 3 years of updates and there have been long stretches without any announcements and other times with very lacking ones. The September trailer was literally just telling us how to catch the fall bugs. That wasn't a real update. That was already in the game.

So I can get where people are coming from even if I loved a lot of the stuff in the E3 direct. I can also understand those who say how fun the game is. Because I agree with both sides (to a varying extent because ngl both sides have extreme cases)

 

[Trent the Paladin]

I had been expecting a small update for things to come at least, so the no show is a little unexpected. ACNH just continues to apparently just not be the AC game for me, despite the fun I’ve managed to have with it. Maybe in a few weeks we’ll get the summer update with the like six new items to get old players reinvested for six minutes.

 

[Mezzanine]

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[satine]

Yeah but thats Smash, like I thought it was pretty obvious Nintendo doesn't gaf about ACNH anymore.

I don't think that's obvious to most people, at least people here. And I don't think it's very nice to try and make those on here who were expecting or hoping for something to be mentioned about it today feel silly for thinking so.

Moreover, ACNH is one of their best selling titles ever, and Nintendo advertised regularly updated content for the next few years following its release. They use E3 to advertise new games as well as DLC. ACNH updates classify as DLC. How is that very different from Smash?

 

[Mezzanine]

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[satine]

Sorry, I wasn't trying to make anyone seem stupid for expecting an ACNH update. I'm just jaded and cynical from how ACNH has been handled this past year.

I understand -- and honestly it's easy to feel that way. Some of the updates were nice but I was personally not a fan of the ones adding crossover items before they even add Brewster or gyroids, just as my own personal opinion. They haven't really handled it well.

I personally feel like a lot of people got really excited with the beginning pace of their updates (including me) and expected that the rest of their updates would kind of follow that same pattern. It dwindled this year, and now there's radio silence and they've done little else other than throw a holiday update or a crossover update out there once and a while. Maybe no presence @ E3 will kind of change everyone's expectations, but I feel like many expectations had yet to be nullified by reality (including my own) until now.

 

[-Blue-]

The dlc for Smash is paid content. So I feel like if they did do an E3 segment, that would imply it would be paid content for NH and I would rather it have it's own trailer than jump into dlc so early when a lot of stuff that doesn't feel worthy of being spent on is still out of our access.

 

[Glake]

Kinda sucks no AC stuff was shown, but I had a feeling it would be a bit too early, anyway. I'm not worried about them not having future content in store, with each new datamine we find more and more stuff they're apparently working on behind the scenes so stuff is coming - Nintendo is just abysmally bad at pacing their updates for anything not Smash related.

Fortunately, ACNH is one of the FEW Nintendo franchises to actually have an entire dedicated social media page ran by the company, which imo speaks volumes about how committed they are to this title. I'm certain there will be content for a good while, and when it's all finally done we'll know for sure via their socials.

 

[BigBadButterfree]

There are people that wonder why we don't get Animal Crossing news as often as Smash?

*Laughs in Pikmin*

 

[psiJordan]

Of course I’m disappointed there wasn’t even one little mention of New Horizons.

On the other hand, this may push people to realize the possibility that ACNH isn’t a huge focus anymore and how the game is right now is just how it will be forever. The updates promised for the next few years could entirely be just items for seasonal holidays :/ so hopefully there won’t be as much buildup and hype that leads to massive anger

 

[Millysaurusrexjr]

I must admit I am shocked that nothing at all was announced for ACNH at the direct. Their biggest game in 2020 and they do nothing at all for it at this big event??? what even