Do you think we will get new buildings?

[mattu]

It doesn't prove anything, updates could be free / paid or just contain patches.


It's irrelevant. Would you like to say, we can easily accept living in tent, because it's just 8 months from launch and proper house will come after 18 months?


It's just an assumption. I could say, at some point pier will be extended giving us access to another island, but not now, just in the future.


We may use this explanation for Label, where her functionality is sufficient, but with her luggage she looks like homeless. Why we should have Club LOL when K.K. is happily performing in "the plaza" etc.



Some does, some not. AC Wild World hasn't much. AC City Folk offers more buildings than AC Wild World.



Doesn't prove anything. With this assumption one may say, why we don't have 40 villagers, because we don't need so much trees. Another one will say, why we have 10 villagers, as 5 will be enough because want some more trees.



Just like above, proves nothing. We may fill all empty spaces with bags of bells, but we can have bells in the bank. We may have flowers everywhere, but nothing will stop us from removing all flowers from our island.




The map on nookphone could be changed, altered by developers in any way.




This is "wishful thinking" - why not to change entrance door in city hall, changing into elevator door? Add unlimited floors with all possible and impossible type of of buildings... why not? How many floors? What about additional 10? No... why stop at 10? Another 100? Why not to have highest building, what about 1000 floors?



Why just 2? Why not one, or not 3?



Everyone is different and I understand, whatever updates will come or not, not everyone will be pleased as expectations may differ.

So just for clarity and context, outside of seeing an update trailer, no one has real evidence, aside from datamining which is still quite subjective. All we have is what developers have said, what's happened so far, and the hints and datamines that have already been discovered.

I'm happy to share my opinions and thoughts, to also provide some people on these forums a counter argument for anyone saying we won't get this or that. All our opinions are valid and should be welcome and all in good spirit of a game we love.

As you have taken the time to reply to my thoughts in such detail, I'll gladly respond in the same spirit.

1. Of course it does'nt prove anything, it's educated speculation, they could just spend the next 2-3 years tweaking the game. I don't "believe" they will because they would not be either in the spirit of the development team that built AC:NW and Splatoon 2, nor the strategic choice for nintendo in supporting this game. You need to understand the spirit of my arguments not the irrefutable proof which does not exist. Animal Crossing will not have an intended sequel like other Nintendo big franchises in this console lifecycle so the strategic plan to continue support makes sound business sense, as it's the same plan they used with Splatoon 2. BOTW, Mario Kart etc will probably have sequels in the Switch lifecycle, BOTW already does.
2. Your argument here feels like a far looser interpretation than mine. It's a fair assumption to look at time from Launch for a game that's planned to have a long lifecycle and say don't worry if we've not had everything people expect by now, as we are probably only a quarter of the way through the AC intended update lifecycle. Your point about living in tents, is a little mute, because well, we don't live in tents, unless we are new players ofc.
3. So we argee on this point? FYI the actual code for Redd's Trawler is the same as an external building.
4. Again feel you are just agreeing with my point here, which is great. Not all NPC's need a building, so expect more NPC's without a building, it's just that it does'nt equal; no new buildings because NPC's can be in the plaza. The "experience" has to merit a new building. Leif did'nt really have enough stock to match Ables or Nooks (yet anyway). It's entirely possible they are building out the stock / item rotations or functions so a new building feels relevant and not just a shell for 20 items or so. while as dailys grow they can eventually move into an upgraded building.
5. Wild World had 8 buildings, so not sure that's the best argument for a small number of buildings. NH has 6, so.....
6. I could be wrong but every mainline AC game has had 10 villagers, does'nt prove anything so not sure you argument that is super relevant here. My point is you can't say *no* new buildngs because some players have filled up their islands and don't have space...because that space can be edited. Maybe we'll get more villagers, anything is possible, but based on past games, 10 looks likely, same as only 6 buildings feels like more might come, as the avg is a lot higher and the other lowest amount would be 8.
7. I don't see how your point here counteracts my point, if anything it re-inforces it. We can make space on our island, and Nintendo has already shown via past updates, they will release content that requires space on our islands. It does'nt equal x but it's not an arugment against it.
8. Again so if the map can be edited, it also only supports there could be more things added to it
9. Again you've used a false equivalency here. The aguement that 100 floors on RS equate to having a new fixed feature on our island does'nt hold up. The idea they could use the pier or outcrop already has precident as they used the secret beach for Redd. So they did put in universal features of our islands so they could use them in a future update. Not 100% Proof but the best indication here is Precident
10. Your right why not 3, but then I said "my guess", so well the explanation is clealy in the wording there.
11. Of course, over 25 million people have bought the game, it's just good strategy to continue to support the sales of fairweather titles that do not have a sequel planned for the consoles lifecycle.

I sure you can read my response in the spirit they are intended, and I love the discussion regardless. We'll find out in years to come whether we have more buildings or not. I hope everyone gets what they want.

Some last supporting arguments which can be taken in a variety of ways, from Ninji the dataminer who found the code for Redd, Leif, Dreamsuites etc before they were announced and from what players have discovered via dialogue in the game

I've spoiler tagged in case anyone does'nt want to see datamined stuff

 

[Monokuma73]

It's strange you often comment "this does'nt prove anything", but the same logic applies to everything you've said. You are using subjective opinion and false equivalency quite a bit to dispute something.

II think the point is there is no concreate proof on any future updates paid or otherwise.

The closest we have is obviously the update trailers they release just before the updates themselves, and then the datamines, which are also highly subjective about how the code will actually be used if at all.

All our opinions are valid, but as you have tried to dispute mine in such detail, as opposed to simply saying your opinion is you disagree, I'll gladly respond in kind.

As it's my personal opinion, you may agree or you may not agree with me. Of course, whatever I said "doesn't prove anything" as verification what we said will be possible in the future and most probably we will forget about this discussion until then.
None of us is a "fortune teller" so whatever we say, imagine, predict - has the same value.
If we talking about datamines, we have information about some content which may be implemented or not, for unknown reason.

1. Of course it does'nt prove anything, it's educated speculation, they could just spend the next 2-3 years tweaking the game. I don't believe they will because they would not be either in the spirit of the development team that built AC:NW, nor the strategic choice for nintendo in supporting this game. You need to understand the spirit of my arguments not the irrefutable proof which does not exsist.
2. You argument here feels like a wider false equivilancy than mine, we don't live in tents because that was the base game they released. It's a fair assumption to look at time from Launch for a game that's planned to have a long lifecycle and say don't worry if we've not had everything people expect by now, as we are probably only a quarter of the way through the AC intended lifecycle.
3. So we argee on this point?
4. Again feel you are just agreeing with my point here, which is great. Not all NPC's need a building, so expect more NPC's without a building, it's just that it does'nt equal; no new buildings because NPC's can be in the plaza. The "experience" has to merit a new building. Leif did'nt really have enough stock to match Ables or Nooks (yet anyway). It's entirely possible they are building out the stock / item rotations or functions so a new building feels relevant and not just a shell for 20 items or so. while as dailys grow they can eventually move into an upgraded building.
5. Wild World had 8 buildings, so not sure that's the best argument for a small number of buildings. NH has 6, so.....
6. I could be wrong but every AC game has had 10 villagers, does'nt prove anything so not sure you argument that is super relevant here. My point is you can't say no new buildngs because some players have filled up their islands and don't have space...because that space can be edited.
7. I don't see how your point here counteracts my point, if anything it re-inforces it. We can make space on our island, and nintendo has already shown via past updates, they will release content that requires space on our islands.
8. Again so if the map can be edited, it also only supports there could be more things added to it
9. Again you've used a false equivalency here. Ar aguement that 100 floors on RS equate to having a new fixed feature on our island does'nt hold up. The idea they could use the pier or outcrop already has precident as they used the secret beach for Redd. So they did put in universal features of our islands so they could use them in a future update. Not 100% Proof but the best indication here is Precident
10. Your right why not 3, but then I said "my guess", so well the explanation is clealy in the wording there.
11. Of course, over 25 million people have bought the game, it's just good strategy to continue to support the sales of fairweather titles that due not have a sequel planned for the consoles lifecycle.

I sure you can read my response in the spirit they are intended, and I love the discussion regardless.

Happy for your opinion to be there won't be future buildings etc, but more me, the arguments you've put forward have not convicned me there won't be. We'll see in a few years what happens

1. I understand your point, and as in my previous posts, I will repeat again - I hope, I'm wrong - nothing will me happier. I wish for myself and for other players ACNH will have many updates, for free or as paid DLC for reasonable price with interesting content.
However, observing updates we got so far, I'm expressing my opinion: "All of those should be in full released game". I understand, Nintendo may have plans not to give everything in day of release, because of TT or data miners, trying to make this game sell constantly. It will be definitely more work, if everything would be released at once and then trying to develop something completely new, but the content of those updates we had already in previous iteration in one form or another. Do you agree?

2. Just trying to show the fact, none of argument has more validity so far. My argument about tent was half-serious and I thought you will see this. However, existing any object / building / mechanics doesn't prove anything is possible / impossible, will be / will be not implemented.

3. Sure.

4. Depends. Do we need more buildings or NPC's need them? Do we really need Town Hall? For example, Nook could wander around the island, like Flick, Isabelle's responsibilities could be given to Nook. Nook's Cranny could be reduced to vending machine etc.
It may seems funny, but some been reduced already. There's no post office, as we had before - and we got "post corner" located in the airport. Instead of giving something extra, amount of buildings has been decreased. Why Club LOL has been reduced to couple ordinary chairs? Is it really better? Answering question: Does K.K. requires Club LOL? Obviously not, as he's got almost no stock - why not to reduce more, and just present his performances in TV? I don't think many of us want something we like is taking away from us.

5. I'm comparing Animal Crossing (GameCube) to Animal Crossing Wild World, and if I remember correctly we lost some of buildings. After this, we got more in City Folk. From experience we may see, something has been given, something has been taken.

6. Animal Crossing (GC) has limit 15 villagers, Wild Word has 8. Sure, island could be edited - altered - demolish, that's true. However every single building takes space, not only as itself, but hidden space behind. Not everyone will want this, as size of the island for some is already not sufficient. Can we make island bigger? No, we can't - but is it achievable, sure.

7. Nothing to add.

8. Everything can be changed - but the question stands if it will. For example, could be a choice between 12/24 hours clock? Sure, why not? But is it implemented? Could be interior camera configurable? Sure it could, but isn't I'm afraid.

9. It's not exactly "false equivalency". For example, we had some NES games inside Animal Crossing GC game. I may agree a skyscraper will be affecting visibility, but adding any number of floors down below will not restrict anything, and if we are entering any building, scene is loading - so it's possible... achievable. But if you will ask me if I believe something like this will happen, I will answer "no".

10. Nothing to add.

11. I never said ACNH is a bad game. I never said about inability of selling their products. However, after one year of updates, regardless of my opinion if it should be in full release or not - it will be a time for something new. Some small changes, like adding one fish / bug each month will not impress anyone, fifth season will not be invented, non-existing holiday will not be made. If Nintendo planning to keep ACNH updated for 2-3 years, they have to release some new content, significant one.

Conclusion: my beliefs or disbeliefs will not affect reality, as I already said, I will be more than happy if I will be wrong, because it gives us, players more fun playing our game.
Some may say I don't have a high hopes, but if Nintendo will surprise me with something extra, I will be happy - If I will got similar content, I will be not disappointed at least, as I don't believe in much - at least for now.
If we will receive during late November update something extra, like daily-cooking-routine or extra building, I will have no problem to say "I was wrong". But for now, I will be playing as I was, and calmly waiting for what is coming.

 

[-Lumi-]

I don’t know if I want many new buildings, to be honest. I don’t know where I’d put them! I think the only extra building I’d want enough to try and find a place for it is Brewster’s.

I do desperately want the current stores to upgrade though. I’d love to see Nooklings upgrade enough that I have a couple more furniture offerings a day and have Leif there too! I love Leif but his schedule is so sporadic. I love redoing the bushes around my plaza seasonally so having his store somewhere permanent would be so helpful.

I’d also love to see The Able Sisters expand to include Kicks! That way I could see a selection of bags more often. Also Labelle too so all the sisters are back together again.

Plus hopefully by taking Leif, Kicks, and Labelle out of the “special visitor” pool I’ll hopefully see Redd, Flick, and ... oh I’ve forgotten his name. The little guy you give fish too hopefully they would all come around more!

 

[mattu]

As it's my personal opinion, you may agree or you may not agree with me. Of course, whatever I said "doesn't prove anything" as verification what we said will be possible in the future and most probably we will forget about this discussion until then.
None of us is a "fortune teller" so whatever we say, imagine, predict - has the same value.
If we talking about datamines, we have information about some content which may be implemented or not, for unknown reason.




1. I understand your point, and as in my previous posts, I will repeat again - I hope, I'm wrong - nothing will me happier. I wish for myself and for other players ACNH will have many updates, for free or as paid DLC for reasonable price with interesting content.
However, observing updates we got so far, I'm expressing my opinion: "All of those should be in full released game". I understand, Nintendo may have plans not to give everything in day of release, because of TT or data miners, trying to make this game sell constantly. It will be definitely more work, if everything would be released at once and then trying to develop something completely new, but the content of those updates we had already in previous iteration in one form or another. Do you agree?

2. Just trying to show the fact, none of argument has more validity so far. My argument about tent was half-serious and I thought you will see this. However, existing any object / building / mechanics doesn't prove anything is possible / impossible, will be / will be not implemented.

3. Sure.

4. Depends. Do we need more buildings or NPC's need them? Do we really need Town Hall? For example, Nook could wander around the island, like Flick, Isabelle's responsibilities could be given to Nook. Nook's Cranny could be reduced to vending machine etc.
It may seems funny, but some been reduced already. There's no post office, as we had before - and we got "post corner" located in the airport. Instead of giving something extra, amount of buildings has been decreased. Why Club LOL has been reduced to couple ordinary chairs? Is it really better? Answering question: Does K.K. requires Club LOL? Obviously not, as he's got almost no stock - why not to reduce more, and just present his performances in TV? I don't think many of us want something we like is taking away from us.

5. I'm comparing Animal Crossing (GameCube) to Animal Crossing Wild World, and if I remember correctly we lost some of buildings. After this, we got more in City Folk. From experience we may see, something has been given, something has been taken.

6. Animal Crossing (GC) has limit 15 villagers, Wild Word has 8. Sure, island could be edited - altered - demolish, that's true. However every single building takes space, not only as itself, but hidden space behind. Not everyone will want this, as size of the island for some is already not sufficient. Can we make island bigger? No, we can't - but is it achievable, sure.

7. Nothing to add.

8. Everything can be changed - but the question stands if it will. For example, could be a choice between 12/24 hours clock? Sure, why not? But is it implemented? Could be interior camera configurable? Sure it could, but isn't I'm afraid.

9. It's not exactly "false equivalency". For example, we had some NES games inside Animal Crossing GC game. I may agree a skyscraper will be affecting visibility, but adding any number of floors down below will not restrict anything, and if we are entering any building, scene is loading - so it's possible... achievable. But if you will ask me if I believe something like this will happen, I will answer "no".

10. Nothing to add.

11. I never said ACNH is a bad game. I never said about inability of selling their products. However, after one year of updates, regardless of my opinion if it should be in full release or not - it will be a time for something new. Some small changes, like adding one fish / bug each month will not impress anyone, fifth season will not be invented, non-existing holiday will not be made. If Nintendo planning to keep ACNH updated for 2-3 years, they have to release some new content, significant one.

Conclusion: my beliefs or disbeliefs will not affect reality, as I already said, I will be more than happy if I will be wrong, because it gives us, players more fun playing our game.
Some may say I don't have a high hopes, but if Nintendo will surprise me with something extra, I will be happy - If I will got similar content, I will be not disappointed at least, as I don't believe in much - at least for now.
If we will receive during late November update something extra, like daily-cooking-routine or extra building, I will have no problem to say "I was wrong". But for now, I will be playing as I was, and calmly waiting for what is coming.

Of course and I really respect everything you've said, some great points here and appreciate the discussion way more than any outcome.

As well I totally understand your stance of not having high hopes, there is a great pleasure in enjoy the game for now and also being really surprised and rewarded if something does come that was not expected. After all there can be no....wait where's Brewster after the next trailer if you are not hoping he'll be there I say more power to you basically

In a way part of the thing that is exciting is I do feel there are some updates we have now idea about, like anew npc or never before seen feature to AC.....but as you say, it can be good to just enjoy the surprise if it comes

I don’t know if I want many new buildings, to be honest. I don’t know where I’d put them! I think the only extra building I’d want enough to try and find a place for it is Brewster’s.

I do desperately want the current stores to upgrade though. I’d love to see Nooklings upgrade enough that I have a couple more furniture offerings a day and have Leif there too! I love Leif but his schedule is so sporadic. I love redoing the bushes around my plaza seasonally so having his store somewhere permanent would be so helpful.

I’d also love to see The Able Sisters expand to include Kicks! That way I could see a selection of bags more often. Also Labelle too so all the sisters are back together again.

Plus hopefully by taking Leif, Kicks, and Labelle out of the “special visitor” pool I’ll hopefully see Redd, Flick, and ... oh I’ve forgotten his name. The little guy you give fish too hopefully they would all come around more!

Oh building upgrades would be nice too, I check Ables and Nooks everytime I play and both of them having a make over, maybe extra floor at some stage would be wonderful

 

[Monokuma73]

I don’t know if I want many new buildings, to be honest. I don’t know where I’d put them! I think the only extra building I’d want enough to try and find a place for it is Brewster’s.

I do desperately want the current stores to upgrade though. I’d love to see Nooklings upgrade enough that I have a couple more furniture offerings a day and have Leif there too! I love Leif but his schedule is so sporadic. I love redoing the bushes around my plaza seasonally so having his store somewhere permanent would be so helpful.

I’d also love to see The Able Sisters expand to include Kicks! That way I could see a selection of bags more often. Also Labelle too so all the sisters are back together again.

Plus hopefully by taking Leif, Kicks, and Labelle out of the “special visitor” pool I’ll hopefully see Redd, Flick, and ... oh I’ve forgotten his name. The little guy you give fish too hopefully they would all come around more!

Of course and I really respect everything you've said, some great points here and appreciate the discussion way more than any outcome.

As well I totally understand your stance of not having high hopes, there is a great pleasure in enjoy the game for now and also being really surprised and rewarded if something does come that was not expected. After all there can be no....wait where's Brewster after the next trailer if you are not hoping he'll be there I say more power to you basically

In a way part of the thing that is exciting is I do feel there are some updates we have now idea about, like anew npc or never before seen feature to AC.....but as you say, it can be good to just enjoy the surprise if it comes



Oh building upgrades would be nice too, I check Ables and Nooks everytime I play and both of them having a make over, maybe extra floor at some stage would be wonderful

I really want to answer for both of you...
First of all, we shouldn't be worried about space... you may ask why? Answer is quite simple and is related to solution we had in New Leaf as well in New Horizons. We have Harvey Island. Except photo studio, there are special events, but I can't discuss it as I haven't had a chance to participate. Anyway... just visiting Harvey Island, we just have an access to one, single house, with restriction to anything else.
No one can deny another, extra island is existing. With this existence, is always opportunity to place there anything what is missing - because it's still a space and justification for this.
I do agree with @Cheshire_Cat03 - Able Sisters can be back together. It really looks so sad, when we meeting Label being excluded from family and her presence and activity is strictly limited. I understand explanations given in game, Label is travelling but I don't really like the way is she presented to players.
Why we may want this? Because we've seen this in NL and we are sure this is achievable.
As the Nook's Cranny could be expanded or / and moved from one to another (tent -> store -> bigger store) (NH), and some of places being open after some time (NL) - we may have those expectations, because we know, same developer was able to to this for sure in the past.

@mattu I would like to remind you (and others) - many of players expected Brewster in Halloween update. Did we got him?
I would like to point some "downgrades" what we experiencing in NH comparing to previous iterations of Animal Crossing games.
Celeste - had an observatory, what was really interesting and this was a place we can visit every single days. What we got now? She appears from time to time. Is it better? In my opinion is regression.

• Brewster - has been wiped completely. His existence was nice addition, some part time jobs could be nice, still in NH.
• Lost and found (various iteration) city gate / police station - has been removed. Now, we can find lost item and do some "investigation" and finally give it back to its owner. It made simply... but not too over-simply?
• Calendar / diary taken away
• Wishing well (or whatever has been called) - taken away.
• Lighthouse - taken away and swap for a prop, which could be just placed on island.
• Post office - no longer exist.
• LOL club - been replaced for some chairs.

All of mentioned above are facts. In my opinion, if for example LOL club will come back, it means Nintendo will have to admit they've done something (at least) not really good, and deciding to change it, for something old but good. How often this happens so far?
And finally, if they are planning to make ACNH "alive" for 2-3 years, they should have something hidden from us, players and deliver it when amount of active players will decrease, because it's not a point to encourage active and hyped players, as they are already happy.

 

[Shinjukuwu]

I really hope we get at least a building for the café. I've got a space especially for it, and it looks so empty right now.

Also, I hope Phyllis and Pelly return but I'd be happy with them in the airport. Just as long as they come back, I miss them and I don't bother writing letters anymore as it's too faffy and takes too long.

 

[SadStringbean]

Yes. we need the roost, and Leif should get his shop back. he literally never comes for me for whatever reason, and since he's the only character that sells shrubs, I can't get them anywhere else. I also can't stockpile on them when he comes around, because you can't put them in storage. I think they should combine his shop with Nook's, as they did in New Leaf, or also give Kicks his shop back and combine them together.

 

[SirOctopie]

I would like to see new buildings, at least maybe the café (if I recall correctly, datamines show that it will likely be in the museum again), even though I don't really have any room for one right now lol. It'd be neat to have ReTail come back, Club LOL, and Gracie's. I miss having a "main street" full of NPCs.

Poor Kicks, though. He has gone from shining shoes on the street, to having a full blown shop of his own, to being downgraded to a small stand in the residential services plaza. Please just let the poor skunk be successful, Nintendo!

 

[mattu]

Yes. we need the roost, and Leif should get his shop back. he literally never comes for me for whatever reason, and since he's the only character that sells shrubs, I can't get them anywhere else. I also can't stockpile on them when he comes around, because you can't put them in storage. I think they should combine his shop with Nook's, as they did in New Leaf, or also give Kicks his shop back and combine them together.

you can put the shrub planters in storage just not the fullgrown shrub so you can buy loads of shrubs from Leif and then put them in your storage

I would like to see new buildings, at least maybe the café (if I recall correctly, datamines show that it will likely be in the museum again), even though I don't really have any room for one right now lol. It'd be neat to have ReTail come back, Club LOL, and Gracie's. I miss having a "main street" full of NPCs.

Poor Kicks, though. He has gone from shining shoes on the street, to having a full blown shop of his own, to being downgraded to a small stand in the residential services plaza. Please just let the poor skunk be successful, Nintendo!

So the data mine is a bit confusing because there were two external buildings called museum cafe and museum shop. So either the data mine is leftover code, or they are external buildings with placeholder names, or new sections of the museum coded as external for some reason....but to also throw fuel on the external building fire, both the roost and Brewster were found highlighted in villager dialogue back in April, which I think has since been removed from the game.

I do really want the roost as an external building it would add a lot of more depth to our islands

 

[Bilaz]

Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one who wants Brewster back in the museum? Maybe it’s just that the New Leaf café doesn’t have as much nostalgia to me as the old museum but I never liked that change.

I also don’t reaaaaally think Nook’s Cranny needs an upgrade? Or maybe just one? Like... most of the stuff is in the cabinet so... The stock really feels like it’s almost as much as we had in the big nook stores before? Idk like, in previous games it took Nook’s several upgrades just to sell all tools at once, I think they just streamlined it a bit? Especially considering like half the furniture is handmade now?

 

[SadStringbean]

you can put the shrub planters in storage just not the fullgrown shrub so you can buy loads of shrubs from Leif and then put them in your storage




So the data mine is a bit confusing because there were two external buildings called museum cafe and museum shop. So either the data mine is leftover code, or they are external buildings with placeholder names, or new sections of the museum coded as external for some reason....but to also throw fuel on the external building fire, both the roost and Brewster were found highlighted in villager dialogue back in April, which I think has since been removed from the game.

I do really want the roost as an external building it would add a lot of more depth to our islands

huh. I swear that wasn't the case when the update first came out. must have updated it.

 

[NatsumiSummer]

I hope so! My shopping area is feeling so bare with only two buildings! I'd really love a Kick's/Lief shop, or even a coffee shop! I really liked that about NL!

yeah my main street area is also super duper barren right now. I New Leaf-ified my island, and I really wish my Main Street area could be full of shops/businesses tbh.

If The Roost does return in this game via an update, and it gets its own building, then I am definitely going to add it elsewhere on my island. I also have a villager that has the name of Cafe, and I plan on replacing her with the Cafe when or if The Roost ever makes a return, and if it gets its own building. If it doesn't, then I do plan on deleting her house, and leaving an empty spot where her house was or something.

Post automatically merged: Nov 11, 2020

Nintendo pretends giving us "free updates" - but what we got is just what should be included in full release. I do understand, they tried to keep game to be hyped, at least for one year and this works.
I have a feeling, the following update will be a final one (plus some fixes) and this will be over... or if we will got updates, will be paid DLC.

Look at Splatoon 2. I don't think the same developers that developed that game, would end up giving us ONE year of free updates, and then paid DLC. If anything we are following the same model as Splatoon 2 is in regards to DLC. Every update will be free, until ONE last update near the end of the game's life cycle. Then that update will be major and cost roughly $10 maybe $20 USD.

 

[Akeath]

I think they've pretty much decided to keep things as traveling NPCs to add some variety between the days in this version. They aren't going to add more buildings when people have already terraformed to the point there's no room for them, either. Best case scenario they'll add things to existing buildings like they've already done with the additional part of the museum and accessing the dream land through your bed. They seem to have already made the plan on how these things will work, and I doubt they'll change that several months after they game has been out.

 

[Peach_Jam]

As others have mentioned, it seems like they're set on the structure of NPCs in this game. I do still have hope for brewsters to return, but by the looks of it I doubt it'll be with his own building.

I get that most people already finished decorating their islands so having an extra building wouldn't be convenient, but at the same time we literally only have 2 "shops" in this game. It's a bit hard to make a plaza/shopping district without it looking empty-even with stalls everywhere.

 

[World Citizen]

I honestly can't call it because I think there's a lot of passion on both sides of the arguement for and against. I'd personally love new buildings.

I think the best compromise would be to make them optional add ons.

 

[MapleSilver]

The more time we go without a new building, the less I think we'll end up getting one. Maybe The Roost, but I still think they might just find a way to cram it into the Museum like in City Folk.

 

[Monokuma73]

Animal Crossing franchise has almost 20 years. If I remember correctly, all AC games had permanent set of buildings except New Leaf, where in the last update we receive camping site. However, this has happened not because of everlasting love from Nintendo, but they realized it's a way to get more money from Amiibo. Simple.
In AC we have only two buildings with fixed placement - town hall and airport. There's no main street, shopping district, nothing else.
Developers could easily implement many of buildings + characters, but so far they didn't. Why? There's no answer for this.
Maybe simplest answer is correct: "time is a money" and observing how many customers bought ACNH in current state, it's just purely unnecessary to add more, because what is sold is sold.
What I believe we will got another update - bit bigger than recent one, but not as significant as many expecting. Some of you believe we may expect another (final?) update at some point in February or March, but personally I'm not sure about this, so I don't want to say "yes" or "no" yet.
Some of you mentioned 2-3 years of support - however, looking back - do you remember how many services Nintendo shut down in the past - for 3DS, Wii, WiiU... what if this 2-3 years support is related to maintain just online services related to ACNH, including dream library, smartphone apps etc.?

 

[Livia]

Sometimes I feel like I’m the only one who wants Brewster back in the museum? Maybe it’s just that the New Leaf café doesn’t have as much nostalgia to me as the old museum but I never liked that change.

I also don’t reaaaaally think Nook’s Cranny needs an upgrade? Or maybe just one? Like... most of the stuff is in the cabinet so... The stock really feels like it’s almost as much as we had in the big nook stores before? Idk like, in previous games it took Nook’s several upgrades just to sell all tools at once, I think they just streamlined it a bit? Especially considering like half the furniture is handmade now?

I agree, I never played New Leaf so I’ve never had a separate cafe building. I would love to see him in the museum.

 

[mattu]

So some interesting comments from Nintendo's president Shuntaro Furukawa in their recent financial meeting


“The sales pace of Animal Crossing: New Horizons has eased compared to the period around its initial release, but among all our titles, this one continues to maintain high sales levels. As I mentioned in response to a previous question, this title is also driving Nintendo Switch hardware sales in Asian markets, which have relatively smaller sales numbers than the markets in Japan, the U.S. and Europe. Going forward, we will continue to implement in-game events and would like to create a situation where consumers will keep enjoying the game for a long time. This will be the first year-end sales season for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and we hope even more people will take that opportunity to purchase the game.”

So something to interpret in many ways but combined with the lead developers comments about supporting the game back in April / May it does seem Nintendo understand there is a sound business strategy in continuing to add events to the game. Whether these will bring with them new mechanics or even new buildings we don't know but support won't be waning anytime soon

 

[Monokuma73]

So some interesting comments from Nintendo's president Shuntaro Furukawa in their recent financial meeting


“The sales pace of Animal Crossing: New Horizons has eased compared to the period around its initial release, but among all our titles, this one continues to maintain high sales levels. As I mentioned in response to a previous question, this title is also driving Nintendo Switch hardware sales in Asian markets, which have relatively smaller sales numbers than the markets in Japan, the U.S. and Europe. Going forward, we will continue to implement in-game events and would like to create a situation where consumers will keep enjoying the game for a long time. This will be the first year-end sales season for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, and we hope even more people will take that opportunity to purchase the game.”

So something to interpret in many ways but combined with the lead developers comments about supporting the game back in April / May it does seem Nintendo understand there is a sound business strategy in continuing to add events to the game. Whether these will bring with them new mechanics or even new buildings we don't know but support won't be waning anytime soon

I noticed this. But, please note - it's been mentioned about in-game events, what could be compared to appearance of CJ / Flick from time to time. "Event" in ACNH doesn't require any additional building and could be hosted anywhere. We got proofs already, Halloween -> Jack, no extra building, just event. We have Label, standing on the Plaza with her luggage - no building, no extra room in Sister's store.
Yesterday, I did realised I never used "Rescue Service" - and I was tempted by helicopter icon and I had some "high hopes"... because we have a plane, so probably a some sort of rescue services will come from above and it will be visually remarkable... but what I got? I don't want to spoil anyone's pleasure to experience this "special event".