Festivale Update!

[6iixx]

i don't care, i'm happy. pave looks adorable, that dance looks adorable, i'm gonna have some items to finally decorate my beach and feel appropriate about it - all in all, i'm happy with the first peak of things and super excited to see how it turns out. those valentines day items seem adorable too; and i can't wait for more reactions. plus, now that my little sister has a switch of her own, i'm sure i'll enjoy events better because i'll actually have someone to physically enjoy them with now.

 

[RollingAntony]

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Could you imagine the power NH would have if we got the same items as PC? I mean just look at the sneak peak for February!

I understand it’s two completely different teams working on two completely different games, but after seeing these lackluster NH updates being advertised side-by-side with the PC items, it’s hard not to compare the two. I know that I'm definitely jealous of all the cool items in PC (especially that TOWER???) and when I look at updates like this one I get so disappointed. Like, thanks Nintendo, ANOTHER single-day event with some furniture that I'm most likely not going to be able to use outside of the current season. See you in March for the next one, I guess! Maybe this time you'll give me a new table so I can actually set down my stuff!

I love NH with all my heart, but it's getting really difficult to keep defending it when Nintendo just keeps disappointing us with the same things that we DIDN'T ask for over and over again. I'm not a Brewster stan by any means, but I would prefer him to most of this stuff bc it would show me that Nintendo is at least listening to its players and our feedback.

On the bright side, I love Pavé and am VERY excited to get to interact with him again! His design is incredible!

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Yes, I can imagine the power NH would have if they made all those amazing items only achievable by dumping lots of extra-money on the game. Nintendo is leaving out so much money on the table by not allowing us to get every single item without making players gamble or just outright pay for them.

 

[Noel_in_Sunrise]

I am not surprised, but I am disappointed. I hoped that at least the Festivale furniture would be more fun. The yellow/green needed a pop of something else at the very least. Ah well, I didn't expect more from the update.

A shame to see that March will probably be focused on the Mario items. I couldn't care less about those. I have suspected for awhile that the updates are winding down, but have been hoping to be wrong.

 

[6iixx]

I am not surprised, but I am disappointed. I hoped that at least the Festivale furniture would be more fun. The yellow/green needed a pop of something else at the very least. Ah well, I didn't expect more from the update.

A shame to see that March will probably be focused on the Mario items. I couldn't care less about those. I have suspected for awhile that the updates are winding down, but have been hoping to be wrong.

we've been able to customize how event items look before - i'm sure we'll be able to do the same with these pieces of furniture, as well.

 

[LuchaSloth]

Could you imagine the power NH would have if we got the same items as PC? I mean just look at the sneak peak for February!

This is why I really hate mobile games. The same thing happens with the Mario Kart game, or the Pokemon spin-offs. They add all kinds of nice stuff to the mobile Mario Kart game, or Pokemon Go, or Pokemon Masters...and it's like...that's fine. But, you know that you have a full console game that you could support, too? Same goes for Pokemon Bank. Like...why does the mobile version offer GTS trades, but the FULL console version doesn't? You felt like Mystery Trades were more important for the main game than proper GTS? Nintendo can be a real pain sometimes. Animal Crossing is just the tip of the iceberg. Lol.

 

[Coach]

The items seem ok, but such little content! Was expecting at least a little quality of life update alongside it.

Anyway, who wants to guess which super mario items will be missing from the ones in NL / Pocket Camp?

 

[Pupperina]

Hold up Saniro amiibos are coming back ?? I've been trying to find those everywhere !! But of course they're prices are ridiculous..

No that's good. That's exactly what I want. I couldn't get them upon the time they were out years ago. So as a Hello Kitty/Saniro fan I'm happy af rn. I need to keep my eyes peeled.

They announced it today and said it will be available at Target! I’m a Sanrio fan too so I’d like to get my hands on them haha

 

[daringred_]

i'm so jealous of the white cat suit and cat girl outfits coming to PC next month. like, obviously i'm going to be able to get them since i have the game and enough free leaf tickets, but i'd love to wander around in them for hours on my mainline HD game instead of a few times a day for several minutes on a mobile game like-

it's just so wild to me that i can pay £60 for a game and yet get better items for free in the mobile version.

 

[mayor.lauren]

This is why I really hate mobile games. The same thing happens with the Mario Kart game, or the Pokemon spin-offs. They add all kinds of nice stuff to the mobile Mario Kart game, or Pokemon Go, or Pokemon Masters...and it's like...that's fine. But, you know that you have a full console game that you could support, too? Same goes for Pokemon Bank. Like...why does the mobile version offer GTS trades, but the FULL console version doesn't? You felt like Mystery Trades were more important for the main game than proper GTS? Nintendo can be a real pain sometimes. Animal Crossing is just the tip of the iceberg. Lol.

I'm with you 100%. I feel like it's because they feel like they can push players to spend more money with in-app purchases than they can with a console game. But what sucks about it is we all handed over our $60 (plus the cost of the console itself) for an incomplete game that's totally bare-bones and only has small updates every couple of months. They say they did the update format to try to expand the longevity of this game, but what they've really done is lower it. No one wants to wait for these updates, and players are getting impatient and giving up with the game altogether. What they should have done is give us a full game to begin with, then done the little updates to add some cool furniture items, like the Pocket Camp ones.

 

[5pmtheme]

Yes, I can imagine the power NH would have if they made all those amazing items only achievable by dumping lots of extra-money on the game. Nintendo is leaving out so much money on the table by not allowing us to get every single item without making players gamble or just outright pay for them.

thanks for pointing this out. i'm getting really tired of the 'POCKET CAMP HAS WAY BETTER CONTENT!!!!!!!!!' circlejerking constantly surrounding NH, as though pocket camp doesn't only have the things it has because of whales putting thousands upon thousands of dollars into it for a chance at pixelated furniture. if you want that experience, then feel free to redownload PC, but let's not pretend it's ever going to happen with NH (which is very much a good thing).

 

[Cosmic-chan]

They announced it today and said it will be available at Target! I’m a Sanrio fan too so I’d like to get my hands on them haha

IM ON MY WAY TO TARGET ONLINE HOLD UP MY DREAMS WILL COME TRUE HELLO KITTY FAN WILL GET HER DREAM CARDS

 

[JKDOS]

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Could you imagine the power NH would have if we got the same items as PC? I mean just look at the sneak peak for February!

I understand it’s two completely different teams working on two completely different games, but after seeing these lackluster NH updates being advertised side-by-side with the PC items, it’s hard not to compare the two. I know that I'm definitely jealous of all the cool items in PC (especially that TOWER???) and when I look at updates like this one I get so disappointed. Like, thanks Nintendo, ANOTHER single-day event with some furniture that I'm most likely not going to be able to use outside of the current season. See you in March for the next one, I guess! Maybe this time you'll give me a new table so I can actually set down my stuff!

I love NH with all my heart, but it's getting really difficult to keep defending it when Nintendo just keeps disappointing us with the same things that we DIDN'T ask for over and over again. I'm not a Brewster stan by any means, but I would prefer him to most of this stuff bc it would show me that Nintendo is at least listening to its players and our feedback.

On the bright side, I love Pavé and am VERY excited to get to interact with him again! His design is incredible!

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Is Animal Crossing New Horizons even loved played by the people who make it? If I was designing a game I loved, I'd be adding things that would make the game better for me.

These would be some simple things (No, nothing big like Brewster or Nook's Cranny upgrades)

Buying multiple outfits at Able Sister's. If the developers play Animal Crossing, don't they see the problem which having to spend 5 minutes going in and out in and out in and out just to buy multiple shirts in multiple colors?

Easier way to obtain fish bait (Craft in multiples for it or maybe buy it for an expensive price at Nook's) . Have the developers or testers really not found a problem with trying to craft 30-40 fish bait all at once?

Move the Town Hall. In a game where we are moving everything, why is the Town Hall excluded? While designing their town, have none of them been like "I hate my town hall placement" or "I envision my town to look like this, which requires the town hall to go here"

Audio settings. Maybe the composer would feel differently, but are we seriously the only people who play the game and feel the music is too loud and obnoxious at times? Are we the only ones who'd like to isolate the music from the rest of the game?

Airport Dialogue. Are we the only ones who find going through infinite trees of dialogue to open the gates or go out to be rather tedious?

Wand Outfits. Don't they see how clunky wand outfits are by requiring you to have multiple copies of the clothing for each outfit? Don't they see how cumbersome it is that we can't do things like using the dressing room, try on clothing, or go swimming with a wand outfit? Why couldn't the Wand Outfits pull directly from storage and replace your current outfit?

 

[coldpotato]

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Could you imagine the power NH would have if we got the same items as PC? I mean just look at the sneak peak for February!

I understand it’s two completely different teams working on two completely different games, but after seeing these lackluster NH updates being advertised side-by-side with the PC items, it’s hard not to compare the two. I know that I'm definitely jealous of all the cool items in PC (especially that TOWER???) and when I look at updates like this one I get so disappointed. Like, thanks Nintendo, ANOTHER single-day event with some furniture that I'm most likely not going to be able to use outside of the current season. See you in March for the next one, I guess! Maybe this time you'll give me a new table so I can actually set down my stuff!

I love NH with all my heart, but it's getting really difficult to keep defending it when Nintendo just keeps disappointing us with the same things that we DIDN'T ask for over and over again. I'm not a Brewster stan by any means, but I would prefer him to most of this stuff bc it would show me that Nintendo is at least listening to its players and our feedback.

On the bright side, I love Pavé and am VERY excited to get to interact with him again! His design is incredible!

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This is why I now play more Pocket Camp than New Horizons.
It's clear as day how much effort is put into Pocket Camp over New Horizons. Not only does the game get way more items, it gets interesting items with thought put into them that villagers can actually interact with. Some of their events can get repetitive but they make them so you want to keep playing anyway and never have just 1 day events. It really does seem that New Horizons should get the same amount of thought and attention since it's what blew up animal crossing but I'm guessing they make more money off of Pocket Camp with their overpriced Leaf Tickets.

 

[RollingAntony]

I am not surprised, but I am disappointed. I hoped that at least the Festivale furniture would be more fun. The yellow/green needed a pop of something else at the very least. Ah well, I didn't expect more from the update.

A shame to see that March will probably be focused on the Mario items. I couldn't care less about those. I have suspected for awhile that the updates are winding down, but have been hoping to be wrong.

we've been able to customize how event items look before - i'm sure we'll be able to do the same with these pieces of furniture, as well.

There is a red variation:

This is why I really hate mobile games. The same thing happens with the Mario Kart game, or the Pokemon spin-offs. They add all kinds of nice stuff to the mobile Mario Kart game, or Pokemon Go, or Pokemon Masters...and it's like...that's fine. But, you know that you have a full console game that you could support, too? Same goes for Pokemon Bank. Like...why does the mobile version offer GTS trades, but the FULL console version doesn't? You felt like Mystery Trades were more important for the main game than proper GTS? Nintendo can be a real pain sometimes. Animal Crossing is just the tip of the iceberg. Lol.

That is how many mobile games works, it's all about spending money, getting whales and hopefully attract a player with a gambling addiction. Btw, Niantic handles Pokémon GO and its dirty monetisation tactics.

I'm with you 100%. I feel like it's because they feel like they can push players to spend more money with in-app purchases than they can with a console game. But what sucks about it is we all handed over our $60 (plus the cost of the console itself) for an incomplete game that's totally bare-bones and only has small updates every couple of months. They say they did the update format to try to expand the longevity of this game, but what they've really done is lower it. No one wants to wait for these updates, and players are getting impatient and giving up with the game altogether. What they should have done is give us a full game to begin with, then done the little updates to add some cool furniture items, like the Pocket Camp ones.

Don't forget to add the cost of the electricty, your house and everything else to the real cost of New Horizons.

I'm sorry for the cynical response, but saying the game is "totally bare-bones" is really hyperbolic.

 

[mayor.lauren]

thanks for pointing this out. i'm getting really tired of the 'POCKET CAMP HAS WAY BETTER CONTENT!!!!!!!!!' circlejerking constantly surrounding NH, as though pocket camp doesn't only have the things it has because of whales putting thousands upon thousands of dollars into it for a chance at pixelated furniture. if you want that experience, then feel free to redownload PC, but let's not pretend it's ever going to happen with NH (which is very much a good thing).

I see your point, but also respectfully disagree. Of course PC only has the cool items because of in-app purchases funding them. No one's denying that. But it's really mean for you to put down players who see those cool items and want them for NH too. The gameplay in PC is pretty lackluster, and can you really blame players for wanting cool items in a game with better graphics that they actually enjoy playing? I mean you can't deny that PC has better items, and that's just fact. If players can ask Nintendo for QoL updates and Brewster updates, why can't we ask for better items too?

 

[Bk1234]

I mean, last time I checked you can’t terraform your island in PC, but maybe that’s just because I haven’t played them game in ages because it’s so repetitive.

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This is why I now play more Pocket Camp than New Horizons.

Lol I could never.

 

[5pmtheme]

I mean, last time I checked you can’t terraform your island in PC, but that’s just me.

but you CAN spend a fat $50 on a handful fake tickets so you can buy a few cookies that will 99% give you 10 of the same chair that you already have, which is obviously SO much better than NH /s

 

[daringred_]

but you CAN spend a fat $50 on a handful fake tickets so you can buy a few cookies that will 99% give you 10 of the same chair that you already have, which is obviously SO much better than NH /s

literally nobody here said any of that was better than NH lmao ??? chill

 

[Bk1234]

but you CAN spend a fat $50 on a handful fake tickets so you can buy a few cookies that will 99% give you 10 of the same chair that you already have, which is obviously SO much better than NH /s

Exactly, I came back to this thread and thought “not people trying to prove that PC is better than NH.”

 

[5pmtheme]

Is Animal Crossing New Horizons even loved by the people who make it?

it's beyond ridiculous to pretend the creators and devs putting all of their time and effort into this game don't actually care about it just because they don't add incredibly specific things that you want into the game. there are so many things in this game that show just how much care the creators are putting into it.