New Auto-Save feature, Mr. Resetti has lost his job

[SensaiGallade]

It isn't 'point blank' it's your opinion.

Just because some of us may work and have busy lives and need to time travel on occasion, doesn't mean we are missing the point at all.

In fact, I think so many people who may buy or trade for their hard to come by items and blue roses, possibly don't know the feeling of accidently losing something that those of us have worked hard from scratch to grow.

I am not putting down trading or anything like that either. More putting emphasis on the concept of playing Animal Crossing our own way.

That is why we don't want auto save. Because we do get the point. The point is to play at our own pace in our own way, and not to be further hindered by features that prevent us from the peace of mind being able to reset or time travel, gives us.

You missed this comment.

If you want my true honest opinion, I just don't see how the negatives of autosaves outweigh all the positives of them. And I understand the concern of autosave possibly ruining the opportunity to go back and say, undo a destroyed flower, or stop a villager from moving. There have been plenty of times where I have forgotten to save the game and went off it, ruining an entire days worth of work on my town.

I will say that I was very blunt with my comments and apologise for that and shouldn't have went in that harsh.

Ultimately we can go back and forth and express our concerns but nothing with change the fact that there's too little information right now and we don't know much of how the autosave will work. Will it be like Breath of the Wild? How often does the game autosave? There's nothing much we can do but speculate.

 

[Warrior]

Wow, lotta drama lol. Even if time travel/resetting is not possible in this game it looks like we won't need to have those options. I reset a lot with a new character so I could choose villager house placement, but it won't be needed now, as we can choose where they live. In terms of flowers, it now appears a flower can be plucked/destroyed and still grow back.

I understand some people want to accelerate the pace, but also it looks like we won't have to do things like wait on pwp, because we can just work to build our own stuff to put outdoors.

Basically, if these features are removed... it also looks like there is no longer any need for them.

 

[jim]

if the devs are actually paying attention to fan reactions i really really hope that they rethink this autosave thing! i won't mind if it's like breath of the wild where you can manually save and choose to load from an autosave if you want.

but since this is nintendo we're talking about i don't know. they make the strangest decisions sometimes.

 

[Lanstar]

A funny thought: For Resetti, total autosave is literally his dream come true. It would make everyone play how he wants us to play, where we never reset, due to the game always saving on us. That way, he can relax better in this new role... Unless the new role involves having him scream and preach on us for some reason! xD

 

[Tinkalila]

Auto saving just isn’t something that makes sense for Animal Crossing. I feel like an ongoing theme in the series was choosing whether you would roll with the punches, or leave without saving to revert a mistake. Taking away that choice is taking away an important part of the series.

 

[Noctis]

I hate auto saves. And good luck to Mr. Resetti. I hope he enjoys his new job if he really ends up getting a new one.

 

[Roobi]

Mixed feelings about auto-saves. It really depends on the intervals between saving to see if it would bother me. I don't think it will happen that often tbh.
I understand some people's concerns about making mistakes and the game saving so it's gone forever, but the chances of that happening seem really small to me. When I read the topic title thought: Well, that's a bummer, but the more I think about it, the more I seem to be happy with this feature. I screw up sometimes and want to do something over, like preventing selling a rare item. But more often than not it has been quite some time since my last save and I have to do EVERYTHING else over as well, which is really frustrating. An auto-save can make that a little easier. I also wonder if you can choose a savepoint to go back to. That would be ideal

 

[JKDOS]

Time traveling isn't going anywhere. The game works with real time, so unless it's an always online game, which it isn't going to be, restricting time travel is impossible. 100%.

The game relies on the system clock, so if you turn your switch off even a minute, the game can load into the current time.

Even if locking the clock offline was possible, it would be very asinine. Think about people who go on vacation or move to different time zones.

As for auto-saves. I hate them. One of the main reasons I quit Minecraft. Games aren't real life. They are an escape. What's the point if real life mistakes carry over into video games? It takes away from Animal Crossing being a relaxing game.

 

[LokiBoy]

I think the autosaving is so that people cant just make a decision and restart the game to get a different outcome. This kinda makes me excited cause now our decision will need to be thought out more.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

I think the autosaving is so that people cant just make a decision and restart the game to get a different outcome. This kinda makes me excited cause now our decision will need to be thought out more.

Why hinder us like that?
It stops us being able to correct a mistake.

If they don't take out auto save I will not be investing in a Switch for this game.

 

[Monkeido]

if the devs are actually paying attention to fan reactions i really really hope that they rethink this autosave thing! i won't mind if it's like breath of the wild where you can manually save and choose to load from an autosave if you want.

but since this is nintendo we're talking about i don't know. they make the strangest decisions sometimes.

I agree that this would be the best way to implement auto-save. Having a few auto-saves, but also your own save and being able to reload whichever you want. I'm afraid the developers really don't want people to be able to duplicate items, which you could easily do if you have multiple save files you can go back to. I don't even really see the problem with duplicating items, even though I'd never do it myself.

The fact the game won't have cloud-saves is really a downer to me as well, though I won't stop me from buying the game. Still, it's unbelievable to me that they would prefer to stop cheaters in a non competitive game, over giving their non-cheating players (which is probably like 99% of the people) peace of mind. Maybe they are actually planning to include micro-transactions, because then I'd understand why they disabled cloud-saves.. I'd absolutely despise it, but I'd understand the reason behind no cloud-saves.

 

[JKDOS]

Why hinder us like that?
If they don't take out auto save I will not be investing in a Switch for this game.

That's quite the ultimatum. Wow.

Still, it's unbelievable to me that they would prefer to stop cheaters in a non competitive game, over giving their non-cheating players (which is probably like 99% of the people) peace of mind.

Um no. Maybe 99% of users on TBT, but as a whole, cheaters will be 50% or greater.

 

[oath2order]

Is this what Andrew Yang was talking about with automation killing jobs?

Why hinder us like that?
It stops us being able to correct a mistake.

If they don't take out auto save I will not be investing in a Switch for this game.

Okay bye.

but as a whole, cheaters will be 50% or greater.

Doubt.

 

[Monkeido]

That's quite the ultimatum. Wow.



Um no. Maybe 99% of users on TBT, but as a whole, cheaters will be 50% or greater.

You think in general a game would have 50% or more cheaters or are you just talking about AC? I highly doubt that's the case and for a game like Animal Crossing even more so. My 99% might be exaggerated, but it's still much closer to that than 50% or more people being cheaters. I don't see time-travelling as cheating btw, I was only talk about things like duplicating items.

 

[Jason Voorhees]

Why hinder us like that?
If they don't take out auto save I will not be investing in a Switch for this game.

That's quite the ultimatum. Wow.

I don't have money to burn, so I'm not going to waste it on something that I know will frustrate me to the point of abandoning the game.

So I'm waiting to see the final product and what features are included.

That's called making an informed decision.

 

[acornavenue]

I dont see a problem with auto save. I mean like people said im sure youll still be able to save on your own as well. Its not something they can control.

 

[Halloqueen]

Not particularly happy with this decision but, as SensaiGallade has touched upon, it's too early and too vague to know right now how big of an issue it actually is.

What bothers me more is people talking about playing "how the games are meant to be played" or how "it was intended" or anything like that. As someone who far prefers time travel and resetting instead of the standard "play every day for a while" style, seeing these statements is enough to garner an eye roll. Believe it or not, I and many other people actually find the alternate style of play more relaxing. I personally find the idea of playing Animal Crossing every day like it's some chore to which I must attend to be more stressful and annoying than anything I might reset for.

Whether time travel was ever intended by the developers as a legitimate method of play is a moot point, it's unimportant. It has always been present, and any consequences have always been insignificant enough that it has never been a real penalty. If someone else wants to time travel and you don't, in what way does it affect you and why do you care?

Oh and "live with the consequences and move on"? You can be well enough adjusted to be able to do that in other avenues in life and still enjoy the freedom of being able to fix a mistake when you can, such as in a game like this.

Why does it bother some of you so much that people engage with these games and find enjoyment in a different manner than you? No one's doing it wrong unless they're hacking to negatively affect someone else's game, end of. If these games are supposed to be relaxing and chill, take a lesson from that and let people do as they want as long as it does no harm.

 

[WarpDogsVG]

Came in expecting to see some funny Resetti memes, absolutely did not expect so much drama over something so silly

 

[Bcat]

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Exactly. We all have our own ways of enjoying things and none of them are wrong. At the end of the day we're all playing the same game anyways. Just play and let play.

 

[LokiBoy]

I dont know, I personally think auto-save and no cloud saves was a decision made to make sure that players spend more time in the game and make sure that the game last much longer.

When I bought New Lead I was pumped, I played that game for the longest time. When I heard about being about to time travel by manipulating the game, and started doing that on a regular basis in order to get all the items in the game. After that my interest in the game dropped significantly because I had basically collected every single item in the game and their were very few things left for me to do after making my dream town. Had I not manipulated time, I probably would still be playing at this very moment.