New Update!

[cheezu]

So this might be an unpopular opinion but I also don't get why people are complaining THIS much. I mean, this is a free game and, essentially, you can get everything pretty much free of charge provided that you play enough (leaf tickets included). If you're impatient, you can buy the tickets. Now, had I actually paid for the game to begin with, I'd feel differently but I spent no real money on it so far.
I'm personally not too crazy about completing the items collection so I won't be using my leaf tickets on them but I'll buy the fortune cookies with bells as often as I can. So far, I got Filbert's cookie, a clothing one and I got Fish and Chips from the Tom Nook cookie.

 

[ESkill]

So far I'm loving the update. The thing I'm happiest about is the icon that tells you how much you have in your inventory when you stand by fruit and catch fish/bugs. I've been hoping for something like that for a while now.
The fortune cookies are super cute, I love the music that plays when you eat them and the fortunes are funny. So far I've got some good stuff. 50 leaf tickets per cookie does seem a bit high, but it doesn't really bother me. I know they need to make money and nothing in life is free haha. I also like to support well made games, and PC has been really fun. The devs have to constantly keep up on it, making new content, patching bugs. It costs companies a lot of money to make mobile games. I get that people don't like to feel like something is a "cash grab" but I don't understand the mentality that "I should get this product for free". I mean if you don't want to spend any money that's fine, but don't expect to be able to get everything in the game. Things cost money.
All in all, I'm super happy with the update.

 

[iLoveYou]

Another new thing I noticed was the following:

You know the campers at different locations ? You can do up to 3 requests for them and hand them stuff right ? Now after that, sometimes they will have a " ... " speech bubble on top of them and you can talk to them again. They'll ask you a question about something ( mine was related to where is the best place to catch fish ) and then you'll do the action ( mine was fishing ) with the canper ( not from your campsite ). Then after the little animation scene, you get free items ( cotton, wood, paper & other stuff like that ) and I even got the fish he caught.

Edit: Oops I guess you all already know about this. I realize how late I am on this lols.

 

[tamtam]

To be clear, I wasn't complaining about leaf tickets. I buy them when I want them and spend them when I want to. Honestly have only ever the bought the event special packs. The game usually gives plenty! I think my problem this morning was I was rushed and didn't actually get a chance to feel things out really well, and then I felt harassed by a camper lmao I just saw on the reddit new villagers coming the 20th. I can't wait!!! Now, WHERE exactly is the "pocket". I have never found where to see what snacks you have other than offering a snack to the villager. I looked all over this morning for the "freebie" cookie after I collected it from the mail, but never found it.

 

[TykiButterfree]

I spent leaf tickets on a fortune cookie once, thinking I could use the stamp to get one of the shirts. The I found out it was one full sheet of stamps instead of one stamp to get your choice. I'm not spending that much leaf tickets to choose the item I want. I'll wait and use all my bells instead.

The new villager requests are cool. They ask for a fruit or fish or something and you can pick any one. I want to try giving something rare like a jewel beetle just to see what happens.

 

[Sowelu]

As I mentioned, I don't mind spending Leaf Tickets and buying them with real money - I do it all the time and have supported the game financially from day one.

My issue is with the gambling/random method that they chose to use for the fortune cookies. It wasn't designed this way to be like a mini-challenge within the game ('see which one you get'), the sole purpose of this method is to have the player waste and burn through leaf tickets faster in an effort to make them purchase more. That just doesn't seem right to me.

There are enough impatient people (like me) who will purchase in-game leaf tickets in order to buy more (unique) items when leaf ticket funds are low, and that is easy to do when there are so many fortune cookies (and other special event items) to buy. So in my opinion, this kind of trickery is unnecessary and not a good look for an otherwise very fair and polished game.

Nintendo should limit these mystery-completist shenanigans to their Amiibo card sets!

 

[tamtam]

As long as Nintendo doesn't reach scopley levels of greed, I'm good. I just really want something to do other than feeding Gulliver!

Oh, and does anyone know what a perfect fruit does?

 

[Ray-ACP]

This is crazy, to get 2 xmas 2017 items, i need 6 FULL stamp cards which consist of 10 stamps each costing 50 tickets, in all i need 3000 tickets for 2 ITEMS. That's ?100 to buy al lthose tickets for 2 items. I don't even need to work out how much you need for all fortune cookie special items, it's looking like ?10000

 

[MopyDream44]

I spent leaf tickets on a fortune cookie once, thinking I could use the stamp to get one of the shirts. The I found out it was one full sheet of stamps instead of one stamp to get your choice. I'm not spending that much leaf tickets to choose the item I want. I'll wait and use all my bells instead.

The new villager requests are cool. They ask for a fruit or fish or something and you can pick any one. I want to try giving something rare like a jewel beetle just to see what happens.

I gave Raddle a horned dynastid and Punchy an emperor butterfly, both of those yielded a bronze tin of treats (along with assorted craft items), but I have friends who have gotten fortune cookies from similar requests. I've also given a handful of other villagers normal items and I've only gotten regular craft items back. It seems very likely that rare creatures (and presumably fruit via perfect fruit) will give you better camper rewards, but it's unclear if there is an even higher chance of better rewards with the rarest creatures. If you're not hurting for bells, it could be worth it to give away a variety of rare creatures and log the results.

 

[iLoveYou]

Not sure if everyone knows this but I guess we can get forune cookies from completing camper requests ( those at different locations on the map - not the campsite ).

 

[AndroGhostX]

Not sure if everyone knows this but I guess we can get forune cookies from completing camper requests ( those at different locations on the map - not the campsite ).

Lol I'm out of luck on that as villagar who aren't maxed out rarely show up at the other locations. Maybe I'll talk to the maxed out villagers to get fortune cookies for this event, but normally I don't bother with them as imo it's a waste of items.

 

[Bcat]

I got 2 Timmy cookies from giving visiting campers rare items!
It’s small, but makes me feel a little better about this fortune cookie nightmare

 

[AndroGhostX]

I just got a fortune cookie and bronze treat for giving a camper a rare fish! So they are useful now

 

[Paperboy012305]

I now have a use to deal with Villager's requests again.

 

[Merol14]

Best update so far!

 

[MopyDream44]

I've done a bit of testing with the new requests. I managed to get three fortune cookies from requests so far (not the special ones) by giving campers tuna. I've gotten bronze tins from the low level rares, a blowfish, emperor butterfly, stag, and rainbow trout, but no cookies from these yet. The levels of the villagers varied from 8-maxed, so I don't believe the level is a factor.

 

[Chewy.7204]

Stop complaining about the leaf tickets lol it?s possoble to get everything without purchasing them you just have to be patient. Idk what you guys expect, they?re not going to give everything away for free (even though the technically do if you give it time). The leaf tickets are pretty much for those that are impatient

Um... I would like to politely disagree. While leaf tickets are mostly a waste on other items such as speed ups and getting crafting materials. I feel 50 is too high of a price to get people to want them enough to buy the items. A lower price would be better because it's simple supply and demand. Lower price means people will be willing to buy more leaf tickets and they end up with more items. (From a company's standpoint) why do you care if some people get more digital items? It doesn't cost anything because they are just a piece of code. So if people want the items they buy is bulk to buy more items. Am I being confusing? I tend to do that sometimes...

 

[AndroGhostX]

Um... I would like to politely disagree. While leaf tickets are mostly a waste on other items such as speed ups and getting crafting materials. I feel 50 is too high of a price to get people to want them enough to buy the items. A lower price would be better because it's simple supply and demand. Lower price means people will be willing to buy more leaf tickets and they end up with more items. (From a company's standpoint) why do you care if some people get more digital items? It doesn't cost anything because they are just a piece of code. So if people want the items they buy is bulk to buy more items. Am I being confusing? I tend to do that sometimes...

Yeah I lost you at "From a company's standpoint." But I think I get what you mean. Like why should Nintendo have a higher value with something nonphysical, if it's unvaluble essentially. But does a company really need to worry about the price of a code? Not really, they just want to make money off of people (almost typed people off of money lol). I do think that lowering the price would allow for more profit though.

 

[Bcat]

Um... I would like to politely disagree. While leaf tickets are mostly a waste on other items such as speed ups and getting crafting materials. I feel 50 is too high of a price to get people to want them enough to buy the items. A lower price would be better because it's simple supply and demand. Lower price means people will be willing to buy more leaf tickets and they end up with more items. (From a company's standpoint) why do you care if some people get more digital items? It doesn't cost anything because they are just a piece of code. So if people want the items they buy is bulk to buy more items. Am I being confusing? I tend to do that sometimes...

I agree with you. Here’s the thing:
It is literally impossible to obtain all this furniture without spending money on leaf tickets. Don’t even try to tell me it’s not at 50 tickets a pop. PLUS the potential for duplicates!! So even if you are spending real money and buying the cookies it’s still possible not to get everything.

The reason we’re so upset is that up until now pretty much everything in the game could be obtained without purchasing tickets. Not so with the cookies.
It’s a dirty thing to do to fans

 

[xSuperMario64x]

Here’s the thing:
It is literally impossible to obtain all this furniture without spending money on leaf tickets. Don’t even try to tell me it’s not at 50 tickets a pop. PLUS the potential for duplicates!! So even if you are spending real money and buying the cookies it’s still possible not to get everything.

The reason we’re so upset is that up until now pretty much everything in the game could be obtained without purchasing tickets. Not so with the cookies.
It’s a dirty thing to do to fans

See, I think what they're doing is: they realize now that they have a lot of people playing this game and enjoying it, and they notice people have done so much in the past to get items that they're kinda pushing people's limits.

Hopefully people won't fall for having to spend real money to get stuff in-game. IMO I think spending money on stuff for a game (especially if it's a mobile game) is a 100% complete waste of money. I wouldn't even bother with this.