With the release of these 8 new coats, the AC
C subreddit is blowing up since people are very frustrated and angry. For several reasons:
- The more feminine looking coats are more expensive. The more masculine looking coats are 90LT, whereas the feminine coats go for 120 or 150LTs. There is already a discussion going on in real life over this situation - which is being dubbed the "pink tax": when an item aimed for women costs more than that same item aimed for men (like razor blades). Players are angry that the pink tax is now making it's way into Animal Crossing.
- Either way, the prizes of all coats seem absurdly high. If you were to spend money to buy leaf tickets - you would spend between 5 and 7 dollars for one single coat. If you want to get all coats, that will be 900 leaf tickets in total. That's about 30 dollars.
- Not one single coat is craftable with bells and items. Longer term players complain they have nothing to use their bells and materials on.
The release of these coats sparked a larger discussion on the way LTs are starting to dominate the game. In the last three days, 21 items came out that can only be purchased using leaf tickets. November was the first month ever where more than half of the new content was obtainable only through LTs.
I was wondering what your opinion is in this matter? What do you think about the coat situation? Do you think too many items are LT content only, or do you understand that Nintendo needs to make money too? Do you spend money on this game? Do you think the LT items will have something to do with the new switch game coming out? I'm curious to hear what you have to say!
Personally, I do not spend money on this game. Mostly because I think LT are way overpriced. I do not mind spending money on free, mobile games every now and then to support the producer. But in this case, if I spend about 5 euro's, there's still nothing interesting I can buy with that. Apart from that, I think nintendo is quite generous with the amount of LTs they hand out to us for free - at least compared to other games. As a F2P player, I knew I would never be able to obtain all items. My goal for every event is to at least obtain all the LTs available.
I try to save them up to get something I really want, but I'm sad to miss out on so many cool items. For example, I really wanted two of the coats but I really don't think they're worth it.
The thing that strikes me the most, is that as a new player, there is no way to obtain the items from older events except through stamp trade. I would love to have the christmas tree from last year, and even though I understand that they won't just hand it out to us. I wouldn't mind paying some LTs for it. However, the stamp trade to get old items seems a bit crazy. To obtain one item, I'd need between 1-3 stamp cards. To get a full card, I'd need to spend 500LTs. So if I want something that's worth 3 cards, I'll have to spend 1500LTs - the equivalent of 50 dollars. This seems extremely excessive.
C subreddit is blowing up since people are very frustrated and angry. For several reasons:- The more feminine looking coats are more expensive. The more masculine looking coats are 90LT, whereas the feminine coats go for 120 or 150LTs. There is already a discussion going on in real life over this situation - which is being dubbed the "pink tax": when an item aimed for women costs more than that same item aimed for men (like razor blades). Players are angry that the pink tax is now making it's way into Animal Crossing.
- Either way, the prizes of all coats seem absurdly high. If you were to spend money to buy leaf tickets - you would spend between 5 and 7 dollars for one single coat. If you want to get all coats, that will be 900 leaf tickets in total. That's about 30 dollars.
- Not one single coat is craftable with bells and items. Longer term players complain they have nothing to use their bells and materials on.
The release of these coats sparked a larger discussion on the way LTs are starting to dominate the game. In the last three days, 21 items came out that can only be purchased using leaf tickets. November was the first month ever where more than half of the new content was obtainable only through LTs.
I was wondering what your opinion is in this matter? What do you think about the coat situation? Do you think too many items are LT content only, or do you understand that Nintendo needs to make money too? Do you spend money on this game? Do you think the LT items will have something to do with the new switch game coming out? I'm curious to hear what you have to say!
Personally, I do not spend money on this game. Mostly because I think LT are way overpriced. I do not mind spending money on free, mobile games every now and then to support the producer. But in this case, if I spend about 5 euro's, there's still nothing interesting I can buy with that. Apart from that, I think nintendo is quite generous with the amount of LTs they hand out to us for free - at least compared to other games. As a F2P player, I knew I would never be able to obtain all items. My goal for every event is to at least obtain all the LTs available.
I try to save them up to get something I really want, but I'm sad to miss out on so many cool items. For example, I really wanted two of the coats but I really don't think they're worth it.
The thing that strikes me the most, is that as a new player, there is no way to obtain the items from older events except through stamp trade. I would love to have the christmas tree from last year, and even though I understand that they won't just hand it out to us. I wouldn't mind paying some LTs for it. However, the stamp trade to get old items seems a bit crazy. To obtain one item, I'd need between 1-3 stamp cards. To get a full card, I'd need to spend 500LTs. So if I want something that's worth 3 cards, I'll have to spend 1500LTs - the equivalent of 50 dollars. This seems extremely excessive.
