The next Animal Crossing should remove the real time clock

[Nougat]

I wouldn't take away the real time clock, I'd rather adjust the few reasons I would time travel for: make sure orderable camper items arrive in the mail on the same day, for example, and allow users to purchase more than 3 a day of them. That'd solve 95% of my TT'ing woes

 

[slatka]

I like the aspect of the real time clock although most of the time i dont play the game during the day because i'm busy at school or something and generally like playing it before going to sleep so i'm limited to doing somethings but even then i still wouldn't like to see the real time clock go.

 

[Bitty]

I'm sorry to say man but I also disagree with your opinion, Animal Crossing was revolutionary on the GameCube because it was the first video game to ever feature a real time clock, the purpose of the game - by the creators- was to slow down your day. Let go of the busy stuff for five mins in your life and water your flowers, give gifts to your villagers, find fossils and bugs and fish to put in your museum. Also I myself, and many other people, don't time travel because it kinda ruins the point and immersion of the game. I also think that it would give us too much control, I love NL it's so far my favourite of the series, I love the notion of making my own little town but I also really enjoy the things in the game that I can't control, that I have to leave to the game. It gives the game some challenge and forces me to either innovate or relax and let things go.

 

[Stalfos]

If you remove the real time clock, you remove a huge part of what makes Animal Crossing Animal Crossing.

 

[carackobama]

I really wouldn’t like this tbh; the real time clock is a huge part of the game and losing it would really take away a lot of its unique charm.

 

[Prodigu]

The ingame clock is an essential part of the game it gives it the feel of a sort of "real-life" simulation sort of, its a great thing to have in the game, otherwise moving time foward would rely on saving to end the day or something like that

 

[Ojo46]

I definitely don't think so. Animal Crossing is very built into the real time clock so it'll feel REALLY different without it

 

[drowningfairies]

I will have to disagree. Real time clock is what makes Animal Crossing so different from other games.
Plus having the seasons/holidays and such at the same time as real life is something really fun, and people enjoy them during that time. Removing the clock would totally take away from that, along with the seasons changingz

Idk anything any different would be odd.

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I will have to disagree. Real time clock is what makes Animal Crossing so different from other games.
Plus having the seasons/holidays and such at the same time as real life is something really fun, and people enjoy them during that time. Removing the clock would totally take away from that, along with the seasons changingz

Idk anything any different would be odd.

 

[xSuperMario64x]

I honestly don't even know how the game would function properly without a real-time clock. Like someone before said, the clock is what makes Animal Crossing what it is.

Also I would hate it if they tried to use a speedy clock, that would likely just ruin the whole experience, and now allow players to really enjoy their time in the game.

 

[AlyssaAC]

No time clock? I don't think that would work, so no. Without the clock, you wouldn't get to hear the different time of day music and I'm against that since I like listening to the hourly music. :/

 

[ScaryGhosts]

How about this: they remove the ability to TT instead

 

[Ossiran]

It'd make far more sense to eliminate time travel completely than to remove the clock. Forcing you to connect online whenever you want to change the time (such as going to a new time zone) would be the easiest way to do it.

 

[Burumun]

I don't think TT'ing is such a hard feature to implement that getting rid of it will free up time to work on other features. Plus, it's a really great feature for people who just don't have time to play around the clock - if I need to catch a critter that only spawns when you're at work, for instance, it would suck to not be able to catch it just because of that. People need to stop hating on TT'ing just because they have always have time to play.

 

[UglyMonsterFace]

I don't think TT'ing is such a hard feature to implement that getting rid of it will free up time to work on other features. Plus, it's a really great feature for people who just don't have time to play around the clock - if I need to catch a critter that only spawns when you're at work, for instance, it would suck to not be able to catch it just because of that. People need to stop hating on TT'ing just because they have always have time to play.

Yeah. Also do people also expect everyone to be able to play on Christmas and New Year's etc? Some people live very busy lives and can't play daily. I'd rather more people enjoy this game in any way they can rather than take a feature away just cuz that's how you feel the game needs to be played. Let people enjoy the game! If we take time travel away, less people will play.

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I don't think TT'ing is such a hard feature to implement that getting rid of it will free up time to work on other features. Plus, it's a really great feature for people who just don't have time to play around the clock - if I need to catch a critter that only spawns when you're at work, for instance, it would suck to not be able to catch it just because of that. People need to stop hating on TT'ing just because they have always have time to play.

Yeah. Also do people also expect everyone to be able to play on Christmas and New Year's etc? Some people live very busy lives and can't play daily. I'd rather more people enjoy this game in any way they can rather than take a feature away just cuz that's how you feel the game needs to be played. Let people enjoy the game! If we take time travel away, less people will play.

 

[ScaryGhosts]

I don't think TT'ing is such a hard feature to implement that getting rid of it will free up time to work on other features. Plus, it's a really great feature for people who just don't have time to play around the clock - if I need to catch a critter that only spawns when you're at work, for instance, it would suck to not be able to catch it just because of that. People need to stop hating on TT'ing just because they have always have time to play.

No one is hating on TTing. I reap the beninifits of other people doing it and I do it myself, but I still think it should be removed in future games. It’s a side effect/loophole of the game’s mechanism, and i think future game would be more immersive if future games made TTing and similar aspects, e.g. villager trading, impossible.
Similarly, I will buy villagers now, because I can, but I think the game would be better as a whole if cillagers needed a period of time to get to know you before moving in, or that they would need to know you before they decide to move before moving to your town, or that you couldn’t just simply invite them and have certainty that they will move in.

tl;dr i will continue to exploit loopholes as long as they are there even though I wish they weren’t.

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Yeah. Also do people also expect everyone to be able to play on Christmas and New Year's etc? Some people live very busy lives and can't play daily. I'd rather more people enjoy this game in any way they can rather than take a feature away just cuz that's how you feel the game needs to be played. Let people enjoy the game! If we take time travel away, less people will play.

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Yeah. Also do people also expect everyone to be able to play on Christmas and New Year's etc? Some people live very busy lives and can't play daily. I'd rather more people enjoy this game in any way they can rather than take a feature away just cuz that's how you feel the game needs to be played. Let people enjoy the game! If we take time travel away, less people will play.

It’s not really a metter of anyone trying to take TT away from another person. Just a discussion and sharing opinions as to what we think would make for a better gaming experience. No hostility.

 

[UglyMonsterFace]

No one is hating on TTing. I reap the beninifits of other people doing it and I do it myself, but I still think it should be removed in future games. It’s a side effect/loophole of the game’s mechanism, and i think future game would be more immersive if future games made TTing and similar aspects, e.g. villager trading, impossible.
Similarly, I will buy villagers now, because I can, but I think the game would be better as a whole if cillagers needed a period of time to get to know you before moving in, or that they would need to know you before they decide to move before moving to your town, or that you couldn’t just simply invite them and have certainty that they will move in.

tl;dr i will continue to exploit loopholes as long as they are there even though I wish they weren’t.

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It’s not really a metter of anyone trying to take TT away from another person. Just a discussion and sharing opinions as to what we think would make for a better gaming experience. No hostility.

Oh no, I'm not talking about this discussion. My reply was just an extension to the many folks who are against TT and judge people for it and think it should be removed from the game. I disagree with your point about TT being bad however. But of course I respect your opinion and you're not one of the ones who are hostile about it, although there are many who are.

But for TT, I think that AC would lose A LOT of players if they removed it. Some people are very busy and can't play day to day like we do. It would be very sad if they weren't able to enjoy the game anymore. Therefore, I don't see the point of removing it. After all, it's completely optional and it doesn't affect anyone else.

 

[dizzy bone]

Even as a time traveler, I definitely would not want the real time clock removed. The mainline games are not like HHD where there?s only day and night. The removal of a clock just would not work at all.

 

[Burumun]

No one is hating on TTing. I reap the beninifits of other people doing it and I do it myself, but I still think it should be removed in future games. It’s a side effect/loophole of the game’s mechanism, and i think future game would be more immersive if future games made TTing and similar aspects, e.g. villager trading, impossible.
Similarly, I will buy villagers now, because I can, but I think the game would be better as a whole if cillagers needed a period of time to get to know you before moving in, or that they would need to know you before they decide to move before moving to your town, or that you couldn’t just simply invite them and have certainty that they will move in.

tl;dr i will continue to exploit loopholes as long as they are there even though I wish they weren’t.

I'm pretty sure it's not exploiting a loophole, and Nintendo knows people do it and support it, to some extent. The game does penalize you in some ways if you TT a lot - you can't exploit it to TT back to a time you had good turnip prices when you have turnips yourself, you stop finding fossils eventually, etc. - but it's nowhere near as bad as in other games. Take Pok?mon and Nintendogs, for example, which are both games that have pretty extreme penalties for TT'ing - you can't take part in daily events at all in Pok?mon (Pok?mon massages, gift items, etc.) and Nintendogs (competing in competitions, shops restocking). And that's for any TT'ing at all - even just correcting for the time changes, or if you want to update the time to another timezone. If you do so, you have to wait at least 24h to be able to trigger those events again.
If Nintendo didn't want us to TT at all in ACNL, there would be similar repercussions - no being able to update your dream town, shops not restocking, no new fossils or gyroids after any TT'ing, etc. Heck, if Nintendo didn't want us to TT, they wouldn't allow you to change the in-game clock at all, or they would at least control it (limited number of changes, only up to 24h to allow the time changes and switching timezones).

And, again, and as UglyMonsterFace said, not everyone has time to play daily in the same way people on here can, and they shouldn't miss out just because other people think it's cheating, to some extent. It's not, I'm pretty sure Nintendo knowingly allows it. If you want to play the game without TT'ing, go ahead, it's your choice, but what makes for a better gaming experience for you would make the game unplayable for some others, so it doesn't seem like it'll be removed, anyway.

 

[ScaryGhosts]

I'm pretty sure it's not exploiting a loophole, and Nintendo knows people do it and support it, to some extent. The game does penalize you in some ways if you TT a lot - you can't exploit it to TT back to a time you had good turnip prices when you have turnips yourself, you stop finding fossils eventually, etc. - but it's nowhere near as bad as in other games. Take Pok?mon and Nintendogs, for example, which are both games that have pretty extreme penalties for TT'ing - you can't take part in daily events at all in Pok?mon (Pok?mon massages, gift items, etc.) and Nintendogs (competing in competitions, shops restocking). And that's for any TT'ing at all - even just correcting for the time changes, or if you want to update the time to another timezone. If you do so, you have to wait at least 24h to be able to trigger those events again.
If Nintendo didn't want us to TT at all in ACNL, there would be similar repercussions - no being able to update your dream town, shops not restocking, no new fossils or gyroids after any TT'ing, etc. Heck, if Nintendo didn't want us to TT, they wouldn't allow you to change the in-game clock at all, or they would at least control it (limited number of changes, only up to 24h to allow the time changes and switching timezones).

And, again, and as UglyMonsterFace said, not everyone has time to play daily in the same way people on here can, and they shouldn't miss out just because other people think it's cheating, to some extent. It's not, I'm pretty sure Nintendo knowingly allows it. If you want to play the game without TT'ing, go ahead, it's your choice, but what makes for a better gaming experience for you would make the game unplayable for some others, so it doesn't seem like it'll be removed, anyway.

You know what, this is a really good arguement. I completely see what you mean. I always just assumed that TTing was just something that was a side effect of the in-game clock and not something Nintendo allowed for.

 

[buny]

if they remove TT from the games, then all of us folks that work daily won't be able to play AC. and that's just sad, so no...
TT doesn't take away from the games in ANY way, it's every player's choice if they want to do it or not. It doesn't bother anyone, it just allows more people to play AC, so i don't understand why anyone would want it removed :<