I'll be honest: as much as I love the game, I simply ran out of things to do. Sure, I could keep collecting different colors of items, or trying to breed the two colors of flowers I still don't have... I spent basically all January changing the layout of my island, and although a large part of it wasn't touched (I just changed what I had to change), the island is almost 100% complete at this point, even though I purposely left a large area without decorations because they may eventually add The Roost as a separate building.
The update won't be huge or game changing, that's for sure. But they need to add some significant "crunch" to the game so we can have a reason to keep playing. By "crunch" I'm talking about substantial gameplay additions, and not just a bunch of furniture or clothing. Even if they add all the furniture sets from the past games, as some have been asking for, it won't be enough to quench our thirst for content for the simple fact that after we redecorate areas/houses of the island with new furniture, we'll be back to the same point we are today.
Minigames are badly needed and they have to give players some encouragement to go online. Most people who have been playing this game for more than 3 months already have most things they want because they can just get those items from artificial sources (nookazon, tbt or any other platform where people can buy items from other players instead of praying for RNGesus to put the items they need on balloons). There's currently no reason at all to even visit another player's island because you can just visit their dream, which is kinda bizarre since AC is a social game.
