What do you think about AC weather synced with your local weather?

[lars708]

It'd be really cool but at the same time I live in The Netherlands so it would literally always be raining and no thanks

 

[Michae1]

I think it'd work well like this:
If it's been sunny all week in real life, make at least 1 random day rainy. But if it's going to be raining in real life the next week, just make that week sunny and the next week rainy. Match real life weather up to a certain point. Maybe it could find the day it'll rain the hardest and then make it rain in the game.
And if there's ever rare weather, like a snow day in the southern US, then make it snow in the game. Except if the weather forecast shows a tornado watch/warning, then make the day sunny (because kids might actually want an escape from real life).

 

[runningwithbelievers]

it is an interesting idea, but its snowing so much of the time here, and rains a majority ofthe rest of the time,i thhink it would be kind of depressing to have it be raining for weeks on end in the game. i just love all of he in game weather and i think a nice balance of allof them in game is pretty nice

 

[Oldcatlady]

I think it would be nice because it rains pretty often where I live and I love the rain! But it also snows from like September till April and I hate the snow so it wouldn’t be very fun. So I probably wouldn’t like it in the end because it’ll be snowing all the time in my town and I would like it to be a bit more balanced and enjoy more days of summer lol

 

[Sweetley]

The idea sounds actually quite neat, problem is the weather here where I live sucks so much, we just had to deal with a way too hot summer and now we are getting cold weather in the next days. Having such heavy weather changes in Animal Crossing would drive me crazy, it's already a pain in the butt for me to deal with this IRL. Not to mention I doubt that a winter in AC would be so beautiful as it is now without a weather synced feature, as winters here in my country aren't even real winters anymore. Overall, I would try and use such a feature if the weather here IRL would be fine, otherwise I wouldn't use it, as I'm happy that AC has at least normal weather conditions.

 

[Lavamaize]

I think this is a cool idea, but sometimes on a sunny day, it is fun to have rain in my town

 

[Halloqueen]

As I vastly prefer playing the games with time travel, this has never really been a consideration of mine. It might align that I'm playing in the correct season, or I might be in Winter when it's actually Summer, really depends on how long it's been since I last played or what I'm looking to get out of the playtime. Because of this, I don't think it's ever really stuck me as neat that it was raining in-game while it was raining outside or anything. I don't really play the games as "myself" and have never really engaged the series in the same way others seem to.

As you say, it would be neat if they added the option and if the option could be turned on or off. I probably wouldn't personally use it for the reasons stated, but if other people get some enjoyment out of it, and if its implementation doesn't affect my enjoyment to any real degree, then I'm all for it.

 

[Blood Eclipse]

It's an interesting idea and I think it'd be nice if the option were there for those who want to use it, but me, personally, I wouldn't use it. I don't think I'd like to see non-stop rain in my game during a hurricane or tropical storm :<
The last thing I want to be reminded of is not being able to go out because there's a storm brewing.

Also, I'd hate to miss the snow if it doesn't snow here. :, (

 

[AlyssaAC]

It would be cool, but if it was synced up with my local weather, I wouldn't get any rain or snow. So actually I wouldn't like this idea at all. It really sucks living in a high desert, so I like the AC weather as the way it's already designed. :/

 

[Hat']

I mean up until now I've been time travelling in all of my games (I'll change that in New Horizons I promise!), so I didn't see a difference nor did I even pay attention to that detail to be honest.

 

[dumplen]

I'd be pretty bummed out, to be honest. Rainy for long periods of time, and if it were realistic my trees would fall over and everything would look messed up.
"At least it's not raining in my town" has come out of my mouth, more than a handful of times. I'd much rather it be the way it is.

 

[Halony]

Where I live it is cold and it rains a lot too. I wouldn't like the same weather in my game all the time. I think the game balances it out perfectly and I wouldn't want to have it any other way. I really like the fact that I can still enjoy the sun in my AC town while it's pouring outside in real life.

 

[cornimer]

Interesting idea, but no thanks. Winter lasts too long here. It's always a relief to me when my town turns green at the end of February, even though I know it won't be green in real life for another 2 months.

 

[Circus]

That'd be cool, being that where I live we get the extremes for both Summer and Winter, but that would mean almost every day in winter would be snowing which would kind of stink because there'd be very few winter days without snow. I know that in NH they're adding hemispheres, but I don't think they're going to add local weather to the games, if just not in NH.

 

[Laconic]

I live in an area with all seasons, summers in the 100s, winters in the negative 20s. So, I'd be fine with this ! I wish we had the option for either, like choosing "in game seasons" which would work as it does now, or choose "local seasons" and it goes by a weather app....That way people who don't experience all seasons still could, and wouldn't miss out on certain creatures !

When in game lines up with real life it feels SO great and immersive, but when it's pouring down raining while it's blazing hot out, it really takes me out of the game.

 

[Alyx]

When I was really young and played Animal Crossing on the Gamecube, at one point I actually thought that the weather did sync up (I was about 7, so I didn't really think much of how the game would know where I live and what the weather is like), because one day it was raining outside, and it was raining in my game, too. I don't think I would really prefer that, but it would be a cool feature you could turn on or off.

 

[BluebearL]

This is an interesting idea? There would be positives and negatives with this idea. On one hand it makes it my a more personal experience but in the other hand it takes the getaway, escapism effect of it. One thing that I would like to see if the Aaron?s in sync with your country. It?s summer at Christmas time here and that?s how I want to play! The other downside to having weather in sync is that people such as myself
Will miss out on certain weather experiences such as snow. Cool idea though

 

[MarzipanDragyn]

If it really is synced, then it's wrong half the time where I live. Often, when it rains in-game, it's not raining outside, and vice versa. And it hardly ever actually snows well here (curse you, global warming)--although, it does a few counties north of here...

- - - Post Merge - - -

...it just occured to me that this was an idea. Oops... ': D
In that case, yeah, let's not have it sync up, because I'll never see it snow ingame otherwise...

 

[CasualWheezer]

I think it would be kind of cool if the weather synced with mine, however I kind of just want something different in the game.

 

[MelloDimensions]

Let's go further and make it always night please and thank you