This while no cloud saves business is really getting out of control.
Let's punish the players because of a few bad apples.
Let's punish the players because of a few bad apples.
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Animal Crossing: New Horizons is 6.2 GB, won't allow to transfer save between consoles (and no cloud saves)
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It's so annoying that Switch is the only place to play the complete version (for now)
I can understand for competitive games (although everyone else solved it 10 years ago)
But causing trouble for everyone because cheats in Animal Crossing???
So literally just the ones I want to have backups for. Well fuck.
People put hundreds and even thousands of hours into Animal Crossing. For many people it's an ongoing experience with no end...decorating your house, playing through the seasons, interacting with animals, catching/collecting, etc.
There's absolutely no way they don't eventually allow saves to be transferred between consoles.
There's absolutely no way they don't eventually allow saves to be transferred between consoles.
People are misunderstanding the reasons for this. All the issues with this game are caused by one thing: the fact that all profiles on a system are tied to one island. That's why cloud saves can't work with it and that's why saves can't transfer. Because those are features that are tied to profiles, while AC save data is tied to the system. And there's one reason they tied saves to the system instead of profiles: to sell more Switches. They know that it'll encourage households that are currently sharing one Switch to buy another Switch or two so everyone can have their own. And they know there are AC fans out there who are dedicated enough to buy a second system just to have two towns.
Is there a kind of "whole system transfer" process ? Not just user or save? Cause something like that could still make this work :/
pretty obviously an issue with this particular Nintendo dev. Splatoon also has serious issues with this.
Question is, why does Nintendo allow a single dev so much power? These stuff should be company wide policies and not up to whims of developers.
Question is, why does Nintendo allow a single dev so much power? These stuff should be company wide policies and not up to whims of developers.
Lmao. Nintendo is such a hack company. This is legit making me rethink my purchase.
I am in literal disbelief. This is a deal breaker. This can't be what the wording means, right? Like, okay you can't transfer data "between" consoles but you can move it wholesale from and to.
I will be holding off from getting this game until it's cleared up. They can fuck off if this is actually true. Starting to think Mr Resetti is based on an actual joyless husk of a person on the AC team.
I am in literal disbelief. This is a deal breaker. This can't be what the wording means, right? Like, okay you can't transfer data "between" consoles but you can move it wholesale from and to.
I will be holding off from getting this game until it's cleared up. They can fuck off if this is actually true. Starting to think Mr Resetti is based on an actual joyless husk of a person on the AC team.
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The one-island-per-console policy is itself bad and unpopular. Sabotaging save security, crossplay between switch and switchlite, and save transferring, all as a necessity to support a shitty restriction that itself does nothing to benefit the customer just means they've fucked us so they can fuck us again.
It doesn't bring me any satisfaction to know that this will help Nintendo to sell more switches.
It wasn't meant to, it's fucking garbage. I'm just saying, all the people saying this is about preventing duping or whatever are missing the mark. This is a greedy and cynical business decision.
There is. It still doesn't work in this case. Everything but the save would transfer.
Sorry if this has been asked before or it's really obvious but I wanted to make sure—near the bottom under "Software" is that a list of supported languages?
EDIT: OKAY I'M DUMB I didn't read the bullet point above that literally says supported languages please ignore me
EDIT: OKAY I'M DUMB I didn't read the bullet point above that literally says supported languages please ignore me
I love AC, and will play the new entry hard, but in my opinion it looks like not enough has changed. Too old school if anything.
This is the only reason why I will probably never buy this game, despite being interested in it. I'll stick with Stardew Valley, thank you very much.
I so wish we could get comments from the developers on why they chose to handle things this way. And not some fluffy ambiguous response - but a real deep dive into technical challenges faced. It's not something we'll ever get obviously.
Here I was thinking this was the kind of game that might follow me through to any new revisions, potentially whatever Nintendo version of "next gen" is this go around. Now it feels like they've put a 1-year life on my game and its killed my hype.
Here I was thinking this was the kind of game that might follow me through to any new revisions, potentially whatever Nintendo version of "next gen" is this go around. Now it feels like they've put a 1-year life on my game and its killed my hype.
But I could transfer my Splatoon 2 save to a new Switch when I upgraded. Animal Crossing won't let you system transfer your save game with your profile to a new Switch. No way at all to get it off one console and onto another.
And if a small percentage of users do dupe some items? Who fucking cares? It's Animal Crossing. There's no competitive multiplayer. And for that protection, we sacrifice the piece of mind that if our Switch dies, breaks, or gets stolen our saves with hundreds of hours on it are safe. Brilliant as ever, Nintendo. What's the point of paying for their god awful online service?
wow this is massively disappointing. I guess I'm glad I already upgraded to a newer switch but holy shit nintendo what is wrong with you
I'm still flabbergasted.
Surely they must know how pissed people are going to become when they realise they can't transfer their Animal Crossing when they get a new system/upgraded system down the line??
Do they not want us to buy more systems???
Surely they must know how pissed people are going to become when they realise they can't transfer their Animal Crossing when they get a new system/upgraded system down the line??
Do they not want us to buy more systems???
This is so utterly stupid, I precisely bought the Switch Lite thinking about playing this game on it on the go (because I have arm issues and the OG Switch is too big and heavy for me) and making data transfers to my OG Switch to play comfortably on the TV at night (because we already knew that there isn't cloud saves for this game). And now I have to decide which console is gonna be abandoned because there aren't data transfers either? Wow.
In fact, on a Animal Crossing: New Leaf digital copy I lost a 500 hours save file because my 3DS was stolen and there wasn't any backup options, it made me so angry and sad, and seven years later, here we go again with this stupid crap.
In fact, on a Animal Crossing: New Leaf digital copy I lost a 500 hours save file because my 3DS was stolen and there wasn't any backup options, it made me so angry and sad, and seven years later, here we go again with this stupid crap.
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No cloud saves because people might 'dupe shit' is dumb enough already, but they manage to add a whole new layer of being dumb shits.
Who really cares if people duped their items anyway? There are no Achievements to 'protect' because you don't even bother to add that feature to your console. These things aren't worth real money, they're only cheating themselves in acquiring things this way right??
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Hmm, I bet Nintendo is planning DLC crap that does cost real money.
Who really cares if people duped their items anyway? There are no Achievements to 'protect' because you don't even bother to add that feature to your console. These things aren't worth real money, they're only cheating themselves in acquiring things this way right??
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Hmm, I bet Nintendo is planning DLC crap that does cost real money.
This what I was planning to do. I was going to transfer between my Lite and OG to play in the go and on the TV. I don't like using the OG for handheld play.
EdIt: fuck you, Nintendo. Fuck you.
Also, journalists: please hound them about bullshit like this in interviews.
Yeah thanks but no thanks and fuck you Nintendo.
First of all me and my wife we cannot play two separate saves? And now I can't even back up the stuff my wife will build over hours upon hours into the cloud service I fucking pay for?
I'm getting sick of your bullshit Nintendo.
Edit: not going to buy New Horizons then. My wife will stay with pocket camp.
First of all me and my wife we cannot play two separate saves? And now I can't even back up the stuff my wife will build over hours upon hours into the cloud service I fucking pay for?
I'm getting sick of your bullshit Nintendo.
Edit: not going to buy New Horizons then. My wife will stay with pocket camp.
I love Nintendo games, especially Animal Crossing, as much as the next guy but good fucking god Nintendo has to be one of the most boneheaded, ass-backwards gaming companies around.
It's completely ridiculous that in the year 2020 we can't get all games having cloud-saves, decent online, or system back-ups for the Switch.
It's completely ridiculous that in the year 2020 we can't get all games having cloud-saves, decent online, or system back-ups for the Switch.
Been eagerly anticipating this game for months now but. Yeah I think I'm going to wait on buying this game. I'll just play doom instead.
You know they won't. It never happens. Especially not for a company like Nintendo who will probably gladly just not commicate with you ever.
I think there won't be a solution for awhile, but I'm sure they'll come out with one if they release an upgraded switch model they want us all to buy.
Weren't people super pissed about the inability to play with friends online for SMM2? I remember Nintendo coming back to folks on complaints for that , and now it's implemented.
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No. There isn't.
Switch only supports transferring users, not the whole system.
This is undeniably bad for customers, but as somebody who lost their Animal Crossing data multiple times across multiple games already, personally I'm unbothered. Also I plan to just keep AC on the AC Switch I bought for AC.
Hadn't heard about that. I can only hope they'll renege on this. But I don't expect them to.
Right. Yeah, that's it. A digital purchase that is associated with a user makes it even more convoluted. They should just have a save migration app at the very least.
I feel like this move will just make people more hesitant to upgrade to a new system.
