Yep.
And let us use cloud saves, nobody cares about cheaters in AC.
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Stop Cheating in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, You Ghouls (US Gamer)
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Yep.
And let us use cloud saves, nobody cares about cheaters in AC.
i judge anyone harshly who time travels in animal crossing, and i can only hope god does as well.
I time traveled in Wild World and had no regrets. Everyone plays differently.
Why are people so concerned with how I play a single player game
I skipped about a week to unlock the upgraded town hall and came back because I hated how things looked in my town and managed to fix it and return things to normal, now I'm having fun and sticking to real world time with all the shops open to look forward to new stock and villagers to interact with each day
I skipped about a week to unlock the upgraded town hall and came back because I hated how things looked in my town and managed to fix it and return things to normal, now I'm having fun and sticking to real world time with all the shops open to look forward to new stock and villagers to interact with each day
cheating is easier than ever in this game...
there's very little mp component in the game. So this really doesn't hurt much to others unless the others are bothered by others who do it.
If there was like a online component of 'who has the nicest town" that you get something in-game out of or something than maybe. But there isn't
there's very little mp component in the game. So this really doesn't hurt much to others unless the others are bothered by others who do it.
If there was like a online component of 'who has the nicest town" that you get something in-game out of or something than maybe. But there isn't
Counterpoint.
My wife and I are stuck self isolating at home. She's nearly 30 weeks pregnant and a totally routine checkup turned into a panicked and rushed series of testing ending with us getting told our baby is somewhere on a scale between mildly handicapped to dead shortly after birth. Our family lives hundreds of kilometres away.
She's playing Animal Crossing and every time she gets kicked by the baby bursts into tears.
But the really unjust thing in all of this is she set her system clock ahead to get a villager she's excited for on her island faster.... Perhaps people should shut up about how someone chooses to play a single player game. Especially right now.
My wife and I are stuck self isolating at home. She's nearly 30 weeks pregnant and a totally routine checkup turned into a panicked and rushed series of testing ending with us getting told our baby is somewhere on a scale between mildly handicapped to dead shortly after birth. Our family lives hundreds of kilometres away.
She's playing Animal Crossing and every time she gets kicked by the baby bursts into tears.
But the really unjust thing in all of this is she set her system clock ahead to get a villager she's excited for on her island faster.... Perhaps people should shut up about how someone chooses to play a single player game. Especially right now.
Also a reminder for people, Twitter is not the official multiplayer part of Animal Crossing, if it bothers you to see future shit on twitter... then get off Twitter!
Before reading the article I was sure it was a satire. Kinda funnier that it isn't.
I couldn't give a rat's ass if someone cheated in AC.
I couldn't give a rat's ass if someone cheated in AC.
How I see it as well. If people want to do it, then whatever that's their experience not mine, but especially right at launch it says this to me. Still, let 'em do it.
People doing it isn't affecting my personal experience of Animal Crossing, so I don't care about time traveling being a thing. For some people, having to wait for a new store or feature to be available is a bore. Not to mention that during this pandemic, some people want to put their isolated time into doing something they usually lack time for, so they want to get the most out of it ASAP.
It doesn't have a personal effect on my game and world, but it absolutely does ruin the social aspect of the game for others. If you want to avoid progression spoilers that are weeks (and months) out, you need to totally avoid AC social media and avoid towns of people who are time traveling.
lol wut?
My wife is loving the game even more now that she used the item duplicate glitch (although she doesn't want to time travel). She didn't want a second job and she prefer to grind for miles and resources than Bells.
Arbitrary wait times in games are whack so go ahead and time travel away. The anti-cheaters in here are really just worried the cheaters are having a better experience.
They're just cheating themselves, and missed out on the intended experience imo, but just let them, it's their decision and you won't get affected anyway.
Edit: after seeing the other posts here, saying "cheating themselves" is wrong. Everyone deserve to play the game they bought however they want as long as they aren't affecting anyone which is the case for AC
Edit: after seeing the other posts here, saying "cheating themselves" is wrong. Everyone deserve to play the game they bought however they want as long as they aren't affecting anyone which is the case for AC
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Wow. If you don't mind me asking, what's the nature of the baby's condition? Hopefully everything ends up on the mild side. I can see your perspective on things.
Soooo, time traveling is basically AC's easy mode. Can't complain about options, but it defeats the purpose of the game for me personally.
Can we also drop the whole "cheated themselves" mentality? It's a pretty sad argument.
Like they're probably having a way better time than the rest of us, because AC is so needlessly restrictive.
And saying it's "by design" doesn't make it better.
Like they're probably having a way better time than the rest of us, because AC is so needlessly restrictive.
And saying it's "by design" doesn't make it better.
not sure why people get concerned with how others enjoy single-player games. if their time travelling doesn't sour my experience nor theirs, then why does it matter?
If you visit someone else's island not knowing that they've been fast-forwarding through weeks to months of content, it can really ruin your own experience. And not being able to visit friends, a very fun thing to do, out of fear of cheating, also kind of ruins the experience.
Hey, fuck them, your wife deserve to play however she wants. I hope the best for you and your wife. Stay safe
Apparently the people that don't do it and don't like that others get stuff they don't or before them.
Why is someone playing the game how they decide to play it lame?
If someone watches a movie and skips all the dialogue, does it somehow affect how you watch it?
I suppose someone eating their burger upside down is lame as well? Wait, you'd probably think them removing the bun and eating the good stuff inside first is lame and affects how you enjoy yours...
Let people do them.
I've just always wondered why the fuck do people do it? What's the point of putting it on classic if you're just gonna reset. Just put it on casual....what's the difference?
Doesn't affect how I watch it, but I still find it lame. I also find eating a burger upside down lame, same with removing the buns and eating the inside first (pretty sure I commented that I found that lame in that thread). Doesn't mean I think they shouldn't be able to do it. I just disagree with it. I'm not stopping anyone from anything, but am judging.
Why do people who do things differently feel so attacked when others disagree with them? It's not stopping you. Who cares what others think? Do you, bud.
Speak for yourself. Time traveling absolutely ruins the experience for me. It's all meaningless when you just fly through it without appreciating anything. It's like playing an RPG by exploiting a leveling glitch and just one shotting everything. If I'm not going to engage with the systems, I don't even see a point in playing it.
It's more like if someone had the ability to binge a season of a tv show while you watched week to week, then they just went on social media and told you everything about it. The progression is part of the fun of AC, so having people flooding Twitter with shit that would naturally happen in a month is fucking shitty. People are always so worried about spoilers for games when they come out, but for some reason people gaming AC's clock and posting non-stop spoilers doesn't matter.
I thought this would be about the way to force the tarantula island which I think is pretty shady as well.
My sister visited my island and gave me A LOT of stuff. I mean I still took it haha, but I did feel a little guilty about it.
The joy of Animal Crossing is in escapism. It's like turning on the cheat codes in older GTA games for people. They don't care about the game as such, they just want to escape.
For me, the escape is by not gaming it, by doing what I want, when I want, not a game where I'm constantly hustling to the next objective all for the sake of leapfrogging on down the line.
For me, the escape is by not gaming it, by doing what I want, when I want, not a game where I'm constantly hustling to the next objective all for the sake of leapfrogging on down the line.
I time traveled. I didn't donate any stuff to Nook on the day of release (before 5/6AM) and didn't want to wait one more day for the Blathers tent, so when I found out I had to donate my bugs to Nook so Blathers would come to the island, I did so and time traveled a day forward. I assure you it only helped my enjoyment of the game.
I don't care if people do this, but I don't.
Animal Crossing really fits into how I play games anyway. 30 minutes to an hour at a time (or day) and then pick it up the next day when new events and stuff happens.
I'll probably play it like that for a long ass time. As i unlock more stuff to build and decorate the time spent on each day could go up, of course.
Animal Crossing really fits into how I play games anyway. 30 minutes to an hour at a time (or day) and then pick it up the next day when new events and stuff happens.
I'll probably play it like that for a long ass time. As i unlock more stuff to build and decorate the time spent on each day could go up, of course.