Should Nintendo really be allowed to rip features away to punish everyone for playing the game the way they want to? Making Bells was already not that easy, and to lower spawn rate for bugs and fish is frankly disgusting. It shouldn't be any of their business how we consumers play a game we paid for. And mind you, this is a $60 game, not a mobile phone app in which we're at the mercy of the game developer and their poor choice of updates. The idea that any game developer could take away from my game play is unacceptable, and something must be done before Nintendo ruins the game entirely.
If you answer yes, what's going to stop other game developers from overreaching in various games, apps, and other technology? Do you really want to succumb to their power and hand over that freedom?
I understand your point.
Connecting your game to the Internet, where the game can be “updated,” makes you the consumer and gameplayer in agreement with the manufacturer’s terms.
So, why is this happening?
One can give an explanation that is about the enjoyment and fairness of the game.
I look at this differently.
I think it’s because “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” is new and Nintendo wants to
stretch it—for the better part of ten years—to sustain interests for gameplayers to continue actively playing “New Horizons.”
There were people who, in the U.S., played “New Leaf” with its release in 2013 and were done by 2015. That was just before “Happy Home Designer,” in September 2015, with the start of the four series of regular villagers’ amiibo cards, and a year before “Welcome amiibo” was introduced in “New Leaf.” And, yes, “Welcome amiibo” was in much design to sustain gameplayers’ interests with continuing to play “New Leaf” for however much longer. (Those amiibo cards gave a player control for
which villagers lives in a given town.)
So, “New Horizons” was released on March 20, 2020.
Do you think Nintendo—with the millions it cost for the creation, design, development, and manufacturing of “New Horizons”—wants people to be fulfilled and done with the game perhaps as early as Year #01 of its release? Year #02 can be enough for a number of people.
Nintendo wants people playing “New Horizons” throughout the majority—or even the entirety—of this new decade of the 2020s. It takes time to create, design, and develop a new game. This is especially the case with a game that is established, with one version after the next, and is meticulous in its details. So, Nintendo does not want to have to turn around—say in 2023, 2024, or 2025—and release a new “Animal Crossing: New
Whatever.” (This is also in consideration Nintendo has other titles it creates, designs, develops, and manufactures.)
