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[skogkyst]

While I haven't stopped playing, my playtime has dropped off a cliff. I usually only get in about 30 minutes to an hour a day max now, basically just giving my villagers their gifts for the day. I've just moved on to more exciting things in my life, and the game has fallen into a bit of a rut for me. This is how all Animal Crossings go, but I had hoped to pass New Leaf's playtime (~450 hours), which I'm not even halfway to yet, but I find myself not caring enough to play a ton.

 

[terminator]

I took a break from the game for a week or two, but then i started getting into decorating my island again and i've been playing pretty consistently again since. I'm sure once i'm done decorating and happy with it, i'll take a break. the villagers unfortunately are a bit boring in this game and its not as much fun when i'm not designing the island itself. the villagers don't play games with me as much as new leaf and i feel like i've heard all the dialog that they offer at this point.

 

[tajikey]

There’s been many posts in the rant thread and elsewhere explaining why there isn’t much content or things to do in the game and reasoning for their complaints.

Where do you draw the line? If it had all the other stuff and not terraforming, people would complain. At least with this, Nintendo gave us a HUGE overhaul with which to frustrate ourselves, and will slowly introduce old features (Redd and Lief being the catalyst), as to not tire is of a game perceived to be like all the others.

 

[daringred_]

Couldnt have said it better myself!
I sort of am disliking having to find myself "busy work" in redoing areas again and again as I wait for the new content that hopefully will include a lot of the past features.

as someone who's overall god awful with designing, a lot of my more specific areas have had to be directly inspired by other people's otherwise they just look like trash or are completely empty and i feel like i've failed the game. i've still got a few ideas in mind but i can't find the energy to design them because terraforming bores me to tears.

 

[fallenchaoskitten]

I wish I could. My wrists are swollen, my eyes are almost bleeding, I can't remember when I ate last.

I just... can't... stop.

We need a laugh react so you get a love instead. XP

 

[Cosmic-chan]

Quit for splatfest but overall no I haven't quit. I always find something to do in acnh just I did in new leaf. I mean I spent 100+ hours on nl and ever since the launch of nh I've played forever. This girl is non-stop~

 

[nightglow]

I'm still terraforming. I'm not TT at all. I don't see myself not playing for a while and Im still having fun. I do hope to see added content soon though....

 

[mirukushake]

I'm still playing but my current projects don't require a lot of time investment so I'm definitely playing less. Honestly, I've already gotten more hours out of this game in 2 months than I did in a few years of New Leaf so from a price performance perspective I'm more than happy lol.

 

[Clock]

I hadn’t stopped playing, but my play times are a bit shorter and slower now. It just makes the game less boring when you play less.

 

[Le Ham]

Been playing every day since launch, but definitely for less hours at a time than before as it's mostly just become the daily grind. That grind is still at least somewhat exciting just for being able to go hunt for the fossils, water the flowers I'm breeding, groom the weeds in my forest and collect the branches, and then harvest day every 3 days for the orchard - same as any other AC lol. Shell collecting ofc because they just keep piling up... It remains worth logging in every day for me, hoping the updates arrive before the grind starts bothering me too.

The longer bursts come when I get inspired to redesign a section of my island, typically at like 2 a.m. lol.

 

[Lilybells]

I used to play all night after work, and all day every weekend, but now I've playing a lot less. I think it's because I've been feeling pretty burnt out from terraforming. I'm excited for the summer update though!

 

[Loubelle]

I have still logged in every day, but I have gotten a little bored. I don't really know what I want to do with my island for now, so I'm not really terraforming or designing anything right now, and the main thing I have been focusing my energy into was growing my hybrids so that when I start decorating, I have lots of flowers to use. With that being said, my entire island is almost completely covered in flowers and I have lost motivation to keep up with them (watering and moving them elsewhere) For now, I've been playing more Splatoon 2 again with my friends And I have also just been watching youtube and catching up on some new shows. I think I'm just in a rut right now with ACNH, but I think I just need a small break from it because I've spent hours and hours every day since launch, haha

 

[lackless]

I still play every day but I find that I don’t play as much in one session (maybe an hour to just run around and do some daily tasks) now that there’s no event running! I have like 400 hrs sunk into the game and I imagine that’s why there’s not quite as much to do as there was a couple weeks ago.

 

[Speeny]

I've been playing pretty much everyday on and off. But, will be taking another break soon. I don't time travel and what's stopping me is having ideas in my head of what I want to do, not completing them and then coming back and being like..."Yeah, what did I want to do again?" Jotting down notes on my tablet helps with this at least. I just can't be bothered utilising one of those island planner methods right now.

It's definitely good to take a break though. This is the first AC game I've actually ever felt completely burnt-out from. I love the game, but it's just good to take a breather. Feels refreshing once you revisit it. Especially now that villagers/islanders can only leave if you give them permission to.

 

[Holla]

I still play but then again a quick half hour of dailies and looking forward to what’s happening on my island each day is more than enough for me. Keeps me going on my workdays.

People who play several hours everyday and/or time travel I could definitely see them getting bored of it quickly. This happened to me in the older games honestly which is why I play more casually now.

 

[ForgottenT]

Ooooh reseting for perfect maps in NL got intense. Same with people doing multiday plot resetting for villagers. Max I saw someone do was 16days (minimum 2hrs a day, max 8hrs a day) trying to get a villager to plot where they wanted... since itin NL you cannot pick villager home locations or be able to move buildings once placed.
I just want to say, trust me, resetting was happening a lot more frequently back then for NL than NH by a LONG shot. (Both full island and other random things)

While I never reset for a map I sure as hell spent hundreds of hours camp resetting, and plot resetting, I liked it though, were chill like shiny hunting.

 

[Aliya]

I'm playing less and still doing my dailies every day, but I'm not playing hours and hours like I did at launch, once I unlocked terraforming, and once I reset my island at the end of April. I love talking to my villagers though so I spend a lot of time doing that when I do play.

I'm a pretty casual player though and I like that Animal Crossing has always been a game that you can pick up and play a few minutes a day and be done.

 

[daringred_]

I hope your evening gets better.

it's 3AM but, in kind, i hope your attitude gets better. i doubt it will, but you were the one claiming to preach optimism so i'll hope for you regardless

 

[Noctis]

I play everyday but how do I explain this. I'm just on stand by. I keep an eye out in the mornings in case someone is offering celeste and or diys from their villagers. After noon passes then that's when I start doing the daily chores in the game and then I'm on stand by again. I still have a lot of woek to do on my island but I got to the point of I'm lazy. I won't be playing much next month with xenoblade chronicles definitive edition dropping and the pokemon dlc will end up being my #1 priority with collecting fancy ball pokemon. can't wait to stress next month

 

[daringred_]

anyway, i was still playing NL for the majority of the day this long after launch and that's the problem for me with NH personally. the next game in a series should either add content or revamp its content wildly to differentiate it from past entries. taking a dozen steps back and trying to cover up that fact with terraforming (which seems a larger feature than it actually is because of your island size and vision) is hardly an improvement. neither is having an unfinished game at launch.