Anyone else excited for when this game loses popularity?

[Braixen]

Half and half, I do like the tiktoks and tweets that come with having a larger community! Also more people to play with, for a lot of my friends this is their first AC game and it's a lot of fun playing with them!

I do hate all the stupid drama that comes with it, though, like villager popularity/Raymond/TTing/etc
It's especially worse... I don't remember Marshal being as bad as Raymond in NL or the TT debate being as terrible

 

[John Wick]

I feel I've lost touch with regular members I'd see every day because I'm always playing the game, and trading, but on the other hand, I've become friends with some awesome members I hadn't noticed before, and it's great!

It will even out eventually.
It's a craze right now.

 

[Underneath The Stars]

nahh not really.. why would i? it was lonely playing new leaf alone!

 

[Ganucci]

I think the thing I'm really looking forward to is for game "journalism" to stop publishing on the AC hype train. I saw SO many wrong things the first month of playing that was clear to me the "journalist" had never played an AC game or didn't do their due diligence (e.g. I saw it repeated many times that complaining to Isabelle moves a villager... uh nope). I really missing having my undiluted Google searches where I can get helpful results, gosh dangit.

THIS SO MUCH. I have all kinds of random questions that pop into my head and I can’t stand that Google just shows me results from Polygon or Game Rant or Kotaku. There’s nothing particularly wrong with these sites, but they definitely have these articles to gain clicks. Sites that used to show up like Thonky and Nookipedia or even threads from this forum sometimes, were written by people who really cared about the game and I knew I could count on that info. Nowadays I just don’t look up my random questions at all.

 

[Blue Cup]

I wouldn't expect New Horizons to end up like New Leaf where the general player population dwindles to just internet communities; The Switch and the this series had hit brand new peaks of popularity and is going to remain in the eyes of audiences outside of just Animal Crossing fans for far longer than we are used to.

The content update model will only just prolong its life in the eyes of the public that much longer.

 

[Fey]

What gets my goat is when my friends (who are brand new to the series and loving it) get to a certain point and get stuck. They ask me for advice on what to do and ask me something very simple that is answered for you just by reading the text in the game. So, I ask them what they remember reading about it first and they say that they didn't actually read any of the dialogue for the game and just button mashed through it.

Any specific instances you could share?
I’m just curious because the concept of button mashing through new dialogue seems pretty dumb to me. Not stupid, just...foolish? In most cases it’s pretty clear what’s going to be a tutorial or instruction of sorts, so putting in the effort to at least skim-read it is really the least you can do imo

 

[Garrett]

No, I want my favourite game series to be as popular as possible, the more the merrier! I always enjoy helping newcomers to the game.

 

[sfelix]

I don't mind the hype and the excitement, but the aggressive competition is like nothing I've seen in the AC communities before, particularly when it comes to Raymond. Really nasty stuff like cheating people out of huge amounts of bells/NMT, and then there's the rude and aggressive behaviour of certain people. Especially those who will get the villager they want by any means possible, not caring who they upset in the process.

Like hey, I want my fav villagers as much as anyone, but it's not worth it if it's going to make someone else unhappy.

 

[niko@kamogawa]

I am sure that there are a lot of players like me who left New Leaf and then came back to play New Horizons. (I stopped playing New Leaf because of my commitment to other games.) Even if the popularity dies down, the game will still thrive. I really do hope that they can bring fresh updates and events every now and then! This will keep the player base hooked for longer periods.

 

[RiceBunny]

No, I’m not looking forward to it losing popularity considering Nintendo has chosen to go the EA route this time; release the most basic version of a game and then slow release updates for it, except Nintendo doesn’t charge you for the updates(yet). If the game loses popularity and people aren’t playing it anymore, will they keep slow releasing updates? Or just give up and never release certain content?! You’d be surprised how much content gets thrown away because a game loses popularity and the company no longer sees value in releasing it. Or maybe if it does lose popularity, Nintendo will release a big juicy update with a bunch of content we were all waiting for, to get players back in the game; who knows

 

[Ganucci]

Any specific instances you could share?
I’m just curious because the concept of button mashing through new dialogue seems pretty dumb to me. Not stupid, just...foolish? In most cases it’s pretty clear what’s going to be a tutorial or instruction of sorts, so putting in the effort to at least skim-read it is really the least you can do imo

I’m not the person who posted that but I can relate. Some of my friends who have a Switch are super casual gamers. Like the only games they own are ones they hear about on Twitter due to popularity. Needless to say, that’s how they heard about ACNH. It could be because they’re not really “gamers” but a few of them would ask me what to do or how to get something or just be completely lost. This was due to either them not reading the dialogue OR they got frustrated that things weren’t obvious and wanted quick answers or even quick resources.

For example, I had one friend who was struggling hard to get iron nuggets. Every time she would hit a rock it would break and she thought this was just the way it is. She didn’t realize eating fruit was causing her to do this as she understood fruit helped dig up trees and that’s it. I’m not sure if this is the game’s fault for lack of clarity or her fault for not reading the dialogue on how to get the resources from rocks.

 

[Alicia]

I'm not really excited for it to lose popularity. I like that other people are getting to experience and love a game series that I've loved since I was a kid. Sure, the pace people play may slow down a lot after quarantines start to end, but it's nice that so many people are able to experience the game. I think it has probably introduced a lot of people to a game they've never played before, but will probably continue playing for awhile. Plus, now I have more people that I know in real life that have and play the game that never did before.

 

[Blueskyy]

I'm just waiting for the amiibo card prices to drop at this point.
I so badly regret not buying more before the game was released.

Yes I believe they will be rereleased. However, they may disappear faster than the WA set did with the popularity of this title. Nintendo also isn’t usually the best at restocking either. Tbh I impulsively kept buying them at Walmart/Target in 2016 and my bank account suffered, but now I have well over 300 series 1-4 and a few WA from that and trading. I sold my full WA and Sanrio sets to make up for it lol.

 

[meggiewes]

Any specific instances you could share?
I’m just curious because the concept of button mashing through new dialogue seems pretty dumb to me. Not stupid, just...foolish? In most cases it’s pretty clear what’s going to be a tutorial or instruction of sorts, so putting in the effort to at least skim-read it is really the least you can do imo

It was a while ago and I remember being vaguely annoyed at the time, but I didn't write it down so my memory might be a bit fuzzy. But the one that really sticks out was my friends' first meteor shower. Since I had both Celeste and a meteor shower on my island, I had them come over. I asked them if they met Celeste before and they said yes. I said awesome, you can get a new DIY if you talk to her again now. That part was fine.

I know when you meet Celeste for the first time she tells you how to look up at the sky and wish on stars. They did not know how to look up at the sky and I had to walk them through that. Then they asked how my character kept making "that animation" and I walked them through how to wish on stars. It wasn't anything too big. It was easy to explain. But I remember being slightly annoyed that they didn't at least remember reading how to look up at the sky or even trying to fiddle with all the buttons on the controller to see what they do.

My more recent memory of this sort of thing happening was with my brother. I had to walk him through step by step how to get and put up his campsite. He didn't know he could talk to Tom Nook and ask him what to do next when I do know that Tom Nook tells that to you after you upgrade Resident Services from a tent to town hall. I asked him outright if he read what Tom Nook told him and he sighed and said that he didn't actually read the text.

I don't get the concept of not reading text in a game either, but I tend to play a lot of dialogue-heavy games. I know my brother doesn't normally play dialogue-heavy games and the only text-heavy game he did play was Skyrim (has a lot of voice acting in it) and Mario Oddessy (which doesn't really need to be read to be played if you know how Mario games work).