Auctioning Villagers:
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That's true, I haven't seen a villager so far that I hated or disliked. (I'm also not picky at all.) I just normally give them away. <shrug> I don't really care about making money in Animal Crossing. XD
I usually try to trade villagers for other villagers (which seems fair to me), but ones I've contemplated auctioning are more popular and I was ready to let go anyway. Tangy for instance; I've had a good run with her, but I'm ready to let her go. There isn't really anyone I want to trade her for, but I figure I should get something for letting some one have her, and those bells could buy a new villager.
Also some people just don't get attached.
Also some people just don't get attached.
I just realized how the whole "making connections" thing in my original post sounded... Oh... this is going to sound so dumb, but I didn't realize that some villagers were worth more than others...
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I'm awful at making snowmen.
Awful.
This. It's just a game to me and nothing more.
I will never sell a villager, myself, but I don't judge those who do. I know what it is to be bell poor and frustrated, but right now I finally hit a good turnip price for ONCE in one of my towns and am making some bells.
I'm doing that, will get fairly rich, and then begin again to cycle like mad. Well, mad for ME. I'm slow, but I think I can now move more quickly. I intend to give away as many villagers as I can. One person's awful villager is another's dreamie.
I get what you mean about it being sort of a "slave trade" in a way, but they are also pixels, as Psychopathic said. I feel personal attachments to them, tho, and can't help it.
But that's why we have both cycling for free threads and auction threads.
You'll get your dreamies eventually if you have any. I suppose that if somebody makes buttloads of bells using some of them to "buy" villagers is one way to spend them. AND...it saves some from the "void." So, maybe selling isn't all bad.
ETA - I just saw the remarks about snowpeople.
I am AWFUL at them, too. >_< Gah...I will be in December or January FOREVER at this rate...
I'm doing that, will get fairly rich, and then begin again to cycle like mad. Well, mad for ME. I'm slow, but I think I can now move more quickly. I intend to give away as many villagers as I can. One person's awful villager is another's dreamie.
I get what you mean about it being sort of a "slave trade" in a way, but they are also pixels, as Psychopathic said. I feel personal attachments to them, tho, and can't help it.
But that's why we have both cycling for free threads and auction threads. You'll get your dreamies eventually if you have any. I suppose that if somebody makes buttloads of bells using some of them to "buy" villagers is one way to spend them. AND...it saves some from the "void." So, maybe selling isn't all bad.
ETA - I just saw the remarks about snowpeople.
I am AWFUL at them, too. >_< Gah...I will be in December or January FOREVER at this rate...
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I will never sell a villager, myself, but I don't judge those who do. I know what it is to be bell poor and frustrated, but right now I finally hit a good turnip price for ONCE in one of my towns and am making some bells.
I'm doing that, will get fairly rich, and then begin again to cycle like mad. Well, mad for ME. I'm slow, but I think I can now move more quickly. I intend to give away as many villagers as I can. One person's awful villager is another's dreamie.
I get what you mean about it being sort of a "slave trade" in a way, but they are also pixels, as Psychopathic said. I feel personal attachments to them, tho, and can't help it.
You'll get your dreamies eventually if you have any. I suppose that if somebody makes buttloads of bells using some of them to "buy" villagers is one way to spend them. AND...it saves some from the "void." So, maybe selling isn't all bad.
ETA - I just saw the remarks about snowpeople.
I am AWFUL at them, too. >_< Gah...I will be in December or January FOREVER at this rate...
(I don't have dreamies, just eh... I don't really care what villagers I get, I like the ones I've had.
)I understand where you're coming from, I shouldn't have been as judgmental, I just don't get it.
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I'd rather buy the items you get from the Snowpeople... dear lord. I tried for the first few days I got AC:NL, and I'd roll them off a cliff, or accidentally run them into something or not be able to push them over the bridges in my town. >.>
LOL! I keep smashing my snowballs into trees (I have too many...) or they roll into a pond. ARGH! The frustration! Well, I hope to just buy the items I won't get. I can probably get all from the Bingo eventually, but the others? Not a prayer. I just cannot get a snowmam to save my life.
Okay...ending my derail!
Okay...ending my derail!
Bariumsheep
Senior Member
I've pondered the ethics of this many times, and every time I end up feeling awkward because there's some villagers I love, and some I just don't care about in the slightest.
I don't trade or sell villagers professionally like some people on the site, but I do have uncanny luck in my campsite. I constantly get villagers I know are popular/valuable online but that I don't really want for myself. So I decided to start grabbing the ones that were wanted to giveaway.
A lot of the time I just give them away, but occasionally I like to sell them and just hand out the bells to people with their gates open, or people I meet on the island that need some cash and seem like they've been beetle grinding a while.
I don't think it's really something that can be right or wrong. When you get down to it, it really is just a game after all.
If you take it seriously though both arguments are valid. Overall I think it boils down to what you want out of the game. If it gives you one more thing to enjoy, then why not? : )
I don't trade or sell villagers professionally like some people on the site, but I do have uncanny luck in my campsite. I constantly get villagers I know are popular/valuable online but that I don't really want for myself. So I decided to start grabbing the ones that were wanted to giveaway.
A lot of the time I just give them away, but occasionally I like to sell them and just hand out the bells to people with their gates open, or people I meet on the island that need some cash and seem like they've been beetle grinding a while.
I don't think it's really something that can be right or wrong. When you get down to it, it really is just a game after all.
If you take it seriously though both arguments are valid. Overall I think it boils down to what you want out of the game. If it gives you one more thing to enjoy, then why not? : )
Oh wow... that's so nice... D:
I know it's just a silly little game and as you've said it's just another way someone else enjoys the game, I've only played New Leaf and the very first one, so I hadn't seen what people were like with the villagers before this game.
VioletsTown
Senior Member
I think the dividing line is that some people view villagers as "people". That is, they are so involved in the game that these villagers become real to them. Which is great. I wish I can get that enraptured in this game that it becomes that real. Once in a while I get there.
But I guess I'm just too old when I first started or something? Most of the time, I really love the game and love the villagers, but in the back of my mind, I'm just too logical. Like how Zell and Marshal and any smug always talk about trains. Why? They've been programmed to. And the only difference between which Smug you like is really their appearance. When I had both, they sometimes said the same exact sentences within 10 minutes of each other. Sort of destroys the magic.
One thing I would like to say is, please don't compare these pixeled programs, as great as they are, to "slaves". There are real slaves in the world, and their suffering is real human suffering. Auctioning villagers in a video game, where fake money is exchanged, doesn't compare. That kind of comparison really diminishes true human suffering.
But I guess I'm just too old when I first started or something? Most of the time, I really love the game and love the villagers, but in the back of my mind, I'm just too logical. Like how Zell and Marshal and any smug always talk about trains. Why? They've been programmed to. And the only difference between which Smug you like is really their appearance. When I had both, they sometimes said the same exact sentences within 10 minutes of each other. Sort of destroys the magic.
One thing I would like to say is, please don't compare these pixeled programs, as great as they are, to "slaves". There are real slaves in the world, and their suffering is real human suffering. Auctioning villagers in a video game, where fake money is exchanged, doesn't compare. That kind of comparison really diminishes true human suffering.
Totes, he's such a cute little uniporn.
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*Unicorn. Unicorn... I meant unicorn.
Bariumsheep
Senior Member
I've been playing since gamecube, but the way I've played it has changed completely haha
I found out about perfect town in city folk and tripled my playtime instantly. XD
New leaf is the first one I've gotten into the villager market though and honestly it's almost like a different game. It's fun on it's own just to bid on different villagers and then get to know them. I have a hard time picking dream villagers but I love just having cute ones stay in my town for a while as visitors.
I was shocked when I first found out it was possible though.
It took the level of control I have over my town to unhealthy levels. <3
I found out about perfect town in city folk and tripled my playtime instantly. XD
New leaf is the first one I've gotten into the villager market though and honestly it's almost like a different game. It's fun on it's own just to bid on different villagers and then get to know them. I have a hard time picking dream villagers but I love just having cute ones stay in my town for a while as visitors.
I was shocked when I first found out it was possible though.
It took the level of control I have over my town to unhealthy levels. <3
