Avoid opening presents from sketchy people/people that you don't know

[Underneath The Stars]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1297587909974003712

is this a PSA? i tend to avoid starting threads with that but holy s---
apparently there are "mystery gifts" and inside it are hacked items that you can't throw out making your inventory full.
i wonder if you can re-wrap them?
but seriously it's so messed up that people would do this

 

[TheSillyPuppy]

Wow, this is good to be aware of. Big yikes. Thanks for sharing.

My French is a bit rusty, but the poster's first comment says to immediately exit the game before autosave kicks in if this happens to you (really hoping it doesn't happen to anyone... why do people do this).

 

[niko@kamogawa]

People really have nothing better to do that other than putting misery to others.

 

[Cheren]

Can the items be thrown away? If not (and this becomes an issue) Nintendo will probably fix it. I wouldn't worry about it too much.

 

[niko@kamogawa]

Can the items be thrown away? If not (and this becomes an issue) Nintendo will probably fix it. I wouldn't worry about it too much.

I am sure Nintendo will fix this. However, those players who got this issue will have to suffer for days or weeks.

 

[Underneath The Stars]

Can the items be thrown away? If not (and this becomes an issue) Nintendo will probably fix it. I wouldn't worry about it too much.

from what i can read it's non-selectable. that's hoping they'd fix it quick, but it's just that you'd be stuck with that in your inventory for the meantime. which would be a huge inconvenience. i mean, if i saw this on the timeline and doesn't share it here i'd feel bad not giving a heads up to other people at least.

 

[JSS]

Yeah autosave won't happen unless you close the inventory so if you ever unwrap one of these just hit the Home button and close the game.

 

[Cheren]

I am sure Nintendo will fix this. However, those players who got this issue will have to suffer for days or weeks.

Yeah, that's the best-case scenario but there isn't much I or anyone else could do about it besides waiting until everything got sorted out.

from what i can read it's non-selectable. that's hoping they'd fix it quick, but it's just that you'd be stuck with that in your inventory for the meantime. which would be a huge inconvenience. i mean, if i saw this on the timeline and doesn't share it here i'd feel bad not giving a heads up to other people at least.

That's very considerate of you. I see Nintendo fixing it quickly if it does become a problem, but as of right now we don't know if it's reached that point.

 

[cherrygirl]

This is horrible, why would people deliberately do this to other players. If and when Nintendo catches wind about this they’ll definitely fix it and hopefully prevent other player doing this in the future

 

[Yorli]

I heard you can rewrap it and drop on a nook mile island, but really nasty thing to do to someone.

 

[rawstberry]

just putting it out there because i see some misinformation about the issue: it has been confirmed that you can't rewrap, sell or drop them so just be careful guys and don't accept wrapped gifts from people you don't trust!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1297642792731082752

 

[Yorli]

just putting it out there because i see some misinformation about the issue: it has been confirmed that you can't rewrap, sell or drop them so just be careful guys and don't accept wrapped gifts from people you don't trust!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1297642792731082752

Good to know thanks!

 

[Serabee]

Ugh, something like this was bound to happen eventually Hopefully Nintendo fixes it soon, but good to know in the meantime!

 

[Lynnatchii]

Yikes! This is horrible! Why would people do this, that's scary. I am sure Nintendo will fix this, but I could take a few days or weeks. Need to avoid that.

 

[WalceDony]

I wonder what would happen if you were to gift it to a villager?

 

[Pintuition]

Oooop! Looks like I'm not trading with people I don't recognize until this gets patched! How awful. It's hard to tell as a trader if something is hacked and not to touch it when its dropped like that. Yikes!

 

[Marshmallows]

That's awful. I hope that Nintendo not only fixes it, but gets to the bottom of it and bans anyone who maliciously sends out hacked/damaging items.
Not a problem I'm likely to encounter as I never get mystery gifts.

 

[Aurita]

I guess I won’t be picking up wrapped gifts from online traders until this is patched o: it’s messed up for people to try to ruin other people’s games with these items tho
Hopefully Nintendo fixes this fast!!

 

[Feunard]

Thanks for sharing this! I hope Nintendo fixes this glitch as quickly as they did with the other ones.

 

[Katgamer]

I always go to item dumps and they are usually wrapped as a cute little surprise looks like that isn’t going to happen anymore..