Corruption Question

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Is NOA going to do something about this? More importantly, are they even listening to our complaints, and being aware of this? A game should not have issues this early in, and - look. I'm really waiting on that one update where they allow us to back up ACNL saves. Sure, it's "to prevent duping". Yeah, well look, people have found ways around that (don't ask how, I nor the TBT community don't condone any form of this). Is there any reason to prevent hacking if people can't even use game saves? NOA, there's no reason to hold this update any longer. Please do something.

If you're going to say "Shut up and tell them already, jeez!", there's the door in the upper left hand corner.
 
I'm sure they know. Maybe there's no possible fix at the moment.

But then, why are we just looking at NOA? Why not look at the others? I'm sure corruption isn't strictly a North American game problem. It has to be more than that.

Plus, I don't think it's common enough to become a major issue anyways. "Oh it happens everyday" well if it's not reported, we can't say it happens everyday.
 
If they are aware of it, why aren't they announcing they are aware of the problem?

Yes, but it's only logical to complain to NOA. If I live in USA, do I go and file a complaint on NOJ's website?

Plus, I don't think it's common enough to be a major issue anyways.
Common enough?! This shouldn't even be happening in the first place, especially with such a new game.
 
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I think it's a major issue because people lose all that progress!
I'm hoping they'll think of some way to backup the data, so if you corrupt you can just redownload it, but I doubt that'll happen.
 
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I think it's a major issue because people lose all that progress!
I'm hoping they'll think of some way to backup the data, so if you corrupt you can just redownload it, but I doubt that'll happen.

In Mario Kart 7, they created a patch to no longer allow players to abuse the MW or WL (and maybe the rBC1, but that's irrelevant) glitch. They can certainly do something to patch a few lines of code.
 
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They don't have to announce they're aware of the issue. They might not since it's a scary thing and people may be reluctant to buy it if things like that can happen to it. It's probably more of a business thing.

Besides, data corruption happens to all games. There's no way in preventing it. There are ways to try and solve it, but there's no game that makes it 100% safe from it.
 
I don't get what they're supposed to do? Having a way to back up saves would be nice but corruption is always gonna happen, it's not Nintendo's fault if someone's game card pops out or whatever while they're saving.
 
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I don't get what they're supposed to do? Having a way to back up saves would be nice but corruption is always gonna happen, it's not Nintendo's fault if someone's game card pops out or whatever while they're saving.

That's how I'm seeing it so far.
 
You also have to wonder how many people are really getting corrupted towns, and how many are deleting their towns to get free things from other people. So, really, how many people have lost their town due to corruption?

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It's not Nintendo's fault that people are popping their game cards out while saving.
 
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Nintendo has been having corruption in alot of games throughout the years, moreso recently with game gitches etc. Just recently, Pokemon X and Y had just come up with yet ANOTHER patch to stop people from hacking into the games data base from finding cheats to uncode other hidden Pokemon data. The first due to a town called Lumoise city where if you saved anywhere on the outskirts, most risked having their files corrupted. Personally, Nintendo does indeed have the abilityto fix any given problem a game has. My question is, what exactly is the corruption you are talking about? I am not sure exactly what had happened for you to get 'corrupted' data but you may be the minority compared to the majority of people with the game. Since there is a large fanbase for Pokemon, it was essential Nintendo fix the problem straight away due to the game being the highest grossed behind GTA that had been released this year.

If not enough people complained, they won't bother.
 
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They don't have to announce they're aware of the issue. They might not since it's a scary thing and people may be reluctant to buy it if things like that can happen to it. It's probably more of a business thing.

Besides, data corruption happens to all games. There's no way in preventing it. There are ways to try and solve it, but there's no game that makes it 100% safe from it.
I can agree with the first part, but it's the save ID that's causing all the problems. Corruption would not be so much of a problem if we were allowed backups.

I don't get what they're supposed to do? Having a way to back up saves would be nice but corruption is always gonna happen, it's not Nintendo's fault if someone's game card pops out or whatever while they're saving.
Yes, corruption is inevitable, but that's not justification for an inability for backups. It doesn't matter that people are losing their saves because of the game card or the power issue. That's why they have the notice. But having people lose their game saves just by playing properly is downright insane.
 
Maybe they can't accomplish backups without something else worse than hacking happens? I don't know. >_>
 
Then what's better: a game that can't be played, or a game that's full of hacks?
 
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xbox and ps4 have major glitches as well with those rings of death that happen for no reason. Never was fixed and THAT's a major issue as it renders the entire console useless, not just deleting a save that can be regained through playing it again. Also, it's not like you have to use actual money to buy anything in game so you don't essentially lose anything but time. Which most kids can make up again on holidays and vacations.
 
Yes, corruption is inevitable, but that's not justification for an inability for backups. It doesn't matter that people are losing their saves because of the game card or the power issue. That's why they have the notice. But having people lose their game saves just by playing properly is downright insane.

Ohh alright, yeah I agree although it's even rarer that people get corrupt just from playing. If that happened to me I'd demand some kind of compensation, although I guess there's no way to prove that it happened unprovoked. It's lame because I think if they felt like it they would have had some sort of backup system available by now, it's Nintendo, they aren't dumb and I'm sure its possible.
 
The only issue I see with backups (yes I would be completely devastated to lose my town) is that it gives everyone basically a free chance to dupe. Say you sell off all of your items, DLCs and rares, then you just store those bells somewhere (someone could hold them?) reload and repeat. I mean yes duping already exists, but it would make it a whole heck of a lot easier to abuse. x_x
 
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Ohh alright, yeah I agree although it's even rarer that people get corrupt just from playing.

It shouldn't be happening so early though. Matter of fact, it shouldn't happen at all, at least for a very prolonged period of time.

The only issue I see with backups (yes I would be completely devastated to lose my town) is that it gives everyone basically a free chance to dupe. Say you sell off all of your items, DLCs and rares, then you just store those bells somewhere (someone could hold them?) reload and repeat. I mean yes duping already exists, but it would make it a whole heck of a lot easier to abuse. x_x

But what's the point if you can dupe without the barrier anyway?
 
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I'd just love to know what causes it. So far I've heard mainly of people trying to backup files on their computer and something going wrong...and of course popping the card out or shutting the 3ds while it's saving.
There have also been a few saying they just loaded it up and it was gone without either of the previous things occurring...kinda creepy. Then there's always the small few that could possibly be faking corruption to get bells and etc which is another reason we don't know exactly if it's truly happening all that often.

Fingers crossed my game stays intact I suppose. I wouldn't have the heart or energy to start
all over.
 
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Then what's better: a game that can't be played, or a game that's full of hacks?

Well "a game that can't be played" vs "a game full of hacks" can be the same thing. If it was ever possible, someone could come in and ruin your town to where it's impossible to play, so therefore, it won't be playable [with others, since ACNL's features go to that extent.] But a game full of hacks isn't really playable anyways so..
 
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