I know this is a long shot, but has anyone tried contacting Nintendo about the villager museum glitch?

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If you don't know/haven't experienced it: sometime around the 1.10.0a update, villagers stopped visiting the museum in some games. Some people can still find them going like normal, but others can't. I definitely can't. I'd really like for this to be fixed, because I thought the villager museum dialog was very interesting. I've been playing for over a year, and while I like the game a lot, I feel that a very large portion of it is lacking. Villager museum visits didn't add much, but having them felt like the villagers were a little bit alive, ya know? Like even though a lot of their personalities had become shaded compared to past games, at least they had that. I find it annoying and a little bit sad that the very little interesting villager slice-of-life we DO get is taken away, even if unintentionally. I'm starting to really dislike that my museum is always empty. No one but me ever visits, and unless human visitors show up, it stays that way, which sucks because a lot of my friends have long since stopped playing. Not to mention, that no villager visits make the hidden easter-egg in the Fossil's section 3rd room pretty much useless. 😐 I've tried reaching out to Nintendo by email and social media and was pretty much ignored in both cases. So any ideas? Cause I really want this fixed.
 
you can speak to nintendo support by phone...maybe thats the route you should try?
i like that the villagers never visit the museum personally; whenever a villager goes 'missing' i dont have to run around and check every single house and the museum to find them...thats the only reason though. it was kind of neat seeing them in there from time to time.
 
I haven't heard of this, but it sounds like the sort of thing that'll just be quietly patched in a future update. Not surprised nintendo didn't respond.
I really do hope you're right. If anything, I just want them to be aware of it so that exactly this happens.
 
I haven't heard of this, but it sounds like the sort of thing that'll just be quietly patched in a future update. Not surprised nintendo didn't respond.
This is what I assumed too. I think there's enough traction on it that they'll notice it and take action.
 
Here is a quick tip. If you cannot find your villagers simply save and quite the game, then reload into the game and your villagers will be in different places. Anyways I do find it strange myself and I could never find them in my Museum and same thing is happening on the 2nd island too.
 
I actually had a wild thought the other day that maybe Nintendo kept them out of the museum on purpose so they wouldn't potentially get in the way during the museum event? If that's the case, maybe they'll be back exploring it in the next patch?

But that's just a theory I came up with, lol. One of those random thoughts that pops into your heads as you're falling asleep and makes you go "woah". But it does seem like this is a glitch, as opposed to a response to a glitch (some people have compared it to villagers no longer getting sick in ACNL after the Amiibo patch- that wasn't a glitch, it was a way to prevent a glitch where they moved out with no warning) so I think there's a chance it'll get "fixed" at some point.

And I guess contacting them can't HURT, though I'm sure they're aware of the glitch at this point, so I'm not sure it'll help either.
 
It's likely just not very high on their priority list. I imagine that they'll get to it once they've worked through more important or time-sensitive issues/deadlines.
 
It's likely just not very high on their priority list. I imagine that they'll get to it once they've worked through more important or time-sensitive issues/deadlines.
I can only see them fixing this issue in a big update which might be coming this month considering that E3 is around the corner, but I am not getting my hopes up.
 
Bumping to say the latest update DID fix this glitch! I saw Bianca this morning!🥰
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Bumping to say the latest update DID fix this glitch! I saw Bianca this morning!🥰
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So has anyone confirmed what exactly caused the glitch? Was it simply because of Stamp Day or does it go farther than that? Because it seems weird that the event last year didn't cause this situation, but now it did (hypothetically)
 
So has anyone confirmed what exactly caused the glitch? Was it simply because of Stamp Day or does it go farther than that? Because it seems weird that the event last year didn't cause this situation, but now it did (hypothetically)
I believe it was from the museum day holiday as that's when I noticed everyone was talking about it. But at least it's not a problem now
 
I heard varying reports of when people noticed it. So I wasn't sure. It just seems odd that they managed to mess up the coding this time around and not like last year's Stamp Day as well. Which feels like it implies there was more behind the scenes with the museum. Not that I am getting my hopes up. Just a bit of a head scratcher.
 
I wasn’t aware of this new glitch but Nintendo should be on it pretty quickly as they always are when someone descovers a new glitch especially ones that give you money haha
 
i never see my villager in museum. my first island museum is c o m p l e t e but never seen them. i did not see them on my uncomplete museum on second island too. but in acnl, i do see them. maybe its just my luck or something.
 
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