I don't care about people asking for entry fees for turnips, because that's something that actually inconveniences the host and comes with a ton of liability and stress, so they deserve compensation for their time being wasted on potential thieves anyway, but to ask any kind of entry fee for something as basic as Sahara or Celeste or Able's is goofy as hell. That being said, I'm not pressed. Free enterprise or whatever it's called, just don't go to their islands I guess.
Is anyone else annoyed by the constant greed?
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i think the hardest part is not falling into the greed yourself- i see so many people asking exorbitant prices for things, and i always think "don't buy from them bc it'll make them more confident that they can charge these prices," but because there are SO many people charging these crazy prices, it's so hard to find someone who will take a reasonable offer. and this makes it easy to get fed up and pay the big price, and nowadays, if i have something "valuable" i can sell, i always think about maybe also charging a high price, because i know some people can pay then, and just so i can afford the other high prices. it's really just a vicious cycle and i hope the economy calms down soon and people who are treating everything in this game as just a way to profit drop that mentality.
i have been trying to find a group like that for a long time! If you ever want to expand I have a ton of stuff to contribute!
I am mildly annoyed by the greed as it's been a bit difficult to find groups/communities to get involved with without running into many greedy people. I go on discord and see people charging high entry fees or cataloging fees, which baffles me. I understand charging maybe 1 NMT for turnip sales, but Able Sisters? I literally just saw someone as of this post asking for NMT offers to catalogue the fruit cardboard boxes (cardboard boxes!!), which are only about 120 bells each from Nook's Cranny. And this is for simply cataloging them, they aren't even buying the actual item! Others are charging 2+ NMT per item catalogued! I don't think it'd bother me as much if people weren't overcharging for things that are obviously not worth the amount they're asking for.
In any case I make it a point to avoid dealing with and being like those people. I hope the crazy charging dies down soon because I can imagine how discouraging it is for others looking at these listings only to see all these unreasonable fees.
In any case I make it a point to avoid dealing with and being like those people. I hope the crazy charging dies down soon because I can imagine how discouraging it is for others looking at these listings only to see all these unreasonable fees.
In response to some of the people stating things like "well they are just trying to make money to pursue their own desires in this game". I can understand that a little bit and they absolutely have the right to do that and charge what they want, but does Animal Crossing really have to be treated like a business? I acknowledge it's consumed a lot of our lives lately, considering the worldwide situation, but at the end of the day, this is still just a video game. Something we partake in for fun. Maybe I'm old fashioned or something but I always saw games as something to enjoy (even more so together with friends). And it's such a strange concept to me to charge people to play together with me, even if the thing being charged is a virtual currency. It's really kind of alienating some players who don't sit around and play all day and rack up the money and have those nook mile tickets to spare. It's like saying "you aren't allowed to join me in this game because you aren't as good at the game as I am and don't have as much money as I want out of you."
People selling villagers that it cost them nothing to get is irritating... I mean if you spent 40 NMT to find _insert name here_ then cool, sell them for that amount.
I see people offing to sell campers that show up on their Island before they even invite them to live there. What did that visiting camper cost them? Nothing!
Later today I am offering up Beau and he will be free.... While I did spend some NMT to find him, I am not going to nickle and dime someone over NMT and I am certainly not going to sell him for an insane and inflated amount...
I see people offing to sell campers that show up on their Island before they even invite them to live there. What did that visiting camper cost them? Nothing!
Later today I am offering up Beau and he will be free.... While I did spend some NMT to find him, I am not going to nickle and dime someone over NMT and I am certainly not going to sell him for an insane and inflated amount...
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That Marshal Fangirl
🏖️Beach > BS🏖️
"you aren't allowed to join me in this game because you aren't as good at the game as I am and don't have as much money as I want out of you." Wow, this is a scarily accurate description.
FireNinja1
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I think to some extent it's starting to get worse (?). I've noticed that entry fees for turnips on Sunday / Monday were really high, even compared to people who were advertising prices one week prior.
Well, the whole turnip price changing if you back-travel really doesn't help with high entrance fees. Especially in the morning, you may only have 2-3hours to run turnips instead of the theoretically infinite amount of time you could do it for before.
I think it's somewhat annoying to charge entry fees for things like Nooks/Able Sisters. For Saharah, I only start charging if I get a certain amount of people spamming me (I like keeping my sanity) and I'm really bad at fencing them in lol... they always seem to escape
I think it's somewhat annoying to charge entry fees for things like Nooks/Able Sisters. For Saharah, I only start charging if I get a certain amount of people spamming me (I like keeping my sanity) and I'm really bad at fencing them in lol... they always seem to escape
Sudsofsplash
Pocket Egg
I honest to god don't understand entry fees for turnips! i mean if you get a full 8 people thats just...4 minutes of your (and the people coming to sell turnips) time. and unless you have important things to do (why would you open up your island to online people if your time is so important??) then why should there even be an entry fee??!
I was a bodyguard (lol) for my friend when she opened her island for turnip sales and literally everyone was nice and gave huge tips!
it's fun and barely any of my time when people fly over for their turnips! I love seeing other people's characters and tbh I love those tips...especially since my friend lets me take most of them LOLOL
I feel like if we asked for entry fees there'd be next to no tips because...well they would have already given us stuff.
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That makes sense for sure!
And also I noticed the turnip thing...that's literal hell now, especially since I used to check both prices by going to 11:57am lol....rip ppl with high AM prices
FireNinja1
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Having eight people sell their turnips takes a lot more than eight minutes. I'm not even sure if eighteen minutes would been enough. I think that entry fees are perfectly fine. I don't think it's fair to assume that people who open up their islands don't have important things to do. Furthermore, people who open up their islands could be using that time to make private runs themselves; there needs to be some kind of mechanism to make opening up one's town profitable and worthwhile. Entry fees are a way to accomplish this goal. If people don't require an entry fee, that's perfectly fine. If people require a 10 NMT entry fee, that's perfectly fine; I'm just not going to use their prices.
Sudsofsplash
Pocket Egg
Oh no I was saying the time that it takes for them to fly in takes 4 minutes. 30 seconds for the loading screen. It's not a lot of time in the grand scheme of things, and honestly not even that long to sell them. I've run enough open turnip spikes to know that LOL
And I was saying if you have important things to do that briefly opening your island for turnip sales that it inconveniences you, then perhaps you shouldn't open it until whatever important thing you have to do is done (why would you be playing animal crossing if during that time you have important things to do?)
You can have your opinion and I can have mine! I personally think that charging 10 NMTs for an entry fee is gross LOL I can get maybe 1 NMT or 50k bells or whatever as an entry fee but honestly? when you have turnip spikes and open it up to people, besides having to see the loading screen 50 times, it's easy as hell. I literally just stand around saying "Hi" and "Thank you" the whole time. I've had a few crashes and stuff, but never had any bad people and tbh I've stop caring about fencing people in cause it's easy enough to just say "Go up for Nooks"
I just don't see how or why you would charge when you could get so much more just from kind and generous tips! I got 15 NMTs and 2 million bells from tips from iirc 27 people in probably around...2 hours? I can get not wanting to get swamped but like either just make the entry fee reasonable or don't put the Dodo code out lol
I agree 100% with this, I opened my town once for ~15 people (granted it was my first time running this and I did it very inefficiently) but it took almost an hour to get through the queue. I still had to make dinner, but I couldn't leave my PC since I had to constantly message people dodo codes and make sure everyone was able to sell/leave the island.
xedit: for the record I charge 10% of turnip profit, paid after you make the sale lol. no point in asking someone to take an extra trip if they have like 3 full inventories of turnips and have to carry 3-4 inventory slots of stuff to pay
Fridaynightcatlady
Sex ed advocate
I find entry fees to be annoying in general. Some of them are ridiculous, like "X number of NMT to get a recipe that my villager is doing for free anyway". Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't charge people to just fly to my island. If it's too much of an inconvenience for you, just don't do it to begin with. Other than that, I've seen some people charge wild prices for stuff and of course, villagers. Honestly, I hope they release more amiibo cards and those from the new villagers so that they stop taking advantage of some folks out there. It's insane.
avieators
eco-friendly punk
ok charging for the stress makes a little more sense to me, idk if i'd be able to handle all those ppl coming and trying to keep track of them all :< i'll ease up on my criticism of charging for turnip selling but able sisters nooks celeste still stand
edit: peeked at the villager board bc i cant sleep and raymond animal crossing for 800 NMT. where are these ppl getting these nmt like when i time travel i have to do 374738 other things so i dont feel like i wasted the day i dont just scoop up the dailies and flee
edit: peeked at the villager board bc i cant sleep and raymond animal crossing for 800 NMT. where are these ppl getting these nmt like when i time travel i have to do 374738 other things so i dont feel like i wasted the day i dont just scoop up the dailies and flee
I find the constant need to be greedy in this community really off putting. I understand people want to feel like they haven't wasted their time by allowing people to come into their town, but also... Animal Crossing isn't about having the coolest stuff or making money off other players. I dunno, this community (meaning Animal Crossing in general) seems a lot different now compared to how it was during NL or previous games.
I've tried having multiple people over for various things (though I stay out of the turnip game) and it is kind of hectic, no matter how organized you are. You can never account for others' behavior so if someone randomly decides to leave while others are trying to finish transactions (or other similar scenarios), everyone has to stop what they're doing and wait... and there's always chances of running into connection errors which will expel EVERYONE. It's a hassle imo, so I won't begrudge a person for asking a fee for their time and trouble.
But there is a difference between asking a reasonable fee and being blatantly greedy. It's one thing to say "If you come to my island to sell turnips, would you mind leaving a stack for me" or "if you have bells to spare, consider leaving some by the gate before you go" etc etc... and another completely to make demands that most players frankly will not be able to meet. NMT is the preferred currency, but most players are not going to have hundreds of tickets at a time, or have outrageous amounts of bells. Everyone's definition of 'reasonable' is of course different, but you know an over-the-top request when you see it, let's be real.
Obviously it's not impossible to accumulate things over the course of normal play, but I can see where it would make, for example, non-TTers feel absolutely hopeless trying to compete with people who are TTing just to grind out NMT or something. I sympathize majorly when it comes to cases like that.
I worry sometimes that I contribute, however accidentally, to the icky pricing situation, because frankly I like to give people more than they ask of me if I can spare it, as a tip/generosity thing. To brighten someone's day, you know? But I wonder now if that might be fostering an expectation in some people, when I mean it as a pleasant surprise. idk. I'm tired af I just wanted to say: OP I feel you
But there is a difference between asking a reasonable fee and being blatantly greedy. It's one thing to say "If you come to my island to sell turnips, would you mind leaving a stack for me" or "if you have bells to spare, consider leaving some by the gate before you go" etc etc... and another completely to make demands that most players frankly will not be able to meet. NMT is the preferred currency, but most players are not going to have hundreds of tickets at a time, or have outrageous amounts of bells. Everyone's definition of 'reasonable' is of course different, but you know an over-the-top request when you see it, let's be real.
Obviously it's not impossible to accumulate things over the course of normal play, but I can see where it would make, for example, non-TTers feel absolutely hopeless trying to compete with people who are TTing just to grind out NMT or something. I sympathize majorly when it comes to cases like that.
I worry sometimes that I contribute, however accidentally, to the icky pricing situation, because frankly I like to give people more than they ask of me if I can spare it, as a tip/generosity thing. To brighten someone's day, you know? But I wonder now if that might be fostering an expectation in some people, when I mean it as a pleasant surprise. idk. I'm tired af I just wanted to say: OP I feel you
Honestly, I have come to the decision that I will not participate in these kinds of events. I thought by now, "paying it forward" would be surfacing, and in turn, the greed would die down. I guess a few of you on here are still experiencing it.
I also don't peruse the stalk exchange threads anymore. If I have a spike, I would just reach out privately to those who are my friends and those who have shown me kindness in the wake of the AC: The Capitalism Edition. Plus, I have two islands, so I am in a far better position of getting what I want and giving back to others who deserve it. That is my counter-attack.
I also don't peruse the stalk exchange threads anymore. If I have a spike, I would just reach out privately to those who are my friends and those who have shown me kindness in the wake of the AC: The Capitalism Edition. Plus, I have two islands, so I am in a far better position of getting what I want and giving back to others who deserve it. That is my counter-attack.
FireNinja1
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10% is pretty reasonable. I think that once it gets past 10% however, it's not really something I'd be willing to pay up for. Also, unless you have people come in one at a time (which is excruciatingly slow), it's not the easiest thing in the world to enforce an entry fee, since you have to keep track of three or four different people going in and out at once. Not to mention the risk of people griefing your town (e.g. shaking trees, picking flowers).
I think the prices for villagers are at a good spot right now because of amiibos (with the exception of Raymond, who doesn't really have an amiibo card). Even if people want to greed whenever they sell a villager, they can't, because it's not that difficult to get the villager that you want.
Fridaynightcatlady
Sex ed advocate
Oh, for sure. I meant the new villagers, definitely. Raymond is going off at insane prices.
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