They're not free because you paid for them when you bought the game. With AC, Nintendo is following a model that's similar to the "games as a service" model that many games are using nowadays, but AC's case is exactly the same as Street Fighter V's. Instead of them giving you the entire game at once (like it normally happens when you buy a game), they first give you the basic framework of the game, and they'll slowly give you the rest. All that content is something you already paid for, but it won't be handed to you at the moment of purchase. The updates aren't free because they're actually part of what you bought. They're not doing any charity here, they're simply giving you what you paid for.
Museum Stamp Rally event is even blander than the May Day Event
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MyLifeIsCake
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Event may have been the wrong word for it. I see it as a mini-event, or like the mini 'holidays' in New Leaf where Isabelle would stand in the plaza all day, pass you an item and had the face standees to take pics with. I think giving it 5 days was a bit long for something that took 5 minutes, they could have greatly improved it by stretching it out over the course of the days and making you find creatures/artwork in the exhibits by their description. Every day they could have given you new things to find or even bonus stamps if you went to another town. As it is, I didn't think it was horrible but I expected more from it.
I agree with you entirely, and I do think this is how people should be viewing the game when critiquing updates. Ideologically, I think the model is scummy and the game felt unfinished at launch.
I do wonder how much the size and type of events have been impacted by COVID-19. Practically, I don't necessarily have a problem with this model, as long as the content remains free/ high quality, or if the paid content is stuffed with content. But it's difficult to say how things will go, given that this is new for AC games and we've only seen content released during a deeply impactful global crisis.
i completely agree that this model for games sucks, but animal crossing is a game that's meant to be played over a long period of time. i'm sure a lot of it has to do with the game being rushed out and them adding more with updates, but i also see it as a way to keep people playing and engaged in the game.
I think its totally a museum thing to collect stamps. I remember doing it all the time IRL collecting them. But it doesn't translate that well to the game because our museum is tiny compared to what it would mean to walk into a 3h-4h walk museum kind of building. I'm sure in our's would have been better if the museum was bigger haha You are supposed to look at the exhibition and get a stamp, but ofc in real life too, you will see people rushing to the stamp booth instead of enjoying the views.
I don't have any problems with this event! Hope they add more like this. I find it so endearing that its so lifelike in a way.
I don't have any problems with this event! Hope they add more like this. I find it so endearing that its so lifelike in a way.
Cheallaigh
Senior Member
18th to the 31st... it's not 5 days... which is why some of us are disappointed. the same 3 rewards for getting 9 stamps with almost no interaction with the exhibits, rinse and repeat for the rest of the month. i can see it going for 5 days so everyone has a chance to do it due to work/timezones whatever... but not 2 weeks. it's going to get really annoying after a short bit if every time i get up in the morning it's mentioned or during my daily hand-in of fossils(still missing just one). i've done stamp rally's as a child and have fond memories of them, this isn't really one, it's a meagre ghost of one. even for those 9 stamps, they could have done more like your suggestions, had some actual interactions with the exhibits and info or something...
Please tell me this was intentional please! =P
MyLifeIsCake
~Impossomble~
Woow that isn't 5 days... I've really lost track of time.
Dreamcloud
Senior Member
I quite like the event but why would anyone want the same prizes again? I would have liked to have done it again each day for random non-exclusive furniture prizes or something (then no-one really misses out if they only do it once) but for the same items?
This, I didn't really want one set of the plaques, and I definitely don't want five. Some more museum-inspired furniture pieces would have been cool.
I thought it was cute, but it would be better if there was more to do or more to get, basically. If villagers were in the museum more often during International Museum Day, that'd be neat. I would have loved to get new dialogue and/or new facts and just chill with them in the museum during the event. Two weeks is also a little long, I think! I think that's the source of some of the disappointment, because of how it was marketed; this is just a small mini-event like many of the others we've had throughout the series, but it's very valid for people to be worried we won't get many of the old-style/meat and potatoes events and to be burned out on these mini-events.
Events in the series have always rested on great scenario writing and dialogue. Most Animal Crossing events are mechanically simple and don't even involve much outside the prizes and NPC (most!!). But because of good writing, villager participation and hype, and lots of special dialogue, they feel real to us and worthwhile. So that's where I feel like the balance needed to be struck for this event. People loved the descriptions of the places of the museum (and the landmark naming), and the concept of a stamp rally is cute, but - it seems - were given excessive expectations by the trailer and are frustrated by the mismatch in its replayability and the rewards.
I have no storage, so I didn't repeat the event today even though I would've been interested in seeing how it changed.
Events in the series have always rested on great scenario writing and dialogue. Most Animal Crossing events are mechanically simple and don't even involve much outside the prizes and NPC (most!!). But because of good writing, villager participation and hype, and lots of special dialogue, they feel real to us and worthwhile. So that's where I feel like the balance needed to be struck for this event. People loved the descriptions of the places of the museum (and the landmark naming), and the concept of a stamp rally is cute, but - it seems - were given excessive expectations by the trailer and are frustrated by the mismatch in its replayability and the rewards.
I have no storage, so I didn't repeat the event today even though I would've been interested in seeing how it changed.
The true tea.
It gave me a nostalgic vibe at first, but the thought of going around to collect stamps every day is ‘bland.’ I haven’t done today’s, but I imagine the stamps are different?
oh i didn't realise it went on longer than a day, i watched a video of it on youtube and didn't actually do it because of everyone saying how bad it was and it did look pretty boring to be fair
Shyria
Senior Member
In the trailer they showed someone doing the stamp rally with another person I think, has anyone tried to do it on someone else's island?
My daughter found the event a lot of fun! It was something she understood and could do.
I understand it can feel empty for people that can play a lot. Regardless, I feel like people are missing how there's people playing this game that don't have a lot of time to play in the first play. I was kinda bumped out that I missed the first Fishing Event, because of my daughter's birthday. Being this gracious with the event duration makes it that people with very little time can also complete the event without feeling they are missing out.
I understand it can feel empty for people that can play a lot. Regardless, I feel like people are missing how there's people playing this game that don't have a lot of time to play in the first play. I was kinda bumped out that I missed the first Fishing Event, because of my daughter's birthday. Being this gracious with the event duration makes it that people with very little time can also complete the event without feeling they are missing out.
AC has always been a series for people to play casually and enjoy over time, and I hope they'll always preserve that. I agree the longer events are a good change to include everyone and reduce pressure on players to complete things at a pace that's bad for them.
I just wish they had more going on for those of us who do play more! Even villager dialogue would go a long way to adding some immersion.
The fishing event was definitely a grind. I didn't get to gold because I slept in that day.
I like reading the (snarky) comments for the stamp stations
I liked the event, but just to do it once. Its fine with me. Gave me an excuse to actually walk through my museum, which is starting to fill up nicely. I`m not going to do it every day obviously, but the event doesn`t force you to do that so its all good.
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