People are duping NMT's now?

[An0nn]

Nintendo patched the interest rates and bug spawns, I would imagine this type of exploit would be high on their priority list. One of their main focuses seems to be maximizing the longevity of this game and exploits like this becoming widely used tend to hurt rather than help in that regard.

Also I agree that the community is not always as wholesome as it always portrays itself to be. :/

There is a sickly-sweet kind of toxicity that seems unique to the communities that pride themselves on their wholesomeness. I feel like I’ve seen a lot of that since I joined the ac community. The aggression tends to be largely passive opposed to overt. You’re not dumb, you’re morally inferior. And you’re not a “scrub” you’re just “not a true fan”. You see posts and threads all the time where people are embarrassed because they like the “wrong” villagers or defensive/apologetic because they play the game the “wrong” way; obviously that sort of mentality would not be as prevalent in a community as accepting and positive as this one touts itself as being. It’s disappointing, but not terribly surprising. There’s nastiness in every community; sometimes it just comes in different flavors.

 

[victoriae350]

Nintendo patched the interest rates and bug spawns, I would imagine this type of exploit would be high on their priority list. One of their main focuses seems to be maximizing the longevity of this game and exploits like this becoming widely used tend to hurt rather than help in that regard.


There is a sickly-sweet kind of toxicity that seems unique to the communities that pride themselves on their wholesomeness. I feel like I’ve seen a lot of that since I joined the ac community. The aggression tends to be largely passive opposed to overt. You’re not dumb, you’re morally inferior. And you’re not a “scrub” you’re just “not a true fan”. You see posts and threads all the time where people are embarrassed because they like the “wrong” villagers or defensive/apologetic because they play the game the “wrong” way; obviously that sort of mentality would not be as prevalent in a community as accepting and positive as this one touts itself as being. It’s disappointing, but not terribly surprising. There’s nastiness in every community; sometimes it just comes in different flavors.

Excellent points. I love how you mentioned the "not a true fan." When I was at school for Communications, we studied this throughout classes INCLUDING Digital Games! This has been an issue in a variety of fandoms over a variety of contexts (video games, sports, etc.). Society has created "true fan" to guilt trip other people, and make them feel bad for having a different opinions. Don't like that characters in that show? Well you're not a true fan. Or those lovely Facebook posts, "Only a TRUE FAN would get this!" It's a frustrating part of life.

There's also a passive aggressive behavior towards people in this game who want to charge fees for turnip exchanges. The creators of the website added emoticons, and I swear no matter what I do (entry fee or just tip) someone always thinks it's appropriate to react with the ridiculous clown emoji. That, in and of itself, is frustrating.

 

[DinoTown]

At the end of the day, this glitch is a bad thing.
To counteract the sudden excess of NMTs in circulation, prices for online trading are only going to rise. Dupers can dupe to keep up with that, but everyone else who won't dupe for whatever reason (morals, fear of glitching the game, 'cheater' guilt, etc...) aren't going to be able to keep up because they are still going to be behind on NMT. The best they can hope for is getting their hands on decent items to sell for this sudden high NMT price, which won't help with them getting their footing in the economy again until the glitch is presumably fixed and prices go back down to normal, which would likely take a while until the high number of NMTs in circulation balances out. Put it this way - we are only just coming to find stability after all the bells made in the first duping glitch.

 

[thatveryawkwardmayor]

#nmtisoverparty FINALLY

 

[Llunavale]

#nmtisoverparty FINALLY

It's probably just going to make everything far more expensive tbh.

Prices have been increasing as the number of NMT in circulation has been increasing, that's why villagers like Raymond went from 300/400 NMT to start with to 1000+ NMT over time, now that there's a chance there's even more NMT in circulation, prices will just increase to meet demand. People are still going to want NMT, because they have a practical use in-game, so I don't think they're going anywhere honestly.

 

[Velo]

Even beyond the basic duping that anyone can do, people have already hacked Switches and New Horizons, so they can make infinite copies of literally any and every item - including DIY recipes. And Nintendo isn't going to be able to patch over those people. So to some extent, that's just going to be a part of the economy now too. But I mean, NMT was going to go down in value eventually. Especially when people figured out other ways to get villagers.

I don't thiiiiink duped items will mess up games? I mean time will tell, but I haven't seen any horror stories yet. I don't recall many from New Leaf either, and I mean SO MANY items were from hacked 3DS in New Leaf. Although, I think there was some particular item(s) in New Leaf that came from the hacked 3DS that cause problems. Oh, maybe the flowers that couldn't breed?

 

[Bioness]

Even beyond the basic duping that anyone can do, people have already hacked Switches and New Horizons, so they can make infinite copies of literally any and every item - including DIY recipes. And Nintendo isn't going to be able to patch over those people. So to some extent, that's just going to be a part of the economy now too. But I mean, NMT was going to go down in value eventually. Especially when people figured out other ways to get villagers.

I don't thiiiiink duped items will mess up games? I mean time will tell, but I haven't seen any horror stories yet. I don't recall many from New Leaf either, and I mean SO MANY items were from hacked 3DS in New Leaf. Although, I think there was some particular item(s) in New Leaf that came from the hacked 3DS that cause problems. Oh, maybe the flowers that couldn't breed?

The people with hacked switches usually can't access online or get banned from it quickly. It is an entirely different thing from duplication glitches.

 

[sarosephie]

Is this the mail method or table method?

Tbh, the only duping I do is fish bait

 

[Llunavale]

The people with hacked switches usually can't access online or get banned from it quickly. It is an entirely different thing from duplication glitches.

It's common practice amongst certain communities to trasfer hacked items to a newer, unhacked Switch via local play (as it does not require internet connection). They can then be distributed. Different from duping for sure, but the end goal is the same. This is basically how all the wedding items have appeared early.

 

[Bioness]

It's common practice amongst certain communities to trasfer hacked items to a newer, unhacked Switch via local play (as it does not require internet connection). They can then be distributed. Different from duping for sure, but the end goal is the same. This is basically how all the wedding items have appeared early.

Fair point, I forgot about doing that.

 

[Velo]

Ah I won't talk about it too much since I don't think it's like super legal or anything and I wouldn't encourage it, but the people with hacked Switches are definitely finding a way to sell hundreds of copies of the same items. :x
I'm not a very technical person though, and I don't really care how either - since I wouldn't try or anything. But there are forums and websites, etc dedicated to it. Sometimes I get sucked into the dark vortex of it lmao.

 

[An0nn]

Excellent points. I love how you mentioned the "not a true fan." When I was at school for Communications, we studied this throughout classes INCLUDING Digital Games! This has been an issue in a variety of fandoms over a variety of contexts (video games, sports, etc.). Society has created "true fan" to guilt trip other people, and make them feel bad for having a different opinions. Don't like that characters in that show? Well you're not a true fan. Or those lovely Facebook posts, "Only a TRUE FAN would get this!" It's a frustrating part of life.

There's also a passive aggressive behavior towards people in this game who want to charge fees for turnip exchanges. The creators of the website added emoticons, and I swear no matter what I do (entry fee or just tip) someone always thinks it's appropriate to react with the ridiculous clown emoji. That, in and of itself, is frustrating.

First of all, how cool! That sounds like a really interesting subject.


Yeah I’ve seen a lot of this too. I’ve been to one turnip sale in my ACNH life and as one of the sellers I was worn down and stressed out by the ordeal lol. It was awful. Every three steps I took someone would come or go, every time I tried to open the shop window, I had to hastily close it again… As far as I’m concerned, anyone who will willingly subject themselves to hours of that can ask for anything they want; they’re clearly providing a service people are willing to pay for and I don’t get how that has a negative impact on anyone’s game who isn’t willing to pay what they're asking. Every time I check the trade boards, I see posts with high turnip prices and no entry fee. It’s not like someone's personal decision to charge means that everyone else is required to. So I don’t get why the people who get angry about this can’t just ignore the posts they aren’t interested in and deal with the ones they are. If my nooks are buying turnips for 32 bells each and I make a post demanding an entry fee of 400% of the profits and the sacrifice of your favorite villager to the void it wouldn’t have any effect whatsoever on anyone else's gameplay.