i agree with mirukushake in that it was most likely a bug instead of an intended feature. the fact that posters didnt catalog like other things rly solidified my view on this. it's weird they waited so long to fix it, but what's done is done. it sucks bc it's nice to have everything in the catalog but ig that's not rly technically needed to "100%" it. i dont think this is a dig to get people to buy more amiibo cards but i can see why people would see it that way. amiibo cards (& figures), to me, are collectables first then used for in game things second.
Poster Catalog Removed
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Sharksheep
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I can accept that it was a bug and not a feature but what I'm not ok with is that it took them over half a year to address it. And the timing of it along with the rerelease of amiibos make me suspect that it was a money grab and now is that time to fix it.
mirukushake
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Again, Nintendo has already been selling amiibo cards in Japan for 4 months. I'm willing to bet this is was just a very, very low priority bug. Popular hacked items like the star fragment trees were being sold for real money and still didn't get taken out for a few months iirc, so...
Sharksheep
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I'm pretty sure that the star trees were removed because they were getting a swamp of reports via dream suite about them. Also the irl money from star tree sales were not going to Nintendo while being against their ToS.
Personally I don't care too much that they removed the catalog posters. I'm just annoyed that I can't give Sanrio and npcs posters to people who want them. I can't find numbers of NH sold by country but based on population of Japan compared to NA countries, there's probably a lot of more players here. It's also really expensive to buy anything in Japan and have it shipped overseas so I don't think a lot of people outside of Japan have the amiibos that were released four months ago. People here would buy them out even if it's just for their resale value.
mayortiffany
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Sigh...
As others on this thread have mentioned, it seems awfully suspect that they've decided to patch this bug now, when they're looking to release Amiibo cards once more. Whether or not being able to purchase catalogued posters was a bug or a feature, I don't know.
I do think that the difference between this bug and the star tree hack was that one was something created by Nintendo and which to my knowledge, does not break the Terms of Service and the other a user-created hack that broke the Terms of Service. After six months, it seems bizarre to me that Nintendo would be working on this now when they likely have known about this for a while. It also seems bizarre that this, of all patches, is going to be what they're working on considering that there are still users trying to hack the game, still critiques about a lack of furniture and Nook shop upgrades, which seem like comparatively larger priorities.
Full disclosure, I did capitalize on this feature/bug to catalogue some amiibo and Sanrio posters. I am glad that I was able to get them when I was, though in the future I suppose I will have to rely on shops to directly sell me posters if I'm still interested in them.
As others on this thread have mentioned, it seems awfully suspect that they've decided to patch this bug now, when they're looking to release Amiibo cards once more. Whether or not being able to purchase catalogued posters was a bug or a feature, I don't know.
I do think that the difference between this bug and the star tree hack was that one was something created by Nintendo and which to my knowledge, does not break the Terms of Service and the other a user-created hack that broke the Terms of Service. After six months, it seems bizarre to me that Nintendo would be working on this now when they likely have known about this for a while. It also seems bizarre that this, of all patches, is going to be what they're working on considering that there are still users trying to hack the game, still critiques about a lack of furniture and Nook shop upgrades, which seem like comparatively larger priorities.
Full disclosure, I did capitalize on this feature/bug to catalogue some amiibo and Sanrio posters. I am glad that I was able to get them when I was, though in the future I suppose I will have to rely on shops to directly sell me posters if I'm still interested in them.
Dunquixote
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The villager poster is pretty rare too. I have not opened my amiibo since it was overpriced when I found it on amazon (couldn’t get the english version either). It sucks that I can’t order it from my catalogue even though I was given it. I don’t want to open my amiibo if I want more copies. Then there are the amiibo cards that I don’t have and would like to help others by ordering like the sanrio. Regardless how it is in Japan or how long they had this patched, I still think this is a scummy move on the company’s part since not everyone can afford amiibos and the timing for them to fix it is just... ugh.
xXSweetChaosXx
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Hey there RedPanda. I have all of series 1,3,4, RV and Sanrio. Just missing a chunk from series 2 so I couldn't help much there. But let me know if you wanna work on something together!
xXSweetChaosXx
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Hey! If you need more copies let me know as I have my figure unopened
What!?! Nooo I loved the posters! It was a great way to display my amiibos in game and help people out... it’s also just a great way of cataloguing all of the villagers you’ve had on your island (I tend to forget after a while lol)
This is really disappointing and I can’t believe I hadn’t noticed until I saw this thread.
This is really disappointing and I can’t believe I hadn’t noticed until I saw this thread.
Sharksheep
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That you didn't see them in the special posters tab? This was always the behavior. If you used the search for "poster" they showed up. I mailed someone sanrio posters a few days before this update.
Dunquixote
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xXSweetChaosXx
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Hey! I can help out if you like since I have the full set of WA and series 4 cards, between a few of us, we should be able to offer all the posters. It's just annoying that we can only order 5 a day
Dunquixote
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That would be fantastic
. Glad to see other people that want to do the same thing. Rather than have three different threads offering the same thing, a joint effort thread might be actually work better. Let’s see what @RedPanda thinks of the idea. I have all but two from series 4 but I have a different version of stitches so i can still order stitches poster. And i have some of the WA, but not all of them.
mirukushake
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I don't understand why we're talking as if the update/patch was only for North America. It was global, and the developers are in Japan. If they wanted to capitalize on making money from amiibo cards, they would have patched it out as soon as amiibo cards became commercially available, which was in May.
I could only find official numbers from April (so missing about 10 million copies from launch) but Japan accounts for over 1/3 of all NH sales worldwide, so probably over 7.5 million at this point. It's not a small number of people.
actually i just checked and u can still get posters of villagers who live on ur island. just go to Harvey's and summon them. but i imagine u can only do that if they're currently living on ur island and not if they've moved away.
The posters are still a thing, no worries there! What got patched out was the ability to obtain posters from villagers/special characters from other people, and then ordering more from the catalog while never having had the villager or amiibo yourself.
To me, the fact that you could only find these posters in your catalog using the search function instead of the poster tab shows that this was never intended to be possible in the first place: Someone specifically wrote the code to hide posters from villagers that weren't yours.
It kinda sucks, but as mirukushake said, the amiibo cards were already restocked in May for Japan. If the money was really a priority, they would have fixed this in an earlier patch or update.
So was it about the money, or about fixing unintended game behaviour? Maybe a bit of both. But the world is bigger than just NA, a huge portion of their players do not live there, and I think pointing at the card restock there for being the only reason is unfair.
The posters are still a thing, no worries there! What got patched out was the ability to obtain posters from villagers/special characters from other people, and then ordering more from the catalog while never having had the villager or amiibo yourself.
To me, the fact that you could only find these posters in your catalog using the search function instead of the poster tab shows that this was never intended to be possible in the first place: Someone specifically wrote the code to hide posters from villagers that weren't yours.
It kinda sucks, but as mirukushake said, the amiibo cards were already restocked in May for Japan. If the money was really a priority, they would have fixed this in an earlier patch or update.
So was it about the money, or about fixing unintended game behaviour? Maybe a bit of both. But the world is bigger than just NA, a huge portion of their players do not live there, and I think pointing at the card restock there for being the only reason is unfair.
Thanks for clarifying! Yes I agree, I'm not from the US so cards cannot be the soul reason for this (although I think we are getting a rerelease too) Being an unintended game behaviour actually makes a lot of sense as a possibility!
I just checked, I do still have the ability to order posters for villagers that have moved out as well! So I think it literally just applies to any villager that isn't and has never been 'yours'.
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