RIP Star fragment (and other) trees

[Pecora]

Can we please just clarify once and for all that mass reporting wasn't a real thing?

Try reporting a island with some sexist flags or anything. I did so after one of my first dreams - the island is still on. Do you really think there is a special group of Nintendo workers who spend all day looking through reported islands?

Deleting reported islands takes a few days/weeks. The fact that some dream islands were taken down a day or so after they were shared indicates that Nintendo just uses some kind of automatism.

A program tells them 'hacked' by looking through the code of the uploaded version. I am pretty sure if that happens the island will be taken down immediately.

There are no workers dreaming about reported dreams all day!


Just wanted to say that because on every thread about the topic people are saying that the AC community became toxic and that they don't like others to have fun. That is not the case in the way people are thinking.


More on-topic: I think the trees were that popular because we only have a limited amount of them in general. Nintendo should add some variation of any kind. In previous games we had more fruit trees - at least.

Like making the trees in the museum section available for all. Or give us the possibility to have pink trees all year long...

 

[Marridia]

rip star trees, they looked really pretty. hope they'll add them for real.

while yes, hacking is not the greatest thing to do, but they weren't hurting anyone. I don't get why some some people cough cough a certain yter cough cough overreacted. its doesnt effect anyone but the person that had them.

 

[niconii]

Personally I’ve never own star trees but I do think they’re pretty and wanted one myself but I didn’t want to risk corrupting my game with them or losing my save file. Kinda sad that they’re gone now though since I haven’t seen one in-game yet. That, and I can only imagine how the people who own star trees feel - especially the ones who buy them for irl currency, yikes.

wish that Nintendo would consider adding them/more item trees in the future though!

 

[Chris]

Had a feeling this would happen eventually. It's why I never bought any.

 

[Xara]

F in the chat for the star trees. i’m not surprised that they’ve been patched out and this isn’t something that affects me - while very pretty and would’ve looked great in my celestial campground, the thought of having anything that involves hacking on my island didn’t sit right with me aha - i didn’t want to take a chance of anything happening c’:

 

[Rosch]

I feel bad for people who had them, especially those unaware that these are hacked to begin with. I know that there are no ill intent behind these trees and are primarily just for island aesthetics. But then again, hacking is hacking.

Now, for those who actually sold these hacked trees for real money. I wish you keep tripping in the game for one month straight.

 

[Underneath The Stars]

rip in piece

 

[Manah]

It makes sense and I think no one can complain, but I REALLY hate that it looks like a certain hate reporter's actions were successful and, worse, justified. (I don't disagree with reporting hacked items, but I do disagree with hunting people down and being a you know what about it.)

 

[fluttershy300]

Laaaaaame, but I understand and kinda knew it would happen. Don’t agree with animal crossing purists mass reporting islands that didn’t even harm them in anyway though. These jackasses are feeling good about themselves and I don’t like it. Hopefully they’ll make it a actual thing but highly doubt it. Idk Nintendo, surprise me. People who had the hacked trees should feel lucky that they just removed the trees too. They could of done worse. This community is starting to feel sucky.

 

[John Wick]

I bet it gets hacked back in.

 

[Candy83]

I am not tech-knowledgeable to do hacking.

As for this controversy: It reveals to me that, within “Animal Crossing,” there is a cult.

 

[Underneath The Stars]

Can we please just clarify once and for all that mass reporting wasn't a real thing?

Try reporting a island with some sexist flags or anything. I did so after one of my first dreams - the island is still on. Do you really think there is a special group of Nintendo workers who spend all day looking through reported islands?

Deleting reported islands takes a few days/weeks. The fact that some dream islands were taken down a day or so after they were shared indicates that Nintendo just uses some kind of automatism.

A program tells them 'hacked' by looking through the code of the uploaded version. I am pretty sure if that happens the island will be taken down immediately.

There are no workers dreaming about reported dreams all day!


Just wanted to say that because on every thread about the topic people are saying that the AC community became toxic and that they don't like others to have fun. That is not the case in the way people are thinking.


More on-topic: I think the trees were that popular because we only have a limited amount of them in general. Nintendo should add some variation of any kind. In previous games we had more fruit trees - at least.

Like making the trees in the museum section available for all. Or give us the possibility to have pink trees all year long...

i’m sorry but you can’t say all these as facts when you’re not working there yourself.

sure no one’s sitting all day to take care of the reports but there’s obviously some kind of moderation going on. the reports aren’t just for hacked stuff. there are reports for social media plugging too and whatnot, they do get taken down momentarily.

i'm just replying because i was taken a back by your first sentence "Can we please just clarify once and for all that mass reporting wasn't a real thing?" because people reporting for little to no reason just to troll was a thing. it's not necessarily the whole community that became toxic, but it's calling out people that do make it toxic. they need to be held accountable.

 

[naranjita]

It makes sense and I think no one can complain, but I REALLY hate that it looks like a certain hate reporter's actions were successful and, worse, justified. (I don't disagree with reporting hacked items, but I do disagree with hunting people down and being a you know what about it.)

I doubt the mass reporting thing had much, if anything to do about it. a team of Japanese developers is probably not going to care much about what some mediocre American youtuber is doing.

 

[HungryForCereal]

I have a bunch of star trees and they're gone. Thankfully though, they still exist in my dream town according to a friend.

Post automatically merged: Aug 6, 2020

Also people were fine with hacked towns in NL but not with a few harmless trees in NH? Smh

 

[Larsi]

I don't even like all the hacked things. I would never report as I don't even dream, but everytime I see it in a youtube video it feels bad. Maybe it's me being "old" but everytime something of a game console gets hacked I feel sad for the (game)company.

 

[rubyrubert]

ACNH Twitter was really wild last night about the trees. People said to block if them you were happy the trees got patched lol

Also can we stop saying that Nintendo listened to Verify or whatever his name is? I doubt a Japanese company patched the trees out because a mid-tier Youtuber made a few streams about it. Nintendo probably just detected the huge amount of trees in Dream Addresses

 

[*The Oakboro Mayor*]

My take? I honestly thought they were really cute, but at the end of the day they were still hacked.

I watched a couple of videos on how destructive they could be, and it was SCARY. If you shook a tree with an item such as crowns or monster statues, they would be glued to the ground and not come up. Thank goodness people thought of trying them out on mystery islands or their personal islands would have been done for!

I do love how they look though. A hacked items is sketchy no matter what, but I loved how they looked and thought it was a really cool idea for people to come up with.

Even though they might be bad, I wouldn’t report someone over it. They choose how they want their town to look like, and that’s probably not my business to be honest!!

I see where Nintendo is coming from, and they have every right to put a stop to it. I’m not sure why they didn’t patch it in the dream update, it would have avoided so much drama.

 

[niko2]

Aww that sucks, I had so many cool looking trees ready to plant (acorn and pinecone in autumn, snowflakes in winter)... luckily I didn't pay for them I'm gonna enjoy the look of my star trees for a bit more before updating!

 

[Jhine7]

While the trees were cool, Nintendo did the right thing for their business.

 

[SpaceTokki77]

So yesterday, I was reading an article about the server maintenance that was happening. I noticed that one of the fixes included "Unnatural items spawning on trees". I also saw a few screenshots of peoples' star trees turning into money trees after they applied the update. I thought "oh crap". I then stopped the update and shook all my star trees (if you're interested in some frags, lmk) to at least get me some star frags. I shook every single one of them muttering "stupid nintendo" "nintendo why".
This made me think deeper about why they would patch them.
Ok so first, I noticed you can report someone for cheating. That would be super petty though, reporting someone that has star trees. The report system is for if someone was bullying you or displayed something inappropriate. Simply having a cool tree isn't really a reason to report someone, although since there's an option for it, people use it. The only reasons that I saw as to why Nintendo patched them is 1. it made a few peoples' games unstable and 2. people were making money off of them.
People sell everything. People probably sell their children. You can't really do anything about it. Except of course, get rid of the item they were selling. Nintendo also probably couldn't tell the difference between people who hacked, and people who bought them. The people who spent money on them did nothing wrong. They just bought a cool item. The people who hacked on the other hand, well, hacked. I understand that people were doing wrong things with them, but some people spent real money on them, and only had them for like, 3 weeks. Now they're gone. I understand that Nintendo banned them for a good reason, I just don't get it. Please let me know your thoughts!