WARNING ABOUT HACKERS! Please read!

[FancyThat]

Thanks for the warning, I'll be extra observant while playing online from now on.

 

[Mercedes]

It hasn't been confirmed whether or not the island would reset it, but I would think it would work.

However, after reading up on this, hacking devices either costs a lot of money or you need a 3DS that hasn't been updated in awhile. Most people update their 3DS (like me) and people with a new 3DS wouldn't be able to fix the problem at all due to it's (at the moment) nearly non-modifiable hardware, so that's not a good solution for those kinds of people.

- - - Post Merge - - -



Was it the scavenger hunt list from the island? If so, thank god! That would be fantastic news.

Yes it was!

 

[Mayor-Hazel]

guys spread this everywhere on any website you can, if you have tumblr post it there, i am going to do that. Spread this like wild fire people need to know about this!

 

[Hakoe]

i am NEVER EVER visiting someones town thanks for the warning

 

[LeAckerman]

I don't understand what hackers gain from this? It's really stupid and pointless. -.-


Btw, ty for posting this. I'll make sure to put this all over my tumblr once I come home today.

 

[The Peanut Butter Fish]

0-0 I guess this means I'm not going on CT anymore to find people. I guess I'll tell my AC friends about this.

 

[Pietro:)100]

This is quite worrying and disturbing. Why do the hackers do it? Do they feel good about themselves for ruining an innocent game? I will only invite people with 95%+ wifi feedback ratings to my town to purchase and sell things now. It's very risky and it sounds pretty terrible! The person who wrote the original message sounded I don't know, pretty cruel and he sounded like he was just doing it for his own benefit and for fun! Imagine not being able to drop/pick up anything
By the way, does anyone know what platform (eg. Tumblr, animal crossing comm) the original message was on? Thanks

 

[LeAckerman]

After looking into this more, I found maybe if you create a character just for trading, you can prevent this.

You can make a new character with nothing stored or anything like that. Such as, bells in the bank, storage, your home loan, house, etc,. If you need to do some trading, get some bells, items or whatever you trading for the blank character you made. So when this happens to you, you don't have to delete your town, you can just delete the character that was ruined. c:

Cons about this~ Grass wear..
waste of town space

 

[Naamah]

This is quite worrying and disturbing. Why do the hackers do it? Do they feel good about themselves for ruining an innocent game? I will only invite people with 95%+ wifi feedback ratings to my town to purchase and sell things now. It's very risky and it sounds pretty terrible! The person who wrote the original message sounded I don't know, pretty cruel and he sounded like he was just doing it for his own benefit and for fun! Imagine not being able to drop/pick up anything
By the way, does anyone know what platform (eg. Tumblr, animal crossing comm) the original message was on? Thanks

True, whoever does this is simply ruining someone's hundreds of hours of work without even gaining something, just for the hell of it. I wonder what those kinds of people will come up with next...

 

[Silas James Reel]

After looking into this more, I found maybe if you create a character just for trading, you can prevent this.

You can make a new character with nothing stored or anything like that. Such as, bells in the bank, storage, your home loan, house, etc,. If you need to do some trading, get some bells, items or whatever you trading for the blank character you made. So when this happens to you, you don't have to delete your town, you can just delete the character that was ruined. c:

Cons about this~ Grass wear..
waste of town space

It wouldn't wear grass anymore than if you were trading with your mayor.

 

[Ladybonkers]

Everyone, it's a little silly to never go online again or let anyone in your town, because they can't seed you like in previous games. Picking an item up is entirely optional and the only threat here! If you're trading someone flowers or items, it'll be an item or flower, not a disguised hack. After reading up on it more, it's apparently impossible to turn rocks or other non-holdable items in your pockets (which caused bricking in previous games). I'm not 100% sure that these lists are un-removable because I have never tested it. I'm only warning people because of something a hacker said could be a possibility. Please don't let this ruin your fun. It's completely avoidable.​

 

[Hoppy~Shnell]

R.I.P. Animal Crossing New Leaf Online 2012-2015 you will be missed
(however this won't stop me from playing~)

 

[lithiumlatte]

This is sad news >.< the only upside is that there's still nothing like how you could literally destroy a town in WW, thank god.

One comment that probably won't be well received: this is why Powersaves devices are a good thing.

I know we're not allowed to talk about it on here, but this ! I have a powersave solely for backing up my game, I've never even looked in the other tab (which apparently has items??), and never will

 

[Coach]

When you stand above it, what does the little text bubble thing say?

 

[Mayor-Hazel]

Everyone, it's a little silly to never go online again or let anyone in your town, because they can't seed you like in previous games. Picking an item up is entirely optional and the only threat here! If you're trading someone flowers or items, it'll be an item or flower, not a disguised hack. After reading up on it more, it's apparently impossible to turn rocks or other non-holdable items in your pockets (which caused bricking in previous games). I'm not 100% sure that these lists are un-removable because I have never tested it. I'm only warning people because of something a hacker said could be a possibility. Please don't let this ruin your fun. It's completely avoidable.​

I was going to post something like that but was worried about hate but i agree with you 100%, just because this is happening doesn't mean you have to stop playing online. Just don't pick up the items, simple. It is avoidable and its not like they can "seed" your town ~

 

[Silas James Reel]

When you stand above it, what does the little text bubble thing say?

Just the name of what it is in the inventory.

 

[welie]

R.I.P. Animal Crossing New Leaf Online 2012-2015 you will be missed

AMEN

 

[Jinglefruit]

So I've been experimenting on a spare copy and 3DS with the recent hacks, and there is a free online way of removing any unwanted items from your inventory. It does involve downloading the tools used to hack the game onto your SD card, but you can upload your save, delete the offending item and inject the game back onto your game card / download copy with no ill effects.

I know TBT is a hack free zone so I'm not going to post details, but if someone does get stuck with an unwanted item it's not permanent. (Although if you have a recently updated 3DS and a download copy you might have to suffer for a while.)

 

[Hulaette]

Thank you so much for the heads up! I should tell you that people who spend all day ruining innocent player inventories like that just to make you miserable and to laugh at you for no reason, they clearly have mental problems. Trust me I know. People who spend everyday doing bad intentions, that's narcissistic behavior. Those kind of people shouldn't be allowed to be playing online video games if they only seek to cause harm upon other players.

 

[Goshi]

Mm. I know where that post is from.

The guy was told off by two/three other users and ended up not doing it, but yeah, it's best if people know this information.