What was the point of removing the hybrid islands..

[Loubelle]

I never got to experience a hybrid island :< It would be really sad if they got rid of this island :/ Especially since they seemed to have created this game with trading in mind. It's like Nintendo thought "You can trade, but not too much, we don't want hybrids that accessible, now do we?" I haven't had much issues growing hybrids, but those 3rd gens are frustrating lol! I think my flower genetics might be bad :> so a hybrid island would've been really nice, but i guess that's out the window now :[

 

[alpacac]

When I started playing ACNH hybrid island was literally the first island I got. My hybrid island flowers are hyacinths and the hybrids were pink and purple and I thought they were so gorgeous. It sucks if they’re taking that away ;;-;;

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This would be very unfortunate as I never got to see a hybrid island :/

I haven't even been to one yet and they are already taking it away?! Why would they do this?

Aww, Thats too bad.. I never got to see a hybrid island.

It's such a shame to see the amount of people who never even got to see a hybrid island before they had it removed.. sigh
It was already rare so probably hard to profit/cheat off of, there was really no point in needing to take the joy away for majority of players!!!

 

[Gazer297]

I found a couple early on but have not found that island or any rare island recently.

 

[Dewasa]

I agree, such a weird decision to remove something that already had a small percentage in seeing. I personally island hopped about 140+ in total before they removed it and have only seen it once.

Maybe there's some sort of a backdoor way to force it or something that the general public is not aware of. Super random and hoping that they bring it back with higher percentage...

 

[AppleBitterCrumble]

awh I never got to experience one :/
tbh that's the only reason why i'd do islands sometimes was to maybe encounter a hybrid island

 

[Miss Misty]

From what I saw, it appears that the "tradeoff" for getting rid of the hybrid islands was also getting rid of some of the more generic islands (the ones Ninji referred to as Island 0, Island 1, Spiral Island, and Fidget Spinner Island).

I guess their logic may have been that we all have Leif now so we can breed whatever we want, whenever we want. Also some hybrid islands (hyacinth, windflower, rose, mum) were better than others (cosmos, tulip). As someone with native cosmoses and sister flower tulips, I had all of the colors for each of them before I found my first hybrid island. It's really annoying that they just got rid of a bunch of islands and made the remaining generic islands more common instead of adding new ones.

 

[marea]

I loved going to islands and finding money rocks, bottles and flowers even if it was rare! I still had to work for my tickets so it is not like this stuff was handed to me. I just wish they would chill a little before we end up with no money rocks, DIYs or villagers on islands. like are they regretting this fun and harmless feature or what?

This better not be true or i will be very disappointed, nintendo!! ):

 

[Feraligator]

I've only ever been to one, I don't get why they'd remove this...
I have all the hybrids (and way too many that they've littered my beach lol) so I don't really need to go to hybrid islands but it sucks for those who are looking for them. If they thought getting blue roses/purple pansies etc was too easy through this method then why not just replace the flower genes with the normal ones from your own island??

 

[Sheep Villager]

From what I saw, it appears that the "tradeoff" for getting rid of the hybrid islands was also getting rid of some of the more generic islands (the ones Ninji referred to as Island 0, Island 1, Spiral Island, and Fidget Spinner Island).

I guess their logic may have been that we all have Leif now so we can breed whatever we want, whenever we want. Also some hybrid islands (hyacinth, windflower, rose, mum) were better than others (cosmos, tulip). As someone with native cosmoses and sister flower tulips, I had all of the colors for each of them before I found my first hybrid island. It's really annoying that they just got rid of a bunch of islands and made the remaining generic islands more common instead of adding new ones.

RIP Spiral island. You will be missed for tarantula/scorpion farming.

I never got to experience a hybrid island so I'm a bit salty not gonna lie. Almost feels unfair that if you didn't get one before now you're never going to get those free hybrids and the experience. :'(

I understood the reasons for the bug rarity nerfs, I could even somewhat rationalize the bank interest nerf too... but this? I don't get it. I guess it would make some hybrids "less rare" but I fail to see how that would be harmful at all. It's not like the islands had gold roses or something.​

 

[Solio]

And another baffling 'balancing'-decision to add to the list...
What's gonna be next? Halfing the selling prices of all fish and bugs? Reducing the number of daily fossils to 1? Reducing the campsite spawnrate?

Oh boy, cant wait!

 

[nammie]

Yea I saw the news about this and honestly it kinda makes me mad.

It's ridiculous they keep trying to quietly nerf a NONCOMPETITIVE game by making it harder to make bells (less rare bug spawns, lowering interest rates, changing turnip prices as soon as you TT), and now they're making it harder to get hybrids, which is really just harming new players, and players who dont have the online subscription. Items are also considerably more expensive in acnh vs acnl.

Meanwhile there are what. A ton of new ways to dupe which is definitely harming the economy and theyre not patching any of those.

At this point I'm suspicious that all these "balances", plus the super tedious dialogue options and other horrible design choices are to force you to play longer, and to get an online subscription to get the full game experience. And that really leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

 

[MasterM64]

I would be disappointed if this is truly the case since it gave more reason to buy NMT, but have the dataminers checked to see if it is accessible through a different method like wearing DAL stuff for example?

 

[SarahsNY]

I’ve already considered hacking my switch to get more than one island (I’m still angry about this), but if uncessary feature removal like this keeps happening, I can imagine lots of other people will modify their switch to add them back in or something.

This reminds me of when Linux was removed on the PS3 because Sony was afraid of people using it to hack the console... only for this removal to anger people, and inspire a concentrated effort to hack the PS3 that didn’t exist before. Goes without saying the PS3 was hacked shortly after the removal of Linux.

If Nintendo is making these unnecessary changes to ward off hackers or people “abusing” the system... well their problem is going to get a lot worse.

 

[BungoTheElf]

Man that makes sense why I've been hopping islands and not seeing any hybrid islands at all, glad I was able to experience it once at least This sucks though, it was so pretty and made me so excited to finally find one

 

[N a t]

I hope this isn't true! I've only ever found one hybrid island on a previous save file and I never took any pics or anything, it wasn't the pretty version with the lake but it was covered in orange, pink, and black tulips...

 

[Paperboy012305]

Let me guess....

Nintendo Switch online service.

 

[Megina]

No wonder I ain't seen one in a while....
owo;;

 

[Iris_T]

Same as others, I tought I was just being unlucky because I wasn't finding any hybrid island...well that sucks.
Only ever managed to find one, and while I don't need many hybrids nowdays, I loved the chance to find one as a surprise, sigh.

 

[YunaApple]

Wow. I never even seen a hybrid island lol
I don't understand the reasoning for these nerfs, it's not a competitive game. Even if this is to punish TT, it makes no sense punishing everyone.

 

[Mu~]

I hope they made a mistake and they'll put them back in the game, because I never saw one :'(