What was the point of removing the hybrid islands..

[5cm/s]

is this confirmed? i'm so sad- i only saw hybrid island once. if they're worried about people exploiting it somehow, the chance you'll go to hybrid island is already so low and i'm not sure how taking hybrid island away helps anything?

 

[soomi]

What, that sucks lol. I've never been to a hybrid island

There's no point to go island hopping now. I was excited to see it.

 

[tobi!]

i spent over 30NMT trying to find it..... i cant believe i wasted everything!!!

 

[whimsycreator]

i spent over 30NMT trying to find it..... i cant believe i wasted everything!!!

Pats I know that feeling... (I’ve never encountered the shark island and just gave up)

I also feel so crushed knowing the hybrid island isn’t in the game anymore. In my opinion, the hybrid island feels like the prettiest island that was really “worth seeing” and actually taking an island tour just to see (aside from island-hopping to hunt for a villager.)

Something about it just felt so magical when I first saw it... sigh... why did Nintendo remove it

 

[stiney]

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.

I was on spiral island last night.

 

[meggiewes]

I think if they remove a special island, then they should add a different special island. I wouldn't mind if they made them seasonal. Or just add more mystery islands to the list. It makes no sense to why they would remove something. If they didn't want us to get our hands on hybrids easily, then they could have altered it to make a different island with all of the different flower types. Or add in one island for each flower type and have those be a low rarity. Then we would get more island variety and make the nook mile islands even more exciting.

 

[swifterly]

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.

Wait, wtf?! They removed some of the generic islands too?? That is NOT a tradeoff... the mystery islands had little enough variety in the first place!! Spiral island was my favorite generic island...

And yeah, I haven't seen a hybrid island since the update but I thought that was just bad luck D: I actually went specifically island hopping to find hybrids, luckily I didn't waste too many NMTs on it, but god damn. The absolute NERVE of Nintendo to **remove** things from a game already missing so much base content - and the FURTHER nerve to not even announce it in the patch notes!!! What do you even think the patch notes are for, Nintendo??

I gotta say, I was willing to give it a shot and I do see some upsides to it, but so far I have been *very* disappointed with the way Nintendo has chosen to abuse this frequent update model.

 

[TrippyKitten]

If this is true, that's very disappointing. These nerfs overall are incredibly frustrating, especially since Nintendo isn't being transparent about them.
"Addressed issues to further ensure an enjoyable gaming experience. " That's super vague.
Then we log in to find out there's reduced bank interest. Looking in further, reduced bug spawns. Now this might be another part of the issues? *sigh* They're really not creating an enjoyable gaming experience for me and many others...

 

[justina]

Aww this is really sad I got a lot of my hybrids from those islands!

 

[Sephiroth]

I haven't seen a hybrid island since before 1.20 update. It makes sense. I notice the crud islands have increased.

 

[Neechan]

Wait what....I have yet to see a hybrid island, let alone the one with the pond in the middle with rare hybrids...

 

[Red Cat]

If this was intentional, it is extremely dumb. Basically, the devs wasted time to add hybrid islands to the game and then wasted more time to remove them. Making things even grindier to obtain will not increase the lifespan of the game; it will just make more and more people say "**** it, I quit." You'd think they would have learned that from City Folk. How about some QOL improvements instead? We're still waiting for mass crafting. The updates have been really disappointing so far. Redd shows up once in a blue moon so most of the time I don't even remember he was added, we already have all the flowers and bushes we want from Leif, and the May Day and Museum events lasted all of 5 minutes. At this rate, 3 more years of updates seems more like a curse than a blessing. If they are saving all of the good stuff for the paid DLC, they should stop playing games and just sell it already, unless they aren't even close to being done with the paid DLC in which case people will be paying even more money for yet another half-finished product.

 

[Eevees]

Nooo I never got to one before this sucks. RIP

 

[minimoon]

Rather than remove island types I think they really needed to add more interesting ones! I like going to the islands to collect resources etc. sometimes but I'd go much more if there was a greater chance of non-native fruit (not just one other type), hybrid flowers (not just hybrids of my native flower), and other novelty islands (I've never seen the bell rock one).
How about an island with extra fossils, an island with extra recipes, a furniture tree island, an island that always has thunderstorms, a bell tree island? More fun islands please, not fewer!

 

[seularin]

nintendo really adds/removes features (that already bother us smh) to keep us playing; with quarantine going on, people spend loads of time on nh (which is what they want) but the more we play it the more we see the tedious things--not being able to batch craft, the long dialogue, etc.

 

[fallenchaoskitten]

But there are already so many islands to pick from! /s

With so few islands there are to visit, none of them should really be removed. Way more need added...

 

[Mary]

Yeah, I haven't seen one recently either, the last one I saw was when I found Rosie during the first week. She was surrounded by a field of hybrid hyacinths, such a pretty picture! I'm really sad they've removed it, hopefully it's just an accident and will be added back!

 

[Soigne]

beginning to question nintendo at this point

 

[Mo Notony]

Wouldn't make a difference to me because never ONCE have I landed on them, and I've been playing since the night of launch.

 

[alpacac]

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).

Wow thanks! This is the first time I've actually seen more detailed explanation of what got removed. That's really disappointing though, how is the "tradeoff" for removing content is to remove even MORE content? That doesn't make any sense to me lol RIP Spiral Island it was one I liked running around on.

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?

I think I saw someone else with the same sentiment/idea! I think I'd be even moreee disappointed though if we did have to use a backdoor method to get the hybrid island. Unless its supposed to be an "easter egg" type of thing, theres really no point in making a rare island already harder & rarer to access ):