During this week, I have been pretty busy with a new and very stressful job, but still managed to at least get 40 minutes for Animal Crossing in each day. The ONE day, Friday (yesterday), I was unable to play. I came home and fell asleep right away. This morning, I decided to start up my game and spend some time with my villagers. I look in my mail box and there is a letter from Punchy, a villager I had wanted since I basically started playing over a year ago, stating his good bye and how he was off to another town.
I was in complete shock.. No rumors, no warnings, nothing.
I keep asking "Why..?" just.. why? Why did this have to happen? I only JUST got him. He was my final dreamie and I was going to start working on designing my town, etc. now that all homes are placed. With the 9 villagers that I have left being my dreamies, I'm afraid cycling one villager at a time is just too risky for the rest of my dreamies. After the stressful week I've had (and I know next week is going to be just as bad T_T), this just makes it hurt even more. I'm sure many people understand my pain here. I am just so... heart broken over this right now and I honestly can't even look at New Leaf right now on my 3DS.
I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one here who's lost a dreamie. I did lose Poppy, one of my top dreamies a while back and cycled for days and weeks so I could get her back, but that was before I obtained the rest of my dreamies. How do you guys cope? Did you take a break like I plan on doing and for how long?
I really, really needed to get this out and express my feelings over this. It just.. oh my gosh, it just really sucks! >.<
My dreamies are starting to move out too (two of them have D I can't believe it… but animal crossing gets so boring now I don't play I know that feeling though...
Well, I time travel quite a bit, so I have to be very careful not to lose any of my villagers. I did, however, get Julian by accident, so it's not always bad if you get a villager you want.
I definitely understand what you're going through. I haven't lost any dreamies (yet), but I lose Sprinkle in my main town and I freaking LOVED her. As soon as I loaded up my game and read her goodbye letter, I actually sank to the floor in shock.
Fast forward about a month to when I bought a second copy of the game. (I hated my original town map, perma-PWP placement, ect...but I have so many villagers I love and couldn't stand the thought of losing them just to get a better map...) *ahem* Anyway, while playing in my new town, I notice someone in my campsite and guess what? It was Sprinkle! Not the same Sprinkle obviously, but I managed to get her back.
I guess what I'm trying to say is yes, it sucks and it's oddly heartbreaking, but there is hope. Not saying you should buy another copy or anything like that, but maybe take a few days to recuperate? I wouldn't completely quit since you have a town full of dreamies, but just take enough time to talk to everyone (especially if you have one or two villagers with high friendship levels and keep bugging 'em til they mention someone thinking about moving or start with their random rumor talk, which means that no one is planning to leave) and then let them go about their day.
Yeah, I hate when that happens. I've lost a lot of dreamies from it. I'm just glad I haven't lost any of my absolute favourites. From memory dreamies I've lost are: Beau, Purrl, Diana, Rosie. I've lost a few others but I wouldn't really count them as I didn't mind too much. Those four I'll forever miss.
I had something similar happen before I restarted everything. I had Maple in my first time playing, and she was amazing. Then one day I couldn't find my 3DS, and when I did find it, Maple had moved out. I was more angry than shocked or sad though.
I'm sorry for your loss. I hope Nintendo has the intentions to fix this issue in the next game. The dream villagers I've lost in my town are the following:
I'm so sorry for your loss. Losing a dreamie is absolutely awful on top of the other IRL stresses you're dealing with. When I lost Yuka, I stopped playing for several months, but it got better and I started considering other villagers I hadn't before.
; n ; I hate that. didn't play for a day and Genji was in boxes, I think it had to be done because a non-dreamie moved in as 10th from a void..
rip Sprinkle, Kabuki, and Genji
I also lost some dream villagers ... 3 so far: Biskit, Pompon and Cole. I lost Biskit due to a silly time-travelling accident! I haven't cycled enough villagers yet to be able to have him back, but I just adopted him for my second town. I hope to eventually transfer him to my main one ....
When a dreamie moves out do they become a nightmare? Anyways, I'm so sorry for your loss. I have been fairly lucky so far, I just hope Kid Cat or Bonbon never decide to leave without warning.
I'm sorry you lost him , I haven't lost a dreamie but I did have a villager I quite liked move out unexpectedly.
I know it's only pixels but when you put so much of your time and effort into something it does suck when something like this happens. I'd be gutted if Rosie ever left, she's been my favourite villager since I started playing new leaf.
I lost tangy in my main town a few months ago, I was so upset I restarted my town! now I have her back learned from the experience and have an awesome new town in the works for a gorgeous dream town! I think what I'm trying to say is that when something bad happens take it as a opportunity to find something new that you might not have recognized if you stayed in your old ways, and focus on the positives you have going on.
I then lost Zucker in a stupid TT incident while trying to get my dreamies... and I left it a few days got some more villagers and then realized how much I wanted him in my town and I like him, so I 16 Cycled villagers to get him back! Everyone on the forums were so nice and helpful and now Zucker is back in my town!
It's not the same as what you guys said, but my ACNL data corrupted and I had to delete my town to fix it, losing Poppy in the way. I miss that little sweet squirrel a lot...
I understand I lost Marina awhile back I looked at the screen and saw her house missing and my heart sank I just kept playing and found someone new to go in her place, I recommend to keep playing until someone asks to move out and say no and shut it off people state that stops anyone from moving out even if you don't play for months. Also if he was your top dreamies I think you should cycle Punchy back!
one day I suddenly found my baby Bruce in boxes, that resulted in me giving him away to someone plus selling all my other dreamies in order to restart my town! thank goodness I found good homes for 7 of them! 3 to go and I'm restarting
This happened to me with Rosie, but it was because I took a looooong break. Normally when I do that, I create a new character to check if someone has moved so I could time travel back to when I first played and stop them. Well, I did that, and saw that Rosie had moved away. No biggie, I thought. So I time travelled backwards... But her house never re-appeared. Desperate, I kept time traveling more and more backward. Her house never showed. I'm assuming that one of my friends played my 3DS while I was at a sleepover (they like to play games on there). So it was too late. Luckily, she's been replaced with Bianca, and I think I like her just as much.
I can't believe it… but animal crossing gets so boring now I don't play 
I know that feeling though...
