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Something about this just screams out of touch

haunter 6y ago
You are downvoted but I have this feeling as well. When people bring up Animal Crossing as an example... I mean the game has one of the worst online system ever + basically 0 social functions. It's an OK sandbox game but I wouldn't call it as a social platform. MMOs solved this problem years ago but instant gratification is the king now. Love me some FFXIV but I can see people why don't want to play a game where you have to invest hundreds of hours to reach anything. But for a lot of us that's the main appeal of it.
- freehunter 6y ago
  I think the idea isn’t that Animal Crossing has the best online experience but rather that it’s a game you can play with zero skills, with no pressure to keep buying new things, and you can play it for very short periods of time and still accomplish something. I tried Fortnite the other day and could hardly get into a game trying to navigate past all the “buy this” and “buy that” buttons. It’s a sales platform that encourages you to buy buy buy. A lot of MMOs are the same way. Even the latest Assassins Creed (which is a decidedly single player game) has to check their servers every time you open the game to see if there is anything new they want to ask you to buy. There aren’t a lot of big name games these days where you can just buy the game and play the game. They all need billboards and micro transactions and DLC and season passes and worst of all as you get older: they all need plenty of skill and free time. There is a huge lack of games that respect your free time. Animal Crossing is one of the few.
  - Hamuko 6y ago
    >There is a huge lack of games that respect your free time. Sure, they respect your free time as long as you're willing to pay for it. GTA Online for example is massively grindy if you want to get anything since they sell the in-game currency for pretty bonkers prices. Want to save yourself a hundred hours of grinding? Just buy in-game currency with $100 American.
TickleMeTrumpmo 6y ago
Owning a Switch definitely screams this.

You are downvoted but I have this feeling as well. When people bring up Animal Crossing as an example... I mean the game has one of the worst online system ever + basically 0 social functions. It's an OK sandbox game but I wouldn't call it as a social platform. MMOs solved this problem years ago but instant gratification is the king now. Love me some FFXIV but I can see people why don't want to play a game where you have to invest hundreds of hours to reach anything. But for a lot of us that's the main appeal of it.

freehunter 6y ago
I think the idea isn’t that Animal Crossing has the best online experience but rather that it’s a game you can play with zero skills, with no pressure to keep buying new things, and you can play it for very short periods of time and still accomplish something. I tried Fortnite the other day and could hardly get into a game trying to navigate past all the “buy this” and “buy that” buttons. It’s a sales platform that encourages you to buy buy buy. A lot of MMOs are the same way. Even the latest Assassins Creed (which is a decidedly single player game) has to check their servers every time you open the game to see if there is anything new they want to ask you to buy. There aren’t a lot of big name games these days where you can just buy the game and play the game. They all need billboards and micro transactions and DLC and season passes and worst of all as you get older: they all need plenty of skill and free time. There is a huge lack of games that respect your free time. Animal Crossing is one of the few.
- Hamuko 6y ago
  >There is a huge lack of games that respect your free time. Sure, they respect your free time as long as you're willing to pay for it. GTA Online for example is massively grindy if you want to get anything since they sell the in-game currency for pretty bonkers prices. Want to save yourself a hundred hours of grinding? Just buy in-game currency with $100 American.

TickleMeTrumpmo 6y ago

Owning a Switch definitely screams this.