I am on 600 hours and also have played AC since Wild World, but love NH. The upgrades keep it fresh, I am glad they have chosen for this model and think a lot of people moaning don't understand that AC is supposed to be played in your own pace. Which in my case is fast, but I've remade my town twice and filled the time doing various things. You can play it animal crossing items new horizons endlessly with all the material we have already.Just began playing a few weeks ago and this is my first time being at a ribbon for this. Man, community seems toxic, might only stay from AC threads and continue enjoying the game...

It seems like these updates are so small, and they are so situational too nothing here feels like it is likely to survive outside of collapse. I would rather have a couple of updates adding stuff from New Leaf back rather than a year of seasonal updates that include new stuff.. Like paintings, the gyroid cafe from prior games has been datamined.

Not sure where they are, but I'm sure they'll still be added. Nintendo only likes to drip feed content. Very slowly.

Nah, it had been said by Aya Kyogoku (director of the new foliage, which nintendo unfortunately do not understand ) and Nogami that the updates would be affected by covid, which is why they had to slow down.

New Leaf came out in Nov 2012. Thats about 7 years of potential development but its like they didn't begin until the Change released (I know AC and Splatoon share some folks but nevertheless ). I dont find them adding a whole lot more into the principal gameplay formula. More like they'll focus on fine-tuning existing features and build up/polish them. Loosely related to AC but anyone else miss My Sims? Guess they pumped too many offshoots out and did not get the money they had been awaiting.

Remove is the incorrect word. They just didn't re-implement themyet. If they could have with maintaining the same development period they would have.

They had to make the majority of this game from the ground up. Developers were not spending time eliminating attributes, they were spending time adding attributes.

The group that does AC did Splatoon and Splatoon 2, and also updated New Leaf with the cheap Animal Crossing Bells welcome amiibo upgrade which was large.