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Reminds me of how when Animal Crossing New Horizons released, there were loads of people who would change their console time to accellerate the game's time progression feature and then they were complaining about a lack of content merely weeks later
It really grind my gears. Some people will play 200h in a month when a new game and complain about endgame/content.
Fucking mental. You got 200h out of a game which is fucking great.
“That’s like a dollar an hour.”
Huh? Play the way you want and have fun. 500+ hours in ACNH, never did timeskips so I missed out on a bunch of content I'll never go back and do, simply because I didn't play on a particular day or month or even a particular time on Sundays.
That's not my point. Whether or not you want to play like that, the game is designed to be played in real time. This also spaces it out and makes it last longer. So it was funny having people time travel and then complain about lack of content. They couldn't be patient enough to play the game as intended then whined when it didn't cater to them
My point is that this is kind of just a narrative that you put together, isn't it? You assumed the worst of their reasoning, rather than assuming that they were trying to consume the totality of the content vs. speedrunning it. Are you seriously telling me that I should arbitrarily stop myself from completing my museum and art gallery because it hasn't ticked over to the 10th month since I started playing yet? Because the game is designed for me to base decisions about the time I have to set aside and play video games around the time that content is available in-game?
That's just not really a mindset I can get down with my friend, sorry. Unfortunately I'm done with the game now, those things will be left unfinished and that sucks. I should have done timeskips, so the fact that I'm busy running around in a field with a bunch of other men wearing short shorts on Sunday mornings doesn't determine whether I can complete ACNH. It was a good time while it lasted though.
I think you're missing my point entirely. The meme was originally about how zoomers have no patience. If you play a game which is based off of rationing it's content over the span of a year in a way to give you something to do for around half an hour each day, and then skip forward and complete it in a few days, that's on you. And some people did that and complained about being bored of it.
But if you played it that way and enjoyed it, then that's good too. I don't care. Just don't complain to the developers that you essentially cheated at a game to progress quicker and now feel bored. Which some people did do with ACNH from my personal experience.
It just stood out to me as what seems to be at least 2 distinct interactions which you attributed to a continuous progression of reasoning by the same group. I think it's perfectly valid critique of the game design to say "this mechanic, while I understand the intent, actually makes it harder for me to engage with the sum content of the game over any timespan". That is critique I gave at the time, and to think that someone might take my words to mean that I am simply too foolish to engage with the game in the way it was designed is what irked me. There were disruptions to the cadence of content updates and other factors which made complaints about ACNH content pacing a more complex issue than that is all.
Animal Crossing has always been a real-time game. That's it's main gimmick. If it wasn't a real-time game, it wouldn't be Animal Crossing anymore. My advice to someone who'd be bothered by that would be simply to play something else. The game basically relies on it, and games shouldn't be made to please everyone, because then it's a very lukewarm experience.
Personally l wouldn't play Animal Crossing if it didn't have the realtime mechanic. The whole point of it is a second life that carries on next to your real life one. It's the main part of the appeal.
Respectfully, I think that's poor advice, because there is a lot to be enjoyed in ACNH completely separate from the realtime elements, as well as timeskipping not really doing that much to preclude players from enjoying and engaging with the realtime elements. It's just some specific parts of the later game economy which are totally gatekept by on logging in at a specific time, or logging in daily just to check whether there's gonna be a meteor shower that night (the chance for which is random and fairly low). And if you log in the day before a meteor shower after 6pm, well you've already missed out on the window where you can complete activities to influence the number of meteors that drop, so you won't even be able to utilise them as a resource - in this case the entire system of introducing pre-meteor shower events to hype up the player is invalidated. Better luck next shower.
I'm not saying these elements of the game design are pointless and that there's no reason they should be there, but they're the parts of the game that make the least sense to champion for me. But it sounds like we fundamentally disagree on that and that's OK. Thanks for engaging with my opinion.