My girlfriend lost 100+ hours of Animal Crossing and she’s crushed. Nintendo, you seriously need to do something about backing up save files.
So, to make a long story somewhat short, my girlfriend has been playing Animal Crossing every day since launch and it’s been a real salvation for her during these tough quarantine times.
Yesterday I woke up to a text from her saying “something happened to my save file. It said something about corrupted/damaged save data. All my stuff is gone. My island is gone.”
Just reading the text stirred so many emotions: anger, sadness, shock. I texted her back and started researching, hoping for a solution. I found a few posts of people who had been in similar situations, but none of them had found a way to get their save file back.
After about an 30 minutes of searching I realized that her save file was most likely gone for good, but I couldn’t accept this so I continued, hoping to find some miracle post or solution...
And there it was! Cloud saving! I knew that my lady had purchased Nintendo online to play animal crossing with her friends, and the cloud service included with Nintendo online claimed to save everything automatically. I had her check her backups... but again, nothing was there.
Then I found that Nintendo had decided to not support cloud saving on Animal Crossing, for reasons not worth mentioning. They also claimed they would have a way to recover deleted save files, but that promise was made sometime in February and it doesn’t seem like they’ve fulfilled that promise just yet.
So yes, the save file is gone forever and there’s nothing she can do about it(for now).
I know what some of you might be thinking. We both know it’s just a game and that she can start over, but to know that all that time she put into the game has been wiped—all her villagers, her items, her money(bella), her “cute outfits”—they’re all gone and there’s no reliable solution to getting them back is heartbreaking to say the least. I don’t even play the game and I felt some rather intense sadness about it all, because I know how much time, love and care she put into the game.
It also didn’t help that it was our 8 year anniversary yesterday—a day we hoped would come and go problem free. We still had a great day: we cooked ratatouille(was good), and I did my best to remember all her villagers and I made a little card for her(will post below). But knowing that this was a problem outside of her control, and wondering if it could have been prevented is beyond irritating.
So here’s to hoping that Nintendo gets their shit together and figures something out soon.
She started a new save file and I swear if this one deletes itself too I may just take a walk down to Nintendo myself.
>My girlfriend lost 100+ hours of Animal Crossing and she’s crushed. I don't believe you have a girlfriend. Enjoy being alone.
Joshua Wilson
post her feet famalam
Jonathan Ramirez
god i wish i had a cute girlfriend with cute hands like that who played animal crossing and then if he save file got deleted and she was crying i would go up to her and give her a big hug and wrap my arms around her small frame and she would cry on my chest
How did animal crossing get invaded by women? Was it really New Leaf? Women didnt own 3DS. Pocket Camp? AC has always been a boy's game. Playing outside, catching bugs and fish, exploring the world. What happened??
>abusive ex >WoW What, did he not give her cummies because he was in the middle of a raid or something? Imagine being such a faggot that you marry a girl that DOESNT play vidya.
Cameron Sanders
That guy's wife doesn't have PTSD. She's just a pussy coward, like a ll women.
Cooper Hill
Why do normalfags call a console “the video game”
Ethan Brooks
How did this stupid bitch corrupt her save anyways?
Carson Brown
Probably some dumbass casual mistake like closing it while the autosave wheel was spinning
Noah Clark
When my girlfriend sells her turnips online, she brokers mine for only 20% of the profit. I'm lucky she likes AC so much, I wouldn't want to have to deal with this game's dogshit online
Thomas Edwards
Is she a hard ass? Will she just stand there refusing to move, with a big line waiting, until they cough up the fee?
Matthew Lee
I mean when she goes to other islands. We haven't gotten turnip prices on our island above 140 even once. I suppose I'll have to work something out to get a piece of that pie too, in case we get a good price.
Justin Allen
the real treasure is the friends we made along the way
Charles Morales
Nintendo said that though they do not support cloud saving for Animal Crossing if you contact them they can restore your save.
Nicholas White
Check out turnip.exchange. You could just TT till you get a spike, then both of you take turns gatekeeping for a couple of hours
A 99k bell bag fee is pretty chump change and will add up fast.
Julian Thompson
wouldn't that also possibly happen outside of your own fault if your batteries ran out right at the exact moment it's auto-saving?
Oliver Diaz
I guess but to be fair it’s does start warning you you at 20% battery. That’s when you just save or plug it in
Dylan Bailey
yeah, i'd buy your gf's turnips, bitch
Nathan Ramirez
yea, but there will always be situations where you're outside and will not be able to plug in This is why I hate "building-up" games with an auto-save feature you can't disable. If it's a rogue-lite and the save gets corrupted, it doesn't matter much.
