Trying to explain the concept of a server shutdown to my crying daughter because she can't get online to do dreams in Animal Crossing 3DS now that the servers are shutdown. Thanks, Nintendo!
@jeffgerstmann Wait until her TikTok account gets banned after 4 years of content creation my friend!
@jeffgerstmann Nintendo: teaching children the hard facts of life since 1889.
@jeffgerstmann That's rough man. 😬
@jeffgerstmann Pretendo, good sir, that the servers were still running
@jeffgerstmann They announced they'd be closing ACNL in October of 2023. A full 6 months ago. Your daughter is 3. You should have just started her on New Horizons to begin with?? New Leaf came out in 2012, and New Horizons came out in 2020. I feel bad for the kid that YOU set up for heartbreak.
@jeffgerstmann Pretendo has archived them, but I'm not sure if they're functional yet. reddit.com/r/AnimalCrossi… Getting Dreams running may be a minefield legally, so it's possible we may see Pretendo get forked and "pirate Pretendo" take off with stuff like that.
@jeffgerstmann Game preservation needs to be an ongoing thing forever. What baffles me with these shut downs is computationally and network wise, some of these services couldn't cost more than a few hundred dollars a year with how tech is going.