From "Assemble! "Animal Crossing" to see the warmth and greed of human nature

"Assemble! Animal Crossing is the most popular game recently, with 1.88 million copies sold in Japan within three days of its release. This game is a life simulation game that allows players to build an uninhabited island from scratch. The game atmosphere is casual and warm, without any competitive elements, but players have endless desires. Where there is desire, there are merchants and virtual props The marketplace is rapidly developing in and out of games in unimaginable ways.

"Assemble! Animal Crossing is essentially a stand-alone game. Players can experience all the elements of the game without connecting to the Internet, and enjoy the comfortable life of living with animals and building islands.

But even so, Nintendo provided an internet connection that allowed players to travel to other players' islands to play. A game has changed from a stand-alone game to an online game, which is much more fun. Players can not only visit the islands built by their friends, hang out with their friends’ neighbor animals, shoot their friends’ heads with insect nets, but more importantly, players can also can help each other.

Since there are many types of furniture and clothing in the game, the number that a single player can access is limited, but by communicating with friends, you can quickly expand the items in the item catalog, and add items through the ordering function. And each player has different DIY equations, and they can also help each other DIY with friends through the connection function.

In addition, there is another activity in Dongsen that requires mutual assistance, which is "rutabaga trading". Rutabaga is a stock in the game. It can only be bought and sold for a fixed period of time each week, and the selling price will fluctuate up and down during the rest of the time. To put it simply, the worst selling price will drop to only about 40%, and the best selling price will rise more than six times! After a week, all the unsold kohlrabi will rot and lose their value.

(About the bitterness and blood and tears of kohlrabi, you can watch my other article . How popular is the Switch, the anti-epidemic material? Sorry, let alone the host, you can’t even grab a handle! )

Therefore, if you want to get rich overnight and have freedom of wealth in Dongsen, it all depends on kohlrabi. The point is that the buying and selling prices of kohlrabi on each player’s island are different, and the probability of the selling price being more than three times is not high. The best selling price of the week is about 1.5 to 2 times, and only a small number of islands are the islands of choice for making a fortune.

When the player realizes the trick, the in-game cooperative play begins.

Since there is no function for interacting with strangers in Dongsen, players must use other social platforms, such as Facebook clubs, Polang, PPT, LINE groups, etc., to know the selling prices of other players' rutabagas. There are even kind-hearted netizens who have created Dongsen’s island landing website, which is open to allow everyone to open a small chat room. The island owner can freely set the number of people in the room, from room labels, queuing, and giving island landing passwords, all functions are available.

On these platforms, you can see a large number of tatou dishes every day, and the selling price ranges from 300 to more than 600. These are all treasure islands leading to wealth.

At the beginning, the communication between the players was in good faith, although it would take time for other players to land on the island (as long as any player landed on the island or left the island, all players on the island must spend at least 2 minutes watching the cutscene) ), but many players are still happy to make a fortune with everyone.

However, after a few days, this kindness gradually deteriorated. Because there were too many monks and little porridge, it took at least 3 to 5 minutes for a player to get the island landing password and sell the kohlrabi to leave the island. An island can only allow up to 8 players to be on the island at the same time (including the island owner), players can only sell a maximum of 4,000 kohlrabi in one trip, and if players come and go, other players on the island will behave very differently. Card. And the store will close at ten o'clock in the evening, and tomorrow will be the new food price.

In other words, the demand is coming, and it is huge, but the supply is far from enough. Many people smell the imbalance between supply and demand. The original behavior of "opening the island to sell kohlrabi to other players" has gradually increased from "free". price.

Now, island owners with good food prices will charge an entrance fee, which fluctuates with the selling price on the island, but is basically a dollar (about 100,000) or a plane ticket. What is an air ticket? Air tickets allow players to go to the resource island, where you can get props, pick flowers, mine and pick fruits. The point is that you can invite animals on the island to become your new neighbors on the island. If the animal is not what you want, just spend another plane ticket. Go to the next island and continue to try your luck (a bit like a draw character in a mobile game). There are more than 400 kinds of animals in this game. To get the animals you want, a lot of air tickets are indispensable.

Over time, money and airfare became less important to some players, and the island owner shouted more and more creative entrance fees, gold mines, large star fragments, rusted parts (these are all used to make rare Furniture materials) have also become valuable assets and can be used as bargaining chips.

There are also different exchange rates between all resources. Some island owners will shout "entrance fee 80,000 or 1 ticket or 2 gold", "sell three trips for 5 gold or 3 big star fragments", "need air tickets or rare DIY formula", different resources have different values for different players appear one by one.

Players' transactions are no longer limited to "selling rutabagas on the island", but also extended to "release animal neighbors for 500 air tickets", "rare props for sale, prices are discussed in detail", "touch the props and let you open the shopping directory" , a small amount of 2 gold mines, a whole group of 10 gold mines", all kinds of magical transactions, all kinds of creative bidding, everywhere.

Above, although players who sell vegetables need to pay the entrance fee to make the relaxed and peaceful atmosphere of Dongsen slightly deteriorate, but this does not violate the game content, as long as both parties believe that this is a reasonable transaction, you sell vegetables, I will charge, and everyone will take what they want. Yes, everyone has grown up in the game, which is actually not a bad thing. These are all in-game item transactions, but in fact, out-of-game transactions are even more outrageous than these.

"Assemble! Animal Crossing Friendship is already the fourth most popular game on 8591, the largest virtual treasure trading network in Taiwan. All the resources mentioned in this article, and even the furniture, clothing, and animals that need to spend a lot of time to collect, are available on 8591. You can buy it in Taiwan dollars.

Remember, Dongsen is basically a stand-alone game, and there is no competition mechanism at all. All props cannot make the game characters stronger or gain in-game benefits, and this game is not like other social games. , in order to get rewards. The core concept of Dongsen's game is really just to live easily. Even if the player does not communicate with other players from beginning to end, and only stays on his own island, there is no loss, and there is no correct way to play the game. With only 100,000 yuan, you can still have fun with animals.

So why exactly are these deals?

the reason is simple.

People are greedy! People are lazy!

When everyone gets a piece of furniture, they want a whole set. Seeing that other people's islands are super beautiful and there are rare animals, they think I must have them too. And spending a few hundred Taiwan dollars can save you fighting for several months in the game. Isn't this money spent?

Desire comes from play, and fun comes from play. Playing games, having fun is the most important thing. Although Dongsen's trading market is in full swing, and many merchants earn a lot of money (whether the props they sell are obtained through improper means, we do not know), even so, many players still hold the spirit of "mutual aid" ”, let others go to the island for free, share what you own, take new friends to visit the island that you have spent time building, and get excited for every update.

This game is fun and we have our joy.

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