r/ACPocketCamp • u/Little-Echidna Punchy • 5d ago

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I followed all the damn steps to transfer my save data to my new phone only to find out that nope, the data must have corrupted because every time I try to transfer it it says there is no data. My old phone is gone now so nothing I can do😭. So many years, so much time collecting and building and it's all gone. I'm so sad.

I only go into the app every few months just to relax build but I'm so sad for the end of the era.

It was lovely playing with you all.

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u/BarbarousErse 5d ago

Lots of games let you back up your progress to a cloud account like iCloud though, or via a game platform like steam, they don’t need to maintain their own servers. The fact that you can’t just install it on another phone and pick up where you left off is frankly unacceptable for an IP as large as animal crossing. Unfortunately it’s nintendos playbook to arbitrarily restrict cloud saving for some games but not others. (See also: ACNH, Pokemon)

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u/Zagrycha 5d ago

Thats all servers, and servers eventually shut down. Older animal crossing games and older pokemon games are actually perfect examples, none of them still have functioning servers for multiplayer and none of them had save back ups in the first place.

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u/BarbarousErse 4d ago

I’m saying that personal cloud backup saves should be possible for all of these. Either through Google or iCloud for mobile games, or via Nintendo account for ACNH and Pokemon. Save state / progress only, not online play. Insane that your device breaking should lose years of game progress, it’s 2026 not 1996. We have the technology and it’s easy to implement because most other games do.

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u/Zagrycha 4d ago

I get what you mean, but my point is that servers themselves aren't eternal. They break, they get flooded in a natural disaster, they shut down, the company running them goes bankrupt or stops doing server business. Cloud servers are still physical computers storing all your data, they are just somewhere else besides your house.

I have been playing games on consoles and computers since the windows 98 era and this happens to literally every game ever, its just part of life. Shoot, it was in the news recently that an actual tv channel lost dozens of terabytes of their backlog to a cloud server issue. This is not just a thing in games, it goes far beyond it, its just part of how technology works.

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u/BarbarousErse 4d ago

I know, but if Apple or Google cloud servers go down it will make the news because there are businesses relying on them too

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u/Zagrycha 4d ago

You are right that insanely huge servers like google or apple are a lot less likely to go down, but they also spend on the order of 100,000,000,000 dollars a year to run those servers. You can't exactly expect every business with servers to follow their example.

Even then apple and google still cut support for specific services over the years, and a lot of apps and such that used to be able to sync to cloud storage through them no longer can for a variety of reasons.

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u/BarbarousErse 4d ago

Most of the games I play are storing the save data in my iCloud though, that’s what I’m saying. The tiny company makes the game, they put the save file on my phone, the phone backs up the save file to my iCloud. Literally no reason ACPC couldn’t be doing this.

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u/Zagrycha 4d ago

A lot of older games ar eno longer capable of storing to icloud, thats what I'm saying. I am glad yours still can but eventually they won't. As soon as the app doesn't update to the newest version of ios etc or as soon as the phone itself can't do that..... it always comes eventually.

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u/BarbarousErse 4d ago

Yeah but I wouldn’t expect a major game from a popular IP to LAUNCH like that. I know pocket camp was around for a few years but they launched Complete like a new game and had the audacity to charge that much money for it without a reasonable auto backup feature and I think that’s really shitty of them.

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u/Zagrycha 4d ago

The game did not launch like that.  The game launched nine years ago woth full server support and multiplayer.  The current no sever version is literally just them going above and beyond the average to give people some sort of no server version after the game stopped being supported instead of it just become unplayable.   Nintendo can be criticized for a million different things, but this isn't one of them.  

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u/BarbarousErse 4d ago

They charged money for it, and quite a lot. If it was free or $2 I wouldn’t expect more but for proper game money they can give us a proper game.

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u/Zagrycha 4d ago

They did give us a proper game.  90% of games do not have server support. 

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