Police in Taiwan not too long ago found the identification of an individual who had misplaced his Switch by logging into Animal Crossing and messaging his pals.
The information comes from Taiwanese web site CTS, and was roughly translated and summarized on ResetEra.
“The story goes that the Taiwanese player brought his Switch to the ATM to withdraw some cash,” wrote the ResetEra poster. “While he was taking the money, he put his Switch on top of the ATM and forgot about it.”
“His Switch was picked up by a stranger, who sent it to the police,” the publish continues. “Fortunately the Switch has a copy of Animal Crossing: New Horizons, so the police sent a message in the game to his AC friend, with the address and numbers of the police station, and told his AC friend to contact the owner and get his Switch back.”
“It worked, and the owner was notified by the friend who managed to get his Switch back successfully.”
It’s a stunning story, actually, proper from the truth that someone was sincere sufficient to show it into the authorities versus simply nicking it, to the thought of a few individuals going, “well, what do we do with this yoke then? S’pose we better turn it on and see if your man has any mates we can get in touch with.”
On the flipside, Animal Crossing additionally attracts a great deal of absolute chancers. For instance, the brand new water replace is cool – you may go swimming! – but it surely truly permits thieves to simply enact their horrid antics, in that scammers can just swim around your fortified fencing and steal all your shit.
That’s earlier than I even even point out the people who find themselves promoting uncommon villagers on-line for frankly extortionate costs – which Nintendo has explicitly acknowledged is against the rules. Honestly, it’s nice to see one thing good occur as a substitute of listening to about scammers in speedos and folks making an attempt to make a couple of quid of RNG villagers.
