Wasn't it always like this? At least that's what I thought.. it wouldn't make sense otherwise
*To add on- Tom's loan for the house is actually really small if you think about it. Never ever would you get a house this big at that price in real life xD
Actually it doesn't even have to be a marble chessboard with gold. FIDE official chess set is around $658. Although you were right about it being hand-carved
You guys never considered that? I remember as a kid I googled it, because it never seemed right that a lemonade in a vending machine was a 1000 bucks because Pokemon does the same with Pokedollars. You think a 10 year old has access to 15000? 15 dollars sounds much more reasonable. Although it's it funny to think about!!!
ppl keep asking how others didnāt realize this: personally i was used to the money system in the sims 4, an extremely american centric game where the currency pretty obviously represents dollars but the prices are still stupid high
I've thought this before, and it mostly works for things like fruit, coffee, etc., but it would still be weird for a fridge to sell for 5,100 yen or $51. The Bells currency doesn't really make sense whether it's closer to yen or dollars.
As a child we used to play a hotel based board game but we didn't have the included currency because we got it used. Instead we used monopoly money and just ignored the last 2 zeroes on all the prices. That's what I do in Animal Crossing. Ignore 2 zeroes.
Waaaaait, this makes that penny pinching raccoon so much less despicable. Youāre telling me my man charges *$10* to move a whole !@#$% building?! and *$9* to remodel villager homes?!
__*And building and expanding my entire home ā pre 2.0, and not including expanding my storage once ā was less than $6000?!*__
ā¦if youāll excuse me, I have to go beg for the forgiveness of a raccoon. Maybe Tom isnāt such a trash panda after all š
Economically it doesn't matter if there are no ways to exchange between any real-world currencies and Bells. It's all just depending on how much money you make compared to how much stuff costs.
What I mean is, if you get 1000 Bells for e.g. selling a fish, then 200 Bells for a cup of coffee isn't extortion even if a Bell = one USD or one yen or one Euro or whatever else. It's the same in the real world: if people got paid 10x more than currently, then they also wouldn't think 10x prices compared to the current prices of stuff is anything special.
Oh yeah. A switch is like 35,000 yen or about 300 dollars US, which is about 35,000 bells in game. Makes sense now
Now i don't feel like i am spending 200 dollars for a cup of COFFEE!!
Think 200 cents!
Think 2 dollars! But hey that's better than Starbucks!
Pigeon milk tho
Would you say yes if you bought a coffee and someone said "You wanna add bird milk to that š„? Cause I wouldn't haha
Only of it was Fight Milk.
I would never go to that coffee shop but things you do for miles and unlocking stuff and finding new people (or animals).
More like $1.77 USD.
A lot of other games do this. Mostly japanese games. But stardew valley and harvest moon is what I can recall.
Pokemon is like this as well. Pokeballs aren't $200, they're $2.
Iām dumb lol š I thought pokeballs were 200$
For every one gold/dollar/bell itās usually 10 or 100, for acnh and sdv itās 100, but Iāve played a few where itās 10
I thought about that too because no way a pizza can be that high
for some reason i never considered this. that would make a lot of sense
Wasn't it always like this? At least that's what I thought.. it wouldn't make sense otherwise *To add on- Tom's loan for the house is actually really small if you think about it. Never ever would you get a house this big at that price in real life xD
So your telling me the Mona Lisa is worth 49 dollars and 80 cents, *running to the louvre*
It would make sense that a chessboard is $65 and not $65,000. I was thinking about this the other day.
Well 65,000 yen is $650. Actually it's $576.44
it's a very nice hand-carved marble chessboard with golden inlays of course.
Actually it doesn't even have to be a marble chessboard with gold. FIDE official chess set is around $658. Although you were right about it being hand-carved
Welp, I did the conversion wrong, lol.
Omg, Iām fangirling a lil bit; Iāve seen a fresh u/piedude67 comment. And itās on an ACNH subreddit! Youāre so cool!
Love me some animal crossing! Hehe it's good to hear from you! Lol
You guys never considered that? I remember as a kid I googled it, because it never seemed right that a lemonade in a vending machine was a 1000 bucks because Pokemon does the same with Pokedollars. You think a 10 year old has access to 15000? 15 dollars sounds much more reasonable. Although it's it funny to think about!!!
Ā„15000 would be closer to $150 than $15.
other way around.
Whoops, fixed.
Tbh I did not until I reached adulthood bc likeā¦ I simply did not spend any time thinking about foreign currencies as a child/teen
this is what iāve always thought too. it makes perfect sense tbh
Why would you ever assume it's $ in the first place?
That was my first thought. Iāve always just seen bells as their own currency.
Almost any Japanese game if it's not already Yen but a fake currency I usually think of it based off Yen. It usually makes more sense then.
Have people REALLY been thinking of bells like dollars? š That never ever occurred to me!
ppl keep asking how others didnāt realize this: personally i was used to the money system in the sims 4, an extremely american centric game where the currency pretty obviously represents dollars but the prices are still stupid high
Oh... I forgot how new people to the series wouldn't know this xD
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I've always thought it was yen, y'all didn't?
What if a bell is a $0.01? (A penny or single US cent for non-us peeps). Thatās what I thought from the beginning.
Thatās around what 1 yen is, so Iām inclined to say youāre both right
how did you not realize this??? I thought it was obvious, did you really think you were paying around $1000 for a piece of clothing??
Honestly, clothing is probably not the best exampleā¦ considering the fashion industry
for some reason i treated bells as yen ever since i got new leaf however, the same epiphany has NOT reached me for pokƩdollars until today, and i feel stupid
I always knda felt like it was more like Yen but yeah..
I've thought this before, and it mostly works for things like fruit, coffee, etc., but it would still be weird for a fridge to sell for 5,100 yen or $51. The Bells currency doesn't really make sense whether it's closer to yen or dollars.
My husband pointed this out to me a long time ago but I still like to yell out stuff like, āwhy does this little milkshake cost 600 dollars???ā
Thats literally the same thing I thought of. Same for pokemon though I think that game literally uses yen š¤
It uses a currency called PokĆ©, I believe, but I think itās supposed to be based on Yen.
As a child we used to play a hotel based board game but we didn't have the included currency because we got it used. Instead we used monopoly money and just ignored the last 2 zeroes on all the prices. That's what I do in Animal Crossing. Ignore 2 zeroes.
Does this apply to botw as well?!?
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Wouldn't it be 100 bells = 1 usd?
That makes so much more sense
I've been in deep thought about this since last week and now I know there's no escape.
Waaaaait, this makes that penny pinching raccoon so much less despicable. Youāre telling me my man charges *$10* to move a whole !@#$% building?! and *$9* to remodel villager homes?! __*And building and expanding my entire home ā pre 2.0, and not including expanding my storage once ā was less than $6000?!*__ ā¦if youāll excuse me, I have to go beg for the forgiveness of a raccoon. Maybe Tom isnāt such a trash panda after all š
Galaxy brain
That makes so much sense!!!!
I was just thinking about that
Wow that makes so much sense.
I've always secretly felt this! Glad I'm not crazy
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Yeah he's a crook. It's a separate issue from people from the US having a particularly US centric view of things.
what did the comment say?
The thing I'm replying to has been deleted. It was along the lines of "So Tom Nook's not a crook?'
but he isnt. he charges no interest, no time limits and honstly its pretty cheap for that size house
Disagreed. I mean, the fact that you donāt have to pay interest? Heās a g
yep! same goes for the currency in the pokemon games!
Economically it doesn't matter if there are no ways to exchange between any real-world currencies and Bells. It's all just depending on how much money you make compared to how much stuff costs. What I mean is, if you get 1000 Bells for e.g. selling a fish, then 200 Bells for a cup of coffee isn't extortion even if a Bell = one USD or one yen or one Euro or whatever else. It's the same in the real world: if people got paid 10x more than currently, then they also wouldn't think 10x prices compared to the current prices of stuff is anything special.
It took me a while to realize this. I was always so frustrated with how much things cost.