Animal Crossing New Horizons punishes you for sharing an island on the same console.

super-famicom said: Unfortunately, there's no way around this unless you buy another Switch and another copy of Animal Crossing. Second villager gets shafted so hard, they can't really do much except mine resources. Hopefully Nintendo can implement some kind of fix for this in the future, but I see a ton of people in this thread with the same issues. Click to expand... Click to shrink...

Before the influx of Animal Crossing defenders yell at me or trivialize why I'm so upset, please know this:I have purchased every Animal Crossing mainline game since the GameCube era and was so excited to purchase this game for my girlfriend and I to share an island together.I jumped into the OT Discussion to clarify this issue before I started a thread. It turns out my worst fears were right and the OT has lots of other people asking the same question or shocked by the result, enough that it should warrant a separate topic (that hopefully catches more eyes).High on the AC hype train, I was glued to this forum, I watched dozens of reviews and no one has mentioned this yet.In previous Animal Crossing games, sharing an island with someone meant that you were working together to share the experience and helping each other upgrade the island in various ways. In New Horizons, the second islander is now a glorified visitor.As millions of people are, my girlfriend and I have been depressed and anxious during our quarantine but looking forward to sharing the Animal Crossing experience together. Because I happened to be the first person to start a new game:- She doesn't seem to get new DIY recipes- She isn't asked to help upgrade the island- She isn't invited to participate in new projects- She cannot help me with my own island projects- She isn't even allowed to check in-progress projects to see what resources are needed.Tom Nook literally tells her to ask me what I need.This is really sad and destroys the backbone of what makes me love Animal Crossing. Very understandably, she's sad and losing interest. She may wait to save up for a second Switch (may be a while, we were hit financially by this mess) and start her own island or I'll just give up and start this over.I was really looking forward to sharing an island with my girlfriend and building it together. I wish I had known that Nintendo did this.I really hope they fix it or at least give us the option to give our co-villagers the ability to share island responsibilities with us.Update: