Talk:Distributed item

Tabs
If somebody could turn the list into tabs like SA suggested a while back, I can't seem to do it with templates.  Leem  01  04:50, 4 January 2012 (EST)

New Leaf Distributed Items
The mail and mail text format may not work so well with, since the Post Office distributed all of the items so far in the form of a Present, without an accompanying letter. Perhaps a different format should be considered for New Leaf and other items distributed in this manner? Prince Gumball  (talk)  02:54, 20 June 2013 (EDT)
 * I'd agree with that apart from the fact that the EU Slushie Machine was a Pete letter from Nintendo, maybe we make it an optional field.  Leem  0 1 10:53, 31 July 2013 (EDT)

New Leaf DLC Grouping
I'm just going through the New Leaf DLC to update this page, is there any particular order of items we're looking for. At the moment it goes:

- Wi-Fi DLC (June+July) - Best Buy DLC - EU Nintendo Zone DLC

However in the past, we've sorted by date and with the firework's table that came out today, I'm not sure whether to group it with the Rainbow Screen and Palm Tree Lamp or just add it to the bottom.  Leem  0 1 07:08, 1 August 2013 (EDT)

Category for images of distributed items?
Most if not all images of distributed items are uncategorized, so maybe we could set up a distributed items category, or maybe even one per game that has them. Of course, that would be low priority to this page, but probably a quick fix if wanted. --Milifilou (talk) 11:47, May 16, 2020 (EDT)


 * I agree that a 'DLC item' category would be helpful, but soon items will be receiving their own pages, and so this category should be reserved for item pages rather than images. Any uncategorized DLC images that are not isolated (transparent background) should be in Category:Game Name furniture screenshots (e.g. Category:New Leaf furniture screenshots). Sunmarshsignature.png  ( talk )  01:04, May 19, 2020 (EDT)

Merging regional list pages
Shouldn't the distributed items pages for each region be merged into one page for each game (similar to List of distributed items in New Horizons)? Right now, it's a complete mess. New Leaf distributed items from Europe/Japan aren't in List of distributed items in New Leaf, and City Folk doesn't even have its own page. Additionally, should they be subpages of this page (e.g. Distributed items/New Horizons instead of List of distributed items in New Horizons), similar to the fish/bug pages for each game? If nobody objects, I'll be doing this soon. ~  AlexBot2004  ( Talk ) 02:34, May 19, 2020 (EDT)

Move to downloadable content
I'm proposing a move from distributed items to downloadable content since the latter is by far the more common term (thus what people would search for more), and not all DLC are items (e.g. the DLC designs in and the DLC villagers in  and ). The only alteration that would need to be made to this article is the removal of the section for the original (since it covers player-to-player codes that are not DLC), but that section would be better suited in an article like multiplayer anyway. ~ AlexBot2004  ( Talk ) 17:08, January 12, 2021 (EST)
 * per the above. 18:12, January 12th, 2021.
 * per the above. Drago   (talk)     Drago PC Villager Icon.png 13:01, January 13, 2021 (EST)
 * - I agree that the change to DLC will aid in discoverability. You might also want to include a hatnote at the top of the article to the effect of 'This article documents in-game content distribution in the Animal Crossing series, for the major downloadable content update to Animal Crossing: New Leaf, see Welcome amiibo." Or maybe NLWa should get a section on the page with a link to the main article? Sunmarshsignature.png  ( talk )  14:03, January 15, 2021 (EST)
 * It's been a while, but I to move this to downloadable content. The one key argument against moving to downloadable content is that one of the items in, the , is an existing item that Nintendo will always distribute regardless of if the player has updated or not. The csv files in 1.0.0 indicate that this was something within the base-game. While moving to downloadable content would be logical given the fact that the term is more commonly used than distributed content, there are instances where a distributed item does not necessary come from base-game, and I think some discussion should be addressed before I support moving this page. -- PanchamBro (talk • contributions) 15:53, February 25, 2021 (EST)
 * as per PanchamBro. Renaming the page downloadable content would be a bit misleading since it would not be covering non-item-related DLC. While a small section linking to the parent articles could be added, I feel it'd be a better idea to just keep the scope of the article strictly to distributed items. Additionally, removal of the Animal Crossing (GCN) section doesn't seem right to me considering that Nintendo themselves distributed these items through codes from Nintendo Power. Alternatively, I'd like to suggest that Downloadable content be turned into a disambiguation page that links to Distributed items, the Welcome amiibo update, Pocket Camp's update history and New Horizon's update history. Senor Mexicano (talk) 06:42, March 21, 2021 (EDT)

Move to distributed content or distributions
I propose moving this article and its subpages to a new title, either distributed content or simply distributions. I find it odd that the article leads with "distributed content" in bold instead of the actual title. Though I would argue that this is in fact a more accurate title, as not all distributions were for items, but also for villagers, bulletin board messages, and designs too. I think a less specific title in this instance would better capture the scope of the topic. -- Dorsal Axe  (talk) 16:50, October 9, 2023 (EDT)
 * per above --BladeofEvilsBane (talk) 19:36, October 9, 2023 (EDT)
 * moving to distributed content. ~ AlexBot2004  ( Talk ) 20:21, October 9, 2023 (EDT)