What happened with the red tulip problem?
KE: Well, I can say that it wasn’t anything like our servers being hacked. But we’ve made sure that will never happen again. I’m really sorry to anyone who had their house messed up because of it. GS: A friend of mine moved time forward three weeks in his town, just to see what would happen. Then he reset without saving, and changed the time back. When he got back, his town was all full of weeds. Why did you build that into the game? KE: Well the first thing is that we knew people would be time traveling – and that’s ok! That’s one playstyle if people want to do it. But the thing to remember is that the game’s in a natural setting, so if you move forward in time, weeds are going to come, plants are going to die, and things like that. So what happened in this case is that when you turn your game on, the game saves where you are. So it saved his progress three weeks into the future, and the game considered that nothing had gotten water for three weeks. It’s not built in to punish people,
