Pocket Camp is being replaced by a worse version at a huge cost

A free mobile version of Nintendo’s Animal Crossing will be released in August 2024. was announced will end in November this year. Now it’s been revealed that its replacement, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete, will arrive on December 3rd and will waive all of the 2017 game’s microtransactions for a one-time fee. Except that the amount is huge, the game is missing out on opportunities, and there is no exception for longtime players of the original Pocket Camp.

Nintendo’s experiments with mobile games have often been at odds with the spirit the company usually tries to express. At some point the now defunct Mario Kart Tour featured some very controversial gacha mechanics.. The company has also been quick to shut down games that don’t perform as well as desired, to the disappointment of regular players, with a variety of different mobile games including Dragalia Lost and Dr. Mario World have been blocked since the start of mobile projects. in 2016.

The situation with Pocket Camp is not as final as with others, for example Mario Kart Tour is no longer receiving updates from the end of 2023. Instead, people who have played the Animal Crossing game since its release in 2017 will be able to carry over their progress to the new game. But only after paying a whopping $20 entry fee. And it will be updated only after a year. And he is losing opportunities. And oh god, it doesn’t look good.

This is something of a concession to how enormous the price is for a mobile game that people may have already spent huge sums on previously – Nintendo will charge half as much for the first two months, ending on January 31, 2025. However, another $10 is a kick in the eye for those who have been investing for the past seven years.

Pocket Camp Complete doesn’t represent a step forward for the game, but rather will continue to exist with a slightly reduced feature set and the promise of another year of updates. If you have an existing village, it will transfer along with all your friendship levels, but not your leaf tickets, which is completely removed. But in the most amazing way Nintendo makes it clear on their update page that “there is no discount specifically for Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp users.”

Why not?! What a very peculiar move to not reward those who have subscribed for $3 to $8 per month since 2019 when subscriptions were introduced! For me, who has never played, the game costs the same as for someone who invested $480 in subscription fees.

Opting out of various online features such as gift exchange and Market Box, as well as interacting with other islands becomes a strange challenge. Most bonuses that come with subscription are also going.

It also appears that Nintendo intends to stop updating the game as it often does in October 2025, after which there are no plans to add new cookies or new events, suggesting that the $20 entry fee gets you access to the latest relevant year of the game . Who knows? This could be timed to coincide with the release of a new Animal Crossing game for Switch 2, given that the series’ normal release schedule suggests it should be ready.

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