It's Over! Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp's Online Service Has Officially Ended

I would like to the console version of Pocket Camp on Switch in physical release with every contents from the latest update.
Two different Animal Crossing games on Switch before Switch 2, why not?

One of my favorite games of all time. I will miss playing this version, but I am glad they are making an alternative way to play via Complete.

But will you still be able to earn Platinum Coins with this version? That's the big question here.

I do wonder if them making this complete version means Animal Crossing won't be a launch title.

Yep. It’s been shut down for 12 hours now, and I already miss it. I played way back at the beginning, then picked it back up a month ago when news about the Complete version came out - I wanted to evaluate if it was worth buying. Welp, I’ll be buying as soon as I can!

@Ability-King-KK no

I didn’t think I would be so sad to see it go but today was very bittersweet. I’m glad they spent some effort on the past couple weeks with a celebration, though. Can’t wait to see what the new app brings!

Hmmmm didn't even know this was a thing. Looks pretty cool

@VrginX Damn.

I can’t believe they’re not making this a smooth transition from paid to free with this wait period. For a game that demands so much interaction, forcing a hard break is strange. Sure it’s only a few days but for folks who had and have a daily streak going, that’s going to kill momentum from your best players. Curious to see if there was any bigger player dropoff from this.

I never got to play much of this game, if I'm being honest. I love Animal Crossing, but there are so many other games that I would prefer to play that this one quickly fell off my radar.

Little side note: I recently discovered a VTuber by the name of Pumpkin Potion who actually worked on this game. She told a story about how DeNA convinced Nintendo to add microtransactions to the game, against the advice of the dev team, which she was a part of. I wonder what she would think about this complete version?

@JohnnyMind I recently discovered a VTuber by the name of Pumpkin Potion who worked on this game, and she told a story about how DeNA convinced Nintendo to add in microtransactions, despite DeNA apparently having a history of killing mobile games with microtransactions.

She and the rest of the dev team literally begged Nintendo to not do it, but Nintendo listened to DeNA regardless, under the notion that they could make some extra money from the game if they did so. That's when the shops, Leaf Tickets, and Fortune Cookies were added to the game.

Pumpkin Potion herself had to put out the tweet on Twitter expressing "excitement" about these features coming to the game, even though she was dying inside. But she had to put on a happy front because she worked for Nintendo. For that, she felt incredibly guilty about having to feign excitement about microtransactions coming to the game, and even apologized for doing so.

I don't know if her story breaks any NDAs, but I found it to be a little bit of an interesting story into the behind-the-scenes machinations of game development, especially for a company like Nintendo.

seems weird to have even a few days gap there between... if i were planning this id work in some overlap for retention.

I played this off-and-on, but I tried to play it pretty consistently for the last month, sending farewell gifts and such to the randomly enlisted friends that stuck with me all the way until the end of the sinking ship.

I plan to purchase the replacement standalone version in a few days.

I stuck around to the very end & I was sad to see it go. I'm glad that we're getting it back with some changes, even if I lose some long time friends who became inactive past the 30 days to years.

Can't wait for those leaf tokens & I hope they're super easy to obtain unlike their now defunct predecessor.

Worst Animal Crossing game. AC in name only, otherwise it's just nonstop click and different currencies, tickets, whatever. Even New Horizons lost quite a bit of AC charm. New Leaf was the peak.
Nintendo really botched all their mobile releases. They're just watered down, bad games. Thank goodness for emulators.

@JohnnyMind Admittedly, I only played a bit of it when it first came out, and then stopped playing. So I didn't even know they implemented microtransactions until I saw that Pumpkin Potion video.

Speaking of which, I don't know if you've ever heard of her, much less seen her content, but I have to say, I do like her model. Unlike most VTuber models, which are anime-based, hers is actually based on the old-style cartoons from the 1930s (think Disney or Betty Boop). Her chat can even drop anvils and pianos on her like what can happen in those old-style cartoons.

But if there's one other Nintendo related story of hers that I found interesting (and frankly very touching), it was when she worked at GameStop when the Wii first launched, and she helped a mother whose son was dying of a terminal illness find a Wii, which she found hidden away in the back.

Her manager was not happy that she left the register to help the woman (many were speculating that he hid the Wii so he could buy it for himself), but the woman was so grateful that she went and bought her a bagel with cream cheese and a hot chocolate as thanks for making what would be her son's last Christmas on this Earth a happy one.