In an announcement right this moment, Nintendo assured current players they might nonetheless have the ability to absolutely benefit from the recreation for 3 extra months. “We are going to proceed to carry occasions and add gadgets till the service-end date.”
Along with the sport shutting down on November twenty eighth, Leaf Tickets (which could possibly be used to expedite the constructing of campsite equipment) will now not be out there for buy beginning on November twenty seventh. As of October twenty eighth, new month-to-month Pocket Camp Club subscriptions can even now not be accepted, and current subscriptions to all three tiers will now not mechanically renew.
November gained’t be the everlasting finish of the path for Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. Nintendo has assured gamers that their save knowledge might be carried over to a brand new model of the sport at present in growth by linking their Nintendo accounts. The corporate doesn’t plan to disclose the brand new model till someday in October however shared just a few particulars right this moment. The brand new Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp shall be a “paid app with out in-app purchases” and won’t require a continuing web connection to be performed.
The announcement is a part of Nintendo’s gradual shift away from cellular. After the success of the Nintendo DS and the Wii, with many players migrating to smartphones, Nintendo did the identical. In 2015, it launched its first cellular recreation, Miitomo, which was adopted by extra bold apps like Super Mario Run in 2016, Fire Emblem: Heroes and Pocket Camp in 2017, and Mario Kart Tour in 2019.
The previous 5 years haven’t seen a lot of something from Nintendo for iOS or Android, however at the very least the corporate isn’t shutting down Pocket Camp fully and leaving paying gamers with nothing, prefer it did when it shut down its free-to-play mobile game Dragalia Lost.