A Goodbye to Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp (Video Essay)

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is closing soon. It won't be forever, as there'll be a new paid, offline version releasing shortly afterwards, but in some ways the next few weeks will still be the end of Pocket Camp as we've come to know it over the past 7 years.

There's no denying a constant stream of new events and content helped sustain the game, and in a lot of ways the switch we make to the new version will signal the end, or at least the beginning of it, of the cycle that ultimately made Pocket Camp tick.

It's always sad to see a game go, but I'm happy to see Pocket Camp being preserved as it's being! Still, I think it's only fair as Nintendo wishes to move away from the game that I've loved for 7 years that I give it a proper send off. As we gear up for the release of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Complete.

Thanks for the memories Pocket Camp, and see you sooner rather than later!
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[ohhadivist]

I've played the game since launch and I do think that assuming that people who have an issue with the monetization must have never played it and have been influenced by an image of Tom Nook that I assure you most people haven't ever seen before is missing the mark. Right now if you want access to everything the game is offering you need to pay for I believe 3 different full-priced subscriptions. For a bit I was under the impression that it was one but no, there's the helper one, the cookie one, and the journal one. Leaf tickets are fairly common, yes, but you will almost surely not complete a single cookie using only LTs you get for free.

Some people are fine with this monetization model, some aren't, but yeah, I think that it's mostly only people who actually play the game that are bothered by this.

[starcaja]

i loved pocet camp so much, played nonstop during the pandemic, SO want to play paid game.. preordered instrantly

[tamakiyo]

I also think the announcement of the end of pocket camp was so sudden! They just casually dropped a bomb and dipped, I wonder if all the attention is really on another big project..! :o
And you make a good point that there are no ads, it really doesn't feel like some mobile game where you have to watch ads every other minute.. "Hey! Watch this 30 second short ad to shake another fruit tree!" Can you even imagine?
Basically, it's a really nice game that you don't have to spend any money on and still enjoy it comfortably, still can't believe it's been that long since it came out!



13:05 Btw this part is cinematic peak, I shed a tear

[ghostnorm]

beautiful really hope it blows up ! never got into pocket camp, but im happy for everyone who loves the game 7 years is a hell of a run

[fiona]

so sad to see this game go, honestly this was such a good way to catter towards people who can´t afford the actual animal crossing, like me lol.
Now that it's going offline, will i still need wifi to play? that was one of my biggest turn off ha

[jayw]

Omg this was such a great video to find on my recommended! I usually don’t meet or see people who have played this game more than the first month or so, and most people are pretty meh on it but I loved it very much! I never expected it to be a replacement for a main title game and I liked that it just ran on my phone and I could do dailies and events really quickly. I loved decorating my camp and trying to craft every furniture I physically could. I played it solidly every day from launch until a year after Genshin impact came out and then I also quit playing pocket camp after Genshin took over! But I genuinely loved this game and hearing it was shutting down I ran back to spend my 6000+ leaf tickets I had accumulated …

[DandilynGoyette]

Great video! It might be just me, but you talk really really fast! Did you speed up your recording?

[saadbunni]

Wait, its leaving? Wtf i deleted it for a WEEK WTF