Get your tissues, fellow campers – Animal Crossing Pocket Camp ends its online service today, so we recommend you log on right now for one final hurrah. Did you spend all of your Leaf Tickets? Have you collected the gifts from Isabelle and the gang? Well, it may be a little late now.
I’d be lying if I said catching up one last time hasn’t brought a tear or ten to my eyes. Logging on, you get a nice little show of your best villager friends, who you’ve helped the most over the last seven years. You get a gift of farewell fireworks in the mail, too, along with a healthy dose of nostalgia and bittersweet memories. There’s just something about games like Animal Crossing that really weed their way into your feelings.
Players are sharing their last-minute moments in the game, where they’re packed and ready to move on, taking one last look at the scenery, or saying a heartfelt goodbye to their, uh, favorite villagers?
The news came out back in August that Pocket Camp would shut down today, November 28, 2024. Servers will close at 3pm UTC. This isn’t the end, though – Pocket Camp will be back in just less than a week as a paid game, with no online needs. It costs $9.99 until January, when it’ll rise to $19.99 on January 31, 2025.
All of your items, villagers, and layouts are safe – the only things leaving are Leaf Tickets and microtransactions. Plus it’s not all bad – as one Reddit user pointed out, there’ll be no more “bad connection” pop-ups. I did scramble this morning to spend all my currency and got an adorable little hawk pet to bring into the new, offline version.
So, are you ready to continue camping? Events will still appear, and hunting those pesky bugs will remain as easy as pie. If this has you itching for more free mobile games or Switch games to play, there are some excellent indie games we can recommend to you.