Nintendo is shutting down ‘Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp’ — however you will nonetheless be capable to hold taking part in

One in every of Nintendo’s flagship cellphone video games is shutting down, nevertheless it is not going away utterly.

As introduced on the official web site for the iOS and Android model of Animal Crossing, service for Pocket Camp will finish on Nov. 28 of this yr. The sport will proceed to work, and there’ll even be seasonal occasions and different actions till that date. However after Nov. 28, Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp as you already know it’ll finish, as have many on-line service-based video games through the years, together with Nintendo’s personal Dragalia Misplaced in 2022.

However it’s not utterly over. A single-player, offline model of Pocket Camp, which you should purchase with a one-time cost (the unique recreation is free-to-play with microtransactions) that will get you entry to the sport’s “included options,” per a vaguely worded FAQ web page on the web site. Sure, it is possible for you to to switch your save knowledge to this new model of the sport, so you may hold going.

There are some asterisks to this — each good and dangerous. Sadly, since this new app is offline, you will not be capable to use any community options, like the power to go to your mates’ camps. On the plus aspect, there can be no microtransactions nor subscriptions within the recreation anymore; you merely purchase it as soon as and that is that.

Contemplating so many on-line video games (equivalent to Dragalia Misplaced) shut down unceremoniously with no technique to hold taking part in, this strategy to Animal Crossing‘s end-of-life course of is a pivot for Nintendo. Perhaps different corporations will begin occupied with doing related issues sooner or later.