After eight years as a free download on the Play and App Stores, Animal Crossing Pocket Camp has moved to a paid version by adding a “Complete” in its name. The problem is that although it does indeed offer most of the features that players have been accustomed to until now, it is missing a major one that many are already crying about.
Goodbye multiplayer on Animal Crossing Pocket Camp Complete!
Launched at a price of €9.99 (for the moment), the ACPC Complete application is a version that no longer offers online services and many players had not yet understood this. Nintendo had, however, attempted clear communication around this “update”, explaining that this implied the end of green tickets but also of the multiplayer mode as players knew it.
A player, Expensive_Future2839 on Reddit, regret this purchase after realizing that the paid version of Pocket Camp didn’t have any multiplayer features. Multiplayer has always been part of the free version of Pocket Camp. Players could visit each other’s camps, trade items, and collect resources together provided each of them had a sufficient internet connection, but all of these features appear to be missing from the paid version, which is online only .
Other players join him in the idea that the Animal Crossing license has always been focused on multiplayer, this was also its strength because even the GameCube game allowed several players from the same family to have their own character for example.
Now, in-game multiplayer events like the Together! always planned for the end of the month, no longer have any meaning. Players like mimiland express disappointment with the lack of multiplayer interactivity, as it was one of the reasons they enjoyed the original game.
Can we still have friends?
Even if many features have disappeared (exchange of materials and fruits, gifts, etc.), it is still possible to have friends in the game thanks to Campicards (kind of character sheets with a QR Code to share). It is thus possible, then, to find your friends around the Kéké Concert and to ask them for help with your career.
However, many players say they will miss the fun of sharing their camps with their friends. However, some offer an alternative: social media. Users like MrMalignance suggest players who miss the social aspect of Pocket Camp post screenshots of their creations on Reddit or a Pocket Camp Discord server, to share their ideas and feedback in the same way than usual, but through different channels.
An in-game chat would have been a good idea, however. Maybe a future update will allow this.
