If you haven’t heard yet, a 12 minutes long video talking about what to follow with Pocket Camp’s closure and the new app you’ll be able to transfer your data to. I’ve honestly been pretty excited for this. While I will miss being able to interact and help my friends more, I’ve honestly really wanted a non-microtransaction Animal Crossing. There are so many beautiful backdrops and items, the memory system gives so much character to the villagers, and it’s a shame how much is locked behind fortune cookies and other Leaf Ticket Methods.
The gachapon element is a large part of what caused me to drift away from Pocket Camp alongside the constant downpour of events that required you to not only play almost constantly, but never really gave you a break. At the worst point for me, I’d be waking up every three hours to check the game and that isn’t healthy so for my own sanity, I started to only pop on occasionally. There was a lot I missed which got me down, especially some of the events I did like (such as when you give gifts to one of your Villagers… Still wish I could give more than one), but it was less stressful this way too.
So, knowing there will be a paid “Complete” Edition had me hopeful from the start.
Kicking it off, we learn that the Complete Edition will be out December 3rd which is super close to the shutdown of regular Pocket Camp on November 28th– literally just five days later. I’ve already pre-registered. I expected it to take longer, but I suppose they have been preparing for quite a while.
I am a bit worried with them saying Events will still be just as frequent, but hopefully with the removal of Leaf Tickets, they will feel a bit more relaxed. As levels will stick around, I’m hoping to get every Villager I have to at least level 15 (or whenever their furniture unlocks). I’d love to get every Villager unlocked before Pocket Camp’s closure, but with Gulliver’s randomness, I’m not going to get my hopes up. At the very least, I have all eight of my favorite villagers: Cookie, Peanut, Maple, Marina, Merengue, Diana, Flurry, and Judy.
I’ve never been a fan of Subscription services so I’m glad that the subscriptions will now be just… permanent features which again is just something I’ve always wanted. That said, they actually cancelled any subscription you currently had while just giving you them permanently before the subscription renews and I wish I knew that before the update hit as I would have grabbed the Furniture Subscription… I know it doesn’t matter in the long run (since they are discontinued), but it would have been nice to have all the different ribbons one last time…
Leaf Tokens essentially seem like the replacement for Leaf Tickets which… I’m not entirely sure what the point is. Hopefully they are easier to earn and/or items don’t require as much in the first place. I also hope it won’t change the speed time-up you already have just for having played for a long time.
I’M SO EXCITED ABOUT CAMPER CARDS!!! They look so cute. I want them to make a way for us to turn them into actual Amiibo Cards. I’d love to give mine out to people. The main problem I’m going to have though is… Which of my favorite villagers do I pick for my Camper Card? I genuinely can’t decide. Thus, I made a poll:
Loading ...Let me know which Villager you think I should use! The results of this poll will be combined with one among my friends to figure out the final result (Or if you want to add it yourself before it ends, the results there were 3 for Merengue, 1 for Cookie, 1 for Maple, and 1 for Judy).
Whistle Pass genuinely looks really cute. I’m glad we can still see our friends in some way and even get gifts from them. That said, even if the game is fully offline now, I think it’d still be nice if we could still buy and sell items to one another somehow or send gifts (I mean, they found a way to do it in the Gamecube version with those long codes we had to put in…).
I’ve already made sure to launch my game again and will be continuing to do as much as I can before the game closes in a month from now. It’s been nice seeing people popping back on who I hadn’t seen in months.
Events returning is honestly great and I kind of hope after the first four years, maybe they’ll just keep that cycle going so people will always have a chance at them. I just hope things won’t be too labor intensive still. Especially as more new things will still continue to be added as well until September 2025. With how many old items there are, I think that’s plenty.
I’m also SO HAPPY about the Complete Item Catalog feature. There are items I love and being able to get them quickly is great, plus, I genuinely love to complete my catalog, and this is something that has driven me crazy for ages that it just did not feel feasible in Pocket Camp without putting tons of money in. I just hope it won’t be too hard to get those tickets.
$20 is about what I expected so I was fine with that, but seeing an introductory price for $10 until January 31st, 2025 is insane to me and I’m definitely picking it up right away.
I’m excited to see how the Last Event will unfold. It sounds really nice and the memory system is still one of my favorite things in Pocket Camp. I am also incredibly curious about the “Memorial Tree”, but I have yet to see it pop up in My Nintendo Rewards… I keep checking though…
Either way, I’m really looking forward to it.
Edit: Pocket Camp put out a schedule so the Memorial Tree will be available starting November 16th. Most of the final events will be that last week as well.
