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Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp will end service in Nov 28 - but will transition to a paid offline app
(files.catbox.moe)
Source about the offline app thing: https://faq.ac-pocketcamp.com/hc/en-us/articles/36353725150489-What-is-the-paid-version-of-the-app#
I have to imagine the game is no longer making enough money through MTX to staff a dev team anymore.
This seems like a pretty good way to end a live service game, though. This way your game doesn't just disappear into the ether completely.
That was the most logical answer I came up too. Its just crazy to do the right thing and make if work offline instead of just binning it like so many other live service games.
I mean, I never paid for it but I did the math many years ago, to explain predatory microtransactions, and found out that for a chance - a perfect rolled no dupes chance - it'd be cheaper to buy a 2DS and a physical copy of new leaf.
Like, there's only so many times they can release a set or do a palette swap for a 'new' collection.