Games @lemmy.world simple @lemm.ee 4 wk. ago

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp will end service in Nov 28 - but will transition to a paid offline app

Source about the offline app thing: https://faq.ac-pocketcamp.com/hc/en-us/articles/36353725150489-What-is-the-paid-version-of-the-app#

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They will turn off the live service and make it work offline?

I don't understand. Industry bootlickers told me it was impossible and would cost billions to implement, hurting small indie studios the most. Yet, Nintendo does it voluntarily with seemingly no difficulties.
- Nintendo doing something good consumer-wise for once and not being a dick? I'm conflicted.
  
  I would argue Nintendo does do a lot of pro-consumer stuff. Like making actually good games. It's just their anti-consumer stuff is either so bad or just plain weird that we just scratch our heads and think Nintendo is going off the deep end. Still trying to avoid buying much Nintendo going forward.
- Nintendo refuse to ever be predictable
- Don't worry they'll do a C&D sometime soon to make up for it
- Nintendo might be seeing the writing on the wall and looking to see how much profit they can make with this. If it goes well, we might see more of it. Corporations hate regulation and sometimes try and head it off long before it is coming.
- i mean iirc capcom already had done something similar beforehand with megaman x dive
- You don't get it bro, Nintendo decimated half of their net worth pulling off this miracle!!!!!!! ^^^/ ^^^s
- Hi, industry bootlicker here! Nintendo is listening to their consumers. I was told corporations are evil and won't listen to consumers and must be forced to do things by law. I much prefer consumers remain vocal about their wants because corporations do indeed listen. No government intervention required. I worry government rules could cause unintended problems that don't benefit anybody.
  
  "A single company does this and while the other 99 won't, saying pretty please will certainly work. See? No intervention required!"
  
  Bootlicker indeed.
This is the future StopKillingGames wants us to live in.
This is..... kind of weird, no? Like why would they pull the plug on an app that keeps the microtransaction money rolling?
- 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.
- I recall Nintendo claiming they wanted to move away from mobile again a while ago but I didn‘t really believe it back then and I‘m still skeptical now. They‘ve received more criticism for their predatory mobile games lately so maybe that got something to do with it or it‘s simply not making enough money anymore to bother with it and they‘d rather get the devs working on something else.
  
  nintendo and DeNA crates a joint venture team last year, so i highly doubt theyre pulling out of mobile, theyre just relying less on it.
- I always wondered this myself.
  
  I think I remember reading a while ago that apps need to be updated occasionally to comply with .apk guidelines.
  
  This is presumably dependant on which permissions the .apk requests. So a simple calculator app wouldn't need to be updated, but the calculator plus app, which tracks my blood pressure, how many glasses of water I've drank, and my semen count, would need to be updated occasionally to comply with Google's privacy policies.
  
  But I'm not an app developer, so don't trust me on a whim.
  
  I see your post has a few upvotes. Therefore, I will trust you implicitly on this matter. Thank you!
- Maybe Switch 2 will be announced around than with a new AC as a launch title?
What is the game like? Basically, this is the first time I've heard of it.
- It's a simplified version of animal crossing for mobile, with some microtransactions to speed things up. I played it on release and it's pretty decent.
  
  Ah, nothing to write home about. Thanks.

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