In Defense of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp (Video Essay) 

I think my favorite part of pocket camp is that you don't *have* to pay, and there's always tons to do, it feels so much more rewarding to finish my dailies throughout the day on pocket camp than to get on new horizons and do those dailies

This is SUCH a well-constructed video! I'd thought everyone but me had forgotten about Pocket Camp once New Horizon was released, but I'm glad to see it getting some good attention now! Keep up the great work, man!

You can decorate a cabin with 3 STORIES, a camper van with two and a pretty big sized campsite. There are THOUSANDS of event items that you can get for free and use, way more options than New Horizons. Fortune cookies you can still get for free sometimes by luck and getting them in a rotation at timmy and tommys cart OR if a friend gifts you a fortune cookie gift! You can 100% have fun with Pocket Camp without spending any money AND STILL GET LOTS OF ITEMS! The events do get repetitive, but there is always a reason to log in and check in on it every day at least. So yeah idk why it gets hated on so much when yes it does have microtransactions and some things cost money but also you can still stack up leaf tickets for free if u play a lot and have patience. And there are still so many free items to decorate with like. The customization options in this game is insane compared to New Horizons

Very rarely comment but this video deserves it. I've played this game pretty much every day from a couple of months after launch, I have maxed out bells, have over 1.3k leaf tickets and can pretty much make anything I want at any time, but despite having unlimited pretty much everything, this game never lost its charm, I've never debated stopping playing it. I would pay any amount of money for New Horizons to even have half the amount of furniture and clothing this game has. It seems so strange to me that a free to play spin off mobile game has leagues more furniture and clothing than a paid main line game!

I played 800 hours of ACNH, so I definitely got my money's worth, but I was still disappointed by the lack of features even after the last big update. I liked the amount of furniture in ACPC, and the fact that even clothes were craftable. I wish they would at least let us get specific items if we have a villager's Amiibo card! It almost feels like ACPC is given more love at times, but sadly my mobile device isn't compatible anymore, so I can't even play it. 😔

It's a fun game, but I just can't with the grind vs. payout. They simply don't give you enough Leaf Tickets. To put it in perspective, one random draw at a fortune cookie is 50 tickets and usually the special crafting items are around 100 tickets. Tickets are 20 for a dollar, which means you have to spend $3 just for one random try. Even the helper plan only gives you 60 tickets a month. Paying regular money but only getting one sure try. I had to grind for months just to get some of one event, and even though I got what I wanted it doesn't feel satisfying to then have to plan on grinding for months again in case an event comes that I want.

I played pocket camp in 2017/2018 & i loved it! I was obsessed with it. I was spending real money to get leaf tickets, played it multiple times a day. But once they added so much & my lifestyle changed, i just couldn’t keep up. I would love to play it now, but every time i log in I’m bombarded with notifs & i just force quit lol

I played pocket camp in 2018&2019. I liked it fairly well and honestly I liked it enough to give ACNH a chance, with over 600 hours. I do wish I could have an RV in NHs. 😢Mine was so cute

My main issue w/ Pocket Camp is that it’s transactional & freemian game. I’ve known children who’ve spent hundreds of dollars which parents haven’t been happy with.

I love pocket camp! I feel like it's slept on. I like that you don't miss out on anything if you don't pay for it. Using actual money just speeds things along. Tbh I feel like the free slower way is more in the spirit of animal crossing. I also agree that I would rather have micro transactions than ads all the time. I feel like the game isn't begging you for money all the time like some other mobile games.

when i was hospitalized for 70 days i got back into pocket camp it was easy enough to play since i had low energy and it really got me through it. It really is free to play!

This game takes all my money (I willingly give it) but i play religiously everyday. I had started playing when it launched but left it alone for three years then picked it back up a couple years ago when ACNH came out. It’s so worth it because there are three different events every month (gardening,fishing and scavenging) where you can collect different furniture sets, outfits etc. and every single month has a different theme. I think it’s so worth it. If you’ve been an animal crossing fan since childhood (like me) and love all the games, this game is literally perfect because you’ve always got your camp in your pocket wherever you go!!

I really enjoyed playing Pocket Camp when it first launched, I no joke literally played it daily for years participating in events, Finding my favorite villagers and adding them to my camp site, Catching rare bugs, fish, fruit and charging a lot of bells for them just to upgrade my RV and much more. Until I believe two years ago when the app told me to download an update. So it took me to the play store and I wasn't able to download it I got confused by it because it ran perfectly fine. So I looked it up and they had added an AR mode and some people in the comments of that video had the same problem that I had.

I’ve been playing since launch, and while I don’t play daily (stardew and sims got those time slots) I’ve always loved this game in the AC line the most because I’ve always had something to go back to. I like having little daily quests and being able to call up people I’ve met but don’t live at my camp to stop by my camp and see what I’ve built, or to stop by an island so I can build up their friendship. I like how I can even go so far as to edit the skyline of my camp, which I can’t do on ACNH or any other games if Im remembering correctly. The group working on this title seem to care just as much as their players, and I love that

As someone who played it almost everyday(until an update around late 2020 that made Pocket camp not compatible anymore to me and other majority of android users. And even more worser for my case due to not having an nintendo account at the time which resulted me losing my Pc account). It was an pretty fun game. And i have good o'l fond memories of mine spending time with it. Im even have screenshots around it back then, and even some gameplay videos. Its great to see that the game is still going out strong! Even if so many players had to drop out due to an update like i mentioned before. This game will always have an special place in my heart. Also, good job on the video! It was pretty well done and even brought out some stuff i hadn't thought out before. Keep up doing great as always!

ah yes the “poor man’s” AC for us who could not afford a 3ds yet alone acnl back then. Enjoyed it for quite a long before pandemic in 2019 ish. Still remember when they held a cross event with the release of acnh. went nuts and ofc pulling myself to get a hold on switch and acnh. Good times and quite a spin on the lovely franchise if you have the time and 💰 (f2p sure but a lot of ppl spent hundred bills for tickets and furnitures). I remembered last time I have the tom nook island paradise tour as well and timmy and tommy holding the acnh release flag 🥰

I love this game but personally I get really burnt out doing all the events trying to get everything done

I've had pocket camp for a year and I've never spent a dollar, im level 179 and have about 380 leaf tickets so I also never understood why everyone thought it was a cash grab

Pocket camp was my first game, since I didn't have much money (because I was a child who couldn't get a job), but in December 2020 I got a switch lite for christmas (it was my gift to myself) and I got acnh I wouldn't have ever known about animal crossing at all if it wasn't for pocket camp, so its really amazing.

oh?? It's the first time that I see the dialogues in English, I feel that in Spanish the names that the characters give you are funnier and more adorable 🤧🤧 I also end up becoming attached to a character and it's hard for me to get them out or i feel evil to have him abandoned in my cabin lmao

I loved Pocket Camp. It was so cute. Then all my progress was suddenly deleted from the world and I was never able to get it back even though it was synced with my Nintendo ID. I love Nintendo.

i got hugely into pocket camp in 2019 and then it became a quarantine game for me 2020 and 2021. i played it... every day, for over 2 years. something was hypnotizingly satisfying about flower event, fishing event, gyroidite, flowers, fish, gyroidite, flowers, fish, gyroidite... the neverending cycle lol. i literally spent 0 dollars on it and i had a great time with the friggin TRIMONTHLY new furniture sets. so much free content and i never spent a single real dollar.

I hate the grind but i love the items. They’re gorgeous. I went on vacation and was unable to play for some time. I an finding it hard to jump back in despite being in love with the current items 🥺

I started Pocket Camp the exact hour it released, I was very excited to have another Animal Crossing game and one on mobile had this neat novelty to it. I played it a ton alongside New Leaf at the time, but unfortunately I couldnt play it after awhile due to system requirements and my account got deleted, so when I redownloaded it after getting a better device and seeing my character was gone, I got sad but still replayed and seen all these new things and been enjoying the streamlining, atleast the Newleaf town I played along with it is still around! I still play it now along with New Horizons, its a nice lil bit for lunchbreaks or just a quick get on and off

Pocket Camp was my first animal crossing, since my parents refused to get me any consoles! I have endless nostalgia for this game, thanks for covering it

"Pocket Camp" is like a sticker album that you will NEVER complete. The stickers (decorations, clothes, furniture, etc.) have only an aesthetic purpose that does not influence the game. Unlike the relaxation of the console versions, in Pocket Camp there are countdowns (events) that force you to enter daily if you want to get those stickers, but in the same way you will never be able to complete your album, not even paying with real money since these countdowns are renewed: in some you have to touch the screen here and in others touch the screen there, without much effort but rushing to enter daily. There are other alternatives with more relaxation, immersion and magic that Pocket Camp does not have, and cheaper, even Wild World or New Leaf is more profitable.

I have always loved AC (literally obsessed with ACNH I have over 3,000 hours in that game lol) and I literally JUST started playing AC Pocket Camp. Like, this *week* just started playing! Nobody told me! It’s sooooo much better than I ever could have imagined for a mobile game!!! I had no idea what I was missing out on this whole time!!! 🤯

Honestly this video got me back into the game after continuously deleting it following the tutorial for years, and it really is nice! The hate is sooo undeserved

This video convinced me to download pocket camp! I really appreciate the time you took to talk about this game.

I just started the video but I’m kind of shocked to hear that you think new leaf put animal crossing on the map 😭 no doubt it was one of the most popular of the series but I’ve never heard anyone describe it that way lol

Pocket camp is by far, one of the best mobile games I've ever played. Most of them are garbage cash grabs with far too many ads to be fun, and you need to buy premium items to progress. You can easily play pocket camp without spending any money and it's still an enjoyable game, since the main reason to spend real money is for clothing and furniture and you don't need them. I'm subscribed to the happy helper and the journal plan, the helper is super useful and definitely worthwhile. The journal plan is lame and I just got it to see what it was all about. When I went to cancel it, I realized the leaf tickets you get from it are cheaper than buying them normally so I just kept it. It's only like 79p, so honestly it's not that big a deal. Also a feature I never see people bring up, the AR camera! It's so cool being able to take pictures of villagers irl, I love it. It's not a huge deal, but it's just one of those extra little things that makes this app such a gem.

I found this WHILE playing pocket camp! I played it 4 years ago and then just fell out, but started playing again this year and its amazing! I love this game, and this video was awesome!! Deserves so much attention, the scripting, music, b-roll all flowed together smoothly!!

I was wondering why my time with City Folk and New Leaf felt more fulfilling (and I've probably spent about the same time between those two and New Horizons). And I think you nailed it with the structuring and how the player is rewarded. There's a good reason I've never completed the art section of the museum vs bugs and fish (that give tools and a dedicated menu to watch fill up). Or why Gulliver was too much of a pain to commit to in NH. The Nook Miles rewards could be considered a continuation of the house loan, the town fund, etc, but idk. The reward of more NMTs and completion doesn't feel as strong as seeing new features added to your town or that flag by your house. I hope the next game can bring a little more structure to the grinding back

This is a really well-made video! I've never understood the hate for Pocket Camp tbh. I've been playing fairly consistently since the day it released (aside from a few months when that one update made a TON of phones no longer compatible with the app, including my old one rip) and I still really enjoy it. I even have a few people in my friends list that I added in like 2019 who are still active as well! Having the different themes for the events every month is really fun and all the seasonal items encourage you to redecorate the various spaces from time to time. It's overall a nice little pass-time. Totally missed out on that stargazing event though lol One thing I actually appreciate about Leaf Tickets is being able to earn them in game fairly often. Sure it's not a lot at a time usually, but I'm so used to other mobile games with a Leaf-Ticket-equivalent type currency being like a "Here's 30 for starting the game and the only way to ever get more is to spend real money." Same with how occasionally you'll have one of the special fortune cookies in that little shop for bells instead of leaf tickets.

oh my gosh, this was such a wonderful video!! Super made and coherent! Also, I'm one of those people that downloaded and forgot about pocket camp--it's been on my phone since 2018 lol but now i'm gonna give it a second shot! ACNH just doesn't scratch that animal crossing itch at all.

Absolutely loved the cutaway at 7:45, shiz had me ascending first time I watched it!

I loved Pocket Camp, but the in-app purchases are way too much. I wish I didn’t go broke everytime I wanted a fortune cookie.

Imo it kinda looses the spirit of being your little space to relax and do as you please. Obviously to each their own but this game is designed to fill you with FOMO and I'm not fond of how much it relies on that. That being said, i do understand the appeal but yeah, it's designed to do that, so that as many as possible players spend money there, and i find it sad that that's the only reason they'll update it so much and bring such pretty furniture and events

I've spent so much real money on this game i really regret doing lol, but fr unless you cant resist buying every new item that comes in store you should be fine playing to earn tickets, the only thing i wish the game had is more content rather than the 3 same activities every single event, if the game got new stuff, it would worth buying stuff with real money to support it.

this video makes me so happy 🤗 i'd always wanted to play animal crossing cause It looked so cute but console games are ridiculously expensive in my country so when acpc was released i immediately downloaded and got hooked from day one! never realized how much It changed and upgraded over time 😯 sometimes i go a month or two without playing but i always come back for an event or a cute limited time item. i always wondered why console players hated It so much and even though i haven't played any other version, i think you're right that most would like It If they grave it a chance! true that leaf tickets are a little difficult to get and i could only ever sign up for happy helper plan for a few months at a time (furniture plan is also rly expensive here 😭) but overral you can still enjoy the game plenty without those! it's so much fun and relaxing and you never run out of stuff tô do, It helped me manage my anxiety, it got me off art block, i just love It A Lot 🥹 thank you for this wonderful vídeo!!

The thing with Pocket Camp (and similar mobile titles like it) is that a lot of people never really seem to think through what might happen if the devs ever decided to pull the plug and shut down their servers for good. You would instantly lose all the things you worked so hard on and maybe even spend a lot of money on. Woosh, it'll just be gone. Regarding its success over the past years, I'm sure Pocket Camp will stick around for a long while to come (after all, its monetization model seems quite fruitful), but some day it'll be gone and I would hate the feeling to have invested so much time and money into a thing without having anything to show for it one day. At least with the console versions (Gamecube, Wii, DS & Switch!), I can always come back to them even years after release without the fear of losing anything. Even if they might have stopped support for their online features.

soo glad i stumbled across this video!! ive felt frustrated in the past seeing how big animal crossing youtubers specifically disregard pocket camp because of the money aspect... as someone who has both had periods where i pay real money and those where i dont, i find you can still do SOOOO much without using real money !! i think its a shame most ppl ignore the game because of that aspect... it can be really fun and wholesome!

Listen, ACPC was my first game. I never knew about the others and I loved it. I still love it. I don't understand why or how people hate it, it's nice being able to make a lil campsite, invite a ton of villagers, and ohmygod the fortune cookies, i LOVE them. it's also free which is really nice when you don't have the money to buy a ds or a switch or the games themselves. ACPC is great in my opinion

Dude, you must put a lot of time into your videos. This is the first video of yours that I’ve watched and I seriously don’t understand how you don’t have a lot more subscribers, but you’ve certainly got a new one now :)

Pocket camp was my first look into animal crossing and I loved it. I still play it daily. Though the fact it has membership kinda scares me. I had a bad history with past games having that feature and giving non members basically the scraps the members didn't want. So far it seams like its fair since it only gives members a boost, not blocking a feature or islands behind a pay wall.

ACPC is my by far favorite mobile game EVER. I played it shortly after the release for a brief moment and also dismissed it at first. After a long time, I also have ACNH, I came back to the game to try it once more cause ACNH was kinda done. But I wanted to keep playing Animal Crossing. So I tried it again. And holy cow am I addicted. I basically have the game open all day, checking on events and villagers any second I have free time. I LOVE to decorate all the different locations and still would like more space to use all the awesome funiture I collected over the time. I'm really glad you also mentioned the leaf tickets. I rarely buy any myself, cause there are just so many ways to get them in-game for free. If you save up on them to buy something you really want, it's actually quite satisfying to achieve that. And even if you decide to buy some, they're not very expensive. I've also used the subscriptions quite a few times for a limited time period if I needed a little extra help with events and such. Over all, I'd say ACPC is the fairest and cheapest options to enjoy Animal Crossing and never running out of stuff to do. I highly respect the ACPC team to do such a great job on this game!

Once they introduced fortune cookies I dropped the game.

i've been playing acpc on and off for over 3 years now, and i haven't spent a single cent of real-life money on it (i tend to be very conservative with my leaf ticket spending haha). i totally agree that it's not as pay-to-win as people make it seem, and although it can feel a bit shallow sometimes, i really enjoy it! :D by the way, i noticed that you don't have a ton of bells (no offense!!) so here are some tips for you and anyone in the comments: - when a villager asks for fruit, give them a perfect fruit or one of the fruits that doesn't grow in your campsite (grapes, lemons, or lychee) and you'll get a much better reward! the same goes for flowers, some flowers yield higher rewards! - speaking of fruits that only grow in certain campsites, NEVER sell your home fruit directly! i always sell them in market box, so that i can make money off it and my friends can too! - during gyroidite events, whichever location you leave your character in will have more gyroidites than usual when you log back on. because of this, it's generally not a good idea for the last place you visit to be your own main campsite or cabin, because gyroidites don't spawn there. also, don't forget to check ok motors and the marketplace! - connect your my nintendo account to get free in-game stuff, including leaf tickets! - play happy homeroom every day! even if you've earned all three medals from a level, playing will still earn you bells! also, some levels will earn you more bells than others, so try to find the best ones! - if you have too many crafting materials (there's a cap, i believe it's 999) it's usually better to sell them in market box since they are often in high demand with newer players and you can make more money that way! - there's no rush to pay off your loan, especially the last one since there aren't any rewards for it iirc! - friend request everyone you see! you can get friend powder and other rewards from helping people, especially during gardening events, and you can get them to help you enter the quarry! - be wary when doing blathers's map quest things, since for many the rewards don't warrant the cost of rolls! - you can sell the seasonal items you get from completing monthly missions, as well as any leftover gyroidites you might have at the end of an event! - if playing starts feeling like a chore, just take a break for a few days (or weeks!) and return when you're ready. it's a game, the whole point is to have fun! if it's causing you more stress than happiness, it's not worth your time. this was great video by the way! you deserve more subscribers!

I was obsessed with this game when it came out. I would set alarms on my phone for every 3 hours so I would never miss a chance to collect my rewards. I also purposely bought an iPhone 8 Plus which is WAY too big for my small hands just so I could have a bigger screen to play pocket camp on.

I've clung to Pocket Camp since release somehow myself. At this point I'd have to argue it's one of if not *the* most successful mobile entries from Nintendo (RIP Miitomo). The only thing that annoys me about it is the garden events; they're so repetitive and grindy five years into the game. That, and the flower crossbreeding is so inconsistent. The casual nature of it makes it easy to drop in on on the daily, and if you're patient you can save up leaf tickets pretty easily these days. The only thing I regularly use them for is the gold fishing rod, and the only money I've thrown at them is the camp caretaker bonus =p Most of the issues that have come up they've done well in fixing - slow loading on slow connections? Now there's a find the differences game. Out of space and not a moneybags? Universal warehouse access for free. I wish we could transfer some of the event items over to New Horizons, though. Gonna carry that particular torch forever 😅

Great video! My sister has the switch and ACNH and I have ACPC on my ipad, we've been playing for years, and I so wanted a Switch just to have NH, imagining all the decorating I could do on all that space, but then they announced the final update and I was shocked. Because I was expecting it go go on for years and that they'd do some events like pocket camp and we'd get better rand better items... But I realised that my pocket camp has way nicer items and outfits than her game will ever have. So sad. NH just doesn't have the draw anymore, I'm no longer interested to get the switch because of the missed potential of that game.

I've been playing it on and off for 3 years and it serveeessss. All the designs are amazing and so well thought out. There is smth in it for anybody who's interested. You do have to grind if you want to get certain pieces of furniture or fashions tho... The only thing I wish it had was hourly music, it would make it that much better!!

I have been playing this game every single day since I joined around the time the scarlet gyroidite collecting was just about to end, only missing like 5 to 7 days TOTAL due to getting married or having a broken phone. Otherwise I miss next to nothing. I love this game, to the point my husband was just like "get the Happy Helper sub, you play every day, might as well, treat yo self" and I was so happy to watch animals like Bianca (my fave), Tasha, Fuschia, Cherry, Jacques, Lobo, etc. follow me around and help me out. I'm almost level 513 and I regret nothing, and doubt I'll get sick of it. Those events really do keep you hooked, they add SUCH cool stuff that your animals can *actually* interact with. What's not to love???

As someone who's been playing acpc for a while now, I absolutely love it! I've been playing since 2020, never gets old :)

I was obsessed with Pocket Camp when it came out! It gave me joy at the most difficult period of my life. And it was actually my first introduction to the Animal Crossing series. I only stopped playing it because it necessitated too many microtransactions for my taste. I never understood why the fandom hated it so much.

I've been playing pocket camp some day one. I'm on it every day and there are always new events on. It's better than new horizons!

i've played pocket camp on and off for the last threeish years, and i recently got really into it again! (according to the app, i've had an account for over 1000 days. i think i had a different account before that which i lost, though.) i've never had the chance to play another animal crossing game, but i've always really enjoyed pocket camp. it's an *exceptionally good* mobile game. like maybe it's mediocre when compared to animal crossing games, but it's *great* when compared to all the... other... mobile games out there. i really appreciate all the work the devs are putting into it - every time i come back to the game it has more features, more events, etc.! last night i finally decided to do a free trial of the happy helper plan (not even for the helper, just the lower crafting times) and i would 100% give them my money when the trial runs out. (if my adhd hasn't decided to stop being interested in the game by then.) this was a great video! it highlighted all the great things about this game, and i am immediately going to send it to my friends who think pocket camp isn't a good animal crossing game. thank you (:

I don't have a switch, but have always wanted to play ACNH, but I found pocket camp about a year ago, and I have loved it!

ive heavily played on and off since around launch, it can be super overwhelming and kind of upsetting to not get cute clothing or furnishings due to lack of leaf tickets but its so cute ...

youtube algorithm is finally blessing me, you deserve way more subs! really enjoyed

I absolutely agree with you! I've already restarted 3 accounts in this game since 2018. There is a lot of stuff such as clothes, furniture in different and interesting styles, just look at new update from February 2023: Fishing event, collecting brezel to gain cookies and more things. It made an enormous step from starting, the first version and today's are very different.

Nope, I came back after a few years just to see a game infested with microtransaction and pop ups to them.

My only reason for being able to dislike pocket camp is that New Horizons is a bare bones game that won’t get update because they can’t monetize it like Pocket camp.

Yes finally someone gets it too !! I have also been playing ever since launch. I'm so tired of people complaining about Pocket Camp when they don't actually understand how to play it. I have indeed seen mobile gotcha games that were way worse like $100 USD per spin worse. Pocket Camp is not one of those games. I love the feeling of going through my day and then being able pick the game right back up as if nothing happened. Very well explained. Thank you! I hope this goes around the ACNH community in positivity.

funny timing on finding this video- i actually recently started playing pocket camp again after a pretty long break. i've been playing on and off since launch and am currently level 169 (nice). i bought the happy helper plan for a few months a while back, but that's all the money i've ever spent on it. i think the f2p leaf ticket income is decent- not incredibly generous, but ok. and i agree that the gameplay loop is nice. my least favorite system is the gulliver islands because it has so much waiting and pointless rng. i'm mildly salty that all the new villagers are put behind this system now, it feels like such a downgrade. i also think the amount of leaf ticket purchase only furniture/clothing items is getting a little excessive. but! there is so much nice furniture in this game. i love decorating and this game is just such a playground for that when you've amassed as much stuff as i have. AND the campers actually interact with the furniture! it baffles me how in new horizons the villagers just ignore everything you put out when the freaking mobile game managed to put in cute interactions with so much of their furniture

I'm just playing it since my 3DS is being repaired, and it's actually not that bad. I could see myself playing it along with New Leaf

i love pocket camp so muchhh, and honestly you don't need to use your money for leaf tickets, there are soooo many ways for you to get leaf tickets for free

amazing content, pal! ty for this video! you captured what that game is so clearly, a lot of nostalgia from your essay

I came back to pocket camp just recently, having gotten burnt out on New Horizons a while back. I do heavily enjoy the 3 hour intervals of requests and the friend engagement aspects. Although, the amenity grind and waiting isn't my favorite lol. But other than that small gripe, I forgot how chill this game was.

the only issue with pocket camp is if your new to it your most likely going to find somthing you actually like and or want but you wont get it cause its an older item and items dont do reruns often enough

It's a cashgrab. Just like Mario Kart Tour, Super Mario Run and every other mobile game Nintendo publishes. Pocket Camp would be good if it was offline and if it didn't take so long to load everything. It takes like 5 seconds to set a piece of furniture. somewhere. It's fully online so without wifi it's rendered useless. Also, you cannot play it landscape mode which makes everything feel cramped and cluttered. Nintendo knew what they were doing with this. They could have done better.

The only reason I stopped playing was because the updates rendered my phone unable to play it. But I also had a slight problem with buying leaf tickets to get all the fortune cookie goodies.

It was nice to play waiting for NH to release but it's quickly grew old after so much waiting, though I did wish I could bring my items from that to NH. It did feel weird the villagers only became friends once you accommodate their needs though

I wish Nintendo would have just released a 50 €/$ full version of Pocket Camp without any other microtransactions. I would gladly have played that. Instead they made it a game that become very expensive very fast so I stopped playing it after spending too much money on it and receiving very little for that money. Better idea just buy a console version of any Animal Crossing game than play on the phone even though the phone game worked surprisingly well.

Honestly I might give Pocket Camp another go if you can still get all past event items, even if it’s slow (because I might actually scream if not, I care a lot about decorating and character customization ok?), but rn im still mad at it. I’m mad that pocket camp was given more attention from Nintendo than the game fans have been asking for for years, that ACNH couldn’t have AT LEAST gotten ports of the cute asf clothes and furniture, but I don’t think that’s what makes me the angriest anymore. It’s the fact that pocket camp got more personalities, as people are not only complaining about how shallow ACNH’s dialogue is, but how samey it is between villagers. More villager types are extremely overdue, whether it was implemented before or after ACNH updates. I’m so jealous if you enjoy this game, and I’ll try it out myself to see if I can enjoy it myself, and have a better opinion of

Love your video, and I haven't even finished watching.

I played it around when it first came out, and always wanted to play it way more often, and even now, but my phone never had enough storage, and I live in an area where signal and wifi are poor, so it would hardly load enough for me to play thoroughly anyway 😢

I'm an absolute pocket camper and your video represents well why! For 3,5 yrs I haven't skipped a day playing the game (except for maybe 3 days when I almost died, fair excuse), and I'll keep going as long as ACPC will, even going to start a YT channel for it soon 🤪 Thank you for the video!

I used to play this game 10 hrs at a time during early 2020 pandemic but after I picked up new horizons I stopped really playing it besides a few times for nostalgia and to get over nh burnout

I feel old.

I’ve been playing ACPC on and off for over 4 years, because I love the art and characters of the games but have never owned a games console and don’t think it would be worth it for me to get one. It’s nice to able to join in the Animal Crossing community with just a phone!

I just got pocket camp and have been enjoying it. I didn't know it existed until about a week ago

I've started to write a comment here like 6 times and just have to agree to disagree with a lot of what you've said here. That said, in the interest of finding common ground, I do agree that New Horizons is awful. I think there's a reason that so many fans have had to look backwards, and there's more debate now than ever in which older AC game is the best and/or deserves more attention. I've been with the series since GC, but have found myself going back to New Leaf. Everyone has their own preferences, so no disrespect meant by this of course, but I think it's just interesting that while most of us can't agree on which game is best, a lot of us agree that New Horizons is not what we wanted or expected.

Not my dumbass believing in 2019 that they'd add (some) Pocket Camp items to NH... I loved the creativity in PC and even a lot of the F2P items were gorgeous. I don't spend on mobile games usually. I haven't in PC either, but still, it offers a lot to an active F2P player. My campsite looks/looked absolutely gorgeous. I haven't played since NH released and I'm busy playing ACNL atm. But I surely will return to PC one day, it's fun and isn't nearly as bad regarding cash grabs than MANY other mobile games.

keep in mind too, pocket camp is the only animal crossing that is free - if you dont count microtransactions

Well done! Well thought out too, while I don't fully agree, I do agree that for a mobile game AC:PC is good & has more longevity than New Horizons. I personally have an issue with microtransactions in general, I genuinly think it's a cancer that'll lead to some serious complications if it's not treated & removed soon. Anyways other than that Pocket Camp is an exemplarary mobile game. o7 take it easy man.

I also really enjoy pocket camp, i love all of the little features and I enjoy the daily tasks far more than I enjoy New Horizons daily tasks! Pocket camp was actually my first AC game because ei never had a game cube or any other console that housed Animal Crossing so when ACNH came out I was so excited because I became invested after ACPC!

10:02 Scavenger hunts... The bane of my existence. I hate these events!

I tried Pocket Camp when it was released but had never played an Animal Crossing game before so I didn't get into it. But when I got massively into New Horizons, I decided to redownload Pocket Camp and have been playing it almost every day since then (going on 3 years.. holy). I also use the happy helper plan because it's really affordable and it lets me have my favourite villager follow me around and help me out. Especially helpful for resources and event resources.

Finally someone is taking about this. I've been playing since the game came out and it's good to see other people care about it

wow really good video! I got back into the game recently, hadn't played since the release. it's so good now! Crazy it's still getting updates and horizons isn't.

It was extremely watered down but I loved it

I will say I didn’t really enjoy pocket camp, but I just didn’t know how to play it, it was just complicated to me, maybe I’ll revisit it sometime to actually play and enjoy it

New Horizons was my first Animal Crossing, but I started Pocket Camp last September and, in a lot of ways, I do prefer it over NH. And, as far as the Leaf Tickets go, I think the free to get ones have a very well balanced free progress receival rate - if there's something high priced I want, it doesn't take me too long to get. I think it could certainly be very predatory for certain types of players, for most it will be a fine option to have.

i certainly haven't been playing regularly, but i've been with the game since it released and i wish people didn't dismiss it so readily. the game really isn't all that different from the mainline games.. if you're the kind that enjoys home decor and clothing, this game will have something for you. that being said, its a pay to play game in all the exact ways that have me playing it often and often in favor of new horizons.

Neremik has convinced me to play Pocket Camp again

I stopped playing few months after released and even forgot the game ever existed 😆 I came back to it and holy 💩, so much content and as said so much furniture and clothes !! I dig up into my account to find the 1st fishing competition and the 1st winter decorations from 2017 🤣🤣 Much worth gold by now ! I see that they improved alot about designing furniture, impressive !

I wanted to like this video, but you talk too fast and might want to consider slowing down so we can fully process the information even with lowering the playback speed. I was still unable to completely understand you’re talking points. :(

I played every single AC games since the gamecube, yes even amiibo festival, which I didn't really enjoy. I played PC as a distraction until NH came out, and now I've gone back to PC because I'm utterly bored of NH. I like both for different reasons, but NH felt so limited while PC had much more designs and flavour from day 1. Idk I just ended up enjoying PC more, and it's way nicer to play on my daily commute versus bringing my expensive switch out on the bus/train lol.

I just started playing pocket camp again and i remembered why i quit though. Im level 80 for perspective. I started on release day Au launch. With that said as much as I LOVE pocket camp i find I stop playing almost immediately everytime I pick it back up. Why? Everything is timed. Everything. I don't want to have to pay a membership on top of already grinding for years to just keep playing the game regularly. The game is adorable. The buildings the villagers all the new items are absolutely amazing. I refuse to give into microtransactions because if they try this crap with mainline animal crossing games id be devastated and if given enough money and support they have reason to take that step. I just wish theyd port all the super cute exclusive stuff to the mainline games. Even if it was dlc id happily pay a one time fee like HHD but otherwise I get bored so quickly with pocket camp because of its base timed gameplay.