Nintendo details free-to-play Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp's two new subscription plans
It might look adorably wholesome, but Nintendo's free-to-play mobile offering Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is home to some of the company's most egregious monetisation practices. Not content with its current level of nickel-and-diming, however, Nintendo has now fully revealed two new optional subscription plans launching for the game today.
The first of these, called the Cookie and Depot Plan, grants subscribers five free fortune cookies a month. Cookies, if you're unfamiliar, are essentially Pocket Camp's take on loot boxes, each costing around £3 and rewarding a single random piece of themed furniture or clothing - although, inevitably, duplicates are possible and drop rates for rarer items are extremely low. Nintendo says the plan will feature cookies from select older sets no longer in circulation.
Additionally, those running out of in-game storage space for accrued items are being firmly nudged in the direction of the Cookie and Depot Plan too. The subscription, which costs $7.99 USD (around £6) a month, will also provide an expanded inventory. Here's a video in which Nintendo tries to wrap its latest mobile monetisation gambits in a cute bow:
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