Nintendo’s given Animal Crossing Pocket Camp a third paid subscription

Nintendo‘s mobile title Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp has received a major update adding a number of new features, including a third separate monthly subscription.

The game already contains two separate subscription services, the Happy Helper Plan ($2.99 per month) and the Furniture & Fashion Plan ($7.99 per month).

Now the game has received a major version 5.0 update, and with it a third subscription called the Merry Memories Plan, which costs a further $0.99 per month.

Each subscription offers different new features, meaning players need to subscribe to all three at a total cost of $11.97 per month if they want everything the game has to offer.

Version 5.0 includes a new Pocket Planner feature, which gives players a small planner containing an in-game event calendar and release dates for new items.

The Merry Memories Plan unlocks more features for the Pocket Planner, including customisation options and a sticker shop where you can buy stickers with bells and place them on your planner’s pages.

It also adds a new pedometer feature, which counts players’ steps (similar to Pokémon Go) and gives them rewards if they hit milestones.

Other new additions in version 5.0 which don’t require a paid subscription include the ability to have 16 animals at your campsite instead of eight, and a new smartphone widget which shows players messages from villagers on their phone’s homescreen, and lets them boot the game from these messages.

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The first two subscriptions were announced by Nintendo in November 2019. The $2.99 per month Happy Helper Plan lets players designate a villager to gather materials, earn bells and carry out villager requests while the game isn’t being played.

The $7.99 per month Furniture & Fashion plan, meanwhile, lets players save design layouts, and gives them five Fortune Cookies each month, which contain previous time-limited furniture and clothing items that are no longer available in the game.