The mobile game Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp will be shutting down at the end of November, but an offline version will be released.

A situation that is far too common in mobile games is that when the servers eventually shut down, everything is lost and nobody is able to access anything from the game without extensive fan modifications - such as Sonic Runners getting a fan-made server. With Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp shutting down on 29th November, Nintendo do have a plan in place to prevent this from happening.

Nintendo are currently developing a completely offline version of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp, with the release date and price to be annoucned at a later date. There will be no in-game purchases and all appropriate features will be unlocked.

Online features like visiting other people's camps, gifts Market Boxes will not work in the new version, but there will be a way to transfer your save data to the new version, provided that you link the game to your Nintendo account before the servers go down.

This is a great way to deal with the end of a mobile game's life, and something Sega have also done with Sonic at the Olympic Games on mobile devices. We hope that this becomes a bigger trend for mobile games.