Summary
A striking and potentially confusing trend seen amongAnimal Crossing: Pocket Campplayers is actually rooted in fairly simple motivations.Animal Crossinghas built a truly kind communityover the years, echoing the laid-back atmosphere of the franchise. Nevertheless, every gaming community has its quirks, and so it may come as little surprise that long-time players ofPocket Camphave created a trend that can seem strange to newcomers.
Animal Crossing: Pocket Campis undoubtedly among the easiestAnimal Crossingtitles to engage with, albeit perhaps not one of thebestAnimal Crossinggamesoverall. Despite being nearly a decade old, the mobile game still enjoys periodic updates that help to encourage long-term play. Of course,Animal Crossingtitles do not tend to have clear endings, but that isn’t to say that people cannot reach an endgame-like state over time. Combined with the fact thatPocket Camp, as with any title, has its limitations, it is easy to see how players have invented creative workarounds to problems over time.
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Market Box Items Can Be Extremely Expensive In Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp
Bells Cap In Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Explained
When viewing the Social tab inPocket Camp, it is not unusual to come across items being sold by other players for enormous sums, which can naturally be confusing for those less experienced with the game. In reality, the motivations for doing so are quite simple. Putting items into Market Boxes removes them from the normal inventory, thereby freeing up space.
Animal Crossing: Pocket Campdoes not have a cap on the number of Bells a player can have, although it is limited in how many it can display; any figure over 9,999,999 Bells is instead displayed as 9,999,999+ Bells.
Deliberately overpricing these items lessens the risk of them actually being bought. However, the perceived value of Bells can and does vary the more one playsPocket Camp, which can lead to these items being bought anyway.
High Market Box Prices Create Inventory Space
Excessive Bells Are Great For Buying Market Boxes Too
One’s savings inPocket Campnaturally grow over time, which for long-time players can easily translate to absurd numbers. As such, buying highly-priced items in Market Boxes actually becomes fairly reasonable. Of course, it is often worth making sure that these items are not intended to be kept, which should be relatively easy to ascertain between friends. But in many cases, this is simply a result of Bells becoming more plentiful over time, making higher prices appear more reasonable, and the items themselves can also often be quite useful to share (such as being good gifts to raise friendship levels).
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Finding exploits for Bells has always been the game in Animal Crossing New Horizons, but there is a cap to how many Bells players can have.
Although the prices sometimes seen in Market Boxes can seem exorbitant, the prices do ultimately have a reasonable explanation. Between Market Boxes freeing up inventory space and the slow devaluing of the Bell over time, it is easy to understand how the trend has taken hold. Even if the slightly risky inventory expansion does result in items being unintentionally sold, the Bells will undoubtedly serve as adequate compensation for many players ofAnimal Crossing: Pocket Camp.Meanwhile, high prices also help to keep trading interesting during the later stages of the game by having an actual impact on savings.
