An🅘imal Crossing is one of Nintendo's most popular gaming properties. The game that lets you live and flourish in your own town with a bunch of animal neighbors while attending town events, fishing, collecting bugs, and other fun activities. The game started on Gamecube but an iteration has been released on pretty much every Nintendo system since its debut.
We're set to receive a brand new Animal Crossing game very soon for Nintendo Swit🅘ch. Fans have been awaiting this new game since the launch of the Switch and can't wait to start their new adventures. But there are some hilarious things to think about in terms of Animal Crossing such as how the economy is kept afloat.
Updated by Madison Lennon on February 29, 2020: We're so close to a new Animal Crossing game. The Nintendo Switch game that people have been waiting for years now is only a few weeks away. Some fans have broken out their old games just to tide them over until they can get their hands on New Horizons.
Now seemed like an opportune time to revisit this list of ways the Animal Crossing economy doesn't make much sense. We love the game for all its oddities, but it'll be interesting to see if the latest version updates some of these or leaves them as they are.
15 Ther𝓰e Are No Doctors Or Grocery Stores 🌃
Sure the game has a post office, a museum, and a general store, bꦍut what about doctors or groceries? The villagers are animals, but they're known to have human tastes, desires, and ⛄interests. Do they scavenge for food? Does anyone eat anything besides the fruit?
It's not the Sims, so obviously we can't expect the game to involve in-depth cooking but it's sort of funny to think of all the normal parts of life the villagers go without. As for doctors, you better hope ♎you have medicine around or happen to catch someone when they're sick.
14 No Oౠne Has A Job
How on earth do the other villagers in the game get any money? You're the only one who has a job by working for Nook, and even that only lasts a short while. After that, income is generated by scavenging for i🧸tems and selling them, but we don't see the villagers doing that🌺.
At most, they browse Nook's store and are occasionally shown buying somet🔯hing but not enough to generate a substantial income that would allow them to survive.
13 The Businesses Shouldn't Be Able To Stay Afloat ♏
Even if you and every anꦉimal in town were consistently purchasing things from the tailor shop and Nook's store, there is no way that any of those places would be able to remain open and functioning real life. They would crumble from th꧅e weight of financial loss within a month, at most.
Ten different people buying over-priced shirts and furniture every day isn'ꦇt enough to keep a business up-to-date, nonetheless to upgrade it as Nook does with his store multiple times throughout the games.
12 🥂The In-Game Insurance Is Terrible ꧋
Animal Crossing: Wild World introduced its own slimy insurance salesman in the form of an otter named Lyle. Lyle's goal was to sell you an insuran💯ce policy that did virtually nothing. 🅠Maybe it was the game's own way of poking fun at real-life insurance agencies but it cost many players lots of bells as they tried to keep up with it.
It didn🐈't cover much aside from bee stings and forged paintings, and even those it didn't always completely insure you for. Lyle was so bad at his job he wou🐽nd up getting fired and relegated to the Happy Room Academy.
11 Wh🌺y Is The Game's Currency Ca꧋lled Bells?
One thing we've always been curious about is the currency in the game. For some reason, everything functions with "bells." Why is the money re🔴ferred to as bells? Since it is basical෴ly coins, you would think that it would just be called coins.
You're n🏅ot actually receiving funds or adding to Nook's funds with literal bells so the terminology is somewhat perplexing. Most likely, the reason bells are the chosen term is simply to add something unique to the game so it's not just "money" or "coins."
10 Tom Nook is a monopoly ಌ 🅠
Tom Nook is basically the Walt Disney of the Animal Crossing world. He monopolizes everything and it's only by your money, and the rest of the town's citizens, that we are able to see🍷 him grow. While you're saddled with c🍰ountless loans, Mr. Moneybags is increasing his empire.
It's why🍎 you watch the Nook shop grow from a small shack to a grand mall by the time it's reached its final expansion. While there are other shops in the game, especially in the more recent Animal Crossing games, Nook's is by far the most prosperous and tꦍhe only one that actually grows in size.
9 Resett💧i has been fired
Okay maybe this guy had it coming but it's a rough economy out there, even for angry moles. In truth, Resetti is a prime example of an eco🐼nomy where electronics come in and take over the job, just like everyone has been warning us about. In this case, the upcoming Animal Crossing game for the switch is not going to have Resetti in his regular role.
Why? Because New Horizons is going to introduce the concept of auto-saving and tha꧃t means we won't have Resetti yelling at us for not saving. However, you'll still see him around. Apparently, he's going to be hunting for a new job that Nintendo is staying quiet about.
8 You can pay Tom Nook real money ♚
As if it's not enough for Tom Nook to be something of an au🐽thoritarian in the world of Animal Crossing, with the introduction of Animal Crossing: Pocke𒁏t Camp, Animal Crossing also brings in the world of microtransactions. Now you can use real money in the game to earn leaf tickets which allow you to complete tasks more quickly.
It's kind of ironic that Tom Nook has been taking our hard-earned bells for years to pay off loans and to buy things from his store, now he can officially take our real dollars as ꧟well. It's like he planned this out from the very beginning.
7 ܫ You can pay off your loans with fruit, s𝔉hells, and fish
Imagine if you could pay off your real loans with things 🌟you can find out in the wild. Like wow, you could turn a dozen oranges into your whole school loan if you were lucky! All it would take is a few days of fishing and bug catching on the is🎐land and all of a sudden you're swimming in money and you can go turn that into your car loans, school loans, bank loans, etc.
If only some of the Animal Crossing economy tactics actually worked in real life we might ⛎be better off. But in the game it's also kind of hilarious to think about the fact selling♑ fish is what paid off your third house expansion.
6 There's no rules or regulations when selling t⛄o neighbors
Do you ever think about how technically risky it is when you go to your neighbors and they ask you to get the items in exchange for bells or they try to sell you something at random and you have no way of checking out the q🤡uality first? It's kind of like the wild wild west out here in Animal Crossing.
These neighbors of yours could be selling you broken furniture or handing over counterfeit coins and you would never know! Obviously, that doesn't really happen in the game🌌 but when you th𒅌ink about it from a realistic perspective, it's kind of like you're wading through the Craigslist of animals.