{"id":124581,"date":"2022-05-06T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-131066"},"modified":"2022-05-06T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T17:00:00","slug":"soapbox-crossing-the-line-how-i-helped-corrupt-the-animal-crossing-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/05\/06\/soapbox-crossing-the-line-how-i-helped-corrupt-the-animal-crossing-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Soapbox: Crossing The Line: How I Helped Corrupt The Animal Crossing Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image: Roland Ingram<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s midnight by the pier. I check I\u2019m alone, feel nervously into my pocket and count the money with my fingers. It’s all there: 40 massive sacks of coins. Big pocket. I flip up the lid of the wheelie bin and dump the lot. 4 million bells erased from the universe and no one need ever know.<\/p>\n

How did it come to this? Shovelling currency into the garbage in the dead of night? Well, you may not be aware that Animal Crossing: New Horizons<\/a>‘ playtime materialism has spiralled into a greedy, underworld sub-game with a powerful pull, that Nintendo never planned to make. I had binned my integrity long before the bells. I wanted out.<\/p>\n

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