This past week Nintendo held a special Direct presentation forAnimal Crossing: New Horizons, during which it unveiled a premium expansion for the game titled Happy Home Paradise. Nintendo also unveiled its finalized plans for the Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack subscription, which will include the Happy Home Paradise DLC forAnimal Crossing: New Horizons. The situation has led to confusion, however, withAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsplayers wondering what happens if their Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack subscription ends.
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If, while playing the Happy Home Paradise DLC as part of the Expansion Pack subscription,Animal Crossing: New Horizonsplayers unlock content for their main island, they can keep it. That means purchasing new items likeHappy Home Paradise’s countertops, partition walls, ambient lighting, and soundscapes result in permanent unlocks. Even after their subscription ends,Animal Crossing: New Horizonsplayers can use these items to decorate their main island.
WhatAnimal Crossing: New Horizonsplayerswon’t be able to do if their subscription ends is visit the Happy Home Paradise archipelago anymore. And as such, they won’t be able to see all of their custom vacation homes, accept requests to customize more vacation homes, or be able to purchase more new content from the Happy Home Paradise shop. The only permanently unlocked content is what a player has taken back to their home island. The rest requires a constant Nintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack subscription.
Animal Crossing: New Horizonsplayers don’t require a subscription to own the Happy Home Paradise DLC, of course. It’s available separately from theNintendo Switch Online Expansion Pack subscription, too. It costs a one-time payment of $25 and players won’t have to worry about ever losing their content.
