Animal Crossing: New Horizons recently had its two-year anniversary on March 20, 2022. Indeed, it’s a big day for any New Horizons fans and they were expecting a lot of anniversary rewards from developers.

Although Nintendo already announced it will no longer support ACNH with any major updates in the future, fans at least expected the same rewards as last year.

However, to everyone’s surprise, Nintendo didn’t even tweet anything related to the anniversary. Naturally, this triggered a lot of ACNH fans and they showed their anger online.

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Regardless of any official announcement, some users still had some expectations regarding the in-game rewards. Were their expectations met by Nintendo? Continue reading to find out.

Nintendo disappoints fans with no in-game rewards on Animal Crossing: New Horizons’ two-year anniversary

After selling huge millions of units on Nintendo Switch, ACNH has truly created an enormous impact on the community. Therefore, it was understandable that players were having huge expectations for New Horizons’ two-year anniversary. Interestingly, Doom Eternal and New Horizons share the same initial release date.

Shockingly, Doom Eternal released a two-year anniversary cake for its users, while ACNH offered nothing. Because of the developer’s ignorance towards the fanbase, several creators didn’t support Nintendo for their behavior. Moreover, YouTuber SwitchForce mentioned developers didn’t release any anniversary cake as they did for one-year anniversary.

In the video, he mentions, ” You are joking, right? Two years, 40 million copies, changing the world for so many people devoted fan base that buys the heck out of the merch, bought the heck out of the game, recommends it to their friends, gets the expansion pack, grabs DLC, plays thousand of hours. Not even a cake.”

He further mentions that even Doom Eternal celebrated its two-year anniversary with a cake. Naturally, anyone would feel disappointed by developers’ actions regarding the two-year anniversary. Do you Nintendo will release a thank you update, after receiving so much criticism from the community? Let us know in the comments down below.

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