It didn’t take long for Animal Crossing: New Horizon’s extensive in-game economy to escape into the real world, with social networks filling up with requests for rare recipes, or invitations to islands where turnips are selling high. A new site called Nookazon takes this to the next level, offering Animal Crossing players a platform to buy and sell in-game items for bells and materials.The site acts as a go-between where players can find each other for transactions, though most of these sales seem to be organized over Discord once the two players have connected. Nookazon also operates a Discord server to make setting up a sale even easier.
Not just limited to items and recipes, Nookazon also seems to be doing a roaring trade in villagers, catering to players who are very specific about who they want to live with.Nookazon isn’t the first site looking to help players make economic connections outside their normal circles. There’s also a Turnip Exchange, where players looking to play the Stalk Market can find islands where turnips are selling high–for a price. To visit one island listed at the time of writing as having a turnip sell price of 615 bells, for example, the island’s owner asks for a 99,000 bell fee.
That level of player dedication has already been taken to one of its logical extremes. On April 9, Redditor cockspicious shared with the Animal Crossing subreddit that Nookazon, a “marketplace to trade items, crafts, and share wishlists,” was open for business. Since, Nookazon has understandably seen a meteoric rise in attention and use, with some tweets about the fledgling site’s very existence getting viral attention in just the past couple days. Nookazon functions much like it’s ubiquitous seller marketplace inspirations, with sellers listing furniture, exotic creatures, and more for sale prices at their discretion, scheduling online meet-ups with buyers, and exchanging bells, items, or even characters for their goods.
Animal Crossing’s titular villagers are also for sale. Twitter user kwinsii documents the exorbitant prices for which fan favorite animal Raymond is being sold by lucky users, meanwhile characters widely considered unattractive or otherwise unpleasant are being offered for bells on the dollar. Taking advantage of soon-to-be former residents’ last day on players’ islands, animal trading is an exploit that’s been around as long as Animal Crossing has had online functionality, and Nookazon has taken the practice to the mainstream. Some uninitiated players are half-facetiously comparing this growing animal trade to real-world human trafficking, making it the dark side of Nookazon. Finally, to enjoy all the features in the game, players can Buy Animal Crossing Materials from 5mmo.com at a reasonable price.
