Animal Crossing is just for people to just chill and relax away from reallife , in which many people actually find interacting with other people stressful whether through shyness , antisocial , or outright terrified of interacting with people onlineIn turn , turning the game into an outright MMO would alienate a lot of the fanbase . And before anyone says it would be optional so is Amiibo , but it ' s so heavily implemented into the game that it ' s hard to ignore , which would be the case for this too , especially with all the new features you suggested . My question is how I would turn it off when I want alone time ? Have to restart the game ? Also , allowing random strangers to come in anytime ? Visiting ones ' towns unannounced is considered very rude within the standards of the fandom . Personally I feel if we could open the gates with start like with how we close them , is good enough .