Yesterday, Nintendo revealed more details about its highly anticipated Animal Crossing mobile game. Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp lets players customize their campsites and take part in all sorts of fun activities (such as fishing and collecting bugs).

But the mobile game will also include microtransactions, as players can spend real money on a currency called 'Leaf Tickets' (that can also be earned through normal play). Then, in turn, these Leaf Tickets can be spent to acquire various items or to speed up the game's timers, getting Tom Nook's help to construct things quicker.

Given that Nintendo's very first mobile game, Miitomo, included microtransactions, the fact that Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp includes them too is no surprise. The Animal Crossing series has always been about debt repayment as players must collect and sell items in order to pay what they owe Tom Nook for building their home expansions. So with Tom Nook being tied to the microtransactions in the mobile game, many fans have taken to social media to turn the character into a meme.

Some players suggested that Tom Nook and his microtransactions could have some serious consequences, including hopping out of the game to give players a 'real reminder' that they have to pay their bills. A few tweets even considered how long it would take for Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp's microtransactions to land someone in actual debt. Out of control microtransaction bills have happened with other games after all.

But others took a more sympathetic approach to the debt-collecting NPC. After all, the Animal Crossing character doesn't put too much pressure on players to repay him in the handheld console versions of the games and who is to say that he will become any more forceful in the mobile release?

The majority of fans don't seem to mind the microtransactions in and some have argued that the game's payments are true to the main series' core objective. Though admittedly, not everyone is on board. Reports from players who have got their hands on the game early have discovered that players must spend Leaf Tickets to unlock Tom Nook (and K.K Slider) as campsite visitors.

Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp isn't set for a global release until next month and so it's unclear whether Nintendo will make any changes to the microtransaction system before then. Either way, fans can expect the Tom Nook memes (both good and bad) to continue.