Nintendo will sell the upcoming paid version of its smartphone Animal Crossing app for £18 ($20) after the closure of i…
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Why are they doing it? Legal troubles? I didn’t see any explanation in the article.

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The article links to a previous article about the online service for the free to play version shutting down. It looks like the Complete edition is an offline version where all the content will be available through gameplay without microtransactions, where the events will rotate every 4 years. HTH

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Right, that’s the article that doesn’t explain why they’re doing it.

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It’s reportedly been running for seven years, so I suppose I just assumed that they didn’t want to pay to maintain the online service for all eternity.

The other reply’s probably also got a good point in terms of actual staff doing support for it, too.

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