Today, Nintendo released a major update for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which hidden something that wasn’t mentioned in the patch notes.

Some players received a little from Nook Bank stating that their interest rate has decreased. Typically, the maximum interest a player could earn is 99,999 bells. Players have reported that their monthly interest rate has been reduced up to 1/10 of what they usually receive (99,999 bells -> 9,999 bells)

As an “apology” for the interest rate reduction, a Bell Pouch Rug was gifted to these players:

It’s unclear why or how these players were seeing their interest rates decimated, but some believe this could be targeted at players which have a certain number of bells in their bank account, as Nintendo is probably guessing they could have exploited time travel to earn interest quickly.

What do you think? Let us know in the comments.