Am I forgetting something with the campsite?

[arbra]

What is the purpose of the campsite?

I know that villagers can come from camping, but I own all the amiibo cards, so pulling in villagers is not an issue (and I am assuming that they will eventually release the new characters as cards as well.)

In New Leaf, you interacted with the campers in games to get the camping gear, but that does not seem to be case with New Horizons.

I only ever got 1 camper when I had an open space, all others I picked up when visiting mystery islands. Is the campsite really designed to provide the pulling in villagers? It just seems redundant with the mystery islands.

So am I missing some other benefit?

 

[Krissi2197]

The only purpose seems to be villager visits to move them into your island as of right now. The random spawn rate is greatly reduced as well since a lot of people (including myself) has only had 1 villager naturally visit their camp which was their mandatory villager.