Keep in mind that pack also introduced the first flying animal, a huge new mechanic, arid pack didn’t introduce anything “new” to the game in terms of mechanics and ways to build.
Fall DLC 2023 Speculation
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This. This is good. I like the balance of each continent and animal groups here.
Considering how iffy aviary birds are still, I'd maybe swap it in for an Aussie lizard like a frilled-lizard or even a thorny devil, to give Australia the same amount of rep. Or if it must be a bird, budgies could work.
But the porcupine was already revealed at announcement, people hadn’t seen the donkey yet until that screenshot was revealed.
Kookaburra please
Because it was an animal pack
I really don’t think it has anything to do with that. People like what they like and they clearly didn’t like the porcupine as much as the donkey.
Yeah I guess
Giant Pandas
Meerkats
Capybaras
Wombats
Koalas
They will all get along since they shouldn’t really be trying to eat each other. The meerkats too small to be of much danger and the Giant Pandas are 99.99% bamboo eaters
Saiga
Red panda
Indian giant squirrel
Umbrella cockatoo
Gouldian finch
I have no idea how this would work at all, but they would be gorgeous to observe.
Golden Lion Tamarin
Serval
Reticulated Giraffe
Yellow Footed Rock Wallaby
Red Panda
Honorable Mentions: cabybara, Asian small clawed otter, macaws
Ok, let's do this:
- Commerson's dolphin - my favorite sea animal
- Gray fox - my favorite living animal
- American black bear - my favorite bear
- Jaguar - my favorite cat
- Red-eyed tree frogs - my favorite frogs
Kakapo
Rhinoceros Iguana
Galapagos Giant Tortoise
Brown-Throated Sloth
Eastern Long-Beaked Echidna
Lotta rare species that I'd love to see in person, plus I just really like iguanas.
Raccoon (yes there exotic to me, I've never seen one irl)
Small clawed otter
Argentine tegu
Short beaked echidna
Golden pheadant
We might get exhibit drop bears before we get exhibit birds.......
I see them adding first a dodo and a thylacine than flying birds
If only I had a back yard!
That's a bit of an unfair statement tbh.
Yes, I agree that the majority of reasons we have for expecting support to end either this year or next year are mostly speculative. They're based on observations we can make, but it's only fair to say that we're always making observations by looking at the tip of the ice berg as we simply don't have much more insight into Frontiers' process.
However, to say we have no actual indications is to ignore the financial documents we have, provided by Frontier themselves. For the past yew years, the annual reports referred to "PDLC in the next fiscal year". Every time it did that, we got an extra full year of DLC. Last year however, they didn't, and instead specifically mentioned PDLC throughout calendar year 2023. That is a change and one with bigger implications.
In the latest full year trading report, we got the line :
Given that we're currently in FY24 and that it ends on May 31st 2024, this statement does not contradict the earlier statement by Frontier. We've still got 2 DLCs to come, so even without a DLC in March, this statement still holds true.
So basically Frontier went from saying "we'll give you a cookie now and a cookie tomorrow" for several days in a row, to saying "we'll give you a cookie now". To say that you might still get a cookie tomorrow is a hopeful interpretation, but it can also be an indication that you're not getting one at all. To say that there's no indication at all, is a bit unfair.
Are these things the nails in the coffin? Of course not, because we know that Frontier won't outright say that PZ's development is over, they haven't done that in the past with other games either. The next major financial document we get is in September, that will give us at least some more information on the future. If it once again states CY23 or mentions FY24, then I'd say we've got a pretty strong indication that either the December DLC is the last one, or the March DLC is the last one. If it says FY25, we're in the clear.
At this moment in time, we're more in limbo than we've been in the past few years. Luckily, September is not long anymore.
PS: I mentioned March DLC, as Easter 2024 is the 31st of March and every single Spring Planet DLC since 2018 has been released the week of Easter.