Good point!… financial year(s) in the uk are weird.Nobody's guessing as to when the financial year starts and ends... It's listed as May 31 right on their web site. And its in the financial docs.
Spring 2024 DLC Speculation
- Thread starter The Carcharodontogenius
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I don’t read in the financial report that this will be the last DLC. I only read there will one before the end of the financial year.
It speculation that it will be the last one.
Even though sales is declining PZ dlcs still gaining enough money and probably the new planet game will release somewhere close to November.
That said it would not surprise me if we get two more DLCs or maybe even more than that if they sell good.
I mean the YouTube creators might be right but they have been wrong before and to me their prove from the report is not rock solid.
It speculation that it will be the last one.
Even though sales is declining PZ dlcs still gaining enough money and probably the new planet game will release somewhere close to November.
That said it would not surprise me if we get two more DLCs or maybe even more than that if they sell good.
I mean the YouTube creators might be right but they have been wrong before and to me their prove from the report is not rock solid.
Well that's if frontier sticks to the usual pattern of final expansion dlcs.
I feel like this exact same thing has been said a hundred times already, but of course it is speculation, it's just not baseless speculation.
Nobody out here is saying that it's 100% sure that it's the last one, what people are saying that there are signs.The financial reports in the past were always pretty clear about more PDLC in the future. They referred to "PDLC in FY(NEXT FISCAL YEAR)" or in last time's case, "PDLC throughout CY2023". In all of the last few financial documents we've gotten, they did not mention anything like that. That's a clear difference from what we had before, no denying that.
It's the equivalent of someone saying to you "I'm going to the market for eggs and cookies" four days in a row, and then they say "I'm going to the market for eggs". Yes, you could assume that they'll still bring you cookies because they've always done so, but there's no guarantee. And the more likely scenario of the two is that they'll just bring eggs, because that's what they said.
There are two distinct scenarios we have atm:
- Frontier is planning more PDLC in the next FY, but does not announce them ahead of time
- Frontier is not planning more PDLC in the next FY, so they don't have anything to announce ahead of time
That said, either scenario is still possible, they're just not equally likely. Most people here seem to agree that the scenario two is the most logical and likely one.
Yeah as @Captain Callum has stated, we might know. We're in new waters when it comes to Frontier, so anything could possibly shift.
Especially given that not only the non-technical dev part of the PZ team was impacted, we know of at least one animator that worked on Planet Zoo that got laid off already. There's no guarantees that they only got rid of animators, most likely it's more than just that.
The snowy owl
Might be a little bit of cheating, but forcing the most common in zoos bird of prey into the game is only rivaled by a parrot, which is imo equally valid and id force both as habitat animals.
Having birds of prey and larger parrots as habitat animals would be imo the best move to ensure the long term success of the game, as the pool of popular animals to put into packs just sky rocket.
Like just compare these two scenery packs for NA:
ABB
White Tailed Deer
Canada Goose
North American Porcupine
Corn Snake
Decent pack id say, but nothing with mass appeal.
Now swap literally any of these animals with a bald eagle and voila mass appeal secured.
While i see the logic behind that, im the end does it really matter to not "dilute" their marketing?
Lets be real here, console and pc are completly different markets with different audiences.
Doesnt it make more sense to engage with both markets instead of letting the loyal pc market run dry on information?
Come on, its Frontier we are taking about.
They can barely communitcate with one playerbase xd.
But frontier shares the news in the same way which still can result in overcrowding posts. If they release the DLC while still wanting to focus on console release, there will be a lot of pz posts crowding my feed lol
Nah completly Unnessecary.
Tease in the forums and then just release with a post here and dum dum dum on steam like allways.
Doesnt matter who you are and if you engage with the forums or not, if you spend any time on steam you will be see the notification on the new update and dlc and are notified.
Social media does console and dlc is handled by the forum and steam and everyone is notified without any overlap in advertisement
And totally ignore for example the twitter, facebook and insta posts for the DLCs like usual? Seems a bit odd to do that, as it basically would mean ignoring a lot of advertisment for something they want to sell.
Idk social media is such an integral part of marketing these days that it would feel wrong for frontier to just stop doing that
Ofcourse it would be a little weird, but i doubt that anyone is gonna buy the new dlc because of social media.
Nevertheless, no matter what they do leaving us in the dark is like allways a bad thing cause all we can do is bad.
Doom talking and loosing hope => bad
Hyping up idears like a bigger pack or south america when frontier has different plans => bad
Predict the theme and hype up a roster thats inenviteably better then what we will get => bad
Distance ourself from the game and potentially loose interest and investment => bad
Leaving us in the dark just feeds dissapointment and disilusion with frontier, meanwhile just giving us a "hey, there will be more then one dlc coming to planet zoo" alone would rekindle alot of positivity both towards the game and frontier.
Ofcourse there are reasons to keep quiet but it doesnt need a genius to see that a bit of transparancy would be the best marketing to keep the game alive by a long shot
Nevertheless, no matter what they do leaving us in the dark is like allways a bad thing cause all we can do is bad.
Doom talking and loosing hope => bad
Hyping up idears like a bigger pack or south america when frontier has different plans => bad
Predict the theme and hype up a roster thats inenviteably better then what we will get => bad
Distance ourself from the game and potentially loose interest and investment => bad
Leaving us in the dark just feeds dissapointment and disilusion with frontier, meanwhile just giving us a "hey, there will be more then one dlc coming to planet zoo" alone would rekindle alot of positivity both towards the game and frontier.
Ofcourse there are reasons to keep quiet but it doesnt need a genius to see that a bit of transparancy would be the best marketing to keep the game alive by a long shot
i think you underestimate how much power social media has on these things, a lot of people only learn about the new DLC because of them, you can easily check that by just looking in the comments under any dlc announcement and see multiple comments about what animals are in the dlc, when it releases and so on. So to not advertise it on social media is just bad marketing.
"Leaving us in the dark just feeds dissapointment and disilusion with frontier, meanwhile just giving us a "hey, there will be more then one dlc coming to planet zoo" alone would rekindle alot of positivity both towards the game and frontier."
that only applies IF there is more than one DLC coming, which atm is not so likely.
That only applies if the people just do not log into steam.
Its really hard to not learn about one of your games getting new content, steam makes sure to let you know as it is in their best interest to do so, so aslong as the person interacts with videogames on their pc at all they will know
that might be the case, still not everyone logs into steam every day, but they definitely are active on social media more often and multiple times a day. Hence why many, many people only learn about a new dlc through social media, since thats where they are. For a company that is bleeding money atm it seems very countereffective to just ignore a big part of their marketing strategy all of the sudden.
To play devil's advocate to this point in particular, they did not confirm more JWE2 DLCs in the next fiscal year in their latest financial report either, but data-mining has confirmed another DLC after this one.
But is ignoring their consumers any better?
Idc if they market on social media or not, i just made the Statement that who wants to know and buy the dlc will know cause somebody else doubted frontiers willingness to advertise two similar products at the same time on social media.
If we talk about what i want, i want a statement rn about if this is the last dlc or not.
Answering this question is beneficial for everyone if the answer is no and if its the last dlc and people are upset by that then we atleast got an answer and no fake hope no more.
All being silent does is make the frustration with frontier worse once the cat is out of the bag
i agree with you on that one, we finally need a definitive answer to what the state of the game is now. Not just to finally settle these heated debates on social media and stop the custom of calling people doom-callers for saying the game will end (so annoying and childish my god).
Yes but as @Doran pointed out already, this was already in the files since the Dominion release in 2022. So with the new information we have at hand, we have no confirmation that the PDLC10 slot is guaranteed. All we know is that it's there, but we're a full year since it was discovered, and Frontier has taken loads of hits in the past year; so there's a real chance they decided to cut it off early to focus their resources on the next CMS game.