As If Most Of Last Years Choices Were Well Known. The Game Is For Animal Lovers, Most Of Which Would Probably Know Ocelot, Rhea And Spectacled Bear. Why Play A Zoo Game If You Don't Care That Much About Animals.
Your post is hard to read - why go to the trouble of capitalising every word? Are you hitting capslock twice for each word, or holding down Shift? Either way I can promise you it's not worth the effort.
Anyway, you're missing the point. I'm not sure whether you're doing so deliberately. I spelled it out pretty clearly, but I'll quote myself so you can read it again:
The statement is not "these animals should not be included because they are niche" it's "these animals probably have not been prioritised because they are niche".
Frontier has always included some lesser known/niche species, but they have also held back ABC species because they know that those are the animals that sell packs. We already got our big ABC South American animals; the jaguar, giant anteater, and the capuchin. This discussion isn't about whether or not that is enough to cover the continent - it clearly isn't. As much as I don't personally give a damn about them, I know full well that the coati is a common zoo animal in America and Europe and as far as I'm concerned that's enough reason to include it. The suggestion I'm making is that South America hasn't been
prioritised because there isn't really any big ABC species left from the continent to sell the theme a second time.
As for "this game is for animal lovers", who says? You don't know that. Kids play this game, dude. Some people just like zoos, some people like building things. Animal knowledge is not a pre-requisite for being a fan, and obviously Frontier knows that, otherwise they wouldn't have held back something as obvious as the meerkat for DLC.
The most upvoted "wishlist" post on reddit have tamarins as the only habitat animal
The tamarin is a monkey. It has been
routinely stated that monkeys are the exception to the rule here, by me and, you know, everyone else.
Besides, i can assure you that the avarege person is more interested on ocelot than serval and waterbuck.
The waterbuck is neither here nor there, but I can promise you the baboon in whatever form it takes (Hamadryas, olive, closely-related not-baboon gelada) is more popular than the ocelot. You know what cat pops up more than the ocelot and serval? The African leopard. The honey badger makes more appearances than the gods-damned Patagonian mara or the agouti, and don't even get me started about the secretarybird. Plus, pelicans. The great white pelican is the most popular pick, and hey look, it's an African bird.
Guineafowl, pygmy goats, Nile crocodile, all very popular choices. I understand that you're trying to get a dig in at me because the serval and waterbuck are two animals I particularly want, but I really don't care, because whatever you say doesn't change what I've observed. Even on our own meta wishlist African animals outnumber any other.
South America isn't that popular anymore. I'm not suggesting that means our final pack won't include
something from South America, because I'm not a psychic. This whole conversation actually has literally nothing to do with that anyway. Charlie asked for a possible reason as to why Frontier hasn't returned to South America, and I gave him two; A) that there aren't any ABC species left that they feel can sell a pack, and B) that South America isn't actually as popular as the seven frequent posters here think it is.
