Planet Zoo | ZooKeepers Animal Pack Announcement

Yeah, I don't want to be mean to the current CMs because some of them probably don't have much passion for this game but were put in charge of management of the socials anyways. Hopefully they hire more interested CMs for PZ2.
It's just another elite dangerous vs planet series playerbase issue, we see it all the time in the frontier livestreams since spaceships are cooler or whatever.
 
I suspect that because they were planning on ending support soon lots of planet zoo staff including most or all the social media were laid off, especially because many of these social media people won't need to be rehired for years until they start advertising the sequel
It all just seems odd to me. They couldn't get anyone to inject a bit more enthusiasm in to the recent communications, to the "last pack" excitement? The people involved don't need to actually care about zoos after all. How many of us fake enthusiasm every day about whatever our respective employers make/do?
I just think it's a weird business decision to alienate customers who have followed their game for years and whom they presumably want to market PZ2 to in a few years time.
 
Remember, before we had like 5 people in their community manager team responsible for the Planet series. After they were fired or decided to leave, the managers from Elite took up from them and then they hired one new CM who was probably thrown in with not much of futher explaining since all the other people were specialized in Elite. It is unfortunate for us, but I do not blame any of the CMs.
 
So I got Idea on how to make the pack just a bit better, not perfect, but better. First of all make the anniversary animal the Sulcata Tortoise, freeing a spot in the dlc.
I would keep Pallas Cat, Andean Bear, Markhor and Baboon, but replace the rest

Dik-Dik to Muntjac: I love you Dik-Dik but the Muntjac is just better

Sulcata Tortoise to African Crowned
Crane: sense the Tortoise is now a anniversary animal we can finally get a bird, and the Crane is perfect

Sifaka to Mantled Geruza or Aurra River Turtle: if they really don't want to give us a SA Monkey in the final pack then I got some ideas, the Mantled Geruza would give us a new tropical african monkey, which is quite useful or if they want to do a really weird and unique pick then the Arrua River Turtle gives us a large Turtle to put in are tropical houses, ponds, etc. Honorable mention to the Secretary Bird and Tree Kangaroo, maybe next time.

Add Cobra as Exhibit along side the scenery and charge for 15$.

I don't hate this pack by the way it is just a little disappointing, but I am just glad we didn't end on Barnyard.
No, the African Leopard is amazing.

I don't care about Dik-Dik to Muntjac as I love them equally

Sifaka should NOT be changed, animations amazing
 
So, in the end the tortoise, which is arguably the best looking animal from this DLC, is the only one without a dedicated post from the official planet zoo social media. Or did I miss something? Is the post still coming? 🐢🐢🐢
 
Remember, before we had like 5 people in their community manager team responsible for the Planet series. After they were fired or decided to leave, the managers from Elite took up from them and then they hired one new CM who was probably thrown in with not much of futher explaining since all the other people were specialized in Elite. It is unfortunate for us, but I do not blame any of the CMs.
No, I'm definitely not blaming any individual at Frontier. I'm just talking about the general structure and feel of things now, it seems that they have lost their way a bit.

Anyway, I don't want to get too doom and gloom here, as I am looking forward to the pack tomorrow. I'm surprised by how much I liked the Dik-Dik! Can't wait to see that little guy in my zoos.
 
Sifaka to Mantled Geruza or Aurra River Turtle: if they really don't want to give us a SA Monkey in the final pack then I got some ideas, the Mantled Geruza would give us a new tropical african monkey, which is quite useful or if they want to do a really weird and unique pick then the Arrua River Turtle gives us a large Turtle to put in are tropical houses, ponds, etc. Honorable mention to the Secretary Bird and Tree Kangaroo, maybe next time.
Mantled Guereza would have been 100 times better and they are so much more common in zoos where I live. But I am very biased towards them.

The pack is fine imo, but that’s kinda it. Just fine. I don’t hate it nor do I love it. I’ll still buy it. None of these animals were on my list and honestly I’m mostly excited for the dik-dik and baboon. But like a lot of people, I just wanted SA primates or birds and getting none of those is a disappointment. Might they be in a PZ2 game? Sure but that’s a whole other game that is years away if it happens, and I’d need a whole other computer for it by then so not getting them now is like womp-womp.
 
I honestly feel like this is a good ending for Planet Zoo.
Not the best ending, but it could have been a lot worse.
And I feel like it should be an ending.
We already saw a pretty noticeable drop in quality with the last two DLCs, and I get why people would want more animals and more content to be released (heck, I would too) but I think that this situation can't go on forever. We ask for new animals, we get new animals, but at the same time the team at Frontier gets smaller and so the quality drops.
The more I look at the newest Zookeeper's Pack, the more I see that Frontier still tried hard, but didn't really reach the same levels as last year. It's still good, but not nearly as great as Eurasia or Oceania or Tropical... And I kind of feel bad about it. Everything gives off this sort of tired energy, like it's struggling to find the strength to go on. I feel like we won't be as lucky next time, so I personally believe that Planet Zoo should end here before the situation gets worse.
But maybe this is just me humanizing what is in fact just a company that in the end of things just cares about the money it makes...
 
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