And which animals or packs would that be in your opinion?
I'm obviously not going to go back to every pack, but North America Animal Pack was a very clear example of animals that were all on the list and high on the list as well. And had other animals that could have been both easier for them to develop and were probably more well known.
Sakis in deserts? okay... I didn't know that.
Uhm, I don't know where you're going with this. The saki is one of the animals that deviates from the desert motive. I think you might have misread it?
Sorry, but who does play a zoo game if not zoo-nerds? Especially at this point in time, where all ABC animals are more or less in game already!
Again, I feel like you're reading stuff that isn't there.
Obviously zoo nerds are still playing this game, and I never said they weren't. But zoo nerds are not as big of a niche as we'd like them to be, we'd have far more zoo games than we have today. The point is that the game currently still sells well enough that it also targets people
outside the zoo nerd niche; aka people who care much more about animals in general and really just want to watch these animals in the game rather than building the zoo of their dreams.
And if we assume that most players who are supposed to buy the new DLC already bought the ones before
A difficult assumption to make without having actual sales data though. No matter how obvious an assumption might seem to us, without data to back it up we could be completely wrong. There's tons of examples of that all over the world, like how weight doesn't impact the rate of free falling objects. We'd assume that it does, but it ends up not.
So I won't go and make that assumption, especially given how their business model doesn't force you to buy all the DLCs.
Frontier fooling us sometimes in the old livestreams, e.g. when the wanted us to believe we would get the Spectacled Bear as part of as South America Animal Pack instead giving us the Spectacled Caiman as part of a wetlands pack.
Part of teasing animals means that there's always multiple interpretations, I don't think they ever intended us to believe we were getting a South America Animal Pack to begin with.
Or making us believe we would get the highly requested Mountain Animal PACK with MAnul, Markhor and Baboon in the keyart, when it wasn't.
Again, I don't think that was their intention either. Heck, if they wanted us to think it was a mountain pack then I'm sure as hell their key-art would have represented a mountain area much better
with something that looked like this.
Sometimes the fanbase here gets really carried away with what they think it's going to be and part of teasing your packs is giving up that control. That can go really well, or backfire massively
And again letting me wonder, why they don't take the meta-wishlist more "serious" or at least as a bigger inspiration as they obviously do.
Because we as a community simply voice what we want without looking at the practical side of things. They have to think about deadlines, budgets, team capacity, etc. etc. Wishlists are just wishes, but reality sometimes demands other approaches I'm afraid.
On top of that, I'm fairly sure they have a lot more metrics than we do. They used to post these kind of metrics one the anniversary showcasing what the most common animals were etc.; so I think they have very good insights on what people like and don't like. The fact that we got so many bears might just be because their metrics show that loads of people have bears in the zoos they build. Same goes for canids.
They might just go "hey people like this type of animal, we should give them more", and to them that makes a lot of sense but to us here that might not. Because they have data we don't have.
