Zac, you've successfully managed to both confuse and alienate by effectively being unable to clarify anything whilst simultaneously saying quite a lot.
It's just confusing. Folks have wanted some clarity for a while and yet I now understand less than I did before I read this thread.
It would help just a tad by being a little more specific and a little less reliant on the "trust us" trope because that's kinda asking a lot.
Thanks for the update. I think? I feel like someone has just taken my cat away from me (despite not actually having one) and it's all a bit confusing.
Heya buddy. Sorry you feel that way. It's certainly not the intention. *Hands back cat*
I'll try and summarize for you here, let me know if that helps.
- Some elements of the Chapter Four update have had to be prioritized and this means they won't be making it into the Chapter Four update.
- This means that other parts of the Chapter Four update have been able to get more time on them improving other elements of the update.
- In addition, we have now gone into early stages of development on the next era of content coming after the "Beyond" season. It's still very early so we aren't able to share those details with you right now.
- The Chapter Four update is still the largest update in the Beyond season and we'll be showing the content to everyone soon.
- We had said that there would be additional premium (paid for) content coming in 2018, but we have decided to not put that paid for content out this year and instead focus on the long term vision for the game and that future development.
- I am sticking around to answer questions like this to try and avoid any jumping to conclusions.
I appreciate that some of this can be somewhat vague. But that's explained in the post above. This is a very open and transparent update on the game and we're looking forward to showing you the Chapter Four content.
I hope that makes it simpler.