If I get JWE2...

[gabeluna27]

I am excited but a bit cautious, mainly because the 2021 release date took me by surprise, as I thought this would be a 2022 product to launch alongside dominion. JWE did come out a bit undercooked, but at least based on their descriptions, it looks to be a more complete experience this time around. Hopefully, we could see some gameplay footage soon. The pictures do look stunning at least

Even if it was for that time for Dominion, it wouldn’t make any good financial sense.

Even during the entirety of the COVID-19 pandemic, this game was confirmed to be for FY22 (June 1, 2021 - May 31, 2022) since November 15, 2019. It still held true in subsequent reports up til this past January, all accordingly to Frontier’s published trading updates.

This game has been planned to contribute strongly to this financial year before it ends in the end of next May.
So how does it make sense for it to be successful for this financial year if it would be released very late, that’s also close to another big major global IP release for PC and consoles? Failure to meet those revenue expectations big time, results in more bad than good for both ends.
That was one of my many reasons why I first believed it to be not JWE2, only to be proven wrong

(Today’s trading update confirms the other big game, 1 of 4 formula management games, is delayed for early FY23.)

 

[Flint2025]

Dino AI that is actually better than JPOG is what we need and from everything they've said so far it sounds like that's what we're getting. Pack hunting, herd protection, better socializing behaviors, and hopefully dinosaurs able to cause more havoc like raptors climbing out of non electric fences, pterosaurs crashing helicopters, damaging buildings as well as vehicles, etc. If I can watch my dinosaurs go through 5 or 10 different hunting/killing/fighting scenarios unique to each species in the game and add to it solo and pack variants we might actually be able to have a lot of fun with this game.

Prehistoric Kingdom isnt finished yet but from what ive seen although it offers Planet Zoo customization it also offers the same type of non realistic basically non existent animal AI behavior just like Planet Zoo.

If I have to choose between Planet Zoo customization OR a fully fledged out Dino AI that will offer hundreds of unique behaviors so that you never know what you might see next... Im choosing the ultra dynamic Dino AI. But you never know, we might get both or... neither.