Frontier, what is the estimated lifespan of this game, because I can see a lot more that can be put into it
Lifespan of Planet Zoo question for Planet Zoo
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And of course, it goes without saying that any company can decide to extend their original plans and expand their products (add more dlc) if they receive enough wildly positive support from the players (financially and inter-personally) that they just can't imagine life without us! 
And of course, it goes without saying that any company can decide to extend their original plans and expand their products (add more dlc) if they receive enough wildly positive support from the players (financially and inter-personally) that they just can't imagine life without us!
Yeah, it's possible they'll support it for longer, but I think it will depend largely on how much focus they put onto other projects and how much those projects are predicted to earn compared to PlanZo. PlanCo was just ported to console and might start receiving support again for that platform, and then the same thing might happen to Zoo. Who knows? What counts as support, in that case?
Zoo has supposedly been pretty successful, or so people say, but has it been as successful as Coaster? More successul? That's probably the best gauge.
Your wording here interests me. Are you saying you think PC will get new dlcs, on pc and console? Or just general support, like bug fixes etc.
I don't know - I don't actually know what's in the PlanCo console edition. Does it include all the PlanCo DLC from the start, or are they doing re-releases? If the former, I can imagine it might get new DLC for the console edition. However, there is also the problem (from a business perspective) that PC players will expect to get the same treatment as console players. I think it will mostly consist of free updates going forward and maybe DLC once Frontier is confident the majority of their Coaster players have migrated to console (this will be based on a sales analysis).
I second that. Quite obvious that they won't answer that question. But they have repeatedly said they have a lot planned for the future, and I don't see any reason to doubt that.
From what I can tell, it's the same as if you wanted to buy it now on Steam. You can get the base game for $40 USD, the deluxe version for $60.