DLC? Again?

[nintendoDS]

I think the new DLC is pretty stupid, they should add more to the deluxe version.

[WalrusMan]

I don't think you understand how basic principles of commerce work.

[totalwarzone]

10 Euro is to much for me too.
Maybe in sale. 2 of the new animals we have with mods too and over 200 new pieces of Jungle items who didnt look better thank actually Jungles....I dont know. Dissapointed

[XrystalBelle]

As per chasbar, they appear to be using their planet coaster release schedule with a major update and/or DLC every season. We had the Winter DLC ( Arctic), and now the Spring DLC ( South America ). Next up should be Summer and Winter again. Meaning that there will probably be a DLC every 3 or 4 months with patches added as needed in between them.

As to adding to earlier DLCs. Whose to say they won't. But there are much needed packs for areas currently with minimal habitat and/or exhibit animals. Such as European Continent which appear to have a very small count of animals.

Animals in Base Game per Continent
Africa - 34 ( 4 Exhibits )
Asia - 20 ( 1 Exhibit )
Europe - 2 ( 0 Exhibit )
North America - 8 ( 4 Exhibits )
Oceania - 4 ( 3 Exhibits )
South America - 13 ( 11 Exhibits )

Animals in Base Game per Biome
Aquatic - 6 ( 1 Exhibit )
Desert - 8 ( 4 Exhibits )
Grassland - 32 ( 5 Exhibits )
Taiga - 7 ( 0 Exhibits )
Temperate - 23 ( 6 Exhibits )
Tropical - 44 ( 16 Exhibits )
Tundra - 3 ( 0 Exhibits )

Winter 2019 DLC > Taiga/Tundra Animals
Spring 2020 DLC > South American Animals
Summer 2020 DLC >???? Specific Biome Animals ????? - Aquatic or Desert Perhaps ??
Winter 2020 DLC > ???? Specific Continent Animals ????? - Europe or Oceania Perhaps ??

Maybe once they have cycled through each Biome/Continent once they will cycle through again with updates... but they will need to introduce new chargeable DLCs to ensure they have some funding for their ongoing costs.

[jcp011c2]

Yes, DLC again. That's how many games work nowadays. And for as many people who complain about DLC being released and costing more or releasing instead of bug fixes (which is also going on btw), you have just as many people who are happy new DLC is coming. With opposing views, the developer will not possibly make everyone happy. So they must do what they must do as a business. also of course, DLC is optional. But if they developers didn't make any, there wouldn't be an option to choose to buy it or not.

[Aturchomicz]

Originally posted by jcp011c2:

Yes, DLC again. That's how many games work nowadays. And for as many people who complain about DLC being released and costing more or releasing instead of bug fixes (which is also going on btw), you have just as many people who are happy new DLC is coming. With opposing views, the developer will not possibly make everyone happy. So they must do what they must do as a business. also of course, DLC is optional. But if they developers didn't make any, there wouldn't be an option to choose to buy it or not.

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[Tikre]

My problem isn't that there is another DLC, the problem for me is the lack of animals per DLC. Out of the millions of different species living in South-America, many of which are unique and we don't have a version of in the game, we only get 5 more. Add some more cat species, some more per DLC, please! I don't care if they are reskins of either new or previously available animals. I had hopes that in time Planet Zoo would be adding a majority of major animals, plus many varieties of the "Exhibit" animal species. But if they're adding only around 20 a year... That's a big disappointment to me.

[Maffeketel]

Originally posted by Nasta:

My problem isn't that there is another DLC, the problem for me is the lack of animals per DLC. Out of the millions of different species living in South-America, many of which are unique and we don't have a version of in the game, we only get 5 more. Add some more cat species, some more per DLC, please! I don't care if they are reskins of either new or previously available animals. I had hopes that in time Planet Zoo would be adding a majority of major animals, plus many varieties of the "Exhibit" animal species. But if they're adding only around 20 a year... That's a big disappointment to me.

That's exactly how I feel as well. There are so many more animals that could be included in this DLC, but yet from all the diverse animals that inhabit South America they decided to only include these 5 species.

I wish they'd make DLC's similar to Zoo Tycoon, each of which contained far more animals per pack.

[Vinolik]

Companies exist to make money.

[Tikre]

Originally posted by Michael Scarn:

Companies exist to make money.

I don't care for the price, I care for the content. If the content is worth the price, I would gladly pay it. But 4 times one of these DLC packs does not equal the price of the full game. Which currently seems to be the case.

[Zlaatana]

Very disappointing number of new animals, jungle biome looked amazing in the trailer but it feels like a bit of an wasted opportunity given there's only Jaguar and Capuchin Monkey which are jungle based animals. I expect Llama and Giant Anteater to be more of grassland biome animals.

Of course there's the Baird's Tapir which is already included in the game and the exhibit-animals, but 3 habitat animals feels very limited to fill such an lush and beautiful biome like the trailer perfectly pointed out.

Sure you could go for a bit of an combined jungle space with animals drafted from Africa and Asia but...

[The Great Linguini]

This post just goes to show that some folks can never be satisfied.

[Master Bateman]

I think this DLC is kinda Shiza, there’s no Giant guineapigs (capybara), that means that I can act like a complete idiot and go on about it’s missing only like one animal I wanted

[Bald_Cliff]

I mean this happens every Planet title - glaringly obvious UI and UX problems that are not difficult to fix, never get addressed, in trade for sub-par content and a bunch of new building features.

*shrug* I love these games, but im done expecting Frontier to do the right thing anylonger except make a buck. Its just never been shown by them to have the ability to fix their games before they try to get more money out of us.

[HeatherG]

Originally posted by bcb_IV DIXX:

I mean this happens every Planet title - glaringly obvious UI and UX problems that are not difficult to fix, never get addressed, in trade for sub-par content and a bunch of new building features.

*shrug* I love these games, but im done expecting Frontier to do the right thing anylonger except make a buck. Its just never been shown by them to have the ability to fix their games before they try to get more money out of us.

This is everything that is included in the Free Update April 7. It's quite large and have taken a lot of feedback into consideration
https://steamcommunity.com/games/703080/announcements/detail/2082292794863686754

[Tikre]

Originally posted by heatherg23:

This is everything that is included in the Free Update April 7. It's quite large and have taken a lot of feedback into consideration

And yet still I would like to see more animals coming with each DLC.