@shurikeninja Thank you! I don't really want to create some sort of conspiracy theory or a narrative that "EA bad because EA". I do love the game and think the developers are awesome people. All of these points, however, make it seem very unlikely that BfN wasn't cancelled around that time and that the just didn't say anything in order not to create a backlash. And I think it worked. I recently watched the PvZ YouTuber collaboration ob why BfN failed. Most people featured there said that while there were many signs, the cancellation must have been rather sudden because of all the unreleased content like Iceburg Lettuce. The one Job listing at least confirms the devs new about the cancellation for some time and didn't just wake up one day with the message "BfN is cancelled", like we did. I feel like more people should know about this, but I also don't want to spread false information. After all, we can't confirm it is true. We can only safely say that the team was already "Moving on to their next challenge" on August 18th. I wish I had seen that job listening earlier, then we would have been prepared. I remember the community was talking about possible 1st anniversary specials at the time. Well, what we got on September 1st certainly was out of the ordinary.
@Iron_Guard8 As the people in the Skate Teaser said, they were trying to get a sequel made for years. EA only approved it now because the Skate community was stubborn and bombarded every EA post with Skate stuff, apparently. They said "You guys commented this to life". The PvZ community, on the other hand, consist of children who can't voice their opinions online yet or 20-30 year olds. The latter group only does the following on social media, especially reddit:
If the PvZ community could stop dividing itself and acting like infants, there would be a chance of "us" accomplishing the same as the Skate community. I guess the main differences between the 2 are:
1) Age -> The Skate community mostly consist of people old enough to have active social media accounts who will voice their opinion
2) Time -> The Skate franchise was absent for more than 10 years
Right now many PvZ you tubers make clickbait videos like "GW3 confirmed?!??! as soon as there is 1 little insignificant change. It hurts me to see that the people in the comments there express their wishes and think it will happen. It won't. At least not in the next few years, as Motive Vancouver is busy working on Skate and the development of a new PvZ shooter would also take years. They could task another team with it, but I would want a Sequel to be made by the same great people who made BfN. We also don't know in which state the entire franchise will be in years when a sequel would be taken into consideration. Maybe PvZ 3 can't be adapted to meet expectations and then there won't be many fans left.
Only time can tell if and when we can clear the lawn of the dead in a 3D shooter again.
Respect, i appreciate you sharing this information, and not being toxic.
