I’ve seen too many statements over the years from WE CMs that read just like that to muster even a tiny sliver of hope. I’m sorry. Three months from now the majority of people will have moved on and WE will be rolling along as if nothing happened. There’s a club and we ain’t invited.
It was only because our devs were talented enough to take the shoestring budget they were given that we got the support we did in spite of WE’s disdain for the game and community. They never viewed 3DE as part of the franchise.
Reputation? WE aren’t concerned about that for a game they had contempt for from the very beginning and had a stigma attached to it long before they got their money-grubbing hands on it. A stigma btw, that they gladly doubled down on.
We’ve seen plenty of non-3DE Age players gloat that our demise might mean their game will have increased support going forward. It was our war and only our war.
Excuse my pessimism but I have good reason for it. I do hope that I’m wrong but again, there are years worth of evidence to justify said pessimism.